"Your mate?!" He looked at me in disbalief.

So I explained more, "that was my mates home you took me from!" I yelled through soft tears. My heat was more emotional than horny as it slowly took over which is probably why Galan was still aloud to be in my room. That and I wasn't releasing any pherimones yet but I knew my entire family was listening on the other side of the door. 

"B-but your hand!"

"I got it caught in a bear trap and he rescued me!" Okay I'm lying but can you blame me for not wanting him to go kill my mate before I have a chance to change his mind stupid werewolf hunter mindset. I mean I can't can't just rely on the bond to change his mind this is like life altering stuff for him! And I will not let that handsome beast reject me! No fucking way! "He may be human but that doesn't mean he's a hunter! He was kind to me!" Well in his own way I guess.

This left Galan at a loss for words until he seemed to pull himself together to face me with a hard look, "I'm sorry I misjudged the situation." Good. "But no brother of mine is going to be mated to a human that I don't get to scope out first!" Nooooooo!!!

Before I can argue with him my father bursts in, "he saved his life Galan! Are you insain! What kind of future Alpha acts this way?" Oof the future alpha card, "This human should be rewarded for saving your brother's life from hunters and yet you don't show your support? I am ashamed son!" By the end I realize that my dad is being completely serious. Shit now Jager is going to be hunted down for a different reason. 

It is then that I decide that after I get through this short heat I am going to return prepared this time and first of all warn him then instead of him giving me his ultimatum I will give him mine. Either he lives and accepts me as his mate or he gets killed by my father and brothers. Yep this will definatley work. 

***

so the morning that horrible heat went away a few days later I packed a butch of shit into a bag and made my escape. Only when I left my room no one was guarding it. Huh maybe they're about to switch shifts. I shrugged and carried on until I was out of the house. Which was completely silent as if there was nothing to worry about. I found it a little strange but I'm not to look a gift horse in the mouth so I left.

Before I fully went into the forest though I left a note in Brax's male box telling him thank you because I had found my mate. I kinda left out a lot of information but I didn't have time for that right now. I could text him later.

when I got to the forest I couldn't smell any patrols so I thought maybe they were down wind and I got lucky. I didn't bother changing into my wolf form cause I didn't want to lose my clothes or stick out outside of my territory. 

Oh and my hand is fine just hurts a bit when the pain killers start to were off so I took some with me. 

My heart skipped with both fear and anticipation when I saw the small cabin. Through one of it's small windows I could see flickering fire light as I drew closer. Good he's home. I drew out a dagger from my bag and held it against the back of my leg to hide it. I wasn't planning to hurt him just to use the knife a leverage to give me time to explain if he doesn't let me. 

So with a shaking fist I knocked on the door. I waited a good twenty seconds without a response so I knocked again. This time I'm was greated by Jager swiftly opening the door. he looked above me first then down. "The fuck?"

"Hello." I had to stop myself from smiling. Stop it you have to change his mind about things before you blindly fall in love with him! 

However it seemed very easy for him not to smile as he sneared at me making me feel sick on instinct. "What the hell are you doing here?" It came out more befudled than angry.

"I need to warn you." He laughed at that, "no really I need to-"

"-No what you need is to get out of here. I spared you! GO! Be free little um... omega right? Yeah be free! I don't want your warnings I don't want any trouble!" I shuffled my feet but didn't leave. I almost didn't come at all. Yesterday after I made my plan I heard my brother and dad talking about my mate. Jager.

Galan had just finished checking on me for the last time before he wanted me to go to sleep when I heard him and father's voice. "He's not just a human dad he's a hunter. I don't know if he can tell because he's never been around one to know what they smell like but that was the den of a hunter."

"Are you sure Galan?"

"The weaponry and books on the walls said it all if not for the smell." There was a pause after that as if my father was shaking his head. "What I can't get around is why the bastard didn't immediately kill him! He seemed like a younger hunter by the sent and pictures. You know I thought maybe he wanted to play cat and mouse or something-"

"No. That's an exscuse younger hunters give to save face. They think it's more embarrassing to not be allowed to kill because of their age than getting sexual pleasure from torturing a werewolf by playing with them. It happens more often than you think. And the finger being cut off only backs up the local hunting clans traditions. The boys take their teachers a finger or appendage to prove they can at least catch up to a were wolf and hold it long enough to take off a finger so that when they are old enough they are allowed to kill no question. A stupid tradition if you ask me."

In some sort of weird way it had given me hope that Jager seemed to desire me in some way even if it wasn't the way I wanted and hearing that it was just an exscuse discouraged me. But I told myself I was being silly and came anyway. Because he was supposed to desire me right?

At the thought of actually not getting a happy ending with a wonderful mate I started to cry. Right there. In front of a person trained not to give a shit about how a werewolf felt.

"Fuck why are you crying? You should be happy I'm letting you go again!" His voice was frsutrated but when I looked up I saw fear flash in his eyes before being replaced by panic. What was the panic for I don't know but seeing the fear in his eyes whether is was because he didn't want me to cry cause he cared a little or he just feared emotional situations I didn't care. One thing I knew for sure was that the fear was dirrected towards me which meant he might be scared of me right? So with a new burst of confidence I went from real crying to fake crying which sounded pretty real to me and tried to push past him into his house. 

Jager not wanting to be touched let me enter without actually letting me enter. I collapsed onto his bed maybe over doing the dramatics a bit as I wiped my tears away and looked at him with my beautiful doe eyes. I'd like to point out that this look has one me many people's favors in my life. And to my delight it worked this time too as Jager pulled up a chair, "fine tell me your warnings" he rolled his eyes more to get them away from mine than out of annoyance.

I opened my mouth to say it but I found it hard. I hadn't thought about it had I? What if he knows that he can reject me? What if he doesn't believe me and he gets killed out of stupidity? It left a lot like coming out to my family but way more scary cause I could die. No he could die. I don't want him to die.

"I'm. I um." I couldn't. 

"Go one spit it out were." He was actually encouraging me but the fear was too much so I told him something else that was easier. Well a start, "my name is Finn." he nods and motions for me to go on with only a little bit of impatience or maybe I was just perciving his looks and everything as something more because he's supposed to be my mate. Maybe this hope is all in my head. 

My confidence was shattered and I didn't know how to get it back. He didn't even mean to break me but he did. Or I was breaking myself. Either way I was crying agian. I decided to just skip around the mate part and just warn him, "my family might come to kill you." I told him wiping my tears. 

he gave me a bewildered smile that not even my fears could doubt, "and you're crying for me? You're a weird werewolf Finn." I didn't get to relish him using my name cause past my mates wonderful scent was the scent of my pack but not behind the border where I left it. 

I stood quickly and tried to force Jager to move, "they're here Jager you have to run." He gave me that bewildered look again and tried to argue with me but it didn't register as I pushed him towards the door, "go now they'll kill you!" I pushed him against the door now as I tried to open it. He was trying to make me stop but I was full on sobing and desperate, "please!" I beged him and he let me open the door and push him out of the cabin.

But I was too late. As I fell on top of Jager when the door opened the overwhelming smell of dominate wolves filled my nose along with teh ever familiar smell of my family excluding my sister Alora and Griffin who were probably left behind to help guard the pack. 

I was feral at this point and my wolf had taken over. But instead of being a strong omega who defends his mate I was the weak omega who couldn't stand up to his family especially not his Alpha. So I cried instead desperately clinging onto Jager's shirt as I cried and a mix of my family and warriors tried to pull him away from me. But eventually jager's shirt would give out and rip away from his chest as I was lifted up and he was dragged on the ground. I begged and screamed for my family not to hurt him as a confused and scared Jager was tied up in front of me as my mother desperately tried to hide my view of him and calm me down. 

"PLEASE! DADDY PLEASE! DON'T KILL HIM!" was what I sobed until I ran out of breath or I was sedated I didn't know either way I fell asleep. A deep sleep. In my sleep he was holding me but he wasn't a hunter just a kind human man. The perfect mate. At least for now in this dream I could be safe from a night mare.