Not Your Mate Anymore

chapter 12

We made it to the dungeons. I followed Max to his mothers cell. I noticed it didn't smell as bad as the first time we came in here and it looked a little cleaner. I guess he wants his mother to be comfortable even if she's locked up.

We make it to her cell and find her awake, looking at her son. Max opens the cell and we walk in, closing it behind me.

"Good morning mother" Max says to his mother. She smiles at him and he shakes his head to keep a stoic expression and avoids smiling back at her.

"You remember Sabrina,right?" Max says to his mother as turns to look at me. Her eyes register my face and she gasps loudly but quickly composes herself and nods.

"Yes, yes. I remember Sabrina. I always thought she would be your mate. As children, you were both very close and protective of each other. I'm so sorry to hear about your mates, both of you." Scarlett says Max and I. I shrug and walk closer to her.

"It's ok. That's been dealt with." I say to her. Assessing her and trying to sniff out her scent.

"Has it?" She asks with an eyebrow raised at me. She then looks at Max and then starts laughing.

"Don't tell me you finally found yourself in my son's bed? Don't you know he is just like his father? Oh honey.." she tries to caress my cheek but I step away.

"Mother, you know better." Max says stepping closer to me and standing by my side. I had forgotten why I was in here in the first place. I cleared my throat and looked into her eyes.

"Scarlett. We need you to tell us everything you know about Reginald and his family. Their plans and missions. Have they captured the girl that threatens their cause?" I say to her.

She smiles at me.

"Ahh taking the Luna position very seriously I see.. your mother would be proud. You do look like her you know. I was so jealous of her when we were younger. All the boys fancied her, even Deacon. It was such a relief when she found her mate." Scarlett said to me.

"Mother, we don't have time for this." Max said to her. She turned to him and sighed out loud.

"All I know is they will be looking for their baby brother. He is their little loose canon. They keep tabs with each other mainly to keep tabs on him. They know he attacked this pack so if they don't hear from him then they will be paying you, Maximus, a visit." She says to him. She doesn't look my way at all.

"Mother..." he says to her. Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

"Fine! Look, they are very strong. Two sisters and two brothers including Reginald. The eldest will be king once they have rule over all the packs. They are each in different parts of the country trying to do what Reginald is doing, forcing alphas to submit. I guess Reggie got too cocky and lost this fight. Anyway, they have a witch with them. She helps them with their strength. They have to keep drinking some elixirs to maintain their strength so I'm pretty sure Reggie is a weak old wolf now since he's locked up and chained in silver." She says to us.

"The witch is very powerful. She scares me and you know Maximus, I'm always the one to jump into a fire but not this one. I suggest you kill Reginald and dump him on human land before she performs a locator spell and it all links back to you. You do not want to mess with Vera." She says and shivers after saying her name.

"The girl in their prophecies.." I chime in. I needed to know all about it.

"The girl that is to stop them and end their cruel reign. Well they haven't found her. They believe the girl to still be a child, meaning she has not met her mate. They will have the eldest brother mate with her,

with Vera's help and bring strong soldiers in to the world. The new alpha king that will be stronger than your normal wolf." Scarlett says to me. Finally looking at me since she started talking about Reginald

"Is that all?" I ask her and she nods, still looking at me. As if trying to put me together, assessing me.

"You're the girl aren't you?" She says smiling and I knew then that she knew. I walked away from her and as I was about to walk out,

"Wait! Vera's plan will only work if the girl is untouched. I am no male so I cannot smell your virtue. Are you a virgin Sabrina?" She asks me and my head snaps up to Max's who is looking at his mother in confusion. She starts laughing again. Laughing to the point where she's out of breath and tears are falling on her face.

"I was wrong Maximus, you are nothing like your father. He must be so disappointed" She says and then turning to me. Her eyes warm and caring?...

"Vera needs you to be a virgin for the spell to work. For he to fool you into thinking Reggie's brother is your mate, she needs you to be pure. I understand that this is not ideal for you and I guess now you have a decision to make." She says to me.

I walk out of her cell and out of the house. I immediately take in a deep breath and let it out. Tears falling down by face.

Another bomb thrown at me. Now they wanted to rape me and fool me into thinking I have another mate.

I felt someone's presence behind me. I turned around to see my mother.

She walks up to me and pulls me in for a hug.

"I can't do it mama. I can't just throw my virtue away like that. I also can't have a stranger taking my virginity. I can't let them decide for me. No one should decide for me!" I say still sobbing as I hold tighter, afraid she'd disappear.

She pulls away and wipes my tears with her hands. She then grabs my hand gently,

"Come. Walk with me? I think it's time we had a mother and daughter conversation." She says and I just follow her lead as she leads me into the woods.

We walk through the woods and make it to a clearing where the lake was situated. She sits down on the grass and I do the same.

"When my mother, your nan was brought into this world, she was brought in as a human. She was raised human and had no idea that she was from the moon directly. When she was 13 years old she met the moon goddess then, who happened to be her mother. She was confused like any child would be because she believed her parents to be human." My mother says to me.

"She didn't see the moon goddess until the day she met her mate. Before she met your grandfather, your nan saw the moon goddess, who told her what would happen today. Her powers were also activated but she was not allowed to use them as werewolves would think she's a witch as she had no wolf in her." My mom said. I had questions but I wanted her to keep talking.

"Your nan can change the weather. If she was upset, the clouds turn grey. That's how your grandfather knew of her mood swings after he found out about her true origin. Anyway, after having me, my mother had to go back to be with her family. Her job was done. Then there was me, I came in as a hybrid. Half wolf and half human." Mother says with tears in her eyes. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. Opening them to show calmness.

"See Sabrina, my powers were activated whenever I was around wolves and that's why I couldn't stay in the pack. That's why we moved into human lands and I was able to stay out of trouble. Your

grandfather had to move back to blue moon as I was told my mate, your father, was there. I stayed in boarding school but would visit from time to time until I met Christopher." She says.

"I had you but I still couldn't stay and then I had Josey. I knew I was going to endanger us but I couldn't be without my babies. Suppressing my power was eating me alive and eventually I couldn't go on like that so I decided to go be with my other family. The moon family." She says to me..

"Sabrina, my power is not an easy one. I can look at something and I can destroy it." She says to me. She grabs a rock the size of a fist and I watch it deteriorate to nothing. Gobsmacked. She has to be the girl they are talking about. I can't do that!

"Mom..." I say as I'm still in shock and can't seem to form a full sentence.

"This is why I couldn't be around the supernatural. I was bullied for being a hybrid and my powers were activated to protect me but I was only a kid. I had to learn to control them. Unlike you, my power takes over my mind sometimes and I black out." She says to me.

Unlike me? I can't destroy things and I wish I could so what did she mean when she said unlike me?

"'Unlike me?" I ask her. She nods and places a rock in my hand. I look at her confusion etched on my face.

"You have the power too. You are telekinetic. Just destroy it." She says to me.

"I mean I can move objects around with my mind. This is beyond my capabilities mom. I'm afraid I can't do what you do." I say to her, dropping the rock on the grass.

"When you were 2 years old, you could destroy anything if it didn't interest you anymore. We didn't have to pack away your toys for you. They would just disappear and your father would always wonder

where they disappeared to but I knew." She says to me. My mother said what?

"Go ahead, try it. Imagine it breaking apart into tiny little pieces." She said to me. This woman was going nuts. What the hell!? I looked at her like she grew an extra head and she looked back at me annoyed.

"Sabrina, you just found out you're the key to ending this upcoming war and the minute you learn that you have a power to destroy things, you want to question it? Do you not want to save yourself? Do you want to be captured before you decide to take this seriously?" She asks me. Harsh.

"Is that what you want? People to fight for you but you're not willing to fight for them? Sabrina, the enemy is forcing wolves into submission and you saw the what they did to Natalie. They are savages and if I have to slap this new power into you, I will. Destroy that stone!" She says to me. Her tone slightly to moderately to seriously annoyed.

I grabbed the stone and had it float in the air. I tried to concentrate and clear my head. Then I imagined it being destroyed and to my surprise, it happened. The stone broke into little pieces and then into dust. My jaw dropped.

"'There we go. Now, those are all your powers. You are the girl they are looking for and you will fight for the wolves in this pack and the ones forced into submission. How you fought a few days ago was not how you were trained." She says to me as she stands up and looks at me expectedly to do the same. I get up and face her, I'm a little taller.

"You are faster than any wolf, you are stronger and as if you needed them, you have powers to aid you. You can heal yourself and others, you can control minds. You can destroy things and move objects around. You can control the elements. What more do you need?" She asks me. Putting it like that, maybe I am being a little brat.

"'I'm just overwhelmed. It's all happening so fast and with everyone relying on me to play the hero is too much. What if I fail?" I say to her. My shoulders dropping after saying that out loud.

"You will not fail. The moon chose you for a reason. She makes no mistakes. The world waits for no man my little moon. You can train for a 100 years but nothing can prepare you for what the world throws at you. All the battles you've faced, all the heartbreak you had to endure have prepared your emotions for what's to come. Clear your mind of all the clutter and focus on what is important. You are part of a pack, it is about everyone's safety." She says to me and I finally got it.

I was part of Green Forrest and I swore my life to this pack. They are in danger because of what the enemy thinks I could provide them. They are in danger because people are greedy. I have friends here, my family is here.

Cj and Josey sleeping in my room to protect me from the bad guys without a doubt in their minds and here I was doubting. My mother slapped me alright. Slapped me with words but enough to pull me out of my head and to accept fate.

"The moon is giving me a choice. She armed me with powers, the strength and my wolf in case I decide to fight. I can choose not to fight and let people suffer but she chose me knowing I would not allow that. I have to fight! For my virtue, which should be my choice how and with who I choose to lose it to. For my family, for my friends and my pack. I have to fight mom." As realization hit me. It wasn't just about me.

I'm the key to all of this. I kiss my mother's cheek and run to the pack house. It was time to end this.

I mind linked Max asking where he was and he told me he was in his office. I ran upstairs and just barged into his office to find my dad, my grandfather, uncle Deacon and Reggie.

I close the door and I look at Reginald. He could use a bath with all that stench as I wrinkled my nose.

"Ahhhh there's the girl I wanted to see. We have been looking for you." He says to me and I walk to him and I grabbed his hand roughly which earns me a chuckle from him but I pay him no mind. I wanted to read his mind.

I saw his brother and sisters. The brother that I was supposed to mate with. No lie, he is handsome. What a waste to be so evil. I then saw a memory of them agreeing to meet up in five days which was two days from now. I let go of his hand and step back from him. He wasn't stronger so Scarlett was right.

"Right now, you're just a normal wolf. A rogue or maybe not seeing as you're part of a pack that wants to rule." I say as he looks at me in shock.

"How did you do that? What are you? A witch?" He asks me and I shake my head no.

"I have many powers but a witch I am not. The moon has placed me on this earth as a gift to you and your siblings. I just found out about a new power I possess.." I say to him as I pick up a pen from Max's desk and toss it in the air as it floats. Reggie looked at me then at the pen and then at me.

"Don't miss the fun part.." I say pointing towards the pen. He looks back at the pen to see it crumble into nothing and his eyes bulge out.

"That is my gift to you." I say to him and then I walk to go stand next to my dad and grandfather.

He follows my every move and then throws himself on the couch.

"He is supposed to meet up with his brother and sisters in two days. They agreed to meet at a diner a few hours from here. He has his stash of elixirs hidden at a hotel in human land. I'm sure Max filled you all in on his man made strength." I say to the men standing in this room.

They nod their heads.

"Someone needs to go to that hotel and get the potions from his room." Dad chimes in and Grandpa offers to go. I give him the hotel details and he leaves the office.

"What are we going to do about him and his meeting in two days?" My dad asks. Max scratches the back of his neck and Deacon clears his throat.

"I think we should kill this asshole and drop his body off at the diner. That should send a clear enough message." Deacon says.

"I don't think that's a wise decision" Max says and dad nods in agreement.

I step forward and stand in front of Reginald.

"How about I take control of his mind and have him betray his family. He can go to the meeting and pretend he took over this pack. Scarlett can join him and they return with information." I say to them still looking at Reginald who's looking at me with so much fear.

"That works too." Deacon says..

"What if they see right through him? They have that witch with them" Max said to me and I nod.

"If Reggie is discovered, I can make him attack his own family and die in the process. There is black magic but mind control takes ages to reverse back." I say and in my mind I was guessing. I had no idea

how powerful this Vera was and if she could reverse my powers.

"Let me call a witch friend. Lady Rose should know a thing or two about mind control" my uncle Deacon said. Max chuckles dryly.

"I'm not surprised. A witch too huh?" He says to Deacon.

"Well, I am a man with needs and Rose helped with those for quite some time. She was very dominant and powerful. What a woman" he says and takes his phone out and starts dialing a number as he walks out of the office.

Uncle Deacon and women.

Reggie was very quiet for a man with so much to say not so long ago. My gut was telling me he was planning something. Maybe to escape but I sat down opposite him and kept my eyes on him.

"Maybe we should just kill him and drop his body off in human land." My dad says to us. Reggie growls and grabs a wooden step stool and breaks the legs to throw them at my dad but I stop them mid air and Max is by Reggie within seconds holding him up by his neck.

"Yeah he's not so strong anymore. Just a smelly rogue." Max says looking into his eyes.

I let the wooden objects fall to the floor as uncle Deacon walks back in and looks around the office.

"'I walk out and then you guys decide you want to kill him? No fair!" He says and we all laugh a little.

"Rose just confirmed your suspicions Sabrina. Even if they realize that Reginald is not himself, it could take days before they break the control." He says to me. I look at Max and he drops Reginald to the floor.

I walk up to Reginald who moves back until he hits a wall. I kneel down to him and smile.

"Don't worry, this won't hurt at all. Even though I wish it did." I say to him. I grab his head and have him face to face with me. His eyes locked on mine, I erase the war and have him think he had won and killed Max and I. I had him think uncle Deacon was in the dungeons with everyone else that wouldn't submit.

I let go of his face to punch him and knock him out. I stand up and look to the 3 men all looking at me with awe.

"That's it. He will wake up soon so I think it's best we drop him off at the border in a car with Scarlett." I say and I quickly remember,

"Which reminds me, I need to do the same thing to her for their stories to match." I say and Max nods as his eyes glaze over and we knew he was linking someone.

Two minutes later, Damon walks in with Scarlett. I walk up to Scarlett and grab her face so her eyes locked with mine and I did the same thing to her.

I knocked her out as she fell and Damon caught her from behind.

Uncle Deacon growled and we all looked back at him.

He raised his arms in surrender.

"Sorry that was my wolf. She is the mother of my pup." He says and we all nod in understanding.

Max has Nicole come in and they carry Reggie and Scarlett to the borders. I'm left with dad and uncle Deacon.

"I need a moment to myself to think and clear my head. I also need to see my brother and sister. I have so much to tell them." I say and I walk to my dad and hug him then do the same to my uncle. I walk out and follow Josey's scent to her room.

I walk in to find her on the phone and when I hear male voices I decide to stop listening in. She's smiling and blushing so I leave her room to go looking for Cj. I follow his scent to his room and I knock.

I knock because Cj is a boy now and he thinks I didn't notice the porn stash he has but I saw everything and I did not want to walk into anything that would make me want to burn my eyes.

He opens the door and he's fully clothed. Thank the goddess.

I walk in and throw myself on his bed. He joins me.

"I saw mom today. I just found out I have a new power and she also knocked some sense into me." I say and he sits up to look at me.

"Yes she came by your room and we had breakfast with her. She mentioned going to look for you after spending some time with us." Cj says to me.

"Told me my mate is a hybrid and I will be meeting her soon. She also said this war is bigger than us and we will be making some allies outside the pack. My mate is part of that." He said to me and I smiled.

"Well I just hope you find happiness with your mate. One of us has to get that smooth sailing from the start." I say. I then pick up a book and tear a blank page from it. I have the page float in the air and destroyed it. CJ's jaw dropped and I giggled.

"This is insane! If you've got that then you don't need an army!" He says and we continue making jokes and after some time Josey joins us and I show her my new power. She has me try it with water and I'm only able to turn a ball of water thrown at me into little droplets.

I fill them in on what we did with Reginald and Scarlett and all that's happened since I woke up. After we all had lunch together, I decided to go to my room and think. I closed my bedroom door and threw myself on my bed.

I know I had a fighting chance with the evil family but I know if they captured me, I'd kill myself before someone stole my virtue from me. Mac and I almost went all the way but he regained control and put an end to it fast.

I've been telling Max I was ready but he told me the timing wasn't right. It seemed right to me. Now the timing will never be right. All this fighting seems to escalate to an even bigger fight so i'll never have the right timing. Something always comes up and we can't ignore it.

An idea lit up in my head. I had control of my life. It was up to me how this was going to happen and if I wanted it to happen.

I had to make the time. If I have to fight wars all my life then I have to make the timing right in my life. I mean, yes part of my decision to lose it is because I'd rather lose it to someone of my choosing than have that taken from me.

In a perfect world, I'd be 18 and possibly stressing if Percy knocked me up after a magical night on my 18th birthday but life had other plans. The chance to complete the mating bond was stripped away from me and I cannot allow that to happen again.

I feel rushed and it's not even Max that's rushing me. Which I'm super grateful for. It's life and the curveballs I seem to be catching from it.

If I wanted a magical night with Max, I was going to make it happen before life throws another curveball at me. I needed help so I linked Nicole and Josey for this. My brother begged to be left out of this and I laughed at him.

I had Nicole keep Max busy as Josey and I turned his room into a romantic haven. All that romantic stuff. I had the balloons and candles. I wanted magic and I was going to get it.

I left Josey to finish up while I ran to my room to get dolled up. I took my time getting ready as I wanted everything to be perfect. I had Nicole give Max his outfit that I picked out and linked him to wear it. He asked why and I told him to do as he was told.

I'm probably the only person in the world to get away with doing that to him. I loved it. I finished with my make up as Josey walked in brimming with excitement. We walked into Max's room and I was in awe of the room. It looked great. The whole room screamed romance. Josey showed me what she had done to the balcony and wow. She had champagne too. There was a knock on the door and we froze for a few seconds.

This is it.

The night that changes everything.

"Are you 100 about this Sab? It's ok to change your mind. You can just have a romantic dinner." Josey says to me and I grab her hands.

"I'm 100. I want to do this. I've wanted to do this for some time now but Max wouldn't let me." I said to her and she raised her eyebrow at me. There was another knock.

"'I want all the details tomorrow morning! Don't make me barge into this room to drag you out." She whisper yells at me. I nod at her smiling.

I stand in the middle of Max's room as Josey walks over to the door. She winks at me and then opens the door to let Max in. He walks in frowning as he looks around his room taking in the girly state it was

in and his eyes finally land on me. Josey closes the door and it's just us.

"You know I'm a man Kimberly and what's been done to my room is something my guy friends can never know about" he says to me as he makes his way over to me. He kisses my cheek and steps back to look at me up and down again.

"You look gorgeous Kim. I don't care what you do to my room love. As long as you're looking like this, I'll allow anything." He says to me. I was a ball of nerves. I was tongue tied. I was just losing it and was saved by a knock on the door. Max mumbled a come in looking annoyed until Damon walked in pushing a trolley of food.

Damon walked in taking a look around and then his eyes landed on Max. He smirked but immediately lost that look as his eyes glazed over. Max was probably reprimanding him through the link. Boys.

Damon shook his head and smiled again.

"Dinner is served. Enjoy love birds" he said chuckling on his way out. Max let out a loud sigh then he turned to me.

"And the lifetime of torment begins, starting with Damon. I can't wait until he meets his mate." He then looks behind me then pushes the trolley out to the table on the balcony. I follow him still tongue tied as he gestures for me to sit and he's the perfect gentlemen. He walks over to his side and sits down.

He looked so good in black. I was ready to cancel the dinner and have my way but I'm the virgin here.

"You don't look so bad yourself Maximus." I say to him and a grin forms on his face.

"Ahh she speaks. I was beginning to think you lost your voice." He says to me taking a sip of his water.

"No. I'm just at awe of that handsome face and fit body. No matter what you wear, you just exude this intense sexiness. I'm surprised you haven't sniffed out my arousal." I say to him shocking myself with

this newfound bravery. Max chokes on his water as his cheeks flush crimson. He blushed!

"I'm sorry Maximus, was I too forward?" I say teasing him. He shakes his head as he coughs.

"Not at all. Keep going. You seem to be having fun there." He says to me. He thinks I'll shy away. Game on.

"You know you look good. It's in your walk and demeanor but I'll come out and say it. I was fighting with myself back there actually. Couldn't decide whether to jump your bones before or after dinner." I say and he smiles.

"I'm surprised you haven't noticed the immediate bulge in my pants the moment my eyes landed on you. It grew harder with you checking out my fit body." He teases. Now it was my turn to blush.

"I have plans for tonight and I want to see them through. We wouldn't be sitting out here if I had noticed" I say as I think of the number of times I've seen his thing in sweat pants. I want to taunt him further so I think about our encounter in his office which sends whiffs of arousal in the air. Max loses his smirk as his eyes get darker.

"I see your wolf is present. I want you both here with me tonight." I say in the sexiest voice. It was going to be a long night.