Not Your Mate Anymore
Chapter 16

Max had become crazy protective of me since finding out I was carrying his pup. Even when sleeping, he'd keep me close to him all night.

Send help. I am suffocating.

I'm only a day in this pregnancy and I was starting to miss my freedom.

Max woke me up to take a bath. When I walked into the bathroom, the bathtub was already filled up with water and my favorite bath foam.

He scrubbed me clean and also washed my hair. He then carried me out and dresses me in his shirt and my leggings. He tied my hair in a very neat bun and then we walked back into our room where he gave me my vitamins with water.

I had no idea wolves needed vitamins. Was he just being fussy!?.

We were now sitting having breakfast in the dining hall and he was feeding me.

If you thought it wasn't so bad...

He had the cooks prepare my meal separately from the rest and even had the gamma taste the food first before I would eat in case someone tried to poison me.

I don't know how I was going to survive the coming 6 months with this man.

Josey says I can't blame the poor guy with him being a lycan alpha and with what was to come today.

There was a sombre mood in the dining hall this morning. Not one person noticed Max's extra attention towards me.

Today could be the day that they attack as we all peacefully ate in silence. Everyone looked deep in thought and who could blame them, It's hard not to be fearful of the Unknown.

My grandpa barged into to hall with my father. Behind them was Reginald and Scarlett being carried in as they were unconscious.

"We found them at a motel close to the diner. Had to knock “em out to bring them here” my grandfather says to Max and I.

"His family?" I ask..

"No sign of them. Couldn't catch a scent of anyone but Scarlett and the rogue” my father responds. So they still believed we had him locked up and I guess now we do.

Max told the warriors to take them to the dungeons and to notify us when they wake. I had to read his mind to see what he's been up to if we want to keep the upper hand.

Max gently nudges me to stand and he stands right after me. He clears his throat and clinks his mug with teaspoon to get the pack’s attention.

"It is time to prepare for war. We don't know when they'll be here but it's always good to be prepared. Everyone, to your stations.” He says in his commanding alpha tone.

People started leaving the hall as we waited. I needed to talk to my mother so I made up an excuse that Josey and I needed to spend a few minutes with my mother as we don't know what this day has in store for us.

The thing is she had a plan in case we happened to lose this fight and we couldn't let the others know. Only myself, mom and Josey.

Before I could even link her, my mother approaches our table.

"The hunters are here. They say they spotted wolves close to the border. It's time." She says.

Celine and her family were briefed in on the coming war and they offered to help without any mention of my uncle mating with Celine. This was Celine's home and that they will only fight their own kind.

Vera

She was well known in the witch world for using dark magic. She is a powerful witch and it could be difficult to stop her as dark magic feeds off chaos and bloodshed.

They made no promises but said they'd try to subdue her for some time to let wolves be wolves. We couldn't argue with that.

After my mother told us about the hunters, everyone decided to go get ready for what's to come. We all said to meet up outside the pack house in 5min.

After a long argument about my safety with Max, I rushed into Josey's room to find my mother, nana and Josey there.

"Sabrina, You need to remember the plan. You cannot be around Max for this plan to work." My mother says to me before I can even close the door.

"Yes. We will all shift into our wolves and drag Reginald's family away from the fight. I will not shift in front of Max" I say.

I did not like this plan but my mother convinced me that we had a better chance at winning if it was like that.

They looked amazing, don't get me wrong but age is age and when one is human, 40 is really 40. Unless you are one of the lucky humans who grow prettier with age.

Lucky shits.

"Hello alpha. Hello everyone." Celine says standing next to uncle Deacon.

"Good morning Celine." Max says to her. Then nodding at the other ladies.

"We couldn't help but overhear what you were all talking about. " Celine says to us. She is suddenly interrupted by one of the ladies that came in with her.

"Vera is our problem and we will deal with her. That is all you need to know." Said one of the 4 ladies that did not introduce themselves.

"Can we trust that you will get the job done or will you need some help? She is known to be very powerful.” Uncle Deacon said back to the mystery lady.

She nods.

"We will take her down and remove her from this fight. Celine will link Max as soon as we have her and you can all be the animals you were born to be.” She said to us but looking at uncle Deacon. "As long as you are in my territory, its alpha to you." Max says to the rude woman.

"Anyway, I can work with that but what if you can't take her down? How will we know you need help?" Max said to the lady.

"We will have Celine link you, alpha. I doubt it will come to that though.” She said. Emphasis on the word alpha.

"How are you so sure? If you could take Vera down before why wait until now?" I ask clearly annoyed that they allowed this woman to kill us when it is clear they were able to put a stop to it before.

"She was not killing our kind. In fact, she was working with your kind to kill your kind." The lady said back to me.

"So if we worked with a witch and helped her kill your kind, you'd just let us be then?" I say back to her and she didn't respond because we all know the answer to that.

I was getting upset. How could they be so ignorant? We have been living in peace for years and not meddling in each others business but here we were, a witch meddling in wolf business and they knew all along.

"You did not stop her. You don't have to care about us but to maintain the peace, you could've tried to stop her.” I say to her and she just laughs

"I only dabble with white magic. It is pure. When a witch goes dark, she is on her own. What she does with her dark magic is up to her.” She says to me.

She walks up to me and looks me straight in the eyes. We were surprisingly the same height.

"We are here to help you. Don't forget that.” She says to me in a condescending tone.

I snort.

"Sure because Vera is exposed now and it would look bad if the council was to find out that a witch was playing on wolf ground and killing us." I retort back and I move closer. So close our noses were almost touching

"Becareful pup. I wouldn't want to hurt you.” She says to me.

Her aura changes and her eyes take on a dark color.

"Calm down witch. You are on wolf territory and I'm the Luna here. Know your place." I say to her and I release my power but not too much to draw attention.

She moves back and I move closer until her back hits the wall.

"I'm not your regular wolf. You'd be smart to remember that." I say and I turn around to go sit on Max's lap so I can calm my wolf down.

She straightens her clothes as if they were disheveled and stands up straighter.

"Just do what you came here to do and we won't have a problem.” I say to all the witches and they nod.

"We will." Says one of the other witches as they all glare at the witch I had a power play with.

My dad clears his throat and scratches the back of his head.

"Ok then..." said Christopher senior(my dad).

"How are we on the first soldiers out there? Cj?" He asks

"The enemy is still at the border. They have not gone further than that. There's about 3000 wolves there. Although they look feral so I'd say they are rogues. There could be more as there is no sign of the Locke family.” Cj told us.

They had a lot of rogues fighting for them. Which means this was Reginald's pack. They want their alpha back.

"I have an idea." I said to everyone.

They all turned to look at me...

"You'll just have to trust that I have an idea on how to handle the rogues.” I said not wanting to feed any outside source any more Intel.

If the witches were not willing to share any details about Vera, I wasn't going to share anything too. Trust works both ways.

I wasn't about to trust them especially after how they admitted to being ignorant to one of their own killing our own.

The law for all supernaturals was straight forward.

To each their own.

Their ignorance could lead to a war between witches and wolves. This was not good and I know I'm not the only one that's upset about this.

I just couldn't hold it in but the others could and they wanted to get through this fight before starting another.

"I think we will be heading out into the forest to begin our work. As agreed, Celine will link the alpha once we have Vera." The leader of the group said. They walked out and everyone let out a breath we were all holding in.

"I don't know about you guys but they scare me.” Cj said to us.

"I'm right there with you brother.." Josey chimed in and we all chuckled but those ladies were scary looking if we were being honest.

"Sabrina, are you going to share your bright idea now?" My father asked and I smiled at him. "When it happens, you will know." I said to him.

"Don't worry sir, I believe her plan will work.” Max says to my dad smirking at me.

He read my mind this mate of mine.

"Well there we have it. Father, you'll be with Cj the entire time right?" I ask looking at my father. He nods at me and puts his arm around CJ's shoulders.

"Uncle Deacon, you are with the special prisoners right?" I ask him and he nods.

"Yes yes I have to babysit your mate and his chosen mate. How fun.” My uncle says to me in a bored tone and I just smile at him but he earns a warning grow! from Max.

He raises his hands in surrender.

"Easy there. I was just joking." uncle Deacon says to his son.

We stayed a while, talking about where everyone will be and all.

Everyone left to go to their stations and I walked out with Max to get the special prisoners.

I owed our rogue alpha a special visit.

As we were walking down the stairs, we get a link from Damon about a group of witches who are approaching the pack house through the forest.

"I thought we already had our helpers for the day?" I ask Max.

More witches? How strong was this Vera?

"I thought so too. Let's just see what they want." He says to me as he grabs my hand and leads me out the door to the woods.

Right by the entrance of the woods was 6 witches. These witches looked young but fierce. They looked ready for battle.

We approached them and they bowed their heads at Max first and then at me.

"Alpha and Luna" they all say at the same time.

"We know what's to come and we want to help.” One of them says.

The girl on the other end shakes her head and clears her throat.

"I apologize. My sister likes to get straight to the point but I like to get a few things out of the way before we get too serious. My name is Ariel." She says and looks to the girl next to her.

"Hello. My name is Arianna.” She says and looks at the other girl but before the next girl could introduce herself, Cj comes walking towards us and stops in front of us.

He goes to stand right in front of Arianna. Max and I share a knowing look before Cj could utter the one word that changes ones life forever.

"Mate!" He says.

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