Chapter 14 - Introduction

Reign

“Reign, this is Koltyn.” She pointed to a dark brown wolf; he was standing over the small dirty blonde wolf. “The small one is Jazlyn.” The little wolf yipped, wagged her tail and nuzzled Koltyn. “Koltyn’s wolf’s name is Kota and Jaz’s is Artemis and the big black one is Damien’s wolf, Ayres.” Ryott explained. “You can pet him; he won’t bite you.” She giggled. “Actually, you’re the only one who’s allowed to pet Ayres.” Ayres grunted at Ryott. “Oh stop, you know it’s true.” She shot at him. Ayres continued to stare at me and slowly moved closer to me crawling on his belly and lowly whimpered at me. “What’s he doing?” I asked, my eyes going wide.

“He wants you to pet him, this is his way of letting you know that he won’t hurt you.” Ryott told me. “He’s basically submitting to you and that’s a big thing, especially for an Alpha.” When he was directly in front of me, he lowered his head and gently nudged against my hand. He kept whimpering lowly at me. I looked at Ryott, who gave me an encouraging nod. I slowly lifted my hand and placed it on top of Ayres’ head. I felt him shiver and let out a low growl, making me flinch. He whined lowly. “It’s okay Ry, the growl was a happy contented growl. He didn’t mean to startle you.” Ryott assured me. “How do you know that?” I asked her. “He told Jyden and Jyden told me.” “But I didn’t hear you say anything.” “Oh, it’s called mind linking. I can only do it with Jyden, but they can mind link with each other.” She explained. “Mind link?” I’m so confused. “They talk to each other like telepathy. Once you and Damien, well once you accept him and Ayres as your mate, you will complete the mate bond and then you can mind link with him.” She finished.

I closed my eyes and released a breath that I didn’t realize I was holding. Ayres moved closer and gently leaned against me. I dropped to my knees and sat down, when I was sitting Ayres placed his head on my lap and I ran my fingers through his fur. I was in awe of what just happened and didn’t realize that the three wolves had disappeared. “Our mate is so handsome.” Nera whispered. “What the hell is a mate? And who are you? Why am I even listening to you?!” I snapped. “No, please. I promise you’re not crazy. I want to tell you, but I can’t yet, just bear with me. You and our mate need to…you need to decide if you want him as our…your mate, which I hope you do. Once you decide then and only then can I be revealed.” Nera told me. “Be with our mate and please give him a chance.” She pleaded with me.

“Hey Ry.” Jazlyn called pulling me out of my thoughts. I looked up and saw Jyden, Koltyn, and Jazlyn. I smiled and gave them a small wave. “Okay, so the four of you are werewolf’s, Ryott and I are human, what does that mean?” I asked as I continued to run my fingers through Damien’s fur, well, Ayres’ fur. He was in heaven. “Well, Ryott is Jyden’s mate and Koltyn in mine.” Jazlyn told her. “Wait! What?!” I raised my voice which startled Ayres. He stood up and licked my cheek, “Eeewww.” I said being caught off guard and frowned at him. His ears perked up and wagged his tail. “Really?” I asked him. “You better not have wolf cooties.” I snorted. I turned back to Jazlyn, “how long have ya’ll been…mates? And what the hell are mates?” I asked. “I think I know but I want answers.” Jazlyn was silent for a few minutes, “since they each joined the band.” She softly said. “What?!” I was in shock. “So, what the hell are mates?” I demanded. Damien walked out from behind a tree back in his human form. “Mates are a wolf’s other half, the one that will complete the missing half of their heart. Our soulmate.” He explained. “So…” I started as I pinched the bridge of my nose “…you’re telling me that Ryott and Jyden, Jazlyn and Koltyn are soulmates?” I asked still pinching the bridge of my nose. “Yeah.” The four of them said not making eye contact with me.

I scoffed, “we have shared our lives for the last three years going on four years and not one of you thought that maybe this was something I should have known?” I asked starting to pace and wave my arms, Damien reached out to touch me. “DON’T!” I spit pulling away from him. I could see Damien wince at my tone. “This is absolutely crazy! You want me to believe that I’m Damien’s soulmate?! Please, there is no such thing! Besides if I am supposed to be his soulmate, wouldn’t I know?” I snapped. “Reign, you have known.” “You have always known.” Jazlyn said. “You’ve been feeling the pull to him.” She lightly chuckled. “What are you talking about? I asked shaking my head making faces. “The slut at the airport…” Jaz reminded with a smile “…you were angry when she was touching Damien. You wanted to rip her apart. You were hurt and jealous.”

Damien stepped closer to me, “you felt the same way I did when we first met, didn’t you? You felt the tingling feeling?” He asked lifting my chin, so I was looking at him. “Not the tingling thing but at the airport, I felt the tingles.” I frowned. “Not that it matters now!” I pushed away from him. “You left me for three years! You knew who I was to you but yet you never came around, you avoided me and now you expect me to run into your arms? I don’t think so! Things could have been different for me, for us; all this could have been avoided. I may have been only 15 at the time but I wasn’t stupid.” I yelled, I didn’t want him to see me cry. I fought back the tears that were struggling to let lose. “You have been my best friends for almost four years. I trusted you with secrets that no one knew but you…y’all kept this from me.” I whispered. “How could you?”

“Reign, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to keep it from you but…” Jaz started sobbing. “No buts to it!” I yelled standing up and getting lose from Damien’ grip. “I trusted you, all of you but none of you trusted me. Three years! I gave ya’ll my trust and I thought you trusted me, but I guess not.” I said, I was angry with all of them. “Reign.” Jaz and Jyd called me in unison. I looked between Koltyn and Ryott. Ryott sighed. Koltyn didn’t make eye contact with me. Jazlyn cried as Koltyn pulled her closer into his arms. He was going to say something to me. “Don’t you even Koltyn! Don’t you even dare open your mouth!” I snarled at him. I looked at Jyden, he was whispering to Ryott as he snaked his arms tighter around Ryott’s waist. “Don’t be mad at them. It’s all on me, I should have told you. You have no idea how sorry I am.” Damien said trying to pull me to him.

“I can’t believe this! This is bat shit crazy!” I said running back to the house to change cloths. I locked the door behind me when I realized that Damien was following me. “STOP! Do not follow me.” I snarled. When I was done, I made my way to the door but was stopped by Spyder. “Get outta my way doggie.” I gritted out. “Reign.” A familiar deep voice called me. “WHAT?!” I snapped turning to face Damien. “Where do you think you’re going?” He asked glaring at me. “Out! I need to get outta here. I need to get away from all of you. I need to think, this all just way to crazy for me.” He gripped my arm. “Babygirl, I can’t let you go alone. Mac would have my head.” “I don’t care and don’t call me Babygirl! Let him have your head! Or does he know about you and I’m the only dumbass who doesn’t?” I pulled my arm out of his grasp and walked out. “You can’t tell me when or where I can go. If I want to go out, then I’m going out!” I was already out the door.

“Fine!” He roared, that sent a chill of fear running down my spine. I wasn’t gonna let him, any of them, see my fear. “Then I will go with you.” He grumbled. “NO THANK YOU! Like I said, I don’t want to be around any of you right now.” I gritted at him standing toe to toe with him, of course I had to look up at him, but I didn’t care. I held my stare with him. He narrowed his eyes, I narrowed mine. Dammitt, why does he have to be so abso-freakn-lutley gorgeous? If I wasn’t so pissed, I might actually have some fun with this, but this wasn’t the time for that. Keeping his glare on me, “Shadow!” He called out. Shadow appeared outta nowhere. “Yeah boss?” “Oh shit! Where the hell did you come from!?” I yelped. “The shadows, that’s why my name is Shadow.” He smirked. “You are to stay with my MATE at all times, you DO NOT leave her alone for any reason. Do. I. Make. Myself. Clear?” He barked at Shadow emphasizing mate and punctuating each word all while keeping eye contact with me.

“And you, little mate, I don’t want to hear such language from that pretty little mouth of yours.” He warned. “I don’t…” I started to say. He interrupted. “If you want to go somewhere and you don’t want me to go with you then Shadow goes or you stay, it’s your choice.” He said crossing his hands across his broad luscious chest. Stop it Reign! Don’t let him see you drool over him. “”Fine and don’t call me your mate!” I snorted. “Let’s go fuzzball.” With that comment I heard a deep growl. “Whatever let’s go!” We walked out of the house to the garage and got in my car. “Get in and keep your mouth shut and growls to yourself, Shadow’s don’t speak.” I grunted and he held his hands up in peace. As soon as I hit the highway, I revved the engine and took off like a bullet. “Hold on fuzzball!” I told him with a wide grin.

“Aaawweee, ssshhhiiiiitttttt!” Was all I heard from Shadow, that made me laugh out loud.