“Please, Kenzo. I really want to go make sure Alonzo is okay.” I faked a pout, hoping it would sway his opinion.
Kenzo smacked his lips while looking at me crazily. Then he snatched his hand from my pussy. Instantly, I missed his touch. “Let’s go before you piss me off. I’ma take you to Halo’s Healing Center while I go help Cree read these books,” Kenzo said, mugging me momentarily before he stole a rough but loving kiss.
I folded my arms across my chest and frowned at him defiantly.
“I mean, you can stay here all day by yourself if you want to,” Kenzo said as he lifted me off my feet, moving me to the side away from the door. We stared at each other for a few minutes before he shrugged then headed out the door. At first, I thought he was going to come back, but when I heard the sound of Cree’s extra Jeep that we’d been using come to life, I hurried out the door.
Later at Halo’s Healing Center
I knew I looked crazy sitting here frowning, but I was frustrated with this entire situation. So much was happening around me, and I was starting to believe I was dreaming. At least the Kismet packlands were nice, and there was a lot to do here. For whatever reason, Kenzo wasn’t in a rush to get back to his cave-mansion, so we’d been at the Kismet packlands for the lastfew days. Aside from Kenzo being an ass, I was loving it here, and my wolf was too.
Seeing how shifters really lived versus what I thought was fascinating. The center of the Kismet packlands looked like any other downtown area of a small suburban town. So many restaurants, bars, specialty boutiques, bookstores and many more places were in the town center. There was so much to do in the city center, I didn’t see why any of the pack members would want to venture off from here.
Kenzo and I visited a few places. He wanted to buy me some clothes since I didn’t have anything to wear besides the outfit Halo had given me. Luckily, there was a fabric store, and I was able to get all the supplies I needed to make my own clothes. I wanted to go to the bookstore we passed, but when I saw Zamiyah behind the counter, I quickly changed my mind. The frown on her face was enough to remind me I didn’t like her. No matter how bad I wanted to find a good book to read, I would rather write my own story than give her a penny.
Unlike Zamiyah, Halo and Naiobi had been nothing but welcoming toward me. They tried to make up excuses for Zamiyah, but at this point, I was beyond ever being nice to her. While watching Halo at work in her Healing Center, I could see how passionate she was about her job. She treated every patient with love and compassion. Halo said she would start teaching me how to get in touch with my mage side. Apparently, since my mom was a Grandeur Mage, I was too, and I could do healing spells. I guess I shouldn’t have been too shocked because I mean, after all, I did have a wolf inside of me… I thought.
We are one. You are me, and I am you.
My wolf had been a lot more vocal since we’d been at the Kismet packlands too. She loved being around other wolf shifters. Don’t ask me how I knew what she felt, but I did. I could feel the peace she felt whenever she was around other wolfshifters, especially my mom Roselee. She loved being around her. It almost felt like she wanted to come out… if that made any sense. How she planned to come out was beyond me.
I’d grown really fond of Halo. My wolf had as well. The more time I spent with Halo, the more memories of her I had. Things were still a little fuzzy, but things like Halo’s voice or scent stuck out in the memories, giving me the confirmation it was her. I was remembering her. I was happy to be reconnecting with my real past. I didn’t have that aching feeling of being alone in the world anymore. I was finding my place, my village, and that excited me, even if it meant I was going to be a magic wielding shape shifter.
Although I was nervous about this Prophecy stuff and all the crazy-ass Snake shifters trying to come after me, that wasn’t enough to stop me from digging deeper into my life. I couldn’t wait to meet my sister and father. Being an only child never seemed to sit right with me. The time I did spend with Venus, I loathed being an only child. I always said I was supposed to have a sister. I prayed that Brynlee and I got along when we finally did meet. It was crazy how the things I always wanted were coming to fruition. It wasn’t happening how I expected, but nevertheless, they were happening, and I was looking forward to all of it, even Kenzo’s aggravating ass.
“Sooo, Bellamy, anything specific that you want to get into today? That was my last patient for the day,” Halo asked as she walked over to me with a smile on her face. I could see the back of the shifter she was just treating walking out the door.
I shrugged my shoulders. I really didn’t have anything in mind. Kenzo was pissed at me. He’d stormed out on me earlier after we argued about going to the Sanctuary of Life for the millionth time. Kenzo was helping Cree and his brothers do something I didn’t even care to listen to. He’d pissed me off sobad, I tuned him out after he told me no. I didn’t know how long Kenzo would be out.
“I’m open to anything, as long as it keeps me away from Kenzo,” I said while pouting at the thought of Kenzo. I wasn’t sure if him being pissed at me or me being pissed at him was bothering me more.
“Aww, he’s still not letting up about going to the Sanctuary?” Halo asked before stopping a few feet from where I was seated behind her desk.
“Nope. He won’t even listen to me when I try to explain my reasons. He shut me down as soon as I opened my mouth.” I let out a dejected sigh.
“I know you don’t understand how fated mates work, but let me tell you, when it comes to seeing your mate with another... Tuh! It will have the sanest shifter acting crazy.” Halo pressed her lips together with a knowing look in her eyes. “And you two haven’t fully mated yet. Ha! Creeland barely liked me tending to unmated shifters before we completed our mating bond.”
“I’m so sick of hearing about this mating bond stuff.” I smacked my lips dramatically while rolling my eyes to the ceiling. “Sex can’t be that damn deep. I mean, so what if we haven’t had sex yet?”
I rolled my eyes again upon seeing the smirk on Halo’s face. Maybe I didn’t like Halo as much as I thought I did.
Liar.
Hush,I snapped back at my wolf.
“If you think a Fated Mate bond is solely about sex, you are sadly mistaken. It is so much deeper than sex. You are connecting your souls together as one, bonding your animals together for life. Everything you feel, he will feel and vice versa. The love you get from your fated mate will never be comparable to anything on this planet. Having the gift of being with your fated mate makes you feel like you can do anything. You’d beready to take on Fate just to keep your mate. You see how before you knew you were a shifter you couldn’t resist Kenzo?”
“I did damn near rape him,” I chuckled as I blushed lightly while thinking back to the day I first met Kenzo.
“That’s the fated mate bond. No matter what you do, you can’t fight it. The pull is too strong, and your animals will only go so long without being with y’all’s mate.”
“Okay, so what if, for whatever reason, you don’t want to be with your fated mate? There's nothing you can do? Like, what if you hate your mate or they did something evil to you? It doesn’t seem right for you to have to be with someone you can’t choose on your own.” I frowned while thinking about not being able to pick the person I spent the rest of my life with. I mean, it probably would’ve still been Kenzo, but that wasn’t the point. Everyone should have had a say-so in who they were with.
“It gets no better than your fated mate. I promise. No human or shifter would be a better pick. Would you pick someone other than Kenzo to be with?” Halo asked me with a raised eyebrow. Pressing my lips together, I diverted my eyes. I wasn’t going to give Halo the satisfaction of hearing me say yes. “Exactly,” Halo said sarcastically.
“Again, you can’t be with anyone other than your fated mate?”
“There are only a few things that can break a fated mate bond, and they come with a heavy cost. It takes a heart full of evil to reject your mate,” Halo said with a far-off expression as she looked past me.
