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Chapter 5: Wants To Reject Her

-Serena-

Rogan's voice broke into a strange sound, and I just looked at him confused, not understadning what was happening. Was he crazy or something? I wondered.

“I know your name,” I said.

Rogan opened his mouth to again try and speak, but for some reason, no sound left him. Rogan suddenly turned away, not giving me an explanation, and walked out of the room, leaving me there stunned. I had heard the powerful Rogan Cane was smart and cunning and strong. I hadn’t thought he would ever have trouble speaking, but it was like he was a broken record just going in the same loop. I didn’t understand it, and then he just disappeared. Where the hell was he going? And why the fuck did I care? I needed to get out of here! I pulled on my restraints, but they simply wouldn’t budge. They were probably so strong they could keep a werewolf in check, and that said something.

“Come on!” I growled, pulling on them again.

I even tried leaning down closer to one of them, so I could use my teeth to get free, but I could bend far enough because I was kept in place by my restraints.

“Fuck!”

I needed to get out of here, but how?! How the fuck did I get out of here?

-Rogan-

“What?!” I growled as I got far enough away from the hunter’s little patient room.

We are not rejecting her.

“Yes, we are! Have you forgotten who she is?” I asked, crossing my arms.

I could see my wolf pacing back and forth inside of my mind, shaking his head in a way that indicated he was not pleased with me. I couldn’t say I was very pleased with him either.

I know who she is.

“Then let us end it.”

He shook his head again and made a loud growl that made my ears ring. I had to take a moment, shaking my head a little, as I waited for the ringing in my ears to stop.

“Don’t fucking do that again!”

Then do not reject her!

“She is the enemy!”

She is our mate.

I wanted to laugh because this was ridiculous. Did he not see that she and I would never find common ground? We had always been enemies and always would be. I had to end this connection I had with her, so I could do what was necessary, which was getting information from her.

“She is nothing but a fucking pain in our ass!”

He growled at me again, but not so loudly that my ears rang again.

Maybe you want to go crazy, but I don’t.

“There is no guarantee of that,” I said.

Going against the Goddess always has consequences. She is not a forgiving woman.

“You don’t fucking say,” I just mumbled.

Did it ever occur to you while we were watching her that there might be a reason she is ours?

“No, ours,” I told him, making it clear right now that I was not allowing him to get territorial over her.

Answer my question.

He didn’t agree with me and didn’t give a shit if I accepted her or not. He had already made his choice, and it was clear he wanted her. I didn’t get why. We were often very in sync, and we often agreed on a lot of things, but for some reason, I couldn’t get him to agree on this with me.

“She could be a test,” I said.

A test to see if we are truly worthy of being the leader we are.

“Or a test to see if we are loyal to our kind.”

He huffed, clearly not liking the way I was twisting it around, but I simply couldn’t understand his point of view. The hunters had practically made us go extinct. If it hadn’t been for the spies we once had, we would never have been able to hit them as hard as we once did, but they were damn hard to get rid of, and they were breeding like crazy, training the kids since they were young. We trained ours as well, but we didn’t try to turn them into killers with one mindless cause. We trained them so they could take care of the ones that couldn’t protect themselves. They were protectors, not killers. It was different for the hunters, but of course, they didn’t see it that way. They believed they were liberators.

No one questions our loyalty.

“Or maybe the Goddess does,” I said.

Maybe she wants to see if we can judge fairly.

“Don’t tell me you are considering us getting to know her?” I said, and it sounded so damn ridiculous in my ears. I couldn’t fathom why my wolf didn’t deny this.

She is our mate. She deserves more. She deserves a chance to change.

“Change?!” I yelled. “No!”

Why not?

“You think she would have done the same? She was there to kill us!” I growled.

Then let us be the bigger person.

“When did being the bigger person become so important to you? This isn’t the first time we have had to decide the fate of a hunter, and we have always agreed in the past on what to do with them,” I said.

And what about those who helped us?

I turned quiet as he asked me this.

They risked their lives.

I sighed and started to rub my eyes.

“That was ten years ago,” I said.

Maybe we have a chance of changing this one. As our mate, she deserves us to give it a try.

I shook my head, but I already knew he wouldn’t let me reject her unless I gave it a shot.

They can change. We have seen it.

I nodded. We had, but it had also cost them their lives. It was thanks to those hunters that we even knew where to go, where to hit them. I had been quite young then. 23 only. Maybe I had grown colder over the years. Less forgiving, but could you blame me? After so many lives were lost.

“I…”

She is young and easily manipulated. Let us at least give it a try.

Her ID watch had given me her age as well. 24. Maybe I was wrong for judging her so quickly, but how could I not? I saw the hate in her eyes, the mockery. She would not have shown the same kindness towards us.

She doesn’t feel the same as us. She doesn’t know how important we are to her. Give it time. She will become more aware of it.

It worked differently for humans when they chose their partners. They could always lose feelings and choose someone else. Wolves couldn’t, but even the connection between a wolf and a human seemed to be strong. Stronger than it would be between two humans. Maybe she would understand it later on. It couldn’t really be proven, but some believed those who were mates with a human, the human felt the bond as well. It just took longer for them to connect with it.

“I believe we are wasting our time,” I said.

I’m willing to prove you wrong.

“Of course, you are because it means more time with the woman who you consider our mate.”

He almost seemed to be smiling.

We might not get a second chance if we reject her.

No, often second chances were given to those who had lost their mates in an unfortunate way, such as terrible accidents or them getting killed. Rejecting your mate was very rarely rewarded with a second chance mate. Only if your first one had been awful or abusive in some way, you could get another.

Well?

“We chose our mate,” I said. “We need to keep our promise.”

Things have changed.

“How am I going to explain that to Eric?” I asked.

Be honest.

“Easier said than done,” I sighed, and rubbed my eyes again, trying to relieve myself of the headache that was appearing.

He will understand.

“No, no one will. Not with a hunter,” I said.

Give her some time.

“I can’t… I’m sorry.”

Rogan!

I shut up a mental wall between us, trying to shut him out the best I could. I knew it wouldn’t keep him at bay for long, but maybe long enough for me to reject the little hunter. I stormed back to her room, but when I came back, I found a nurse unconscious on the floor and the bed empty. I ran to the nurse, checking that she was alive. She was. Then I looked around the room, seeing an open window further away. I ran to it but couldn’t see the little hunter. I could smell her scent in the air, but if she got too far away it would be masked by the forest she had chosen to escape through.

“You aren’t getting far,” I whispered before I jumped out of the window and followed her.

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