Kidnapped by my mate (Belle and Grayson) novel Chapter 27

Kidnapped by My Mate

Chapter 27

 

BELLE

I stared at her. I couldn’t believe what she was telling me.

“Is that why you didn’t come here once you got to Paris?” my mother asked. “Because you met your mate?”

I nodded my head slowly, still shocked that we were even having this conversation.

She looked away from me with a pained expression on her face.

“Mom?” I asked. “Are you a werewolf?”

She turned back to me and shook her head. “No, no, of course not. I’m human just like you.”

“But

you

have a mate?” I asked.

She nodded. “Yes.”

I swallowed. How common was it for humans to have mates? And how did I not know that

my mother had one? How did I not know that she was part of the werewolf world?

Had my mother really not wanted me in her life that much? To not tell me about one of the biggest parts of it?

“What is his name?” she asked. I assumed that she was asking about Grayson.

“It doesn’t matter,” I said. “I’m going home tomorrow.”

“You’re not staying with him?”

I shook my head. “No. No, I can’t.”

My mother stared at me for a few seconds, looking hesitant. “Belle, is your mate violent?”

“What do you mean?”

 

nean…” my mother started. “I’ve heard stories about how abusive alphas can be toward their

es. They’re possessive and controlling.
“I know what it’s like to be with a normal wolf; I can’t imagine being with an alpha.‘

My mother stared at me for a few seconds, looking hesitant. “Belle, is your mate violent?“.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean…” my mother started. “I’ve heard stories about how abusive alphas can be toward their mates. They’re possessive and controlling.

“I know what it’s like to be with a normal wolf; I can’t imagine being with an alpha.”

I sat down in shock. Grayson had never hurt me, but it seemed like my mother was implying that he would. She sat down next to me and took my hands in hers.

“You know what I’m talking about, don’t you Belle? Have you seen your mate express his anger through violence?”

I nodded slowly. “He nearly strangled someone to death. He growls at every person who looks at

 

me.”

My mother’s shoulders slumped as a panicked expression took over her face. She squeezed my hands harder. “That’s why you’re trying to get away from him?”

Until that moment, I hadn’t actually been afraid that Grayson would hurt me. He was a rough guy, sure–but with me, so far, he’d been pretty gentle.

I had different reasons for wanting to leave him.

into

I just knew that I would probably be better off on my own. It seemed like every person who came my life got hurt, and I would not let that happen to Grayson. I couldn’t let that happen to Grayson.

I cared too much about him.

“No, that’s not why. I just need to go home,” I said.

My mother let

go looked skeptical.

of my hands and crossed her arms. She nodded in understanding, but still

“Do you have a plan? Because there is no way an alpha male is just going to let his mate walk out of his life,” she said.

“I was just going to sneak out while he was sleeping and catch a flight home. He doesn’t know where I live,” I replied.

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that won’t work. He’ll notice you’re gone the second you leave him.” She stood and began wringing her hands again. “And if he doesn’t notice, his wolf definitely will. Dominant males typically sleep with their noses pressed up to their mates to smell them throughout the night. It calms their wolf and helps them sleep. If your scent isn’t near him, then he’ll immediately wake

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up.
I didn’t know what to say to that, to any of it.

 

She looked at me. “Is that what you’ve been wearing all day?” she asked, pointing at my sweater.

I nodded.

“So it has his scent on it and yours?”

“Yes,” I said.

“Okay. Okay, then that is what you will put near him when you try to escape. It must smell like you, but it must also smell like the new environment that

you are in.”

She sat down next to me again. “And Belle, the minute you get away from him, you run like hell and you don’t look behind you. Bring nothing. It will only slow you down. If he catches you…” She paused. “If he catches you, you will never have another opportunity. You will be trapped with him forever with no way out.” Her expression was so intense, so frightening.

“Mom, you’re scaring me,” I whispered.

She gave me a sad smile and lifted her hand to cup my cheek.

“Oh, my sweet Belle, mated to an alpha.” Tears formed in her eyes. “I never wanted this life for you.”

My brow furrowed.

“What do you mean?” I asked. “Mom, does your mate hurt you?”

She didn’t answer me. She just continued studying my face as if this was the last time that she would ever see me. Tears flowed down her cheeks.

“I’m so happy to finally be able to talk to you about this, to explain myself. You have no idea how hard it was to keep this from you and your father,” she said.

At the mention of my dad, I pulled away. She shouldn’t have been talking about him. She hadn’t even come to his funeral.

“Why didn’t you tell us?”

She fidgeted a bit. “I-”

 

ore she could say anything else, I heard the front door opening. I thought it would be yson, and my heart plummeted into my stomach.

My mother immediately stood and fixed her makeup that had run due to her crying.

“Claire, is that dinner I smell?” a deep voice asked from the other room. “It better be ready on

 

time tonight. We don’t want a repeat of last night, now do we?”