When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 190

Chapter 190

Luna Demetra.

Three months later.

Wolf Arts.

Graduation Night.

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“I can’t wait.” I say over the phone with Sabrina, letting her know that Emris has probably already made arrangements for us to return as early as tomorrow. The pack needs him. The pack needs me too.

“We have a wedding to plan and I freaking need you here.”

“Of course. Are you alright?” I wave at someone across the Wolf Arts hall. Honey just finished the convocation ceremony and it’s literally goodbye time now.

“No, of course not-”

“What happened?”

“It’s Riley.”

I stop walking.

Wren is waving at me from the other end of the hall and I make myself smile back even though my face has very little of it available right now. Riley is Slade’s ex–mate. Slade and I have been talking regularly since I got here and he hasn’t mentioned him and Sabrina having issues. Much less because of Riley.

“I don’t understand what Riley is to the situation—”

“We’ll talk about it when you get back, okay?”

“Okay.” I end the call and Wren hugs me before I even know what’s happening next.

“Senior year literally flew by and it’s because of you.” She says it into my shoulder and my face melts melting thing…which means I am approximately fifteen seconds from crying.

“You’re going to make me cry, Wren.”

“I already cried in the bathroom.” She pulls back and I can see the evidence on her cheeks and we laugh. I hug her again and moons, I just want time to slow down enough to let me tell her who I actually am.

“You won’t believe it… Alpha Emris invited me to the Black Covenant Pack to work with his Delta team on pack research matters. I think I really impressed him these past few months with my work”

“I’m sure you did.” I say it warmly, remembering the conversation Emris and I had about her while I was getting dressed sine morning, he already decided in

“Yeah, he told me in his office.

“Um, Wren, there’s something I need to tell you-

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“Guys!”

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ravic wives at from across the hall and seeing him imtticdiately pulls the memory back from the Ascension night. It’s the woman who had her hands on my face and looked at the birthmark on my wrist with “You’re my daughter.” coming out

of her mouth.

I have been turning that night over for three months.

I don’t want to believe that the woman who abandoned me is covered in designer clothes and diamonds. There’s no way Travis’s stepmom just happens to be my mother Yes, the Moon Goddess may play with fates, but surely, she won’t play with my fate like that.

There are many White Omegas in this city. I want to believe she just named a lost daughter…someone else, not me, not me from the Black Covenant Pack.

Because do the math. Someone who willingly abandons their child doesn’t hold that child’s face like that. There’s no world 10 version of events, no logic that ends with a woman who chose to leave would act joyful over finding me!

So I told her no.

standing there shaking in the rain I boldly told her I have a father and a mother! I told her that while memorizing the shape of her eyes anyway. The color of them. The way she wanted it to be me so badly.

couldn’t stay at Ascension night after that. I went straight back to the room and got under the sheets and stayed there haking, frightened by what had happened and who I had met. Somewhere in the core of my heart something told me she vas my mother. Janet.

Derisha told me the full story of what Janet was capable of. A she–wolf who can sleep with her friend’s father just to make ure she’s mixed in the Covenant pack is someone who would do anything and everything.

but the highlight remains… she left me.

never told Emris what happened that night. I considered leaving Wolf Arts entirely the morning after… that’s how bad I got ust thinking of her in my life or at…least seeing me again. I had my wolf unlocked, fought my first real fight, found my nspiration. Emris could continue training me at home so basically…I had everything I came for.

But then I thought…why would I let a lady whose mind I changed about being her daughter…determine what I can and annot do?

io I stayed. And now it’s graduation night.

Hi. I smile at Travis.

Going tonight?”

“Um.” I glance toward Emris’s office where I was already heading. “I think so. My family is expecting me. I don’t really have a choice. What about you?”

I’m not going straight home. I’m going to tour a bit first and then I’m going to end up going to the-

“Guys!” Lolly comes rushing over, cutting off whatever Travis was about to say.

“We’re taking a picture – come on-

“You guys go ahead. I have to speak to someone first.”

Wren and Lolly are already pulling each other toward the hall entrance but Travis looks at me. I can just tell he like he wants to talk to say something entirely different-

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that’s what I don’t want!

I don’t want him to profess anything to me.

So I walk away as quick as I can and enter Emris’s office.

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He already has a box set up by the desk….packed, taped and ready to go. The moment Emris looks at me. I feel something warm happen in my heart at the look on his face

He looks proud. Proud of me for completing this. For lasting three months. For not running home the second things got

hard

Does he even know that it’s because of him I didn’t chicken out?

If I were by myself I would never have been able to stay. But I remembered that Emris left everything… the pack, the kids his whole life running properly in West Virginia just to be here so I could pull through. This face is the face I didn’t want to disappoint. Not because he would ever say he was disappointed in me… Emris wouldn’t.

Thing is, I admire his strength. I’ve seen the kind of things he has stood in front of as Alpha.

What he went through as a child. How he found out that Milo was his. Overcame the slits in his eyes. Fought a Lycan while possibly being afraid that he could be compelled.

How he fought the Lycan knowing there was a chance of being compulsed. Betrayed by Regan. Betrayed by the story his parents built around him. Almost watched me marry another wolf. Almost lost me more than once. And Emris never gave up. Not once.

I don’t even have to go to the deepest part of my heart to find my admiration for the wolf that he is. It’s right there on the surface every time I look at him.

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