The Prince’s Unwilling mate by Mutya the Author novel Chapter 2

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It takes a long time before Selene continues. Normally that would make me feel anxious or jumpy. And I am not a fan of it now either. But, in an environment that is as peaceful as this is. I cannot feel too anxious.

“I have seen a rise in chosen mates in the recent five years or so. Not situations where you lost an earlier mate. Or if you never found your mate and fell in love with someone. No situations where wolves think they can find a better wolf than the one I picked out for them” Selene suddenly starts, and I blink at her in confusion.

For most of my life, I had an opinion about chosen mates just because you think you can do better too. Still, I do not see what this has to do with my situation.

“David comes from a long line of chosen mates. You Ayla Hemming on. the other hand come from a long line of people who stayed loyal to their loyal mates. Even your great–grandfather who found out he had a human mate, and even more special his human mate. The one who did not grow up with the idea of ever finding a soul mate that was created for her” Selene continued and I could not hold back the scoff.

Because where Selene is now praising me for my honorable heritage. with my human great–grandmother. It was one of the main reasons why David rejected me. And it was the main reason why most of the pack

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had whispered behind my back. It fueled the bullying, even if I now believed it was because Hannah never got over her petty little jealousy, not even when David had rejected me.

“I know what you must think, I truly thought that having a mate so close to him. One who he grew up with, that it would stop him from rejecting you. Sadly I was wrong, both in David’s capability to love and in Phillip‘ s capability to let his family make their own decisions.” Selene looked guilty and I still had a lot of questions left. I sort of got why I was mated to David and what it would bring him. Or would have brought him if it was not for him rejecting me? I still couldn’t come up with anything David could bring me. Nothing that was in it for me so to speak.

“What would have been in it for me, what made David the perfect mate for me?” I asked Selene, unable to hold back even with her looking as guilty as she did.

“Nothing, only he could give you. You are meant to be a Luna or, the Luna of all Luna’s but I figured that out later. There is a reason why sometimes mates get rejected. Or that some mates turn out to be terrible. All of you still have a free will. All of you will develop your personality. And those personalities will either make the paring better or worse. It is not an exact science” She pauses speaking for a minute to smile a nostalgic smile.

Almost like she wishes it could be an exact science. That she could. make sure every mate would be as perfect as Griffin is for me. Weirdly, she is the Goddess. The one I have been told to honor and praise for all

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of my life. But as we are sitting here speaking she doesn’t seem unreachable or untouchable. She reminds me of a young mother. Who is still finding out what she needs to do to best raise her pup/?

She tells me all about mates, and how she hoped I would be the one to save the Blood Moon pack. How her heart hurts every time she sees a pack failing. The longer she speaks the more I get her reasoning. David might not have been right for me. Not even when I tried to believe that he was. He could have made me happy if he had tried better. If he would have been a mate like Selene intended mates to treat each other’s.

He would have never made me as happy as Griffin is doing now. And his first fated mate would never have made him so happy as I make Griffin. But it’s not like we would have known about each other and what lives could have been like. You cannot miss what you never heard. So the four of us wouldn’t have been unhappy. We would feel like we had all we could wish for.

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