Not Your Mate Anymore

Chapter 47- The Beginning Of The End

Josey's POV

"What if I turn them?" I ask looking at my mates. They were breathing heavily with their chest wounds still bleeding.

Arianna gasps as Hunter growls.

"I think we have enough hybrids in the werewolf world. You do understand that your children will be hybrids? Thus creating an entire new species without a realm to monitor it." Hunter says. The elder coughs and we all look at him.

"I don't mean to just insert myself in this conversation but I have to warn you. You are a deity, half celestial. Just like your mother, Kimberly. Your mates are earthly beings so if you turn them in to vampires, they will not be able to walk in the sun like you." The elder says to me.

I can't lose my mates, how will I survive this life without them? Why did I take this awful mission!?

"No offence...No offence Babe, but I don't want to be a vampire." Clayton says and a tear escapes my eye at his words.

"You are dying. If you die, I die! I can't have Chase without Clayton and I can't have Clayton without Chase. I need you both!" I say through sobs and frustration.

"I'd rather die than become a creature of the night. I am a proud lycan, I will die a proud one." Chase says to me and this surge of anger runs through me.

It was indeed coming from my vampire.

"You would rather leave me and die, leaving me to face this world alone and without your children to raise! I have to watch Elise raise her son to take over my pack. I would run around the world to be with

you but you won't do the same for me." I say, defeated. My wolf was howling.

My heart was breaking.

"I know I brought this on our doorstep. I know this is partly my fault as it is my mother's, who has been quiet this whole time. I just want you, I need you here in this life with me. We still have so much to do and so much to face. This cannot be your end! I refuse." I say through sobs.

"Josey, no pack will follow a vampire leader. No pack will take in a vampire. You are different, you still walk in the day, seeming normal. Your mates won't have that at all." Cj says to me, his hand on my shoulder.

"Fine. Arianna save whoever, it's clear they don't want to live. They are grown men, they can decide for themselves but what I won't do, is sit here and watch one of them die." I say before leaving the room.

Mother follows me out and grabs my hand to stop me.

"Josey, I'm sorry. I know I have a lot to explain but it really is not that easy. I used that amulet on your father, to create the illusion of him being my mate. I can get inside people's heads but I can't create the mate bond like that. Only magic can do that and that's what I did. When we lived in human territory, I met your uncle Deacon. It was through him that I met your father, see Deacon is an alpha and a very loud and proud one, which could expose me so I could not date him but your father was just perfect. I know it sounds wrong but I did what I did to protect Sabrina. At that age, before I met your father or uncle, I was living in between earth and the heavenly, where I met my true mate. Hunter did not waste time and before I knew it, I was pregnant." Mother tells me.

"I thought you said you made him wait, friendzoned him." Sabrina says from behind us. We turn to face her.

"Yes but don't forget, a day on earth is ten years here. So I'd spend more time in the heavenly realm by just being gone for a day or two. Look all I'm saying is, I had to hide after people found out Hunter claimed me and your father was the perfect man for it. I do care about him but the mate bond was never real for me when I knew who my true mate was." Mother tells us and Sabrina chuckles.

"What about dad? Did he not have a mate? Did you not care that he could've had a normal shewolf who would've stuck around long enough?" Sabrina asks.

"At the time I did not care or even think about it." Mother says honestly, which surprised me.

"Your unapologetic behavior is the reason why shit is going to shit right now. You're the most selfish person I've ever known! Josey's life is messed up right now and if it wasn't for you, maybe just maybe this would not be happening. You were young and I get it. A young girl pregnant and alone, any help is great help and deciding to revisit the consequences tomorrow but tomorrow is here and you are not even trying to fix it." Sabrina says to mother.

Sabrina turns around to walk back in the recovery room. We follow her back in.

"Who would die if I saved one of them?" Sabrina asks the elder.

"No Sab, you don't have to do this." I shout out.

"You care about these wolves because they are family, for life to have a balance with death, you'd have to lose someone who you care about." The elder says to Sabrina.

"Brina, you have a child to think about. A mate who has made you so happy." Cj points out. I nod my head in agreement.

I don't want to lose my mates but Sabrina has already lost so much.

"What do we do then? Arianna is already saving Chase. Clayton can't die!" Sabrina says before her eyes bulge out.

"How long do I have before he dies?" Sabrina asks the elder.

"You have an hour, tops." The elder responds and Sabrina runs out of the recovery room.

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Sabrina's POV

"Cayden. Your sister was able to walk in the sun, why is that?" I ask looking at a very worried Cayden.

His sister was not healing so it was downward for her.

"That's because I turned her. If I turn someone in to a vampire, they get my DNA. The ability to walk in the sun and more strength than the normal vampires you've come across. Please save my sister." Cayden says, his eyes pleading with me.

"I can save her if you save Josey's mates." I say looking him dead in the eyes.

"I thought they were fine?" He says to me, smiling.

"It seems your hunters used silver." I say grimly. Cayden chuckles then stops.

"If it was under different circumstances, I'd watch them die before taking Josey as mine but because I need my sister and it's my fault she's in this position, I'll save them." Cayden says to me and I disappear and reappear with Josey, Hunter and Clayton in his arms.

Josey walks in to Cherisse's cell which was right next to Cayden's.

Cayden looks at me with his eyebrows raised.

"You try anything funny, Josey ends her." I say looking at him with a straight face. I fold my arms for that added effect.

"How will you heal her? She's as good as dead!" Cayden says looking at his sister.

"Well she is already dead, just short of a spine. Right now she can't move her limbs but there's ways to fix that." Josey says with her arms folded.

Josey's eyes turn red, revealing her vampire. Cayden looks at her in fascination and maybe something even softer?

"Let's get this over with." Hunter says as he enters Cayden's cell and places Clayton on Cayden's bed.

Cayden inspects Clayton's wounds, touching them before his fangs pierce through his skin, right on his shoulder.

The process doesn't even take a minute. I get a flashback of when Hunter was in this position, my heart stopping for a second.

The idea of not getting to know him and then him being killed by a vampire, I was hurt. I didn't tell him how watching him fall to the ground made me feel, I never told anyone but my heart broke.

I just don't know how to start this relationship as father and daughter with him.

Cayden steps away from Clayton, nods his head at me to signal that his job was done. Josey walks out of the cell carrying a very weak Cherisse. Cayden kisses his sister's forehead before Josey walks out with her.

Hunter carries Clayton out of the cells too, leaving me with the vampire king.

"Look, I'm sorry. I'm definitely out of my league here with everyone having magical powers and insane strength but Josey is my only hope. Humans do artificial insemination all the time and it works, I just need her eggs and her body to carry my child. I need an heir, I need someone to live for." Cayden says to me before dropping on the bed.

"The amulet, I needed the amulet back when my wife agreed to carry my children but I was not so lucky. I was born like this, I grew up like this. Why do I need to be punished any further?" Cayden asks and I sit by him on the bed.

"I don't think Josey is in any state to make such a decision and now that her mates are about to become vampires, she has to stick by them." I say looking down.

Hunter arrives back with Chase.

"It rejected Chase." Hunter says and I look at Cayden. Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

"Number two. Then I'll personally heal your sister." I say looking in to his eyes. Cayden sinks his fangs and turns Chase..

I would now use the same amulet to heal Cherisse. Depleting it's magic completely and preventing anyone from using it against us.

Hunter disappears with an unconscious Chase and I'm left with Cayden once again.

"Look, my mother's involvement definitely shook all of us. I'm sorry it left you cursed and in such a mess but trust me when I say, I'm also paying for her choices in life. I will ask Josey to come speak with you... I hope you respect her decision this time if she says no." I say as I stand up to leave the cell.

"I will." Cayden says to me. I walk out and make my way to my mother. It was time to get the full story so I can make things right.

"Josey, Cayden needs to speak with you." I say and she nods her head as she makes her way out.

"Mother, you are going to tell me everything. About you being a halfling, about Shadow. About tricking dad and why nana was cast out from the heavenly realm. Why did Ethia lie and say her name was luna? How was she able to yield moon goddess power? Scare you and Hunter in to hiding and most importantly, the real story between you and my real father." I say looking straight in her eyes.

My mother nods her head, agreeing to tell me the full story.

"Follow me. Hunter, I'll need to talk with you too." I say as I walk out of the recovery room and straight to my office.

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Josey's POV

"You asked for me?" I say to Cayden, walking in to his cell.

He looks at me and smiles, I guess the mess I was in pleased him. Blood all over my face, more especially my mouth confirming I fed on a human. I allowed my vampire to take the lead in saving my pack, her feeding on the humans caught me by surprise but they needed to die one way or another so I allowed it.

"Thank you, for saving them." I say and Cayden smiles.

"Yes. You are most welcome, now it's my turn." Cayden says to me and I look at him in shock.

"You honestly think I'll sleep with you after what you did to my pack and my mates?" I ask him.

"Yes." Cayden says to me, confidently.

"Crazy! So crazy. I can't believe you'd think I would agree to anything with you after what happened today! I almost lost my mates. Goddess knows what state my pack is in after you had hunters attack my people. I don't think you understand the mess you have made, leaving it all for me to clean up and fix. I have no business with you anymore." I say as I turn around to leave.

"You will leave your mates to stay with me. You will give me three months to win you over and if that does not happen, you are free to go back to your mates but until then, you are mine and mine alone." Cayden says, my mind agreeing with what he said.

I will leave with Cayden. I will be with him for some time and allow him the chance to win my heart and if I still love my mates when his time is up, I will go back to them.

"Yes." I say looking in to Cayden's eyes. He smiles at me, a warm smile that could cure anything.

"I think it's time your sister let me out of here. I think it's time I went back to my people with my queen by my side." Cayden says and I nod my head in agreement.

Something in the back of my mind was telling me this isn't right but I shook it off and walked out to tell Sabrina to let Cayden go.

We have the amulet and he will be too preoccupied with building a new kingdom before going in to war with us.

We would be too preoccupied with building a kingdom, together.