Rejecting The Beta

Sparks flew through me. I don't know why but my body reacted differently around the one who was kissing me right now. But this is wrong. I can't cheat on my boyfriend. I had to push this person away.

Suddenly a faint voice spoke in the back of my head, "Meant to be. Meant to be..."

I didn't understand and with all my might put my hands on the person's chest and yelled, "Get off!"

I quickly switched on the lights besides the fridge and my jaw dropped on seeing the person who had just kissed me.

Ethan Brown. The beta of the other pack. Why did he kiss me?

I saw an emotion of hurt on his face. Like he was crestfallen.

"Yo-you..." he stammered, "are my m-mate."

He, then looked at me questioningly.

"Don't you feel anything?" he asked.

"Feel what?" I said.

"You are a werewolf right?"

"Of course I am." I snapped.

Then, realisation dawned upon me. Maybe he was being truthful. Maybe I was his mate. But, until I shift, I cannot smell my mate. But, my mate is meant to be Ace.

"Then-" he began, and paused.

"Then why don't you-" he stopped in the mid sentence and then closed the distance between us and held my shoulders, his green eyes connecting with my grey ones and said, "We are mates, Jezebel."

I was lost in his eyes. What was happening to me? I wished that he never left my side. No, this is wrong, I shouldn't be feeling that way. But, I just couldn't push him away.

"No, she is not your mate!" thundered a voice.

Ace.

He was using his Alpha tone which was very-very scary. But, it was, in no way going to affect Ethan as he was from the other pack.

Ethan turned away from me to face Ace, taking away all the warmth he had given me.

"Ace, perhaps using the Alpha voice on your best friend and his mate, is not a good idea." Ethan replied, calmly.

Ethan and Ace, friends? When did this happen? And that also BEST FRIENDS?

"Alpha Ace." Ace corrected.

Colour drained from my face. This was NOT the Ace I knew. Nobody could say this to a friend of theirs. I stood beside Ethan and looked at him, then at Ace and then back. Ethan's jaw clenched and then unclenched, his hands enclosed in a tight fist. Ace, however, completely ignored his expressions and suddenly took hold of my wrist, so tightly, that it hurt a little. Ethan's head snapped towards my wrist (which Ace was holding extremely tightly. Why? I didn't know.) and that was it.

"Leave. Her." Ethan roared, his eyes pitch black.

Pitch black eyes meant, his wolf was on surface. He could lose control.

"NO!" Ace said.

I looked at both of them in horror.

"Let's go Jez," Ace tried to pull me away, when Ethan got hold of my other wrist.

"She's not going anywhere." Ethan spoke in a completely different voice. Shit! It was his wolf speaking.

I saw that Ace's Alpha wolf too, was on surface.

It was my turn to say something now.

"Enough! Both of you!" I screamed, shaking my wrists, so that I can get free. But, I failed. They didn't give me even the slightest attention except that Ethan's eyes flickered towards me for just a millisecond.

Both of them started growling at each other making the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

"Ace! Where are you son?"

We all froze at the voice. It was Ace's father, the previous Alpha Mason.

"What're you two doing?" He asked, rather angrily.

Ace and his father's eyes glowed bright yellow for a second which meant they were mind linking.

"Jezebel is my mate Alpha Mason. And as I was talking to her, your son is acting as if I touched his mate." Ethan spoke.

Alpha Mason nodded.

"I get it. Jezebel-"

"Dad, Jez doesn't feel a thing for him and Ethan's been forcing himself on her," Ace said in an accusing tone.

"Easy, Ace," Alpha Mason shut him up and turned to me again, "yeah so Jezebel, I was asking you, do you feel some sort of force pulling you to Ethan?"

What should I say? Should I tell him about the sparks I felt whenever he was near me? Would he think I was a cheat and throw me out of the pack? Will Ace hate me forever?

I glanced at Ace and he was looking at me as if he was looking through me... No, I couldn't break his heart. I wasn't even sure about the mate thing.

"I- don't know. I mean I have not shifted yet..." I trailed off and looked at both Ethan and Ace.

Surprisingly, Ethan was smiling.

"That's why she can't feel the connection we have!" he exclaimed.

"She can't feel anything because she and I share the connection. Not you." Ace spat venomously at him, making me flinch.

"Still, I do ask you, not even one bit?" Alpha Mason mind-linked me.

Should I tell him? I can't lie to him. He has been like a father to me. He has not been a commanding Alpha to me but a very caring and loving person, just like my dad. He used to say this always, 'Jez is a daughter to me.'

I decided not to lie.

"Yes." My voice small in the mind link. I saw alpha raise an eyebrow.

"But... please don't tell Ace about it," I pleaded through mind link.

He nodded, "I won't. You need to tell this to him on your own."

We broke the mindlink.

"Ethan, I want to have a word with you, if you please," Alpha Mason gestured Ethan to move outside with him. Ethan didn't want to (I could see from his expression) but left anyways.

I was alone with Ace.

Should I ask him? Does he really feel now that I am his mate?

"Ace, I-"

He didn't speak anything. Just grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the stairs. I saw Ethan through the corner of my eye who was talking to alpha Mason, clench his jaw and starting towards us but being tackled by Alpha Mason. Ace gave no notice.

"Listen Ace..."

I needed to tell him. Everything.

But he didn't reply. He kept dragging me by the wrist until we reached his room, he unlocked it and pulled me in. He put on the lock (which he never did). I gulped.

He took a deep, infuriating breath.

"I am gonna mark you, Jez." he said and in a second, he pushed me on the bed, crawling over me, his eyes full of lust. He started kissing my neck, making me shudder but NOT liking it.

I seemed to have lost my voice.

But, no. I couldn't let this happen. We both would die if he marked me. If we try to mark a person who's not our mate, the moon goddess becomes so angry, that she kills the pair who tried going against the mate thing.

I tried to push him away, but he seemed to get rougher, every passing minute.

"Ace, stop!" I almost yelled.

He pulled back, a look of fury in his eyes.

"You can't mark me." I sat up.

"Why not?" he asked.

"Because, we are not mates."

"Oh. I don't believe it. You seriously trust Ethan?"

"No, but-"

"Then what? We are meant to be mates Jezebel."

"But we are not," I lost my temper, "I would've known by your expression after your shifting. If I had been your mate, you would've heard the voice 'mate' in your head which didn't happen, I'm sure."

"What rubbish. I don't think anything like this happens."

"It happened to all our elders. Why would they lie to us?" I held his face in between my hands, "Look Ace, I love you but we need to wait and see till I shift."

Ace, surprisingly, started crying.

"I love you Jezebel. I am sorry, I didn't feel the mate bond. I was so angry with myself and my wolf." He completely broke down and kept his head on my lap.

We both dozed off to sleep.

So what, if we were not mates in view of the moon goddess? It's love that matters.