The Werewolf's Vampire Mate
Chapter 21: See things for what they really are.

Chapter 21: See things for what they really are.

Beau.

He goes out of the room and I go into the bathroom to have a quick shower. The water is hot, and as I close my eyes letting it run over my body; I think about him and how far we have come. Being with him is easy, I don’t worry.

I get out of the shower and Lanis is sitting on the bed with a dazed expression. He is biting his nails. I didn’t know he had that habit. I smile because I am finding out more things about him and the more I find out, the more intrigued I am with everything that he is.

"Hey," I walk over to him and plant a soft kiss on his lips. He grabs my hands and holds unto them tightly "Is everything okay?" I am worried. He manages a faint smile. I can feel it, he is scared. My heart beats to his pain. He needs to talk to me "You can talk to me" I remember how his brother came to drag him earlier. I am only wearing one of his boxers.

"Something happened. Last night when I went to help Rus out. Some people died. I didn’t kill them; I swear." he is rambling. I don’t understand what he is saying but it is scaring him. I don’t want him scared; I will protect him.

"Whoa. Just breathe okay," I sit down next to him on the edge of the bed and he welcomes me into his arms. Tears fall down his face and I am angry with myself. Fuck, why does he always cry when he is with me. I am supposed to make things easier for him but it seems like all I do is make them harder "Why am I crying? Shit," he lets go of my hands and starts to wipe the tears off his face. He is spiraling.

"Babe. Look at me," I pull his face until he is looking at me. "Talk to me. I will never judge you" I assure him. He stops crying. Or at least he attempts to. "What happened last night?" I genuinely want to know. He mentioned something about people dying. That has me on alert.

"Rus was in a fix last night," he takes a deep breath and I nod for him to continue "He called me, apparently he messed with the wrongs guys at a bar. I went over to help him. When I got there, I found out that they were wolves," I open my eyes shocked from his words. He fought with wolves. That can’t be good.

"Do you know who they are?" I am worried in case its someone close to me. Shit, he talked about people dying. Did he kill my brothers?

"No. I didn’t want to fight with them. I made sure I was calm. They left" I nod. Okay, he didn’t fight. That means he didn’t do anything. Everything is okay.

"This morning they were found dead. Close to Russo’s. In the woods," my world freezes. My heart shatters into a million pieces. Two of my brothers found dead. This cannot be happening. I let go of him and he looks at my hands that were once holding unto him. My expression is shell shocked.

"You didn’t do this?" I manage to speak.

He nods "I swear on my life. I apologized. I made sure no one was hurt. Not even Rus."

I stand up from the bed "I need to go home. I need to find out who it is. Shit, father is probably looking for me everywhere," I run my hands through my hair and search around for something to wear. This is more than just me and Lanis and even though I believe he didn’t do this, if this is somehow linked to him in anyway it will cause a lot of trouble for us. No one will even agree to let us be together.

"Here you go," he gives me a pair of sweats. I didn’t even know he stood up. I grab the clothes from him and manage a faint smile "I promise it’ll be okay" I try to assure him but I don’t even know if I believe myself.

"Do you believe I didn’t do this?" he wants to know if I trust him. I trust him with my whole being. There is no doubt in my mind that he did do this. I believe in him 100%. "I do," I walk over to him after wearing his clothes. His scent fills me in completely "I trust you," I kiss him and he welcomes me wholeheartedly. I leave him and I know he isn’t sad anymore.

He only needs validation from me.

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I get home and Rex is standing outside with a worried expression on his face. He opens his eyes wide upon noticing me "Where have you been?" he runs over to me. I push him away because I can’t think right now. I know there will be a meeting and that is where I need to be. I run until I am in the meeting room. Everyone is gathered.

They all have sullen expressions on their faces. I look around to see who is missing. I need to know who was killed and I need to know now. I count the faces and dread kicks in when I realize that Mali and Win are not here.

I close the door and it makes a loud bang which makes everyone’s attention to face me. Father frowns; he is angry but I don’t care right now "Where’s Mali." he’s the one I am most concerned about.

Mali is my cousin.

"Sit down" Father warns me. I oblige obediently. Taking the nearest sit to the door. I face the alpha and he continues speaking "This is clearly an attack. I have spoken to shames. He’s in charge of the autopsy. Once we get the full details, we will know what to do?" he is angry. Everyone in this room is angry.

"It’s obvious who did this. It’s the vamps. We should take two lives for the lives we lost" Uncle Fallon shouts with so much anger in his voice. I stiffen in my seat. They can’t start a war between both kinds. Not when I have all these emotions in me, not when I need him in my life.

"Calm down Brother. Let’s wait for the autopsy. We don’t want to start a war until we are sure" Father says.

"We can’t start a war" I speak up suddenly not wanting to encourage this. No matter what happened; we shouldn’t start a war with them. No one will win from a war. It is not worth it.

"if it comes to it, we have no choice" the meeting ends with fathers’ final words. Nobody is going to disobey him; they will only listen to him. As the people in the room get smaller, I stand up in an attempt to run away before he gets a hold of me "Don’t you dare" his voice is stern and cold. The shivers run down my spine. He knows I left last night; so, he obviously knows that I went to Lanis.

I remain standing, terrified of what he is going to do "Dad." I speak but he shakes his head and walks out of the room—stopping in front of the door "Follow me" I obey and we walk until we are outside. We keep walking until we are in the underground bunker. We get to the bunker. it is an underground cave. This is the first time he is letting me come here. When I was younger and I asked why he always used to say its adult stuff.

This doesn’t have anything to do with him believing I am old enough. Whatever he wants to show me must be a way to convince me that being with Lanis is a bad idea. He stops moving, the tunnel is dark so I squint my eyes to see clearer. My night vision kicks in. I look around and there are carvings on the walls. It’s all like a story, the evolution of our kind. It’s easy to understand. Once there was man and man became wolf. I keep walking tracing all the pictures carved on the walls. He watches me, but remains quiet. The further I go the clearer the story becomes. I see death, the contention. The pictures are too vivid. he wants me to feel the pain of the people that died in the contention. This doesn’t change anything; I don’t care about the past. I only care about my future with Alanis.

"Why are you showing me this?" I ask him because I need to know. I need him to understand that I can’t just stop myself from loving Alanis and I don’t even want to.

"You need to see the harm the vampires can inflict"

"Dad, they lost people too" I defend his kind. This was a war and it was between two not just one. They didn’t just start killing our kind for no reason. It was both parties that agreed to the fighting. So, he can’t just stand there looking all gloom and try to blame them alone.

"Do you know what happened? Don’t you want to know why the war even started in the first place" This is the first time he is talking to me about this. No one talks about why the killings occurred.

"You never tell me about it"

He nods. He walks closer to me and places and arm over my shoulder. He leads me to another room and there are chairs in this room. There is a fire place and it is burning out flames. "Sit down" he urges. I oblige and take a seat. He sits down on the chair next to me.

"We didn’t have any problem with the vampires. They moved into our town. They came and made themselves known. We have been here for 100 of years. There had been peace until they came. They started killing the humans. They were dropping bodies like flies all to quench their blood thirst. It had nothing to do with us, but we protect humans and we couldn’t just stand by and not do anything"

He looks at me for some sort of reaction. He wants me to be angry and yes, I am angry. They killed humans. All vampires do is hurt the innocent. That is the plight they have been dealt with. "We spoke to their elders. They laughed in our faces. They said we can share this town. That if we had a problem with it; we could leave. They asked us to leave the place we started. The place we call our home’’ he shouts "They had the audacity."

"Father," I plead. Desperate to stop him from telling me this story. I don’t want to think of Lanis is any other way. He is a nice person. He doesn’t kill people. He is one of the good ones.

"Your supposed mate is not so innocent" he speaks up and I realize I said everything out loud. Fuck.

"You have to know that every vampire is a murderer. They have all killed. It is in their DNA"

I shake my head "You don’t know that."

He laughs "He is a vampire and if you mate with him. That means you are accepting them all. You are accepting all murderers."

His words are affecting me a lot. He is getting into my skin. The fact that I hate vampires so much. They killed my mother, the killed my brothers. They killed my family and now I want to welcome one into my family. running my hands through my hair I release a heavy sigh "It’s not fair to do this to me"

His expression is calm "This is the right thing to do. I have to let you know that you will be making the biggest mistake of your life mating with that vampire. You need to know that being without a mate is the better option"

I shake my head "No it’s not" I hold unto the collar of his shirt. His scent fills into my nostrils "I will die without him. As long as he is alive, I will die if I am not with him." that is how I feel. I miss him, and I just left him. I don’t want him sad; I don’t want him angry. I only want to make him happy. He has suddenly become the most important person in my life. He means more to me than the man standing in front of me. That is how strong this pull between us is. That is what father doesn’t understand.

"We can find a way to make him not alive anymore" my eyes open wide from the shock of his words. I jolt up from the chair and fold my hands in a fist. Anger seeping through me "Don’t you ever go anywhere near him" I grab him by the collar of his shirt. I don’t care that he is the Alpha. I don’t care that I answer to him. If he tries to hurt Lanis; I will kill him.

He doesn’t say anything. He is watching me with curiosity. My hands squeeze his shirt tighter. I am the angriest I have ever been "I will desert this family and everything I have known just to be with him. I will not fight this war you people want to start. I am old enough to make my choices and I choose him" I don’t recognize my voice. I have never had this reaction before. Just the thought of losing Lanis is making me crazy.

Father grabs my hand in his grip but I don’t cower. I stay firm on the point I am trying to make. He needs to know that I am serious "You will leave the pack for him?" he asks in disbelief.

I nod not backing down.

He laughs "Then you are a fool," he pushes my hands away from him and walks away with not another word. I stand in that room unsure of anything.