Arden’s Mate(3)
Warm, chocolate brown eyes narrowed on her, and he whispered, “Mine.”
Terror ran through her, and she took big gulps of air.
At that one word Remy became one hundred percent sure of what he’d done…he’d mated her. Remy was now mated to a shifter. Doors seemed to close all around her, and options and choices she thought she had vanished. Blackness clouded her vision and Remy let it take her, but not before she glanced at Faith and knew who had betrayed her.
* * * *
Remy fainted soon after he’d mated her, but not before she made her anger known. Arden now sat in a chair next to her bed and glared at a worried Faith. “Who the hell is she, Faith?”
Faith looked from him back to his mate, her hands wringing the edge of her baggy shirt. “Remy. Your mate is my best friend Remy Morris.”
“Holy shit, Faith. Why the fuck did you not tell me before this?”
“Because this is not how I envisioned you mating. It’s all wrong. The fates hadn’t let you meet yet for a reason. I just didn’t know what it was. I may be psychic, but I only see what they want me to see.”
Arden was pissed off. He had a mate and Faith had known and kept her from him. “How long have you known?” he snarled.
Faith paced back and forth in the small room. “You have to understand that she wasn’t ready. I wanted you to come back from Canberra and get settled in before I told you.”
“When?” he yelled.
Faith stopped pacing and looked everywhere but at him. “When I moved in with her because I’d left Kane.”
His heart sank, and if he was standing he would have fallen. How could Faith have kept that from him? Blinking, he stared at Faith. “You made sure I didn’t meet her, didn’t you?”
Kane came barreling into the room and went straight to Faith. “What’s going on?”
“Ask your selfish fucking mate,” Arden yelled.
Kane growled, then stopped, shocked at Arden’s words. He never spoke to Kane, or anyone, like he just had. “Faith?”
Faith ignored Kane and answered what Arden had asked. “Yes, I did. You were supposed to meet her someplace else and mate her later. I saw it all.”
Arden ran his fingers through his hair. He needed air, he needed to change into his wolf and run. If he didn’t, he would say something he’d regret. Standing, he nodded to Kane and walked out of the room, down the hall, and out of the house. Right now he couldn’t even look at Faith...she had kept his mate from him.
* * * *
Remy couldn’t believe her friend would betray her like this. Faith knew how she felt about the werewolves. Why the hell would she send one to mate with her?
The pain was easing fast, and she knew it had something to do with the bite Arden had given her. When she’d awoken Faith had been in her room and told her the man’s name was Arden, and he was Kane’s frigging brother.
Arden had come back an hour or so after she’d awaken and introduced himself. He was gorgeous, with shaggy, midnight hair that fell over intense, brown eyes, and plump, kissable lips with a strong jaw, and the thing that made it super hard to resist him was when he smiled his dimples would pop.
Arden was charming, and the last couple of days she’d started recovering at a rapid pace. He sat by her bed and told her he was part of their military, he told her where they would live, that she could decorate his house, which was now theirs, that her job was now gone, and she wasn’t going to fight anymore. All her choices and her freedom disappeared, and she felt like a caged animal.
She glanced at the clock beside the bed and eased herself up. Arden was due for a visit. Her body started to come alive at just the thought of him, and that scared the hell out of her.
Remy wasn’t an idiot. She’d seen what had happened to her friends when they mated a werewolf—they became owned, controlled…and restricted. Arden was already taking choices away from her and telling her what to do. Remy didn’t belong to anyone but herself, and she’d never been good with rules and restrictions.
Werewolves also seemed extremely potent. Her friends were proof of that as they all got knocked up pretty quick. No way was she ready for a baby...puppy...whatever. She needed to get out of dodge...well, shifter territory.
Remy wasn’t ready to lose her freedom. Arden already barely left her side. She wasn’t used to not having any alone time. She’d been on her own now for so long she didn’t know what to do with someone else in it.
The only thing holding her back from leaving was Faith, Sara, and Kirby. She didn’t want to leave them to fight this fight without her. Remy liked that she was helping fight the evil demons, but the werewolves that came with it were too much.