Not Ready For My Mate novel Chapter 61

"Beautiful, are they not?" We hear Mother ask near us. We look over too her and nod not wanting too speak. We stay standing there for a few more minutes as we just look at the beauty and enjoy the smell. "Let's go." We say to her and walk back to the group.

"Alright Theo if you would please shift for me." Ancient Matthew says still smiling. "Does this guy ever quit smiling?" Gage asks me, I chuckle and shake my head. "Don't know?" I reply too him as we begin to take our clothes off.

Once we're left in only our boxers we shift instantly. We don't feel any more pain. Everyone looks at Ancient Matthew and the worst thing me and Gage could think of happened...his smile fell. Everyone must have also started too worry seeing his face. "What's wrong Matthew?" Mother asks worriedly while looking at us then him.

"I haven't seen one of these in a while." He says with an apologetic expression. "Why does he look sorry Theo?" Gage asks me worriedly as well. "I have no idea." I say also feeling scared and worried.

Ancient Matthew doesn't reply, he only stares at us. "Matthew, what is wrong?" Mother demands sternly. Matthew looks at her and sighs.

"Theo's a Rejected."

A what?

What the hell is a Rejected?

That question has been running through our head ever since Ancient Matthew said those words. Not one of us knows what it means, aside from him, heck not even Mother knows and she's the freaking Moon Goddess.

After he said those words he told us we need a private place too speak. Father directed us to a meeting room. It was very big and spacious with a giant oak table in the middle of the room.

We're all now sitting there waiting patiently for Ancient Matthew to begin to explain what we are. Everyone was patient except for me and Gage. All the worst possible reasons kept running through our heads.

Are we going to die soon?

Are we going to turn evil...wait that's basically what we are now.

So many thoughts run through our head and anyone of them could be possible. And what makes us really pissed off is that this guy is purposely stalling.

"It all started almost 1000 years ago. I was a newly appointed Ancient at the time, starting to learn the roles without actually having someone too teach me and the other Ancients. We learnt how to do everything ourselves and it worked."

"I knew Moona so well. Moona is your Mother's wolf but she was the real Moon Goddess in my time. She's the real one that is up there right at this moment until it's time for your Mother's rein. Anyways, Moona was such a happy, optimistic girl. She always saw the good in people and she was the most forgiving person I knew."

"She was mated to an Alpha as well. Worst possible thing for her in that time. No one knows how it started but all the Alphas in the world decided that their mates were inferior to them. Those Alphas were despicable to their mates. Beating them. Using them. So many things thats hard to process."

"We tried so hard to stop them with they're ways. Nothing stopped them. Not reason. Not their mates. Not even our powers. They still would not change. Then Moona met her mate. And Moona being Moona she felt she could change her mate, an Alpha. How wrong she was."

"She loved him with all her heart. He used, abused, r-raped her. He did everything he could do to her to try and break her but that was one thing Moona wasn't. Weak. Though she still did not reject him or do anything. She took everything he gave her. He had so many affairs. I remember one time she told me she had actually walked in on him with another woman and his response to her was 'Fuck off I'm busy.' That moment broke her heart and yet she was still faithful, adamant she could change him for the better."

"No one knew of these secret meetings between the Alphas. No one ever knew. We would have stopped it as soon as we knew. Every year for a full week the Alphas would take their mates too a secret place where they all met up and did anything they wanted to do with the mates. It didn't matter if that mate was yours or not. You could do as you please with them."