His Forgotten Mate

🐺Rome🐺

Why?

Why, Malakai, did you have to be stupid? You shouldn’t have tried taking him on alone. You should have waited for Justice. Did you think about the consequences of your actions? Did you not think about how this would affect me and our pack? They need you... I need you.

I don’t understand why he did what he did. All I know now is that I have been in limbo ever since we found him lying unconscious next to Michael’s headless body.

I’m not sure how we even got to this point. One day we were happy and the next I lost him.

I have hardly done a thing for myself since Justice and Jayda helped me carry Malakai back home.

“How is Mali doing?” Jayda asks, making me jump.

“Still in the coma,” I say, monotoned.

“I’m sorry this is happening but he will come back to you.” she says reassuringly, “I don’t understand how this happened”.

“I do, Your Grandfather failed to do what was needed and he let his deranged son run rampant in the world. Then when taking over rogue gangs wasn’t enough for him when being a menace wasn’t enough for him, he came back to take what he felt belonged to him and now my mate has paid the price!” I scream.

Jayda sighs and rests a hand on my shoulder. She’s been wonderful. Her brother is lying here and she’s been my rock. I honestly don’t know how I would have survived this without her and Justice.

“Honey, you know it wouldn’t have mattered who the new Alpha was. They would have been a target whether it was Justice or Malakai”.

“MALAKAI MAY NEVER WAKE UP!” I snap.

I get up from my spot on the bed, I need some space. Guilt eats away at me the whole way to the kitchen, I know that this isn’t Jayda’s fault. She’s been so amazing and this is how I repay her? I need to apologize.

I enter the kitchen and am immediately disheartened to see that I am not alone, I was really hoping that I would be alone with my thoughts, not that that’s a good idea right now. I turn around to leave but I don’t make it two steps before Justice speaks.

“Nice to see you up and about.” I can hear the smile in his tone.

I wish I could return his smile but I feel dead inside. I owe Justice and Jayda so much. While I’ve been a zombie barely able to take care of myself, they have been taking care of the pack and me.

I sigh and grab a glass from the cupboard, “Jayda is probably upset with me… I snapped at her”.

Justice chuckles at me, “She was wondering when you were going to get angry. You’ve just been kind of stuck in a catatonic state”.

I run some cold water and splash it on my face.

“Is there anything you need me to do?” I ask Just.

“No Alpha, I’ve got it covered. Just take care of yourself and Malakai”.

I nod and leave to go sit with Malakai and apologize to Jayda. I reach the bottom and I can hear Jayda talking to Kai. What sends me reeling is when he responds. Why didn’t she link me?

Immediately I run towards the bathroom to try and freshen up, I haven’t showered in a few days. Once I think I no longer smell horrible I go knock on the door and enter. My heart is racing, I thought I would lose him.

“Oh good, finally someone here to help me. You um… uh Remy, can you go get me a suit and maybe a red silk tie?” He turns away before quickly turning back, “actually forget the tie”.

I look at Jayda, confusion written on my face.

She shrugs, “Malakai, what year is it?” She seems to have some idea as to what happened to him.

“It’s February the first.” He removes the needles from his arm.

“I asked you for the year, Mali,” Jayda says concerned.

He looks at her and then at me, “It’s 2018”.

“No, Malakai, it isn’t. It is 2020”.

Kai laughs and then demands I go get his suit. Tears pool in my eyes, he doesn’t remember me. He doesn’t remember that I’m his and he is mine.

I turn on my heel and leave the room. I just… I can’t be here anymore. I go to my sanctuary, our pack conservatory. It’s always been my safe place, I find comfort there since not many of our pack members want to spend their free time inside.

Kai and I had to overcome so much to get to where we were and now I am back to when he was eighteen and all too happy to ignore or torment me. When he was too pigheaded to admit that we were mates.

Absentmindedly, I play with my wedding band. Malakai spent a lot of time looking for the perfect band for me. He wanted something special, unique. He had a beautiful white gold band made from his father’s ring and set with black sapphires. I requested the man who made the ring to make him a matching band out of black tungsten and also set it with the same black sapphires.

“Rome?” I jump at the sound of Jayda’s voice, “are you ok?”

“Is that a joke?”

Jayda sighs and sits down next to me, pats my knee and then pulls me into a hug.

“We will get him back. Right now he is going through all the anger he went through when he found out about Justice and I. He just needs time to get used to things again; time to remember that he loves you more than life itself.

“What do I do until then? The second he finds out that we mated and are married he will lose his mind. It took him over a year to finally admit that we were mates to begin with”.

“I don’t know. I think all we can do is support him and hope that he remembers”.

We just sit in silence for a few moments enjoying the warmth of the sun on our faces.

“Should we have a pack meeting and ask them to keep quiet about you guys being mates for now?”

“No. Kai would feel betrayed. I don’t want him to feel like that in his home. This is going to be hard enough, he has to learn about your father’s death all over again and it was so hard on him the first time”.

Jayda squeezes my hand and leaves me to my thoughts. I think that for myself and for him I need to stay away, at least for the rest of the day. My heart aches and my eyes are burning from all the tears I’ve cried but I am determined and hopeful that Kai and I will be together again. I didn’t fight so hard to win his heart just to lose him a year in.

As I sit here, I realize that I am going to need to sleep somewhere else. I suppose I could move to the room that used to be the former Luna’s closet. It is right next door to mine and Kai’s room and hopefully being that close will bring us back together.

Kai’s mother should be here but she couldn’t stand being here after her husband died. She bought a yacht and has been sailing with the “sexy” captain she hired. Apparently, she’s having a wonderful time.

I cringed so hard when Kai felt the need to tell me she said she was having wild nights of passion. She added more but I closed his laptop and told him not to tell me any more about it.

“Alpha?” Justice links me.

“Hm?” I hum back.

“Do you need help with anything? Kai is busy looking over reports and transcripts from meetings”.

A few tears fall.

“Yes actually. I will need a new mattress for my new room and someone to help me move my belongings if you don’t mind”.

I was surprised when a few moments later Justice appeared in the doorway.

“The mattress will be here tomorrow, I just ordered the same one you picked out together.” He said, sounding more melancholy than me.

I just nod and keep packing the little things Kai got me. During our first week together he gave me a beautiful glass etching of a wolf walking through some grass. After we got engaged he gave me a stunning crystal rose. He told me that the rose was symbolic of our love. This rose would never wilt and die, like our love it would be eternal.

The wolf etching I only really loved because it was the first gift he gave me. He finally acknowledged me and the etching was what really made it real. I just stand here holding it in my hands and of course, the waterworks start again.

“Hey, come here.” Justice turns me around and hugs me, “I am going to head to town with Jayda tonight, You can stay in our room until your new mattress arrives, we will stay in a hotel”.

“Thank you.” I pull away and get back to packing.

“Have you told him that you’re his mate?” Just asks me.

“No. He… I… I couldn’t. He called me Remy like he used to. He did that be-because I-I do-don’t matter to h-him an-anymore.” I try hard to fight my tears.

“What are you doing in here?” Malakai asks Justice and I.

We both jump and look over at him. He looks furious.

“W-w-we… I… j-just.” I stop trying to respond.

“Just what? Thought that you’d go through my things right after my sister tells me that my father is dead and I am Alpha!” He shouts which scares me a little.

“It’s not like that, Malakai, Rome and I were just tidying up for you.” Justice lies.

They have a standoff, power buzzing through the room. Justice has never been afraid to tell Kai anything, it’s a wonderful quality for a Beta to have. Kai eventually gives in and makes his way to our bathroom. He comes back out a moment later with my towel in his hand and he looks pissed.

“What the fuck is this?”

I close my eyes and pray he will just drop it but of course, he doesn’t.

“WHY IS YOUR NAME ON A TOWEL IN MY BATHROOM?” He’s yelling now. I was always the one that could calm him and now I’m… I’m useless.

I try to think of something to defuse the situation but Justice interrupts my train of thought.

“Even you aren’t that stupid.” Justice snaps.

“I’m sorry,” I say it quietly as I shove the box of stuff into Justice’s arms and run out of the room.

He hates me. I never thought I would have to feel this pain again. I run up the stairs and head straight to Jayda and Justice’s room. I need my sister-in-law’s support more than ever.