Chapter 4 HTM - Four

• Amelia screamed in terror as she felt her body slowly fall off the cliff. She closed her eyes waiting for her body to feel the cold water and hard rock below. But instead, she felt someone grab her hands. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that she was hanging on the cliff. Amelia gasped as she saw deep down under her.
• “Oh my god!” she cried. Then she grabbed her other hand to whoever was holding her.
• “Don’t let go!” he shouted.
• Amelia’s heart was already pounding. Suddenly, her sadness went away. She was ready to end her life earlier, but she was terrified now. Seeing how deep the river was below made her knees tremble. The man slowly pulled her up. Amelia was relieved and crawled away from the cliff when she was finally safe.
• “Oh my god! I thought I was going to die already!”
• The man chuckled. “Wasn’t that what you were doing earlier?”
• Amelia held up her head. She saw a tall man smiling at him. He was covering the moon. That was why it looked like it was shining from behind. Amelia’s mouth opened and almost watered. This man was a goddess! His eyes were blue and his hair was white–no. It was silver. It was her first time seeing anyone with that hair color. Amelia stood up without moving her gaze away from him. Then suddenly, the man's smile went away, and he stared at her too. No one was talking and their breathing became hard. Slowly until they were breathing unitized.
• Amelia felt his gaze warm. Almost feeling like it was hugging her and giving her warmth.
• “Mate,” they both said.
• “Mate,” a voice from Amelia’s head. Then it howled.
• ‘Who was that?’
• ‘Mate!’ it said again.
• ‘I have a wolf?!’
• Amelia’s eyes widened. She touched her mouth as she gasped in surprise. She stepped back but she made the wrong step and she almost fell down. But her mate grabbed her by her waist and pulled her closer to him.
• ‘Mate!’ the voice kept on saying from Amelia’s head. She mindlessly smelled the man as she was close to him. ‘He smells good! Mine!’
• ‘Yeah,’ Amelia finally answered. Now it was talking. She was still confused about what was happening to her.
• “W-Who are you?” she finally asked.
• The man lowered his face. He closed his eyes and smelled Amelia. “Mine,” he growled.
• Amelia gulped as he went to her neck. He breathed there, which made Amelia shiver. Then he kissed her cheek and went to her lips. Amelia blinked thrice until she finally realized what he was doing. She tried her best to push him away and step back. He looked at her confused.
• ‘What are you doing?! He is our mate!’ the voice protested and growled at her.
• ‘Shut up! I don’t know him!’
• “Who are you?! I know everyone in my pack and I swear I never saw you!”
• The man then stared at her. “Oh, right. I’m sorry. I forgot to introduce myself. I was stunned because of you.” Then he smiled sweetly at her.
• Amelia felt weird but she tried to control herself. “Stop it! Are you a rogue?!”
• “Rogue? No! I’m not a rogue!”
• Amelia’s eyes widened as she remembered what happened to her mother. She slowly stepped back.
• ‘Hey, Amelia! What are you doing?!’ the thing inside her said. She didn’t even know if it was a wolf. But it howled so she would think that it was a wolf for now.
• But Amelia did not answer her. When the man stepped forward at her, she immediately turned around and ran back to their pack. How could a rogue enter their territory?! It was impossible already because their Alpha put guards on the surroundings of their territory.
• ‘Amelia! Stop running! He is our mate!’
• ‘Shut up, will you?! I don’t even know if you are real!’
• ‘Of course, I am! I am Lily.’
• Amelia shook her head. ‘Lily, whatever you are, just please shut up for now! I need to run away from him!’
• ‘No one is chasing you, duh? And I am not ‘whatever.’ I am your beast form.’
• Amelia stopped running and looked back. Lily was right. No one was chasing her. Why didn't he chase her? She sat down on the ground to rest a bit. She still couldn’t believe what just happened.
• She saw Nicolai again and learned that they still had a bond. Then she almost killed herself but she was saved by a man that turned out to be her mate too. Then a voice came out of her head and apparently was telling her it was her beast form.
• “Oh my god! My mind will explode!” Amelia looked up at the sky. “What is happening, Moon Goddess? Why do I have two mates? And why do I have a beast instead of a wolf? Oh, god! I don’t know what to think anymore!”
• Amelia put her face on her palms. She was so confused and didn't know what to do.
• ‘Maybe start by walking now and going home. You looked stressed already. It’s your birthday, Amelia. Happy birthday to you.’
• Amelia rested her back on the tree. ‘Yeah. It’s my birthday now for sure. But why did you just come out now? I mean. What kind of a beast are you? Lycan?’
• ‘Ahm. Probably.’
• “Oh my god. The ones who killed my mother were Lycans!”
• ‘Yeah, I know. And our new mate was a Lycan too.’
• Amelia gasped. Was that the reason why she did not have her wolf? Because she was not a wolf but a Lycan? Was it also the reason why those rogues killed her mother? But why? And how? Her mother and father were werewolves. Even her big brother was a wolf! How could it be that they were wolves and she was a Lycan? More questions were raised in Amelia’s mind. Everything was too much for her. So she decided to follow Lily’s advice. She went home to their house. Luckily, Marcus and Bea were not in their house already. She silently went to her room and laid her body on her bed. She sighed and closed her eyes.
• ‘Looks like I’ll be a rogue tomorrow. Should I go find my second mate instead? I should’ve at least gotten his name.’