Chapter 20

Freya

"What is it, Mom?" I asked looking at mom anxiously.

"Your Dad is my second chance mate," she replied.

This was a shock for me, Dad was Mom's second chance mate? Wow. She had a different mate before him? This was something that I couldn't even have imagined in my life. My Mom was rejected by her mate before she met Dad?

"How could this be?" I asked mom in astonishment.

"I had a mate before your Dad, but he rejected me," Mom replied with a sad smile.

"But how could he reject someone so amazing like you, " I asked in disbelief.

Mom was so amazing and I couldn't even imagine that any guy could ever reject her. Dad was so much in love with her. He acted like a lovesick puppy around her when they were alone. Dad was an Alpha and if he loved Mom so much she ought to be special.

"He was the Delta of my old pack and I was just a daughter of a regular pack member with no position. Damien was in a relationship with the Alpha's daughter. Who do you think he would have chosen?" Mom asked.

I felt a pang in my heart, Mom had been through rejection and had still carried on in her life until she found Dad, and here I was crying for a guy who doesn't give a shit about me. I was hating myself for acting like this and making myself miserable. I was stronger than this, if I could live without a wolf, I certainly can live without a mate.

"So he rejected you?"

"He did," Mom answered.

"Did it hurt?" I asked her.

"More than anything," she replied shutting her eyes close, it was like the mention of the rejection brought back the pain along with it.

"I am sorry, Mom," I wrapped my hands around her and placed my chin on her shoulder.

"It's not your fault sweety, I just wanted to tell you that nothing lasts forever. Not even hardships, they certainly have an end, and trust me the sky is the darkest just before the dawn," Mom stroked my hair with her hand.

"I wish I was strong like you, Mom," I looked into her eyes lifting my face from her shoulder.

"You are stronger than you realize, sweetheart," Mom kissed my forehead.

I don't know why Mom felt I was stronger because I believed if I would have been stronger then Titus's indifference wouldn't have bothered me. I would have stopped thinking about him and would have moved on, but I was still stuck on him.

There was still the question of Gabriel, I had this feeling somewhere deep down my heart that he was my mate but I don't know why I didn't want to believe it. Maybe it was because I was already mated to Titus and accepting the fact that I had one more mate other than him was not easy.

"What do you think about, Gabriel?" I asked Mom.

"He seems like a nice guy and it isn't hard to tell that he loves you," Mom smiled at me.

"Come on, Mom, at least spare me from your teasing," I groaned.

I don't know why I didn't want to trust Gabriel, he had saved my life, and still, here I was doubting him. I hardly knew him and so did my parents, but it seemed like they trusted him already.

"Do you love Titus?" Mom asked.

"I don't know if what I feel for him is love," I replied.

I wasn't sure of it myself, of course, I was attracted to him because of our mate bond. Yet, I didn't know if I loved Titus, how could I? I had only met him once in my life and that too for hardly an hour. After how he had treated me, I was not sure if I would ever be able to love him.

"Why don't you give a chance to Gabriel? You don't have anything to lose and what if he truly is your mate?" Mom asked cupping my face in her hands.

"I don't want to get hurt, Mom. I trusted Titus and he left me, what if I put my trust in Gabriel and it turns out he is not what he is portraying?" I gave words to my doubts.

"What does your heart say, Freya?"

"I don't know, I feel attracted to him physically but I don't want to get attached to him emotionally. What if he is just lying, Mom? What if he is here for a motive and when it's accomplished he will leave me or might kill me?"

My life was fucked up, Titus had broken my trust and it won't be easy for me to trust anyone else so soon. If Gabriel truly was my mate, he would have to work a lot to gain my trust. I knew I was being unreasonable here. I was punishing Gabriel for something he hadn't even done, but when had life been ever fair to me?

"Mom who killed the warrior?"

"Freya, I just want you to know, that you are very special. There is no one in this world who is similar to you and there are people out there who had found out about you, and they want you to accomplish their evil plans," Mom replied.

"What is it, Mom? What's so special about me? I don't have a wolf," I looked at Mom conflicted.

Gabriel had said the same thing that I was special and people wanted me for their gains and now Mom was saying the same thing. What was so special about me? Why was I not aware of it? I was not sure what was going on, why everyone around me acted in such a mysterious way. Why didn't they just tell me what was so special about me? Why this mystery and why this drama? I needed to find out and I don't think there was anyone better than my mom, who could tell me the truth about myself.

"Who am I, Mom?" I decided to clear the air once and for all.