CHAPTER 3- LOVE COMES AT A COST

Josey's POV

Blinking away the tears as I hear someone coming.

Mother walks in, holding a blood bag. I raise an eyebrow at her and she just shrugs, handing it to me. I place the bag beside me, not really in the mood for food.

"My two girls, both at a crossroad. I hate seeing you two like this." She says to me as she fiddles with my curls.

"I'll be fine mother." I say. Did I believe it? Don't think I was convincing enough.

"When I had to talk to Hunter about you, before I could finish my sentence he was out the door. For months he wouldn't talk to me." Mother tells me and I look up in to her eyes.

"He could not understand how I could be with another man and have something to show for it, you. He went on and on about how he stayed true to me because I gave him hell for being with other women before me. Now I was the hypocrite." Mother says and I start to cry.

"I... I did not do anything with Cayden, my vampire just wanted him. Nothing had happened.....yet. I killed him that stupid vampire king! I killed him, was that not enough!?." I say through sobs. Not wanting to mention that Hunter had every right to be upset.

"Men hate it when their egos are bruised and your mates are still kids. You just need to force them in to a conversation. Tell them they can either talk to you and treat you as their mate or you'll leave to go start your own vampire community." Mother says to me and I chuckle at the last part.

My wolf would never allow that.

"Come stay with us, in the heavenly realm. You are welcome up there. Time flies there and I'm sure you'll make some good friends while you're there. Maybe a little training too? Wouldn't it be nice if you could come and go as you please?" She asks and I nod my head yes as I wipe the tears away.

"I'd love that. The twins put their beta in charge, didn't even bother to trust me with the job of taking care of the pack. I saved that pack, my family saved them. I just, I just want some damn acknowledgment." I say and mother pulls me in for a hug.

"Women are often overlooked in terms of alpha business. Not all of us are lucky like Sabrina, who controls all wolves." I say in frustration.

"Sabrina has her own problems Josey. She's about to find out that she can't be with Xander anymore if she wants to be the moon goddess." Mother says to me and I gasp, pulling away from her embrace.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"I saw it in one of the elders thoughts. She has a true mate Josey, I may come off as insensitive but earthlings are beneath the werewolves in the heavenly realm. Xander will never be accepted as her mate and if Sabrina does not end it with him, his life will be in danger. Don't just assume it is only our family that can come and go as we please on earth. Every god in that realm can and if they won't accept Sabrina keeping Xander as her mate, they will force her in to letting go." Mother tells me and I stand up.

"They could kill him?" I ask as I start to panic.

"They could burn him and his entire pack to the ground." Mother says to me sadly.

"Won't Sabrina publish them?" I ask..

"For what? Forcing her to obey sacred law?" Mother says and my shoulders fall.

This was bad bad. I thought I had it bad but Sabrina was about to lose bigtime.

"Does Hunter know?" I ask and my mother shakes her head no.

"So how do we prevent this from happening?" I ask looking at mother.

"I don't know but what I do know is, if the weather takes a sudden turn, Sabrina found out and I'm scared to see what will come of her." She says to me and I sit back down.

Sabrina would definitely lose it. Xander will die inside and the pack will mourn their luna. Xander, after losing to Sab's true mate at the trials, he will come back to find out that Sabrina can't be with him and that will mean, Adrastos has to leave him too.

The poor guy.

Why does love come with so many hurdles? It's like the one moment you allow it in, all hell breaks loose. My dear sister can never catch a break with love.

"I think we need to have a conversation with Sabrina. We can't keep this from her." I say and mother nods her head in agreement.

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Aiden's POV

"I bet you wish you could fight someone with more strength huh?" My brother Luka asks walking in to my room.

He was right.

So far, I've fought 5 alphas and none of them could land a scratch on me. This was fast becoming a bore to be honest.

"You have no idea! I don't even look forward to a fight anymore and it's really not fair on them, Sabrina was right." I say and my brother chuckles.

"Oh?" He teases.

"We had a 2 second conversation about how I shouldn't be here." I say before drinking water.

"A bossy mate? That's interesting. Tell me more..." Luka says and I groan out in frustration.

"A bunch of your fans are here to watch you fight you know." Luka says to me and I look at him, waiting for him to go on.

"Word got around that you're an alpha on earth. By word got around, I mean me." Luka says and I growl at him.

"Yeah, you and your big mouth. Don't you have a mate to keep yourself busy?" I ask. Irritated that he was stupid enough to open his mouth.

"Ouch! Calm down lover boy, it's not that big of a deal." Luka says to me but I chuckle.

"You sure about that? Give the girls more reason to be hostile to my mate." I say before punching the wall.

"She doesn't even care about you!" Luka shouts out and I push him to the wall, wrapping my hand around his neck.

"I don't care how you feel about her, you will respect her. Got it?" I ask and Luka nods his head yes.

I let go of him and walk out of my room to come face to face with the keeper of my heart.

"Sabrina..." I say and my wolf whines.

Her eyes were red as if she had been crying and she was covered in dirt.

I want to hold her and tell her everything will be fine but I don't even know what's troubling her.

"Is it true?" She asks me and I look at her, puzzled.

"Is what true?" I ask feeling Luka's presence behind me.

"Is it true that I'll have no choice but to be with you or your people will come for my mate?" She asks and I feel as if my heart just got stabbed.

Hearing her call that stupid Xander her mate ignited a jealous rage inside me but a pain in my heart.

"Yes. We will kill him Sabrina and they are your people too. You are one of us whether you like it or not. Besides, you can't disregard sacred law because you are the moon goddess. You can't disrespect us by choosing an earthling while your true mate is alive and since we can't kill you, we will kill him." Luka says coming out from behind me.

He looks up at me since I was taller and I give him a deadly glare as Sabrina growls.

"Look, Sabrina. Your ancestors put that law in place and I'm a 100 percent certain that very same law is practiced here on earth. Yes, how unfortunate that you already have a chosen mate but the truth is the truth and the sooner you deal with this, the better for your chosen earthling." My brother says before walking away.

Tears start falling down Sabrina's face but the look in her eyes looked deadly.

"I need to go." Sabrina says but I grab her hand.

"What are you planning?" I ask in fear of whoever that was going to feel her wrath.

"I need to speak to Xander. He's the only one that can calm me down." She says to me.Owned by .

"Are you kidding me? Do you not feel a thing between us?" I ask clearly baffled.

By touching her hand I felt a sea of emotions so overwhelming but amazing. How could she deny the effect I had on her!?

"Look, Xander marked me. It's not just in the touch but the way he talks to me. I just need to tell him everything." She says and I let her go.

She walks away from me, never looking back.

One thing was certain now, if I get the chance to fight this Xander, I am going to kill him.