<h4>Chapter 133: I Won’t Mate With Her</h4>


    <strong>Roman’s POV</strong>


    Atst, the day of the Moon Festival arrived. Just as on the previous day, the five of us remained at home.


    After the drug incident with Eira, the previous day, the household had sunk into uneasy quiet. She spent her hours with her pets, drifting between eating, sleeping, and ignoring our very presence, as if it had be her daily ritual.


    Meanwhile, the rest of us continued our work within these walls. Kael and I were tied up in meetings.


    Rafe busied himself repairing shattered devices and scouring through data, pressing his sources to uncover more about the incident with Alice.


    Lucian and Jason had their spies moving across territories, searching for traces of Eira’s child, her grandparents, and getting more information about the Alpha of the Ravenw Pack.


    But today was different. Today was the Moon Festival. All work was set aside, this one day reserved for her.


    We had made ns, kept little surprises ready, hoping to bring her into the spirit of the festival.


    We knew well she would not wee it. She might reject us outright, perhaps even despise us for trying. Yet we had resolved to face her hatred, her silence, her indifference. We would keep trying, until the end of our lives if we must, even if all it earned us was failure.


    After breakfast, when ns for the festival were spoken of, the conversation turned to heavier matters we had pushed aside for too long.


    "The council has given us a deadline for making her our mate," Lucian said gravely. "If we fail, they wille after us—and her—again."


    Despite I had I marked her that day, the council had given us the deadline to make her our mate entirely. The bond had to bepleted, but she was not ready, and none of us would dare force it upon her.


    Kael’s gaze shifted to me. "Today is the Moon Festival."


    I understood what he meant and so did others.


    I could feel the tension within them to think I will mate with her, but at the same time they knew we had no other choice. And, I also knew how it would hurt them if I mate with her. They all liked her the same as me. Though we were brothers, some facts and matters of hearts couldn’t be avoided.


    "I don’t n to mate with her today," I answered firmly, my eyes drifting to where she sat. "Look at her. Do you truly think it could happen with her consent? She would only endure me, treating me as one of those bastards who ruined her, letting me have my way with her in silence." My voice grew colder. "And I don’t want that. She is my mate—not some random whore I want to fuck and leave. Either we wait until she heals, or we find another way to protect her."


    The memory of that night still burned inside me. All I wanted was to kiss her, but she offered herself to me as though I were just another of her customer to satisfy.


    Damn! It still hurt me, that I didn’t try to get close to her that way.


    Silence settled which showed their agreement with what I said. We all knew the brutal truth—she would never ept any of us willingly.


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    "Just focus on today’s event," Kael said atst, his tone steady with forced calm. "We will think about the rest when the timees. For now, just get her ready toe out with us."


    "I will do it," I assured with confidence.


    The others exchanged nces, and Rafe scoffed. "Yeah, you’ve got some magic wand that makes her listen to you every time."


    "You want it?" I shot back with a smirk.


    He exhaled heavily. "Keep it to yourself. As long as shees with us, that’s fine."


    While the rest of us spoke, Jason alone remained quiet. His silence had stretched since the previous day, calm yet strangely detached. I wondered if regret still gnawed at him, now that he knew Eira hadn’t been the one to kill his sister.


    "What’s on your mind, Jason?" I finally asked.


    As if pulled back from a distant ce, he lifted his head and answered, voice calm,posed, unyielding. "I’ll do the cooking today. Alone." His deration was curt. "I need to buy some ingredients we don’t have at home."


    There was no trace on his face of being lost in thought. Bastard was always good at covering and hiding his emotions and thoughts. That handsome, but all the time rigid face of his was annoying sometimes.


    "Seems like we’re going to have something special for dinner," I remarked lightly. "We don’t mind."


    Jason didn’tment.


    "You can buy whatever you need when we go out," Lucian said, then turned his gaze toward me. "Go. Get her ready. We leave soon."


    I nodded and went to Eira, who was in her usual ce. Vixen was ying around, and this time Fluffy was enjoying being petted by Eira, his face lying in herp like a child.


    Sometimes I wondered what kind of magic she had to make these pets so attached to her the moment they saw her. There must be something, right, that even the strong Alphas like us were attracted to her at the same time, and we wouldn’t mind turning into her pets.


    Now when I think about the past, when I saw her for the first time, and the present day, there was indeed something magical about her that made it impossible not to be attracted to her. I hope we will find the answers sooner orter.


    I sat at the edge of that thick mattress and also petted Fluffy’s back. She didn’t look at me, as expected.


    "As I promised you before, I am going to take you to Alice," I said, and the next moment she looked at me.


    Her gaze was first shocked and then turned hopeful, as if asking whether I was not lying to her.


    At the same time, I felt my brothers looking at me, surprised as well. They had not thought I was going to use this and must be calling me a sly fox already.


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