Chapter 201


    Chapter 17: Messages


    Damien climbed into his shower, having long hair meant you had to do proper halt tare. Meaning


    Damien emuller’t get away with just a shampoo, he had to por a conditioner as well. Expecially with


    as thick as his hair was He wanted to be able to brush his hair without ripping it out of his scalp all


    the time


    Damien used a brand Alora preferred, one discovered because of his mother, Luna Ember


    Damien’s mother had noticed how had the condition of Akra’s hair was one day. When Alora was


    asked what she used to wash it with, his mother was outraget, because all Alors ever had to clean


    her hair with was bar sop


    Damien’s mother went through several different brands before they found one that Alora naturally


    gravitated to, finding it to be her preferred brand. The brand didn’t just have shampoos and


    conditioners. It had skin care products as well So Damn and Ember made sure Alora had what her


    parents wouldn’t have bought


    her.


    The brand was good for both females and males, so a lot of the products given to Alora, Damien


    used as well. Alora loved the smell of coconuts, so whenever Damien was missing her, he would


    use the coconut oil shampoo and conditioner she loved. Just to carry that scent with him throughout


    the day.


    Damien shaved his face and brushed his teeth in the shower to save time. Hopping out he wrapped


    his hair in one towel, and another around his waist after drying his body. Damien flossed and


    swished some mouthwash, being a supernatural being did not make you exempt from proper dental


    care.


    Damien towel dried his hair and weaved it into a braid that rested on his shoulder. There was a


    pocket door that led from the bathroom into his walk-in closet. So it was easy for him to grab


    another pair of slightly loose ck cargo shorts and a dark navy blue v-neck sleeveless t-shirt.


    Dressed, Damien walked out of the closet though its bedroom entrance. Grabbing his phone off the


    charger, he put it in his pocket and headed into his sitting room. Damien was sitting in one of the


    the picture. Damien’s emotions became a chaotic mess as he read each word his father had sent


    him. Damien forced himself to look at his brother’s messages next. Knowing it would contain more


    details about what happened


    to Alora.


    After reading his brother’s message, the storm of emotion inside Damien simmered down some, but


    remained chaotic. Alora had met her mate today, that mate had not been him, but the mate she was


    given rejected her, and Alora had rejected him back.


    Darien s message let Damien know that even if Alora’s mate hadn’t rejected her, she still would


    have rejected him. Damien didn’t know how to feel about that, but at the same time, he understood


    why Alora would have done it. After all, Matthew had been her sister’s lover for a couple of years


    now.


    It felt like something heavy was trying to crush his heart at the fact that he wasn’t Alora’s mate.


    Although he never let himself acknowledge it, Damien had always hoped Alora would be his


    destined mate. It made him want to run home and rip Matt to pieces for being destined to Alora.


    Damien tried to tell himself it was wrong for him to feel that way. He told himself he should just


    ept the fact that Alora was never meant to be his. While


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    reeling from everything. Damien somflow managed to forget he won’t alone in his mind, at least until


    Zane let out a mort of anger


    Thinking Zane was upset at finding out Alora and Xena had been destined to another, Demen tried


    tobat him””We’ll find on destined mate wonday”


    “We already have?” Zane svorked at him


    This shocked Damien, how could he not know they had already met their destined reste. “How?


    When Damien asked him.


    “Her” They are our mate, pur female, they were never meant to be hist” Zane responded, still


    anarling


    Dampen frore, feeling the world tilt on its axis again. “How were they never meant to be his?” He


    asked his wolf.


    “They have always been muts, from our very beginning. Mite was ced under a strong binding


    spell after her birth. A rejection was necessary to break the spell, now our mate’s missing piece will


    be back. “Zane told him in his growly voice.


    All this shocked Damien further, but at the same time, it made him feel lighter, because the female


    he so desperately hoped was his mate, was actually his mate. Damien didn’t doubt his wolf’s words,


    Zane had never spoken a lie to him. If he said Alora wat their mate, she was their mate.


    “Damien…” came Xander’s shaky voice.


    Damien looked up and saw a look of confusion and pain on Xander’s face. Xander was holding his


    phone out to him. “My mom, dad and brother sent me messages I think you should read.” Xander


    said, his tone solemn.


    Damien looked at Xander’s phone for a moment, before taking it from his hands to read the


    messages he had indicated. After reading them, Damien’s emotions went into another tail spin. Not


    only had Alora been under a spell, so had Matt, at least that’s what it sounded like.


    Again Damien wondered at the Moon Goddesses ns for them. It seems two spells were broken


    today by a tragic event. One he wished Alora hadn’t had to go through. “How much pain has she


    gone through, that the breaking of a mate bond didn’t even make her flinch? Damien wondered.


    Zane whimpered inside of him, Damien could feel his longing to go home, so he could wrap his furry


    body around our mate andfort her. It didn’t startle Damien at how easy or how right it felt to


    refer to Alora as their mate.


    Silently Damien handed Xander’s phone back to him. Xander had observed his best friend and


    Alpha while he had read those messages…and for the first time, didn’t know what Damien was


    thinking.


    “Damien?” Xander said in an inquiring tone.


    “The bond between them waspletely broken with the double rejection, it can never be rebuilt.”


    Damien said in a calm tone.


    This statement andck of reaction from Damien confused Xander. “Is that all?” His voice sounded


    a little stressed.


    “Alora is now my mate, your brother should stay away from Alora from now on.” Damien said in the


    same calm tone.


    Xander stared open mouthed at his Alpha. Damien had just dropped a bomb with hissts words,


    and was acting as if it was nothing. Xander, annoyed, frustrated and reeling from all of this, stood up


    abruptly.


    “How the f uc k can you just droop a bomb on me like that and treat it likes it’s nothing!?” Xander


    shouted his question dramatically.


    Damien’s lips twitched with amusement at the animated reaction from Xander. Zane was in his head


    rolling around inside Damien,ughing Damien restrained ” his amusement, doing his best to keep


    looking like he was unbothered. Only because he knew the more he looked unbothered, the more


    irritated and animated Xander would be.


    However, as Damien watched his Beta rant, he could no longer hold back his amusement and burst


    into deepughter. Xander looked at his friend with narrowed eyes, now he understood his Alpha’s


    attitude.


    “You as sh ole!” Xander said with a snarl. “You’re just fu c king with me now! This reaction only


    made Damienugh harder.