Page 17 of Rejected Mate

"It needs to be done. Let's just do it," he said quietly.

I knew he was right; it was the only way. We both walked up to her, and Sky tapped me as if to say that I should finish what we'd started. Fagua never looked at me, which made me feel more comfortable with what I was about to ask.

"Who have you spoken to today?" I questioned.

"Winter, Sky, and Mayia," she replied in a flat tone, and Sky and I exchanged a look, as if to confirm what we'd already assumed.

"Is there something wrong with you?" I asked.

"Yes. I'm getting weak because I haven't mated with Husk. I'm losing my power." Her eyes pleaded with me to fix this and there was a tremble to her chin.

Sky and I were fixated on her, no more exchanging looks as the questions started to flood out of me.

"Why do you meet with Mayia every day?"

"I have no friends here. Only Mayia, and she is part wolf and part vampire. My only friend in SmallHeath is Rebecca, and she's a wolf. I feel as if with Mayia I can tell her anything and she's experienced it, even if she is younger than me. She feels like the sister I never had."

A wave of jealousy spiked in my chest as she spoke about Mayia in this light. I believed I was her confidant, but then I realized I had my brothers and as she said, she had no one but us and we were all still getting to know each other.

"Do you want to join Mayia's pack?"

"No. I just want to help. I need my powers back. I need to mate with Husk. I just…"

I wondered for a split second if my powers were wearing off, but then she spoke without being prompted. That did happen at times, especially when the spell meant that they didn't know the answer to the question. A sigh of relief escaped me.

"Don't know how. He hates me. And sometimes as much as I'm curious about him, I think I hate him too."

"What will happen if you don't mate with Husk?"

"We will both die," she whispered.

"Fuck!" Sky called out, but I didn't understand why he was surprised. We knew Husk had to mate; it was just a matter of time.

"What will happen if we don't help Mayia?"

"We will all die."

I nodded my head and decided that nothing Fagua had said was really news to us. We just needed to hear her say it, even if it was the wrong way to do it. We needed to talk to her, but I knew she would be angry about me using my powers on her. As I took her out of the spell, I knelt in front of her, thinking that she would do one of two things: slap me for doing it or shout at me.

She didn't do either of those things. When we made eye contact, she sighed and a tear slid down her cheek.

"I should have come to you. I should have spoken about all this." She sniffled.

I shook my head as I held her in my arms. We had a lot to catch up on, and Sky joined in the hug. We needed her to forgive us. If we'd been the mates we claimed to be, we wouldn't have had to use my power and she would have come to us freely.

"No more secrets," Sky said.

"Here, here to that," I agreed as I hugged them tighter and decided we needed to figure out a way to make this all good again.

5

Sky

Ifound myself for the first time going from being the unreliable one to the stable one. Husk had taken over my role as the unpredictable one, as he spent more time in his room and even less time talking to us.

I headed to the kitchen before leaving the penthouse. It was a habit. Before, we all used to have breakfast or at least a coffee together. Lately, though, it'd been the three of us: Fagua, Winter, and me. Yet, the last couple of days, it had been only Winter and me. It was as if everyone was in their own world and no more were we working together, and we all had our own reasons why.

"I need to go and check the audit results today. So I'll be at the auditors most of the day. Are you alright to hold the ship without me?" I said to Winter.

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