Jude

What the hell just happened?

To say I'm gobsmacked it's an understatement.

All I wanted was a day of love with my boyfriend and now I have a mate. I found my mate by completing the bond. Who does that? I'm beyond shocked, my jaw hit the floor and it's taking me a while to recover.

Never in the history of werewolf kind has this happened. Basically, I found my mate AFTER we completed the bond. This doesn't happen! We didn't even accept each other formally. No acceptance speech whatsoever. I didn't even ask his consent before I plunged my teeth into his neck. I couldn't refrain myself, really.

We were loving each other and now I'm staring at a fully realized wolf in the middle of the living room. Beck didn't even shift before now. I guess all he really needed was for him to complete the bond with the mate he didn't even know he had... easy, right?

How am I going to explain this to my parents?

They are going to freak out, but I had no other choice. I had to bite him once I realized he was my mate and we had just completed the bond. It sounds confusing, I know. But technically you are allowed to have sex with your mate without biting his neck, but I couldn't stop myself.

I'm not one to do anything without consent as Goddess is my witness, but my wolf compelled me to do it. I was powerless against it. Beck's wolf approached my naked self and snuggled its fur into me, causing shivers down my spine.

Even in wolf form his touch gives me the chills. But if he is my mate - and he definitely is - that's normal. The wolf grazes its fur into my leg as if it was caressing me. It 's so endearing. I knelt before it and embraced him, hugging my mate for the first time ever.

I caressed his massive coat of fur and I can literally feel him melting at my touch.

Oh yeah, I can feel him now because he's my mate. I can feel everything from him.

After a while of petting and caressing, he started to shift back into human. He never went through this process before, so he tumbled across the room dropping the furniture. He caused a mess and by the time he concluded, he was sitting on the floor naked and crying.

Immediately, I ran across the room to comfort him.

"What just happened?" - He was sobbing with raw emotion. I hugged and caressed him.

"Well, your wolf needed you to find your mate and complete the bond before it revealed itself to you." - I replied in a matter of fact tone.

"But how can I be your mate? I thought you could only be mated to omegas..." - He looked at me gobsmacked.

"I'm just as confused by this as you are." - I responded, utterly puzzled.

"Oh my Goddess, I can't believe you're my mate!" - He parted from the hug to stare at me in shock.

"Me neither. If we weren't marked, no one would believe us." - I said, humorously. Beck laughed at my remark. He stopped sobbing now.

"I can't believe you shifted into a wolf for the first time ever! How did it feel?" - I asked him, excitedly.

"Confused at first, it was so automatic that I didn't know what I was doing half the time." - He replied, baffled.

"Yeah, we all go through that, trust me. It wasn't just you, but you didn't know it was coming." - I replied, looking enamored by him. I kissed my mate for the first time since we became official.

Shortly, we stood up and walked to the bathroom for a much needed shower. We both reeked of sex and sweat. Not to mention both our necks were injured.

After we dried ourselves, we got dressed and went to the kitchen to eat something. Since I didn't know what I would find here, I only brought junk food. I know we wouldn't have the means to cook anything. Truth is I didn't even know if we would have electricity working here.

Fortunately, Beck wasn't much of a demanding gourmand. He understood the occasion and ate with me the food I had brought in. At least, it'll sustain us 'til dinner tonight.

"Wow. I was starving already. Thanks for bringing the food. Sex does bring out your appetite, especially when you shift into a wolf and every bone in your body breaks." - He snickered, feeling the post-shifting traumatic disorder. It does leave you sore afterwards.

"Yeah, I didn't exactly plan for you to shift today but I'm glad I brought plenty of food. I knew we'd need it." - I spoke, smiling at him contently.

I'm not gonna lie. I feel so fulfilled right now. Everything I was ever told about completing the bond and having a mate, I am feeling with an overwhelming force. Nothing was exaggerated, if anything they underscored how strong the connection would be.

"Why are you staring at me?" - Beck questioned me, blushing under my piercing gaze.

"I didn't expect to feel so connected to you as I am right now. I thought I was prepared for what I would feel, but I'm not. Our connection is so strong that I could feel it even if you sneezed." - I snickered, playfully. Beck laughed at my remark.

"I feel the exact same thing. It's so weird, but I feel as if I could sense everything from you. I also know you're still horny for me." - He spoke, making me blush slightly.

"Well, you promised me you wanted to top. So I want you to top me." - I told him with a naughty grin.

"Oh yeah. I do wanna top you, my big bad Alpha." - He said, coming onto me in the kitchen. He kissed me and we quickly made our way into the bedroom again.

Beck was possessed. He took charge of the situation and before I knew it, I was bottoming for him. We made love for a long period of time as my mate was coming into his own. In fact, he was insatiable now.

I'm glad I'm not a virgin like him - well, not anymore - because my mate is a power top.

An hour or so later, we were bathed, dried and dressed once again.

"I'm so impressed by you. Hot damn, you're so good at sex!" - I exclaimed, looking at him perplexed. We were rearranging the furniture that got messed during his transformation.

"Thanks, mate. I feel very attracted to you. I already did before, but now it's off the charts." - He explained, flustered.

"Same. I could stay here making love to you all night long." - I admitted, not ashamed. He smiled at me.

"I think we probably should explain our situation to our parents first, but you can spend the night with me in the pack house. You're allowed now." - He winked at me with a mischievous grin.

"You're right! I am your mate so I can spend the night with you. That's genius!" - A light bulb went off in my head as he said that. Of course, I couldn't before but I'm his mate now.

We spent some time cleaning up after ourselves and trying to get the house back to the way we found it, the best that we could. Unfortunately, there was some damage done to the living room, but I'll sort things out with Mr. Lancaster and Owen later. I'm sure they'll understand under the unforeseeable circumstances.

Then I drove us back to the pack house where I dropped my mate off with a loving kiss.

"Are you sure you don't want me to enter and talk to your mom with you?" - I inquired, literally feeling his anxiousness.

"No, thanks. I should be the one to inform her. It's good that we have this time to talk." - He replied, confidently. We shared another kiss and I returned to my car while he entered the manor.

I'm not so sure how to explain this whole situation to my parents, but they're gonna smell my fresh mate mark from the front door. Quentin too if he's not in his room. Werewolves can always tell when someone completes the bond, even if you hide your mate mark. Not that I'm doing that right now.

My parents were watching TV in the living room with Quentin when all three sets of eyes almost left their eye sockets, gasping in shock as I walked through the front door.

"You completed the bond already?" - Quentin was baffled by this.

"You found your mate?" - Mom and dad gasped in shock, utterly surprised.

Usually, you find your mate, accept each other if you two want, and take some time to complete the bond. But I literally did everything in reverse. First, I completed the bond then I found my mate.

"Hi, guys. Yes, I did. You're not gonna believe this!" - I greeted them, watching their shocked faces all standing up to gawk at me in utter shock.

"Who's your mate? And how come you already completed the bond, I thought you were going on a date with Beck. Did you find him on your way to the date? What happened?" - Dad was stuttering, trying to make sense of the impossible situation.

"Dude, you dropped your boyfriend on the way to your date and already completed the bond? That's cold! Who is your mate that you didn't find at school? Was he visiting the town?" - Quentin was positively intrigued by this and so were my parents.

I took a glass of water in the kitchen before I began speaking. This is difficult to explain, but the three of them followed me around waiting for an explanation from me.

"No, I didn't drop my boyfriend on the way to our date and completed the bond with a total stranger. That would never happen, Quentin, not even between gays." - I rolled my eyes at him, though it's the only logical conclusion.

"Then what happened, son? Because you got us intrigued." - Dad demanded, staring me down.

"It's kind of embarrassing." - I said, blushing before my parents intense gaze.

"They know you're no virgin, Jude. Stop stalling! It can't be worse than screwing my best friend inside your bedroom!" - Quentin jabbed at me, impatiently. Both our parents glared daggers at him for the callous remark.

"OK, so here it is. I had planned to take my boyfriend on an intimate date today." - I started, blushing uncomfortable to admit this to my parents.

"When you say intimate, do you mean..." - Mom questioned me, frowning.

"They were going to have sex, mom." - Quentin interjected, receiving another glare from the parent unit.

"What does this have to do with you finding your mate?" - Dad grilled me, looking confused.

"Oh my Goddess!" - Quentin gasped in utter shock. Suddenly, it clicked in his head where I was going with this.

"What?" - Mom was puzzled at what conclusion he had arrived at.

"Yeah, it turned out that after Beck and I..." - I trailed off, flustered before my parents.

"You discovered he was your mate AFTER you two had already completed the bond." - He interjected once again, horrified. Now he was the one who gulped a glass of water.

"What? How is that even possible?" - Dad was baffled, lost for words. Mom looked confused as well.

"I don't know. All I know is as soon as I..." - I stopped myself mid speech, blushing. - "As soon as we completed the bond, my eyes shone, my wolf declared him my mate and made me bite his neck before I could even ask for his consent." - I admitted, mortified by this.

"Oh my Goddess!" - Quentin, mom and dad were all gobsmacked by the revelation.

"I cannot believe you got mated to the freak!" - Quentin was beyond perplexed, shocked.

Mom and dad glared at him at the same time.

"HE'S NOT A FREAK!" - I shouted at him, in defense of my mate.

"By the way, after we completed the bond Beck shifted into a wolf for the first time ever." - I told them, ending this freak business once and for all.

All the tree of them gasped again in shock.

"What?!" - They looked wide-eyed at me.

"Yeah, it turns out his wolf only needed him to complete the bond to show itself. And it was so beautiful. His fur is so amazing..." - I melted, replaying the scene in my head.

"You've gotta be kidding me!" - Quentin was beside himself perplexed.

"Trust me, it was a shock for the both of us." - I said, baffled myself.

"Why would you be mated to a non-omega?" - Dad was puzzled by this.

"I have no idea, dad. All I know is that he is definitely my mate. Not that I had any doubt once my canines elongated." - I spoke, blushing at the recent memory.

"Maybe Jude's not supposed to be the Alpha." - Quentin suggested with a devious grin, causing my parents to glare daggers at him. And so do I.

"Said the unmated one. You're not even gonna fight for Alpha if you haven't found your mate yet." - I provoked him, causing my brother to grimace at the sad truth.

"Stop it, both of you NOW!" - Dad shouted at us, irritated. - "It's not who you're mated to that is gonna determine who's the next Alpha. We'll figure it out once we have more information. But you will be mated yet, son. It's just a question of time." - Dad stated in a serious tone, looking at Quentin.

My brother and I exchanged menacing glances and I poured myself some juice. This is a lot to digest. My parents were looking at each other perplexed by all this. Quentin too, but right now I think he feels I have the upper hand because I'm mated and he's not.

"Mom, is it okay that I sleep at the pack house tonight. I wanna stay with my mate." - I asked her, knowing she's not gonna deny me. She smiled at me with a soft, happy expression.

"Of course, sweetie." - She looked happy for me.

"You're sleeping away tonight?" - Quentin looked jealous of me.

"I'm mated now, I need to be with my mate. It's not against the rules anymore for me to sleep at the pack house." - I boasted, smugly.

"Speaking of which, where did you two go earlier? Where did this all happen?" - Dad was curious. I walked right into that one.

"It wasn't at the pack house, of course." - I replied, dodging the question.

Mom and dad glared at me until I answered them.

"Owen got me the keys to an apartment his father owns." - I informed them, lowering my head.

"I see..." - Mom gave me a look that I know it's gonna get Owen in trouble with his father.

"Please don't tell Mr. Lancaster. Owen was just doing me a favor." - I begged her.

"Right. And I'm sure Beck's wolf shifting in an apartment didn't cause any damage to the place?" - She raised an eyebrow in question, already knowing what I would have to say eventually.

"I didn't know he would shift, otherwise I never would've brought him there. Please mom, we didn't mean to mess up the place and I promise we cleaned up after ourselves." - I told her, pleadingly.

"I'm sure you did. Give me the keys. I'll go with my friend and assess the property damage." - She spoke, reaching out her hand for me to pass it to her.

I gave mom the keys and thanked her for the help. Later, I texted Owen saying that something happened at the condo, but I was going to explain everything to him on Monday. The school is gonna freak out when they get wind of this. Lay is not gonna believe me...

Later at night, I arrived at the pack house as I said I would to find my mate waiting for me.

We would make the most of the night since we had Saturday night to ourselves.

I have longed for this, for him, for this kind of freedom.

A place to do wherever we want. And I'm certainly gonna take advantage of it.

In fact, I'm gonna love my mate - and he's gonna love me back - all. night. long.

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A|N: Yeah, the storm is brewing and it's gonna hit them like a hurricane.

What happens next never happened in any of my previous eight novels.

It's called - very aptly - "Why".

Love,

Léo.