Chapter 198
L’s POV
“L?” Brody spoke in a low tone after a few minutes of us sitting in silence. “Did you hear me?”
I feltpletely numb. I couldn’t have heard him correctly. This couldn’t be real. Was Sarah actually
Brody’s mate?
His goddess-given mate?
“I know it’s a shock. It was a shock for me too. I’ve kind of been keeping to myself because of it,” he
said, shaking his head with dismay written all over his face.
“I don’t understand…” I finally found my voice after what felt like an eternity of silence. “I hardly see you
two together. Are you sure she’s your mate?”
He looked at me like I had a bunch of heads.
“Of course, I’m sure,” he said, almost insulted by the usation. “But she doesn’t know yet.”
“What do you mean she doesn’t know?” I asked.
Sarah had her wolfst year which meant she should have been able to sense Brody as her mate just
as
Brody sensed her.
“I’m not just a wolf…” he said, lowering his gaze and staring at his empty te. “I have witches’ blood
too.”
“Witches blood?” I asked, raising my brows.
“On my mom’s side,” he exined. “There are witches in my family.”
“So, you have magic?” I asked in disbelief.
He nodded.
How had I not known this about him? Did everybody know this about him?
“I haven’t told anybody…” he answered my unspoken question. “I don’t want them to look at me
differently.”
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“Look at you differently?” I repeated, eyeing him carefully. “Brody it’s incredible that you have magic.
This whole time I’ve been feeling like an outcast for being a little different, all while you were different
too.”
He gave me a sheepish grin.
“I’m sorry for not telling you sooner,” he said, running his fingers through his hair. “You are my friend,
and I shouldn’t have kept something like that from you. I don’t use my magic often. When I do, I try to
use it for good.”
“I don’t doubt that,” I said with a grin. “You’ve always been very kind.”
Soon, the waiter arrived with our meals. Once he was gone, I turned back to Brody with a frown.
“But wait, that doesn’t answer my question. How has Sarah not sense you as her mate?”
“On my 18(th) birthday, my wolf sensed her right away and I knew she sensed me as well. We were
going toward one another. She was looking everywhere, as was I. Neither of us knew where the other
was. But I found her first. As soon as I saw her, I took off before she spotted me. I think I was in such
shock; I wasn’t sure what to do. So, I took a spell from my mom’s book and cast it on myself.”
I gasped, staring at him in disbelief. He didn’t have to exin what kind of spell he used. I knew from
the look on his face exactly what he did.
“You made it so she couldn’t sense you,” I said in almost a whisper.
He nodded his head once.
“It weakened my wolf too. I can’t shift…Wan is furious with me.”
‘Your wolf?”
He nodded.
“I know she’s not good news. I just don’t know what to do about it. I don’t want her as my mate… but I
don’t know if I have the heart to reject her. I just needed to buy some time. I figured the one person
who could help me was you… but you’ve been so busytely and—”
“I’m so sorry, Brody,” I breathed, reaching my hand out to touch him. “I should have been here for you. I
had no idea you were going through something like this.”
He met my eyes and gave me a small smile.
“Don’t be sorry. It’s okay,” he said softly. “So… what do you think I should do?”
I stared around his face for a moment and sighed.
“If there’s one thing, I learned over the course ofst year and over the summer…you should listen to
your wolf. He knows what he wants and fulfilling your wolf’s needs is important. You’ve already
deprived
him of his greatest strengths and shifting, don’t deprive him of his mate too.”
“I don’t trust her though,” he said, shaking his head. “She’s bad news. I thought our mates were
supposed to be good for us… I doubt Sarah is good for me.”
I thought about it for a moment as I ate some of my food and then I peered back over at him.
“Maybe it’s not about her being good for you… maybe it’s you being good for her,” I said thoughtfully.
“Maybe with your kindness and your love, you can change her and make her into a better she-wolf.
Maybe she can make you into a stronger wolf. Don’t ignore Wan because you are afraid of what
could happen. What’s waiting around the corner could be amazing.”
He blinked a couple of times at me before leaning back in his seat.
“You are wise about this. I knew I came to the right person,” he said, grinning.
I chuckled at hispliment.
“It seems like you also speak from experience,” he said, eyeing my face carefully. “Is there anything
you’d like to tell me in return?”
Staring at his face, I knew exactly where he was getting at.
“You did hear my conversation earlier…”
“I didn’t if you didn’t want me to,” he said, but I knew from his face that he did.
I sighed.
“How much of it did you hear?” I asked, staring down at my te.
“Enough to know that you found your mate.”
I nced up at him and nodded.
“Yes. I did…” I confessed. “I found himst year…”
“I don’t see why you are hiding it. Was it to spare my feelings? Did you not think I’d be happy for you?”
He asked, narrowing his eyes at me. But then he frowned. “Wait… you also mentioned hiding a mark.
He
marked you and you are hiding it?”
I sighed and nodded slowly.
“Yes and no I’m not just hiding it from you. I’m hiding it from everyone. Nobody knows I found my mate
and they can’t know. At least not yet…”
He rose his brows.
“Not even your roommates?” He asked.
I shook my head.
“What about your parents?”
“I’m going to tell them over the weekend,” I answered.
“Why the secrecy though?”
“It’splicated,” I said a little too quickly.
“Can’t be moreplicated than my situation with Sarah,” he chuckled.
This was it. I had to tell Brody the truth. He feltfortable enough to tell me the truth; I needed to
repay the favor.
“It’s Alpha Enzo…”
The tter of his fork falling to his te startled me and I met his rmed eyes.
“Professor Enzo?!” He gasped. “Like… your formerbat and shifting professor? Alpha of the
Calypso
pack? The son of the wolf who divided our entire nation and tried to kill your family—”
“Yes, Brody,” I said in a sharp whisper. “Keep it down…”
“Sorry… I’m just in shock.”
“I know… I was too…” I said, feeling my face warming. “But yes. He’s my mate… and he’s also nothing
like his father. He’s actually trying to undo everything his father did to this nation. There are a lot of
people who don’t know about Enzo. I was guilty of misjudging him as well and I won’t make that
mistake again.”
“So, this entire time… allst year—”
“Nothing happened until this summer. He went with me as my bodyguard to Monstro and we
bonded…” I told him. “He was going to reject me after graduation once my wolf was stronger. But
things changed and he ended up marking me…”
“Wow…” Brody breathed. “So, I guess you really do knowplicated.”
I stared at him for a moment and then we both burst outughing.
“Why us?” heughed, shaking his head.
“The moon goddess has a funny sense of humor,” Iughed in return. But then I got serious for a
moment. “Nobody can know about this, Brody.”
He reached his hand out and touched mine.
“I promise, nobody will.”
…
The next evening, I packed a weekend bag and drove to the Calypso pack. I didn’t have sses
tomorrow, so I was nning on spending the next few days with Enzo. Except for when I have to do the
bake sale with Dee in the afternoon.
Once I got to the packhouse, I greeted Ethan who was passing by.
“Enzo isn’t back yet, but he’ll be here soon. You can put your things in his room and meet Dee in the
kitchen. She’s been waiting for you.”
I thanked him before heading upstairs and towards Enzo’s bedroom. I put my things beside his bed and
was about to leave the room when something caught my eye.
I paused for a moment, staring at the light purple handkerchief that upied his nightstand. Narrowing
my eyes at it, I went closer toward it. It almost looked like something was wrapped in it by the way it
was tied together.
I lifted it and decided that something was definitely inside of it.
I managed to get it untied and what fell out and into the palm of my hand was the most gorgeous ring Copyright N?v/el/Dra/ma.Org.
I had ever seen in my entire life. I gasped at the pure beauty thaty in my hands.
“My goddess, L,” Val spoke after being quiet for most of the day. “It’s a wedding ring!”