CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

Rohan's pov I was elated that Avilla agreed to give me a chance. Well, not in words but I was determined to be her friend first so I could earn her forgiveness, so here I was on her doorstep with her favorite food according to Camilla. It was cheeseburger and fries from her favorite place. I didn't think this would make her forgive me but it was a start in earning it. I knocked and waited patiently for her to come answer the door, I heard footsteps and her voice. She was on the phone with someone who I assumed was my sister because she was giggling. Girls only giggle when they were talking to other females or a guy they really liked. I overheard her conversation and I didn't like it one bit, 'Don't tell me you are playing pranks on me again?" she asked I couldn't hear the person on the other line but she continued 'Oh stop it ben! You are always playing pranks on me" she giggled. She was talking to ben? When did they become so close to the point that he makes her giggle? The door swung open and there she was but her face was pulled into a slight frown because it wasn't ben but me on her doorstep. I was deeply hurt by that. 'Hi" I said simply 'Hey" she said before telling ben that she would call him right back. 'Cheeseburger and fries?" I asked as I raised the bag up. 'What are you doing here?" she asked instead 'I brought cheeseburger and fries" I told her Camilla told me it would work, if I brought her this then she would be happy. But right now it didn't seem to be working because she had her hands on her hips and she was staring at me with such contempt in her eyes. After a short time of staring, she finally relented 'Alright come in, but only because you have cheeseburger and fries" she said before she opened the door for me to come in. This was a step forward, she snatched the bag from me and proceeded to devour the burger. There were actually two in there. One for me and one for her but it looks like I wasn't getting any of that. I watched her eat without a care in the world, it was so adorable to watch how she ate without even noticing I was watching her. I texted Camilla a thanks for her advice. Rohan- thanks for the advice sis, it worked. Camilla- I told you it would. I owe you one after what you did for me. I just told her what our father told me. 'You see when I was a child and my parents would tell me stories of mates and different stories of how they met, I would always assume that they were made up just to make sleeping time for us kids. I never believed any of them till I met your mother in college. She was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, so full of life and down to earth. And she was human Anyways, your mother and I got along really well, I didn't want to tell my parents either but I figured I had to see for advice somehow but for now I decided to just go with the flow. We hung out, did lots of exciting things together and it wasn't long before I fell in love with your mother. And judging from the way she was looking at me, she was there too. It was pure bliss, finding that one person you get to share the rest of your life with, that person for me was your mother and I was it for her too. But there was one thing holding us back and that was my true form. How do I tell the woman that I loved that I had the ability to change into an animal? I was so scared of the results when I haven't told her yet that I started pulling away from her both emotionally and physically, it was pure torture not being completely honest with the one I loved. There were only two choices for her, remain with me or leave me and the first option was winning from my opinion. I was lost and I didn't know what to do in this situation, I didn't want your mom to leave me. I would be lost without her, she was what completed me. I decided to go to my father, I was hesitant at first but I had to do it if I wanted to be happy for the rest of my life. I told my father everything and he said to me 'Son, you just have to man up and tell her what you are and if she chooses to leave then that's her loss. Why don't you give her a chance to choose what she wants?" I took his advice and went back to her to tell the truth of what I was. It wasn't easy, that point could determine if I was going to have a mate or be mate less for the rest of my life. I told her everything and she just stared at me like I had gone crazy, she burst into laughter and all of a sudden she started shouting at me accusing me of making up stories because I had been hesitant and it was obvious that I wanted to breakup with her. I just shifted into my wolf in order to show her I was saying the truth and when I shifted back, she was frozen solid on the floor. Her eyes wide and her mouth hanging open with disbelief. I made a move to go to her when she screamed at me to get away from her, the look on her face is one I couldn't forget, like I was going to maul her. And that broke my heart more than the thought of her leaving, the fact that she thinks I would do anything to hurt her. She broke down and started crying, I couldn't comfort her because she wouldn't let me come close to her, and I decided to ignore her and take her in my arms anyway when she screamed again and ran out in the dark. I spent the whole night looking for your mother but I couldn't find her, she didn't call or text her whereabouts. She was just gone. I spent the few weeks trying to locate her but nothing pulled through, I was getting lean and sick, my wolf was dying slowly without your mother being there. The mate bond was slowly chipping away with my life. I was plain miserable. My luck came when she came to find me instead, she apologized for her initial reaction saying, 'I am sorry I ran out on you, all these why I knew there was something wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it at all, I made my research from the little clues you left all over and I refused to believe such things exists. All the novels I read were just fantasies, there was absolutely no way werewolves existed. When you finally showed me, I was so scared you were going to turn out like those ones in the books and I ran but the few weeks I was away, I thought of our time together and if you wanted to hurt me then you could have but you didn't. I came to tell you that I love you and being a wolf won't change that." I was so elated from what she said that I hugged her, I felt complete and content with it. I told her the reason why I was looking so terrible, I couldn't live without her and I was okay with that. I took her to meet your grandparents and they were so happy it worked out in the end but there was only one problem and that problem was the law. Humans and werewolves couldn't mate, it was a law that rendered so many people mate less and dead over the years but over my dead body would I let it happen to me not while I have found happiness. I talked to your mother and she started researching, my parents were making enquiries of their own and I was traveling from pack to pack searching for someone who had gone through this sort of thing. We were running out of time, we were all hitting dead ends when your mother suggested something out of the ordinary. According to her, she has been reading werewolf's books for as long as she has been reading and the only way the humans were able to be with their mate was if the wolves bit them on the full moon to turn them into werewolves too. We all laughed at the idea but at this point we were willing to try anything, we were getting desperate. The full moon was the next day and your mother could die if care was not taken. We were willing to try to see if we could get results. It was only your mother, your grandparents and I that knew about the ritual, we were to do it secretly to avoid attracting attention. It was a full moon the next day and your mother was already prepared to have her self-bitten by me. I almost didn't go ahead with it but she urged me to try and when it fails then we know it failed. We got to the woods and when the full moon was at its peak, I shifted into my wolf and bit her wrist, transferring the poison into her blood. Nothing happened at the time and we were all disappointed but we were pretty lucky your mother didn't die. We bandaged her wrist and led her inside. I was sad because the ritual didn't work, we were all hoping it would. Your mother was so sad that she slept all through the day, we were all hopeless now but then the strangest thing happened. The third day after the ritual, your mom's bite mark completely disappeared with no trace of a scar. We ignored and just assumed her red blood cells were that good and just moved on. She started having mood swings and snapping at everybody, she had the worst kind of headache the kind that made your vision blur and your ears ring. I assumed she was pregnant but that was just the beginning. I got home with a pregnancy test because I wanted to do something good for her, she asked me what I had in the bag and I told her it was a home pregnancy test. She shrugged and went back to watching her show with no care in the world. I told her I got it for her and she asked why, as a man I would have known that was a trap but what do I know? I told her because of her mood swings, her face changed and just like that she got angry and started a screaming fit. 'OH! BECAUSE I AM HAVING MOOD SWINGS, YOU WENT AHEAD AND GOT ME A PREGNANCY TEST?!!! HOW DARE YOU?! ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING?! She was about to say something else when she held her sides, she barely got a word out when she started screaming again. I heard bones cracking before I realized that the ritual worked and your mother was having her first shift. 'AHH!!!" she screamed but I couldn't help her, she had to do this on her own. My parents ran into the room to see what was going on and were amazed that the ritual actually worked. I get to be with my mate. It was until a wolf lay whimpering on the floor that we were able to believe it, your mother was right with what she read. It was a miracle indeed!" my father had narrated.