My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 17

{Lanie's P.O.V.}

As we stood outside the door to Wyatt's office and waited to meet the people Rylee wanted to introduce to us, I picked up on the sweetest smell. I didn't recognize the scent, because it was a smell that was foreign to me, but it was heavenly. It was fruity and sweet, and it made the area between my legs start to warm up. I had never felt like this before and I was shocked at how my body was reacting to this scent. It reminded me of the body wash that Milan was kind enough to gift us. But that body wash didn't even compare to the smell I was now sensing. Even the voice inside of my head, or my wolf I should say, was reacting. She and I spoke every now and then, but she wasn't really talking to me. She was spinning around in circles, and she was wagging her tail. It was crazy, and I don't think I've ever had a mental image of her doing such things, but this smell was definitely the cause. Wherever this smell was coming from made me, my wolf, and our bodies very excited.

"Lanie, why are your eyes black?" Lexie asked me. I looked at her, but I couldn't answer for some reason. It was like something had hypnotized me into a spell, and her question held no importance to me. I needed to know where this smell was coming from, and I needed to know right this second.

Behind the door ... my wolf said to me. I listened to her and reached for the handle.

"Lanie, wait!" Rylee shouted, but I ignored her. I opened the door and as soon as I did, there stood the most handsome man I had ever seen. He even made Wyatt seem ugly. I would never tell Rylee that, but it's what I was thinking right at that moment. "Chad, are you alright, son?" the older man in the room asked the man staring back at me.

"Mate." I heard him say directly to me. My heart stopped beating with that one word. I'm his mate? He's my mate!?

Yes, Lanie. He is our mate.

Oh my god, we have a mate, Atlanta. Yes, we do.

"Hi," I said to him softly. He walked straight towards me and had a very bashful smile on his face. He was so tall when he finally came in front of me. Then, out of nowhere, the sweet smell from before went off like a bomb and hit me so hard I was knocked off my feet. Literally.

"Whoa, careful," he said as he wrapped his arm behind my back and held me in place. I felt tingles coursing throughout my entire body, and I was so dizzy from the intensity of it all. I wanted to enjoy the moment, but that wasn't going to happen, at least not after Lexie decided to ruin the moment.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!!!" I heard her scream as she pushed my mate away from me and took me into her arms. My mate looked angry at what just happened, and he looked like he wanted to hurt my sister, but then Rylee stepped in front of us. "Chad, stop!" she commanded him. "Luna, she is my mate!"

"She is also one of the girls Wyatt and I told you about!" she said to him while keeping her arm in front of us to block his path to me. His eyes widened, and he looked towards me. His eyes were a beautiful shade of green. He had blonde hair that was lighter than mine, and he had drawings all over his arms. I think Rylee called them tattoos. They were beautiful. Unlike the stuff, I saw on the men who held us, prisoner. Theirs were ugly and scary looking. His were artistic and appeared to have meaning. I saw one in particular on his wrist.

"Who is Killian?" I asked him and his body froze.

"s**t," was all he could say to me.

"Lanie, I think you and Lexie need to sit down," Rylee said to us.

"Can I sit with him?" I asked, pointing at my mate. "Chad? Right?"

"Yes," he answered, but he no longer had a smile on his face when he spoke to me.

"Lanie, sit with Lexie for now. This is going to be complicated to explain," Wyatt said to me. I nodded my head and we all sat down at the table in Wyatt's office. What did they need to tell me?

"YOU HAVE A SON!?!" I shouted at Chad while standing to my feet. "You had a mate before me? And you had a son with her? And she's dead now because she lied about it being Keaton's?" I had so many questions running through my brain after Rylee and Wyatt explained everything from the beginning.

"Well, she's dead for a different reason, but to answer all of your other questions, yes," Rylee answered. I looked at her and then back at Chad who just had his eyes closed.

"WHY!?" I screamed.

"Lanie?" Lexie asked, tugging my arm.

"Why was I given a mate who has already had one and even had a child with? Is my luck that shitty?! First I'm born in a cage, treated like an animal, electrocuted time and time again, jump into a freezing cold lake, and get my hopes up about finding true love, only to be given someone who wasn't even made for me in the first place!? RYLEE! YOU LIED TO ME!"

"I didn't lie, Lanie. I told you about second chances, remember. But I never thought that you would be a second chance to someone else," she answered truthfully. I looked over at Chad who hadn't said a word this entire time. His eyes were focused on the floor. After hearing what mates were about, the passion, the love, and the romance, I was so excited and looked forward to the day that I would find mine. But it was all a lie. He already shared that passion, love, and romance with someone else and they had a son together. Even though she's dead, it doesn't change the fact that I won't be his first. That in and of itself ruins the fantasy I had in my head, and I hated it.

"May I be excused," I asked after I felt the tears in my eyes. Chad looked up in shock, but I didn't want to look him in the eyes. I knew that if I did, it would prevent me from wanting to leave. Atlanta wanted me to stay, and she was telling me it would be alright, but I couldn't. This wasn't how it was supposed to be.

"Come on Lanie," Lexie said as she took my hand. Chad stood up and tried to reach for me, but I pulled away and immediately saw the hurt in his eyes. Atlanta growled at me for what I just did, but I didn't care. This was too much, and this was far from how I imagined it would be. We left Wyatt's office and headed back to our room on the other side of the castle.

On the way there, we ended up bumping into someone. We were so lost in our own thoughts that neither one of us bothered to look at whoever it was. All Lexie said was "excuse me," and we kept going. "No problem ladies," he replied.

When we got back to our room, I rushed over to my bed and cried. Why did life have to be so unfair? Whoever was in charge of giving us mates was playing some kind of sick joke on me, and I did not appreciate it at all.

"Lanie, it's going to be okay," Lexie said as she rubbed my back.

"No, it's not! My mate has a son, Lexie! This isn't how it's supposed to be! Rylee said that when mates find each other, there is love, and romance, and, and, passion, and love!"

"You said love twice."

"SHUT UP!" I shouted at her and cried yet again.

"Lanie, don't you think you're being unfair to your mate? You heard what Wyatt and Rylee said. His mate hurt him. She rejected him through a written note and lied to everyone that their son was Keaton's. Not only that, but she killed their mom. I understand that you being mated to someone who already had a mate before seems unfair to you given all that we've been through, but if you think about it, he never got to experience all those good things that mates bring. He was used, hurt, lied to, and rejected. And now, he's a single father who has been given what they call a second chance, and that's you."

"But what about his son? What do I do about him?" I asked her.

"But what about his son? What do I do about him?" I asked her.

"What do you mean? There's nothing you do about him, you're going to have to accept the fact that he exists and try to be in his life. That is if you want to be in Chad's life."

"What if I don't want to?"

"Then you'll be the second person to break Chad's heart and it will be for selfish reasons, just like his first mate. Only, I think you will be even worse than her because you're going to be punishing him for her misdeeds, and over something that was out of his control."

"I hate you sometimes," I said to her knowing she was right. I was being unfair to Chad, but I couldn't help how I felt. But I decided to blame it on my young age.

"I know you do, but I think you should give him a chance. If Rylee says that he's a good guy, then I believe her, and so should you. But if you don't want to then you should let him down easy." My tears stopped flowing and I took a deep breath. Even though Lexie and I lived in cages growing up, I knew that life on the outside wouldn't be as easy as we thought it would be. But this whole mate thing was a lot more complicated than either of us could have imagined.

{Rylee's P.O.V.}

After the girls left the conference room, I looked back at Chad who looked as if he lost another mate. His eyes were heavy, and they were turning red with unshed tears.

"Chad, let me talk to her. Given everything that they had been through, I told them about mates and all the good that came out of having one, but I left out all of the complications that could potentially arise. I'm so sorry," I said to him.

"It's not your fault Luna," he replied and sniffled. "I'm just not meant to have a mate. I guess the moon goddess really does hate me. First, she mates me with a self-absorbed two-timing w***e, and now she mates me with an innocent she-wolf who has a troubled past and has no idea what it's like to be a wolf."

"Let us talk to her first Chad," Wyatt said to him. "She is young and she needs an explanation for a lot of this. Don't lose hope just yet."

"I'm trying Alpha, but I can't help the feeling that Lanie is going to reject me, the same way Terrine did," Chad replied and hung his head. "It's just going to be me and Killian."

"Chad, let's give the Alpha and Luna a chance to salvage this. They've overcome worse situations than this, so I am sure they can help you," Alpha Richard said to him. Chad nodded and let out a deep sigh.

"I'll go and talk to her now. Please excuse me," I told them and got up to leave. When I opened the door, I was surprised to see Brent with his fist up in the air.

"Brent? Is everything alright?" Richard asked him.

"I'm sorry Alphas, Luna, and Chad. I was going to knock, but the Luna had already opened the door," he replied.

"It's fine, what can we do for you?" I asked him.

"I think something is wrong with me." We all looked at him and gave him funny looks. "I ... uh ... I ran into two blonde girls, and one of them looked upset. The other one that was consoling her gave me this weird feeling, and I think my heart is about to jump out of my chest and I feel like I can't breathe." My mouth dropped.

"No way..." I said and looked back at Wyatt. "It can't be."

"Luna? Is everything okay? What's wrong with me?" Brent asked.

"Brent, son, I think you may have just found your mate," Richard said to him. "And she just happens to be the twin sister to Chad's second chance mate."

Could this situation get any more complicated?