My Not Yet Mate

Chapter 16

Chapter 16: I don’t Have Two Mates!

Lily

She reached over to pick up sketchbook again. She flipped through the book, looking longingly at every single sketch in it. She stopped on her favorite one. It was the one she had drawn of him when he was sitting on the bathroom floor with her. His eyes had been so green and soft. The way he had smiled at her had made her feel like the most important person in the world to him. She fingered the necklace he had given her that night, that she still had around her neck. She knew once a dragon’s scale was removed, it never grew back.

She had spent hours pondering which scale he had given her. She closed her eyes and let the sparks move through her body. She breathed out slowly. Sommer had told her months ago that when someone found their mate, there were sparks. There was this overwhelming desire to always be around them. She said that someone’s mate would consume their every last thought. She smiled softly. She hadn’t told Sommer that she felt all of those things with Lukas. She hadn’t told her that when he kissed her, her world fell into place, and she longed to feel it again.

Lily sighed. She missed Sommer so much. She had lost the two people that had meant the most to her in the same hour. She didn’t understand what she had done wrong. Her parents had told her that Sommer had probably wanted to take Lukas for a lover and was jealous when Lukas wanted Lily for a

breeder.

She didn’t believe them. Sommer had found her mate and was happy with him. She didn’t need to take Lukas away from Lily. Sommer was her best friend and Lukas was her mate. Those were the only two things she was absolutely sure about. She was going to find a way to contact them and find out why they had left her. Every time she had tried to call Sommer it had gone straight to

voicemail and every time she had asked to call Lukas, she was told no. Her father told her that he was done with her and he had found another girl to use as a breeder. Her heart broke every single time she heard those words, but she knew better. She knew from living in a clan of dragons that their fire would burn everything, except their mate. That was just one more reason that she doubted her parents.

She tucked her necklace into her shirt and got up. She would go and ask. There had to be a reason she got beat every time she asked about him. She was not going to give in. She knew that all it would take was one phone call and he would come get her. He had never let her down before. She trusted his word and he had told her two things that she would never forget. “You’re safe with me and I’ll wait for you. She had believed him then and she had to believe him now. Making up her mind, she left her rooms for the first time in a week to go ask to call Lukas, She jogged down to her father’s office and knocked softly.

“Come in!,” he roared.

She slowly opened the door, freezing when she saw an older man with greying hair and thick glasses over black eyes that she had only seen once before. He was thin and had power coming off of him in waves.

“Mate,” the man uttered, looking at her.

She narrowed her eyes and shuddered. He repulsed her and she bit back a snotty response.

“Daddy, I’m sorry for bothering you, but I was wondering”

“No! Is there anything else?”

“Please, he said I could call anytime I wanted.”

Her father sat back in chair and tented his fingers. “How many times do I have to tell you, he said he didn’t want to speak to you. He said he found another girl to breed and he was done wasting his time on you.”

“I want to hear it from him, Daddy. If he truly feels that way, then he should be able to tell me. He is the king after all”

“I’ll tell you what… this is Loatie. He says he has known you are his mate for a few months now. He would like to get to know you. Talk to him for a little while and I’ll think about letting you call the king.”

She hesitated, debating her choices. She wanted to call Lukas more than anything, but she didn’t want to talk to that creepy old man. Her father glared at her.

“What’s it going to be, little girl? I don’t have time for this.”

She squared her shoulders and marched across the office to sit across from the man in the chair on the other side of the coffee table. She crossed her arms over her chest. The man patted the couch next to him. She clenched her jaw. Her father got up and yanked her up off her seat to shove her down next to the man. She whimpered softly and the man’s hand touched her shoulder.

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“Are you alright?”

Almost unnoticeable sparks crossed her skin and she pulled away from him, startled.

“I have a mate,” she said.

“Who the fuck are you talking about?” Her father hissed.

Lily met his eyes. “Lukas is my mate, Daddy. Not this man.”

He laughed darkly. “And what do you know about mates, Lily? A stupid little human girl like you.”

“I know that when Lukas touches me, his sparks are so strong I feel like there’s an earthquake around me.”

The man touched her cheek as her father got up out of his chair.

“The mate bond sparks are not strong, Lilianna. Only with your true mate will you feel anything.”

“Lukas” are strong,” she argued.

He rolled his eyes. “Those stem from your little crush. They are not real, trust me.”

“Daddy, 1-

Her father pushed the phone towards her “Fine! Call him! Ask him yourself.”

She got up and crossed to the phone. She reached for the rolodex even though she had memorized his number months ago. She didn’t want her father to know that she could call Lukas whenever she wanted. All she needed was to be able to go somewhere where she could slip away and call him. She dialed his number and let it ring. Her father sat back with a smirk on his face.

*Hello?,” a f

voice answered, moaning slightly

Lily’s heart stopped painfully. “Hello? Can I speak to Lukas?”

“Sure. May I ask who’s calling?”

“It’s Lily.”

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The sound of kisses on skin made Lily want to vomit. The girl moaned.

“Oh, right there, Sire,” she panted.

Lily dropped the phone and ran out of the office. Her tears blinded her and she put her hand on the wall to guide her way back to her room. She ran inside and locked the door behind her. She stumbled towards the bed and fell, sprawling onto the ground. She curled up into the fetal position, sobbing. She heard the lock on her door jostle a little and moments later, someone was kneeling behind her. Her mother rubbed her back.

“We tried to tell you, honey. We didn’t want you to feel his rejection. We knew it was coming. We tried to protect you,” her mother murmured.

“Mom, how could he? I thought he loved me,” she sobbed.

She stroked Lily’s back. “How could he love you Lily? You are just a human. You could have never been anything more than a breeder to him. Even then, he would have eventually thrown you out or killed you. It’s better this way. Now, when you go to live with Loatie-”

Lily pulled back. “Mom, no. I don’t want to go live with him.”

“You don’t have a a choice. That’s why he’s here. He is making the arrangements with your father. When you are 15, he will come get you.”

“Mama, please, don’t make me go live with him,” she begged.

Her mother stood up, frowning down at her. “Lilianna May Washington, enough is enough. It’s time to grow up You have a mate now. You will grow to

Chapter 16: I don’t Have Two Mates!

love him.”

“He’s not my

my mate! I

know he’s not,”

– Lily screamed.

“And who do you think it is? Your father said you thought Lukas was your mate. Why would you think that?”

“Because I didn’t have to learn to love him, Mama. I just do.”

gotten you. Grow up, Lilianna. You are just a toy to him. One that is to

Her mother raised an eyebrow and smiled coldly at her. “And look at where that’s gott be used and thrown away.”

She left the room and Lily heard the lock on the other side of the door click into place. She crawled, sobbing over to the dragon statue Lukas had got her for her birthday. She curled up around the base, hugging the legs. She looked up at its face and her heart broke more, when it looked exactly like Lukas’s dragon in the face. Why couldn’t he love her? She thought he was her mate. She wanted him to be. She angrily wiped her face. She couldn’t convince herself anymore that her parents were lying.

All

She heard that girl on his phone. What was her name? Cadence. She recognized her voice from the mall. She closed her eyes and tried to calm down. she knew was that she had to find a way out of living with that man, Sparks or no sparks, he was not her mate. Neither was Lukas. She sighed. She just needed to run away from all of them. Maybe she could go to Sasha and Kalani. They had always made her safe and loved. Maybe they would take her in Now, to figure out how to get there. She yawned. That was a problem she could solve when she woke up. She just couldn’t keep her eyes open any longer. She gripped the necklace in her hand and let the feel of the so–called sparks take her off to sleep as the same thought played repeatedly in her mind: Who exactly was Loatie and where did he come from?

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chiks brooke

7 He needs Jo to whoop his ass.

This is so sad! This Luis has Truly dug his grave. Lucas was stupid. How could he even believe the trash?

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