Second Fiddle

I told my parents I would marry her someday and I begged my brother to teach me how to make her fall in love with me. Justin told me: 'she's already there, bro'. And I fucking believed him.

I was about to make my move and have my first kiss with her... but then it all went to shit one day when the Blues pack showed up to our ball.

My aunt Julia was standing with us when Alpha Asheron came to say hello.

Then she shattered my little heart.

"Wait, I feel something," she said, making everyone stop everything they were doing. She grabbed Alpha Asheron and Georgie's hands and did her witch thing for a few seconds, "There is a bond here. A fated mates bond."

The whole room gasped in shock, but I don't think anyone felt as shocked as me. I started to shake my head in disbelief. Justin walked to us, his worried eyes directly on me.

"That's impossible. Georgie is only fifteen," I said, trying to grab her arm and pull her away from Asheron, but his heavy eyes fell on me with a warning on them. He was way, way taller than me back then. He was my brother’s age and size. He could’ve very easily kicked my ass in a fight, so I moved back, "She doesn't even have a mature wolf yet, how can she find her fated mate?"

"I can feel the bond, even if it's not awake yet," my aunt said, throwing me a scolding look. She has always found me very annoying, "I'm not lying, the bond is strong. This is the first mated bond I've felt in years and it's undeniable."

Well, turns out she was right.

Asheron and Georgie became the it-couple, even if they were chaperoned the whole time to make sure Asheron didn't try anything funny on Georgie. But, of course he wouldn't, because he was the perfect gentleman.

Fucker... I mean, rest in peace.

Anyway, Georgie was instantly in love with him and she casted me aside very easily. I was just her best friend. But the worst part was, the few times I got to spent time with her after that, all she did was talk about 'Ash'.

Of course I couldn't take it for too long. I told my mom I wanted to fucking leave and never come back. I'm not the first born son, I was already eighteen and I didn't have any responsibilities, so she let me go.

I left Kallistar behind, I left Georgie behind and I swore I would make my life outside of the werewolf world because, what was even the point? Everything was super boring. Justin was the one handling everything important. Georgie was in love with another guy and I was just… the same, old, unimportant Cain.

So, I decided to start a new life.

I went to college just for the fun of it, and I did have a lot of fun. Human men are subpar to me in every way, so human women would fly to me like fucking wasps. None of them were as gorgeous as my Georgie, but at some point I managed to stop comparing everyone to her and just enjoyed the moment.

I enjoyed the moment very much, right until stupid Justin had a breakdown and ran away.

Now I have to act as the first born son, I have to become the Alpha and I have to be the prince, ready to become the King of Kallistar at some point.

God, I really hope Justin comes back before that.

But as if all that is not enough to send me to a downward spiral, now Georgie is my mate? After she broke my heart into a million pieces five years ago?

Nah, this has to be a sick joke from my new enemy: The Moon Goddess.

What the fuck have I ever done to her? I pay my respects to her, even when I was among humans. So why did she decide to make me Georgie's second mate? That's evil. Especially because Georgie is not even interested in having a mate anymore, not after perfect Asheron.

She doesn't want me.

I pull my phone out and text Justin.

"You need to come back home, please. I don't want to fucking be here. Please. Pleeease.”

"You have to stay and take care of business, little bro. I can't come back," he texts back, making me groan out loud.

If I told my mom Justin has kept in touch with me and we text almost every day, she would definitely find a way to track his phone and find him, but even now I can't bring myself to betray my brother.

He has a good reason to be away, even if he doesn't want to tell me what it is. I know him so much, I'm sure he wouldn't do all this for nothing.

"What happened?" He asks a few seconds later, curious as ever.

And of course, I describe everything about my newfound bond and about Asheron's death in case he hasn't heard about that.

Justin takes a long, long time to reply. He is probably trying to find the right words to tell me.

"All I can say is, follow your heart. You two are fated for a reason and you’ve always been in love with her anyway. Don’t be a coward," he says and then he stops replying to my texts.

I groan again and force myself to look up. I think everyone can tell I'm a shit mood because even though this is my party, no one is approaching me anymore. They only look at me from afar and talk in hushed tones, probably about my stupid second-fiddle bond.

Around midnight, people finally start leaving until only my family is here. And Georgie's. So now I have to talk to people again. How fun.

"You had your tantrum, now come here," my dad growls. I have to get up from my seat for the first time in a long time and when I almost fall to the right, I realize I'm drunker than I thought, "This is not Alpha behavior, Cain."

"That's because I'm not an Alpha, I'm just someone forced to have the fucking title," I spit out, not caring if everyone around us can hear, "What do we even have to talk about with them?"

"With your fated mate?" he asks, sarcastically, "A lot. This is important."

Pff.

I hate the way I felt when he called Georgie my mate. I hate that I like it. God, I really hate how I clearly didn't get over her in five damn years. Not even after fucking half the human population.

"Auntie," I shout, my aunt Julie turns to me, "Can we break the bond?"

Of course, that creates a whole circus of people yelling at me in anger, especially my parents.

But Georgie just looks at me with narrowed eyes full of anger, as if she wasn't the one who said she didn't want this shit.