Two Mates: One Choice Novels & Stories

she shares with me. A chosen mate? What does that mean? As if sensing my confusion, Tamara continues, “A chosen mate is someone you choose to be your mate. You may really like or love them. And they are usually strong, so they can fight beside you against threats such as rogues,” she says to me as if she had not just dropped a bombshell on me.

"You smell like mine." "Yours?" The word came out breathless. "What do you mean?" He pulled back just enough to look into my eyes, something dark and possessive in his gaze. "You're my mate, little one." The world tilted for the second time today. "But... Rolex..." "Is also your mate." His thumb traced my bottom lip. "Just like me, Nathan and Sean.” My mind spun. Four mates? Was that even possible? "I don't understand."

"Thank you. For letting me do this." "I am not letting you do anything." He turned to face me. "You made a choice, and I am respecting it. That is what partners do." "Partners." I smiled despite the tension. "I like that word." "Better than mate?" He pulled me close. "Different from mate." I rested my head against his chest. "Mate is fate. Partner is choice. Both matter, but choice feels more powerful right now." "Then choose to come back alive," he murmured against my hair. "Because losing you would break me in ways I could not recover from."

"Tone down your voice." "No!" I have been utterly dismissed over and over by my new mate when I expected a lot from him, at least respecting my decision, and yet he is not. Mates were supposed to be each other's other half. We were supposed to fall in love like everyone else. We were supposed to get to know each other like any other couple before having sex yet that seems to be the only thing he is after. Tears threatened to cloud my eyes. This is just like Harris once again, only the pain was worse after the small, slow-burn moments we shared before now. I thought he was gonna take it slow with me, I thought he was different.

“But they said it’s predestined, so that means you don’t get a choice,” I tell her. “Yes, and no. There is a choice for everyone. They can choose to reject their fated mate. In that choice, they sever the tie they have with their soulmate forever. After the rejection, the mates can part ways and find love with someone else, but it would not be the same as the love they could have felt with their mate.” “Reject?” I mutter the word, remembering what the man in charge of the fight said. “The man fighting Ethan said he rejected his mate. He said the emotions were fake between mates. Is that true?”

The second Jackson had calmed down, Alice brings her attention back to me before filling me in with more details. “Lily, the way mates work is that once you find your mate, you become protective of one another. And once you are marked, you both become one. Mind, body, and soul. You two will be bound together forever, like Sean and I." Sean takes Alice by the hand as they look at each other in sweet adoration. It was all very touching seeing the love in their eyes. But Alice's demeanor slightly shifts.

MAKE A CHOICE Amanda's emotions raged within her, a tempest of anger, hurt, and jealousy. She couldn't fathom how Alpha William could prioritize Jane over their impending union. The resentment bubbled inside her, fueled by a sense of rejection and wounded pride. As Beta Marcus stood before her, his presence a reminder of the connection between their packs, Amanda couldn't hold back her emotions any longer. "Marcus, tell Marcus that the wedding is off," she declared, her voice laced with anger. "I am rejecting him as my mate."

I lied, lowering my head, and my mother came over to meet me. "Mia, you can have more than one mate, but in most cases, we do have one mate. But I know of some women who has two mates, and some do date two to three men at a time. They call them their mates, and their mates all understand and don't get jealous. They love the woman. Treat her equally, and also mate with her too. It's a reverse harem stuff. But why are you asking me about that? If it's not about Triple L, then it's about who?" Mom's eyes curiously peered at mine, and I sighed.

Now he looks deeply into my eyes, holding my stare so that I have no choice but to look into his eyes too. “Mate!” he growls loudly, causing everybody around us to snap their necks and turn to face us, that is if they weren’t already doing so before. What? I think. What is really happening right now? I know King Ethan is my mate because I can feel the mate bond slightly even if I’m not up to the age of feeling it yet. But for King Arnold to say the same thing is what’s so shocking to me. How can I have two mates? There must be a mistake somewhere. It simply isn’t possible.

Unlike me. My heart stopped racing. Silence had stretched between us for more than five minutes now. Deciding I couldn’t let it prolong any longer, my shoulders loosened up as I broke the silence. “Do we have to do anything about it for now?” I asked him, and I was surprised when my voice didn’t fidget. Xander and I are still mates. Until he rejects me or I do. Like I wasn’t having enough dealing with how akward things had turned between us since I’d been out of prison, now I had to deal with another circumstance— my mate’s twin being my second fated mate.