Rejected

• THIRTY ONE •

A few days had passed since I moved into the pack house, both Elise and Harper were worried about me but were glad to know I had basically moved in with Patrick (in Harper's opinions he still needs to prove himself, but she's genuinely trying to like him). Frank had been out of town so he doesn't know that I haven't been at the house lately.

"Any new developments?" Elise asked.

I shook my head, "I haven't noticed anything different really."

"Yeah Braxton said their patrols have been coming up empty for any outsider scents."

"That doesn't mean anything." Elise put in, "Braxton's looking for an outsider, someone not in the pack...who's to say it isn't someone in the pack, or even a non-Were?"

Harper shrugged, "I guess he's hoping no one in his pack would do something like that to another pack-members mate."

"She wolves are bitches, and I can say that because I am one." Elise said, "my money is on one of Patrick's old friends with benefits, they're probably pissed that he didn't settle down with them and he settled down with you."

It was the same thought I've been having since we found my car messed up, "only problem is Patrick doesn't remember the girls all that well."

"That many huh?" Harper asked sadly.

I shook my head, "he says it wasn't very many and truth be told I kinda believe him...no, he mentioned that when he was with other girls he couldn't really see them?"

Harper shrugged as I looked to her and Elise for answers, but Elise seemed to think about something.

"What is it?" I asked.

She looked at me and explained her train of thought, "it's weird, but when we're little we're told all about Weres and what comes along with the territory, mates included...I remember my uncle use to tell us that when we find our mates we shouldn't pursue others because we wouldn't even be able to see them anyways." She shrugged, "I always thought he was being dramatic."

Just then Patrick walked in with Braxton and Vance. The guys walked over and took seats next to us.

"What's up?" Vance asked in general.

It was Harper who spoke up, "when you guys are approached by ladies, how does that go?"

They all looked at each other, they must've thought we were trying to set them up for an argument.

So I filled them in a little, "it's just Patrick mentioned something the other day, he mentioned that since finding me, he couldn't really see the girls."

They both seemed to nod their understanding but it was Patrick that answered. "Well obviously I didn't become instantaneously blind or anything, and I'm capable of seeing other girls, for instance I can make out Elise and Harper just fine...but when it comes to sleeping with someone who isn't your mate it's different, for one thing it isn't exactly easy because you have to think of Weres as two different entities; our human forms and our Wolves."

Everyone seemed to listen in.

But he continued. "As a human you have the urge to have sex for pleasure, as a wolf you have sex more for procreation." He filled us in, "so when it came to me, I was having sex with other girls as a form of distraction which essentially goes against both entities...So I had my human side that wasn't one hundred percent into it and my wolf side who wasn't having it at all...so much that my wolf would constantly try and remind me of my mate, not exactly easy to have sex with a girl while thinking about another girl."

"You're disgusting." Elise put in.

Patrick blushed only a little, "I am, and I've been paying for my mistakes every since...I'm lucky Mariah is willing to even give me a chance, I hardly deserve her...but, I'm a lucky son of a bitch."