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Once Upon a Forbidden Mate
Once Upon a Forbidden Mate
Author: Cerelia Wolf

Chapter 1 - Brianna

Author: Cerelia Wolf
last update Huling Na-update: 2023-12-30 17:35:59

I punched the punching bag in front of me as though it would solve all my problems but even as I was hitting it I knew it was impossible. Neither the three destroyed punching bags nor the broken bones I just gave my future beta were going to change my parent’s minds. It didn’t matter that I was just as strong as any other alpha, my parents couldn’t seem to look past the fact that I was female. 

I am sure that if I had any younger brothers they would have been handed the position as soon as they came of age. So why did they insist I needed my mate in order to take over? I wasn’t ever sure I wanted a mate, I had trained too hard and put in too many hours to be demoted to the luna position. I punched the bag in front of me so hard that the chains holding it in place groaned. 

The door to the gym creaked open behind me, I spun around and glared at the door. My childhood friend and future beta’s younger brother Nolan strolled through the door. He had a relaxed way about him that I had always loved when we were younger but now I just found it infuriating. He surveyed the room with a relaxed half grin on his face as he walked towards me.

“I heard you sent my brother to the hospital again. What did he do this time?” Nolan asked.

“It’s not really his fault. It is because of this stupid party my parents are throwing,” I replied. 

Kaiden was just as frustrated as I was about my parents refusing to pass the title to me. Most alphas and betas took over in their late teens or early twenties but we were both in our mid twenties now. People in the pack were starting to gossip about me, I am sure they have been doing it for years but now they weren’t even trying to be subtle about it. They were saying that the reason I couldn’t find my mate was because the moon goddess didn’t think I was worthy of one.

As far as I was concerned they could all go to hell but my parents took these rumours seriously. They were throwing this party to put an end to these rumours once and for all. Either I would meet my mate in two days or they would set me up with someone. They didn’t think I knew about their plans. They told me that they wanted me to meet my mate at the party but I had to learn about the rest of their plans by overhearing them talking to their beta. 

Last night I came home late from my friend's house and I heard them. They were in talks with some of the single alphas in the surrounding packs. They were weighing up the benefits of each alpha and trying to work out which one should be my chosen mate. They were talking about territory sizes and numbers of pack members as though they weren’t talking about the rest of my life. 

Ever since I heard their conversation I have been trying to find a way out whatever arrangement they end up making for me while being so furious that I couldn’t think straight. After a sleepless night and a very awkward breakfast the next day I spoke to Kaiden about what I had heard. I don’t know what I had expected from him but I hadn’t expected him to agree with my parent’s plan. 

“Isn’t this just like the other parties that they have thrown for you?” Nolan asked. 

“No, my parents are sick of waiting for me to meet my mate. If I don’t meet him then they will give me to another alpha as his trophy mate.” It made me feel sick just thinking about that. I turned around and punched the punching bag, hard. 

“They can’t do that,” Nolan replied. 

“Legally they can. I have checked the laws, any unmated female over the age of twenty one can be claimed by an unmated male of an equal or higher rank even against that woman’s wishes.” I said. 

“There must be some way out of this,” Nolan replied. 

“I have checked. The answer is no, even though this law isn’t enacted very often it is still actively enforced by the council.” I replied. 

Like Nolan, I didn’t believe such a rule could still exist so I had done some reading last night. There were a few cases of this happening in the last ten years and each time the council approved of the claiming. In one of the cases they even helped to enforce it. If one of the alphas my parents were talking to claimed me then I was screwed. 

“There is one thing you can do,” Nolan said. 

“What would that be?” My tone was a little sharper than it probably should have been. 

“You can be my mate,” Nolan smiled at me and I suddenly wanted to punch him in the face. 

“We have already had that conversation,” I growled. 

At this point I have lost count of the number of times he had asked me to be his mate. He started asking me once I turned twenty one and nothing I say seems to have any impact on him. If he was asking me because he loved me then I could excuse his persistence but despite his many declarations of love I knew there was more to it than that. Nolan wanted the power that being mated to me would give him. 

“I love you and I don’t think there is anything that will stop me loving you,” he took a step towards me.

“You have a mate out there somewhere. Just because I have to give up on my mate doesn’t mean you have to.” I replied, my voice shaking slightly. Nolan was still closing the distance between us, the look in his eyes was that of a predator hunting its prey. 

“Had,” he said. 

“What do you mean by that?” I took a few steps back. 

“I don’t have a mate anymore, I rejected her.” He stepped towards me again. 

I didn’t need to know why he rejected her. Asking him wouldn’t do me any good, in fact it was a terrible idea. It would make him think that I wanted to be with him, give him hope for a future that could never be. 

“Wh-why would you reject your mate?” The more relevant question is why did I sound so nervous? Why did I even care what his answer to my question was? I should just walk away rather than waiting for his answer. 

“She knew I was in love with you. She told me if I wanted to be with her I couldn’t be your friend anymore, I chose you.” 

He reached out and cupped my cheek with his hand. His eyes were locked on mine as he reached out with his other hand and grabbed my waist. He pulled me closer to him and his eyes glanced briefly to my lips.

He was going to kiss me. I couldn’t believe this, he had never gone this far before. He told me he loved me more times than I could count but he had never tried to kiss me. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want to break his heart but we couldn’t be together because in two days time I would either have my fated mate or have a chosen mate thrust on me. 

“We shouldn’t do this,” I said. 

My wolf whimpered. It had been a long time since I had been with anyone and I guess even my wolf had given up hope of me ever meeting my mate. She was lonely, wolves don’t cope very well without their mate and she was struggling. 

“If we mark each other then your parents can’t force you to be with one of those alphas.” His lips were so close to mine that I could smell the toothpaste on his breath and don’t get me started on how delicious his aftershave smelt. 

“What if I met my mate?” I asked. 

He leaned forward and pressed his lips against my neck. My wolf purred, urging me to move forward. I wrapped my arms around his waist and let out a soft moan. I wanted more but of course that was exactly when he removed his lips from my neck. 

“Then you would have to make a decision on what to do with him.” Nolan replied before placing his lips on my marking spot. He kissed me and licked me, sending pleasurable chills down my spine. 

“I’m not sure I can give up on a mate that I don’t even know yet,” I said, trying to hide how much he was affecting me. It didn’t matter how much I wanted him, I couldn’t do this. It would ruin our friendship forever. If I met my mate at the party it would hurt both of them and cause so much drama. 

‘Liar, you don’t even want our mate,’ Amber, my wolf replied. 

“I’m not asking you to make any decision now but let me give you something to think about.” 

Nolan pressed his lips against mine. His tongue brushed my lips softly before entering my mouth to find mine. He pulled me closer so I could feel his arousal pressing against me. I gripped onto his shirt tighter, I wanted to throw him onto the floor and make him scream my name. He held me tighter, one hand was holding the back of my head while the other was at the base of my spine pulling me closer. 

My hand slid down his back slowly but when my hand reached the base of his spine he pulled away from me. 

“If you want any more then you need to agree to be mine forever.” He whispered in my ear before letting go of me and walking away slowly, glancing over his shoulder once before leaving me alone. 

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  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 2 - Mason

    I sat at my desk with the laptop open in front of me, there were hundreds of tasks waiting for me but I couldn’t bring myself to do any of them. Looking after my pack and growing my businesses has been enough for me for the first few years after I took over as alpha but that was no longer the case. The missing part of my soul left a dull ache that nothing could block out and believe me I had tried everything. The one thing that would make me feel better was the one thing I could never have, a mate. I was born human. Not a wolf-less werewolf, a full human. Nobody knew why I was born the way I was, my parents spent years taking me to doctors hoping to find a reason or a cure. In the end they turned to magic. They found a witch who was able to create a wolf and bind it to me. The wolf she created for me was the strongest and most powerful wolf ever seen but all magic has a price. In my case that price was that my wolf was without a fated mate.At first it didn’t seem like a huge deal, I

    Huling Na-update : 2023-12-30
  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 3 - Dominic

    I couldn’t believe that after what she put me through she showed up at my dorm room and even worse she brought him with her. I loved her with all of my heart and she just threw me aside like I was nothing. It hurt but I could understand why she did it. I have seen enough werewolves find their mate and I knew how powerful that bond could be. It was naive of me to think that my love could overpower that bond but that didn’t make me feel any better. I gave her all the love that I had and it still wasn’t enough to change anything. She threw me aside like I was garbage, she didn’t even have the decency to tell me the truth. I had to walk into the cafe that we normally went to only to see them snuggled cosily together. It was the worst feeling in the world to know that you gave your heart to someone, only to have them trample all over it. Now that she had chosen him I tried to do the honourable thing and keep out of her way but she didn’t have the same respect for me. Was it really too m

    Huling Na-update : 2023-12-30
  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 4 - Brianna

    I knew something was off when my father insisted that we had a family dinner in our private dining room rather than with the rest of the pack. The last time we had dinner together as a family I was still a child. I must have been about eleven years old. That was the day that my father told me that he was enrolling me on an elite training programme. I left home a couple of months later and I didn’t come back until I was eighteen years old. I was stuck in that facility for seven years with a bunch of alphas, betas and elite warriors. The only people who spoke to me the whole time I was there were Nolan and Kaiden. We became very close during that time and I am sure that is why Nolan ended up falling in love with me. “I have some good news.” My father was smiling at me which in itself was a bad sign. How often have I seen my father smile? It couldn’t be more than a handful of times in all of my life. My mother kept her head down, looking intently at the plate of food in front of her. I

    Huling Na-update : 2023-12-30
  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 5 - Nolan

    I felt the weight of Brianna’s father’s alpha command as soon as the words left his mouth. I was centimetres away from getting the one thing I had wanted for so many years. It was much too close to have it all taken away from me so cruelly. I have loved Brianna for as long as I can remember. It wasn’t her beauty, even though she was the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen. What really attracted me to her was her strength, she worked incredibly hard to prove herself to her family. Nothing she ever did was good enough for them and yet Brianna didn’t complain or give up. I gave my heart to her years ago, I was more than ready for her to give me hers in return. “Don’t listen to him, Nolan. Mark me and make me yours forever.” Brianna pleaded. Her words gave me the courage to fight her father’s command. As I lowered my canines towards her neck I could hear her father’s forces breaking through the door beside us. My eyes closed, her skin was so close that I could feel the heat of it

    Huling Na-update : 2023-12-30
  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 6 - Brianna

    My father might not have locked me in a cell but he may as well have. Three of his most highly trained warriors took me straight to my room and locked me inside before standing guard outside it for the whole evening. I could have probably still taken all of them down and escaped, but where would that have gotten me?I would have ended up on the run with no money and no clue where I was going. I have no intention of being forced into being someone’s chosen mate but if I was going to escape then I had to make sure I did this right. Make sure that there was no chance of me getting caught or followed. Unfortunately, that meant I was stuck here, waiting in my room for my father to come and deal with me.I thought he would only make me wait for a few minutes before he came to reprimand me but it seems as though I couldn’t have been more wrong. After a few hours of listening to the people standing guard outside my room and gossiping about me, I realised that he wasn’t coming tonight. I was p

    Huling Na-update : 2024-03-06
  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 7 - Mason

    When I walked into the room Brianna’s parents were whispering amongst themselves. Her father was wearing his usual stern expression but her mother looked to be almost distraught, she was quietly begging her mate for something. They broke up their conversation abruptly upon noticing me. It was clear what they were talking about but the interaction left me wondering about a lot of things.I had always assumed that alpha Kennedy’s reputation was a fabrication, just like mine. He had a mate and a daughter and I couldn’t see how anyone with two important women in their life could be so heartless. That was until I heard the way he spoke about his daughter, seeing the indifference with which he dealt with his own mate was just another confirmation of this. “You seem to be getting along well with my daughter,” alpha Kennedy stated with a smirk on his face. “She is a lovely woman,” I replied.That smirk made me want to deny his statement but that would have been counterproductive. I needed a

    Huling Na-update : 2024-03-07
  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 8 - Dominic

    Another night of me standing in a dingy alleyway trying to pull any kind of useful information from the locals. We had managed to trace my parents to this city pretty quickly but now the trail seems to have gone cold. We were outsiders here and nobody wanted to share information with us. This wasn’t a new problem. It was something that I had run into on nearly every investigation that I had been a part of. But it was all the more frustrating to know that my family were the ones in peril this time. There had to be someone in this useless town who knew where my parents had gone, all I had to do was find them. The vampire in front of me was the third supernatural that I had spoken to this evening and this conversation was proving to be just as useless as the other two. Maybe Franklin would have had more luck with her than I had but I hadn’t seen him all evening and I had no idea where he was. “You know I can't share any information with a human.” The vampire grumbled before trying to

    Huling Na-update : 2024-03-08
  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 9 - Brianna

    I wanted to hate Mason so badly but I didn’t. He could have treated me like property in the same way my father did, but instead he spoke to me as though my opinions mattered to him. He wasn’t willing to let me go but other than that he had gone out of his way to make me feel like I mattered. It was confusing and more than a little frustrating. It made me want to throw my clothes around the room and break some of the beautiful furniture that he put in here. “What’s wrong? Is the room not to your liking?”Somehow Mason had managed to enter the room and sneak up on me without me hearing a thing. That only annoyed me more, I was an alpha in my own right and my hearing was usually outstanding. This was all his fault, with his stupid confusing behaviour.“The room is fine, it is my host that I have a problem with.” Mason’s face was stoic but there was nothing he could do to hide the hurt that shone through his eyes. I didn’t like being the one that put it there but it wasn’t as though he

    Huling Na-update : 2024-03-09

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  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 44 - Dominic

    I hated the council more than anything else in the world after what they had done to not only my family but also countless other families over the last few hundred years. I had seen first-hand some of the lives and packs that had been destroyed by their greed and bigotry. I wasn’t going to allow this pack to become just another statistic and I think that I had just the right plan to make sure that didn’t happen.Over the years while my family worked for the council my mother had become pretty good at putting on a persona that the council approved of. If there was anyone who would be able to help Brianna to get through the next few days it would be her. Taking hold of Brianna’s hand we went in search of my mother. Rowan had told me that she was helping to prepare the formal dining hall for our unwelcome guests.By the time I reached the dining hall on the far side of the building, I realised what Rowan meant when he said that it was rarely used. There was dust and cobwebs everywhere, a

  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 43 - Brianna

    It was still dark in the room when I opened my eyes the next morning, I was still resting on Dominic’s chest and Mason was curled up behind me with his arm around my waist. It felt amazing waking up between the two of them and there was a part of me that wanted to stay there forever, but there was a larger part of me that desperately needed a wash and some food. I hadn’t eaten anything since the cake early yesterday afternoon and was starving.Pulling Mason’s arm off my waist was the easy part but it was going to be much harder to get myself out of bed without waking either of them. I started trying to wriggle my way to the bottom however, before I could get very far Mason grabbed hold of my hips and pinned me in place.“Where do you think you are running away to my love?” There was something about the husky nature of his voice that made my stomach flip with desire. Mason must have smelled my arousal because his eyes dilated and his nostrils flared. I was going to have to learn to con

  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 42 - Dominic

    Watching Brianna and Mason together without being able to join in was the most erotic thing I have ever done. I never thought that I would be into watching my lover being intimate with someone else but it was amazing, the only problem was that I was now incredibly turned on and there was nothing that I could do to relieve the tension.Mason had made my mate come so hard that she had partially shifted and dug her claws into his back, drawing blood and I couldn’t wait for her to do the same thing to me. There was also a not-so-small part of me that wanted to lick Mason’s come out of my mate’s pussy. I wasn’t willing to admit to those urges yet, I hadn’t even exchanged saliva with Mason so I really didn’t think we were at the stage of our relationship where we could share other bodily fluids.“You were such a good girl but now I think it is time to focus on your other mate.” Mason purred, giving Brianna one last kiss before using his free hand to turn her head towards me.“Do you think y

  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 41 - Mason

    Brianna inhaled sharply as the crop hit her bare skin but, much to my disappointment she managed not to make any other sound. I counted down each strike and as I did so her skin started to turn pink and her core became wetter each time I made contact. Of the six strikes that I had promised her I had already given her five and she was yet to make a single sound, I was starting to think that I had let her off too lightly when I brought the crop down a final time and a soft whimper escaped her lips.“That is a shame. You were doing so well, but rules are rules, and you are going to have to learn to follow them.” I told her, trying not to let her know how much her failure excited me.I got up from the bed and went over to my dresser. I had a huge selection of toys but most of them were too advanced to use on Brianna so early into our relationship, so instead I picked out a pair of handcuffs and a blindfold.“It looks as though I am going to have to restrain you after all. I will let you h

  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 40 - Mason

    As soon as Brianna set foot into our room I pushed her against the wall and claimed her lips with my own. I had been looking forward to getting her away from prying eyes all day and I couldn’t wait a moment longer to taste her lips or feel her body pressed up against mine. Brianna tried to fight me even though her arousal was so thick in the air that I could taste it.I should have known that an Alpha female would have a bratty side when I started to pursue her. It wouldn’t have put me off her though, if anything it would have only made me more determined to have her. I liked women who challenged me, far too many women instantly submitted to me due to my Alpha genetics, having someone defy me was exciting in so many ways. Not least because it gave me an excuse to punish her.Taking hold of her wrists, I lifted her hands over her head and pinned them to the wall then used the pressure of my body against hers to prevent her from fighting against me. Once she stopped fighting and submitt

  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 39 - Brianna

    Everything about this place was amazing. I loved that it was much smaller and more personal than anything I had seen within my father’s pack, and I also loved that everything in here seemed to smell absolutely wonderful. I could see why Mason would come here so often, I had only been here for a few minutes but I could already feel myself getting more relaxed.Once the waitress came back to our table with our drinks, I ordered a sharing platter which had all different types of cakes on it. Mason had ordered the same thing and I figured that as he came here so often he would know what the best options on the menu would be. Besides, if Mason could even live up to half of what he was promising then I was going to need all the energy that I could get for tonight.“Maybe I should just take some pieces off your plates rather than ordering sometime for myself,” Dominic suggested.“Sure, maybe Mason will share with you,” I replied, scowling at Dominic playfully. I thought he had grown up aroun

  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 38 - Mason

    When I had originally planned this date it was meant to be for Brianna and me alone, as a way to get to know her better away from the prying eyes of our pack. Of course, I had planned this days ago, before I knew that she was going to meet her fated mate, or that I would end up being her second chance mate.I had planned to take her out to a few different places, each one being slightly more intimate than the last, before hopefully ending with us in bed together. There was no reason that part should have to change though, just because there were three of us now didn’t mean that we couldn’t all end the night in bed together, making each other come and marking each other.I hadn’t anticipated how much I was going to enjoy my mate being intimate with another man. When I first realised that she was mine as well as Dominic’s there was a slight slither of worry that I might get jealous when he touched her. But as the bond grew stronger between us I realised that it didn’t bother me, and now

  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 37 - Brianna

    I could feel the anger bubbling up inside of me despite the effort that both Dominic and Mason were putting into calming me down. As Dominic’s mother laid out my father’s crimes there was no more denying the kind of man that he was. It made me angry to think of all the people that he has hurt, but it wasn’t just him that I was angry with. I was also angry with myself for not noticing all the problems with our pack sooner and doing something to stop him.“I think that is enough for now. I can process the evidence and send it over to the council later today.” Rowan suggested.He tried not to look in my direction but the way he glanced at Mason made it clear that he didn’t trust me not to lose my temper at Dominic’s mother. I could understand his concern after everything he had heard about my family but it only made me feel worse. I wasn’t a monster like my father, and I didn’t like the idea of anyone thinking I was.“It’s fine. I’m angry at my father’s actions but I am not going to do an

  • Once Upon a Forbidden Mate   Chapter 36 - Dominic

    It was a little uncomfortable for me to watch Mason and Brianna being so intimate over breakfast even though I understood why he was doing it. He wanted to show his pack that Brianna was his mate and that nothing was going to come between them, but that didn’t make it any easier for me to be on the outside of everything.Brianna and Mason had finished their breakfast and they, along with Rowan, were getting ready to have a meeting to discuss what to do about Alpha Kennedy. Brianna looked down at where I was sitting beside her, she was waiting for me to make some move to indicate that I would be joining them but when I didn’t do so she started to look worried.“Aren’t you coming with us?” She asked, the sadness in her eyes making me feel guilty for not giving in to her wishes.Going with her would have only made me feel better momentarily however, there was a good chance that if I went with them then it would just be a continuation of what had happened over breakfast. I wasn’t sure how

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