Chapter Five

   Later after I have made my rounds and acted the part of the happy, birthdary girl, I find my mother. I know if I were to go straight to my room she would come and chew me out later. 

    "Hey, mom, do you mind if I finish packing and go to bed? Since we have to get up early I want to make sure everything is ready to go and I get enough sleep" I make sure to sound tired and warn out.

     " Umm, sure sweetie. But did you get enough to eat?" She asks me with a weird look in her eyes.

     "Oh, yes Jason brought me a plate full of ribs at the beginning of the party and then I snacked here and there. Now I'm just tired and ready for tomorrow." I say to her trying to sound as exhausted as I can.

     "So I'm guessing no sign of your mate then?" She asks me again with a weird look in her eyes. 

      Like she knows something I don't or they don't think I know. I have no doubt in my mind that Jason has already told my whole family that we are mates. I also have no doubt that they have been keeping it to themselves for the past year in hopes not to piss me off and make me do something stupid like reject Jason. I have no plans in doing so but I'm just not ready to do the whole mate thing yet. 

   "Nope, not even a tiny sign. Thank the goddess." My mom gives me a strange look " You know mom he may not even be here. I may find him on my travels. Maybe that's the reason I feel like I need to leave so bad."

    I know this isn't true but I needed my family and Jason to think I didn't know we were mates. If they were allowed to play dumb for a year then why couldn't I. I knew Jason wouldn't look for anyone to keep him company. His wolf wouldn't allow him. I also knew that Jason would probably have a hard time with me being gone for a year. But I also knew Zu-Zu would keep him occupied and his mind off of me as much as he could.

     "You never known sweetie. Maybe you are right. Maybe it's a good thing you haven't found him yet. I think a year of traveling is going to be good for you. You go ahead and finish packing. Make sure your bags are by the door so daddy can load them up tonight. That way in the morning all we need to do is get dressed and go." She says to me with a smile.

     "Thanks mom. I love you and good night." I say as I quickly hug her and run towards my room. 

    

      While running towards my room a thought passed my mind. As I was talking to mom, I could of swore I heard a faint growl coming somewhere behind me. I had hoped he wouldn't hear me talking to my mom. I was only trying to keep mom off my back. I really didn't want to hurt Jason. Even though I couldn't feel the pull, I could still feel my feelings for him.

     "It's okay Venus. Even if he heard you, we both know we didn't mean it. He will understand why we did what we did when the time comes." Jewel comforts me as we get ready for bed.

     She's right. We didn't mean it. He will understand. Once again just before my eyes close for sleep the words that have been playing for the pass 3 hours play again. 

    "I need you to find the answers to who and what you are."

Jason's P.O.V. .....

 

       I should not have been ease dropping but I couldn't help it. I needed to know if she was just pretending to not know that I was her mate. But what came out of her mouth pissed Alex off and I couldn't stop the growl. She didn't seem to of heard me but still.

      "Find her mate while she is on her travels. Over our dead body" Alex growled in my head.

   Ignoring Alex I mind linked Zeus 

    "Hey man, I need to talk to you, Alpha, and Luna."

    "Yeah I figured as much the moment she didn't feel or knowledge the bond. Meet us in dad's office. I'll get them." Zeus replied knowingly. 

   I knew he would of guessed my plans by now. I had already changed my flight to one 2 hours behind her. I was going but she didn't need to know. I would follow behind her just to make sure she was safe. Six months of pure torture was headed my way and I simply didn't care. I had to go. I had to be near her. After the six months I had to come back. Which would add six more months of complete agony. But Ares would be meeting up with her then. The only way her parents could even get me to agree to coming back in six months was to promise he would join her half way through. I had almost given up the beta title not to have to leave her. But they were quick to compromise. Zeus needed a strong beta someone who would always have his back and fight to the death for him. I was that beta. My father was Alpha Jackson's beta before my mother was killed in a Rouge attack. But mates bonds are so strong that as soon as she died he snapped.  I tried everything I could to brake him out of it. But unfortunately I couldn't.  Right now he was in the packs hospital in what most would call the psych ward. But here we call it the grieving ward. None of the wolves there were psychotic. They were mourning the loss of their mates. Some usually came out of it after a few months. But my father had been there for 10 years. The love my parents had for each other went deeper than the mate bond. Only a few mates bonded that way. Alpha Jackson and Luna Alice were the only other mated wolves with that bond. The elders had theories that when wolves bonded that way it was because they had been bonded before in another life. It was said that some mate bonds had been through many lives together. That no matter what, they always found each other and nothing could break the bond. Our wolves live multiple lives. (Most werewolves lived for three hundred years.) But they normally don't have the same mate twice. I believe it's because they choose to come back to earth at different times. But some wolves when mated mate for eternity. Normally wolves don't remember their pass lives. But there have been a few cases when they do. It's something I have been intrigued by since my mother died when I was 10. When everything happened Alpha Jackson and Luna Alice took me in no questions asked. They treated me as their own and raised me into the strong man I am today. I still have hope that my dad will snap back into reality but some days I feel like it might not ever happen. 

But right now my thoughts were consumed with Venus and why she couldn't feel our bond.