The Alpha’s Mute Mate
Episode 43

BROOKE

My mum looks back at me and smiles, she is still a good few feet away from me.

“It’s me, Brooke,” she says as she opens her arms to me.

I couldn’t help myself. I ran straight into her arms. I let all my tears I held back all these years of thinking she was dead but now here she is alive.

After a few moments, she places her hands on either side of my face and looks at me.

I can feel Willow coming close. She looks back and gasps “She is here.”

I look back at my mother who has a smile on her face.

I frown.

“How are you alive? How are you here?” I mouth her.

She looks at me and then towards Joe.

She giggles and looks back at me “You always asked too many questions but these questions I will answer you my baby girl” she says.

Hunter brings two chairs over as do Joe for us all to sit.

We all sit in a circle in the big room.

My mother holds my hand in hers “You see, when I died I didn’t come back to life straight away. I had to wait for a few weeks to reiterate, when I did. I was underground. I never told your father what I was as it is hard to come by. When I woke up, you were gone and I heard all the stories. I hid well from the pack members, staying in the shadows but Sassy knew what I was, she told me all about Adonis and Joe, they took me in. Adonis found out everything from Daisy when she came to stay when she was little, I hid and listened” she said.

Her eyes full of hurt and guilt “I never meant to leave you Brooke, I thought I would be back and we would live here in peace but after that wolf killed me, he found out what we were. He wanted you and me for himself. He had someone working on the inside of the pack, waiting to replace out where I was buried but when that person found out, I was already gone” she says.

She looks at my arms, scars going up to them.

“I never would have let them hurt you; I would have found you if I had known” she says “but when Daisy said that your father was with that awful woman I knew I had to watch out.”

“Your mother told me all about you, we sent her to the realm when my brother came to visit” Joe said.

“Why did they want us?” I mouthed as I touched her to get her attention.

“They want us for our power” she says, she lifts my head up by the chin but as soon as she sees the scar on my neck.

Willow takes over.

“Leave my human alone,” she says, her black orbs looking at my mother.

My mother was taken back by Willow’s presence that she moved away quickly from me “You are not supposed to be here, not yet” she says in shock.

Willow scoffs loudly “I had to come forward, people have been abusing Brooke all her life, them stupid wolves and humans have had it in for her,” she says “As for the scar on her neck, when you tried to save her from that rogue, after he killed you, he sliced her throat. I had to come forward and save her, but I didn’t have much power to restore her voice or repair her voice box.”

My mother looks at her, startled “You saved her.”

Willow nodded.

“She is my human, I will protect her” she says. I can feel her warmth wrap around me.

My mother looks at her for a moment “You have your own voice, can Brooke hear us?”

Willow pushes me close so both of us are to the surface showing all three of them one blue eye and one black orb.

My mother gasps.

“You are as one” she says but she smiles proudly at me.

“Not many of our kind can do that but when we replace our mates we can become stronger” she says.

I look back at her but something registers in my head, something about our father. I didn’t think about it until she mentioned mates.

Willow can sense what I’m thinking “Brooke is wondering if you are still mates to her father” she asks.

My mother looks back at her “Yes, why?” she asks “I have his mark but as I’m in a different realm, I can’t feel anything”

“Willow, if she is still mates with my dad. Then how the hell has he got a second chance mate” I say to her.

Willow looks at my mother; she closes her eyes and sends me forward. She is still close but not to the point where she can be seen.

I look back at my mother and sign to Joe; he doesn’t say it out loud at first as he is also thinking about the whole thing.

“What did she say?” asks my mother, Joe looks at me and I nod to him to tell her.

“She just told me that your mate has a second chance mate” he says.

My mother looks at me, shocked and hurt, her emotions are raw at the mention of my dad.

“He can’t have. When we mate, we mate for life with only one. We only have one mate who is our fated mate” she says as tears spring to her eyes.

“Brooke, we are phoenix shifters, a rare kind. There are not many of us left as we live a lifelong and I meaningful long life. When our mate dies all depending on what they are, we die with them or we move on but we will never have a mate to love but our history is hard to work out” she says.

I look at her, I’m stunned. Her saying what we outright make it more real. I look at my heartbroken mother.

We need to get back not just for her, but for me.

I now know what I have to do with Hudson but it I have to try and figure out how I can forgive him.