Chapter 47

                                    

                                          
"So, would you like to tell me why we are going hunting?" Felix stated once we had reached our destination. 
"Because you need to eat, and I wanted to be fed up before we head out Friday." I replied as I gazed down at the all the people wandering the streets below.
"True, but we have blood bags back at the room. Also, you don't normally like to retrieve your own blood unless you are pissed off. Try again." Felix replied. 
"Fine. I needed distance from Alec." I said. 
"What happened?" He asked. 
"He seems to think that my job is to stay home and play Holly House Wife and provide him with heirs." I announced. 
"Surely he didn't say it like that." Felix countered. 
"Oh, but he did. I mean the Holly House Wife part was my words. You and Reau are free to come and go as you each please, but raising children is my duty. He said that the whole point of mates was to provide heirs. Oh, and he needs me to provide him with at least one child that is 'his' because he can't possibly be expected to let some mixed-breed vampire or werewolf child take over for him in the future." I announced. 
"I see. Well, do you want to have children?" Felix asked. 
"I don't know. I know that I don't want any right now though. Also, we don't know if I can have kids. I am part vampire now. Furthermore, I refuse to have any children period if they aren't all treated equally. I am okay with the possibility of never having kids though. I didn't mate with any of you because I thought you would provide me with optimum offspring. I'm with you because I love you. I thought that y'all were with me for the same reason. Obviously not." I replied. 
"Well I can't speak for the others, but I personally am with you because I love you. I don't care whether we ever have children. I am fairly certain that Reauwyn feels the same way." Felix stated.
"Thank you, Felix." I said, "Enough about feelings though. Let's eat!"
    With that, I leaped off the roof of the building we had been perched on. Felix followed me down to the dark alley below.
~~~~The Next Day~~~~
"Wren, can we talk?" Alec huffed out as he tried to catch up with me. 
"About what Alec? The discussion of children is off the table. You said what you wanted to say, and I gave you my response. I'm not changing my stance on the subject." I shot back. 
"I wasn't going to ask you to. It's about you guys leaving tomorrow." He said.
Stopping in my tracks, I spun around, "Us?"
"Well yeah. I can't go off on a killing spree to lure vampires into a battle. I have-" Alec started. 
"A coven to think of. Right. But not a mate or concerns about innocent people being murdered or doing the right thing. Alec, this isn't going to work." I replied cutting him off mid-sentence.
"What do you mean this isn't going to work?" Alec demanded.
"Just what I said. You were right in the beginning when you wanted to reject me. I thought maybe you had finally pulled your head out of your ass when you came to my room that night before the rejection ceremony, but clearly I was wrong. You're just as pompous and self-important as I had initially thought. Go on back to Washington, but don't bother coming back." I replied before walking off.
    I kept walking when I left Alec and didn't stop until I had reached the cliffs. Then I just sat. And sat. And sat some more. What in the hell was wrong with me?! Why couldn't my mates just be normal freaking people capable of actually loving someone other than themselves? I guess that wasn't entirely fair. Reau and Felix both seem to love me and care. Funny how the two who are least capable of loving someone else are the only two who have shown me unconditional love from the beginning.