The Pixie's Warrior Wolf (Completed)

The Past

Because a little irritated had been an understatement.

The second his mate burst into a ball of power and pain; Henry had been pissed watching her shoot off into the sky. Seeing Samuel glaring at his sister, Henry was furious as he barked, “And what the f**k was that about?” Wincing at his growl, Samuel started to apologize but Bernadette felt more slighted as she sneered at him, “Not our problem you’re tonguing down a night walker who has been giving out her snatch since she was fifteen.”

Ready to throw the little lady’s lifeless body in a ditch, Henry instead grabbed her brother’s neck and threw him against a tree making the kid cry out. Shocked as she looked at Henry afraid, the wolf didn’t even spare the little girl another glance as he barked at Samuel, “Explain why your sister is speaking of matters that don’t concern her. Now.”

Samuel had swallowed hard before telling him honestly, “She’s not the only one.” Face becoming stone, Samuel saw the rage continued with a sigh, “Look the entire village has gone on and on about Katherine since she was eighteen. Her…night life has been the subject of every book club and mean girl’s click for the last three years.” Raising an eyebrow, Henry harshly asked, “And why are a bunch of adults and now their kids, bullying a young woman?”

Bernadette started to open her mouth, but Henry’s glare was icy as he snapped, “I wasn’t asking you.”

Shutting up as her nose flared at his audacity, she was still wise to keep it closed as Henry addressed her twin with the question again making Samuel shrug helplessly as he just said what he knew, “I don’t know man! It’s a small town, a girl in our community was all in her face one minute about her hooking up with her mate, the next everyone’s got something to say about her.”

Not asking if any of it was true, Bernadette answered like he had and she had all the answers, “Yeah apparently, she made out with a s**t ton of guys, including Josie’s mate and when she got called out for being a no class skank, she hauled ass to the human cities to “do as she pleased”. Which I think we can all agree would be something involving her laying on her back or on her knees.”

Feeling his blood boil, Henry turned to Bernadette whose lip gloss sticky lips fell from their nasty smile as he asked cooly, “Because you haven’t had some time on yours?”

Paling as Henry’s words washed over her, Bernadette was shamed just as hard as Henry snarled, “Exactly, so before you go pointing fingers little lady maybe think at the ones that can be pointed back at you.”

A disgusted look as he taunted, “And the only reason you’re flapping those lips, is because you feel justified everyone else is doing it. It is pathetic considering if truth were told instead of tales, I’m sure my mate has had more to say that’s truthful about you, than the lies you make up about her.”

Face going slack, Bernadette was officially whipped as Henry rolled his eyes, “Ah, so this town does have it’s downsides then. A bunch of bored ugly women attacking one out of envy and hate? How pitiful.”

Not able to deny his words, just astounded at being called ugly, Bernadette when her brother answered, “Pretty much.” Shocked, his next words felt like he was unintentionally stepping on her toes as he confessed, “Katherine Tomsen was and still is a beautiful and powerful young woman. She drove someone over the edge, and I do believe it was more out of envy than actual cause. She doesn’t deserve this, or,” He stepped on his

Samuel yanked his sister away before she could run her mouth and say anything else. Feeling Henry’s emotions flowing through the ground Samuel knew the wolf was thin of patience.

And Samuel did NOT need his sister to try and piss him off again, it’ll end up with her dead just so she could be a bully.

Having ran away while Henry fumed to know the truth, it now sat in front of him as Katherine looked away embarrassed now. She’d hoped to beat the rumors to her mate’s ears, only for her to drag her feet in fear. And now he was staring at her face wanting answers. And her heart raced in fear he wouldn’t believe the ones she gave.

“My beloved-.”

Katherine breathed out as she faced him to be strong and not hide anything from him. If he judged her? He judged her and there’s nothing she could do.

“When I was born, I was considered a miracle by my parents. Hell by my entire community.” A loving infertile couple who had always dreamed of a house full of children, had been unlucky in getting that dream. Until one day they had been suddenly blessed with a child that had come one summer day in a surprise. And they’d felt complete.

“I was raised by a loving couple that the entire community loved, and I was treated like this entire village’s daughter, niece, or cousin in some sense at one point. A drastic change from how I’m treated after what happened.”

Thinking of her teenage years that weren’t that far away, Katherine recounted, “I grew sick of this goody-goody image I was shoved into where I was supposed to be this perfect role model and the second I wasn’t? I was ate alive.”

Scolded so many times when an elder heard her drop an f bomb or wore something not “appropriate for her age” her shorts and cute shirts began to be pushed to the back of her closet as soon even the ones as her lower thigh became something to criticize, the spot light on her became blinding.

“ I couldn’t grow up or grow past being the little girl everyone knew and I hated it. Everyone in this village felt entitled to have a comment on everything I did and it wasn’t like I didn’t have enough on my plate. My parents weren’t strict per say, but the clear expectations they had for me were so great and…I always felt like I was failing. So, a few weeks before I turned seventeen, I kind of just gave up trying.”

She stopped caring for a while what people said, stopped hanging out with the pixie girls she’d felt compelled to be nice to because they were kin. Instead, she hung out with whoever she wanted, whenever she wanted. A mistake she’d learn later.

“Which led to your rebellion?” Henry guessed good naturedly as he took a swig of beer, which she did the same. Nodding slowly, Katherine could admit, “I wasn’t out of control. I didn’t dye my hair and pierce my face. I was staying out late though I can admit, not even for attention, but mostly for the identity of not being a child forever. I was staying out late, hanging with Dorian and then I met Nostradamus. We’d hung out a few times in the daylight and it caused a stir.” Knowing neither of these men to be a threat, Henry wasn’t jealous until she confessed, “When I turned seventeen, I’d kissed two boys. One was even my “secret” boyfriend.”

Raising an eyebrow for elaboration, Katherine shrugged, “We were kids. We didn’t know s**t about dating unless you were mated, and we weren’t. So, we just held hands and we kissed once in a span of a week, and I liked Tommy, he was a sweet boy. But my dad hadn’t liked that I was dating.”

And had been loud and mean when he told her that.

Heart racing uncomfortably, Katherine hated remembering her father’s look of disgust. His temper as he grounded her and forbade her from seeing Tommy again had left emotional scars that triggered easily around men now.

For it to be for nothing as the next time she’d seen the pumpkin orange eyes? They’d been completely ensnared by his mate.

“I didn’t love Tommy. He was a crush, and I was smitten with how cute I thought he was.” Wanting to rip this Tommy fool apart, Henry was surprised feeling her hand on his. “I kissed him. But that’s it, and the only other person I kissed? Has moved away before all this mess ever happened and is now mated with three kids.” Feeling embarrassed as she had to explain herself, Henry’s kiss to her hand made her heart jump as he whispered, “You don’t have to tell me if it upsets you-.”

She shook her head as she omitted, “It’s not that it upsets me. I’m just…afraid of-.” He shook his head immediately, “You won’t lose me over a couple of kids making out and being curious. I just don’t understand why it’s so dramatic. I won’t boast, but I’ve kissed women too, but I didn’t go further out of choice. I wouldn’t have cared if you’d had chosen differently. We were raised vastly differently.”

Katherine agreed and was honestly not one to dwell on past. She wanted to just get it out of the way so he wouldn’t be shocked again when it was thrown out like a bomb to try and explode them.

So, she spit out everything that could be said so it wouldn’t hurt or embarrass her later. Even though it still would because of the words and rumors circling and tied to her name that her mate would now also have to endure.

“I’m telling you because in truth, I don’t know how something so harmless turned into this monster. It’s been two years and yet it still seems relevant and expected of me to be this jezebel. Which I’m not.” Not that anyone would listen to her anymore.

Henry didn’t like the malicious title attached to his mate for something seemingly petty and insignificant.

But he kept it to himself from reacting as he instead asked, “And they’d mated after anything occurred between you and this Tommy character?” Nodding she recalled, “Months before she was even in his life and it had been over before it was started so it wasn’t like he crowed about me to his mate like I was some epic love affair.”

At least she highly doubted he had.