Chapter 9

Jurius

The night I couldn't sleep after I'd returned home. How could I, knowing that my mate was a feeble human and not a wolf shifter like me? and that I'll have to kill her?

I wish I had climbed into her bedroom window and ripped off her tiny neck that night, but the disappointment was just too much.

Why does this have to happen to me? Why couldn't I have not found my mate instead? Then I wouldn't be in this complicated situation.

I heard a knock on my door.

"Jurius."

It was my mom.

She was here to check on me, assuming I hadn't found my mate.

"The door is open," I notified her.

I sat up and threw away the football I had in my hand. My mom came to me and sat on the bed.

"Oh, honey," she said as she embraced me.

I returned her hug bitterly, loathing the fact that my soulmate was a frail human.

"Don't be too hard on yourself that you didn't find your soulmate. You will within the next full moon. My mother tried to cheer me up. Remember, your father and I didn't find each ot