Rose Bailey: My Mate, My Flower Chapter 15

"I have more questions," I said, and he smiled at me.

" I will answer any of your questions,"

"My dad is a werewolf, right?" I asked, and he nodded.

"Do you know him?" I asked, and he nodded again.

" Do you know why he left my mom?" I asked, and he nodded again.

I looked at him, waiting to see If he would tell me.

" Your father and mom are not together because he found his mate."

Derek POV

"Your father and mom are not together because he found his mate. I told her."

"As I said before, mates are soulmates. When mates find each other, any other sexual relationship doesn't matter. They lose interest in them. Mates only want each other."

"When your father met his mate, he lost all sexual attraction to your mom. All he wanted and needed was his mate." I finished.

"So he left her with three kids. He kicked us to the curve because he met his mate. That's so wrong!" She said.

She looked so sad, and it made me pissed. Her father was wrong for leaving his kids. Leaving my mate, but I didn't know the whole story of why he wasn't around for her and her brothers.

She was crying, so I sat on the bed next to her. I sat her on my lap and laid her head on my shoulder. Her legs were on each side of me in a straddling position. I had wrapped my arms around her.

"I get that he might not have wanted my mom anymore because he found his mate, but that doesn't mean he couldn't have been there for my brothers and me." She said, and I kissed her forehead. 

"You know Jason had to grow up early. My mom was really sad about my father leaving her. I honestly don't think she ever got over him. She never said anything, but I could tell. She never even dated anyone. You know she had a drinking problem, right." She asked, and I nodded.

" My mom told me she had recently finished rehab, " I told her.

"I always thought it was because of him leaving her." She said

"She's better now, Flower. That's all that matters. Would you like to meet him? He lives in Silvermoon Pack. Your friend Ebony and her mate Keith wouldn't mind if we came for a visit." I said to her.

"What about my mom and brothers?" She asked, looking at me with tears in her eyes.

"We don't have to tell them if you don't want to," 

She thought about it for a minute before replying.

"I think I should tell Jason and see if he wants to come." She said, and I nodded

"Whatever you want, Flower," I told her, and she smiled.

We stayed in each other's arms for a moment before she moved to get up. I held her tightly to me so she couldn't move.

"I want to talk to my mom. I feel bad for reacting the way I did towards her. I know she only wants the best for me." She said, and I let her get up.

While she was talking to her mom, I decided to call Keith. So I pulled out my phone and waited for him to answer.

"Hello!"

"Hey, Keith! I have a question. Could you see if Max would like to meet his daughter and one of his sons?" I asked

" Wait! Max has other children?" Keith asked, shocked.

"Yes, he has three more kids. Rose, my mate, is one of them. Jason, the guy you met when you picked Ebony up from school, is the other. He has one more son, but he is only sixteen, and Rose doesn't want him to know yet." I told him.

"I can't believe this! I will talk to him. I will let you know what he says. I wonder If his mate Cloe knows. I will call you later." He said, and we hung up.

I sat on our bed and thought about how Rose said her mom never got over Max.

I also thought of Max and Cloe's relationship. It has always been weird. Hopefully, he agrees to meet them.

Rose's POV

"Mom, I am so sorry," I said as I walked into her room. I ran to her and hugged her.

"It's OK, sweetie. I know you were upset."

"Mom! Derek told me why my father left. That he found his mate." I told her.

She looked at me for a moment before speaking.

"I was so upset when he told me he found her." She said

" Is that why we moved?" I asked, and she nodded.

"I met your father at a party Lisa and I attended. When we saw each other, it was like everything stopped. He touched me, and there were tingles. He told me I was his mate, and that was why." She said

"I believed him because he treated me like I was the most important person in the world to him. Every time I got pregnant, he would be so excited. He wanted every one of you. He's the Beta of the Silvermoon Pack in Indianapolis. He used to be, but now his son has that position. They didn't allow witches in their pack when we were together. So we couldn't do everything that normal mates could. We used to have a house here, and he would go to the Silvermoon Pack from our house to do his duties."

She paused for a moment like she remembered everything from then.

"Everything changed when he met Cloe. He told me he was wrong and we were not mates. That he couldn't live without her, he left that night. Two weeks later, I moved us to New York, and I never saw him again."

I couldn't believe what she had told me. That's so messed up.

"I'm so sorry, mom!" I said and hugged her.

"It's not your fault, sweetie."

We talked for a while, and then I decided to return to my room.

When I entered my room, Derek was sitting on the couch watching TV.

" Hey Flower, how did your talk with your mom go?" He asked.

"It went fine. My mom told me more about her and my

father's relationship. It was messed up!" I told him and sat next to him on the couch.

"Well, I contacted Keith, and he said we can go there tomorrow. Your dad agreed to meet with you and Jason if he wants to come." He said and put his arm around my shoulder, pulling me close to him, so my back was on his chest.

"Great!" I said.

I had so much I was going to say to him, and he would listen if he liked it or not.

"I have some more questions for you, Derek," I said.

"You can ask me anything, baby" He

"What do we do now that we are mates?"

He didn't say anything for a minute, and then he spoke.

"There are steps to completing the process. The first is finding your mate. The second is making physical contact like touching or kissing. Those are the two we have done." He said, and I waited for him to continue.

"The next is mating and marking. You can do them together or separately. Mating is having sex. Marking is when we would both bite into each other's neck."

He looked at me, waiting for me to say something.

" What do you mean bite each other's neck," I asked, a bit panicked.

"We bite each other's neck to mark each other. it would leave a picture of our wolves on our neck." He said

"But I don't have a wolf."

"I'm pretty sure you will have one. But, even if you don't, you can still mark me if you bite hard enough."

"Does it hurt?"

"I heard it hurt for about five seconds, and then you feel pleasure like never before. Once we mark each other, we will feel each other's emotions, and our feeling for each other will heighten. Though, I don't know how I could want you more than I already do," Derek said and kissed my lips softly.

"You know my parent gave me this floor on my eighteenth birthday. It was a present for finding my mate. I never came up here until I met you." He said

"Really!"

"Yeah, I meant it when I said this is your room. It was made for you. I won't push you, but I will be waiting whenever you are ready for us to move forward." He said and kissed the top of my head.

"I want you to move in with me, Derek," I told him and pecked his lips.

"Are you sure?" He asked, and I nodded

"I have never been surer about anything. I want to be with you, Derek, and I want to complete the mating process," I said and crashed my lips onto his.