Alphas Broken Mate
Chapter 13

Catalina's

POV

After 2 long weeks of planning the night of the mating ceremony has finally come. Andrew had to go back to work after we got back from the lake house, but he is making efforts to be with me more which is nice. I've been able to start my training with Lucas and he says I'm catching on quickly. I definitely feel more confident with the training.

I woke up this morning to breakfast made and waiting for me with a note. "Good Morning Babe,

I had to go to the office early today so I would be back for the ceremony. I made you breakfast and I made an appointment for you to get a massage at 1. I should be home by 5. I love you Lina. Don't stress about tonight. I'll be with you the whole time. You'll be great. Yours always Andrew"

A massage. I've never had a massage before. I eat breakfast, soak in the tub, then get dressed. Rachel comes in, "hey hun, ready to go get a massage." "Umm I've never gotten a massage before." I tell her.

"Oh it's the best! Come on I'll tell you all about it on the way." We head down to the lobby and out to the spa. When we arrive we are greeted by a lovely older woman and she shows us the locker rooms where we change into robes. We're then shown to a sitting area that has lounge chairs and refreshments. Rachel is called back as I wait for my turn. Then Sienna walks in and stops when she sees me. She narrows her eyes and sits right next to me.

"Hello Catalina. What a surprise to see you here." She says in a cheery tone. Maybe this won't be so bad.

"Hello Sienna. How are you?" I ask just being polite.

"I'm great, just getting relaxed before the party. Looks like you are too."

"Yes I am."

"Did Andrew make this appointment for you?" I look at her strangely.

"I'm only asking because he makes all his girls appointments here. That's why I come here. Not that he made this appointment for me, but he made my first and I've been coming here ever since." Sienna explains. Oh this girl is getting under my skin. How is she going to bring up our mating ceremony and then suggest I'm just another one of Andrew's girls. How many has he had? I've never asked.

"Catalina?" The woman calls my name for the massage.

"Please excuse me. Enjoy your relaxation." Why am I so polite to her? I wish I would have said something snappy. Too late now. I get the massage but I'm honestly distracted thinking about Sienna. When I'm done Rachel is waiting for me. "How was it?" She asks. I tell her about running into Sienna and what she said.

"Well I'm not going to lie to you, Andrew was a bit of a player when he was younger. But he hasn't been like that in years. He threw himself into his work, but now he has you. I've never seen him with another girl like he is with you. Don't let Sienna get in your head." Rachel reassures me.

"I'm going to try not to. It's hard when I've only known Andrew since the day I met him and don't know much of his life before that." I say.

"I understand. But maybe it's a good thing. Not being able to judge a person on their past and only judge their present self. Whoever he was before you, is not the man he is with you." Rachel is right. Andrew has been nothing but loving, kind, honest, and patient with me. I should judge him on that. We get back to the apartment and I shower to get the oil off. Rachel does my hair and make up and I get dressed. I am wearing a floor length silk dark green spaghetti strap dress, with a v cut out in the back that goes all the way to my a**. I have never worn anything this revealing before in my life and here I am going to meet a room full of new people in this dress.

"You don't think this dress is too revealing?" I ask Rachel.

"Well let's get a second opinion." She says and opens the door. Andrew walks in and stops in his tracks and looks me up and down.

"Lina. Wow. I'd much rather take you to my room then the ceremony looking this good." Andrew says with a grin, moving his eyebrows up and down. I feel myself blush.

"Do you think this is too revealing?" I ask

"Baby I would rather you show up in a full Trench coat so no one will look at you. But I don't think I'm the one to ask." I laugh at the thought of me showing up in a big coat. Andrew is wearing a dark blue jacket, a light blue shirt that has the top three buttons open, and dark blue pants. He is definitely going for style on this look, and he looks good.

"Are we ready to go ladies?" He asks. We nod and head down to the lobby where Murphy meets us. He whistles at Rachel and she blushes. The ceremony is happening here in the building. The first floor has two large halls for events, so the lobby has guests all beautifully dressed. I can't believe people are showing up for an event for me. Andrew introduces me to a few people, I have already forgotten their names, but I'm good with faces. Everyone has been very nice and complementary.

"You ready to head in?" Andrew asks. I nod and he leads me into the main hall and it is unreal. Everything they talked about and planned has come to life. Everything is what I picked and it is beautiful. I picked a forest lake theme, which is why I'm in green and Andrew is in blue. I can't get over how beautiful everything is, and how many people are here. Everyone is shaking Andrew's hand and they all look so happy. Everytime Andrew introduces me he looks very pleased. We make our way to the head table where his parents are sitting along with the beta family. We say hello to everyone. They all tell me how beautiful I look. We never got around to having dinner with his parents with all the planning, but I spent a good amount of time with his mom. I remember seeing his dad in the room after being attacked by Jackson, but we weren't introduced then. We sit down at our table. It's on the side of the stage so we are elevated and can see out across the room. That's when I see them, all the way in the back corner. I grab Andrew's hand and he looks at me.

"Babe what is it?" He asks

"My family is here." I say. He looks up to where I'm looking and sees them. He lets out a growl when he sees them. They are all sitting at a table in the back staring straight at me, and Beta Yuri does not look happy. Actually they all look angry. "Andrew what are they doing here?" I ask nervously.

"I don't know I'll replace out." Andrew leans in to the table. "Mom did you invite Alpha Samson?"

"Yes dear. Why?" She replies

"You did what?" Andrew's dad shoots his head up and looks around.

"Back left corner." Andrew helps his dad replace their location.

"I know he's a bit rough but he's still an Alpha and one we do business with. What's the big deal?" His mother asks.

"How have we not talked about this yet? Alpha Samson is Catalina's father." Andrew's dad explains. His moms eyes grow wide when realization washes over her.

"Oh dear I'm so sorry I had no idea." She replies. She asked me in the planning who my family was but I told her I didn't want them to attend so she didn't press it. I should have told her to make sure they weren't invited. Just then Gamma Lucas appears at the table. "How did I not know who her family was? This is what happens when you don't have dinners with us." His mother says.

"You canceled each dinner." Andrew replies.

"I was busy!" His mother says back a bit loud.

"Now now everyone calm down. I'm sure this is not helping Catalina or the situation. What will we do? We could have them escorted out of the hall? Or we could leave them." His father looks to me. I realize this is my decision.

"Well I'm worried they might cause a scene if we try and escort them out. They are already here." I say.

"Oh she's going to make a great Luna." His mom says and smiles at me. Andrew squeezes my hand.

"I'll have Lucas with you the whole time." Andrew says in mind link. He can feel the fear radiating off me. I squeeze his hand back. I don't feel good about this at all. A few moments later it's time to start. Andrew walks up to the middle of the stage and gets everyone's attention.

"Ladies and gentleman! Thank you for coming out here tonight. Your attendance here is a great honor to me and my mate. And don't worry, I'm not going to be long winded like my father." The crowd chuckles at that.

"I know you aren't here to hear me talk. Ladies and gentlemen I would like to introduce my mate and future Luna, Catalina Black." He gestures for me to join him. I stand up and walk to his side. Everyone claps and I hear Murphy and Rachel whistling. I smile big when I hear them.

"Thank you, I know she's gorgeous." Andrew says and the crowd chuckles again.

"Catalina will now renounce her old pack and blood link with her new pack." Andrew says as he is handed a knife. My turn to talk.

"I, Catalina Black renounce my link to the Blood Forest Pack and seek acceptance into the Moon Lake Pack." I say

"Catalina Black I offer you sanctuary and acceptance into the Moon Lake Pack, do you agree to the blood link?" He asks.

"I, Catalina Black, accept the blood link." With that we cut our hands and clasp our hands together. I feel the rush of the new pack connection flow through me. I feel Kayla jumping in the back of my mind. The crowd stands and cheers. It is now time for the token exchange. There are a few options for the token you give to your mate until you mark each other. You can choose a ring, which goes on the middle finger of the dominant hand, a bracelet, or necklace. We choose rings. Andrew gets the crowds attention, "I Andrew present you Catalina, my mate, with this token until we decide to mark." He slides a beautiful ruby ring on my middle finger

"I Catalina present you Andrew, my mate, with this token until we decide to mark." I slide a ring Rachel helped me pick out. Andrew wraps me in a hug and kisses me. I hear the crowd cheer.

"I love you Lina." I hear in my mind.

"I love you Andrew." I say back. We release and Andrew addresses the crowd.

"Thank you! Everyone please enjoy the rest of the party!" He gives a wave and we make our way back to the table. They are all standing and everyone hugs me and shakes Andrew's hand. We sit and food is brought to the table.

We all eat and talk and laugh, we have a good time. Once eating is over the music picks up and Andrew and I make our way to mingle. He introduces me to the neighboring pack's Alphas and Lunas. I see Todd and Cassie and we chat for a bit. "Andrew where is the bathroom in this place?" I ask in mind link.

"It's right by the entrance doors we first came in. Lady's rooms are on the right. Do you want me to walk you over?" He asks in my mind

"No no. I'll make Cassie come with me." I squeeze his arm.

"Cassie would you mind coming to the lady's room with me?" I ask.

"Of course! Let the men talk and we can girl talk." She raises her eyebrows up and down. We both giggle and the guys just look at us, making us laugh more. She links her arm in mine and we head off to the bathroom. When we get in sight of the bathroom we hear "Cassie!" A girl in a long pink dress is waving at her.

"Oh that's my cousin. Go ahead into the bathroom I have to tell her something I found out about her mother, it's salacious. I'll just be one minute." And she rushes over to the woman. That's fine I just have to pee so bad. I go into the bathroom, there is a large lounge area with 5 small doors along the wall. I open the door and use the bathroom and feel such a relief. When I'm done I go out to the lounge area and there is my mother waiting for me. A sudden panic falls over me.

"Hello daughter." She says

"What-what are you doing here?" I ask

"I'm here to celebrate you of course." She says walking up to me, and looks me up and down.

"My my dont we look like a million bucks." I'm beginning to not like this. She grabs my arm and pulls me into the room. She circles me looking at my dress.

"Where are your scars? Are you trying to pretend like you are someone different? That's very clever." She says and stops right in front of me

"It has been weeks you ungrateful mutt. We haven't been invited to the pack lands, in fact we haven't heard a thing from you. Then we get invited to this event not as the future lunas family but as regular guests? It's disgraceful! How dare you try and snob us!" She leans into my ear. "I should let Yuri do what he's been itching to do since we got here. He's been begging me to let him have you. He told me he can't wait to be inside you again. Maybe I will let him, let him teach you a lesson." "Excuse me!" I hear from the door. We turn and see Cassie narrowing her eyes at my mom

"Oh dear it's ok I'm her mother."

"With all due respect Luna Mary, I don't care if your the Moon Goddess herself. Making the future Luna of the Moon Lake Pack cry at her own event is extremely distasteful." Cassie walks toward us and places an arm around my shoulder. "This is a family matter dear, please leave." My mother demands. Cassie smiles realizing my mother doesn't know who she is.

"Well seeing how Catalina is now part of my family, please say whatever you would like in front of me. And you may address me as Luna Cassandra of the Emerald Stone Pack." My mother takes a step back. The Emerald Stone pack is one of the wealthiest packs and no one wants to be on their bad list. I didn't know which pack Cassie was from until now.

"Luna Cassandra I had no idea. Please I will take my leave." My mother says as she leaves the room. I let out the breath I didn't know I was holding in. I start breathing fast like I'm going to have a panic attack. Rachel enters the room and rushes over to us. "Lina breathe. You are ok. You are safe." She is trying to get me to calm down but I keep thinking about what my mother said about Yuri. I can't let him have me again, and then blackness.

Rachel's POV

I rush into the bathroom after Cassie mind links me. When I walk in Lina is sitting down breathing uncontrollably as her eyes dart around.

"Lina breathe. You are ok. You are safe." And then her eyes turn purple. We haven't had a visit from Kayla in weeks. We haven't pushed a shift yet until we're 100% sure Kayla is strong enough. We were going to try next weekend. "Kayla?" I ask and she controls her breathing and sits up. I hear Cassie gasp at Linas eyes. I place my hand on her arm. "Kayla what happened?" I ask

"Catalina's mother..she triggered Catalina and she started to panic. She wouldn't calm down so I stepped in." Kayla says

"The wolf is the calm one. Now I've seen everything." Cassie says. It is strange that Kayla is so calm and in control, normally the wolf is primal, going off feelings and intuition. Normally they are a bit reckless. But not Kayla. "Also I've never seen a wolf with purple eyes before, I'm jealous." Cassie adds trying to lighten the mood of the room.

"Thank you for stepping in Cassie, we appreciate it." Kayla adds and then her eyes turn back to blue.

"Honey are you ok? How are you feeling?" I ask taking her shoulders in my hands.

"I'm ok. I've calmed down." Lina says

"Lina what a strange serious wolf you have. I like it." Cassie says. Lina chuckles and stands up.

"She is pretty serious isn't she?"

"You guys didn't tell Andrew about this did you?" Lina asks.

"Not yet." I say

"Do you think we could wait until the party is over. I'll have Gamma Lucas escort my family out, now that everyone is up and socializing they can't make that much of a scene." Lina asks.

"Ok as long as Gamma Lucas gets them out. I still think Andrew would want to know." I say.

Catalina's POV

I mind link Gamma Lucas.

"Gamma Lucas, can you please have my family escorted out of the main hall?"

"It would be my pleasure Luna." He sounds all too happy to kick them out.

"Thank you, please let me know when they have gone."

"Yes Luna." He says. I don't know if I'll ever get used to being called Luna.

"Gamma Lucas will let me know when they are gone." I tell Rachel and Cassie.

"Do you want to stay here until they are gone or do you want to go out and party?" Cassie asks. Rachel gives her a look.

"What? Are you really going to let those people ruin your night? Look at your beautiful ring and stand as the future Luna." Cassie is right. They have ruined enough of my life.

"Cassie's right. I'm tired of hiding from them." Cassie looks pleased. Rachel looks concerned. But we head out back into the party. We head back to where Andrew is, when he sees us he looks concerned. "What's wrong beautiful?" He says in my mind.

"I'll tell you afterwards. I'm fine. Just know Gamma Lucas is handling it." I tell him, he looks concerned but doesn't make a big deal about it, for which I'm glad. He puts his arm around me and pulls me in tight.

"As long as you are ok my mate." He whispers this in my ear and it sends shivers down my body. He smiles and then kisses me. It feels like there was no one else in this room but us. Except there are other people in the room, a lot of other people, and they're all looking at us. Andrew has my face cupped, I giggle nervously when I see people watching and bury my face in his chest. He pulls me in for a hug and smiles.

"Nothing to see here." Andrew laughs and people chuckle and go back to chatting. We go back to chatting too and moving through the room and drinking.

An hour later I am on the other side of the room with a few Lunas talking about their packs. Andrew is on the opposite side talking to Alphas about, whatever alphas talk about.

"I miss you." I hear in my mind but it is like a whisper, maybe because of how loud it is in here.

"By the stage" it says a little louder, it has to be Andrew. I excuse myself and head towards our table by the stage. There is no one there though. I turn to look out at the crowd and then I feel a sharp prick in my neck and my vision starts to blur. I feel an arm wrap around my waist and pull me up against their body. We are moving backwards behind the stage. I try to call out for Andrew but nothing. I try to call out for Rachel or Murphy or Gamma Lucas. Nothing. I try Kayla. Nothing. I'm starting to see spots. They are getting bigger and then blackness.