He Rejected Our Mating Bond novel Chapter 44

"so you'd die with her?" I asked. He nodded saying "I couldn't live without her." I raised a brow it was like the fish swimming upstream once again against the flow. "your species are strange to me." He stated he shrugged and said "yours is weird to me too how can you not care for anything but yourselves?" I smirked and said "we protect ourselves but we care about the time we keep and what we learn." He rolled his eyes saying "that's selfish to me." I shrugged and then he asked "why are you so interested in Shay anyways?" I smirked and said "I was told that she can teach me of the beings called the warriors." Ross laughed saying "that old legend that's been dead for years." I shrugged and stated "it's what I was told so I will wait for her to wake up." He nodded and said "do whatever you want but you harm her and I'll kill you Samuel." I nodded.

He walked back out leaving me to the books. As I walked up to the book case I saw a lovely red book. I picked it off the shelf and opened the cover. I started to flip through the pages seeing nothing of interest I went to put the book back when I saw a small piece of wood sticking out of the wall. I pushed it back into place and a little hatch in the book case opened up. I raised my brow strange didn't think shifters were sneaky. I opened the hatch and found a small letter. I took the letter, closed the hatch, put the book back and sat back in my chair I opened the letter seeing a note with a larger piece of paper. I read the note first. "this map will lead you to the ancient library of the shifters it's a well hidden secret so keep it to yourself young alpha." I smirked and walked out. "Alpha boy!" he walked over and I handed him the note.

"what does this have to do with anything!" he growled. "I wish to go there to see what I can find out." He sighed and said "alright. Aray watch Shay!" the other male nodded and I followed the alpha Ross out. We walked through the forest for hours. Ross had the map as I followed maybe this is where I needed to be. We reached the side of the mountain where the trees were thickest. Ross walked up to a tree and slammed his fist against it the bark moved like a door opening up. "come on magic boy." He stated I glared not liking that nickname. We walked in and I saw statues of wolves and men all made of stone leading up a large stone stair case. We reached the top and I saw cavers of rows of books all ancient. This place was well hidden and well preserved. Ross leaned on a wall and said "go on." I walked in looking down the rows. Until I heard a faint chant...

"the earth, the fire, the water, return..." Ross walked by me. "you hear that?" he asked I nodded and we followed the echoing chant. We wandered through the halls the chant got louder with more voices as we got closer we came to a long hall behind the books. What was this? We walked in seeing paintings among the wall each was a different species but all had markings on their body, some it was on their faces, others their arms, or shoulder. We reached a locked door "got a key?" I joked. Ross rolled his eyes and kicked the door forcing it open. The song stopped. We froze it was another hall. Suddenly a soft chant like a whisper started, slowly more voices joined in the chant, we walked down the hall and a hum joined the whispering chant. Then a voice louder than the others joined in. We were half way down the hall as an angelic choir hit one note with the chant.

More and more voices were joining all different ranges hitting different notes, and then male voices joined in singing. The voices grew louder and louder until we reached yet another locked door. Ross kicked it again and the voices grew softer, the same chant was the only thing they sang. We looked in seeing a large book on a pedestal with a large lock. We walked up and I reached out touching the faded inscription, I read aloud as I ran my hand over the letters. "the warrior of all." I turned to Ross. "this is what I've been looking for. We have to get it open!" he laughed and said "good luck with that. I'm going back to my mate you can hang out here with a few guards and try to open the stupid book." I nodded and Ross walked away.

I tried magic on the lock a small spell. The book fired back at me I hit the ground. I got back up and grabbed a metal candle holder and tried to pick the lock, the book threw the pick out. I sighed and tried another spell. I hit the ground again as the book fired back. This was some serious magic. Two guards walked in with two large bags. "we have food and water enough for us to stay for a few months while you try to get that thing open." I nodded and turned back to the book. I had to get this open. The guards leaned on the walls as I studied the book. "any luck magic boy?" one asked. I glared at him as he chuckled.