My mate, My exception novel Chapter 23

My heart feels a pang of hurt when I come to the conclusion that I could be making Jake's life worse.

"No, please don't freak out," he soothes, probably sensing my anxiety through the mate bond. "it really isn't you, it's us."

Oh great, I thought, here comes the it's not you it's me speech.

"What's wrong with us?" I question.

He sighs and runs his hands through his hair. We come up on a stop light and Jake turns his body towards me.

"Remember when I told you that there had only been one other wolf to mate with a human?" He asks, and I recall the day after our first date.

"Yeah, that was when you lied to me." I accuse.

He looks at me confused. "I did. How did you know?"

I giggle to show him I'm not mad at him about it. "I just know everything." I joke.

He smiles and grabs my hand across the console.

"Well, I did lie, I told you that it wasn't a big deal, that there weren't a lot of details on it." He pauses before continuing. "That was a lie. It is a big deal. It's a huge deal and almost every werewolf could tell you all the details."

"So what happened?" I worry about where he is going with this. I mean something bad must have happened right? Otherwise he wouldn't have of lied.

He opens his mouth, but then stops and close it again. Finally, he gets the courage to speak up.

"A war."

"A war?" I gasp. Figures that I find Jake immediately before learning that him and I are doomed.

"Yes, and the biggest war ever known to us werewolves. The war extended for a year and if it went any further, it was feared that humans would become involved." He states factually, like he's telling me a did you know fact.

When I finally get all of my giggles out, I turn again to face Jake, who still has a very serious look on his face.

"I'm serious Jen," he grits out. "I don't know why that was so funny but you wanted to know these things." My lips fall into a frown and as my new reality sets in.

"I know your serious! I just find this whole thing ironic. A week ago I was a simple girl debating if things like ghosts exist. Now I find out that werewolves and vampires actually do exist. It's just a lot to take in Jake".

"So continue." I say after a pause on Jake's end.

"So because both werewolves and vampires are strong and smart, this war dragged on. We fought, night and day, off and on, but mostly on. The fight was so close, we were both losing too many on both of our sides. So the war ended with a deal.

"The deal was that the vampires could no longer attack a werewolves and vice versa. It was also an agreement that vampires could no longer kill humans. That means they can still feed on humans, but not kill them. Along with that, werewolves had to keep there existence, as well as the vampires existence, a secret."

"But wasn't it already a secret?" I ask, I mean if it was known that vampires and werewolves existed years ago, I would still hear from it right?

"Kind of, that was another smaller part of the deal. All the humans who did know about us had to be taken care of." I process his words and come to a sickening realization.