Chapter 30 – Zaley – Disbelief Volume 4 

*~*Zaley's POV*~*

I was in complete and utter shock at the word I'd just heard. Mates? No, that was impossible. I wasn't supposed to find a mate. I'm an enigma. I was going to be alone forever, happy and alone so no one had to be stuck with me, and no one was able to ridicule me. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to live a life of solitude. It was a prospect that actually soothed and calmed me. So, why then, was I meeting a man that Bree was telling me was my mate? He couldn't be. And let's not get started on the fact that he was a man that my parents knew, and that he was more than a little older than me.

"N… n… no, Bree, that's not what this is. I… i… it can't be." I was shaking my head vehemently as I tried to convince myself more than anything that what she said wasn't actually happening.