Not Ready For My Mate novel Chapter 72

"Issabella." I whisper not looking him in the eye, fearing he'll get mad at me. "Nice to meet you Issabella. Could I ask you a few questions?" He asks me scooting slightly closer.

I nod my head and look at him properly. He doesn't seem like he'll harm me, but you could never be too sure.

"How long were you down there?"

"Almost two days." I whisper, as I play with my fingers nervously.

"Why did they lock you down there?" He asks me, worry clear on his expression. I don't respond, not wanting to talk about it. He sees that and nods, understanding.

"I hope you don't mind but my mother wants to meet you. She can help you, if you'll let her?" I think it over, wondering if its the best idea to trust people I have never met. Maybe they could help, who knows? But what could they do?

"O-Okay."

He smiles brightly and his eyes suddenly cloud over, probably talking over the pack link. After a couple minutes there's a soft knock on the door.

Theo tells the person to come in, and in walks a beautiful woman. Her long black hair is pulled back into a ponytail while she's wearing a pair of jeans and T-Shirt. I instantly recognise her and I can't help but burst out laughing.

Theo looks at me confused while his mother only chuckles. "It's good to see you again Izzy." Skylar says to me. I stand up shakily and run into her embrace.

"I missed you too Skylar. It's been too long." I whipser into her shoulder. She hugs me tightly and runs her fingers through my hair.

"Okay, I'm confused. Mom you know her?" Theo says as he stands up and watches the both of us. His mother chuckles and pulls away from me.

"I've known her since she was a baby. I use to know her parents but I didn't know she belonged to this pack until you told me her name." He walks closer to us with a small smile.

"Mom we need to help her-"

"I know sweety but I can only do that when she tells me herself why all of this happened. Izzy? Would you like to tell me?" She asks as she leads me towards the bed. We sit down in the middle. Theo sits on one of the chairs and sits there quietly.

She's skin and bones from what we can feel and she has many bruise across her face, we could only imagine how bad her body looks. She doesn't want to trust us, we can see it. We've been in that position.

When we arrived at the palace, I didn't even trust them yet, I knew they were my family but it didn't mean I could trust them. They could have been just like them.

Gage still doesn't truly trust them but he's slowly opening up to the idea. We know that our family wouldn't mean us any physical harm, well hopefully it stays that way after we tell them.

We hear her groan and turn over. "She's a very restless sleeper." Gage mumbles in our head. I nod mine internally as we watch the girl. We can't deny that she isn't beautiful, we'd then be lying.

"Theo could you please come down to the Alpha's office? It's time for a little talk."

Mother says through the mind link. We sigh and slowly climb off the bed, careful not to wake Izzy up. We open the door and close it softly behind us.

We quickly walk over to the office, since it's on the same floor.