Trio of Mates

Zack clears his throat. "We have been dreaming about Brandon Snow."

"Ahhh," Lucille says, smiling and nodding her head. "The future Beta. And a white wolf to boot. Your future pups will be quite beautiful with Charlie's chocolate coloring and Zak's reddish hue. The three of you will make wonderful parents."

Zak's mouth drops open and Charlie squeaks out, "Our future... pups!"

"What do you know of Selene and her mates?" Lucille asks.

"Mates? I only know of one mate. Pan," Charlie says. "As the god of the wild and the goddess of the moon, Pan and Selene's children became werewolves. Wild creatures who were controlled by the moon."

"Is that what they are teaching the young pups now? That Selene only had one mate? I knew that they didn't want mate trios any longer, but I didn't know that they would attempt to change even Selene's story," Lucille chuckles. "Do you truly believe that if there was no humanity in their coupling that we would be human at all?"

"Wait. What?" Zak says.

"If we were only children of Pan and Selene, we would always be wild creatures. Nymphs, satyrs, centaurs. But we aren't. Of course, we could remain in our wolf form all the time if we wish, but we always have the ability to shift into human form. No, young ones, Selene had two mates. One, the god Pan. The other, a human man named Endymion. We get our wolves from Pan, our pull to the moon from Selene, and our human selves from Endymion," Lucille says.

"Why..." Zak starts again. "Why weren't we told this?"

"Ahhh," Lucille breathes out. "Because not every wolf has two mates, as Selene did. As you two do."