Chapter 24: Alpha Daniel

Allisons pov

I looked at the female version of Daniel; I mean, I could see where he got his features, she was gorgeous and still looked like she could make any man do her bidding at an older age, but she was nothing like him.

She was chirpy and filled her time cooking and dotting over the small stuff, nothing like the Alpha I was mated with, she showed no trace of ever being Luna of a bigger pack, or at least what I had to expect Daniels’s mother to be like, cold and calculating, not a big sobby mess that walked around with paint and flour on her apron, and yes, she wore an apron.

She was hanging around with Ben when I walked into the private kitchen. She had driven out any omega and delta effectively since her arrival. I liked her, but she was too soft to be a leader. I would know since I knew exactly how vicious they were.

“Hey, Allie!” she chirped when I walked in. I just gave her a faint smile. I sucked at being friendly, even more at people trying to be nice. I don’t know, I just wasn’t the same person anymore since that day I almost died, and it scared me sometimes like maybe I had lost a piece of my heart or something like that, cause I felt more distant against everyone the last weeks, I was an awful Luna.

“Luna.” Ben's smile died when he saw me, and his eyes went sterile again like he was afraid of me seeing him having feelings that weirdo.

“Beta.” I replied; being exhausted these days and Daniel having his beast takes over sometimes was taking a toll on me. My wolf was tired, too, being my shield, and she loved her mate just as much as I did, but always wondering when he would finally snap and lose control enough to kill us was straining to say the least.

Daniel had a hard time. I could tell he was nervous about something, and I already knew it was about me; ever since we mated completely, he couldn’t hide anything from me, even though he was trying damn hard to do it.

“Benji was just helping me make these. Would you like to join us?” she pointed to a batch of cookies, and I almost snorted, looking at Ben; he was ridiculous sitting there with his Alphas mother, making cookies like he was a ten-year-old boy and not the meanest fucker around here after Daniel.

“I’m good, thanks.” I smiled back at her, and her own smile faltered a little making me feel bad just the slightest; I didn’t want to make cookies, I’d been a freaking slave all my life, and I didn’t want to do chores anymore that other people were reaping the benefits from.

Ben gave me a death glare, a full-on warning like he was offended by me saying no, he hadn’t been scrubbing kitchen floors all his life.

“Oh, that’s alright. I already have my good son here, such a nice boy; it’s so sad he just doesn’t take a chosen mate, like everyone else that lost their true one.” Suddenly, she looked at the big man gritting his teeth, and I snapped my eyes at him. He was hiding something as well, fuck I was like I was living in the house of secrets since I became the Luna.

“I told you so many times, Carla, I’m not getting a chosen mate, I had my chance, and that was it.” He doesn’t even acknowledge my existence for the moment, like he doesn’t want me to know his past. I shrug; maybe I don’t care that much either, if I’m being honest when I walk out without saying a word to either of them.

Daniel links me when I’m heading to our bedroom, worried, obviously that Beta bastard has tattled on me being cold to his mother, who he claims is crazy and doesn’t like but still can't stop being worried over.

“what do you want?” I’m exhausted and have no patience for his worried chitchat. I just want to sleep and never get up again.

“Allison, watch that fucking tone, I’m your mate, but I’m also your Alpha. What if this had been an open link?! I don’t need people to think you’re not respecting me!” I yawn when he talks. Sure I respect him, and I respect him enough to know that it was our private link, bastard.

“Alison, are you even hearing me?!” he snaps now, and I feel the oncoming cold of the beast creeping up in his voice, the goddess I just want to stop. I can't take this anymore…. I curl up on the bed and cry, not caring whether anyone hears me. I’m just fed up with all of this. I never wanted to, Luna; if I could leave and never come back, I would, but I still love Daniel; even after everything that happened, I do love him.

“Allie, baby, are you crying?” his tone suddenly changes, like a freaking switch. I don’t answer him when I curl up in the black silk sheet that I hate for the record, it’s uncomfortable, and I don’t like it.

I feel the surge drizzle through me, not as strong as when I killed Noah but enough to make me open my eyes in surprise when I see a ball of light hovering the in the ceiling above me. I’m mesmerized for a few seconds by the beautiful light and sit up, still staring at it, I don’t know what It does or if I’m doing it, but a smile is on my face all the sudden, a genuine smile that I haven’t felt in what seems like forever.

I stand and try to reach out t it, but it is too far up. To my surprise, it comes closer to me, like it feels my need to touch it. I reach out with my fingertips, and the warm buzzing gets more intense. Like a lightbulb running on too much current, it starts to flicker. I feel a heavy feeling tearing through me like I’m dying all over again, when the light flickers even more and suddenly fades away right in front of me, and then, it's gone.

That’s when I noticed the blood running down from my thighs, and my eyes widened in horror over the pain, making me fall over, holding my stomach, trying to get air. What the fuck is happening?!

My screams must have alerted the whole mansion cause all of a sudden, there were people everywhere, guards, Daniel, Ben, and Carla rushing in to see the scene of me bathing in my own blood, still gushing out like it’s a damn horror movie. I look up in terror at my mate, that is in shock. He had seen me bleed before and made me bleed, but not like this, not with this crushing feeling that he could feel just as much as I did.

I can’t stop bleeding.

“I saw it. I saw our pup, Dan….” I just linked. I don’t even know if it's private or not. Everything is starting to black out; the spot is dancing in front of my eyes as I fall down the last part into the bed, not feeling the arms that catch me, I turn around expecting Daniel's green eyes, but they are blue, and that makes me so sad seeing the pure compassion they are showing me that I almost want to laugh in the face at the mean Beta that lifts me up, and everything goes black again.

…………………

Alpha Daniels pov

I slam my fist into the wall leaving a big hole, one of many, when I close my eyes and see that fucking horror scene repeatedly.

Allison hurled over, tears all over her face, panic and helplessness chorusing her to the point where she couldn’t breathe.

And I can’t breathe either.

Blood fucking everywhere.

I had already trashed everything coming my way as I hurled the desk into the wall making splinters rain over the room with my growl echoing over the already scared shitless wolfs under me.

My mate, her beautiful eyes, begging me to help her, and I can’t do anything. I can’t even move a fucking muscle when she falls over. My Beta is the first one to catch her, not me.

Not me. I just stand there like a fucking idiot, staring at her like I don’t even know what’s happening when I know exactly what going on.

Allison lost the pup, our pup.

My muscles are rippling, my clothes are torn, my hair is a mess, and I look like an animal being corned. Desperate to get out of this nightmare, I have been asking myself so many times already, pleading with the moon goddess why just fucking why did she have to take my pup of all the fucking brats being born everywhere all the time?!

That fucking bitch!

She gives me a mate that can’t even get me an heir! Just goes around being a fucking ghost if she even goes out at all these days…. I fall down to my knees. I’m tired.

Tired of asking why.

I'm tired of seeing Allison walking around like she’s not even here anymore, not talking to me or answering me.

I even snapped at her one time, holding her by the neck, and she just looked at me with those silver eyes and saw nothing, and for the first time in my life, I was fucking scared.

Scared that she’s gone.

She is still here, but she’s not.

She doesn’t smile.

Or show any emotions, just sits, listen and walk away, and that’s on a good day.

I ruffle my hands through my hair again, wanting to tear it out. Losing the pup was fucking bad enough, but losing my mate……. I whine, kneeling in the destroyed bedroom I’ve been sleeping in away from Allison; she doesn’t even care that I’m gone.

I thought having my mate would finally make me happy and give me the peace I had been dreaming about for so many years, but all I got me was more trouble, more fucking pain stabbing my heart. On the worst days, I wish I never meet her.

That I had kicked her out with every other female that day seems like a lifetime ago.

“Get up. We need to move. Someone called in a larger group of rouges.” Ben's voice cuts through my self-pity, and I inhale deeply with my eyes closed. I’m not even going to ask how he knew that I was on my knees, but this I exactly what I need, some distraction, ripe some motherfuckers up; a grin appears on my face as I get up and start fixing my hair with my hand, combing it through even if I’m going to shift, I like to keep my shit in control, my appearance perfect, I don’t give a shit if people think I’m a narcissist, they can go fuck them self.

“Meet me by the courtyard. Take no one else. You and I are going to kill these motherfuckers.” Ben, as usual, doesn’t reply when I start to laugh, and it’s become grotesque as I’m shifting, the beast taking over my voice and laughter until he has completely consumed me.

I feel my claws scratching the marble floor, leaving another pair of giant marks, one of many in this already messed-up room.

I leap down from the balcony, just like I always do, making some younger wolves hide when they see me as I growl at them, fucking brats, they better not get in my way or I’m going show them why I am the Alpha of this pack.

I am just about to snap at one of them, a kid. He hasn’t even shifted when Ben's wolfs appear from nowhere, and I stop. He’s like a fucking shadow moving around, his beast all black, just like his hair. I back away from the kid who has already pissed his pants and made a snort, making everyone know how pathetic I think he is.

“Leave him. We have real treats to deal with, not scaring pups, not even shifted.” Ben’s beast voice means business, and I can tell he is annoyed. He’s been acting insane and even more fucking brooding than he usually does.

I growl back at him, fucking annoyed he is snapping at me like I’m some bitch he can just give orders; I’m the fucking Alpha here, not him!

He just ignores me, which makes me even more pissed off. I snap at his hindleg when he turns around, not enough to make a serious injury, but enough to draw blood to get his fucking attention.

He turns around, growling from the pain but submits to my liking. Finally, you can almost think he was the Alpha around here, the way he pranced talking to everyone.

I start to run; I don’t give a fuck if Ben’s leg is injured, he should be healed up by now, and he can keep up or miss the action. That’s on him, not me!

We ran for a good twenty minutes before finally coming to the borders where the fucking rogues had been trespassing, the cocky motherfuckers, going into my land like they have the right to breathe the same air as my pack and me.

“Scouts called in twenty, maybe more, maybe less, Daniel… please tell me you’re not thinking about taking them on without backup?” he thinks. I’m crazy for having us two against some weak-ass rouges. I didn’t know he had gone all soft on me, and he was almost as good a fighter as me, almost.

“There just a bunch of scrawny wolves, nothing we can’t handle, man; I don’t remember you being a scared bitch just last month when we killed those fuckers at the east side.” He doesn’t answer, big surprise.

Something is off with him....he has been …. smiling…and I don’t like how he is such a pussy suddenly like we can’t take on a few fucking rouges on our one.

“don’t fucking use that word.” He snaps at me, and I stop and look at him, not even knowing what the fuck he is talking about.

“How did I offend the princess this time?” I snicker, not even caring what the fuck ticked him off. I’m not going to stop just because he’s gone all sensitive on my ass.

“Fuck off.” I chuckle through the link; that’s why Bens, my brother, gets me and knows I’m just busting his balls.

We stand around sniffing when the traces are definitive cold by now, but these fuckers were here, and many of them.

I turn my head, looking at my Beta still sniffing, and then growls, good. I want these fuckers gone just as much as he does, it appears.

We don’t even talk, just let the beast take over; it's easiest that way when I take point as we start to follow the faint track of the dirty paws tainting my land.

We run fast and quit; the perks of being just two beasts and higher ranked, trained warriors are that we can get in and out fast, a guerrilla warfare technique that I prefer to full-on war; Ben may disagree with me. Still, he hadn’t said a word since we left the borders and walked into rouge land, the same land that Allison had crossed alone when she ran from me.

The thought of her makes me feel heavy again, not in my body, but in my heart. I snarl. I don’t want to feel anything right; I just want to kill anything that comes my way.

We finally find the fuckers after running for about thirty minutes again, and feel the flood of relief flood me when I see the scruffy-looking men all huddle together like this is some kind of weird fucking pack. I want to laugh at their pathetic looks. There isn’t a higher-ranking wolf, as far as I can see, just a bunch of deltas, probably thrown out for insubordination or some other shit that I don’t give a fuck about.

I appear out of the shadows with Ben still in hiding. I don’t know why but they don’t even notice that he is here. That is weird, I know they are just mindless rouges, but they should be able to smell him like any other wolf.

“Okay, you motherfuckers, why the fuck were you trespassing, and who is going to die first?” my voice booms out through an open link when they all snap their heads and stare at me, looking scared as hell when they this is what happens when you trespass over a border without permission.

An older man stands up and looks at me, not in the eyes; well, at least they have some sort of fucking respect out here, the savages!

“Please, Alpha, we didn’t mean to trespass, my kin and I just went too far, and when we realized that we had left, we didn’t want any trouble.”

He keeps talking with a groveling voice that makes me almost want to yawn. I don’t even believe him, his kin, and I snort. They are fucking rouges, not even worth my time if I didn’t love to bust their heads.

“Yeah, right. Do you think I’m fucking stupid? I see a group of male rouges, just waiting to attack my pack, take my females….” I growl, louder this time, feeling the rage coming on, fueled by the picture of them trying to take Allison, making me want to sink my teeth into their skin, rip the skin from their faces and make them choke on their own blood.

I might not be able to speak to her or even get a response as it is right now, but I still won’t allow fucking rouges on my land, taking away my mate.

The man seemed shocked, or he was a good actor; I was still in beast form and growled at sudden moments, holding his hands up like he was trying to defend his useless waste of space from what he called “kin.”

“Never Alpha, never that we would dream of taking any female from their homes, we all lost our mates, and we left not wanting to be part of the pack anymore.” I don’t answer that, but my Beta does, and I can’t believe what I’m fucking hearing right now.

“You all can leave, but if we see you on our territory again, the Alpha nor I will hesitate to kill you, whatever your intentions are.”

He comes out, fully shifted back into a human, and talks to them like they are worth taking a breath to deal with, and I just stare at him. He has lost his fucking mind, obviously believing he could make that decision!?

“Oh, thank you, Alpha, thank you so much. We will never cross the border again, ill promise.” That fucker just called Ben Alpha!!!! Motherfucker!!!

I’m just about to attack him and everyone in this useless fucking rouge pack when a voice I a been dying to hear talks to me through the link. I stop ripping them apart, turning around, and running back to my land, not even caring about these pathetic fuckers anymore, the sound of my mate's voice calling me back.

“Dan, there is a human girl here. I think you and Ben need to get back here.” That’s all I get; she doesn’t answer anymore, even when I ask her questions.

Fuck!

A human girl, what the fuck is a human doing on my land? I don’t look at Ben, but I can sense she is upset; from the pack bond, from being my Beta, I will fuck him up for acting Alpha on me against the rouges later. Still, right now, I need to see my mate to know that she is safe.

It feels like the whole fucking world has gone insane all of a sudden, Ben letting rouges go, a human girl and Allison slowly becoming just as nuts as my mother.

We both run like there is no time to waste, and when we get there, we just put some pants on, and I barge in the door with Ben on my heel when I see one of the fucking strange scenes I thought I found when Allison linked me.

She is cuddling the human like a fucking snuggle blanket, and I just stare at them, just like my Beta. I don’t know what the fuck is going on. Still, Allison seemed to be happy, or at least not powered down like she had been since we lost out pup when I walked into them and just took her away from the human girl, who I instantly recognized as the bitch I saw at the bar, she smiles at me not caring that I don’t have a smile back. Ben stares at her like he can’t believe her here; I just turn around and walk away, not wanting to deal with this bullshit.

I look down at her angel face. She has a small smile right now, cuddling me and making my heart beat faster. Oh my fucking goddess, I have missed that, missed her!

“It's going to be alright, baby; I got you...” I whisper the words into her ears as she starts to purr, and I feel like the happiest man on earth, my mate is back, and I’m not letting her leave me again.