Chapter 26: Alpha Daniel

Bens pov

Fuck, that was awful, telling Milly she’s not my first mate, shit.

I stare at the car taking her away, threatening the deltas taking her home more than once that if something happens to her, I will kill them slowly and painfully.

I sigh.

Fuck.

She took herself all the way over here; I smile at that, she is just so damn fierce, and she doesn’t even know it. Humans are afraid of us, not just by appearance; it’s also the smell. They can sense we are predators, being able to kill them unless they want to fuck us, then they don’t give a shit.

But not Milly. She just strolls in here, gets inside the freaking alpha mansion, and cuddles the Luna like she’s a child in her arms; if that’s not a beta female, then I don’t fucking know anymore.

Shit.

She is pregnant, and my heart starts pounding hard against my chest. I am happy, I really am; I mean the moon goddess, she is giving me a second chance at everything.

But I still remember when Candi died…. I make some kind of face, sorrow and regret gushing over me, she wanted that baby so much, and it wasn’t like with Milly. One night and she got knocked up by me. No, we had to try for years, and when she finally got pregnant…. My muscle starts rippling, and my beast is feeling the pit of self-hate and regret that have been closing up a little bit at the time since I saw Milly. I haven’t even noticed that I have been less angry; she makes me feel better.

I’m still starring at the road with the car long gone with my beautiful mate, who just accepts everything, me being a wolf, being my mate, being pregnant with a man she barely knows, that Allison’s doing her weird shit telling her we are having three pups, I’m still not sure if I can even get that part, my human mate, having three pups, on one try.

It's like she was made just for me.

Shit, I’m going to be a dad.

Fuck.

I sit down. I don’t know if I’m even good at that? My dad died along the Alpha, so I was just a teen, but I still remember him. He was a fantastic dad to my sister and me.

Not like me. I am going to fuck this up, one way or another.

But I don’t want to miss it either; a part of me can already see them, with my beautiful mate holding our pups in her arms, laughing, the goddess. I already loved that laughter more than anything.

I want to get out running, but I don’t want my beast chasing after my mate. He wants her, all oh her and mark her like right now, I growl at myself, shit, I’m pathetic, driving off my own mate, she needs me for fuck’s sake, she is having my pups, my. Pups.

I stand up, ready to go after her when I see Daniel come inside the door looking all fucking serious, and I know he is going to have something to say about Milly; I haven’t told anyone about my mate. He hates humans like the rest of the beasts, but Daniel hates almost everyone, including fellow wolves.

People think I’m the angry, mean one just because I don’t talk and look like I just got off from work with my thrown-on clothes and tattoos, but no.

It’s the man standing there staring at me like I’m fucking crazy dressed in a suit and expensive watch, hair all nicely styled, dangerous green eyes glimmering at me.

The Alpha.

“Why the fuck was there a human girl here, and she was holding Allison!?” He was grateful when he saw that Milly was helping her. I could see that, but now that he has his mate all tucked away, still mad from the grief from getting a miscarriage just some weeks ago, he is ready to make someone bleed for bringing a human into his territory.

“She’s with me.” I don’t want to explain to him what the fuck is happening, not right now when I just realized that all I want is Milly to come back, her leaving making me feel like I’m about to lose my shit real soon if I can’t hold her.

He just snorts and picks up invisible dust from his collar; that self-righteous bastard thinks he is better than anyone else just because he is the Alpha. Daniel is my best friend, but I know he is cold-hearted and nasty to everyone, including his mate. I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with him, I always had his back, but he’s been doing some shit that I can’t agree with.

“Bringing one of your human whores home, I didn’t take you for the type Ben...” I growl at his way of calling Milly a whore; she is so far from being a whore! she is pure and a fucking virgin when I meet her without me even knowing about it.

His eyes go black in an instant, and so do mine. I don’t want to fight the Alpha. I usually submit, but not this time. I’m not going to give up on my mate!

“She is my mate.” My voice is raw from the beast making his way from the Alpha's insult against his female. My loyalty to my pack and Alpha is strong. Still, nothing is stronger than the mate bond, and even Daniel knows that.

His eyes go green again, and he has shock written all over that face that females everywhere find attractive, even more than me, when he raises his eyebrow, asking me if I’m fucking him over. I nod, confirming that he heard correctly.

“Hold the fuck up. That scrawny bitch is your mate. I thought you only get one?” he almost sounds mad, like he is jealous of me for getting a second chance when I shrug; it is extremely rare, but not unheard of, never a human though, that’s the first one.

“Call her a scrawny bitch one more time, Alpha. I fucking dare you!” My beast and I are not taking these fucking insults to our pretty mate anymore; it's enough that she actually believes the shit people have been telling her when she is the most perfect being ever, a supermodel looking like a girl next door.

He just laughs, like I’m not serious when my arms are crossed over my chest, narrowing my eyes even more. I’m fucking serious.

He stops, holding up his hands in the air in mock surrender. He doesn’t want to fight me, either, and he knows my lineage and that I have alpha blood in my veins. Just because I’m beta doesn’t mean that I can’t take him down in theory, and it's not one he is willing to test.

“Well, I can’t be such a strong mate bond since she is human, she should be fine when you reject her, and you too, not like with Candi.” He looks at me, accusing I’m cheating on his sister, his dead sister that’s been gone for four years and six months, and I’m still counting.

“I’m not rejecting her.” I even have a smirk now at him, which makes him furious. He is so used to me just following his orders without even questioning his decisions, but not when it comes to Milly. She doesn’t deserve to be rejected by me; if she wants to do it to me, I will accept it, but I’m not letting go of my second chance mate.

“you are going to fucking reject her, and that’s fucking it!” he points at me, a few strands falls out of the perfect hair, and I just observe him. He’s been getting even worse since Allison’s miscarriage. I know just as much as anyone else that he is probably the cause of it, the way he can't control his beast, taking it out on his mate. I feel sorry for her, I do, but I can't help her either, she is his mate, and she will stay with him no matter what he does to her. I am even surprised she ran away the first time.

“She is pregnant.” I’m not keeping it a secret anymore. I want the world to know that she is mine, that it's my pups, she is having; I am going to spend my life making sure she has everything she ever wants, even if that means even leaving this pack.

He freezes up like I’ve hit him right in the heart, grief flooding the room. I know his hurting. I feel for him, I fucking do, I lost my pup too, and I had to bury it with Candi, not even getting the chance to take its first breath before dying.

“Reject her.” He says it gentler this time, like it’s the only thing he can come up with. I tense up even more, and he can go fuck himself.

“You want me to reject my nineteen-year-old pregnant second-chance-mate who has triplets because you don’t like humans?!” I almost want to laugh in his face, even with all that grief in his eyes; that’s never going to happen.

“Why the fuck did you have to knock up a fucking nineteen-year-old human, fuck man, I didn’t take you for being such an idiot.” He seems to have calmed down just a bit, which is why Daniel is a hard Alpha and even harder to have as a friend. He snaps and goes nuclear before he realizes what the fuck he is doing and then shows his more humane side, the one that makes me understand why Allison will never leave him. He is dangerous as fuck.

“yeah, well, shit happens, man, and she’s my mate; that might have helped.” I shrug when he laughs like he’s happy for me, and I bet a part of him is; he just hurting like shit right now, the miscarriage still fresh in his memory.

“Oh, fuck don’t give me that. You and Candy couldn’t get a kid even though you fucked her more than a brother should even hear through the walls.” He laughs again, and I just smirk. Yeah, we did fuck a lot; Candi really wanted that pup.

“How the hell do you even know that she is having three pups? Didn’t you meet that human a couple of weeks ago? She is the one from the bar, isn’t she?” he punches me in the arm this time playfully, not like only five minutes ago when he was ready to kill me for having a human mate.

“that’s her, and her name is Milly, not human.” I give him a sincere warning not to fucking call my mate human, making her feel even more uncomfortable if I were able to win her over to live here with us.

“Milly.” He says her name like his amused by it, and I frown again. She is not something to be made fun of, she is my mate, and she will be the beta female of this pack, no matter what he feels about it.

“Allison seems to like her. Milly said that she told her about the pups; I don’t know how but by everything I've seen so far, I believe her.” The name of the Luna makes him snap out of his stupid smirk and get serious. He saw it just as much as I did when we finally got back here after Allison's mind linked him to get back here because of the human girl, and I knew right away that it was my mate.

“Fine. the human girl can stay since she’s your mate.” I know that he doesn’t give a shit about Milly being my mate is the reason she can stay; it's because of Allison, his own mate, the one he killed an heir over, almost started a fucking war in the process, might still.

“I’m marking her, Daniel. She will become the beta female and part of this pack, not my side-human like she is some dirty little secret.”

I stare, challenging him, and he seems to be shocked again. I know that he thought he could just have Milly cooped up in the mansion, in some room where he didn’t have to see her. I’m not him, and she is not Allison, that doesn’t want to see people or do anything; Milly is bubbly and social, and everyone likes her. She was made to be my mate.

“No, I said she can stay, but having a human as my beta female, no man.” He holds his hands up like that is never going to happen, and I knew that he would say that, fucking hypocrite; a lot of people aren’t happy with having an Omega girl for a Luna either, especially one that only brought trouble in their eyes, not even wanting to take on her responsibilities as the Luna.

“that’s cool, man, then I just leave, and Milly and I will leave somewhere that is not here, and you can find another Beta.” It’s not a threat; it’s just the way it's going to be; I’m not giving up on Milly or my pups; that's just how it will be.

He snorts again like I couldn’t make it without this pack, that fucker. He believes that he is the one who keeps people happy, making all the decisions when it’s me, the bitch about stuff that he doesn’t even give a shit about. I had been fixing his messes for years, long before even Candy died, she knew about it too, but not one of us was willing to tell him.

“You would go fucking rouge over that girl? And then what? You have no job or life experience. All you ever done has been working with the pack, a thirty-five-year-old loser with no way of supporting his mate. Yeah, sure, man.” He rolls his eyes in the end, making my anger fume up again, blackness swirling inside my eyes. I want to beat his ass so much right fucking now for just telling me that I am nothing without this pack, fuck this pack. I’m still choosing Milly over them, just like he would with Allison.

“Why the fuck wouldn’t I be able to make it, I have a college degree just like you, and if that's not enough, just do grunt jobs then. Humans aren’t that strong, anyway. I could easily get a job.” I don’t even know why I’m bothering to defend myself. He is not going to listen.

He doesn’t give a shit anymore about anything; ever since he found Allison, it's all been about her, and I get it, he has wanted his mate for so long. Still, he doesn’t even know how to handle her.

“you’re serious about this? You going to give up your beta position just because you can’t mark the human?” he seems concerned now. He still knows me, knows I’m fucking serious right now, and he is starting to get it into that thick skull of his.

“I’m marking her, one way or the other.” I’m going to mark my mate; if it's here in the pack our as a rouge living alone with my mate doesn’t matter, it’s happening.

He just stands there, taken back by the seriousness of my words, none of us backing down when he finally sights with a big deep breath and looks at me, with the small sanity left in him these days.

“She can stay, but if she is upsetting Allison in any way, she’s out, pups or not.” I just nod. I can agree, but if she leaves, so will I.

“Fuck Ben, you are not the smartest fucker, are you?” he laughs all of a sudden like it’s a joke and I don’t. I don’t even care what he thinks about me getting Milly pregnant one on the go; that’s not his fucking business.

“Fuck you.” I say it more seriously than I intend to, and his smile falters a little bit; it’s not like I told him to fuck off a hundred times, but not like this, not pushing him away from me.

“Yeah, well, fuck you too...” He shrugs and seems like we are just bantering like we always do when we both know that’s not what happened here.

“Oh, and Alpha.” He turns around after he starts to casually walk away like nothing happened when I pierce my eyes straight into his, not caring that it’s a straight-up challenge to his beast to take.

“If Milly has any kind of accident or gets hurt for mysterious reasons, I’m going after your mate.” My beast snarls, I don’t make threats easy, and he looks at me like he is ready to kill me there on the spot, our eyes pitch-black, muscles rippling, fangs waiting to extend. I’m not even kidding. I don’t care if Allison is the Luna, and the pack bond makes me want to protect her. If he even touches a hair on Milly’s head, I will kill his mate.

“Noted.” He finally snarls back and leaves, slamming the door off the hinges as I relax after being on my toes, waiting for him to snap at any given moment.

Fuck, that was intense. No, I have to get Milly to realize that I want her, all of her, and the pups more than anything in the world, even more than my pack and my beta title.

Goddess, I can’t wait to mark my mate.