Chapter 32: Alpha Daniel

Bens pov

Milly.

I just stared at her from a distance. She was so beautiful it was making it harder for me to breathe when I had followed the fucker that I knew lied to my face about him not knowing where she was. Her smell was all over him, and if he was fucking her, pregnant and all, I would kill him in front of her. She didn’t understand just how fucking jealous I was, insanely, to the point where I had to remind myself that I was the asshole that didn’t tell her to stay, just let her believe that she was some second-hand choice, she wasn’t, she was so pure and young, I was the second-hand choice for fucks sake, not her!

I was standing in the hallway when she just walked out and called me like she knew I was standing there, shocked over her cunningness, seeing the full view of her body. I didn’t care if she was pregnant. she was even hotter than before, her boobs filling out nicely in that thin top she had, making me see her nipples go hard the second she saw me. Good to know that she still wants to fuck me just as much.

The first thing I do is get rid of that fucker that lied to me. I want to kill him! My beast was swirling, knowing my mate was standing there, dressed in shorts and that thin layer of fabric not covering the fact that she had nothing underneath.

When that fucker finally takes a hint and leave, I stare at her huge belly, it’s not long until she gives birth, and from the look on her innocent face, she doesn’t even understand it, and that’s it. I’m taking her with me, Fuck the Alpha and Luna. I need to keep my mate safe. She is having three pups, for crying out loud! I know that humans don’t understand beasts' anatomy, and I’m not losing another mate again, not like this.

I stared at the table, she must have eaten the whole damn store by now, and I got it. She is at the end of her pregnancy, and beasts are craving a lot more than humans, and she is having three; it’s not even a question when I see her head turns at some damn waffle place and I turn, if my mate wants waffles, she is going to have it.

I just put my shirt around her, not to make every guy out there take their last breath when he ogles her like I can’t fucking see it. My jealousy kicks in, making me even more pissed off, growling at some older man I can tell is staring at her. She is mine; if he even thinks about her, I will gut him with one hand!

She clings to me, making me happier, my beast calming down, feeling that our mate is not waning attention. I put her inside, where nobody can look at her, or I’m afraid of what I’m going to do in a place full of humans. They didn’t get just how protective a mate was, nowhere close to a normal relationship by their standards, it was an obsession more than love, and that sounded like shit to them, but that was their problem. I turned around to Milly and smiled. She gets it, though; even if she is human, she’s not stupid like the rest of them, that are clueless. Milly is more beast than some beast I know, and she is still the sweetest girl you find. I was a lucky bastard, and I knew it.

And then, that fucking waitress tries to flirt; of course, she does, and I don’t need that shit. I want Milly to understand that she is the only one I want. It's not getting any easier to prove when every goddamn girl out there was trying to get me to fuck them. See, this is why I hated to be around humans, no fucking boundaries; Daniel was right about that part, I realized. The only human I wanted was sitting next to me, insanely jealous, that part was hot, but it was exhausting too, more reason I need to get back. I couldn’t take it anymore in a world that didn’t have any fucking rules. I hated it.

And then, the fucking cops come, like, what the hell!? I’m not killing the whole place right now because of Milly. She would never forgive me, and I don’t want her in danger, so I just let them cuff me and make a small smirk when they pushed me down against the car. I still have the upper hand standing here, outnumbered and pinned down. They just don’t fucking know it!

I growl when that bastard I can see from here is staring at her and helps her up from the booth. They start walking over here together, and I push apart the cuffs when she rushes over and starts to plead with them. They listen to my surprise when I don’t say a word to her or the stupid cops that are just laughing like this made their day Milly smile, but I can tell she is just as pissed off as me, she doesn’t want a fight, but I do. I really do.

Only when she calls me baby that I calm down, and the blackness stops swirling; it's not the word, the softness of her voice, its tone that makes me listen. She is trying so hard to make me not just shift and start killing people as she can feel it, and I close my eyes and pull her to me, trying to make the best of it, for her sake, nobody else.

I’m still pissed when I help her back into the car, and she cries, making me feel even more like shit. She could have been hurt, and they had their fucking guns out of the holsters! The thought of something happening to her made me so fucking scared, like the same pain I had been trying to drown out the last couple of years just crashed over me like the day that Candi died. I believed my life was over, and it was until I met Milly it really was.

She’s not a second chance to me. She is a miracle. There is no other way around it; how else could you explain the tall girl with the purest heart being mated to me, a grumpy bastard that kept my head down, letting Daniel do whatever he wanted? That part was over; if Milly and the pups were going to be safe, he needed to be fucking controlled, and I wasn’t afraid to choose. I wasn’t even afraid of Allison, either. She would have weakness, too, even If I couldn’t kill her if I needed to.

“you know you can tell me anything, don’t you, Benjamin?” she has that soft tone again, begging me to let her in when I smile at her, she is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, but I don’t think she is ready to hear what’s on my mind, that I’m plotting my own alphas downfall if he doesn’t fucking start acting up. I’m going to kill everyone that stands in my way, all to keep her and my pups safe, anything.

We both stay quiet, I know something is wrong with her, but I’m too deep in my thoughts when she sighs for the hundredth time leaning against the window, eyes closed. Is she hot? I turn on the vent, and she does get a faint smile like she knows I did that for her. I told her I would do anything for her, but she didn’t believe it and didn’t understand the whole concept of being my mate even if I told her.

“I need to pee.” She still leans against the window when I stop, and she gets out. I hate that I had to come and get her by car. Still, it was the least risky way, I didn’t want any eyes on us, and the whole incident at the waffle house proves how right I am, humans are scared of me, and I can’t help to start noticing that Milly is getting a lot of male attention, even when she’s pregnant and tells me that she never had a guy flirt with her when that was just all wrong, right now the youngster was talking way too much to her for you getting the bathroom key to the gas station where at and I growl making her smile. The teenager sees me, and his smiles drop; that’s right, you bitch! She’s mine and doesn’t even think about trying to hit her up.

I gas up and go inside. I’m not waiting around when Milly smiles when she sees me. I put my arm around her as soon as I enter the crappy old place, and the guy gives me this smile while he is sweating like crazy in the cold air, which makes me know that he is scared shitless seeing me. I smirk, my beast growling at his sorry excuse to try to make a move at my mate; she doesn’t even see it. Milly is way too nice to get that this guy was trying to get into her pants, pregnant or not.

“Oh, this is Cam, he is studying to be an engineer, isn’t that great, Ben?” she sounds so existing over the guy that he gives her the faintest smile knowing from my look that if he even says more than necessary, he is going to feel pain.

“Yeah, that’s great, sweetheart. Good for him.” I narrow my eyes when she’s not looking to pick up snacks. The waffles are gone, I didn’t eat one of them, but I wasn’t counting on it; I don’t think she even realized she ate them all by herself when she was already stuffing her pretty face with chips, Goddess, she so hot I want to fuck her, but I have to wait, fuck.

“I really want to become a nurse, but since I’m having babies on my own, I guess I have to wait…” she was still eating when the kid looked down like he hadn’t even seen that she was pregnant frown making me growl and reach out to grab him when Milly looks at me like I’m crazy. I let him go, instantly digging out my card at the guy and slamming it on the counter. I don’t give a fuck if the cops come back; nobody frowns at my mate, nobody!

“Milly, go wait by the car.” I don’t take my eyes off the kid that picks up my card and finally starts to do his fucking job when she nods the slightest. I know I made her upset again, almost taking that brat out who stares at me like he doesn’t know what to do when I growl. Blackness is showing itself, my beast is not happy at all, and I turn around and leave when I take a deep breath making all my senses go on high alert, rouges.

Lots of them, more than I probably can handle alone, fuck!

My eyes snap to my mate, still eating, leaning on the car’s hood with her back. She doesn’t seem to notice that foul smell, which only means that somewhere out there are beasts with no fucking rules or even someone to listen to, anarchy and free for all kills, beast and humans alike.

And no fucking mercy.

I decided in two seconds that I wanted her inside again; hell, let that kid call the cops. They can be a distraction if I need to get Milly out of here, it's no use running, and I know that when I walk up to her and start pulling her back, she actually growls at me, making me drop her arm in surprise, what the hell just happened, did my human mate growl at me for dragging her by the arm?!

“what are you doing? It's like you have a freaking split personality, almost punching that guy and now just manhandling me! Just ask me if you want something, Benjamin!” she says words that aren’t curses but almost, and I tense up even more. I need her inside right now, doors locked and safe. I don’t want to fucking argue over if I should ask her or not. I’m not letting her die because she thinks I don’t respect her. No way in hell!

“I’m sorry, sweetheart, but you are coming inside, and then I want you and that loser to lock the doors behind me, you got that?” she’s already in my arms when she shrieks from the sudden airtime and the closeness giving both she and I tingles that are amazing, my arms against her naked thighs are better than getting drunk and fucking some random human girl, a thousand times better.

She loses her anger in a heartbeat, and I smile at her when I walk inside, and I can already tell the kid is having his hand on the alarm. Well, fuck him. Let them come.

“you, nerd, I need you to lock this place down and don’t let anyone inside that isn’t me. Do you fucking got that?!” he nods, taking his hand back hesitantly from the alarm when Milly’s face goes scared. She can feel that I’m not making jokes. They need to stay fucking put, or else the chance of dying is guaranteed being humans, not that I care about the kid, fuck him; he was trying to screw my mate! I cripple him so he can’t run if I don’t make it back.

“Ben, this is serious, isn’t it?!” she looks really worried when I smile more at her worried face. She is already at her feet but won’t let go, doesn’t want me to go outside and get hurt, or worst case, killed.

“It's fine, nothing I can’t handle; I’m a beast, remember?” she snorts like she doesn’t believe me, and I chuckle. She is way too smart for her own good, and I will defend her to my last breath and then some.

“It’s not fine. I can feel them too, you know! They are more of them, and you are just one against them!” her heart rate spiked when I pushed her beautiful blond hair behind her ear and told you she was way too smart for her own good.

“And I’m used to those odd, I promise, I’m coming back, but If I don’t, you call the fucking cops, and when they are busy taking them out, you take the car, Milly and you get back to the village, and they will take care of you, promise me that.” I stare into her eyes, blackness swirling when I’m calling out to my mate to listen to me, not her human side, but the smallest part of her that is connected to me, and to my relief, she gives me the slightest nod like she understands and lets me go, the tingles stopping. We both felt the seriousness of this. I fucking wish Daniel was here, I don’t like his way of acting, but fuck, he is a great fighter, both in human and beast form. That’s why he is the Alpha.

“Benjamin, wait!” I’m almost out the door, and the kid stands with the keys waiting to lock when she walks up to me, determined in her hazel eyes, before she drags me down and kisses me. I lift her up carefully and make the kiss deeper; tasting her is the best feeling in the world. She moans when she opens her mouth for my tongue, and I don’t want to go, fucking rouges. I’m going to kill them for making me leave her when all I want to do is fuck her.

She pulls back, but I can’t since I don’t want to let her go, and she’s panting from the lack of air, arms around my neck, and I feel that pups moving inside her, like they can feel this too, that this is fucking life and death, for all of us.

“don’t you dare die on the babies and me, you hear me!? I’m not losing you, we are mates, and I love you!” She tells me that straight of not a hint of fear in her eyes making my beast purr hearing her steady voice, she is a good mate to have, strong and fierce. The other part of me, the human side, is slightly shocked that she loves me, just like that, not knowing me, what I have done, and just accepting everything. I don’t deserve her, not by a long shot.

I don’t answer her with words but make a small huff of reassurance. Love is irrelevant for a guy like me. I don’t love her; I worship her.

She maybe never will understand that. I follow my instinct and growl when she instantly bends her neck to the side, and I sink my teeth inside her skin. She whimpers the slightest when I’m letting my fangs dig in deeper. I know it hurts because she has her nails in my back, a small price to pay when I mark my mate before going outside and killing anything I see.

She whines when I let her go, and I’m licking the wound, making her moan. When I’m done, I look down and see her black eyes meeting mine, making me grin, so… not pure human, then, makes sense. I can feel her beast directly linking with mine when I put her down; she doesn’t stop me, not this time. I walk out, and the kid locks the door and scrambles with the gate. When I gaze into her black eyes that are staring right back into mine, she expects me to win, and if I don’t, she will leave the human and run. Good girl.

She nods, telling me to go when I smile back at her. Look at my beautiful mate, just waiting to wake up, fuck I wish I had marked her earlier, right at the moment I saw her, not until now when I don’t know if I cant take out the bulk of rogues I can smell when I start to shift. The guy is passing out when she smirks at my beast, she’s turned on, and I growl, making her leave the door to hide even if she doesn’t want to.

I’m already moving when I link the Alpha. I never sensed a rouge gathering this big; it’s like it’s a fucking pack more than some strays banding together!

“Daniel, I’m just outside the border, and I got rogues up to my fucking neck! My mate is locked inside the gas station; if I don’t make it, you fucking take her in. She is a beast, same as us; it’s your goddamn responsibility to do it!” I hate that I’m begging. He is not in the giving mood since I threatened to kill Allison, which is basically impossible when I circle the station before taking a leap into the forest. I need fucking cover if I’m going to have even the slightest chance to get out of this alive when I hid under a rock formation. Hiding really doesn’t do much. Still, I can take out at least two or three simultaneously with the element of surprise.

“I can already feel her. Allison is getting her. Just fucking survive until I get there; my Beta is not going to be taken down by some filthy fucking rouges, you got that!” I’m baffled that he accepts Milly and can feel her, so her bond with the Alpha is already forming. She was an amazing creature.

I snort; I will die trying if that's what he’s asking of me.

“Just take care of my mate and pups; that’s all I ask. Consider it my last wish if I don’t make it.” He doesn’t answer, and I feel that he is already running. I pray to the moon goddess that he gets here in time, or else I don’t see this ending well for her or me. I can’t let that happen.

I can hear them now, coming my way, they can smell me too, and I hear a lot of growls and snapping between them when they are going on pure instinct, just waiting to tear me apart limb from limb like the mindless beast they are, no fucking control just raw power being unleashed and trashed around.

I launch myself forward, snarling taking the first rouge I see, slashing its throat with one swipe before I take out the next by smashing my heavy body into its head. I’m bigger and stronger by far, making survival the slightest chance better against the ragged rouges that keep fucking coming. What the hell is this? It's like a damn river when I am still fighting for my life, jaws snapping and claws leaving scratches and deeper cuts all over my fur.

I’m tearing off the leg of one of what feels like hundredths when something latches onto my skin, and I howl out the pain that makes me even angrier; a fucking rouge is having his teeth in my back, yanking at me with all his might when I growl and try to shake the fucker off that can't seem to let go. I fall backward, crushing the smaller beast that whimpers when I roll up again, still snarling and waiting for the next rouge to kill when they start to back off; to my surprise, they are still hostile, still wanting to tear me to pieces when I lift my head and everything inside me goes blank, the wave of beasts are heading to the gas station, the same fucking one that I have my mate hiding in!

“Milly, run! Just fucking run!” I don’t know why I’m linking her. She’s a human, and I don’t even know if she can hear men when I see the door fly open. She darts out, the human boy behind her, and I sigh; of course, she had to save him! she is too good for her own survival when I start to sprint, trying to cut the path of the big beast trying to get to my mate for some fucking reason!

I can already tell she is going to the jeep, and I make my way over, trashing into the beasts following my mate. They are not going to have her! over my dead fucking body!

My instincts kick in hard when she’s surrounded. I growl, making a few turns around, a small part of them still feeling the pack bond they once were broken from, that I’m fucking communing them to stand down. Still, it's only for a few seconds before the snarling wolves that are closing in on her, and the kid that is looking like being in a nightmare that he wishes he never was born, pissing his pants seeing the giant creatures that are on their hind legs and snarling, saliva flying showing the enormous teeth and claws that can cut throw a cars door like paper.

She is in front of the kid, eyes black, her long blonde hair waving in the wind when she growls in a defense stance I never see her do at the wolves that are coming for her, that are going to kill her and the pups in a heartbeat when I finally catch up to her by slashing my way through the circle of beasts that snaps at me, wants to kill me but they stand there when I have Milly behind me, growling at her to get in the fucking car. Still, she doesn’t move or listen to me when I turn my head, and I can already tell she is linking with one of them, all of them?! I growl when she doesn’t listen before she’s done and then turns to me, eyes still black and looking like a fucking queen, fearless and mighty, even if she is pregnant and just wearing my shirt on her small body.

“I told you to fucking go. What part of that didn’t you understand!?” she smirked back, Milly smirking; that was not her smile, that was her beast staring back at me definitely, and I hated that I was so turned on by her that I could fuck her right here, rouges and all if she let me.

“They aren’t here to kill me, Ben. They are here to take me to my parents.” She is happy, relieved when I growl again louder; there is no fucking way where she is going away with some fucking mutts. Not a chance in the world that would happen!

“Not happening, sweetheart.” I back up, getting her closer, my enormous body towering over her small one. She gets a frown on her pretty face. She doesn’t get it, she is my mate, and she is not leaving the packed ground when we get back, ever!

She growls back, and I forget the stupid beast around us still snapping and just waiting for the command to start tearing us apart when she puts her hand on my fur, strokes it gently, and the beast starts to back off. For real, this time, she smiles when the last ones turn around and start sprinting back into the forest behind us before I can even understand what is happening around me.

“Milly, what the fuck just happened? Those rouges were about to kill us, kill you and the pups!?” I’m still guarding her when the filthy dogs keep their distance, moving further away for every minute we stand here.

“I don’t know… After you marked me, I just felt that they didn’t want to hurt me; they respected me like I was someone of importance.” She giggles when I raise my eyebrows, she sure was someone of importance if a band of rouges ready to kill us fell back with an obvious victory, with me being outnumbered one to a hundredth.

“Milly, who the fuck are your parents? I thought they lived in Florida?!” I can vaguely recall her talking about it, even if I was drunk, I still had a decent memory, and since I was imprinted on her, everything mattered.

“I don’t know… honestly Ben, I don’t…” she has no black left, only the sweet hazel that she was batting against me, scared when she started to see my point of view. They wanted to take her away from me, from my pack, her pack since she felt the bond between Daniel form quicker than I had ever counted on it to do.

“Whatever you do, don’t tell Daniel what just happened. He hates rouges, even more than humans….” I look at her face, and she knows that I’m serious; the perks of marking her, fuck, that still felt amazing, I wanted to drop my guard down, but I couldn’t, not when there was still a foul smell in the air, like they are still out there, waiting for us.

“Who is Daniel?” she looks at me when we both turn our heads. I see the giant wolf creature that is my best friend, my brother-in-law, and my best fucking fighter around these parts, except for me ripping a rouge in two solid parts snarling and growling, making Milly’s body goosebumps. She looks scared. I want to hold her so that what I do, I wrap my arms around her. She whimpers at the giant beast that sees us and comes charging over, making her even more afraid. I can tell that she isn’t calm and fearless this time over the jaws still dripping with blood from his latest kill.

“That’s Daniel, out Alpha.” She gaps when I say she finally gets it, she is a beast just as much as I am. She is my mate, she has a bond with the Alpha now being the beta female, and I couldn’t be fucking happier that my mate is coming back with me.

“He is dangerous, Benjamin…. she stares at the creature that still hasn’t turned when I nod. She has no idea….and I’m going to do everything in my power to keep her and the pups safe, even from Daniel.

“Her too…” she whispered the words when the next beast emerged, a silver one with black eyes, smaller and more elegant, like it, knew just how powerful it was compared to its brutal mate. She was vicious instead.

“I know.” That’s all I’m going to answer, shifted back and naked, holding my frighted mate in my arms, blood still soaking me and my pups moving inside of her, fuck, this is going to be hard to explain.