Chapter 35: Alpha Daniel

Milly’s pov

I’m standing in a room. It's big and bright, it has windows from the bottom to the ceiling, it’s the most beautiful place I have ever seen when I’m holding on to Bens’s arm when he talks to someone, a guard, I presume, since they are talking through the link. I can't hear it, he huffs, and the man leaves, making my mate turn around and watch me with his suspicious pure blue that seems to get that something is wrong. He doesn’t know why.

“Just tell me, Milly, whatever Daniel told you, or I will find it out myself.” He stares at me when I don’t say anything; I don’t know what to answer. He doesn’t like me because I’m his dead sister's replacement, and I look like shit? Well, that was going to be fun…

“Ask him.” I just sat down on the big sofa, still wearing Ben's shirt on my body. I noticed that he did growl when the guard entered the room like he was marking his territory right away; when I held my head down, avoiding his eyes, I guess he could feel my pain, that I feel so much worse seeing that man kill an innocent beast that wasn’t even trying to attack him, none of them where and they just killed them, not even blinking, I have done even know what happened. I was going to die, scared to death for my mate being outside. I was willing to go out and start killing too. I wasn’t a killer, but I felt Ben being under attack. I wanted to make sure he survived; I was never running away, even if I knew that’s what he thought I was doing.

“Motherfucker!” he cursed when I leaned back more and stared at the view; it was amazing, this whole place was a luxury prison with beasts that didn’t want me here, and I knew it.

“It’s not him, it's all of you…. You killed beasts, Ben, I felt it when they stopped attacking, and you just kept going, even when they were standing around me, waiting for me, and you killed them….” I look up, and I know I have tears in my eyes, I know he is my mate and all that, but I didn’t know this, that he was a killer, and part of me liked that, but the other part, the one that was human…. I had never seen so much blood, and I wasn’t sure I ever wanted to do it again.

“I’m a beast, and they were going to kill you, Milly, you, and the pups. What the hell did you think was going to happen, me singing kumbaya and having tea with them?!” he snarls when I turn my head away. He is different here; I can feel it, more beast, more on guard, and that scares me too. He wasn’t like this in the human world. Sure he was a bastard, but he wasn’t on guard, just waiting for something to go wrong, and if he thought I was too stupid to feel it, he had another thing coming!

“They didn’t want to kill me. They just wanted to kill you, okay? that’s the truth.” He stops and gives me a grim smile that I don’t like. What happened to the sweet guy he was in the bar, the one that I feel like I really was connected to?

“There it is, your beast Milly, you didn’t listen to me, and you only came outside because they were going to kill me, and you stopped them, didn’t you?” he almost looks proud when I shake my head. No, that wasn’t true, I didn’t stop them, they stopped by themselves!?

“I don’t believe that your parents are in Florida for a moment. They are fucking rouges, just like the ones that tried to kill me, your mate.” He sounds grave in the end that it hurts inside me, he didn’t like humans, and he didn’t like rouges, so I was part of two worlds he despised.

I just looked at him from the sofa, he was still standing up, and I was starting to regret even coming along with him, but how could I not? I loved him, and I couldn’t hide it anymore. Not when I told him that straight to his face, even if he never told me back, I knew he did. In some way, I just knew.

“Milly, the size of the beast attacking us, rouges, that’s unheard of, and you told me that they were going to take you back to your parents, and I know you want to go, but I’m telling you right now, you are days from having the pups, and I’m not letting you go anywhere, you can hate me if you want to, but until everyone in the pack knows that you are my mate, I’m not risking it.” I hold my breath when he speaks, feeling my tears pushing up, so I really was a prisoner then, just like Luna was when I first saw her, don’t ask me how; I knew; I just knew.

“I don’t hate you, Benjamin…. I don’t understand anything. Is this some cult or what? the redhead, the Luna, she warned me, didn’t she, and she was smart about it, too, not letting that monster know what she was saying….” He stops and sits down next to me, takes my hand, and kisses it, making the tingles rush over me. I can’t resist smiling; it does feel good when he touches me. More than before, the mark on my neck was imprinted in me.

“We are not a cult, Milly, just beasts, and we need structure. You saw what happens when a beast goes rogue. They kill anything, humans and beasts alike….” He didn’t answer me about the Alpha, and I don’t think I missed it when I sighed and felt the babies move. I didn’t know what to do anymore, it felt like my babies were in more danger here than in the human world, and I couldn’t shake that.

“You killed too baby… just like they did…...” I use my softest voice again when he gives me a big grin, and I snuggle closer, even if it’s hard. I don’t want anything to happen to him or the babies. That’s my biggest nightmare.

“I did, and I’m not sorry, Milly… I’m sorry for yelling at you, but you know how bad it is, don’t you, now when you have the mark….” He touched the fresh wound with his thumb, and I moaned from the sensitive way his big fingers felt the mark, like he couldn’t believe it was there.

He moves me over so I’m in his lap, and I admit that everything felt better being close to him, the babies moving again, almost making me laugh. Maybe it was a wolf thing, and they thought of him. What did I really know? I was just an outsider here, and he was trying to protect me.

“I wouldn’t have let them kill you, Benjamin, never.” I just said that. he was being honest, and I didn’t want to hide anything, unlike the Luna. I loved Ben; he deserved to know everything, just like me.

“I know, sweetheart. I’m your mate, remember? your sloppy seconds….” I buried my head, trying not to cry from everything, he wasn’t the bad guy here, and I knew it… it was just hard, being thrown into another world, and everyone expected me to adjust, and feeling like I wanted to protect my babies against anything that tried to hurt them.

“You are not sloppy seconds, Benjamin….” I start to laugh when I cry, and he holds me closer, and that feels great, the tingles bouncing between our skin, and I swear that the babies are moving even more when I lean against his smile. I wasn’t really that afraid of this place, more not used to it. The only person I didn’t want to be around was the Alpha, Daniel. He was a monster, inside and out, and I just knew it.

“Milly, did you just pee yourself?” I snapped my head back up at him, offended. Was he really asking me that? I didn’t, and even if I did, what did it matter? I was pregnant with three babies! That happened!

“No, I didn’t….” I looked down at my shorts; his pants were wet, and I wanted to die. I peed my pants and Ben…. Omg, this must be worse than being attacked by a rouge beast. Ben would never let this go when I didn’t want to look him in the eyes. I was so ashamed.

“Oh, it’s not pee. She has her lights….” I look up and see the Luna, the pretty redhead shorter than me and smirks, giving me weird vibes. I don’t like that she calls my babies lights. They aren’t lights, they are real life, made by my mate and me, and she will stay away from them!

“WHAT!?” Bens is up, already having me bride-style in his arms, when I yelp from the swift moment of being swept up again. He stares at me, panicking when I don’t believe her, until I feel the first stab of pain in my abdomen, making me frown and make a small sound of pain that makes Ben even more on edge. I want to tell him that I’m fine. Still, he stares at me like he doesn’t know what to do anymore now that the moment has come for our babies to come into our lives. I know just as little, but I don’t want him worrying when I put my hand on his face.

I’m hoping that he feels that I’m calm. The pain is awful, but I’m not scared, nor should he be.

“What the fuck is happening in here? I just felt Ben and…” the Alpha comes into the room and stops beside his mate, suddenly lost for words. He can feel it, too, the pack is becoming bigger, and he is just as responsible for their survival as Ben and me. Don’t ask me how I know that I do.

“Let’s just hope that she survives it and doesn’t die like Candi…” he takes his mate's hand and drags her along when I feel my heart racing in my chest. My pain is nothing compared to the big fear that hits me that I will die and my babies will be alone in the world without me.

My eyes go black. I can't reach my mate and need him when he finally snaps his eyes back at me. They were black, and he just started to walk, and I sighed a small relief that he was back and leaning in more, purring. I was perfectly safe right now, and all I wanted to do was stay in his arms, so when someone tried to take me from him, he snapped at them and kept walking. I don’t know where he is taking me, but I don’t care and growl at them, the pain more intense when he finally stops and locks the door behind him, ignoring the worried voice behind us.

I smile at him before making small growls of agony when I feel the worst pain I have ever felt when a strong force makes me want to push. I follow that instinct when my mate is holding me in his arms, the current of tingles making the pain duller, but I still scream when the force is over. I fall down with my head against his chest, I’m already exhausted, and it’s not over; I know it, just as he does.

He gives me a small nod that I need to keep going. I growl back, it hurts, and it is not easy, he doesn’t know, and I want to rest, but he won’t let me when I feel my shorts being torn off, and I breathe slowly when the full force of power hits me again, and I scream louder.

The pressure that I’m sure is splitting my body in half takes over, and I hold my mate’s hands when he sits behind me and supports me.

My eyes are still black, the same as his when I growl the last part before the pressure disappears slowly, making me pant hard from the fatigue over me. I’m so exhausted…

I fall back again before hearing the small cries of a pup. I lift my head, the small body on the bed I want to hold, when I feel my mate letting me go and picking up the small creature and grins proudly at me when I smile back just as proud.

A small boy in his arms that he holds shows me before lifting his head. I can hear the linking all over the pack that the new Beta was born, and the pack was ecstatic. I could feel it, too, strange as it was.

He sits down after cutting the cord with one of his claws and gives him over to me and I start to cry at the small, beautiful face, so tiny and all mine. The black patch of hair on his head makes me cry even more when I rip open the shirt I’m still wearing, holding him to my chest, feeling the small boy latching onto me and just crying, feeling the relief that one of them is born, a son. We have a son.

I rest, my legs apart and eyes closed, feeling my mate touching my head. He is proud of me, and I smile, still having my eyes closed, feeling people coming inside, and when someone tries to take away my baby, I open my eyes and growl at them, making my mate take a slash at them. They have to get the Alpha for him to stand down when I stare suspiciously at the people having my baby, whining at my male not to let them hurt our pup.

The Alpha still holds him down when he snarls again, and I turn to the Alpha, begging him to have them give my pup back. He ignores me first before nodding at the people that have my crying boy, and I cry too before they give him over, and the Alpha lets go of my mate, and I look up. He actually smiles, a real smile, and I smile back at him. My human side doesn’t like him, but my beast side is bound and loyal when I bend my head before he walks out, still smiling.

People leave the room when the pain starts all over again, and two more times, they have to go get the Alpha standing by the door this time, the Luna, and when one more boy is born and a girl comes last.

I’m too tired to even move when girls are washing me off. I don’t even know what time it is anymore, but I don’t care when Ben lifts me up and they change everything. I still have my babies on me, it's like a dream that I never want to wake up from feeling their weight on me, and I relax when Ben lays me down again, and I get fresh covers. This was the worst and the best feeling I have ever experienced in my life.

“You did good, Milly. I’m so fucking proud of you; my beast is so fucking proud of you!” I just gave him a faint smile, hearing Ben's calm voice next to my ear like he didn’t want anyone else to hear him; it was just between him and me, my mate, my pups.

He sits next to me, and I close my eyes. I don’t know if I’m asleep or awake when I feel the Alpha and Luna come back inside. I feel that Ben is so proud, like he is bursting with pride, the same as when I slightly open my eyes seeing the couple in front of me.

He is happy, really, he is. I didn’t believe that he would be when I first saw him. Still, here he is, full smile and slapping my mate's back like he was pushing them out, but I don’t even have the strength to be annoyed or keep my eyes open, even if that’s rude when they are here.

“Oh, they are adorable. I just can’t wait, Dan. Just look at them all tiny and cute. I just want to eat them up!” the soft voice of the Luna makes my eyes open again, and I know my eyes are black; if she thinks that I’m going to let her have my babies, she is got another thing coming for her, they are mine and my mates, not hers!

I growl when she steps closer, making the room hold its breath. I don’t care that she is all-powerful and can’t have my babies, no way!

“Leave her alone, Allison. She just gave birth, and for fuck’s sake, she will be aggressive against anyone that’s not her mate.” I swear the room lets out its air again when she looks sad at me, and I feel a small sting of guilt that disappears as soon as I feel it, she’s too close, and I feel like my body wants to do something I haven’t felt it do ever.

“Don’t shift, sweetheart; Allison is not trying to harm you; she just doesn’t know any fucking limits.” Ben stands in front of me, facing the couple and blocking my view of the small Luna that finally sighs and seems to back off!

I fall back with my head when they leave, and it's just Ben and me that’s left when he crawls up behind me and holds me from behind, spooning my tired body and still holding our babies like I can’t let them go.

“You did so good, sweetheart. I can’t believe it, I fucking can’t believe it…” he whispers in my ear when I snuggle back closer; I’m so happy it’s over. Right now, I want to sleep knowing he is here, guarding me, even from the Luna if he needs to….my strong, handsome mate...