Chapter 36: Alpha Daniel

Bens pov

I don’t know how long I have just stared at them, my mate and my pups.

It was something that I lost hope in, forever, before Milly just swooped into my life, turning me around, changing the game without even noticing that she did it, she was a good mate, a strong, fierce girl, and I would do anything for her, anything.

So, I was already ready to shift when Allison was getting too close. I knew she could kill me, but my beast didn’t care.

All he could feel was her. My mate was getting scared and reacted. Milly was a pure beast, even if she was human, and nobody could say anything else to my face, or I would kill them.

The pack was still buzzing about the new pups being born, and the excitement was overwhelming. Milly didn’t understand that this was big. We didn’t get three pups. We got one, maybe two tops, and that was it. She was practically royalty in their eyes, giving the pack three pups. Born Beta, I was going to tell her when she wasn’t so tired… not that I blamed her, fuck I was tired too. I didn’t even feel half the pain she did through the mate bond when she had been here for almost two days before she was done, it wasn’t easy, and she was done. We were not having more pups after this; not a chance!

my heart couldn’t fucking take another round of this, being scared shitless that she would die just like Candi…... I pushed her away. I would always love her, but Milly was my life now, and the pups, of course.

I stared at their faces some more when Milly slightly shifted them. She wasn’t letting them go for one second, even if her arms were tired, and I was letting her. I knew that she was being aggressive by nature. Allison was too stupid to realize that when she tried to walk up to her, and I knew that Daniel was the one that made her stop, she wouldn’t listen to anyone else, that bitch.

Daniel was happy for us. I know Milly didn’t like him, but I was his brother. He was bad, yes, but he cared for me, her, and our pups, if not only for being Alpha, and I was so happy when she bent her neck at him, making him like her more. I know it was stupid, but I didn’t want to leave here or have to kill my brother, not when the pups were born, and I was afraid of what would happen if there was infighting in the pack.

This shit about rouges attacking and war still being on the horizon scared me for the first time, knowing that I would have to leave my mate and my pups and never see their faces again.

“Allison wants a celebration of the pups, and I agree, it's good for morals, and it makes the other packs see that we are fucking stronger than they are….” I just roll my eyes. Now he loves Milly just because she gave him more to boast about, and he didn’t even want her in the first place!?

“I want to talk to her first, and a celebration now…. I mean, sure, in a week or so… you saw her; same as me, she is dead tired, and this is not something that will take one day for her to bounce back from. She just had three pups!” I snarl at the end to make my point when Daniel sighs on the other side. He knows I’m right. He got carried away, probably by his mate, that has some odd fascination with my pups, and I don’t like it more than Milly does.

“Sure, I give her time. I like her, Ben, she’s a fighter, and we need more of that shit in the future.” I don’t answer that; if he thinks for one second I’m letting Milly fight, anything or anyone, he is dead wrong. She was destroyed before when I killed those rouges. She isn’t a killer, even if her beast isn’t afraid to show her claws.

“Do you even need her, with Allison? She can just snap her fingers, and you win easily.” I know he is smiling on the other side. He loves that, and why wouldn’t he? He loves it, too, killing. His beast had no fucking off button when I came to combat.

“I guess not. Still, I like that she is fierce, Ben. Don’t make me rethink that, seeing that she is Candis’s replacement….” He said it like it was a threat, and I didn’t answer back. She wasn’t anyone’s replacement; she was my mate just as much as his sister, maybe even more after giving me pups, her and mine being connected forever after these days.

“I hope you never have to lose your mate and feel what it's like having your second one all nervous because she thinks she isn’t good enough, Daniel.” He snarls at that. He is terrified of losing Allison, his worst nightmare. Well, guess what? I lived through that nightmare and know who you become after. Darkness.

“ Don’t even say shit like that to me, man. I’m getting fucking goosebumps just thinking about it!” he snarls again, and I cut him off, not caring if he gets pissed. I want to be with my mate, still sleeping deeply, holding on to our pups that move and whine when I stroke their tiny heads. We were going to make this happen. I was going to fucking try being the best mate and father there ever was. Milly deserved it, and so did the pups.

I must have fallen asleep because when I heard the strange noise of a small cry, I jumped up from the bed and stared wildly at the small pup; the second boy cried. I hear servant girls' steps coming to help me when Milly is still knocked out cold.

I growl at them to stay away when I walk up and pick up the small boy that still cries. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing; if I’m being honest and I sway him the slightest, he still is a small pup, and I see that Milly is still bare topside, and I just follow.

My shirt is shit anyway. I ripped it open, sat down, and put the small boy on my chest. I was still close to Milly; that shifted like she could feel that one of them was missing when I was sitting there and snuggling against the small boy, who seemed to stop crying when I held him with my hands. They are all so tiny it’s ridiculous. I never want to leave this room with Milly feeling the fast heartbeat of the small boy against my skin; as I said, I could stay here forever.

I took turns holding all of them, and I smiled when they seemed most pleased being with Milly and her too. She was getting restless when I had one of them, frowning in her sleep so that I almost laughed at how cute she looked, her blonde hair spread out, still looking like a model, her bronzed skin, and I didn’t understand how the fuck I was blessed with her, she was my fucking salvation, and I knew it.

I sent some pictures to my mom and Carla, both flipping with happiness when I got a thousand questions back that I didn't have the energy to answer. I knew that they would come from the village that was my birthplace. Milly didn’t know that I was only here because of Daniel. Concerning this part of the territory, I was going to take her back and show her off to anyone that wanted to see her. I was so fucking proud of my mate and what she could do, not just giving me pups. She was amazing even before that. She was a kind and gentle girl that could do whatever she needed to help anyone. She wasn’t about killing, and I liked that. I didn’t want her to be bloodthirsty like Allison. She was just Milly.

And she was fucking perfect.

I closed my eyes, ready to get up again if they were crying. The servant girls didn’t even come by anymore, and I was happy. I know Milly wouldn’t approve of someone else having them, and me neither, not just my beast. I wanted to be close to them, just like a human was. They were with their offspring, so why couldn’t I be?

I was their father, just as much as Milly was their mother…. I stopped and got up again, hearing the girl cry. I just smiled at her small face when I lifted her up and walked back to the armchair; if she looked anything like Milly when she was grown up, I would be in deep shit, killing any boy that stared at her, fuck…. I just closed my eyes, feeling the small breath in my ear, and smiled, never leaving this room.