Chapter 40: Alpha Daniel

Bens pov

Everything was ready. Milly and our pups were all packed up to leave in my old jeep when I was standing in the driveway seeing Daniel strolling over to me, stiffing up. He looks happy, and I sigh because I know he wanted a fucking celebration, but Milly wants out, and that’s what I’m going to do. I’m not abandoning Daniel, not unless he gives me a reason. Me and Milly staying where I was born might be good for everyone, not just my beautiful mate.

Milly sees Daniel, and she bends her neck. I make smile at that. I really want her and Daniel to get along, even if he is an asshole, and a part of me is still pissed at him for acting the way he does, but then again, he has always been like this. He was rude and heartless to people that didn’t suit his need.

Milly makes a worried face at me when she is holding our youngest one, the girl Heloise. I still can’t believe she gave me those three pups and named them after my parents, and my mother would flip when she met them!

I hold my hand up the slightest to her anxious face, stroking her fast over the skin, giving us tingles. She is on edge, and I get it. She is still pure instinct, even if she doesn’t understand. Milly is part wolf, or maybe she was one and just smelled human. What the fuck did I know? I just knew that there wasn’t anything that I wouldn’t do to keep her and our pups safe.

“Alpha.” I’m still making sure that Milly doesn’t do something stupid like growl at the smirking guy coming out. Daniel is walking like he owns the world, always did, but now he looks like he is gloating over something I don’t even know about yet.

“Ben, Beta female.” He made a slight huff at the end at Milly but didn’t say anything back, just stared at the tall man still looking like he had won the lottery.

“You know she has a name. Stop that shit!” I can’t help but growl at his respectless against my mate. She is perfection, and Daniel knows better than to fucking push me. I am one second from shifting and taking him down if he keeps acting like a dick around her and my newborns.

“Stop what? I didn’t know I had to act like she was my friend because she is not.” Daniel makes a clear statement, crossing his arms. I catch Milly sinking further down in the corner of my eye, still holding the girl. I was going to kill him, and I already felt my eyes go black when I heard the sweet voice of my mate in my head, stopping me from ripping at the big guy that would put up a good fight back if I made a move at him.

“Benjamin, stop…. Please get out of here…” Milly is moving the baby in her arms, making me snap my eyes at hers. She is right. We need to get out of here, and playing nice to Daniel is the easiest way to get what I want, some air to breathe when the tension around here grows more every day, something is up, and I know it.

“Milly is my mate; you keep forgetting that friend!” I can’t help the last sneer that he smirks at, making me frown. What the hell was up with him anyway? Why was he so happy when I knew that he usually would have snapped at me for going against him, he didn’t even show me his beast when I was letting mine out.

“Yeah… I know…. you are lucky that way, Ben. Maybe your youngest pup could get mated to my son when he is born….” Daniel switches his eyes to Milly’s arms, where my pup is, just a week old. Daniel is telling me shit that is making me take a deep breath, feeling the intense fear from my mate sitting in the open car and hearing his words.

“What the fuck are you talking about? You don’t have a son; my pup will not be some damn bride-to-be. She is a baby!” Daniel seemed taken aback by my aggressive behavior. He was happy walking out here. Still, now both me and Milly can see that he doesn’t have the patience for me fighting him on something he seemed to have planned in his head already!?

“Don’t you fucking take that tone against me! In case you have forgotten that I am still the Alpha of this pack, I am offering my son to you. What? That isn’t good enough or what!? What the fuck is that about!? Daniel’s eyes turned when I could resist the damn Alpha power, making me submit when I wanted to rip him to shreds for even saying shit like that. He had no fucking clue what I wanted to do with him!

“I came here to tell you that Allison and I are having a baby, and you what, spit in my fucking face, my son, the future alpha, isn’t good enough for you!?” Shit, what he was fucking severe than, about the mate shit, to my pup! No! No, that was not happening. No fucking way I was promising shit to him. He was insane for believing I would take away that choice for my pup, that had started crying in Milly’s arms.

“We are leaving for home, and if I were you, Alpha, I think long and fucking hard at what you just told me, telling me that I would give away my girl for your son, that isn’t even fucking born, fuck you!” My best pushing out, growling when I speak. I can’t believe he is so fucking stupid to do that to me. He is the one that wants to wait for his real mate and not take a chosen one, but all of a sudden. He wants to play matchmaker, that son of a…. well, Carla wasn’t a bitch, but Daniel didn’t take after her, no he was like his father, cold and ruthless!

I hear the whine of my other pups, the small boys, when I shift back, seeing Daniel do a smirk like he wants to take me on, but I don’t care. He wouldn’t be so fucking cocky if I took him down before the whole pack and made him look weak!

“Baby, please, don’t get into trouble with the Alpha, please….” Milly is using that tone that makes me listen to her. My beast wants to please her, and I still haven’t moved. I still have the same challenging pose against my Alpha. I’m sick of him and his shit and the Luna…. Don’t even get me started; it was so hard having the pack bond wanting me to be loyal and still see them as the most destructive couple that could have been matched.

“Congratulations on your son Alpha.” It's Milly, and she smiles genuinely at Daniel, who finally looks her way. She is fucking stunning sitting in my jeep and just looking so radiant. She was made to be a mother, caring for our pups day and night. Never complaining, never snapping, and never killing anyone, unlike the mate of the Alpha.

“Thank you, Beta Milly.” Daniel's eyes gleam when I growl again. Why is he acting like this? He wants me to hate him when he knows I can’t! He is the Alpha, and I can’t go against that, and I just fucking can’t!

“See, Ben, she knows her place; maybe it's fucking time you did too, acting like you are the fucking king around here, people coming to you to complain, don’t you think I know that?” My face falls the slightest. How the fuck did he know that? Daniel doesn’t give a shit about what people in the pack feel. He didn’t run shit like that. He never did. He took what he wanted and always left me to clean up the messes, even when I was mated to his sister.

“Surprised?” He chuckles when I follow him circling me slowly, still standing in front of the Jeep where Milly is silent, she knows that there isn’t anything she can say to help and stays out of this. She was so bright, and I loved that perfection, and nobody could tell me differently.

“No. You shouldn’t be fucking surprised, either. People in this pack aren’t that happy with you and Allison, haven’t been since she took over as Luna.” I can’t help it. My voice is darker, and my hands are shaking from the need to shift. I want to stop him from looking at my mate like she is something the cat dragged inside and thinking that he had any say over what happened to my pups, Alpha or not!

“They aren’t happy? “Daniel stands taller, his chest is out, and I know that he is going to shift and try to kill me for finally telling him the truth, that this shit is not working anymore, him acting more insane than I ever had seen any Alpha done before, he was focused entirely on Allison and treating everyone else like fucking dirt, even me.

I wouldn’t have given a shit if it wasn’t for Milly and her giving me the pups that were going to grow up here in this shitty pack with even a worse Alpha than his own father ever was. I knew the stories; Carla loved me like I was her own!

“No, the pack is not fucking happy, Daniel. Look the fuck around when you are not just trying to get your mate to feel better! We are here, and we need you. I need you and my mate, too, for fucks sake. I have three pups, and you are ignoring everything!! What if we get attacked!? I don’t have the luxury of only keeping myself alive, and neither do you if your mate is pregnant!” I make a huff in the end when he actually stares back at me, like I finally got inside the thick skull that is so focused on keeping his mate happy, giving her everything she wanted instead of focusing on his pack that was suffering, not just from the practical duties, but from the power that he was pushing out. These people needed that, even me, to feel that he would have some loyalty left!

We are still not moving, just standing there, measuring each other up and down like we have done since we were pups. I am always the one that had to step down, but not anymore. I got more on the line than ever, and I don’t care how many people I have to make bleed to get Milly what she wants, freedom.

“Fine. I will show that I care, and you are not going anywhere.” I clench my jaw seeing the flawless suit-dressed man turned around, obviously pissed to the point he wants to kill me but knows I’m right and told me to stay put because the truth is he needs me, and he knows it.

“What have you done, Ben?” Milly whispers, scared when I give him a big smile back, climbing up into the jeep next to her and stroking the most beautiful face I have ever seen with innocent hazel eyes. She had nothing to worry about, and I could handle Daniel.

“Don’t worry, baby. I will make sure you are safe, all of you.” I smile at the pups sleeping in their new seats and feel blessed for even having this. Now I just needed to make Daniel stop acting like an asshole and come to his fucking senses. I was his friend and brother, and he would stop acting like a dick, or I would make him.

“I wanted out, and you just made sure we are stuck here…. Oh god….” Milly’s upset and making me more anxious, and I don’t want her to be sad or hurt; it breaks my heart now that we are mated.

I stare at the crying girl, she is so young, and she trusts me, and I fucked it up. Fuck!

“You know what, Milly, let’s get out of here, fuck him.” I make a smirk when she looks up, just as shocked as I am, ignoring the direct order of the same guy that has been bossing me around my whole life when I put the gear in drive and start rolling out to my mate's stunning smile when she starts to giggle, having her arm on my arm. It feels like I can breathe again, having Milly’s finger stroke me; this is the right decision, no matter what the pack bond tells me.

“I love you, Benjamin….” She purrs when he comes outside the gates, and I purr right back. I love her too.