Chapter 44 - Alpha Daniel

Bens pov

I’m going to kill Daniel for this, gritting my teeth, feeling my beast pushing out, he was making my mate worried, and I didn't want to play the peacekeeper anymore. I just wanted to be happy with my family!

He acts like an asshole, killing off people in the pack when he knows that people already want his head. I’m sick of this shit… I have my own mate and pups to care for. I don’t think he gets just how stressful it was, having three at once. If one was crying, all was, and it was a never-ending loop of being exhausted… and it was all worth it…

Milly is sleeping, still naked on the ground in my arms. She makes a face like she can sense that I need to leave her and the pups that will wake up any minute, making me feel even worse since I promised her that we were getting out. Still, I can’t just turn my back on the pack, leaving them to Daniel's mercy when he when crazy. I always thought that having a mate would calm him down. I mean, look at Milly and me.

We are the perfect match, and she’s not even a full beast, but the part of her that makes me want to wake her up to have one more go before I have to leave, but I can’t. We'reWe were out of condoms, and I’m sure as hell we aren’t risking anything since Milly got pregnant right away; it was too dangerous. I couldn’t risk her dying on me, she was my mate, and I loved her more than anything.

“Ben…” she finally opened those hazel eyes and stared at me with her beautiful face. She was so hot going after that man, I was this close to letting her shift and go get him, but that would draw attention to us; I didn’t want that. Milly wouldn’t be happy when she realized she would have killed him. She really was a beast.

“Hey…” she nuzzles closer, and finally, she isn’t trying to cover up herself. I don’t understand how she even thought I didn’t find her attractive? She was the most beautiful girl I had seen since Cadence. If I was being honest with myself, even the beast was letting go of the pretty brunette that had grown up with me and that brother of hers that was always getting in trouble. I can’t thank the moon goddess enough for giving me a second chance, human or not.

“I don’t want you to leave….” She whimpers when I pull her up, getting our faces to touch, she knows I don’t want to leave wither, but this isn’t just for Daniel or the pack's wellbeing; it's for the pups we have. I want them to grow up happy like I did and not feel the pressure of all the shit that’s going on around us. They weren’t even a month old yet.

“I’m coming back, and I know my mom is dying to see the pups; it's going to be fine, Milly. Daniel can't be mad at me. He is my brother and…” Milly gets a frown hearing that, and I can see the darkness that swivels around the slightest in her otherwise warm eyes. Her beast really doesn’t like our pack’s Alpha and Luna, no matter what she said to me as her human.

“The Luna wants my pups, and she can’t have them, don’t you understand that mate!?” she was snarling, making me trying not to smile. Look at her fierce wanting to protect her young ones. She was the best mother in the world. She was not just caring and warm but willing to do anything to keep them safe. She was perfect.

“She doesn’t want them, Milly… she’s just….” I try to come up with what word I want to use. Seeing my mate’s eyes on me, she had a determined look, making me want to push her down and fuck her all over again, even if we didn’t have any protection left.

“Ben, please listen to me, don’t you feel it!? She wants them, and there is nothing you can say to make me change that fact, not when I feel it here!” she pulls my hand and puts it over her chest, which happens to be where her bare boobs are. I smirk when she gives me another scowl for even thinking about sex now when she is pissed off at me. Got it.

“Why? She’s pregnant, and I don’t think she cares that much about them after that… Milly, calm down….” I try to make him realize that whatever Allison’s obsession was with our pups, it's over now that she has her own one, and if she hadn’t backed off, I wouldn’t have made her.

“She is not going to have that pup, Ben.” I don’t understand when Milly suddenly looks at me sadly. What did she even mean by that? Of course, she was being guarded like a freaking princess these days, and Daniel was buying everything she could point at. She was going to be okay! My beast makes a snarl, and I feel back when Milly pulls back. She could feel that pack bond dragging me in, wanting me to protect the Alpha and Luna, regardless of my feelings against them.

“Benjamin, I wouldn’t lie, and I don’t even know what is happening. I know that I have these feelings, and they are killing me. No matter who I try to reason that she isn’t going to do something stupid to us, the pups, I just can’t shake it!” When I follow her, Milly is up, going naked to the jeep. I would follow her for the rest of my life, even if it killed me.

“I don’t think your lying…I’m sorry….” I’m standing leaned by the Jeep when Milly makes another face at my crappy apology, she thinks she knows it all, but she doesn’t. She is younger than a human and me. I know she can’t feel the pack bond as strong as me, making her paranoid, feeling her beast still going on instinct from giving birth. I just was glad that I got her to the pack in time, or I would have no doubt in my mind that she would have killed people trying to help her at a human hospital.

She has already picked up the youngest one, the girl that is crying when I make a fast sweep over the boys, hoping that she won't wake them up because I know that it's going to be hard enough as it is to leave Milly that is still naked, sitting in the back and changing a diaper so fast that I couldn’t believe she was just as new to this as I was, she was just amazing that way.

“I want my pups to be safe, the rest doesn’t matter… and…. I know that it’s awful, and believe me, Ben… I feel awful to say it, feeling it… I didn’t use to be like this and…” Milly still holds Heloise. That was still blowing my mind. I had a daughter and two sons from having absolutely nothing, Milly was my light, and I didn’t care that her beast was against the Alpha and Luna. I mean, I wasn’t the best Beta, either. Milly didn’t need to know the shit I’d done before we got mated.

“You don’t need to apologize for feeling Mills. I know it's hard, and I spent my whole life working with it. You had what, a month? You are doing so good, sweetheart, and you don’t even know. If it was anyone else, I bet they would have gone crazy by now feeling the power, but you are a beast, Milly.” She drops the sad face my beast comes out, making me smirk when her own one Is drawn out, giving me a playful smile, see? She needed to stop fighting her own nature so much because if she didn’t, it would be much harder to deal with. Believe me, I knew.

“Okay… you go and deal with… whatever is happening, and I will keep going….” I nod when she sighs like she knows that it will be so much harder, making this trip alone, and I already feel my claws wanting to come out, putting Daniel back in his place. He may be the Alpha, but as I said, I was sick of his shit. Milly was putting lights on everything that had concerned me before, but I was brushing it off because I didn’t want to see the truth, that my Alpha was a selfish bully.

I shift before keeping my distance since I don’t want to wake or upset the pups, not that they don’t know me, and they do. Their beast knows me when I walk my first step towards the jeep again, making Milly purr, seeing the black wolf coming closer to her and holding out her hand to feel my pure.

Her eyes are black when she stares at me in awe and purrs. I know she wants to shift and join me. Still, she can’t, If we didn’t have the pups, I would have made sure she could shift her first time out here. I loved seeing her beast come out, pushing my head against her hand, and feeling the pleasure of having her fingers through my fur; it was the best feeling in the world.

“Trust your guts, sweetheart; if you feel something is off, you don’t stop. I don’t care what you do. You make It back to my home, okay?” I want her to know that I’m serious. She can run over the next person that would try to stop her, she is going to my birthplace, and that is it!

“I’m not stopping Benjamin, but I’m not worried…” she makes a smile in the end that I don’t like, and I know it’s her damn parents. She thinks they magically have appeared no matter how many times I told her packs don’t abandon their pups for any reason.

“You should be…. Oh fuck… you know what, I can’t let you go alone… it's too dangerous….” I was just about to shift back when she shook her head, making me stop, I thought she wanted me to come along, she begged me not to go, and now she was fine with driving alone.

“Don’t. I like you this way….” I make a purr hearing that, licking her face when she giggles, she was the best mate I could ever have, and if someone was going for her, they would die. Instantly.

“You are going to shift soon as I return, okay?” Milly looks up at me, happy, she wants to feel what it is like, and oh man, she is going to know that whatever she is feeling right now, double that by a hundred.

I nuzzle my pups carefully, and one of them takes my snot by accident, making Milly laugh when I huff, having a tiny fist inside my nose. Yeah, being a parent was messy.

“I love you, Ben….” Milly links the last part when I do a slight growl that she knows isn’t supposed to scare her, just knowing I heard her. Now I’m heading back, and she better not try to be some saint, helping someone that can risk her and the pup's safety.

“Eyes open, listen around you, and for god’s sake, don’t trust anyone!” I make the last part loud and clear when she nods her head, and I know she thinks I’m silly, that just because we are out of the pack land, Daniel doesn’t have ways of getting her back. She knew nothing.

I want to keep it like that, walking into the forest, catching my mate's hazel eyes one more time and bright smile before going deeper. I was going to kill Daniel.