Chapter 45 - Alpha Daniel

Rogue

Alpha Daniels pov

“Daniel!” I looked up, and seeing Ben getting inside my office, he was frowning, same as me when I was in the middle of a fucking meeting and he rushed my door, what!? Didn’t he know how to link or even knock anymore!?

“Hold on a minute, Alpha, it seems my Beta has something important to bring to my attention….” I looked up from my screen, trying so hard not to show how bad I wanted to let my beast lose; the darkness swelled in my eyes when the Alpha on the other side made a snide smile. Yes! He fucking smirked because he knew that my Beta had fucking barged in and made me look bad and in no control over my Beta or pack if he could do that to me!

“What!?” I slammed the laptop together. I was sick of him already. Look at him standing there, arms crossed, looking like a damn bum with his ripped jeans and old shirt that I’m pretty sure had something on it that I didn’t want to touch.

“You killed a pack member, exiled two more, and for what, some fucking twisted version of pleasing a Luna that is never going to be fucking happy!?” Ben was hissing it, leaning more forward so I could see his eyes better underneath that ridiculously long hair he was having. He really did look like a hobo these days, didn’t he?

The sounds of my claws coming out and scratching the wooden table didn't affect Ben's hard stare. He didn't care that I felt my beast being pushed out, wanting to kill the useless waste of guard again. He should have been suffering more. I would have made sure the whole pack knew what happened when you messed with my mate, fucking raped her when she could not fight back! Those spineless creatures, and instead of coming to me, they ran to Ben like scared bitches! I didn't regret anything that had happened, and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

“I killed a fucking loser that prayed on the lowest ranking members of our pack, or is that wrong to Beta?” I wasn’t even sure how I wasn’t losing it when Ben provoking me like this was an easy trigger. I was fucking known for losing my temper, and still, here I was, unshifted, and the room still intact, well, mostly…. I looked around the room, seeing the scratch marks and holes from my last shift. I used to get someone to fix it for me, but what was the use? I was going to shift at some point, and I didn’t need to spend money on someone fixing the walls when I had a pup with my mate.

Ben smirked when I said that. He was not in playing mode, showing me all that blackness swirling inside his otherwise blue eyes, the same eyes my sister had worshiped. Now he had a new fucking mate like my sister never existed!

“You mean, like you?” I made a growl hearing that to Ben’s smirk growing because I knew he was talking about Sabrina. I wasn’t fucking proud of that! Still, her mate tried to kill mine, and she got mercy fucking twice from me for not killing her. I still believe she tried to sabotage my mateship with Allison after being rejected publicly!

“Careful…. I don’t have fucking time for this right now, you want to talk? Let’s fucking talk about you, coming inside her like you own the fucking place and spit in my face, and for what?! Some guardsmen that you don’t give a shit about!” I was still sitting down, clenching my jaw and hands repeatedly. He wanted me to shift, didn’t he? That son of a bitch, look at him smirking, knowing how much I wanted to sink my teeth into his neck and shake him around like a ragdoll for being insubordinate and respectless!

“I do give a shit, unlike you, Daniel. You think you’re the one people talk to when something happens, that this pack magically runs by itself while you are off and spending the money and all the time on a mate that doesn’t even want to be Luna, no! isn’t even fit to be one!” Ben stood up from my desk, making me slowly follow his movement. What the fuck did he tell me that I wasted my time and money on my pregnant mate!? Was that it!?

“Allison is a great Luna, and don’t you ever tell my face again that she isn’t fit to be one! she is one of the most powerful beings and has a heart. She is just fucking hurt, and you know that!” my voice is more profound. I hate that I sound desperate in the end, like trying to make him understand that I can feel what she is feeling will change that stupid, arrogant look on his face. He didn’t believe me.

Ben scoffs, and it hurts. He is supposed to be my ally, brother, and he is looking at me like I’m not doing anything right these days, and for what?! He has been at my side all this time and never said a word that I was doing a lousy job as the Alpha, not until he met that human girl that came inside and twisted his fucking head so far up his ass, he can’t even see it!

“She is fucking broken, and you know it; she walks around in her own fucking world and doesn’t give a shit about me, this pack, or even you, Daniel. Can’t you see that?!” I stare back at his upset face. My own one is blank. Did he tell me that Allison didn’t love me!? That was the stupidest thing I had ever heard, ever! She loved me more than anything. We were mates, he of all people should understand that!

We both stare each other down. I can’t even say a word back, I feel fucking betrayed by my own Beta, and here I was thinking about mating my son to his daughter. That would never fucking happen after what he just told me, that backstabber!

“Does she know?” my hands are shaking, and I want to shift, but I don’t because I know that’s what he wants me to do. He wants me to fucking shift, and then he can challenge me for the Alpha title and say I provoked him; it was written all over his stupid face!

“Know what?” Ben sounded bored when he answered, but he wasn’t. Nope, that dense motherfucker was always hiding how he was feeling. He had done that all his life. Didn’t even have the guts to kiss my sister when they were mated for the first few weeks when we were pups, and now, he was all big and bad, telling me that Allison was some psycho!? Well, even if she fucking was! I didn’t care! She was my mate, and I loved her, my real mate and not some fucking leftover teenager with a crush on older guys who opened her legs on the first night!

“Does she know that you called Candi sweetheart too?” Ben’s face dropped the second he realized that he hadn't told that young girl that he was calling her the same thing he had said to my younger sister all his life.

I wasn’t blind even if I didn’t like that girl. She was too young to be Ben’s mate and, to be honest, fucking impossible since a second mateship was near wonders that should be written down according to our history books!

“Yeah… thought I didn’t know that… did you…. Look at you, so fucking almighty trashing on my Luna, and you can’t even fucking tell your girlfriend the cute name that she fucking loves isn’t even hers, to begin with….” I was the one scoffing now, sitting my ass down again, sizing Ben up and down a few times. He had lost whatever aggression stance he had a minute ago because he knew I was fucking right. Milly wasn’t his real mate. She might be a sweet girl that got knocked up, but she is not Candice and never will be.

“If you ever, and I mean ever, tell Milly that I’m going to kill you, and I don’t care what happens after that, you hear me, Alpha!?” I made a snide nod, yeah… I got it narrowing my eyes and my so-called brother. I always thought I was lucky to have Ben; now, he was just a pain in my ass who threatened Allison and me more than once that he would kill us for something I had nothing to do with. Someone wasn’t the good guy they wanted their girlfriend to believe…. Ben now made a growl. He saw my smirk, my face relaxing again, he came here to fight, and now he was the one that had lost it before it even began, which is why I was the fucking Alpha and not him!

“Get out of my sights… oh, and Beta, don’t fucking come back to this part of the pack until I can stand to see you and that mate of yours faces again. You can stay with mom for all you like… You know what? Why don’t you show Milly yours and Candice's home? It's still all there, the nursery and everything. You can just put your pups there and….” I felt the shift before he even did it. I had been in so many fights, hundredths, thousands, when the black wolf was charging me over the desk, taking it with its back paws, making a loud smashing sound all over the palace.

“Shut up!” I made a wheezing sound when the snarling jaws were wrapped around my neck, the big black wolf pinning me to the back of my office wall when all I could do was make a small sound that was supposed to be laughter. What? He can’t take the truth, is that it? I wasn’t the one that called my new girlfriend the same name as my wife for over twenty years. That was all him!

“Milly is my real mate, and you are just fucking jealous because I have what you never will, real love and a family!” Ben was screaming at me over the link when I stopped smirking, stopping whatever guards had come to my aid, hearing the crash with my hand, and letting Ben still hold me in his jaws. I was in my human; he was the beast, one snatch. I was dead; if he wanted to kill me, I was at his mercy.

“I have everything I want, Benjamin; you still don’t get it! Milly will never be your real mate, she is a human, and we can’t mate with them, so that only leaves one thing, rogue.” I say it disgusted over the link when Ben’s beast makes a slight flinch, so he fucking knows then his mate is a rogue, and there is a big chance that she is mixed up with some other shit. Rogues didn’t care who they mated and didn’t follow the rules of our pack bond. That’s why they didn’t belong inside a pack and never would!

“No, no, she is human and…” Ben has started to release his jaws when I stare at the black creature that stumbles back, he knows, and that is why I’m not laughing anymore. His so-called mate is a rogue beast, abandoned or hidden among humans. That was why she hated me, she did, and she couldn’t hide it. She hated everyone in this pack because she was never made to be in one, and I made her my beta female anyway.

“She’s a rogue, and she can have any mate she wants, you know. she saw you, and you fucked her for whatever reason, and now, she has you under her spell, and you are too fucking deep to see it!” I was gasping the words out, holding my hand over my still sore neck. I wanted him to hear it like this, not from over the link.

Ben shifted back, it was over, and he knew it. He had mated a rouge girl, and I didn’t know what to do with that or him.

“I love her….” He was looking up, naked, when I didn’t scoff this time, yeah; well, anyone could fucking see that, for whatever reasons, he did, and I wasn’t going to spit in his face for it. We all had our fucking problems with mates that didn’t want to listen.

“I love her….shit… look at me…. I love her, and she has given me the pups. What the fuck am I supposed to do, Daniel?” I was still trying to catch my breath, fuck, he was strong. I didn’t think that he couldn’t kill me for a second.

so did Milly, no doubt that’s why she was so drawn to him in the first place, all that power and desperate for love…. I made a sigh. Well, not like I was any fucking better. Ben was right about one thing, Allison… she didn’t care… I know she didn’t, and that sucked, but…. I wanted her to see that being the Luna wasn’t so bad if she gave it an honest try.

“I know…… have her over at mom’s pack land for now, and… we will figure some shit out. I know she is aggressive because of the pups, but I don’t want her around now. you get that, don’t you?” I hated this. I hated that my Beta, my brother, was crushed. He should be happy, and me too, but having a rouge mate… that made everything…. Difficult.

“I don’t know how to tell her…. I don’t know how the fuck I'm supposed to tell her that she isn’t my real mate?” Ben made a sound that I hadn’t heard since Candice died, and I didn’t know how to answer that.

“Tell her… or I don’t know, don’t? I still don’t want her here. The pups, sure, but Milly, she will never fit in here.” Ben made a whine hearing that. He did, and it was just as awful to say as it was to watch him break down. I was a bastard, but I was right.

“She told me, just told me that the rogues that attacked me, they wanted to take her back to her parents and….” I sighed, sitting my ass back down, bleeding from my neck when Ben was wailing… shit, he really did have a feeling for her, didn’t he? Fantastic.

The chance of Milly having a rouge family out there was zero to none, and Ben knew that too. Why the fuck hadn't he told me this before!?

"Are you insane?! You think that is something you would have told me, that my beta female is out there and have fucking rogues breathing down her neck. Here you are whining over me, killing some damn idiot that hurt my mate!

You got some fucking dumb spell over you since you met that girl, Beta!" I was up again, Ben looking up at me surprised, eyes red from crying. Oh, he better be fucking surprised when I was starting to undress. Yeah, I didn't even tear my clothes since Allison got pissed when I did. He better believe that I was going to shift and go after that stupid girl that Ben fooled me into making my Beta!

"I thought you didn't want Milly here and still want to go after her?" He was confused and believed me, and so was I, a part of me wanted to kill him, kill the stupid girl for fooling him into thinking that she was his second mate when she just was a damn rouge that could do what she wanted and now was in deep shit with the same pups that I had responsibility for!

"I'm the fucking Alpha, and she is still part of this pack, that's why!" Ben made a nod getting up, his beast swirling when I shifted, feeling the strong breath again when my neck healed up. I still couldn't understand how someone like Ben, the most cynical man I had ever met, could fall for that stupid girl who didn't know shit!

Ben's beast growled at me when I stepped past him growling back. I still wasn't pleased with his behavior, hiding shit and basically calling me a lousy Alpha, like he could do a better job! Couldn't keep his damn mate in line, like a damn puppy around her!

"Move!" I growl, letting pack members know that I'm leaving and Allison too when she can hear me even if she isn't around, but she isn't coming along. I wasn't risking my own mate just because Ben was fucking idiot for leaving him, outside the pack's territory, along with small pups!

"Allison, you are in charge now, Don't fucking disappoint me." She better behave somewhat, seeing that I'm going to be gone, same as Ben. She had never run a pack before, fuck, I wanted to snap at my Beta for being so stupid, forcing me out when anyone could take this opportunity to attack when both he and me were out!

"I won't." she sounds annoyed, like me wanting her to be the head right now wasn't what she had planned for today, shit. I really needed to have a serious talk with her.

Ben's beast is already out, and I take after him, my paws digging deep into the earth when I catch up with the running black Beta. He better stops this shit because I had more significant problems than some rouge mate not liking me.