Chapter 15

**Caleb**

Alone in my house for the last 4 days, I did everything to avoid them. I asked to be sent my work so I wouldn't have to go to the pack house. Since I got a taste of Elena I can't get enough of her, my wolf is going crazy because of the separation but I can't. I screwed up big time last time and I can't take the risk. I was so pissed when my dad left, I wanted to see them and when I walked into that fucking bedroom and saw her there naked, with Finn kneeling in front of her and Theo behind her, it was too much. I let myself be guided by my desire, without worrying about the repercussions, although I came in her by taking the risk to get her pregnant.

I put down the bottle of whiskey that I have just finished and gets up to look for another one when one knocks at the door. I stop in my tracks when I recognize the smell. Talk about fucking timing.

I open the door and let them in without looking at them and going into the kitchen.

"Seriously, man? This is what you spend your days doing?" Finn asks me as he closes the door behind him.

"If you came to mess with me, get the fuck out." I reply as I pull a bottle out of the cupboard.

"Empty your bag. Why don't you want Elena? I mean, why don't you want her as a mate because considering what happened on Monday, you want her." Theo tells me.

I take a sip from the bottle, looking at him sideways.

"Let's go find her. I told you he was a jerk." Finn tells him, slapping his arm.

" We're going to mark her. We can't wait any longer, we just wanted you to know. " Theo tells me before heading for the door.

"I want her." I admit to them. "As a mate." I pause and they turn around. "Every time I look at her, I see her eyes again when we were messing around with her, when we were posting her pictures. I didn't give a shit until I knew she was my mate. She's fucking perfect, and I'm an asshole who followed... who follows.... everything his father says, blindly. I don't even know why he wanted us to do all this." I take a long sip of the amber liquid. "I'm a pathetic fucking asshole who was given a beautiful, smart, brave young woman by the moon goddess as a mate. An asshole who is still afraid of his father." I drink the bottle again.

"Fuck man. You could have told us all this." Finn bellows. "You know it was the same for me. I'm not one to feel guilty, but I felt bad about it too. I think it's because of the bond."

"How can I be with someone I've caused so much pain? Someone who thinks my dad killed her fucking parents?" I tell them before drinking from the bottle again.

"First of all I think you should start by stopping drinking. Second, I know this is going to be a tough question but... Do you think your dad could be involved in this? In James and Moira's death?" Theo asks me.

"It kills me to admit it but it's possible. When I tried to talk to him, he ran away."

Finn runs his hand over his face and sits on a stool around the bar.

"You could help Elena find some clues. Maybe you..."

"And that would make me what kind of son?"

"Honestly we're past that point. It may not be what you want to hear but if your father is dangerous and can go after Elena then we need to mark her, all three of us. She'll be part of the pack, she'll have protection as Luna and we'll be able to locate her more easily and talk to her through the mindlink." Theo explains.

"He's right." Finn adds, nodding his head.

"Except after Monday's move I'm not sure she'll let me mark her."

"Time to get out the oars, man," Finn says, getting up from the stool. "It's not that we don't want to stand around and talk, but we've got to go we're going to join our dear little mate."

They both leave the house leaving me alone with my thoughts. No matter how many times I turn the problem around, one solution presents itself every time, accept Elena and make her officially my mate.

After a while, when the effects of the alcohol have worn off, I climb into my car and drive towards Elena's house. There is a black convertible parked in front of her car and Theo's SUV is parked on the street. I pull up, without getting out of the car, and little Jensen comes tapping on the window.

"Hi Alpha Caleb."

"Hi Jensen. Are you okay little guy?"

He nods then looks over at Elena's house. "Are you coming to see Lena too? There are already three guys in there and mom said she was lucky."

"Three?" I ask him surprised.

"Alpha Theo, Alpha Finn and a tall guy with black hair, blue eyes and lots of muscles according to mom."

" Lots of muscles, huh? "

"Yes, Mommy said he looked like Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid but I'm not allowed to tell my daddy that." He pauses. "I think Lena looks like Snow White. I hope that when I grow up I will have a mate as beautiful as her."

"That's all I wish for you, little guy."

"Well it's not that I don't like talking to you but I have some stuff to do. Bye Alpha Caleb. And if I were you I'd fight for my Snow White."

How can such a little boy be so reasonable? He's right, it's unexpected to have a mate like her so I'll have to fight for her. Finn is right, I'll have to get the oars out, so I turn around and go home. On the road I ask Finn and Theo who is the third guy at her place, via the mindlink. They answer me at the same time that it is this famous Matt. Apparently he spends the weekend at the pack. I tighten the steering wheel with both my hands, I believe that I did very well not to enter at her place because given the state I'm in I would have been able to break his face.