Scarred Alphas by Norisha May
Chapter 14

He stares at my lips. This

makes me nervous. I feel like this is going to be a repeat of last night but we are not in a completely private place so anyone could walk in...then again, we were in the forest last night where anyone could have walked in as well. I need to say something to fill this silence and distract him. "So, you seemed quite irritated with your siblings back there," I say.

He finally looks away from my lips.

"They know nothing of the world. They live in their own bubbles and act like nothing bad can touch them. Naive kids."

"You have been through a lot, haven't you?" I whisper. Quietly, he looks up at me and nods. He looks so vulnerable right now.

"And what you said about mates..." He looks down so I stop from finishing my question.

His hands go through his hair and then he looks up at me again.

"I told my father and everyone here that Skye died at the rade. But that was a lie. She was taken prisoner just like me." I stay quiet as he starts to tell me what happened.

"Warrick...Alpha of the Dark Fang Pack..."

Warrick? That's his name? I don't think I have ever heard it. "He has these groups of women, three. They are all his mates. He offers them riches and an easy life. I can't say if they all have been willing but...Skye was." I hold my gasp. "Why would she...she left you for him? But...you two seemed so happy."

"I thought we were too but she only wanted me for what I could offer. In her own words, she said she didn't want to be with me anymore because now I was a prisoner, I could offer her nothing. Some paragraphs are incomplete if you are not reading this novel on FindNovel.net. Visit FindNovel.net to read the complete chapters for free. I was pathetic and had no power. I promised her that we would get out. That I had a plan but...she refused. She was drawn in by the power that Warren dangled in front of her. I know that she was also hurt and was not treated well but she never got the worst of it, I did, I shielded her from it all and then she threw me away. The mate bond...our soul connection was nothing to her."

"No...she broke the bond?" I am in shock as he nods.

"Yes."

"I...How could she? Breaking the bond while you were officially mated could have killed you! Why?... How could she?"

He seems to relax a little as he thinks. "Why? Same reason my brother betrays you, they are scum. People who don't deserve the gift of a mate."

I feel so bad but I don't think it's the same as me and Ezra.

It must have been worse for him because he was already mated to her.

"Did she...reject you?"

He closes his eyes. "She did but I was the one who didn't want to accept it. Not for a while."

It was different. Ezra didn't reject me because he wanted to torment me while Colt wanted to hold on to the one he loved. Very different.

I feel so bad. "I...I'm so sorry, Colt...but, why are you telling me this? Why... me?"

"Because you are different than anyone else in this damn pack." His whole demeanor has changed. He looks, irritated and I am starting to think that this is really him. He is angry but he shows a different person when he is in public. I feel like we are very much alike. "Do you know what happens when a mate accepts the mark of another while already mated?" He asks. His jaw clenches and his fingers tighten around the glass he has in his hands.

My eyes widen and I shake my head. "Is that...even possible?"

He nods. "It is. It's a temporary mark but it was agony for me."

I can't believe someone would do that. Especially if they were already mated. I remember them together. They seemed so happy.

He looks at his glass.

"My soul died that day. I hate her. I hate her with all of my being for the pain she caused me. I hate them all, Cass." He looks at me and shakes his head. "I won't lie to you, I want revenge. I want them all dead."

He means every single word that comes out of his mouth. It scares me but somehow, I can't blame him.

This intensity in him scares me. I can feel the anger in him. But I hate the silence more.

"How did you escape, Colt?" I ask also changing the subject from his mate.

He takes his glass to his lips and drinks all of the content in it, then, takes the bottle of alcohol and pours more into his glass, filling it completely to the brim.

"We didn't. It was luck. We were really captured by my own pack. But for years, me and the boys had been planning of ways to get out and how to get back at Warrick. We knew it wasn't going to be easy but we didn't lose hope. It was all we had to keep us alive." "Wait, you never tried to escape?"

"Of course I did. Once, and it was when I first got captured."

"What happened?"

"It was a group of us and it was too easy, I knew it was too easy." He pauses with a pained expression as he re-lives the memory. "Now I know that it was on purpose. They let all new recruits-as they call those they freshly capture- make a run for it and when they capture them, they show them what is done to those that try to leave."

"What did they-"

"They chained one of the men in the group that tried to escape and then...they dumped hot liquid silver on him."

I cover my mouth in horror.

"He didn't die. Lived for another year. They kept him and those like him to be used as an example in full display in the middle of the encampment field. They suffered horribly."

This Alpha is a monster.

"This..." I don't know what to say. "He's...horrible."

"Mh..." He leans back on his chair looking past me out of the window and takes a sip of his drink.

"He is a man with ambition and a man like him with the kind of ambition he has and the power that he wields, is the devil." "What is his plan?"

"I am guessing that he wants to take over all the packs. Be the one ruler. He is mad and will destroy anyone that gets in his way." This scares me and he can see it.

He leans in and holds my hand. "I will stop him. WE will stop him. I want this fight to end. It is about time someone put a stop to him." "So you have a plan?"

He nods. "But nothing you have to worry about now. Don't you have more dusting to do?"

I narrow my eyes at him and he smiles. It is a tender smile that really makes my heart beat faster.

"Well...yes I do and I'd probably be done if you wouldn't have distracted me."

"Ah, so I am a distraction?" I get up and take my duster from the table. "Never said it was in a good way."

I walk towards the door but he calls for me.

"Cass."

I turn around and wait for him to talk.

"There is a lot that I have to tell you. Things that concern you. But...I don't think now is the right time. Forgive me. I will tell you when the time is right."

I am very surprised by this because what in the world could it be? What does he know about me that I don't know? And why? How?

He stares at me waiting for a reaction or an answer.

I stay silent, searching for a response. He has confided in me today. He has told me things that he has not told others. So...I am going to choose to trust him.

I nod. "It's okay."

I turn to leave but he speaks again.

"Oh, and one more thing."

"Yeah?" I turn back to him.

"Be ready soon. You are going to be my Luna."

"What?!" I blurt out.

He turns around and stares out the window again while enjoying his drink. "You heard me."

I stand there stunned. He's not serious. He can't be. No.

He's messing around. He has to be.

"Colt..." I call for him but he doesn't turn.

"Go finish your duties, Angel." He says in a soft tone but he continues to stare out the window as he finishes his drink.

I shake my head and leave the room but I decide that I am done with this dusting crap. I don't think anyone is going to notice if the curtains are dusted or not. I walk out to the hall and head to the dining room. Before going in, I peek inside and see that it is empty. I then make my way to the kitchen and outside where I take a huge breath of fresh air and welcome the sun on my skin.

I felt a bit stuffed while I was in there. I see Lauren in the distance and walk to her.

"Hey, where have you been?"

She asks.

"Uh! They had me dusting inside the pack house."

"Dusting? Why?"

"Well, Colt wants to try something new with the Omegas and Gammas."

She stares at me with confusion. "...Colt?"

"Yeah. Why do you look at me like that?"

"Cause you do not call anyone on the Alpha or Beta families by their name other than Ezra or Bryn but it's because you like to piss them off."

"I-I don't do it on purpose.'

"Oh yes, you do."

I look up, thinking and maybe she is right. It does piss Bryn off that I don't call her Alpha like I do with Kaecy and Miles and I do enjoy it when she is pissed. I shrug my shoulders but she ignores me now looking at the distance past the field of crops. "What is happening there?"

I look in the direction she stares and I see Dash and Ezra having a heated conversation.

"Oh oh..."

I look around and no one else has noticed them.

Lauren and I walk closer.

The closer we get the more we hear them shout and now we sprint towards them.

"Because it's none of your damn business! I'll do whatever the fvck I want and talk to whoever the fvck I want!" Dash shouts.

"I don't give a shit that you are my brother's friend! Touch her again and I will rip you apart!"

"Touch her?! What the fvck are you talking about?!" Dash asks confused.

"You know damn well!" Ezra says.

Oh shit...oh shit...

"Then you are f*cking crazy if you think I put my hands on her but why does it even matter. You don't want her!"

Ezra grabs him by the shirt and they both start to show signs of their wolf coming to the surface.

"Stop!" I shout. "It-it wasn't him!"

I grab their attention and they both look at me.

"I know it was him!" Ezra growls.

I shake my head. "It wasn't!"

Dash looks at Ezra and then at me and suddenly, something seems to click in his head.

Dash grabs Ezra's hands and he pulls himself off his grip.

"Don't you f**king touch me again," Dash says. "You have no idea the things that I have done and what I am capable of." He lets Ezra go and walks away from him.

As he walks past me, he gives me a side smile and whispers. "I have a bone to pick with your little lover."

My eyes widen knowing that he is talking about Colt. He figured it out fast but I also quickly look at Ezra afraid that he heard him. However, he is too distracted by his own anger, cursing Dash out.

Once Dash is behind me, Ezra now zones in on me. I can feel the anger oozing from him.

"You..." His hands turn into fists but then he forces himself to loosen them again. He grinds his teeth as he looks at me and then just growls and walks away cursing.

"Do you...care to explain?" Lauren suddenly asks. I completely had forgotten that she was even here.

I give her an awkward smile. "Hehehe...no." I quickly walk away but she follows.

"Cass!"

I walk fast back to the field but she is not letting it go.

"Cass."

"Ay! Fine! Come here." She gets really close.

"So...well, someone kissed me and well Ezra felt it and that was it."

She gasps. "WHO! WHO

WAS IT! I MUST KNOW

NOW!"

I start laughing. "Seriously?!"

"This is the juiciest gossip so yes! Seriously! And also...serves him right. I hope he felt it in his core! But seriously, who was it?

Was it that guy?"

She points to where Dash left.

I shake my head. "No."

"Then who-wait...wait..."

My eyes widen. She couldn't have figured it out!

"Wait a godang minuet!" She says and then stares at me without saying anything. I am sure I look stupid right now with the way I am looking at her.