The Guardian Wolf And Her Alpha Mate
The Blessed Ones – A Blessing Or A Curse? Chapter 14

He growls as he slumps down on the sofa, for the first time I notice his eyes are heavy with tiredness, his shoulders hunched as he taps his knee nervously. This is a side of Bruno I have never seen before, in the past he was harsh, blunt and didn't care about how I or anyone else felt. I suffered through insults and betrayal pains, being openly humiliated when he paraded his chosen Luna, Rebecca, in front of me. He told his pack members I was nothing more than a simple breeder. "You're confusing me" I admit when he doesn't move to speak. "You didn't want me Bruno, why force this?"

"Because I know I need you, for what I cant tell you just yet. But you should never have left me" he growls.

"Why should I have stayed? Why should I have to put up with you betraying our bond and breaking Alia and myself down?" I ask incredulously.

"Because I was your mate" he snaps at me. "You are mine."

"I was, and you still treated me that way" I yell at him, my patience thinning as tiredness creeps up on me. Where is Rebecca? What about her true mate? Because from what you've just said, Rebecca belongs to her true mate, and I now belong to Axton." "Not here" he replies bluntly. "You aren't Axton's Mila, you're mine. You are here to help me achieve what I have been working towards for years. You are my link."

"Are you going to hurt me Bruno?" I ask him quietly.

"No' he grunts as his head falls in his hands. "You infuriated me before, the bond was messing with my head and making me doubt myself. I was constantly battling my wolf and my heart. I realised when you left how harsh I had been, I regretted it. I shouldn't have gone about it the way that I did, I certainly didn't do the correct thing in keeping you around. But then I found out you had Axton as your second chance, a man I cannot stand. One who will twist your mind and make you hate me further, I couldn't have that, I knew I needed to get you back."

"Why f**k someone right before accepting my rejection Bruno? Why not just move on with Rebecca happily?" I snarl. "You caused me so much agony, and you have no idea what danger you put me in the other evening. I had to go into battle and fight in only human form, Alia took my pain, if I hadn't fought strongly then I could easily have died that night."

"You were fighting?" he asks slowly as surprise flits across his features. "I thought Jax would have avoided you being involved in that, F**k."

"You heard me, and of course I f*****g fought Bruno. I'm an Alpha's daughter. I would never sit back and expect everyone to treat me any different because of that" I growl. "Why decide to hurt me when you had slowed down over the last few weeks to only behave the way you did.?"

"Because I felt you with Axton" he shouts. "I felt it and it f*****g hurt. I know I had no right to take that out on you. When you were at my pack, I was stuck between you and Rebecca, it was difficult and I admit I reacted badly...extremely badly. I took my frustrations out on you. But to know you were with another and that other was Axton of all people, I hated it."

"You enjoyed seeing me in pain, you liked the fact you could make me scream from your actions with Rebecca..don't lie to me. I saw the sick smile on your face when you f****d that b***h in front of me" I scream as tears stream down my face at the unwanted memory. "I find it hard to imagine you regret it and this is some type of change of heart."

After that, there is silence between us as my words settle. "It does hurt though doesn't it Bruno" I whisper. "Yet that was nothing, I kissed him, that's all. Now imagine the pain I endured."

I know" he sighs, his face dropping as my words hit home, but still he does not apologise.

"I wont forget what you've done Bruno" I say after a moment as he simply nods in acceptance. "I'm not sure what this version of Bruno is right now, it's certainly not one I recognise. But one thing I can say is you have still not apologised despite showing some recognition of your actions. Your forced me to come, and you hate my new mate. I don't think you have good intentions for me."

"I know Mila. I'm not going to hurt you, not if you help me. Just do as I say and for your own sake...behave" he growls to me as he stalks forward, his dark eyes boring into mine. Leaning forward, he takes a deep breath of my scent before moaning slightly. "As irresistible as ever, I'll be back in the morning, things will be clearer then" he murmurs before moving back and opening the door, leaving without another word.

"What the hell" I whisper to myself as my skin crawls from his words. Going over what he said, I end up stumped. Confused at his intentions and his reasoning, my thoughts no clearer than they were this morning. For the first time I had seen a glimpse of regret he has from his actions, but I had no more understanding as to why he behaved the way he did. Although since taking me he has warned me I need to behave, and I definitely take that seriously, he has also said he wont hurt me. Yet when I was his mate, it seemed like he would go out of his way to do just that when he should have been treasuring me as his fated, overjoyed that the moon Goddess paired Axton and myself.

Stumbling through to the bedroom, my body suddenly extremely lethargic as the events of today finally catch up to me, I fall on the bed without taking the time to look around the room.

My last thought before darkness finally takes over is what the f**k is going on...?