The Wrong Alpha - A Twist Of Fate?
The Wrong Alpha – A Twist Of Fate? Chapter 85

s**t this was destroying me hearing her talk about all this, I hated the thought of him touching her and being so close to her…… now I finally knew she was mine….. I knew why I’d been so drawn to her…..she was mine….my beautiful mate…..it made my b***d boil that she loved someone else, that he’d hurt her, and don’t get me started in what Knight was feeling… I was doing all I could to hold him in…

I couldn’t believe that he’d kissed her after finding out he had a different mate, one he’d literally just had in his arms…. Yet he then took Lilah, my mate….Knight was growling in my mind… already possessive after only finding his mate moments before…..yet he then took my mate in his arms and kissed her, telling her he loved her and still wanted her too!

Yeah I get him loving her, but he shouldn’t have wanted her should he? With a mate outside? Did he still want her? I understand why she kissed him back, she must have been in pieces, him though he had the pull of a mate, he should have wanted nobody but her…

I had to try to calm my breathing as I had promised her I wouldn’t get angry, something that was proving difficult hearing her talk so affectionately about another guy, especially one that has hurt her so badly…yet she continued…..

“I went to the woods, we have a lake and waterfall there, I knew I could be alone, I sat crying so much, going over things in my head, breaking to pieces, I got a message from Anya telling me to stay away from Logan, accusing me of throwing myself at him…….I knew at that point the situation was impossible, I hadn’t done that, I never would, not knowing he had a mate now…..”

see I knew she wasn’t like that “I made an instant decision I couldn’t continue, I couldn’t see her with him, it had hurt just that once, but the thought of them building a life and her stopping me seeing him even as a friend, he’d been my closest friends since we were babies…… I couldn’t do it, I decided it would be best to try to take……” she sobbed “to take my life…….”

The tears were flowing quickly now and I had to hold her, I didn’t want to see her in pain, the tingles and shock across my skin from our contact was beyond imaginable and felt so good but right now that was out of my mind, my mate needed me…..I held her in my arms as she cried, her head against my chest, I never wanted to let her go…..

“I need to do this” she whispered, slowly pulling herself back, I reluctantly let her go, my skin now missing the contact of hers against it. “I didn’t hear him appear, he must have been there running off his anger and frustration, he was in his wolf form, I didn’t know it was him to begin with……” she sniffed slightly and wiped the stray tears from her face.

“he nudged me as if to stop me, I figured he knew why I was there so I lied and said I’d be ok, so he left, as soon as he was back in the wood I went to step from the waterfall again Logan shouted me, he had to have shifted back……” she looked down to her hands, then to me, I raised my hand to tuck a stray strand of hair behind her ear, seeing her jump slightly at my touch before she continued.

“he ran over, naked of course covering himself, telling me to think of my parents, I stepped back….he said he’d go find some pants from the border patrol nearby and come back to talk so I agreed, not wanting to see him, as soon as he ran out of my sight I left” she looked at me guiltily, my girl got sense, he likely planned to manipulate her like he’d tried in the office I fumed internally.

“I ran home, trying to avoid my Mum and Dad but of course with Logan being Alpha’s son there was a big birthday party planned, and my family being Beta family we were all expected to be there, I hoped they would let me off considering what happened but Alpha Grayson said I had to show I was accepting of our new future Luna for our pack to accept her.”

f**k, even I can see that’s harsh expecting a teenage girl to do that! What a f*****g d**k! I was liking my neighbouring pack less and less….

“I had to go and celebrate his birthday, celebrate the fact he’d found his mate, he tried to speak with me multiple times that night, catching me alone, tried to k**s me again, but I wouldn’t let him….. he said he would always love me” she said with a sigh.

How dare he try to k**s her again?! What was this guys game?! He had just found his mate!!

She rolled her eyes in what appeared to be anger “and his new mate…..well, she stalked me for a lot of the night, making sure he wasn’t near me, made a big show of being with him, being affectionate with him, making sure I knew she would be the next Luna…..she must have seen him trying to k**s me….. she followed me to the bathroom and had me pinned to the wall…..”

What the actual f**k?! I was liking this less and less, it really made me wonder what else had gone on. I gave her hand another squeeze “did she hurt you?” I asked.

“I didn’t fight back as I didn’t want it to look like I’d hurt her…..” was her response.

“Did she hurt you Lilah?”I prompted.

“She broke my arm….” She whispered.

No, this wasn’t normal… I understand the psycho new mate description now….

“I went home that night in so much pain, both physically, mentally and emotionally I was destroyed Knox……” she looked at me, her big blue eyes almost burning into mine “I need you to understand that before I explain the rest…..”

A sinking feeling was coming over me I didn’t think I was going to like this. I simply nod.

And so she continued “I cried so much in those coming days, Anya did all she could to push in my face their bond, I was literally falling to pieces, I spent more and more time away from my home as it is next door to his, and more time with Indie. I was so desperate for the pain to stop I asked if her Auntie could help….”

She glanced at me through her long eyelashes…..wait, Indie’s Aunt was the seer right, the spiritual, herbalist one…that’s not so bad…. But she couldn’t stop all the mate connections signs…..

My brain was bouncing from thought to thought as she continued….. “her Auntie listened to me, I explained I wanted to stop the pain I was feeling, I wanted to stop feeling any love thinking if the love stopped the pain would. She said she could not help”………

but her witch friends could…..?? no no no Lilah! Surely she hadn’t gone to a witch? Witchcraft and witches was not something as werewolves we liked to be involved with yet I had a feeling I now knew where this was going, I looked to Lilah.

“she saw how upset I was when I realised she couldn’t help, so she said she might have a friend who could help……the friend was a witch” she whispered.

I closed my eyes, hating the fact my guess had been right, how had she been this naïve? I tried not to react so she would carry on, as this still didn’t answer my questions, not properly…

Lilah looked puzzled why I hadn’t reacted more, so continued as I’d hoped “I did lots of research before I met her so had some ideas what she might be able to do to help, she met Indie and I at a nice little coffee shop in town, she is actually quite a sweet lady, runs a jewellery shop too…. She listened to what I’d gone through, she was so kind and caring”

yeah I bet she was, probably wanting your money or thinking of ways to trick you, they’re known for that….

“I explained how much pain I was in, how much I was struggling, that I just wanted this pain to stop, that I wanted to stop being able to love romantically, but still have love for my family and friends, I wanted that ability taking away from me, if I didn’t feel love for him I wouldn’t have the connection there, I wouldn’t be suffering….” she explained.

I could see her logic but still this seemed drastic, I did my best to bite my tongue to stop myself saying anything, she had her reasons and I needed to hear it as wrong as I thought they may be….

“I had seen tales of jewellery that enabled people to pretend to be someone’s mate, or others that block out the mate ability, so I wondered if she could do something that could stop me feeling love…. I said it couldn’t be jewellery as I didn’t want anyone knowing or suspecting I was wearing jewellery linked to witches as I’d be in trouble for talking to them, Indie’s Aunt is a proper outcast for that…” I could feel her eyes on me.

I could sense she was scared, and rightly so, quite frankly she had been stupid…. “She said she could help, that she thought she could make me a lotion to put on each day and night” she didn’t have it here, that’s why all this happened, no lotion and there is no effect….

“she explained to me that it would stop me feeling any romantic love, not just to Logan, to anyone…..” she bit her l*p, I could sense her heart rate picking up, so I knew she was more nervous now than she had been before “but it also meant it would block any mate connection, that if I came across my mate I wouldn’t know, I wouldn’t scent him, have no connection there, and he would …..”

“feel nothing either?” I interrupted, standing up from the bed, walking to cross the room, running my hands through my hair. How can she have been so reckless to have done something like this? All over a teenage relationship?!

“Knox please, you said you wouldn’t be angry….” she sobbed “I agreed immediately, I didn’t even think properly looking back, I just wanted the pain to stop….. ” I looked across to her. She was doubled over on the bed, her body racked with big heavy sobs. But this wasn’t ok…..

“But Lilah it’s witchcraft…. You must know how dangerous that is?! She could have been doing anything to you!” I yelled “surely you had been taught not to trust witches, they are known for trying to hurt our kind”

She stood from the bed, only now did I realise she only had on underwear and a vest top. Obviously the stay here had been unexpected so she would have had no clothes…. I would have to make sure some were sent for her.

She was instantly in front of me “I know that now! Of course I do! Knox, please… try to understand…..” she grabbed my arms with her hands ” I wasn’t even 17, I had lost the boy I thought was my mate, my best friend, I was devastated and now I was being pushed to the outer edges of my pack by his new mate…. I was desperate….. I didn’t know what else to do…. I wanted the pain to stop” she sobbed.