1 Alpha 2 Mates

Chapter 7

Heather's POV

Bright and early the next day we are in Noah's car driving to Alpha Rickman's territory. Lilian and I are in the back seat with third in command Jim, short for Jimperton, sitting between us. There's no point in him being there. If I wanted to get to her I would. 

Yes, I would love to cause her physical and emotional harm for kissing my mate. But the truth is, she's just as screwed as I am. Her mate has another mate. I love Noah so much, and I know he would be heartbroken if I were to ever... eliminate Lilian. So I won't touch her.

Noah's driving and the passenger seat, along with the other empty seats behind me, had the fighters of our pack occupying them.

Noah says he decided to take the wheel because he loves driving, says it gives him a peace of mind when he's stressed. That's bull, he wanted a reason not to sit between us both. Probably in fear that Lilian and I would have a Tug of War battle with him being the rope.

I was sitting in the seat behind Noah, so I unbuckled my seat belt to lean forward and put my arms around the seat and across his chest. I leaned my head to the side to get a look of him.

"Heath, why are you unbuckled?" He asked, his tone playful tone and mouth lifted with a slight grin.

I pecked his cheek. "Why? Don't you want  me up here?" I asked. Then I actually started to feel nervous. What if he wanted me back in my seat because of Lilian? What if he pushes me away? What if-

He removed one hand from the steering wheel and started rubbing my arm. "Heath calm down, it's alright" he said soothingly. He raised one of my hands and kissed the palm of it, then the back of the hand and made his way to each of my fingers. I felt a soft smile slip onto my lips as I raised my other hand and ran it through his hair.

He let go of my hand and I wrapped it back around his chest. He use always to tell me what he was stressing about, but now there are going to be things that he has to keep from me. Personal things that has to be kept in secret, things between him and Lilian. I hate that.

Fifteen minutes later we pull up to Alpha Rickman's territory. We all get out of the vehicle and the fighters assemble a semi circle around us. Noah's in the middle while I'm on one side of him and Lilian's on the other.

Her head was down and she looked unhappy. Noah's arm was around her and he was whispering in her ear kissing the side of her head. If I focused on them I'd be able to know what he was saying to her, but I won't do that. It's hard enough watching him do that to another person.

We walked towards the Alpha and his guards. Noah and Rickman said their greetings and we were all led inside. Noah and Rickman had an alliance, being with how close our packs were to each other. The alliance goes way back before Noah's great grandfather.

We take seats on the couches, once again I'm on one side of Noah while Lilian's on the other. She's holding one of his hand with two of hers and is glued to his side, absolutely no space between them. Noah looks at me and gives a small smile and takes my hand in his free one.

He's trying to make us both happy but it won't work unless he gets rid of one of us. Which should be her, considering I've been with him longer and have more experience being a Luna, fighting, and all things in general.

Alpha Rickman sits down with his mate Amber on the couch infront of us. He just looks at us. Amber looks at both Lilian and I and she speaks first.

"This must suck for you two" she says, then looks at me. "Heather how are you darling? I haven't seen you in a while" she gives a polite smile. I don't remember exactly how old her and Rickman are, but I know they're in their mid twenties and act as though their in the late sixties.

"Yes, we should visit or call more often" I smile. Noah and I are both the same age, nineteen, and we both turn twenty this year. I am a month and a half younger than he is. I wonder how old Lilian is, she looks younger than me. My goodness, I wouldn't be surprised if she's still in school.

"Did you dye your hair? It looks wonderful" Amber exclaimed.

"Yes, I wasn't feeling the blonde so I decided to dye it black" I said.

"That's nice, and hello I'm Amber who are you my dear?" she said turning her attention to Lilian.

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't introduce you two to my new mate, Rickman, Amber, this is Lilian" Noah said with a big goofy smile on his face. I rolled my eyes.

Everyone did their introductions and small talk, when Noah cleared his throat.

"Okay so what's going on here? Why do I have two mates?" Noah asked Rickman.

Rickman sighed. "After I found out I had two mates I visited all of our remaining ancestors, and each of them told me the same thing" he said picking up his drink off the table and chugged it.

"Well, what did they say" Noah asked impatiently.

Rickman gave him a long look. "It just happens kid. Some people were born to be destined with two mates, some were not. Just like some people give birth to twins and some do not. It's highly unlikely when someone has two mates, but when they do, It's rare that they find the other."

"How would someone know they have two mates if they never met their other?" I ask.

"Their wolf know's. When someone's wolf isn't pushing the human side of them to mark their mate, that's a sign that the wolf is waiting. There's no telling that it will ever find it's other half, that's why it never stops the human side of making the decision to mark the one mate it did find."

Lilian spoke up. "So what would have happened to me if he marked Heather? Would I have never found a mate?"

"If he had marked Heather before you met him then you would have gotten a default mate, one of the mates that are in your situation, you would be aware that you and your mate are defaults because the first marking would bring more pain than pleasure. But after that I doubt you would have been able to tell the difference between real mate and default" Rickman said. "But now that you know you have a mate, if he chooses Heather you won't get a default mate, default mates are for those who didn't know they had another mate out there."

Lilian nodded silently and scooted closer to Noah, if that were even possible. He was rubbing both of our hands with his thumbs when he asked. "How long do I have to choose? And when I do what will happen to the one I don't choose?"

"You have as long as your wolf says you do, the more persistent he becomes is when you know your time is running out. If you don't choose then he will mark them both. That will cause both of their wolves and human sides to suffer because you will be sharing them. And I can tell already that none of them wants to share you." He says.

"What will happen to the one he doesn't choose?" I ask, repeating Noah's question because he didn't answer it head on.

"The one you do not choose will of course be heart broken, and probably go rouge" he shrugs. "That's if they're lucky, everyone handles it differently. Some of the stories I heard was that the rejected one goes rouge and stays in wolf form forever. The wolf takes over the human side."

"Why go rouge when you can join another pact?" Lily asks.

He looks at her "Trust me, your wolf wont be taking commands from it's human side once this happens."

Noah leans back on the couch and closes his eyes. His breathing coming out hard, I can feel the tension between the three of us building. Just as I was about to comfort him he stood up. "I've heard enough, thank you Rickman for your time" he said walking towards the door. Lilian and I still attach to him.

Lilian tried slowing him down. "Wait, I want to know about what he did, where his other mate is now."

Noah was still pulling us toward the door not stopping. 

I heard Rickman say behind me "Amber killed her as soon as she found out she was my mate."

I quickly looked at Amber with a dumbfounded expression. Just as Noah was going to pull me out the door she came around the couch to stand beside her mate and placed a hand on his shoulder saying "Unlike you two, I don't share my mate."