Begging for survival

chapter 24 - The other side of the story

Dylan POV

The gamma’s first and foremost purpose is to protect his Luna; it’s what we’re built to do, we can even break an alpha command if it was for the sake of our Luna’s safety.

We share a special bond, different from the mate bond but as strong, it’s a bond between the protector and his protectee, a bond not even the alpha can break unless he breaks his own mate bond ... and failure is not an option… until today.

I saw Derek ripping my Luna’s torso. Never have I imagined he would do something like that. How could he do something like that?

Without a second thought, I shift to Dom and Lung for Derek’s throat, but before we reach him, we’re forced to the side by Dean.

“Sorry Dylan, I can’t let you hurt him” a beta defending his Alpha.

“But he is killing her” I mind link him as he tries to pull Derek off of her.

We don’t wait for him as we lunch again, but this time Dean shifts too and stands in our way snarling.

“STOP” Derek commands, dropping my Luna on the floor whimpering.

We run to her and try to lick her wounds but it’s no use, she needs a hospital.

“What the f**k did you do, Derek? Have you lost your mind?” Dean shifts and screams in his brother’s face and Derek just looks surprised by Dean’s reaction, what’s wrong with him?

“Why the hell do you give a s**t about her?” Derek asks, angry and confused. Did he go feral?

“What the f**k?” Dean shoves his brother out of the way and comes to my side and I shift back after I link doctor martin to prepare for our arrival and Dean and I try to figure out a safe way to transport her.

“What the hell is going on here, and who is the girl on the floor?” Max comes rushing into the room, dagger in each hand,

“What the hell are you talking about? it’s Alexandria” I snarl at Max.

“That is not Alexandria” Max answers, huh?

“So you see it too? Because these fuckers are confusing me” Derek Says and he looks perplexed.

“Of course I can, I’m a pure hunter, I can see through magic spells and apparently, now, you can too… another gift from Alexandria, I assume” Max says studying Derek.

Now I’m the one confused, the girl between my arms looks exactly like my Luna, even the same scent, only it’s mixed with something else.

The Luna, no, the girl lets out one last whimper before her heart gives out and she starts changing into someone else.

“What the f**k?” I say letting go of her , more like throw her and jump back. This whole situation is a bit much for my gamma heart.

“Who the hell is she?” Dean asks with the same confusion and horror in his eyes as mine.

“The important question is, where is Alexandria?” Derek asks anxiously.

Derek POV

A few hours earlier

“I’ve had it, Alexandria; I’ve had it … this time you’ve done it, this time you’ve lied” I point a finger at her, anger surging in my veins.

“But I didn’t, I just didn’t thi-” I cut her off.

“You did, what you had is not just a teenage crush like you said, you slept with him when you were a grown ass woman, it was more, at least for him and you knew it, I actually feel sorry for the bastard” I say dry chuckling.

“That’s not fair, I didn’t lead him on, I had a big fight with Adam and we were both drunk. It was a mistake, I didn’t even realize that he still loves me until after that night. I’m not that wicked, Derek” she says with tears brimming her eyes and my heart softens alittle.

“No, you are not, love, I know that, but it still hurts, all the secrets and the half truths” I say shaking my head in disappointment.

“I’m sorry, okay, I didn’t think it through, I really thought it was for the best not to say anything, you hated each other already, why add to it” she explains herself.

“I just can’t, I’m done with this, Alexandria” before I finish she gasps.

“Are you leaving me?”, What?!, before I answer she continues,

“Derek, I’m sorry, I swear to god I’m sorry… just don’t… don’t leave me” she says with a cracked voice, tears escaping her eyes, all anger and rage vanishes at this sight and I rush to her,

I can’t see her like this, it breaks my heart, I take her in my arms and hold her.

“I will never leave you Alexandria, what are you talking about?” I say wrapping my arms tighter around her.

“But you said, you’ve had it and you are done” she sniffs.

“I’m so f*****g mad at you, and yes, I’ve had it with the secrets, but” I take her face between my hands and look her straight in the eyes,

“I will never stop loving you and I’d rather be dead before I leave you. Actually, it’s the only way I would be leaving you, if I were dead”,

“Don’t say that” she says crying harder. Okay, wrong choice of words, still a sore subject.

“I love you Derek” she says buring her face in my shoulder.

“I love you too, Ria, but I need to get away now, clear my head, maybe sleep it off in one of the guest rooms” I say letting go of her and I instantly miss the feeling.

“I understand” she sniffs again.

She looks adorable, if I wasn’t so mad at her, I would kiss her right now.

I give her one last look before I leave the room and go for a run; I need to let Rex out before we kill someone.

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I don’t know for how long I’ve been running, but it must be hours because I’ve ran across the pack land and back twice, and my pack land is huge to say the least, especially after the latest additions but I don’t care, I needed to cool down.

I’m still upset with Ria and this is not over, but in reality, nothing she can do can make me stay mad at her for long, I’m just madly in love with her.

As I approach the pack house I can pick up her scent but it's faint. Did she go for a walk? This late? Maybe she wanted to let out some steam as well.

I’m covered in sweat and dirt and I know I’m in serious need of a shower, but I don’t have any change of cloth, so I head to my room to pick up some stuff before I go spend the night in one of the guest rooms like I told Alexandria.

As I reach our room, her scent hits me, strong. I thought she had left? Maybe she came back.

I enter the room and find my mate standing awkwardly in the middle of the room with nothing but one of my shirts.

“Alexandria?” I ask because something is off. I can’t put my hand on it, it looks like Alexandria is the one standing there, but not really her,

“Yes” she answers meekly, when the f**k was Alexandria ever meek?

“Why are you standing there like that?” I ask Alexandria? It’s her, but it’s like the shade of her hair and the color of her eyes are not quite right,

“Waiting for you my alpha” my alpha?

“Yeah, that’s not mate” Rex agrees.

“Who the f**k are you?” I ask, my voice deep and threatening. The more I look at her the more her features change.

“What are you talking about? I’m your mate” she says, giggling. Ria rarely giggles if she ever giggles at all.

Now I see it, her face is morphing into that of another. I can see it clearly now, that she’s an entirely different person with some dark aura surrounding her.

The next move I make is me pinning her to the wall.

“Who the f**k sent you and where is my mate?” I growl in her face and she shivers.

“ It’s me , baby” the imposter says.

“You see, my mate never calls me baby and she sure as hell doesn’t have blonde hair, so, who. The .Fuck. Are you?” I snarl and the b***h pales.

“How? You can see me? But the spell” she ramble,

I don’t have time for this, I grab her hair and slam her head back into the wall and she screams, good.

“Now, ANSWER ME” I roar.

“They said it will work, that no one will know that I’m not her, that you won’t notice even when I mark you” she says wincing, telling all her secrets.

“Mark me?” What the hell?

“Yes, I’m supposed to trick you into sleeping with me then mark you, it would either break your bond and make your mate leave you or it will just kill her” she says squirming.

“And whose smart idea is it to send a low ranked wolf to trick an alpha” I ask and the piece of s**t actually looks insulted.

“Low rank wolf? I’m a beta’s daughter, not a filthy hunter like your mate”, that’s it.

“No, YOU ARE A f*****g w***e” I growl shoving my claws in her stomach as Dylan come barging in.

He and Dean get in some kind of brawl that I don’t pay attention to at the moment. This b***h needs to tell me all that she knows and where my Ria is at.

“Who sent you? And where is Alexandria?” I ask shoving my claws further into her.

“I swear I don’t know where your mate is, I just did my part” she choks out coughing blood, she won’t last long.

“Who sent you?” I snarl, but before she answers, her eyes roll to the back of her head and she goes unconscious, useless.

I drop her on the floor and stop whatever these two idiots are doing. Dylan rushes to the girl and Dean is mad at me?. Was she some girl that he used to f**k? Is that how she knew how to get into the pack? I’m going to kill him.

Max comes to the room, wondering what’s going on and who the girl is and Dylan says it’s Ria, what? He still thinks it’s her like I did at first? that explains their reactions I guess.

I wonder why only me and Max can see that the girl is not Ria and he suggests that it’s one of Alexandria’s gifts. Okay, that’s a very f*****g useful gift, but there is no time to enjoy that act.

Everybody is wondering who that f*****g girl is, but that’s not the important question.

“The important question is, where is Alexandria?” I tell them, I should never have left her.

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okay guys,

"i can't believe you thought Derek would actually do that to his Ria, tsk, tsk ,tsk" the authour says feigning disapointment although she is the one who wrote it that way to trick her readers. Lol