Alphas Don’t Beg

Chapter 21 -

Maxima POV

I wake up, with arms wrapped around me, feeling safe and cosy.

Last night was … I can’t even describe it.

The morning sun is sending its warmth inside the room, and it looks like a calm morning… except for Gabriel’s snoring.

Damn, he is loud. It’s a miracle I slept through the night.

My phone rings, and even that doesn’t wake him up.

Shit! It’s dad.

“hey, dad”

“If you don’t come back home by the end of the day, I’ll come drag you home myself Maxima” he growls.

“Well, good morning to you too”.

“Did you honestly think I wouldn’t know that white rock was under attack yesterday” s**t! At least he doesn’t know I got hurt. They followed my order not to tell him. Good.

“Is she okay?” my frantic mother asks in the background.

“I’m totally fine, stop worrying… I’ll be back in few days anyways” I try to play it down.

“I said by the end of the day” he growls again.

“Dad, just give me two days Max, and I’ll be home” I bargain.

“You know you being who you are means that you are a target… and that attack just proves it, you need to come back” he tries to reason instead of growling.

“I understand that… but we won, thanks to the reinforcements you’ve sent, so I’m perfectly safe here now”.

“There is being stubborn, and there is being stupid, and right now you are being stupid”, so he is trying insults now.

“I’m coming to get you baby” mom shouts.

“ Do you really think it’s safer for me to travel between packs now that I’m a target like you said? At least here I’m baraketed inside a pack with our warriors and the white rock warriors surrounding me, and beta Gabriel is taking all the extra precautions to reinforce the pack’s security” I retort.

“Good morning, beautiful” Gabriel wakes up at the wrong time.

I slam my hand on his mouth to keep it shut, and he groans in pain… maybe I slammed it a little too hard?

“Who is that?” Dad asks.

“No one… the tv, dad” I say, glaring at Gabriel, and as soon as he hears the word dad he pales.

“I’ll send your uncle Dean to come get you himself. Be ready by the end of the day” he says, then hangs up.

“You are leaving today?” Gabriel says, finally able to speak after I remove my hands.

“Looks like it” I say as disappointed as him.

“You can’t… we just… I mean… where does that leave us”.

“You can always come visit” I say hopeful.

“Are you kidding? With the circumstances the pack is in, I can’t leave here”, he says, sitting up.

“ Then maybe that’s the answer”I say a little heart broken.

“What do you mean?” he says wary.

“Maybe, this is all it is meant to be… it’s not like we are mates… this was not meant to last forever” i say, tears brimming my eyes.

“Who said we are not?... from what I understand, you can’t really feel your wolf, so you can’t know who your mate is, neither can he” he says, cupping my face, wiping a tear that escaped my eye.

“You think we are mates?”, could it be?

“All I know is, I keep gravitating towards you... I can’t keep you out of my mind, and you are taking over my heart… I know we haven’t known each other for that long… but you can’t tell me we don’t have something between us that’s deep and primal… you can feel it too… if that’s not how mates feel for each other… I don’t know what it is” he says with a soft smile, really believing in what he is saying.

“I don’t want to have false hope, Gabriel” I say removing his hands. I don't want to be heart broken again.

“you won’t… I can feel it” as soon as he finishes his face contours in anger.

“what’s wrong?” I ask.

“Alpha fucker is here” he says, gritting his teeth.

“Who?”.

“Alpha gunner… you know the one who is crushing on you” as soon as he says, I can feel Alecka’s presence getting stronger inside me.

Unknown POV

“How did you fail this time?” I hear the obnoxious voice of my so called mother, coming from behind me as I hang up the phone.

“I didn’t, Jake was just asking if I was behind the attack, and I told him it wasn’t me”, and telling me that her precious Sarah failed, but I’m not giving her the satisfaction of knowing that.

“But it should have been you… but you are too much of a coward I guess”, that b***h.

“You are right… maybe I’ll finally have the courage and snap your neck” I say baring my teeth.

“ Put those back, son. Like it or not, I’m still your mother. You’d be lost without me, so save your threats to someone who’ll actually be scared by it” she chuckles.

“ Tell me when you get somewhere with the beta or the princess” she says as she leaves.

I close my eyes and imagine what the sound of her neck snapping would be like. It relaxes me.

James POV

“I’m about to c*m” she moans as I bound inside her.

“Not yet” I tease, pulling out.

“Please” she begs.

“Say it first”.

“Make me c*m… my alpha” she says the magic words and I oblige.

I thrust harder and deeper until her screams of pleasure fill the room and I follow soon after.

“That… was…” she says out of breath.

“The best s*x of your life? I know, now it’s time to go” I cut her off, getting out of bed.

“Who said I was going to say that?”.

“Were you going to say something else?” I ask confident of her answer.

“No” she says rolling her eyes.

I know, I’m a cocky son of a b***h. What can I say?

“Now, Kate, you really need to go before mom catches you here” I say, going towards the bathroom.

“Where did the smug alpha who was f*****g me a moment ago go? I say we go for round two” she says, smirking.

“So you wanna face the wrath of Luna Amelia when I’m late for breakfast and she comes looking for me to find you naked in my bed?” I turn around and ask with a pointed look.

“Hell no” she says, jumping out of bed and getting her clothes on.

“So see you tomorrow?” I shout from the bathroom, getting ready to take a shower.

“I have to work tomorrow, maybe the day after” she shouts back.

“If you can resist that long”. Come on, we’ve already established that I’m a cocky son of a b***h.

“We’ll see” she chuckles, closing the door behind her as she leaves.

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I join my family at the dining hall.

“Finally, you show up… I wonder why you were late?” my mom says with a disapproving tone.

“Come on babe, he probably just slept in” Dad coming to my aid.

“Or slept with someone” Jemma my beloved sister says, as always trying to get me in trouble.

“Jemma” my dad says.

“ Come on babe… it’s not like she is lying” my mom says, annoyed with me.

“You are just like your father” she says, shaking her head, giving my father a side-eyed look.

“Okay, let’s focus here, you are mad at James, not me, he is the one who is sleeping around” Dad says, throwing me under the bus.

“Hey, dad, I thought you had my back”.

“Sorry bud, I have to save myself first” he says with an apologetic look.

“You are about to become an alpha; you need to act like it… and what about your mate?” Mom starts her usual lecture.

“I don’t have one”, and I don’t want one.

“But when you find her, you’ll regret it, son, here it from me” Dad joins the lecture.

“Damn, James, we are late” Jemma says, and I have no idea what she is talking about.

“Just go along” she links me.

“Yes, very late, we have to go” I say, not knowing what we are talking about.

“Late for what?” Mom asks. I look at Jemma because I’m totally lost.

“He promised to show me some new moves before training, and we are already running late” she says, standing up, pulling me with her.

“Thanks sis” I tell her as we head out of the pack house.

“Well, I’m sick and tired of hearing the same lecture you get every time, so I was doing us both a favour”.

“Still… I owe you one”.

“Yeah, you owe me a hundred… wanna race” she says excited.

“You always lose, everybody does when they race me”.

“You know you are a cocky son of a b***h right?” she says.

“You love me” I say before I shift and she follows.

We start running and like always, I let her think she has the lead then go past her with a wolfish grin.

She tries to catch me and I let her.

We do some fighting techniques, then we start racing again.

Of course, I’m winning, but I don’t feel her behind me anymore.

“What! You got tired of me beating you all the time, you are not even going to try” I link her, teasing.

She doesn’t answer.

“Come on, Jemma, are you mad or something?” I link her, stopping.

She doesn’t answer either.

is she pulling some kind of prank on me or something?

I run back, tracing our steps and searching for her scent... if she is trying something, I'll find her.

I finally find her, laying on the ground in her human form, trying to look unconscious.

What kind of game is she playing here?

I shift back and approach her saying, "At least wear a f*****g shirt, Jemma, I don't want to see your fat ass".

As soon as I finish my sentence, I feel sharp pain all over my body like I'm being poked with needles.

“We were here for the princess, but an alpha prince would be much more valuable” I hear a voice say from behind the bushes.

I can't shift back and I know why... they shot me with like a dozen darts.

"Dad" is all I could link before everything goes dark.

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