The Wrong Roux Brother Slipped Into Me

MY BEDROOM

MINA’S POINT OF VIEW.

“Elliot had a bet to win.” Ivy cut in, her eyes sparking with mirth, sick joy.

“Ivy…” Elliot’s expression changed slightly.

“She deserves to know, babe.”

“What bet?” I looked between them. At first, neither answered, until Ivy leaned closer with a sicker smile.

“Elliot and his friends bet that he could make the little, virgin, wolfless girl believe he actually wanted her.

My ears rang; my head suddenly felt light as I trembled. ‘No, that’s not true.” I shook my head.

“It is.”

“No.” I looked at Elliot. “Tell her to stop lying, Elliot.”

“It’s the truth, Mina.” Elliot chuckled. “Don’t tell me you didn’t know? Why did you think I always wanted to f**k anytime I saw you? Because the bet was to get you on my bed. When you never let me, I knew I had to get rid of you.”

My knees nearly gave out, but I managed to get my balance. Four years of memories rushed through my mind. Every letter he handwrote for me, every promise, every night I cried myself to sleep because I missed him, every birthday over the last four years when I wondered if he was thinking about me.

Anytime someone called me wolfless, I told myself it didn’t matter because my mate loved me.

It had all been a lie.

I stared at him through blurry vision. “How long were you laughing at me?”

“Long enough.” He shrugged.

A sob escaped me; I slapped my hand over my mouth. Ivy smiled, her voice dripping with mockery. “You should have seen him when you left for Canis, Mina.”

“What?” My eyes snapped toward her.

“He couldn’t stop laughing. You were probably keeping yourself so when you returned he could have your first, but Elliot.” She turned to him, wiggling her brows with a suggestive smile. " He was all over me.”

A shudder escaped me, my arms over my chest to hide as much of my body as I could. I glanced at a smiling Elliot one more time, shaking my head slowly. Ivy’s words blurred over each other as I took several steps back. I didn’t stop, not until my back collided against a hard surface.

My shoulders tensed; I looked behind me to find the terrifying smoulder of Alpha Declan staring down at me. He looked at my tear-stained cheeks, then my hands covering my chest, before he stared at Elliot and Ivy.

“A-alpha Declan?” I whispered.

He glanced at me again. “What did I say about that ankle?”

“Alpha, we were just having a little fun with her.” Ivy chuckled, stepping closer to us. She reached up to touch his shoulder, but he slapped her hand away. He glared at her, red eyes sharp with something terrifying. “Oh, come on, just because Mina is a little wolf-less mutt doesn’t mean we can't have a little fun.

Right, Mina?”

“What did you just call her?” His voice still came out monotone, like he was bored, but it had something terrifying underlying it. He pulled me so I stood behind him.

None of them could answer.

‘Leave.” Alpha Declan commanded. “Before I show you just how I like to have fun.” His eyes turned blood red. “You’re subject to punishment for bringing wolfsbane on pack grounds.

Scrub the pack toilets for a full week.”

“You cannot punish the daughter of Alpha Lynder Canis.” Ivy scoffed with an eye roll.

“Try me, Ivy.” Alpha Declan scooped me in his arms. “You should be ashamed, Elliot.” He turned around, then walked us out of there.

I didn’t know how long Declan carried me; I only knew that I couldn’t stop crying. My face was pressed against his chest, his steady heartbeat filling my ears while the scent of vanilla and coconut surrounded me. It should have comforted me, but every breath only reminded me of what happened.

The rejection, the bet, four years of loving a man who had been laughing at me. I squeezed my eyes shut. “Put me down.” Declan didn’t answer. “Alpha…”

“Declan.” He cut in; his voice was low. I looked up to find his eyes on mine; his red eyes were fixed ahead, his jaw clenched.

“W-what?”

“You don’t have to call me Alpha.” He commanded, but somehow, maybe it was just my ear, his voice seemed soft. I stared at him; nobody had ever spoken to me like that. Not even Elliot, let alone anyone in the Roux pack, or Canis. His arms tightened around me;

“Rest.” He pressed my head against his chest and resumed walking. I had no idea where he was taking me, and I didn’t care.

“Why are you helping me?” I swallowed, my voice still shaky from my sobs.

His arms tightened around me, his heartbeat weirdly slow for a werewolf. “Because you need help.”

“That isn’t an answer.”

“It is.”

“No, it isn’t.” My voice cracked. “You don’t even know me. What would anyone say if it spread that the Alpha carried a wolfless virgin mutt around?” The words stuck on my lips when he suddenly stopped.

“Don’t ever call yourself that.” His voice, usually low and monotone, was suddenly filled with emotion. Alpha Declan looked down at me; his eyes were strange. Something unreadable flashed in them, almost as if he knew something about me that I didn’t know about myself.

I gulped, nails digging into his shoulders to steady myself. ‘Put me down.”

“No.” He resumed walking. I finally looked up when he kicked a door open. No…it can't be.

“Y-you brought me to the Alpha’s quarters?” My eyes widened. I kicked my feet, trying to get him to let me go, but his grip didn’t let up. “L-let me g-go. If anyone finds out you brought a wolfless here, I-I don’t know what they’ll do.”

“I don’t care.”

“It’s against the rules, Alpha.”

“Only you would tell me about rules our elders set.” His lips curled with a smile, his canines reflecting in the silver light. I gulped, then resumed kicking.

“T-this place belongs only to you and the Luna, and any member of the board of elders if you host a meeting, Alpha Declan. You should let me go.”

His smile dropped. “What did I say about calling me that?”

“W-what?” I squeaked, my heart slamming impossibly fast against my ribs.

“Alpha.”

There was something different about him; I couldn’t understand it. Growing up, Alpha Declan always stayed away from everyone else, including me. On his twelfth birthday, I found him behind an oak tree behind his uncle’s house. For some reason, he breathed differently; I thought he was hurt. So I handed him the last of my moon cakes.

I remember how scrawny and hungry he looked before he took it from me. He’d scarfed it down in seconds. He shifted not too long after I left there. However, after that, he was crowned Alpha; then sent off to live in the other six packs so he could learn what it took to be Alpha of Alphas.

I never saw him until the week before I left for Canis Pack, before my birthday. He’d seemed so different, so unapproachable. I kept my distance, tried to ignore the fact that he always watched me.

Or maybe it was my paranoia.

When he grabbed Ivy, I’d been terrified of me. However, when he carried me, I’d felt something else. It was warm, fuzzy; it made me relax despite everything happening around me.

I didn’t understand it…or him.

Declan, without letting go of me, climbed up the large steps, then pushed open a wooden door. He carried me inside. The room was enormous. Dark furniture, floor-to-ceiling windows letting him have a full view of the pack.

Everything about it screamed power.

“W-where are we?”

“My bedroom.”