Dominant Enemies… and mates

Be Smarter { Oliver’s POV }

{ Oliver }

I drive back home with my youngest pup and full silence in the car. Diory is thankfully quiet, sensing how angry I am at the moment. I consider for a moment leaving her alone in the middle of nowhere and forcing her to walk home to punish her, but of course I couldn't do that.

But I have no idea of what to do. I'm absolutely defeated.

The last fourteen years have been sort of easy to deal with... sort of. But lately everything is exploding around me and I don't know what to do anymore.

Laurent is eighteen now, a mature wolf. It's only been two weeks since he presented and he hasn't stopped fücking up since. I know he's still the same little angel I carried inside me and raised, but fück if he doesn't act like a giant pain in the äss lately. He just keeps making me look like a horrible parent who can't control his giant son.

And Diory.

Oh, Diory. Diory was sent into this world as a punishment for me, I'm sure. She's only fourteen but she's already a ball of energy. Bad energy, if I'm honest. Sometimes I'm afraid to even cross glances with her because I seriously think a demon reincarnated in my beautiful, precious daughter and sometimes it takes over her body.

Both of my pups are troublemakers and have been for years now, I'm used to it, but today they both got in trouble at the same time and just in the same morning I had a giant fight with that ïdiot, Daniel. All I want to do is go lock myself in my room and not talk to any of them.

"Daddy, I'd rather you scold me right now instead of creating this bad vibe all day long," Diory mutters from the backseat as we pull up to the house. That little... I turn to look at her with narrowed eyes and thankfully Diory knows I'm about to take her out of this world because she presses her lips together, "Respectfully, of course."

"Respectfully? You don't know anything about respect, Diory," I spit, taking a breath to get myself under control. "I'm incredibly disappointed in you and that's all I'm going to say right now."

I get out of the car and walk into the house. Laurent is sitting on the couch with his beaten face and as soon as he sees me he tries to look down and disappear, although with a body like his it's simply impossible. But I don't feel like dealing with him either, so I go straight to my room because I really need to be alone. As soon as I'm there I let out a grunt and throw myself on the bed.

I'm only thirty-six but I feel like an old man... at least today. Usually my life is not this difficult, but with each passing day my two children get worse and worse.

My mate is the best part of my life. Daniel promised me on our wedding day to devote himself completely to me and make me feel every day how much he loves me and only me, which he has delivered. He has been the best alpha in the world for years, but there are also days he makes me mad. Like this morning.

It all started when he told me he had to leave all day for another clan, which isn't a big deal but it took me by surprise and somehow we blew everything out of proportion. The fight was pointless. If I think back to the things we said they sound like complete stupidity and absolutely nothing serious and it was only mildly annoying, but when I got a call from the school to tell me that Diory was creating a group in her classroom to abolish her teacher's dictatorship, my mood went completely to shït. This is the third time this month alone that the school has called me to complain about my kids, but it's nothing new, they already have me on speed dial. And I know all the teachers and parents judge me. And not only that, half an hour later they called me again because Laurent got into a fight with some other alpha on his football team and they almost killed each other on the field.

So I need a break from the three people I love the most in the whole world. I'm hate them today. I don't even get up to make them something to eat or even order food for them today. They can fend for themselves or starve to death if they want to.

I don't know how many hours it's been, but I know it's late when suddenly the door opens and Daniel walks in looking tired. His negative scent mixes with mine immediately and they create a stench in the room that I will only be able to clean with incense.

He comes in and takes off his shoes before walking to the bed and plopping down next to me.

We stay silent for a few seconds.

"I spoke to Laurent. The fight didn't get blown out of proportion, none of them shifted or tried to make a challenge. The coach managed to control them before anything worse happened," he murmurs and I let out a breath. Thank goodness, "And the professor forgave Diory. He says he's proud of her free spirit."

I'm not. I hate her free spirit.

"What are we doing wrong, Oliver?" He asks a few seconds later.

"Everything, apparently," I answer but turn to him to grab his strong hand and raise it to my nose, "Can we still abort them or is it too late?"

"I'm starting to consider that option," he blurts out surprisingly joining in my joke and that makes me laugh. Daniel takes advantage of that to turn to me as well and pull my body closer to his, "I'm sorry for the silly fight we had this morning. I don't even know why we were fighting."

"Me neither. I'm sorry, too," I whisper and I can feel him relax a little, "We need to join forces again and act like real parents. They both suck, Daniel."

"No, they're perfect," he fights and I just snort.

"They're totally not. Diory's a fücking devil and I'm scared of her. Not for her... Of her," I tell him, but as always when I try to insult his precious daughter Daniel just rolls his eyes and pretends it's not true. Daniel is literally the reason Diory is the way she is, he spoils her a million times more than my father spoiled me. That's worrying, "What can we do to stop them?"

"I don't know, love. They're both young and still trying to figure out who they are," he begins, sighing, "Laurent is suffering, he doesn't know how to deal with his own wolf. I'd like to help him more, but it's impossible right now. I don't know how to deal with his wolf, either. Not without fighting.”

"I know, I feel weird around his wolf lately too, I can't imagine how hard it is for you as an alpha," I blurt out, burying my nose in his shoulder, "I miss when they were sweet little babies."

"Me too," Daniel says and moves a little to look me in the eyes in a strange way. He lifts up on one arm and before I can ask him what's wrong, he slips his hand under my shirt and puts his hand on my belly, "I miss having a baby."

Oh no.

"What do you mean, Daniel?" I ask, but he just raises an eyebrow, making me nervous, "Alpha... what do you mean?"

"You know what I mean," he says. And I do, but I don't. No, "Let's have another pup."

"No way," I refuse, immediately, "You know how horrible the two pregnancies were, I can't go through that again.

"Yeah, I know," he says, pouting like a little kid who doesn't get what he wants, "I just really like you pregnant. And I love having babies. A sweet baby, can you imagine? That would fix the horrible teenage energy we have in the house."

"Hmm… I think you're a little bit right," I murmur, just thinking about it. But my mate takes that as a yes and rises to stand over me, making me squeal with surprise. Daniel attacks my neck with little kisses that make me giggle and shoves his hands down my pants, but before anything can happen, a sound stops us.

Daniel frowns and turns to the door. He left it half open.

"I'll go check what that was," he says and gets up. I stay in bed in case it's something dangerous... until I hear the voice of my son's wolf. I get up immediately before he fights with Daniel again.

"Where did you go at this hour?" Daniel asks with a frown. Laurent was coming up the stairs and has snow in his hair.

"I went to see my mate," he answers, his shoulders incredibly tense and his scent just as negative as the one in our room. I'll definitely have to clean the whole house with that incense. Laurent looks at us with proud, power-filled eyes, his voice deep and strong, ears out among his tousled, wild hair.

My son is growing up to be the most gorgeous man who ever lived and I knew he would start dating at any moment, but... a mate? That's incredibly crazy. He just turned eighteen. He just stopped wearing diapers only fifteen years ago, he's still just a baby.

"What the fück?" Daniel blurts out, his mouth opening and closing, unable to form a coherent thought. He turns to look at me like he's begging me to take charge of this, "Who?"

"Kingsley Seong," he answers immediately with no doubt in his voice and that's when me and Daniel have our first stroke. We look at each other in complete bewilderment, "Kingsley Seong is my mate, I just went to see that he's safe at home. I've been doing it for years."

My mouth hangs open. Daniel is as shocked as I am. We really are the worst parents in the world, aren't we? We hadn't noticed our son leaving the house and going to see Kingsley. For years.

"Okay, okay, stop," I say, pushing Daniel aside to get closer to my son. He's as big as Daniel now, but he's still standing two steps down so I look him straight in the eye, "What makes you think King is your mate? That's impossible... he's seventeen, he hasn't even presented yet."

Even though he's very clearly an omega, but...

"I don't need his presentation to know that, omega father. I've known he's my mate since I met him and he knows it too. I'm just waiting for his presentation to make him my mate." He replies and I can only raise my hands and cover my face.

This isn't a complete surprise, it's obvious something is going on between them, but I didn't figure it was a fated bond because they were just kids. And they seemed to hate each other, not love each other.

"If that's the case, why the hell have you been tormenting him all this time?" I ask, "You think that's the way to get him to like you?"

"That isn’t me, it's the boy," he replies in the middle of a loud, angry growl that raises the hairs on my body. I think it's a sensitive subject, "Laurent either doesn't know Kingsley is ours or refuses to believe it. Either way, I don't want him to accept it yet or he'll do something to ruin it even further. Please, father, don't tell him."

"I promise I won’t tell him, pup, but you can't keep doing that. Going to the Seong's house at night to see their son? That's not acceptable, you could get into serious trouble. Just... wait one more year."

"No."

"Yes!" I say and raise my hand to smack him upside the head because it's the only way to make this stubborn wolf understand, "Kingsley is just a kid. You could be misreading the situation. You need to wait for him and leave him alone in the meantime. Please, both as a boy and as a wolf."

"I can't walk away from him or leave him alone, it's impossible," he says and that doesn't seem to be in question. Daniel lets out a stressed snort behind me, but he knows he can't say anything or we'll have another fight on our hands.

"I'll help you," I promise because the last thing I want for my son is for him to end up ruining his own life if he tries to get Kingsley while he’s still a minor, "Now... give me back my son."

He thankfully heeds and returns, looking confused to see us here. He takes a step backwards almost falling down the stairs but stops himself before he does. His face turns red.

"We talked to your wolf, Laurent. He told us some things," I blurt out and he looks even more nervous.

"What? W-what did he say?" he asks, his voice shaky. He obviously knows what his wolf goes out to do at night. Damn lying brat.

"Well, he says he feels trapped, that's why he goes out at night to run. I'm not surprised, he's always been such a free soul," I lie and Laurent lets out a relieved breath, "But we have a solution. Let me talk it over with your dad and we'll discuss it with you in the morning, okay?"

Laurie nods and finishes walking up the stairs, dodging Daniel's eyes behind me.

"Okay, I'll go to sleep now. Good night," he says before fleeing like a scurrying elephant to his room. Daniel lets out a heavy growl from his throat.

"That can't be possible," he complains and walks back to our room, "What the hell are we going to do to fix that? How are we ever going to get Annalise to accept that if it's true?"

"It just takes some thinking, Daniel," I blurt out, closing our door, "Things have always been so weird between them, it must be because of this. We know things are different because Laurie’s dominant, maybe that's why he's known since before that Kingsley is his mate. That's why they've always been so pushy with each other. And remember that time King's wolf came to see Laurent? And what happened that day in the showers at the game? It's obvious now."

"Then Laurent is a lot stupider than I thought," he grumbles, shaking his head and pacing back and forth as he thinks about it all, "He couldn't make things right? He couldn't be... I don't know, a normal fücking guy with Kingsley and not fight with him all the time? Not make the whole Seong family hate him?”

"His wolf says Laurie doesn't know. Maybe he just doesn't know how to deal with his feelings," I blurt out, smiling despite the shitty situation we're in, "It must be hereditary, Daniel. You yourself just learned how to deal with your feelings about a week ago."

"Shut the f**k up," he grumbles, but calms down a bit, "But you're right, he's a stupid, young alpha, he's obviously going to make a million mistakes. But this... this isn't just between them. The whole clan knows the things that have happened, how Laurent has picked on King for years."

"I know, we have to make a plan. Soon."