Begging for rejection

Chapter 22 - Haunting past

Sophia POV

“I’m his girlfriend, who the hell are you?” Izzy shoots back, putting a hand on her hips, giving Alexandria her full attention.

Oh s**t; this is bad, very bad, Izzy can’t find out who Alexandria is.

I can hear Ria’s teeth grinding against each other and if I concentrate enough, I swear I will see a thin line of smoke coming out of her ears.

“Ex, Ex-girlfriend Izzy” I say trying to save the situation and clarify things.

“So that what he meant that day in the office” Alexandria says under her breath.

“Not for long, Sophia, he wouldn’t have invited me here if he didn’t want to get back together” Izzy says shifting her attention to me.

“No, he only invited you so you could help with the guardian’s ball preparation as it’s the only thing you are good at, and weren’t you supposed to arrive tomorrow or the day after or something?” I say getting annoyed with her pretentious ass.

I can see from the corner of my eyes Alexandria burning holes into Derek with her gaze.

“Do you expect me to hear that my boyfriend is hurt and just wait?” Izzy says, all offended.

“I thought Sophia said you’re his ex, he is not your boyfriend, so stop saying he is your boyfriend” Alexandria finally tearing her gaze from Derek and now burning holes into Izzy.

She is jealous and if this was not a dire situation, it would actually be cute.

“Who is the homeless person?” Izzy asks me, pointing to Alexandria who clenches her fists and I can see she is barely controlling herself from biting Izzy’s head off.

“um …uh… she is my assistant” it’s the only thing I could come up with. Sue me.

Alexandria raises an eyebrow to me, I give her 'a please play along look', she sighs then says “Yes, I’m her assistant” with the fakest smile I ever saw.

She is a terrible lair.

Izzy walks towards Alexandria then stops and look her up and down and say “And why does your assistant look like she crawled out of a garbage can?”.

“Oh, I will put you in a gar-” Alexandria starts but before she finishes she gets cut off by Dean.

“Oh f**k” Dean says as he steps inside the room and sees Alexandria and Izzy in the same room about to go off, thank the goddess for the interruption.

“Well, hello to you too, Dean” Izzy says annoyed.

“Hello Izzy, what are you doing here?” Dean asks.

“Am I expected to know that Derek is severely injured and not come see him? What’s wrong with you people?” Izzy says, shocked.

“And how did you know that he got hurt in the first place?” Dean asks, narrowing his eyes at her.

“Uhm… your father kinda told several people and the word just spread".

“That son of b***h” Dean says angrily, and grabs the nearby chair, probably to throw it across the room again.

“Don’t, at this rate we won’t have any furniture left in the whole pack” Dylan stops him and Dean complies.

“Izzy, let me show you to your room. It's better if we go far away from Dean now” I say and she nods in agreement and leave the room.

I go to Alexandria who is still standing beside Derek’s bed looking at him with an expression I couldn’t really read, Worry and anger maybe?

“It’s okay Ria, he is going to be okay” I try to assure her.

“I really hope so… so I could beat the living s**t out of him” she says the last part through gritted teeth and storms out of the room.

Oh she definitely is jealous and dire situation or not, that was super cute, I think to myself, as I follow both of Derek’s women out of the room.

Dylan POV

“Let me take control Dylan” my wolf, Dom says.

“We can’t, not yet, Derek promised when the time comes he is all ours”

“The alpha will keep his promise, he always does”

“Don’t worry Dom, we will have our revenge”

I try and calm my wolf down, all I see when I see Louis, is my father's casket being lowered to the ground, my mother lying on her bed sheets that turned red from her blood, her grief, her madness then her death.

He killed them both, he took everything from me, from us.

My father always tried to help the boys and their mother, his sister when Louis got in one of his moods.

He even moved us to the pack house to live with them so he can keep an eye on things, sometime he succeeded in hiding the boys and helping them, others he couldn’t, they loved my father wishing he was their own which made Louis hate him even more.

One day dad heard his sister’s screams, he rushed to her aid to find her all bloodied and bruised between Louis’s hands, he was choking her to death... my dad fought him off but he was an alpha after all...he ripped my father’s throat out leaving him dead.

My mom felt it, she rushed to where my father were and she saw him, lying dead on the floor eyes open almost like he is looking at her.

At first the pain and the grief was too much, she couldn’t stop crying and screaming, and after a while she started to act as if nothing happened, like my father was still alive, she would come to dinner and excuse him for being late saying he is just tired and fell asleep, or he was out of the pack on a business trip.

We all played along in hopes that she one day will be better but Louis was annoyed with her denial, so he decided she should snap out of it by telling her the detailed truth about how he killed him and where and how he suffered.

She couldn’t take it and killed herself, I was the one to find her, I was just 9.

When Derek became alpha, I was enraged that he let him live, that he actually begged the guardians to spare him, that’s when he promised me, that when the time comes, I’ll get to be the one to kill him, he just didn’t want his mother to die too from the effects of losing her mate, she was weak as it is mentally and physically.

Part of me agreed so my father’s death won’t be in vain...he died saving her after all, and I know the feeling of losing a mother.

It wasn’t until I found Sophia that I tasted happiness again, I had a home between her arms, I knew what smiling is when I smiled at her.

She is my family, my mate, my everything, she washed away the pain and replaced it with love, she is more than just a mate to me , she is life itself.

“Are you okay?” Dean asks as we head back to the hospital.

“I’m fine, I’ll be better when I kill him though” I answer Dean.

“Soon, I have a feeling it’s going to be soon” Dean says in determination.

We reach Derek’s room and I can feel Sophia’s anxiety going up.

At first I thought it’s because I’m meeting Louis but when we open the door, I knew why it was skyrocketing.

“Oh f**k” Dean Says, oh f**k indeed, I think to myself.