Begging for rejection

Chapter 9 - Eyebrows

Dylan POV

“He is close. Change location. Stay hidden” I read the message on her phone before it locks.

“Alpha, you need to come back here now” I mind link Derek While the doctors take care of Alexandria.

Just few minutes and a disheveled half naked Derek comes running through the hallway, he finds me standing outside her door and stops right in front of me with a panicked face trying to catch his breath

“What happened? Is she okay” he asks and tries to go past me into the room but I stop him,

“She is resting, the doctors said not to disturb her; they say it could be post surgery stress and that this happens sometimes”.

Derek sighs and shuts his eyes “It’s my fault, I shouldn’t have pushed her that far when she is in that condition”.

“It’s not you or the surgery Derek; I think it was a panic attack” he looks at me in confusion and I explain about the message I read and how it scared her enough into a panic attack , she doesn’t seem like the type to scare easily.

Alexandria POV

It’s been two days since I got max’s message and had my panic attack, when I woke up I felt the warmth of Derek’s hand in mine hugging it to his chest, his other hand was around my waist and his head was resting almost on my lap.

He looked like a lost boy who found home, it was adorable, and I felt safe and protected.

He had a smile on his face, he looked so peaceful and innocent… oh how I will destroy your life and wipe that smile off your face just by being near you.

The words in the message was on repeat in my mind, he will find me and kill him too.

I felt my heart rate rising, breathing is getting harder and all the machines starts beeping and he wakes up and looks at me with worried eyes and all I can see is blood.

Blood coming out of his mouth, his chest is soaked, Just like Luke, I pushed him off of me as I look at him in horror until he is blocked out of view with the doctors and nurses rushing to me.

I miss him, I just miss him.

I’m brought out of my train of thought by Dylan’s voice “Lun- I mean Alexandria, this is my mate Sophia the female gamma of the pack”

Sophia has a dirty blond long hair with blue eyes and full lips, she is gorgeous, she was wearing black skinny jeans, a floral blouse and white snickers.

“Hello Sophia, nice to finally meet you, he won’t shut up about you” I greet her with that.

“Ah...I trained him well” she says with a smirk.

“Okay, I’m already regretting this, today Sof will be your babysit- I mean will keep you company” Dylan informs me

“That was the worst save babe” Sophia says laughing “Now, out” Dylan gives her a pick on the lips and leaves.

“So Alex, what was that panic attack thing all about?”Okay straight to the point,

“I don’t like nicknames and aren’t we a little pushy? We just met”.

“What? We are the ranked females, we are bound to be close friends, we are only missing the beta female now to complete the ranking girls’ gang” Sophia says all excited and I raise an eyebrow to her, girls gang? What the hell?

“You know he does that same thing” Sophia says giggling.

“Who does what?” I ask, frowning my eyebrows now.

“Derek, he does the whole silent raised eyebrow questioning thing, even the frowning eyebrows follow up question thing you are doing right now” she finishes the last part laughing.

I try to relax my face saying “I don’t do that”.

“Yeah right, you know how many times these last two days he called me Alexandria instead of Sophia? Or that Dylan has to give an hourly report about how you are doing?” I start blushing.

“From your blushing I say you like him too” she says wiggling her eyebrows.

“I don’t like him, I’ve just met him and I have a husband” I say firmly.

“Yeah you might have a husband but he is not really in the picture anymore right? Maybe you are getting a divorce or just strained?” she says giving me a knowing look.

“And what makes you say that?” I question her.

“Come on, you think Dylan missed how you indirectly try to know how Derek is doing or how you keep glancing at the door thinking it’s him coming to see you whenever you hear someone coming” she says sitting in the chair next to the bed

“If you are in a loving relationship you wouldn’t be falling for another guy plus you never answered where that husband of yours is? You were severely injured and he didn’t even check on you. So why are you lying?” okay that one is smart, damn it.

“I’m not lying. Yes we are … strained for now, and no I’m not falling for anyone … maybe it’s just the bond’s effect or whatever” I try to reason with her or maybe I’m trying to convince myself?... I don’t know anymore.

“You are human, the bond doesn’t affect you, not yet anyway… so that’s all you baby, don’t try to deny it” she says with a smirk and I want to punch her in the face.

Dylan POV

Another two days has past, we figured out what happened with the whole crossing border to blood moon incident.

Apparently there was some online challenge of some sort between the youngest pack warriors on one of the werewolf’s websites where users are all anonymous and the messages are erased the moment its read in order to protect our existence in case some unaware humans or so stumble upon it by accident, the bet has been going on for a month about who could trespass to the other territory and back without being noticed thus proving what a great and stealthy warrior one is.

There was a lot of trash talk and werewolves being werewolves, we don’t back down from a challenge, two of the warriors actually took the bait and confirmed that they can do it that night promising to go live on their camera phones to prove it but when the moment came they couldn’t do it out of fear of what Derek might do to them if he finds out.

And alpha Michael being full of himself and his plan jumped the gun and contacted the council before actually capturing the warriors, I guess he thought that the kids stumbling into his territory the next morning was just his good luck and continued with his plan just to end up digging himself a bigger whole.

There was no way of knowing who started the bet or if it was one of our pack members or not because of the whole anonymous thing and any werewolf in the country had access to the website.

If it wasn’t for James’s sake, Derek would have taken alpha Michael out years ago and he would have been justified, it’s not the first time he plotted against Derek with the help of his own father, Uncle Louis.

Derek has been on edge, understandably more than usual, because of the threat of having a mole in our pack, the rogue attack and the fact that he hasn’t seen Alexandria, except when she is sleeping.

Ever since she woke up from her panic attack and found him holding her hand and resting his head on her stomach falling asleep and her panic attack almost started again,

He then decided that he is some kind of trigger and stayed away for the sake of her well being until she is strong again and discharged from the hospital… but he mind links me almost every goddamn hour to give him an update about her, I guess his wolf is going crazy.

“You know her first panic attack wasn’t about you right? You are overreacting or maybe it’s something else?” I tell Derek while we are sitting in his office along with Dean, I finally got a break from babysitting Alexandria as she calls it, I convinced Derek that Sophia, My mate, would be a good change for Alexandria, maybe they can have girls talk or whatever and she could know more about her story.

“I’m not overreacting you didn’t see the way she looked at me when she woke up, it’s like she saw death… and it’s something else as you said… I can barely control my wolf when she is refusing us like this, he wants to mark her then find her husband and kill him and I can’t say that I entirely disagree” Derek answers my question.

“Did you get anything from her phone? And what about the attack do we know who is behind it? And why was she the target?” Derek asks me all alpha mode now.

“I couldn’t get to her phone; she doesn’t let it out of her sight and we are still investigating the attack, but it doesn’t look promising, the only reason for her to be attacked by rogues is if they knew she is your mate but you didn’t even know until the day before, and only the three of us knew” I answer my alpha.

“And for that reason her identity remains secret, as far as the pack is considered she is just my guest till we know more about the attack… and her. Dean what did you dig out about her history?” Derek asks Dean now.

“As I said, this Jessica Simmons character had a history since birth, financial papers, school grades even medical history ,It was a very professional job, if she didn’t blurt out that it’s a fake name we would have never known… you sure can pick them” Dean reply with a chuckle which earns him yet another growl from Derek.

“You sure are growly these days” I comment which earns me an even louder growl this time.

“You are just proving our point dude” Deans says raising one eyebrow and we both start laughing.

“You both know I can rip your balls out and shove it down you throats with one move, right?” Derek threatens and we shut up immediately.

In truth no one talks to Derek that way, only me and dean and that’s not because we are the beta and gamma but mostly because Dean is his brother and I’m his cousin.

He earned a reputation as the strongest and scariest alpha of his time. He was only 16 when the guardians came and made him the alpha instead of his father, uncle Louis, a despicable man who should have been dead if it wasn’t for Derek begging the guardians to spare his life for the sake of his mother who would die if her mate died.

Other alphas saw this as an opportunity to challenge the young boy thinking he was too young and without the support of his father he would be easy to defeat and they would take over the pack to grow in power and size.

little did they know the opposite happened, Derek killed all the alphas that challenged him and took over their packs, almost tripling our size and earning us the title of the biggest and the strongest pack in the region and all of that before he turned 20, a year younger than the official age most alphas even inherites their title.

The only reason alpha Michael even got the nerve to mess with us is because he is supported by Uncle Louis and thinks that we are unaware that they are communicating and he knows Derek plays by the rules but after his last stunt, he is fair game now.

And what a game that will be.