Begging for rejection

Chapter 21- Father

Dean POV

Still, he is lying still, not even a twitch in his fingers, only his chest going up and down.

I can’t really remove my eyes away from him since Alexandria left several hours ago, its early morning and I feel like he should wake up any second now, giving me s**t about whatever, hell he can even call me Deedee for the rest of my life if only he would wake up.

Never in my life did I see Derek in a hospital bed, except once when he protected me from father, which is one of the worst memories I have.

Being here again with him like that brings back all the emotions, all the anger, but even then he wasn’t hurt that bad, he had his wolf to heal him, but now, even that, she took away from him, leaving him broken and vulnerable.

Why couldn’t she give him the happiness that he deserves? I mean her reasons aren’t that strong really when you think about it.

He is Derek Stronghold, he would have protected her from some bigoted hunter that’s after her... and I don’t believe for a minute that she has no feelings for him, that’s just a flat out lie.

So she wants to suffer all alone in life, why did she have to be mated to him then?

“Did you hear me Dean?” Sophia says in a scolding manner, bringing me out of my thoughts.

Wait, was she talking to me?

“Sorry, what was that?” I ask her not really interested in the scolding she has been giving me since Alexandria left.

“Whatever Dean, just lay off Alexandria” she says sighing.

“Dean, we have to go to Derek’s office now” Dylan says through gritted teeth.

“What’s wrong?” I ask, standing up out of my chair.

“It’s your father, he is sitting at Derek’s desk barking orders like he is the new alpha” Dylan says, and I see that he is as angry as me or maybe more, if anyone has the right to hate my father more than Derek and I, it's Dylan.

“That son of a b***h” I say grabbing the chair I was just sitting on and throwing it across the room, sending it flying to the wall and crashing into pieces right above Dylan, who doesn’t even flinch.

“Are you done with your tantrums?” Dylan asks bored with my behavior.

“Yes” I answer,straightening my cloth.

“Let’s go then” Dylan says leading the way out of the room but not before giving Sophia a quick pick on the lips and telling her to stay with Derek.

“Send few trusted warriors to guard the alpha while we are gone, this is not over yet and my father’s behavior only confirms it” I order Dylan going into beta mode, I know I’m Derek’s brother but he and the pack needs a beta now, not the alpha’s baby brother.

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We reach Derek’s office, I open the door not bothering to knock, it’s Derek’s office and he is not here, nobody should be here.

I walk in and I see the asshole sitting in Derek’s chair behind his desk laying back as if he owns the place.

The nerve that this asshole has.

He is on the phone with someone, probably the other asshole alpha Michael.

“What the hell do you think you are doing?” I ask him trying so hard not to just jump over the desk and rip his throat out, Ferox, my wolf is growling in agreement.

“Oh, hello son… okay, let me call you back” Louis says putting the phone down.

“Did you need something” he asks with a calm voice like it is normal for him to be here.

“I said what the f**k are you doing here? This is the alpha’s office and you are no alpha, so you better get up and get out before I have you removed” I say letting my anger slip out and Ferox lets out a low growl, threatening to take over.

“Remember your place, boy, I’m your father and I’m the alpha of this pack long before your traitor of a brother betrayed me and stole my title” he says getting out of his chair now and around the desk.

“Stole your title? You stole our childhood, and what title are you talking about? You were never fit to be an alpha and sure as hell you were never fit to be a father, so cut the crap” I say staring right in his eyes and I feel mine getting darker.

He might see this as a challenge and I would gladly accept it, I’m not the scared little boy I once was.

“The disrespect, do you think you can take me down little Dean, are you challenging me?” he says with amusement in his voice.

He thinks this is another opportunity for him to beat the s**t out of me as he used to enjoy it when I was a kid, but he has another thing coming.

“Don’t, the pack doesn’t need this right now, their beta losing control and killing his father will not sit well with the elders or your brother when he wakes up, and let’s not forget why Derek spared his life in the first place, your mother” Dylan mind links me.

He is right, although the last part, I don’t give a damn about, my mother never cared about us, why should we do, but apparently Derek had some fond memories of the woman.

“Challenge you? For what exactly? To be an outcast old man, thrown to the outskirts of the pack out of mercy from the true alpha?” I say with a little smirk.

“You useless piece of s**t, you are just like your ungrateful traitor of a brother” Louis snarls at me.

“I’m the rightful alpha of the crimson river pack, and while your brother is down, no one else is fit to lead this pack but me, the title goes back to me as the bylaws says because he doesn’t have an heir” he finishes with a puff of his chest like he won.

This son of a b***h will not stop till Derek is dead.

“Dylan” I mind link

“Already done, they have been there from the moment we left the hospital” Dylan link back, I sigh in relief.

“Yes, Louis but that goes for former alphas who handed the title down to their sons, but you were stripped of your title, so the title can’t be reverted to you, while the alpha is Recovering the leadership of the pack falls to me, his beta, and you can check with your friend Michael if you don’t believe me” I say smiling.

“Yeah, but when he is dead, the title is for grabs, and I don’t think you have a chance boy” he says smirking.

I try to swallow my anger as much as I could; I go right up his face making sure he hears every word and say

“Well, I like to see you try, we are not the young kids that you tortured before, we are stronger than you can fathom, and Derek won’t go down that easy, so I suggest you get the f**k out and as far away as possible before he wakes up, and this time he will make sure you are dead”.

He clenches his jaws and steps aside to leave, but before he is out of the office he says above his shoulder “if he ever wakes up” and with that he leaves, shutting the doors behind him.

Sophia POV

Dean and Dylan left and I’m sitting in the chair next to Derek’s bed, staring at the door waiting for them to return.

I could feel Dylan’s anger through our bond, I wanted to go with him to comfort him and be there for him, but someone had to stay with Derek and it would be worse if Louis tried to use me to get to Dylan, the man is a psychopath.

There is a knock on the door, I stand up and practically run to open it thinking it might be Dylan, I swing the door open and it’s Alexandria looking like she hadn’t slept since the night before.

The poor thing, if it wasn’t enough seeing Derek like this, Dean's words must have made things worse.

“Hey, come in, Dean isn’t here, don’t worry” I tell her opening the door wider so she could come inside.

“How is he?” Alexandria says going to stand by the bed, her eyes going over Derek’s body.

“The same” I say with a sad smile.

“He is right you know” she says with her back turned to me, still looking at Derek.

“Who?” I ask a little confused because she can’t mean Dean, that asshole didn’t say a thing that was right.

“You know who, Dean” Alexandria answers, facing me now.

“You have got to be kidding me; he is just a big child who doesn’t know how to handle his feelings, you can’t really be considering anything he said”

“Why not Sophia when it’s all true, I’m the reason my first mate is dead and I’m the reason this one is dying” she says with tears brimming in her eyes.

“Luke’s death was not your doing, and yesterday for sure was not your fault, it’s actually the opposite. You saved him, and no way that attack was a coincident. You were followed or rather Derek was. They were just waiting for the opportunity and they were going to have it one way or another, so thank the goddess they did when you were there”.

“I was thinking the same thing, I couldn’t even sense them until I saw them and I bet Derek couldn’t smell them either, because if he did he would have known from the moment we stepped foot in the woods that they were there, they were clocked by magic” Alexandria explains.

“Exactly what Dean said, he also thinks they have been on the territory since that last attack, they must have snuck in during the battle, it was all a diversion, we have warriors combing the pack land with a fine toothcomb” I inform her with all the updates, she deserves to know and Dean can shove it.

“Good call” is all she says while slightly nodding her head.

“I can, leave you alone with him if you want, I’ll be waiting right outside if you need anything” I offer her.

“No, I just needed to see him, I wish he could hear me, I just wanted to tell him th-” Alexandria was cutoff when the door burst open and in came the she devil herself.

“Derek, oh my goddess baby, what happened to you” Izzy says while running to Derek’s bed shoving Alexandria to the side in the process.

“Baby? Who the hell are you?” Alexandria asks, raising an eyebrow at her.

“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.