The Tribrid's Revenge

Chapter 5 Rose

After I ran into my room to avoid my mate, I began getting my “clothes” and bar of soap together when I started to hear footsteps storming towards my room and that meant only one thing. Someone was angry and they were coming to take it out on me. I stood there waiting for my door to be ripped and to take the beating so I could move on with my day. I wasn’t really surprised to see Jackie open my door, I was surprised by the words that came out of her mouth.

“HOW DOES A NO GOOD, WASTE OF TRASH KILLER LIKE YOU GET AN ALPHA FOR A MATE!?!?!?!?” She was screaming at the top of her lungs as she c****d her left fist back and connected with my jaw making it pop.

“What are you talking about?” I asked, fighting back the tears.

“Don’t play dumb with me! You are nothing. You wear sacks for clothes, and sleep in a shoe cupboard and everyone’s b***h. How could the moon goddess give you one of the most powerful alphas around?” She yelled out.

 After that her punches never stopped coming. I could feel the blood oozing from my nose and around my eyes. I knew my jaw was broken and I probably had a broken eye socket but those would heal after a day or two. She grabbed me by the hair, pulled me upwards and went to knee me in the face when out of nowhere she was ripped away from me followed by two of the loudest growels I have ever heard.

A strong set of hands caught my head before it fell and hit the ground. The contact sent a bolt of electricity down my spine. My eyes were completely swollen shut so I couldn’t see who it was but I knew just by his scent. My mate. But another scent caught my attention, pine trees mixed with the ocean. This scent set a fire throughout my whole body. Who is this person and why does their scent make me feel this way?

“What the f**k do you think you are doing? I should kill you right now for putting your hands on my mate!” This voice was angry, but it wasn’t the voice of my mate.

“Alpha Damien is her mate, how can you be her mate too?” Sara shrieked.

“That is none of your goddamn business! I very clearly remember telling you if you ever put your hands on my mate again I would cut your hands off but that would be too much of an easy punishment for you!” My mate stated as he slowly cradled me to his chest.

“Are you alright love?” Damien asked. I wanted to answer him so badly but I don’t have the energy too. 

“Damien is she alright?!?” The other male asked, worry was laced in his angry voice.

“Her heart is still beating but she’s in bad shape. That w***e broke her face but I don’t know how bad. She’s unrecognizable. She needs a pack doctor.” Damien snapped and Felicia laughed.

“Good luck getting him to treat her.” Felicia stated

“Why wouldn’t he treat her? It’s his job to treat those that need medical assistance.” The other man asked, I can feel the anger radiating off of him.

“Alpha Maximus has given him orders to never treat her or he would be slaughtered in front of his family. She is far from worth dying over.” She spoke with amusement. Two seconds later I heard a scream and a loud cracking sound and the breaking of glass. 

“Jackson, you need to calm down, we need to get her out of here. Go fetch the car. I’ll meet you out front in five.” Damien said.

“She is never allowed to come back here.” Jackson said as I heard him start to walk away at a very fast pace.

“Don’t worry my love, we will get you out of here and you will never have to come back.” Damien spoke with a gentleness to his voice.

“Where do you think you are going with my property?!?” Maximus bellowed out.

“Your property? She’s a living, breathing person!! You lied to everybody and the truth will come out. I’m taking my mate home with me and I will be going to the elders about you!! You better start counting your days.” Damien said as he stood up, with me cradled in his arms to walk out the front door.

“Wait! If you’re her mate then we can join packs to increase our numbers!” The excitement in Maximus wasn’t unnoticed, but I heard the worry in it too.

“After what I have seen in the last ten minutes I want nothing to do with this pathetic pack.” With that Damien kept walking and climbed into a vehicle with me in his lap. 

“Get us the f**k out of here before I start tearing off heads.” Damien snapped

“Gladly! They are lucky I didn't burn this whole pack house to the ground!” WIth that the vehicle launched forward and we were gone.

“How can you be her mate Jack?” Damien asked with utter confusion.

“I’m going to assume it’s my dragon side, even dragons have mates but their mate can only be a dragon.” Jackson stated.

“I’m just a werewolf and I’m her mate. The only way she could even possibly have two mates is if she’s not just a werewolf.” Damien said quietly more to himself than anyone.

“She could be part dragon too, that’s the only way it would make sense.” Jackson said.

“Okay but if she was part dragon then she would have been killed by now unless.” Damien trailed off.

“She must not even know. That’s probably why Max killed her parents, to try to steal their strength, but that’s not how that works.” Jackson spoke like he was trying to piece everything together as he spoke.

“There’s no way I have dragon in me, I haven’t even shifted yet.”I told them honestly.

“How old are you?” Jackson asked while he reached over to move my hair out of the way so he could, I’m assuming, look at something. 

“I just turned 18 today.” Talking made my pain worse but with both of them touching me in some way, the pain was bearable.

“I’m telling you man, she’s part dragon. She has the mark on the back of her kneck just like I do.” Jackson spoke with sadness.

“What are we going to do about it? Who’s going to reject her?” Damien asked.

“No one is rejecting anyone. If anyone rejects anyone we all will die. Wolves shift at 16, why haven’t you shifted?” Jackson asked.

“Alpha has been making me drink a lot of wolfsbane to keep my wolf from coming out and shifting.” There was no sense in lying to them.

“Her first shift won’t be like anyone else’s. It will be like mine, first she will shift into her wolf and then if, and I know I am, she will switch into her dragon. But if I’m not there to draw her dragon out, the shift into a dragon will kill her.” I can hear the pain in Jackson’s voice.

“I’m tired, I’m going to sleep.” I yawned. I buried my head deeper into Damien’s chest and reached my hand around to rest it on Jackson’s hand. I have never felt this at peace before. But what if it is all just a dream. 

“When we get back to the packhouse, I’m going to have Dr. Hillman run tests on her and see what he can find out from her blood. I know our mate is different but I want to know what the future holds in store for us.” Damien kissed my head the same time Jackson kissed my hand. 

I tried going to sleep but I couldn’t help but think about what was going on with me and how I have two mates. I have never even heard of dragons, but I have been so sheltered since the death of my parents. I had so many questions running through my mind that it decided to shut down and I was fast asleep in no time.