The Enforcer's Mate

Chapter 17

When Alec opened his eyes the next night, the first thing he noticed immediately that Elizabeth was not in bed with him. He quickly shot up, so he was sitting in bed and looked around the room with a fearful glance. "Elizabeth, where are you?" He called out. As there was no sound in the room, he immediately threw some clothes on and hurried out of the room in search of Elizabeth.

As he rushed out of the room, into the man cave, he found her sitting on a bench near the sparing ring. She was watching the men in the ring closely and advising the man sitting next to her. Breathing a sigh of relief, he was walking up to her when a new scent assaulted his nose. Every male stopped what they were doing as they too caught a whiff of the smell. A few of the males even growled as a warning.

Alec locked eyes with Mike, the male who was sitting next to Elizabeth. Alec glared at him and motioned for him to get her out of there. Mike nodded in agreement and carefully picked Elizabeth up, ignoring her protests. He ran out of the room with her as Alec turned toward the door. "What do you think you are doing here, werewolf? You know we don't like your kind here." Alec growled as the door opened to reveal a small group of men standing in the doorway.

"Now now prince we heard such an interesting rumor that we had to come and look. After all, everyone in the underworld is talking about this juicy piece of gossip. Everyone speaks of how Alec prince of all the enforcers has found his mate." The one in front said.

Right as Alec was about to reply, everyone could hear a voice coming from where Mike ran off, a few seconds later a sizeable sounding smack could be heard, and a lot of the males cringed at the sound. Alec couldn't help but hold his forehead in his hand and shake his head back and forth. Within a few minutes, Mike came back into the cave containing his right red cheek, and Elizabeth was walking begin him an angry expression on her face.

As soon as Elizabeth saw Alec, she immediately walked over to him. "I can not believe you, Alec, the second there is something strange going on you try and hide me from the world. I am your mate, and I intend to stay by your side. No matter what. I'm just pregnant nothing else is wrong with that." She growled.

As Elizabeth was about to continue a male voice from behind her caused her to stop her rant and look behind her. "Elizabeth? Is that you?" As Elizabeth turned around the man looking at her with a shocked look on his face. "Ugh, what are you doing here, Ivan?" She asked. "Wait a minute you know him?" Alec asked. Elizabeth looked up at him. "Yeah we dated in high school, he's my ex. What is he doing here?" She asked. Alec growled and pulled her into a close embrace.

Ivan couldn't help but be surprised. In high school, he had dated Elizabeth pretty much all four years. The night of graduation, Ivan may have gotten a little drunk and tried to have s*x with her. Of course, the next morning, when he was sober, she broke it off with him. Ivan hadn't seen her since. And something felt wrong with the way Alec was holding her. Ivan couldn't help himself, and he growled.

"Elizabeth is part of the werewolf pack. We all accepted her because she had no one else. I had planned on making her my mate and making her an actual werewolf. How dare you come onto my territory and take the female I was looking at." Ivan growled. Elizabeth's gaze met his so fast that some had to flinch. "I am my person I never belonged to any pack. We dated four years, and you tried to r**e me, and I broke it off. You know as well as I do that we never went any further than kissing. I tried to take it further, and I denied you. Since that day I broke it off, you haven't contacted me in any way shape or form, and now you are trying to tell me that you were looking at me as a mate. Oh, hell no. I am a person, not an object." Elizabeth said as she glared at Ivan. Ivan too met her gaze and was about to reply before Alec's angry voice could be heard. "Ivan, she is my mate, if you try to take her from me, you can expect a war. I do not care if you are about to be the leader if the werewolves in America, my mate is the most important thing in my life."

Elizabeth sighed then broke free of Alec's grip. "Ugh all you men are the same; this is mine, don't touch what's mine. You all make me so mad. Just leave me the hell alone right now." She said as she started to stomp away. Both Ivan and Alec tried to follow her, but she turned back on a dime and glared at both men. "Follow me, and I swear to god, I will hurt you. Just leave me alone. And if I see any other male, I will castrate them myself. We wish to be left alone." With those parting words, she left every male in the room with their mouths hanging down from the threat she just gave.

Ivan looked over at Alec, who was smiling the whole time. "Seriously your smiling because of this?" Ivan asked. "Nope, I'm smiling cause that is my little firecracker mate," Alec answered, smiling at Ivan.

Ivan couldn't help but smile too, "She's always been like that even when we were in high school. I guess what I had for her was just a high school love. I will make this promise to you, Alec, if I did out that she is unhappy in any way I will take her away from you. No matter what she still is an honorary member of my pack. And just as if she was a real member we will protect her with our lives." Ivan said, turning around and motioning for the men to follow him as well.