The Rightful Alpha

Retreat

Travis

I am stuck with files and files of paper work. There was so much going on right now. And I had little to no desire to do any of them. My mind was captive of one thing only. It hold my one attention for days now. And I only blame myself for making me feel this way. I put myself here.

I sat here completely alone in my study. Sitting on my bed as I try to get s**t done. I couldn’t sit out there before the fire place. Not when I wish she was here. Malcolm whines for her scent as we enter the room. We only get her for the night. And we are asleep for most of it. I miss her voice. Her smile, her wants, her needs, her lips. I miss her.

At times I lay in bed as she stays asleep. I watch her. If I time it out right. I can wrap my arms around her. And she scoots into me. I give her a kiss goodnight and a kiss in the morning everyday. I can’t bring myself to say sorry. Afraid if I start to talk she will just say it’s over. So I shower her with a gentleman’s kiss. And I continue to work until I can again sneak her into my arms.

I try everything to occupied my mind but it was no use. Nothing help. I replay that fight. Wishing it had went any other way. I am grateful she came back to the room. I was afraid she’ll leave. Making me losing her scent all over the pack house. Yet through out the day I get her scent in the air. Telling me I have to make it right soon. If not, she’ll leave us. It was just hard. Every time we are in the same room. My tongue is caught. And her eyes speaks pain to me. And I walk away.

I am not even half way through all my emails, work slips, future plans, and more. I had push them off for a bit and now I am behind. I lay the laptop beside me. Laying back I get this pain at my side. I get up to see if I laid on something hard. Nothing. Laying back down I stare at the ceiling. Needing to not be alone. But I can’t call her to be with me. Who says she’ll even answer my call. She’s at Connie’s place until work. But she should be home in a few hours.

“We should fix things. I’m tired of the silences. We need her.” I agree with him. Planning out how we should go by doing so.

During the time Malcolm whines and whines. “Dude. Shut up.”

“It’s her. Something not right.”

I sit up. Trying to feel for her. I can’t feel much. If only we were mark. I would of been able to sense her right now.

“She needs us. We have to go. We have to go.”

I get up fast and grab for my keys. I listen to Malcolm. And drive as fast as I can. I rolled down the window. Needing the air to ease my nervous. Malcolm continues to whin and demanding to go to her. I don’t take his demands lightly.

An over powering feeling hits me. Fear and pain. My jaw clenches as it goes to Elizabeth. Knowing Malcolm was right. She needed us.

“Travis. Elizabeth.” He paces around my head.

I drive faster. In minutes we get a small scent that matches hers. I pull over on the side of the road. And races out the car. Straight into the woods.

“Hurry!!”

I follow her scent. But it was still far. Malcolm barks nonstop and I shifted. He was faster and can get to her before I can. He sprinted off as soon as his paws touched the ground. Everything around us blurs to our sight. Her scent intensifies but then a boil anger came over as another male’s scent came along hers. We follow and the closer we get the more we can sense her fear. She was hurt and scared.

“We are coming baby. We’re coming.”

The sight of them came into play. She whispers a no while he continues to press himself on her. His hands keeps her from breathing. And then we saw red over take. Seeing him on her, touching her, mixing his scent with what is ours. Ours.

“Paint his blood with the grass Malcom.”

We jump into mid air. Ramming our body into his. Flying his human body completely away from our mate. His body hits the ground, taking his air.

“What the f**k man. Finders keeps.” He says.

I allow him to get up. Feral growling at him. I stand tall as he mange to try to get up. “Go find your own bitch.” Rubbing his temple. He finally sees me. Widen eyes as he realize he faces an Alpha. “Oh f**k. The b***h wasn’t lying was she?”

Malcolm howls in the air as the guy tries to back away. Only in his human form we catch him before he can get away. Realizing he had made a terrible mistake. Malcolm bite down on his leg, dragging him back to us.

“No, no, no.” He yells.

Champing down on his leg repeatedly, he screams in pain. Flipping him over. He plead to us. We pay no mind to this wolf. Already making a big mistake. Anyone who hurts a Luna is sentence to death. Tired of his plead we pair our teeth around his neck. Blood pours into our mouth. Again and again we chump away at him. Soon he stops moving. Laying lifeless underneath us.

We shifted back to our human form. Blood running down my mouth. I wipe it away, staring at the prick who tried to take our Elizabeth from us. “No one touches what’s ours without facing death.” We growl at the rouge’s body. Leaving it there for the animals to eat away.

Our panting slowly goes away. We walk to our mate who sat on the ground. We bend down to lift her head at us. “He’s gone now. He can’t hurt you anymore.”

We search her body. Being careful to not put pressure. She twitches to me touching her pain. We snarl at the sight of her ripped clothes and blood on her head. My eyes narrow her assault.

“Travis? How did you find me?” She asked softly.

“You needed us, so we came.” Feeling a heavy heart.

She begins to get up. Holding onto the tree. We tried to help her but she pushes our hands away. She was still mad at us. Even now. Trying to take a step she softly groans in pain.

“Don’t walk. Let me carry...”

“I’m fine. I’m not a damsel.” She snaps.

We let her try to take another step and we plead for her to stop and breathe first. After limping to the tree next to us she pants to the pain.

“Elizabeth please. You’re hurt. You shouldn’t walk.”

“I’m fine on my own.” She claims.

I hold back a need to growl. Watching her try to walk again on her injure foot. We pick her up into our arms. She argues to let her down but we don’t listen. We walk back to the car and I gently let her in. Buckling her up. She swap our hands away.

We stayed silence the whole ride. I can feel her pain and shame. She doesn’t look at us the whole time. Not once. Every few miles I look over. Seeing her the way she is. It sent us in a roller coaster. Blaming us for it all. If only we hadn’t been fighting. This wouldn’t of happen.

Once we get back to the pack house. I carry her to the clinic to get check out. She plead to not take her. Stating she’s fine and just needs a shower and a wrap on her ankle. I can only say no without starting a fight.

I lay her down on the exam table. Letting the doctor and nurses do their job. I link Mason of her attack. Knowing he will want to see her. I pace back and forth. As they work. Undressing her. All the questions. Seeing her like this gave us a line of rage and blame. After they had finish taking care of her. I go to hold her hand. Hoping she doesn’t hate me for this. She wore only a gown now. Her bruises caught my eyes. Telling me how bad I had f**k this up.

“You seem to only have a sprain ankle Luna. You are very lucky. Could of been worse.” Elizabeth looks down to the ground. I thank the doctor and she leaves us alone.

“I know you have more important things to do. I’m fine. You can leave now. I won’t hold you up.” Wiggling her injure ankle that is now wrapped up.

We said nothing but stay by her side. A few minutes past and she sat upright. Holding her gown closed at the front. “Why did he do this? Why couldn’t he leave me alone? Was he one of those wolves who hunts witches?” She asked.

I shake my head. “No. He was just a rouge. Probably lives in the woods.”

“Then why would he do this. He keep saying I was his. Why?” She never looked at us once. And my jaw ticks as we are the reason for this.

“It’s our fault.” She slowly picks her head up. Looking at us. “I didn’t think it would affect you. I was wrong.”

“I don’t understand?” Her eyes carry her hurt.

“I don’t know if others have this but for wolves we do. When you mate and don’t mark soon after, you carry this scent on you. A very strong needing scent that makes male wolves go crazy. Needing to mark you. Usually if we spend enough time together the scent won’t be too effect for other unmated males.” I hide my pain as it was my fault we kept our distances. “He was a rogue who hid in the woods. Your scent was too much for him and he tried to mark you as his.”

“Ohh okay.” Looking away from us. She lays back on the table. Closing her eyes tightly. She was still in some major pain.

I swallow my pride and figure at this moment I needed to fix things for us. Goddess forgive if things went worse. Our last moment together was us fighting. I didn’t want that. “Elizabeth i’m sorry you couldn’t come to us. I’m sorry in my part in this. I only wish you can forgive me for it all.” We say. Holding her hand we lock our fingers with hers.

She looked up at us. “It’s not your fault. It’s mine.” I grab her hand. Shaking my head. “I understand now that your mind is made up. I’m more damage now. I was weak when I needed to be strong. You need someone who can fight harder than me.”

I begin to rub circle on her hand with my thumb. “No baby. We made you think you couldn’t come to us. I don’t want to make that mistake ever again. You don’t have to forgive me. But we don’t want anyone but you.”

“But i’m not a wolf. I don’t know how to control my magic enough to save myself.” Choking her words.

“You are strong. We put too much on you. I’m sorry but I promise I will do better. I don’t want you to leave us. I hated every part of this. I hated the silence. All I thought of was you all day.” I tower over her. And her pool of green eyes stare at me. “Will you give me another chance?”

She blinks her tears away. And I kiss them. Her breath hitch to our touch. “I’m sorry for the fight. I’m not use to someone fighting to stay. All of this scares me.”

“Are you scared of us?” Now I utterly hate myself more.

“I’m scared of what can happen because of me. The horror stories of mates not being the same. Our future will only be difficult. I’ll never forgive myself from keeping you away from it. You’ll just regret it. Regret me.” You can see it in her eyes. She was terrified.

“You don’t have to be scared. We will do everything we can to protect you. It will be dangerous. But that’s how it is. We just want you regardless of anything. Just you.” We tell her.

“I can’t tell if my feelings for you are my own or if it’s the bond. And if you don’t truly feel the same. I ache for the time you will see how big of a mistake it was.” I shake my head. Kissing her hand. “I’m sorry boys. I’m really sorry. I just don’t want to cause more of an issues. It’s all I know.”

“Just say you will stay with us. That’s all we need right now. Tell us you want us baby.” I lean my head against hers. “Because you are all we want. All the time.”

We see her smile. And her lips part to speak. She lays her hand on our cheeks. Sending delightful sparks. “I’ll be your witch if you will be my wolf.”

Couldn’t hide my containment. I lean in fully. Indulging in her sweet taste. Ohh how much I have miss her lips so bad. It’s like I have been neglecting to breathe. Pulling back she looks at us in such a way. Now all I want is to carry her back to our room. Have her cradle up to us. And we sooth all her pain away.

“I miss you both.”

“We miss you too.”

Before we can give in to another kiss. The door swings open. Our heads turns to a frightening Mason storming in. “Liv! What on Earth Goddess happen?” Making his way next to me.

“I’m fine Mason.” Closing her gown up more. My hands moves in to tighten her hand down. Making sure not a skin shows.

“The doctor told me everything. Thank Goddess you are alright? I thought you didn’t get off until later?”

“Mason I’m..” She tries to explain.

“Why didn’t you call? I know you two are still fighting but I would of grab you.”

“Mason sh..” Again he didn’t let anyone talk.

“How the hell did this happen? Thank Goddess you got to her Alpha. I don’t know if..”

“MASON!” We both shout after making a look of annoyance.

He frowns at us. And calms his nervous down. He grabs her fingers. Looking at me for an answer. “Liv? Why were you walking home?” I too wanted to know. We both gave her the same curious look.

“I lied about what time I got off today.” Both Mason and I hold back our anger until she finish explaining. “After hanging out with Mery and Connie. Mery drop me off for a short shift. Connie was talking about this new witch store out of town and how she needed to pick up some items for practicing her healing for Nursing school. Like unicorn horn shavings and pixie wing string, which is hard to find anywhere.”

We look puzzle as we have no clue of any of these stuff. “I looked it up and saw it was on the way home. So a coworker drop me off. I needed some stuff for myself anyways. It was nice out and I didn’t want to bother any of you. So please understand I didn’t think this would happen. I thought it be a nice walk.”

Elizabeth gave us a guilt of sorrows. Blaming herself for all of it. But it wasn’t totally her fault. No it was the rouge’s. Mason let out a breath. He thought out his words before responding. I kiss her head and told her it wasn’t her fault. And to not blame herself for any of this.

“Just call next time. Please.”

“I’m sorry Mason.” She looks up to me and her eyes tear up. “I’m sorry baby. I hate to worry anyone of you.”

I lean in to kiss her lips. Tears stream down her cheeks and meets our mouth. “You shouldn’t have been in a position where you couldn’t call.”

Mason gave us a mischievous look. “Ha, I see you two talk.”

Elizabeth smile while I nod. “We’re better now.”

Mason pat Elizabeth’s hand before letting go. “Now I have to yell at Connie!” Mason kisses her head. Ignoring my growl. Our mate chuckle as she thinks it’s cute that i’m bother by him being so close to her where he feels the need to kiss her. I know they tell me not to. But I should be the only one to kiss any part of her.

“It’s harmless. They’re siblings.”

“It confuses me.” I can’t take it if some how they confess some hidden love for each other.

“Trust the words they say to us. If it’s nothing. It’s nothing.” Malcolm says.

“I need time Malcolm.” I am not fully use to this. She’s my mate. And he is my brother.

“I don’t sense anything between them like that.”

“I guess I just have to get use to it.” I sigh to myself. I hate how much it bothers me. I trust our mate. And I trust Mason. It’s just when I see them show affection or when she choices him. My mind goes wild.

“Babe?” She calls to me. Returning my attention to her.

“Yes baby. Are you okay? Does something hurt? I’ll get the nurse.” She grabs my arm before I mange to leave.

Looking at us cautiously. “I’m not in any pain. But are you okay?”

I think she senses my unease about them. I tap her hand. “I’m fine. I was worry about you.”

I didn’t want to start a fight. So I hide it. “Okay. Well do you think we can get out of here. My legs are killing me. I rather be in bed than here.”

“Of course. You need your rest.” I scoop her up into my arms. Her mouth open to argue. But then shuts as she just enjoys me taking care of her.

“Thank you for rescuing me. My sweet wolf.” Giving us a kiss of honor. One of her most best kiss ever.