Beyond Fate

Scheming Beta

Earlier that day…

( Nathan pov)

I lay naked in the strange bed propping myself up by my elbows absently watching the female stalking about the room gathering her clothes.

I had never felt so disgusted with myself. All I wanted to do was go home and scrub my skin till it was raw just to take away the stench of this female on my skin. I had a fated mate and a chosen one but this female was neither and it made me feel gross thinking about what had transpired in this cheap dingy hotel room.

She bent over giving me a full view of her backside looking over her shoulder seductively. Clearly she was hoping I’d go for round two just from the view of her yet my stomach rolled at the sight of her naked body. I had to bite back the bile I could feel rising in my throat. It wasn’t even that she was unattractive, she had a typical petite slender body of a witch thought they tended not to have many curves I had always found them too skinny for my taste her skin tone was lightly tanned much like Alisha’s which had helped but unlike my two beauty’s back home this females hair was as black as night matching her sinister personality. s*x with her had been an eye opener. I didn’t mind it rough that seemed to be all Kelly was into since she had taken up with her new male lover but something seemed wrong in the act when a female was actually begging for you to inflict pain on her during s*x.

“ So the information you have ?” I asked, trying to hide my irritation for this woman. This hadn’t been what I had in mind when I’d called her this morning.

Originally I’d called the number I’d taken out of Lucas’s phone and decided a scorned ex girlfriend would prove useful to have as an alley but within minutes of answering I had learned that the female in question was an ex lover of Lucas who he had brushed of a few weeks ago she was a witch by the name of Nerva after a brief chat I was on my way to meet her in person at this dingy hotel on the motorway, surprisingly not far from silver moon pack almost as if she had been waiting for a call. As much as I could figure at the time she was expecting Lucas to come crawling back, I hadn’t wanted to be the one to tell her the asshole had already moved on. To my f*****g woman.

The female turned with her dress slipping it over her head, eyeing me with a smile. Her dark hair that travelled down to her waist was still matted and parts stuck to her forehead. I'd never found a beautiful woman so unappealing. Part of me wanted to tell her to go and get cleaned up, that it was embarrassing to think I’d want her again in the dishevelled state she was in. I remembered times I’d seen Alisha in a similar state and been nothing but aroused by the sight of her.

“ Yes, you want information on Lucas?” I don’t know why she was asking the whole stupid agreement had been her idea. I’d offered her money as soon as I’d gotten here wanting to get the whole experiance over with quickly. I would have paid anything for this information but as soon as she had laid eyes on me she had wanted something else as payment. That’s how I had ended up in her hotel bed stinking of her and trying to hold off on vomiting all over her cheap bedspread.

“ You know what I want to know woman” I said almost growling, growing more impatient by the second. I can understand why that asshole wasn’t answering her texts now. I could already tell this female was not worth the headache.

“ steady little pup don’t lose that cool I am beginning to like you” she smiled raising her eyebrows she stood at the edge of the bed eyeing me, holding back the eye roll I sat up straighter allowing the bed sheet to fall off my chest I didn’t miss her eyes dart to my torso. I’d always taken great satisfaction in seeing Alisha or Kelly admire my body but right now I wanted to just get dressed and hide but I needed the information and I wasn’t risking pissing this woman off before I got it, so I sat further up in the bed allowing the sheet to fall further so it barley covered my d**k. if I could get what I needed just by giving her a show I could get out of here without having to touch her again.

“ I suppose you’ve earnt your reward my little stallion” she giggled, it was like nails on chalk the sound making my c**k want to shrivel up Inside my body. I leant over the bed digging into the pocket of my Jeans not caring about keeping myself covered anymore and tossing the small piece of metal that looked like a medallion to her. She easily caught it taking a few moment to study it.

“ He had that hidden on the lining of his bag, why?” All I wanted to know is what could make it so important he’d need to hide it but at the same time if he needed it quickly it was easily accessible.

“ I thought you were giving me a challenge pup” she smirked, tossing it back at me. I studied her noticing that she looked thoughtfully for a moment almost debating something before smiling mischievously at me.

“ that there, is the family crest of the werewolf king, the markings around the outside are ancient runes designed to show their alliance with the witches” she scoffed as if it was a joke. It was no secret those that originally left for the new world had done so under the rumours that it was there the most powerful witch covens resided.

many years ago the werewolves used to kidnap witches for breading stronger wolves. They thought it would create some kind of hybrid supernatural but it soon became clear that one supernatural creature would always cancel out the other, only one would ever be dominant in one vessel. The man that declared himself alpha king took great pride in these practices however his descendants have since tried to distance themselves from the claims since the supernatural council was formed and outlawed such practices by trying to form an alliance with the witch covens but apparently not all the supernaturals bought into the lies.

“ So Lucas is under the protection of the royal family? Is he from the alpha king's pack?” I asked, feeling frustrated by her lack of information she only smiled at me folding her arms and I was seconds away from slapping the smug smile off her face.

“ no, that particular artefact is encrusted with the royal family jewels, there are only a handful of those in existence… and they are only given to family members.” My eyes went wide and her smile got wider knowing she had my full attention. “it is so he can identify himself should the need arise as a member of the royal family” I sat there in a state of complete and utter shock, the son of a b***h was a f*****g royal, he wasn’t just part of the pack he was the f*****g pack.

“ He's part of the royal family?” I queried and the female just smiled satisfied.

“ hmmm” she murmured. I was angry she had to be lying. No way could he be a royal everyone would recognise him.

“ bullshit if that was true why isn’t he in any of the publicity involving the royal family?” I wasn’t an i***t if the arshole was a royal there would be no way to keep that a secret the alpha king and his family were well known throughout the entire supernatural community not just werewolves.

“ oh there was a huge cover up surrounding his birth, technically our Lucas doesn’t exist, the royal family couldn’t have the world knowing they had a runt in their litter could they” she folded her arms again smiling smugly knowing she had peaked my interest again.

“ What do you mean by runt?” I shot up from the bed sitting waiting for her to explain. This was getting me nowhere being nice. I got up in her face ready to get nasty if she didn’t start talking.

“ Lucas is half witch” she almost whispered as if someone might be listening. It was bullshit the American packs may have practiced cross breading hundreds of years ago but nothing like that had been heard of in years. werewolves didn’t even allow cross bread fated mates in packs, all supernaturals feared a blending of the species would cause one or all to die out eventually if we allowed such things to happen. The consequences were too high to take the risk.

“ his mother was the daughter of the high priestess of a powerful coven, it’s said that before the werewolves came to the shores and began taking the land their coven was the most powerful and had dominion over the entire east coast, they lived in moderate peace until Lucas’s father kidnapped the high priestess daughter and intern ending the next line of white witch heirs, as a result the coven never fully recovered from the loss of their future priestess”

“ what happened?” I frowned more invested than ever, she turned towards the mirror admiring her image, suddenly no longer intimidated by me anymore, if she ever was.

“ He mated her by force and kept her prisoner until she produced an heir; then she unfortunately died in childbirth. Her body was unable to handle the level of power that had been created.”

“ why didn’t the council intervene?” I found it hard to believe that something like this had taken place in this day and age with no intervention. The American packs were rumoured to kidnap witches all the time but they were low level witches making it extremely hard to prove or if it really was going on at all. The kidnap of a high ranking coven heir would incite a war never mind intervention from the council.

“ Well there was a huge cover up. Of course the alpha king couldn’t have anyone finding out what one of his family members had done. kidnapping the future coven mother and r****g her in order to breed her for power. It would have started a war between the supernatural species. Why do you think there’s so much bad blood between witches and werewolves?” She wasn’t wrong, werewolves and witches in particular despised each other because of this very reason. Witches had originally resided in the states no one had ever met a witch over here, Nerva was the closest thing I’d ever come to meeting one. The bad blood had always stemmed from one werewolf that had sought their power, it had instigated hate, hate that could still be seen through the generations that had followed to this very day. It was insane how one man’s act could cause so much pain and hate that still existed hundreds of years after his death.

Times had changed things sure and with that had come the supernatural council a group of all species that governed the supernatural world with them so to came the laws, breaking of the laws was punishable by death one of those rules was they had put a stop to the rumoured kidnapping and breeding of other species. Sounds like the royals hadn’t got that memo.

“ So how did you learn the truth?” I eyed her suspiciously. Seems a bit too easy the werewolf king and the rest of the royal family worked tirelessly to conceal this secret shame of a half breed mutt in their family yet this one fairy had all the answers.

“ because I’m not stupid and I was paid for my services, I spent years digging through their cover up waiting for the right time for the coven to seek revenge on them” so she was on an assignment digging for the witch coven to take revenge. The whole thing ran much deeper than Lucas, I wasn’t stupid enough to get involved in all this, the whole thing was going to end extremely badly but it was non of my buisness I just wanted Alisha back in her box and away from that fucker. That was all I cared about.

“ Why get involved with him?” I couldn’t help asking the question because she had gotten too close to her target. Her texts to Lucas were clearly personal; they screamed clingy female. She was a scout, they were never to engage with their targets if they were on a recon mission.

“ fun!” She shrugged unbothered looking at me in the mirror “….at first it was just to keep him close, eventually the coven will need him as evidence to prove their claim of what the royals had done but well he is quite nice to look at plus once you’ve had a taste he does become quite addictive, just ask your mate I’m sure she’s already quite hooked on him” she chuckled and I leapt into action taking her by surprise I spun her around grabbing her by the throat, it only made her chuckle harder this b***h surely was crazy.

“ easy puppy, I know a lot of people that want this information and a contact that will release it if I was to suddenly disappear, your mate would soon follow if the wrong people came looking for his highness” that got my attention I knew the guy was dangerous but the thought of the selfish prick putting Alisha in danger too made me want him dead more.

“ What's in this for you?” She knew why I wanted the information but she was risking her pay day by sharing this, she didn’t know I wasn’t working for a rival.

“ let’s just say I was rather enjoying myself with him before your little she wolf turned his head, I don’t like being pushed aside for some innocent little pup” ahh so this was revenge, well served the prick right. Hell hath no fury like a scorned female. Even I wasn’t stupid enough to piss them off.

“ I have to say I was quite hurt when I was summoned the other week for business without the pleasure we normally indulged in…. Of course you’ve certainly made for an interesting trip today I wonder if after our buissness is concluded I should pay your mate a visit to swap s*x stories” I growled at that, anger ripping through me at the thought of my mate with anyone but me. Then it occurred to me, this Fae knew more than she was letting on her wanting to get one over on me was making her reveal more than she intended. I’d never told her Alisha was my mate or that it had anything to do with a female for that matter making me wonder how much more she actually knew about the situation and why. One thing was for sure Alisha wasn’t safe around Lucas.

“ I never told you she was my mate” I growled in her face only making her chuckled more.

“ oh trust me stud it wasn’t hard to decipher, after Lucas called me trying to find information on how to sever a mate bond I figured it wouldn’t be long before the females actual mate came to me” she winked, the twisted b***h had actually planned this and I’d played into her hands just like that royal fool had.

It’s your own fault asshole you're the reason Alisha isn’t with us. My wolf scaled me yet again making me angrier. It was all so easy for him he’d never wanted anyone but Alisha.

“ Now, now little pup play nice or I shall get upset and we know what happens when I’m upset” she smiled uncaring my hands were around her throat she stroked her long red fingernail along my chest while I was ready to kill her. I recoiled from her hiding my disgust, turning my back to her trying to calm my wolf who was as disgusted as I was.

“ So who is this contact you know?”I turned back to the infuriating witch. An idea formed in my head and a way to teach Alisha a valuable lesson in betraying me. I wanted her back but I couldn’t let her relationship with the royal runt go unpunished.

I wanted to hurry this along. The woman was infuriating me as it was and anything to get that royal prick out of my mates bed was worth it.

“ No, no,no I was in a good mood but then you had to be mean” she pouted like a child, she stroked her hand up my bare chest taking me in with hungry eyes I cringed internally having to stop myself from recoiling in disgust again.

“ Now you need to make it up to me” she cooed, pushing me back towards the bed. I had no choice but to follow her lead when she shoved me back down, drinking in my naked glory before pulling her dress over her head and strandling me.

“ I don’t know what your mate's problem is, personally I’ve found you more than satisfying and I do love how much stamina you werewolf boys have” that was true enough even though she had barely been tolerant . I was still able to satisfy her needs more than most males she’d been with. I cringed as she closed her eyes rubbing herself against me becoming angry at the lengths I was having to go to in order to take back what belonged to me in the first place.

I rolled her onto her stomach not caring if I was rough with her she seemed to get off on it. I ignored her pleas of desire as she tried to rub her backside against my d**k, if I was going to do this again I didn’t want to look at her face, I wrapped my arm around her dark hair yanking it back so she had no choice on her position I put her in. The only saving grace in all this was she seemed to like it rough, really rough which worked for me just fine because there was no way I could be gentle with her now.

Tuning out her irritating voice instead picturing my hand wrapped around luscious golden locks and Alisha’s slender body beneath me telling me how sorry she was for leaving me, begging me to give her another chance to please me. Grabbing her hips in anger I dug my claws into her flesh slightly earning a satisfying cry from her, picturing my mate I was now hard as a rock as I positioned the females opening against my throbbing d**k, driving her wild as She writhed beneath me trying to push me to enter her. I was imagining Alisha’s sweet voice when she begged me to f**k her, without warning I thrust my hard member into her in one fluid motion not giving her time to adjust to the intrusion I began thrusting hard her cry’s only spurred me on, imagining it was my beautiful mate writhing beneath me. Very soon it would be a reality.