Healer For Alpha

Breaking Point

"Rio's here early," Aaron comments, not giving a second thought to the fact that Rio is walking into the restaurant making a complete racket when he throws the door so hard it crashes into the wall, "He's pissed or something?”

Rio walks up to us and before Aaron can ask him what the hell is wrong with him, Rio grabs Aaron by the collar and pulls him towards him.

"What the f**k do you think you're doing?" he snarls in his face, furious. He looks completely wild, like I said.

"What are you doing?" Aaron groans and tries to push him away, but Rio doesn't let go. I get up before this gets even worse.

"Rio, let's talk," I say, "Let him go."

"Why is he touching your hair like that?" He demands, his eyes fixed on Aaron, "Who the f**k is this guy?! And what are you doing with him? What the f**k are you even doing here?!"

"Stop yelling. Please," I beg, grabbing his arm and trying to pull him, but it’s like trying to move a building. There aren't many people around, but the ones who are here don't look happy about this. They are judging us, hard.

Rio's energy is feral, black and ugly. Uglier than ever before, I even stop touching him because the way it feels scares me. There are black circles under Rio’s eyes and his face looks sharper, as if he's lost weight.

"If you don't stop touching me I'm going to do something about it. Get away from me," Aaron warns. Rio looks fully ready to let him 'do something about it'. But I can't let that happen.

"Rio, love, please," I beg, daring to grab his arm again. My choice of words seems to surprise him and get his attention, so he lets me pull him, "I'm sorry, Aaron."

"This isn't Rio, is it?” he asks as we pull away from him, looking at Rio with narrowed eyes.

"I'm the real Rio," Rio spits before grabbing me and pulling me to the exit. People are now frowning and an older man approaches us.

"You okay, girl?" he asks me, trying to stop our exit. Rio takes a breath as if he's going to answer for me, but I stop him before he can and smile at the man to calm him down.

"I'm fine, my boyfriend is just a little dramatic," I reply with a small laugh. The man doesn't look very convinced, but he steps aside and we’re able to leave the restaurant. Rio pulls me rudely until we’re in a hallway, secluded.

"You owe me a million explanations," he starts, "What are you doing here? And who is he? Why were you letting him touch you like that?"

"That's a lot of questions," I mutter, trying to make him at least smile a little, but failing. God, he feels so dark and ugly, I can't even pretend we can have a real conversation right now, "Can I heal you a little first? Please? You look so..."

Rio pushes my hand away when I try to lift it to touch his face.

"f*****g answer my questions," he growls and takes a step towards me to corner me against the wall. The way he’s acting is not normal. I start to be scared of him again for the first time in a long time.

I don’t think he would ever hurt me, but objectively speaking... this is just some guy I met only a few months ago. He could have been hiding this part of his personality all along, "Why are you letting another alpha touch you like that?"

"I wasn't letting him, I was about to ask him to stop," I try to explain, but it does nothing to calm him down.

"How do you know him? Why are you here with him?" He spits, his lip lifting in contempt as if he's thinking about a lot of things, probably answering his questions to himself, "You're living with him, aren't you? You never went to Toronto like I thought, you just switched beds. Is he your new victim? You're trying to force him to form a bond with you, too, you f*****g scammer?!"

With each word his voice has gotten louder until he is literally screaming in my face and I can only close my eyes and try to calm my heart. I've never had a man screaming in my face like this and I don't know how to react.

But one thing I do know is that this is not the Rio I know. There's something weird going on and I don't like it.

"Take a step back and stop cornering this woman," someone commands from one side of us.

"Oh, my f*****g god, what are you still doing here?!" Rio yells again, but fortunately he steps away from me a little.

"Get away from her," Zion orders again in a heavy voice full of power, "Cool it, man. You all right, Lunanci?"

"How do you know her?" Rio asks, the aggression returning to his body. He pulls me to stand behind him, as if hiding me from Zion, "You're f*****g her too? Are you f*****g my brother and my mate? You better say no because I'm seriously close to killing someone and it's going to be you."

"You need to calm down," Zion repeats, not losing his cool for a second as if he's used to dealing with unhinged people, "I just know what her name is, I have no relation to her. But if you don't calm down and stop yelling, I'll have to call for back up."

"Back up? Back up to f*****g do what? Call Laurent, tell him you've been f*****g my little brother and he'll let me kill you no problem," Rio blurts out in a haughty tone, "Go ahead and do it."

"My superior isn't Laurent, it's Lucinda Taffy. You want me to call her?" Zion blurts out. And just like that, Rio steps back, pushing me with his back as he does, "Now, get away from the girl and go home, man. You're in no condition to be alone with her right now."

"Where's Alpha?" I ask behind Rio before he can continue fighting. I can feel his back tensing, "Why don't you let him out? I'll fix everything with him, let us talk."

"I put him to sleep before he convinced me to kill myself because of you," he replies and moves until he is away from us, walking to the street and looking at me one last time with lost eyes. What's happening to my sweet Rio? "You know what? Go ahead. Go back to the guy inside or go with this alpha, do whatever you want. f**k the whole world, I don't give a s**t and I won't stop you..."

Something catches his attention and he looks to the side.

"Look who finally decided to show up," he laughs.

Alex has just arrived, at the worst possible moment.

{ Rio }

I'm shaking so much that my body starts to literally vibrate with the mix of bad emotions I'm feeling. And it's getting worse and worse.

Looking at my brother for the first time in months is not what I thought it would be like. I'm not relieved to see him, I'm not happy either, I'm not anything. I don’t even focus on his academy uniform.

"Rio," he whispers, his eyes wide with shock. Alex looks at the hallway and turns even paler than before when he sees the alpha he's been, at the very least kissing, and at worst, f*****g. Whatever is going on between them, it's none of my business, "I-I'll explain."

I'm sick of everyone hiding things from me. I'm sick of being the one who never finds out about anything. And I’m sick about them only wanting to explain what's going on once they have no other choice.

"Don't worry, I don't need explanations," I laugh, shaking my head, "Your lover boy here wants to call Mom. We should, right? We should have mom come here and find out everything her omega son has been up to.”

"No," he whispers, dropping his eyes and looking so shocked he doesn't know what to do. He obviously wasn't planning on running into me yet or letting me know all the s**t he's been doing, "Please."

"Ow, that's such a soft voice now that you've been f*****g caught," I spit, “I would love to see you cry when she finds out, but I’ll just let you do your thing, like you wanted to.”

Alex looks up at me again with a confused frown, it’s the same way Lunanci was looking at me a few seconds ago.

Apparently, I have no right to be angry. I have no right to demand to be treated with respect. I have to be stupid Rio and let everyone walk all over me or I’m weird? They don't like me when I'm not letting them take advantage of me or treat me like s**t?

"Rio, can you calm down just for a second? You're acting weird," Alex says, still looking at me like he doesn't know me.

"Don’t worry, I'm leaving now," I say and start walking without turning to look at Lunanci one last time. I don't want to see her face anymore. I don't want to think about her with that guy at the restaurant. I don't want to think at all.

I walk past Alex and push him with my shoulder as hard as I can. He doesn't want to be treated like a frail omega, right? Then he can deal with it.

"Ouch," he whines in pain and I feel a twinge of regret but I force myself to push it down and continue on my way, but Alex follows me, "Rio, I know you're mad. Just listen to me for a second. We can fix this."

"No," I keep walking, but he grabs my arm. Without even looking up into his dumb face, I push him away and he crashes into a wall.

"Do that again, see what it f*****g gets you," Rando Guy threatens me, taking a couple of steps towards me. Alex raises his hand at him to stop him.

"You're scaring me, Rio," Alex says, using a small voice I've never heard from him before. Hearing him so vulnerable forces my anger down. I don't want to scare my omega brother... but f**k if I'm not angry, "I've never seen you act like this before, can you stop? I've been hiding from you because I know you're not going to like what I've been doing. I know you would do something to stop me, but I love you, okay? I'm so sorry for not being able to make myself talk to you even when Lunanci tried to tell me how hurt you are. I'm really sorry."

I've been hurt. Now I'm just numb and fed up.

"Alex, pay attention to me," I start, moving closer until I'm looking my twin right in the eyes. We're both in inhibitors, so for the first time in a while it feels like it used to. When we weren't presented. Just us, Alex and Rio, inseparable twins. When he wasn't angry with his designation and my wolf wasn't obsessed with Lunanci. When life was easy, "I already know everything that's been going on, but I don't care. I don't give a s**t about you anymore. Carry on. Have fun at the academy if that's what you want. Let yourself be hurt, let yourself be hunted and preyed upon by all the alphas in there, let them jump you and r**e you, I don't care. You're dead to me. So it's all good, there's nothing to fix. You're you and I'm me, just stop using my f*****g name and work it out for yourself."

Alex's eyes start to fill with tears. I force myself to look away.

"Rio..." he whispers, "You didn't really mean that. I didn't..."

"Oh, yes, I meant that. Stay away from me," I finish and look back at Lunanci just because I’m weak, "All of you stay away from me, you can have each other."