Chained To The Alpha

Chapter 10

Thorne left the clinic, thudding through the main doors with single-minded determination. He made his way up to the main house, texting his best friend and Beta, Jax.

Jax appeared in Henry’s office not ten minutes later. Thorne was sitting in front of the desk, staring at his father.

“Ah, boys. To what do I owe this pleasure, tonight of all nights?” Henry asked casually, finally putting his work away

“I found my Mate”, Thorne said to Jax with a sigh “It’s Nyx”

“Oh, congrats, man… wait, the traitor’s girl, Nyx?” at Thorne’s nod, Jax sucked in a long breath, “Shiiit man, what are you gunna do?”

“What can I do? The bond isn’t something you can fight”

“Don’t be so disheartened, the girl will likely surprise you, she’s stronger than she seems, and the bond is a sacred thing, not a ball and chain to be endured.” Henry cut in, “But I am curious about why we are having this conversation now, in my office?”

Thorne turned back to his father, “Because we need to talk about mother. You have allowed her to treat my Mate like a slave and work her nearly to death-”

Henry cut in again, “Well, that is a slight exaggeration. The girl is hardly on death’s doorstep.“

Jax coughed a little as Thorne growled loudly. “The doctor told her that if she wasn’t a wolf, she would be severely impacted!”

“Luna Margot does get harsh with her and turns a blind eye to a lot of other stuff that goes on, too”

“She has broken ribs and multiple healing fractures, she wasn’t allowed to go to the medical clinic for f**k sake!” Thorne roared angrily.

Henry sighed deeply, holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender. “Maybe your mother has gone a little far at times, but I’m sure she has done her best for the girl”

“Her best?” Thorne scoffed, “Did you know that she doesn’t even have any nightclothes? Or her own toiletries? I’ve just asked her what she needs while she’s in hospital, and she told me she only has a toothbrush!”

Henry paled slightly as the depth of his Mate’s mistreatment dawned on him. He sat back in his chair. Jax shifted nervously behind Thorne.

“I want her to stand trial before the elders and the council for her actions. She has abused a child in her care for years and allowed others to abuse her, too. She must pay for what she has done”

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Henry paced in his office. On the one hand, he knew his Mate was out of order in her treatment of the girl; he was ashamed at the way he had turned a blind eye for so many years, pretending not to notice what he did see and not paying any attention to what he didn’t. On the other hand, Margot was his Mate, and it was his job to protect her.

It was Margot who always said that the girl was not part of the pack. That she wasn’t part of us, that she shouldn’t be welcomed into the pack when she should have gotten her wolf. He was guilty of bending to his Mate’s wishes, of ignoring the child. His Mate was guilty of much more.

That being said, a trial, accused of child abuse, she would be exiled if not put to death. He would be faced with the choice of either leaving with her and leaving his son to figure out running the pack on his own, or staying to help Thorne and losing his Mate, but that could kill them both; it would be akin to rejecting the bond.

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Thorne headed straight for the guard’s office with Jax in tow. The guard was a group of wolves who acted as police for the pack lands. They enforced the laws and made sure everyone was behaving themselves. They were also responsible for any prisoners in the pack and served as a general emergency service, responding whenever the pack needed help with anything from a fire to getting to the medical clinic.

“I need two guards for my mother’s door from now until I say otherwise”, Thorne told the wolf on duty at the desk.

“Sir, Mr Mitchell, has there been a threat made?” the wolf asked.

“My mother is the threat, she is a threat to my Mate”, Thorne replied

“Dude, are you really sure you want to do this?” Jax hissed as he pulled Thorne back a little.

“I have to protect my Mate, you know what she’s been through here… I have to make sure she feels safer now. What if she decides to leave? I wouldn’t survive to take a chosen Mate,” Thorne replied, “If that means my mother has to be escorted around the house until she learns to behave, then so be it, Nyx has to come first.”

Jax lifted his hands in surrender and nodded a little, “So long as you know what you are doing, man”

“Who do you have free now?” Thorne demanded of the wolf at the desk.

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Margot was in the garden when Thorne, Jax and two of the pack guards found her.

“Thorne, my love, and Jax, how lovely”, she said sweetly.

“Mother, you need to go with the guards, you need to stay in your and dads appartments, I need to protect my Mate,” Thorne replied firmly.

“What?! You can’t do that to me! I am the luna of this pack! I am your mother! How dare you try to send me to my rooms! Your father will not approve this!”

“Mother, please don’t fight this. Dad knows what I’m doing”