I'm Not Yours, Alpha
I’m Not Yours, Alpha – Chapter 16

Dominic saw him sigh and squeeze his eyes shut. He hadn’t noticed but he looked more than tired, worried, but not the kind of expression he’d shown before.

-What’s got you anxious?

-Nothing,” he craned his neck, breaking any knot of tension that had built up, “I’m fine, just minor personal issues.

Dominic didn’t believe a single word he said, he sat up from the table and reached behind his back bringing his fingers to the small shoulders and beginning a gentle comforting massage.

Aidan was about to protest at the first touch but the words didn’t come out of his mouth as a soothing wave washed over him, leaving him spellbound. The scent of him so close seemed like a drug that took her out of her mind, this time without making her feel sick.

Magical fingers unravelled every knot he found around his neck, collarbone, shoulders. She tried to take her attention away from that unmarked virgin nape of her neck waiting for his fangs.

He felt his scent grow stronger as he felt him tremble slightly and decided to see what would happen if his pheromones intensified further, reading his reactions hoping they wouldn’t affect him violently like the past times. The image of the omega now had him in glory. His head to one side with his lips slightly open and his eyes closed.

He felt like he could touch him forever, know his body by heart and could never get bored.

-It felt good,” she leaned into his ear and let the warm breath caress him.

Aidan barely responded, just a sound from the back of his throat.

-What’s got you so worried,” she insisted.

He thought he wouldn’t answer again until he heard her voice in a whisper.

-I can’t go back to my house, I don’t want to be there,” his words caught him by surprise and made him pause for a second to resume his task once he felt the knots of tension threatening to form again.

-Then come to mine,” he bit the lobe sensually, “I told you so and the proposal will stand for as long as it takes. I’ll always have a place reserved for you.

She heard him swallow.

-How can I trust you,” he asked the question more to himself than to the man.

-Your alpha, my love.” Dominic left a k**s behind his ear and continued to nuzzle the curve with the tip of his nose, “Now and forever.” He didn’t consider himself a romantic, but he knew how to use his tongue at the right moments, and this young man made him pull out all the resources up his sleeve without even meaning to.

-You can’t have fallen in love with me just like that,” he was still looking for an excuse that would tell him to back off, clinging to his current state. The uncertainty of accepting something completely unknown to him made him hesitate, and even more so if accepting the fact that he was going with him meant accepting that he was an omega. Hell, he didn’t know anything about being an omega.

-This is not something we can control,” one of his hands had moved to the front and was tracing his collarbone with his fingernail, eager to push away the button that wouldn’t let him go any further in search of his prize, “We’re biologically made for each other and refusing will only hurt us more. Besides,” he licked his lips, “The reaction of our bodies can’t deny it’s wild, and we’ve only touched each other a little.

Nothing, there was nothing left to stop her from being with the man who kept urging her on and on, more and more tantalizingly. Not even the alpha’s former partner would stand in the way, she had given him the white flag.

-Your engagement,” she wanted to make sure.

-I don’t think I’ll be able to go home for a while. I don’t want to hear from my parents after I’ve broken it off.

That made him open his eyes softly to replace that all the previous tiredness had vanished.

He felt Dominic lean back with his hands on the backrest and Aidan threw his head back making contact with his angle of vision where he was smiling a satisfied smile.

He bit his l*p and turned his head to the side to avoid the weight of her gaze.

-If I’m going to live with you….

-I won’t do anything you don’t want, I told you, I have a guest room, you’re my omega but I respect you as a person,” she brought her hand to his cheek where the shock was beginning to fade, “What’s it worth if I force you and then you leave my side. Nothing I’ve done would have been worth it.

Aidan closed his eyes.

-I have some business to settle at home,” he opened them to show her his calm orbs, far from uneasy, “Just like you, I have someone I’m engaged to and a mother who will ask me about every detail and more after this morning. When they are clear I will come to your house.

The ends of Dominic’s lips rose.

-I’ll be waiting for that moment,” he leaned closer and gave her a chaste k**s on the lips before walking out the door. He had won at last.

Aidan opened the door to his house with his guard up, that night the argument would take a higher level than he was used to dealing with. And it was reaffirmed when he saw the woman coming out of the kitchen and facing him with her hands balled into fists and her eyes narrowed.

-You and I have a lot to talk about,” she said.

-So do I, mother.

-Who do you think you are?” Natacha shouted so loudly that Aidan was sure his neighbours had heard her.

-A grown man who is responsible for his life and doesn’t need anyone to control it,” he didn’t shout, but his tone was just as annoying.

-You can’t do that Aidan, I’m your mother and you have to do what I say, it’s always been like that, you don’t have the right to break the engagement.

-Why not? Because it doesn’t suit you? Hans is not the man I see myself with for the rest of my life, right now I don’t even want to see his face, do you think I would be happy with a man like that?

-That’s not important,” Natacha shouted again in anger, putting her hands on her head, “You have to marry him, that was the agreement,” she said.

-Agreement that you made and you never asked for my consent.

-I’m your mother, I can do whatever I want with you.

Aidan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Even though they were arguing, this person was the beta who had brought her into the world and her words hurt him. Now he understood how much he meant to his mother, he was just a plaything, and not just hers.

-So I was always somewhat manipulable for you,” she said softly, “that includes you making me believe for a lifetime that I’m a beta,” she had no confirmation but as things were developing it seemed more certain that she was an omega, the unknowns in her life were beginning to take on colour.

-What does that have to do with anything?

-I did some tests, they showed I’m an omega,” he didn’t know the tests yet but he was going to push it, if he was a simple beta like his mother said he wouldn’t react to Dominic’s pheromones, betas couldn’t. “Bullshit,” he saw how Natasha and Natasha were not able to react to Dominic’s pheromones.

-Bullshit,” she saw Natacha start pacing around the room nervously, “that’s a lie, you’re a beta.

-Don’t lie to me anymore,” he lost the strength to argue as the facts showed him that he had lived his whole life deceived, “those medicines you gave me, they weren’t for my illness, they were suppressants, weren’t they?

His mother didn’t answer first, she turned her back on him.

-You have to be a beta, no matter what, and you have to marry Hans,” Aidan said.

Aidan could only feel a tear cross his cheek. That confirmed most of his doubts. Without another word he turned around and went upstairs to his room, replaceing his clothes on his bed and his suitcase on one side. She closed the door and pulled the dresser closed so that her mother could not enter, since her privacy no longer existed.

She gathered everything she needed as silent tears streamed down her face. The taste of betrayal was bitter and even more so if it came from someone close to him. Now he understood why Hans haunted him so much and why he insisted on taking his pills every day. He wasn’t sick, they were making him sick. And at that point he no longer cared why they had done it.

When he saw that his mother hadn’t followed him he went back outside this time with his suitcase and carried it down the stairs.

Natacha still stood in the living room frantically touching her head. At the sight of him her eyes became bloodshot.

-Where do you think you’re going, you ungrateful son?

Aidan bowed his head. His tears had vanished to give way to a cold stare that stopped his mother in her tracks.

-You don’t care.

-If you walk out that door I won’t let you come back,” Natacha threatened, her son had always been submissive to her so she tried to manipulate him again, with negative results.

-So be it,” he turned around and before he heard her, throwing a tantrum, he threw the door behind his back.

He looked around and there was no one on the street. He checked the time and it was past one in the morning. He hadn’t taken note of all the time the two of them had taken to argue.

He walked quickly and got as far away from the place as possible. He needed a breath of fresh air. His knees ached after ten minutes and he found himself in the county park. It was small and the flower bushes were almost dry. Only the presence of the crickets gave him the feeling that it was not deserted.

Sitting down on the curb he pulled out his mobile phone and dialed those numbers as the tears came again.

-Can you… can you come and get me?