Scarred Alphas by Norisha May
Chapter 41

As the silence around progresses while everyone is kneeling and looking surprised, I shift.

Colt and Ezra shift too when I do. They pant and are both looking hurt.

My attention is now on Ezra.

"You...you were going to forcibly mark me? That was your bright plan?"

He looks up at me and starts to get up along with everyone else.

"If I mark you, you will feel the mate bond much stronger. It was my only shot! You are my mate! Not his! This is bullshit and you know it! You are supposed to be with me!"

"You don't deserve her!" Colt shouts. "Not after what you have done!"

"You shut the f**k up! You are my brother! You are not supposed to try and take my woman! You had your own mate and she left you! So Shut the f**k up!"

Colt does not quiet down just because Ezra tells him to.

"And you didn't want her until she was not yours anymore! What kind of logic is that?! If you wanted her so badly, then you should have taken care of her and treated her right! She deserves better than you!" Some paragraphs are incomplete if you are not reading this novel on Narugi.com. Visit Narugi.com to read the complete chapters for free."She is mine!" Ezra growls and walks towards Colt with his fist clenched. Colt starts to walk towards him too with the same intention.

"Enough of this!" Warrick shouts.

They stop but it seems to me that it won't be for long.

I really just want to slap Ezra until he understands.

I point at him.

"Get this through your damn skull! I. DON'T. WANT.

YOU!" I scream. "I REJECT YOU, EZRA BEAUFORT! I, REJECT YOU!"

His face scrunches in pain and his hands hold his chest.

He falls to his knees and now looks like a wounded animal.

Every time I reject him, it causes him pain.

"I...I will never get through you...will I?" he asks.

"No, Ezra. You need to understand this already and move on."

"Under...stand? Understand that you are f**king my brother. That you choose him over your mate?" He looks up at me now with so much anger in his eyes. "I hate you both for this. And I will be damned if I see you two happy." That now sounds like a threat. He gets up looking tired but not beat. "I accept your rejection, Casseopea. If this is what you want, then I accept your rejection."

Suddenly, a pain stronger than I have ever felt before surges through my heart. I clutch my chest and give a scream. Ezra does the same.

He looks up at me holding his chest. "This is what you wanted and now you have it! But you will never be happy.

I'll make sure of that. I am going to live just to cause you pain."

I look into his eyes and for a moment there, I believe every single word he says.

"Alpha!" A warrior pants as he reaches us from the reforming camp. "They are escaping!"

"What?! Who?!" Warrick shouts.

"All of them! The commotion here distracted everyone! They are running!"

"GO YOU SONS OF BITCHES! CATCH THEM!"

Warrick shouts.

All the warriors start running past us like a stampede, even Warrick runs into the forest but not before he tells my brothers to watch me. My attention goes back to the guys but Ezra is nowhere to be seen now.

I walk over to Colt. "Where is he?"

"I don't know. When everyone started running, he was suddenly gone."

I stop searching for Ezra and look up at Colt. "How are you?"

He smiles. "I am okay.

I look at him with concern.

"You...you should make a run for it too."

"What? What the hell, Cass. No. What are you saying?"

He sounds a bit frantic.

"Warrick is going to be pissed. And he just might take it out on you to punish me. They are watching me but not you.

He caresses my face. "I am not going anywhere, Angel."

"He could...kill you, Colt."

"Not if we are mates." He puts a hand on my chin and traces my l*p with his thumb.

"Mates?"

"You...are officially free to be my mate, Cass. Your mate bond with Ezra was broken." He says.

Realizing this, I take his hand, pull him with me, and run naked back to the house.

I start running through the halls like a young school kid avoiding Victor and Garret who now search for us around the house.

"In here?" Colt asks.

"Yeah. I am sure they won't think that we are in my father's office."

I pull him as I sit on the edge of the desk and k*ss him.

He moans as I pull away and whisper to him. "Can I."

He looks at me with confusion but then asks. "You want to mark me first?"

I giggle "Yes."

With a big smile, he moves the hair from my face, kisses me, and then he tilts his head, giving me way.

"Are you sure?" I ask.

"Yes. Now stop making it awkward."

I laugh but immediately move close to his neck and start sliding my nose through it, taking in his scent. My fangs intuitively come out and I start grazing his skin with them. I start nibbling until finally I sink my teeth into his skin. He gives a small groan and suddenly his hands pull me closer, holding on tightly at the back of my neck. I hug him as I continue to bite pushing my intent.

I suddenly feel this swelling of emotions inside my chest. A mate bond is being created between us.

When I am done, I pull back and stare at him. I can feel the trickle of blood on my l*ps which I immediately lick off.

His eyes look at me with intensity.

"Are you okay?" I ask him.

"Did I hurt you?"

He doesn't speak but instead k*sses me. It feels as if it's the first time ever that he touched me. As if it was our first k*ss.

"That feels amazing," I whisper, my warm breath tickling his l*ps.

"My turn." He says.

The mate bond is not officially complete until we both mark each other but a mate bond was created the moment I marked him. Just like the one I had with Ezra.

But this is different because Colt is different.

The door suddenly swings open and Warrick dashes in looking the angriest that I have ever seen him with Victor and Garret behind him.

"Enough you two! Enough! You are acting like..." He pauses as if he is searching for the words in his head.

"...f**king teenagers!"

He pulls Colt away and with a slam, he sits him on a chair away from me.

"Don't you f**king move." He tells Colt as he snaps his fingers at Victor.

Victor-understanding the queue- takes his jacket off and throws it at me. I cover myself with it while still sitting at the desk.

Warrick points at me now. "And you! You are f**king chaos incarnate!"

I start to laugh but I immediately put a hand over my mouth and hold it in.

I don't know why but...I like it. I am chaos to him. I should be afraid of this man but somehow... I am not anymore.

The corner of his eyes crinkle. "That's funny to you?"

His eyebrows knit and I swear I can see a vein pop on his forehead.

"Never have I had to deal with this kind of shit!" He points to Victor and Garret.

"Your brothers never dared to do this kind of crap."

"That's because they are afraid of you. Everyone is. I am not. Not anymore." I bluntly say.

"Oh, I can see that. But do you know what makes me the angriest?"

I don't say anything and wait for his answer.

"It is that I am not even upset about it. Do you know...how amazing you are? What you did out there?"

I am confused now because he is right, he doesn't look as angry as he was a minute ago.

"I can't do that." He says. "I can't do what you just did."

"What do you mean?"

"What your wolf did out there."

"You...you can't?"

"No! Not in my wolf form. Your wolf just made everyone kneel to you and you think this is all a joke?"

"No. I don't think it's a joke. I know how serious this is." I say.

"Do you? We are descendants of royalty, Casseopea. We are meant to rule! Our bloodline is meant to rule all other packs!"

"Rule? I can understand that but what I don't understand is why do you have to rule with Tirany. Why be cruel?"

"This is who I am. This is how I rule. What I have been through...you have no f**king idea. I will never change. I am the bad guy. I am the villain. I know this. I was born with...a sadistic side. A side that enjoys bringing others pain. I can't shut it down and I don't want to. You don't have that side of me in you but you are capable of it. You have a deep-rooted anger inside of you that wants to come out, and f**k do I want it to come out!" He takes a deep breath, calming himself. He goes around and sits on his desk. There is stillness for what seems like minutes.

I get up and face him.

"So...did anyone escape?"

He puts a hand on his face. "Yes. Many."

"...Good." I mumble.

He takes in a deep breath and huffs but doesn't respond.

"And Ezra?" I ask.

He looks up at me and gives a small laugh as if he can't believe what I am saying.

"He's not here?"

"No. He ran too."

He laughs again but it is a sarcastic one. "Just great!"

He looks at Colt. "Guess you are my only leverage now."

"He's my mate! You can't kill him."

"I am talking about having leverage over his family pack. And you are not fully mated until he marks you too. However, there is a small chance that Killing him now might kill you too. As small as that chance is, I can't take that risk. So, he'll live." He looks down, thinking. "Tell you what...if you take this seriously and do what I tell you, you can keep him around. I won't lock him up, keep him away from you, or torture him which I can do at any given moment."

Putting a hand under my chin, I ponder this. "That is... an enticing proposition."

"This also means not interfering with my methods." He adds.

"I can't promise that but tell you what. I'll still stick around even with your damn methods if you allow us to be together. This means not taking it out on Colt when I...act out. And I promise not to run." "Run?"

"Yeah. It's been my goal since I got here." I admit.

He stares at me and I know exactly what he is thinking.

He is shocked that I have the balls to confess this.

I have a feeling that he enjoys this. He enjoys the way I am. I challenge him and he almost admires it.

He puts a hand up. "I'll think about this proposition. In the meantime for today, stay in your room." He looks at Victor. "Serge is hurt. Watch her for now."

"Do I really need a babysitter at this point?"

Now I am just trying to vex him on purpose. I am going to be challenging him on everything. I guess I am being like a teenager in a way. Rebelling.

"Yes, you do!" He shouts sounding like he is done with all of this.

"Okay. Fine but I am taking him with me." I say pointing at Colt.

"No! You are not! WE have a business to attend to now that Ezra is not here." He says.

"I want to be marked by him." I say with authority.

"Oh, that is not going to happen."

"What?! Why?! There is no reason to keep us apart like that?"

"Casseopea, I am telling you this once and only once. You finish this mate bond, and I will make it my mission so that you never see him again. Do I make myself clear?!" "But why?!"

"Because...you need to look available."

"What?!"

"I need to make alliances now. And what better way for an alliance than having the next-in-line Alpha to one of the strongest packs look as if she is available as a potential mate?" "NO! I will n-"

He interrupts me before I can finish. "I didn't say you were going to be mated to someone else! You really need to learn how to play the game, daughter."

I take in a breath, calming myself.

"So, you don't want us to finish our mate bond because I am more useful if I am not mated?"

"Yes. It's politics my dear." He leans in. "You ruin this for me, and he will be gone." He

looks at Colt. "You mark her, and I will make sure that you will never see her again..." He pauses for a moment as if he was thinking and then leans in close to Colt. "In fact, you are not allowed to mark her until I tell you to. Do you understand?" "Yes, Alpha," Colt says looking like a mindless zombie.

I gasp. "Did you just use your power?!"

"I did and I mean it, Cass. No games with this. Now leave."

I huff feeling irritated.

"Fine!" I spit out with anger.

I cover myself properly with the jacket and slowly walk over to Colt. I bend over and k*ss him. Our l*ps feel magnetic and I don't want to pull away but I do.

I look at Warrick giving him a warning stare. "Don't hurt him."

"Goddamit woman! Go!" He shouts at me as he massages his temples.

"Fine."

I walk out with Victor following me. We walk in silence for the first few seconds until he mutters something.

"That was ballsy."

I look back at him. "Was it?"

"You know it. And we all also know that you just got away with it all."

I laugh and he smiles.

"I've never seen him like that before. Not in control. He doesn't know what to do with you." He says.

"But he needs me and that is why he doesn't know what to do."

"Yes and...I might be wrong but he seems to have...a softer spot for you."

I get to my room thinking of this.

Does Warrick really have a soft spot for me? Not that it changes anything because he is a monster but...does he?