Mates: Revenge

Chapter 16

~Third~

Malachi’s anger is clear to see. He is seething and waiting for Stella to answer his questions. Why was she so upset when Dominic was killed? Why did it seem as if Stella already knew Jayden and Kehlani when they met at the challenge? Why would Stella not deem Melanie as the reason behind their child’s demise? Things never quite added up at the time and they still don’t now. Malachi couldn’t question Stella when he wanted to because she went through severe depression. He wasn’t sure she would make it back to him and the land of the living.

Malachi still has a hold on Stella and continues to tighten his grip. Stella is trying to wiggle free, but she is having no luck. Stella has tears pooling in her eyes, but she is trying not to let them fall. She is tired of having to tiptoe around Malachi. Their entire time together has been filled with anger and abuse. At first she felt as if it were a fair trade off in order to have the life she always dreamed of. She chose Malachi over Dominic because she felt she deserved a life of luxury and that life would not come to her by being a Beta female.

Stella tried and failed several times to get Malachi to loosen his hold on her. He was determined to keep her restrained until he got the answers that he felt he deserved. Stella looks at Malachi with anger. “You want to know, huh? You want to know the truth?” Malachi doesn’t reply, but waits impatiently for her to finish. “Jayden……Jayden was my mate.” Those words hit Malachi like a ton of bricks. He could never have imagined that Stella would have said that. He never thought to ask her if she had a mate. He just knew she would be good on his arm and she had a knack for doing what she was told.

Malachi’s grip loosened enough that Stella quickly twisted out of his hold and stepped away. “Yeah, Jayden was my fated and I left him. I met Dominic and I….I fell in love with him.” Malachi scoffs. He knows that Dominic had her first, but she chose him so it didn’t matter.

“Dominic is irrelevant. You married me.” Stella growls at his words and he looks confused. “You said you loved me…..begged me to make you mine…..” Stella throws her head back and laughs loudly.

“Love?! I never loved you! You were an Alpha and I wanted that life. I loved Dominic, truly. He could never give me the life I wanted, so I went with you.” Malachi grew angry at her words. She wasn’t his one and only, but he did make her his Luna and he expected more respect from her. Malachi steps towards Stella and she steps back. Before he could lunge and grab her, she pulls out a silver dagger.

“Why the hell do you have that?” Stella doesn’t answer. “Do you think you are going to hurt me with that?” Malachi laughs. “You could never do anything to me. I’m stronger than you.” Stella grins at Malachi and continues to step back.

“I loved Dominic with all I had. I just made foolish mistakes trying to maintain my lifestyle. I tried to get Jayden to get me pregnant again.” Malachi roars at this and it shakes the house.

“YOU DID WHAT? How dare you be with another! You dirty……” Stella’s laugh stops Malachi.

“Me? ME?! Are you f**king serious right now?! You f**ked anything that moved and you have the audacity to be mad at me?!” Stella starts to smirk. “If you were a real man, I wouldn’t have had to look to someone else to get me pregnant.” That set Malachi off in the worst way. He lunges at Stella with the intention of grabbing her by her neck, but instead he is met with the silver blade. Stella slice across his arm and the burning pain makes Malachi retreat. He grabs his arm and looks at the blood dropping on the floor.

“You b***h!” Stella takes a few steps back and continues to smirk at Malachi.

“That baby wasn’t even yours. It was Dominic’s. I f**ked him when my plans with Jayden didn't work out.” Malachi restrains himself from lunging at Stella again, but it was hard to do. He wants nothing more than to rip her head off. Malachi is breathing heavily from the pain in his arm and the anger at her words. Stella starts to walk around Malachi until she is in front of Melanie. “Yes, this b***h killed my baby.” Stella turns and starts to kick Melanie over and over again. She kicks her in the stomach and the chest. Each kick gains a whimper from Melanie as she refuses to cry out. Stella stops kicks for a while and is panting heavily. Melanie spits blood from her mouth, onto Stella. This causes Stella to fly into a rage and start kicking Melanie all over again. Stella starts to kick Melanie in the head, though she tries to shield her head by tucking it into her chest. Stella kicks Melanie one more time, knocking her unconscious. She turns to Malachi, panting. “She may have killed my baby, but if it weren’t for Kehlani, the man I love would still be here.” Malachi had inched closer to Stella while she was assaulting Melanie. He planned on grabbing the dagger from her and making Stella submit. “Witch…..”

“Yesssssss?”

“Is our bond still broken?” Stella asks CeCe, without looking away from Malachi. Malachi had the witch break their bond when Stella was going through the darkest period of her depression. He was unable to function while feeling her sorrow and despair. He vowed to renew the bond once they had gotten revenge.

“Yessssss it isssssssss.” CeCe has been traveling closer and closer to the stairs, trying to leave the scene before she was dragged into things. She knows that Stella does not like her and she has no desire to die by her hand.

“Good. I suggest you get out of here while you can. If I see you again, I will not be so nice.” CeCe doesn’t need to be told twice and she bolts up the stairs as quickly as she can.

“Why do you care if our bond is intact or not?” Stella smiles.

“I wasn’t sick for as long as it seemed. I played the role longer once I found out you were considering getting the bond broken so you can function. It wasn’t hard to do. Imagining the future I lost helped me. You breaking our bond is what I truly wanted.” Without warning, Malachi lunges at Stella, but she has been watching his movements the entire time. Once he got on top of Stella, she shoved the dagger into his stomach and twisted it before pulling it out. Malachi falls onto his back, writhing in pain. Stella kneels down next to him. “I’ve hated you for a while now. You have proven yourself unworthy so many times. I will get revenge on my own. I don’t need you.” Stella plunges the dagger into Malachi’s chest, making sure to pierce his heart. As the light fades from his eyes, he starts to resemble himself, the look of Daniel fades away. Stella stands up and wipes the dagger off on her jeans. She walks over to Brooklyn, who witnessed the entire event, and is shaking from fear. Stella kneels down and cuts the zip ties around her wrists and ankles. “You are free. You can go now.” Brooklyn whimpers and closes her eyes, hoping that Stella will go away along with everything that happened in the last two days. She can hear footsteps walking away and the door open and close. Brooklyn finally opens her eyes to see Melanie still unconscious, Malachi’s dead body, and Stella gone. Brooklyn sits up slowly and looks around. She notices a phone sitting on the floor that is open to the call app. She picks it up and begins to dial.