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Chapter 59: Elizabeth's POV

"How could you know that?", I asked Keyon.

"I told you. I know that look."

He seemed a bit unsure whether to go on, but I indicated for him to continue.

"You're not powerless, Liz. You're strong enough to order a royal Beta and Delta. No other she-wolf or female magical creature has that strength. You survived a battle with the Gryphon king. Mathew is the only other person who holds that same honour. You fought Raphael and not only did you survive, but you managed to save Ken's life and the lives of at least a dozen other people. You're strong, Liz."

My tears of anger turned into tears of self pity. I wasn't as strong as Keyon was saying. I had nothing to show for everything I went through these past few years.

"Excuse me! I'm right here, Elizabeth", Phoenix reminded me.

"Right now the boss is hammering me down in the mindlink demanding that I tell him where you are, but I can't tell him because of your order. Do you understand now just how powerful you are?"

I wiped my tears and stopped crying. Keyon was right. This wasn't the time to turn into a bumbling mess; not with everything going on. I have proven my strength time and time again.

I saw Mike looking at me through the front mirror.

"Liz, Keyon is right. You may be many things, but I promise you powerless is not one of them. And you're not alone, Liz. Whether Mathew is here or not, I will always be by your side. My loyalty lies with you; not him."

I forced a smile on my face.They were right. I have more than proven how strong I am over the past few years. Sure, my life had been delayed a bit, but it was all worthit. I got Phoenix and I wouldn't trade her for anything. I would just have to work harder to catch up and create my own empire.

"Thanks, guys. I really needed to hear that. I really really needed to hear that."

They both smiled at me.

"Unfortunately I don't have anywhere to go at the moment, but-"

Keyon interrupted me."Wait, I know where you can go." He punched in a location in the GPS and Mike followed the directions.

When we arrived at our destination, I recognised the place immediately. It was my old apartment building. It looked much better than it did when I lived there, but I could still recognise it.

"The boss bought the entire building about a year ago and renovated it", Keyon told me. "He still comes to your old apartment from time to time. I thought this might feel like home for you."

Keyon handed me a key and waited for me to take it out of the palm of his hand. I didn't want to take it because this also belonged to Mathew. The car I came in belonged to him; even the dress I was wearing. All I had was Mike and Phoenix. Granted, they mean the world to me, but I needed more if I was going to keep them safe.

I took the key and thanked him.

He didn't have to tell me where to go. I still remembered where my apartment was.

I opened the door and gestured for Mike and Keyon to step inside.

"Are you sure?", Keyon asked me. "The boss doesn't let anyone but him come in here."

I chuckled. "It was my place first so he'll just have to suck it up."

They got inside and immediately went to the kitchen. Being wolves and all, eating would always be on their mind.

The place still looked good. In fact, it looked like I had never left. Sure, the furniture was a bit old, but everything was clean and everything was exactly as I had left it.

I decided I was done wallowing over Megan and Mathew; at least for now. I went to my bedroom and took out all the legal texts I could carry. I put them down on the table in my sitting room and started reading them while highlighting a few notable things. While I read, I switched on the news and Phoenix listened to all the recent events in the human world. This wasn't much, but it was a start.

***

I was startled by keys violently trying to open the apartment door. I didn't have to check who it was. Phoenix and I already knew it was Mathew.

When he opened the door, he snapped at me and then looked at Keyon. "Care to explain yourself, Keyon?", he demanded.

Keyon put his hands up defensively. "Boss, I was under her orders. She said I couldn't tell you where she was."

"You have some nerve coming here, Mathew!", Mike growled at him.

"I have some nerve coming to get my mate?", Mathew retorted.

I wasn't in the mood for any of this. I didn't care what Mathew and Megan did or didn't do. I just wanted to kill Raphael and start building a life for myself.

I rushed to stand between Mike and Mathew before they killed each other. "Mike, how about you and Keyon go up to the roof", I suggested. "Last I remember, the view is pretty amazing from up there."

"We'll stand outside to give you guys some privacy, Liz." Mike reluctantly stopped shuffing Mathew in the shouler. "The roof is too far."

I decided that made sense and let them go outside. The apartment is on the ground floor so they would just hang out in the garden.

Mathew's anger had still not subsided when Mike and Keyon went outside. He was giving me the most accusing glare; like I was the one who was in the wrong.

"Don't you ever try to leave me again, Elizabeth. You're mine!", he roared.

I just shrugged and sat back down on the chair. I continued reading through my books and just pretended he wasn't here. Phoenix was ready to jump in his arms again, but I wasn't going to let her. I had seen the matebond turn capable women into morons. I wasn't going to let the same thing happen to me. I found myself almost feeling grateful for the curse right now. If Mathew and I had been mated and marked, I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to think this rationally.

"Are you listening to me?", he slammed his hand against the table.

"I only belong to Phoenix, Mathew", I said without looking up.

"You're my mate, Elizabeth!", he roared again."You can't just go running off anymore. I thought we reached an understanding about that!"

Hearing him say that really ticked me off. How dare he even talk about being mates after what he just did.

I stood up and also slammed my hand against the table. "Don't you ever talk about being my mate again, Mathew. Not after that little stunt you and your fiance pulled."

His eyes grew wide. "What?! No! No, no no! It's not what you think. Megan is delusional. I dragged her to my office to make it clear to her once and for all that she and I are over. We've been over even before you left! I promise you."

He tried reaching for my hand, but I tore it away from him. He looked so heartbroken when I did that; like I had done the most evil thing in the world.

"When's the last time you slept with her?", I asked him.

He looked like he was lost for words. Phoenix was crying in my head. His reaction alone told us they had slept together. Megan was by his side while he built his empire. If it had been me his life would have been ruined. She stood by him while I was away.

"A few months ago, but-"

I tried holding it in, but sobs just exploded out of me. I couldn't stop imagining them together. His lips on her lips and him thrusting in and out of her. Those images kept playing over and over again in my head. He would always go back to her. I would never be enough for him.

I was on the floor before I knew it. I felt someone pick me up and put me on the couch.

"I told you you would break her", I heard a familiar voice growling.

Phoenix and I couldn't focus on anything else. I tried thinking about my plan, about how I would get my life together again, but my mind just kept fixating on Megan and Mathew. Even their names matched. They sounded like the perfect couple.

"Boss, I think you should leave", I heard someone else say.

I was wrapped in the warmest hands. Before I knew it, my body instinctively curled into these hands. I inhaled the scent and felt myself calm down. When I looked up I saw Mathew's face. His eyes were red and he kept kissing my face, almost making me forget how hurt I was.

"You need to go, Mathew" My voice was so hoarse. "I'll be back in your territory tonight, but I need space right now. You need to figure out if you still want to be with Megan and I need to figure out if I can still be with you."

In the blink of an eye, I was pinned against a wall and Mathew's k-nines were out and inches away from my mark spot. Mike and Keyon were barely managing to hold him back.

"Mine!", he roared right into my mark spot. "Mine!"

"No!", I roared back. I somehow managed to escape him and went to go stand in the kitchen.

"Let me go!", he roared at Keyon and Mike.

"Are you going to try and forcibly mark her again?", Mike growled at him.

He took a deep breath while trying to calm himself down. Mike and Keyon let him go, but they still stood close to him.

He stood there for a few seconds, just breathing with his eyes closed.

"Megan is my past. You are my present and my future", his voice was shaky. "I cannot breathe without you, Elizabeth. I was suffocating for three years because you left me and didn't even have the decency to say goodbye. You left me like I meant nothing to you and then you spent three years hiding from me. You did that to me!"

The room was dead silent. I didn't know what to say. I already explained to him that I didn't actually want to leave. I had to. I did it to protect him.

"You don't EVER get to leave me again, Elizabeth", he continued. "You are mine. I don't care if you're only going to the bathroom. You tell me and I will come with you. And no matter how angry you get with me, no matter how much you feel like I'm hurting you; you don't leave. You can throw things at me, scream at me, beat me, you can even burn me alive, but you don't leave. Do you understand me?"

We were all quiet for what seemed like an eternity until I broke the silence.

"I had to leave, Mathew", I said in a soft whisper. "If I hadn't left, you wouldn't have all these amazing things. You are the man you are today partly because I wasn't by your side. You are the Werewolf king because I was strong enough to leave...and I'm starting to think I should have stayed away."

A growl ripped out of him. "Don't EVER say anything like that ever again, Elizabeth."

Before I could respond he had me pinned against the kitchen wall and I almost wanted to curse our damn werewolf speed.

I could feel his hardness growing inside his pants and he just kept pushing himself against me while breathing into my mark spot.

I looked behind him and saw Mike and Keyon on their knees with their necks outstretched to him. He was pushing his royal Alpha King aura down on them, but it wouldn't affect me.

I wanted to succumb to his hot breath that kept hitting my mark spot. I wanted him to mate me right here. I could already feel my arousal dripping down my underwear and judging by how his nostrils were flaring, he could smell it.

"Curse or no curse, I will mate and mark you if you ever speak like that again, Elizabeth." He started kissing and licking my neck while he picked me up and wrapped my legs around his torso. I wanted to protest, but all I managed to do was wrap my hands around his neck and moan as he picked me up and started walking up the stairs.

"So stubborn and yet so f*****g wet for me!", he roared while he opened the door to my bedroom with so much force that he almost broke off the hinges.

He slammed the door shut, but still refused to let me go.

I was drunk with desire. I tried pulling my body away from him, but I couldn't. Every cell in my body refused to let him go. Phoenix and I wanted more of him. We wanted him to thrust himself inside us and tell us his p***s was only made for us. We wanted him to tell us we would get used to the size of his p***s. We wanted his head between our legs again. We wanted to cry as he made us reach our climax again.

He threw me on the bed and spread my legs open before I could even register what was happening. He placed his head between my legs and held onto them so firmly that nothing I did could get him to let go.

He buried his nose and mouth in my core with my satin underwear being the only barrier.

My hands instinctively started pulling at his hair and I started pushing my hips into his face, hoping for a repeat of what happened in that field.

I felt his teeth tugging at my underwear and a few seconds later he tore them off, leaving me completely exposed.

He looked up at me from between my legs. His green eyes were so dark and filled with so much desire. Only a few more inches and my core would be in his mouth.

I quickly sprung up from the bed before things could go any further. In the blink of an eye he was up and blocking the door.

I gulped while I tried to steady my breath. We were both breathing heavily and couldn't stop glaring at each other with such intensity that it could burn a hole in us.

"Mine", he growled.

"Mine", I heard myself growl back.

He started walking towards me and soon he had me in his arms again. He sat on the bed and wrapped my legs around him. He was kissing and licking my neck while I whimpered under his touch and ran my hands through his hair.

My underwear weas completely torn and had just fallen off.

I kept grinding myself against him, hoping for even the smallest bit of contact with his p***s. I needed him right now.

"It's only you, Elizabeth", he kept groaning while licking my mark spot. "I promise it's only you."

He lifted my dress and both his hands cupped my butt cheecks while he groaned into my mark spot. "I need to mark you right now", he growled in between wet kisses to my neck. His hands dug into my cheecks as he pushed me further against his groin. "You need me to give you a good f**k right now. That's why you're acting up."

He slapped one of my ass cheecks and a loud moan left my mouth from the pain and pleasure it caused me. I was getting wetter and felt my juices dripping down my inner thighs. I could feel myself ruining his pants. He slapped my cheeck again and a louder moan left my mouth.

I jumped up out of his arms again as I remembered what happened last time I failed to control myself. I couldn't risk it.

I chuckled when I looked down at his pants. I really did ruin them. He chuckled when he noticed it.

He stood up and held my hand. "I'm sorry I got carried away."

I jokingly raised my eyes at him. "I guess we both got carried away. We...we should go back down stairs."

When we got downstairs, Mike looked like he was going to kill Mathew. I ran to go tell him that things we're okay now, but he unpaused the TV screen before I could explain things to him. My heart broke all over again as I watched the news report on TV.

"In celebrity news, Megan Glaser and Mathew Alden's engagement has reportedly been broken off. Insiders say Alden, the multi million dollar owner of Alden Corporation, was having an affair with a woman associated with Stronghold Inc, one of the top ten leading firms in North America."

The story showed a picture of me getting in the car with Mike. No one could see my face, but anyone who knew me, would know that was me.

"s**t!", Mathew muttered as he also looked at the TV.

He grabbed my hand as I was about to walk away from him. I had had enough of this day.

"Elizabeth, I promise you this is not true." He tried convincing me.

Phoenix and I were getting tired of going on this roller coaster of emotions. We had gone from rage to pure agony to love and desire so many times that we were starting feel numb.

My phone rang and I tore my hand out of Mathew's hands to pick it up. I made a reminder to myself to get enough money to buy my own phone because this was also something that Mathew had gotten me.

"Lizzie-girl, are you okay?", my dad said as soon as I answered the phone.

"Yea, dad. Why? What's wrong?"

"Your mom and I saw a news report of some story about you breaking off Mathew's engagement to another girl."

I knew that Mike, Mathew and Keyon could all hear him. Mathew was looking at me with pleading eyes.

"Uhm, I've already seen it dad", I managed to respond to him. "It's just some crazy girl. You guys don't need to worry about it."

I didn't actually believe what I was saying, but I didn't want to worry them. They were so happy just a couple of hours ago. I couldn't ruin that for them.

"Baby! Baby!", I heard my mom struggling to take the phone from my dad. "Baby these are not just rumours. I asked my PA to look into this and she sent me hundreds of articles talking about Mathew and this girl."

Within a few seconds dozens of messages came through from my mom and I saw all the different articles talking about the two of them.

"Baby, come home!" my mom begged me. "You can go with your dad to LA and get away from this whole mess. We're not going to let you down this time, sweetheart. Come back to us."

I watched Mathew dig his claws into his fists and blood started dripping from his hands. He actually looked scared that I would agree to go back to my parents.

I was breathing through my pain, hoping they couldn't hear how hurt I was on the other line. In this moment, I wanted to go to them. I wanted to go and cry and be comforted by them, but that was no longer an option.

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