Summa Alpha Prophecy

Chapter Ten

COREY POV

I follow my mate’s scent through the trees and eventually find her sitting on a log. I cautiously started towards her but stayed out of eyesight.

I snap a twig under my huge paw, and she startles. I laugh internally when she asks if anyone is there. I slowly keep heading in her direction and when another twig snaps under my paws she finally finds me.

I stop still for a minute. She asks if I remember her as if I could ever forget my mate. I slowly made my way toward her and stopped a few feet away before sitting and dropping the bandage.

She tells me how intelligent I am. Well, Conri is, I guess. She put her hand out, wanting to pat me again. Without hesitation, I walked up to her. I sensed absolutely no fear in her whatsoever.

I tugged at her sleeve hoping she would get the hint I wanted her on the ground. I liked having my wolfy head in her lap last night. She seems quite pleased, and I can’t help but purr. Then she starts spilling her guts and I’m distressed by what I hear.

She finally thanks me and proceeds to tell me she doesn’t want anything to do with my human self. My heart shatters into a million pieces and Conri starts to push forward whimpering and crying.

He shoves me to the back and takes control, running off at full speed. Before we get too far, he yells in my head “This is all your fault, now our mate doesn’t want us. Fix this or I’ll never talk to you again.” Just like that, he shuts me out.

We ran for a good thirty minutes before I finally got control and headed back to the bunkhouse. I felt numb. I take a quick shower and head back to the barn hoping the work will help me.

Tate sees my state. “I take it, it didn’t go so well? Wanna talk about it?” I just shook my head and grabbed the nearest rake.

A good few minutes later, my mate's scent hits me as she walks past the barn. She stops for a second but shakes her head and continues to walk to the house.

I have no idea what I should do, but I need to do something and soon. I can’t lose her, not now after all this time.

RAYLEE POV

As I walked past the barn door I sensed Corey. I hesitated for a second, debating if I should tell him about my decision. I decided against it and continued back to the house.

When I got inside the back door, I heard the kids laughing. I walked into the lounge and found them all in a dog pile on top of Maz. I start laughing at the look on Maz’s face before I ask “Do you need a little help there Maz?” She tries to sit up but isn’t having much luck with three kids piled on her back, Jada perched happily at the top.

“Please.” she sighs.

“OK Jada, finished.” I say and she climbs off and runs to me.

“Hi mum, Tea?” she questions me, inquiring if it’s time for dinner yet.

“Sure, bub mum will get tea started now. How about watching TV or playing on your iPad until it's ready?” I told her with a smile. She runs off happily.

By this time, Maz has managed to extricate herself from the rest of the dog pile and sent her kids to watch TV too, while we both tackle dinner.

“You seem a lot calmer now. You had a good walk then?” she asks me while pulling ingredients from the fridge.

“Actually, yeah, I feel heaps better. I had Alpha visit me and it helped me get everything off my chest and make a decision. The only weird part about it was right at the end, Alpha stood up whimpering and he looked to be crying and then just took off. It was kinda weird.”

“Yeah that does sound weird, but what about the decision you made? Did you feel like sharing?”

“Well, I just decided that since I feel Corey is hiding something from me, and the fact I’m leaving in a few weeks, there is no point in me feeling anything towards him, so I’m going to be civil and keep interactions to a minimum.” She looked at me shocked.

“Oh OK, well if that’s what you really want…” she trails off.

“It is, and I’m at peace about the whole thing." We quietly get dinner prepared and I hear a knock at the front door. Maz yelled for them to come in and we began getting the food dished up. As we take the food into the dining room, I greet the guys briefly, without making eye contact.

Once everyone has their meals, I make sure I’m as far away from Corey as I can be, and we all begin to eat in awkward silence. The whole meal is a little awkward with only Maz and Tate making some small talk.

Once we are done, the guys leave and I start cleaning up. “Well, that wasn’t half awkward.” Maz says, frowning.

“Yeah I know, sorry. It just might take a couple of meals before things are less awkward. Wanna sit on the back porch with a glass of wine and have a chat after the kids are in bed?” I asked, trying desperately to change the subject, so she didn’t pick up on how much I struggled with dinner.

Being so close to him, seeing him look at me every so often like he wanted to say something but not. I’m not normally a drinker but tonight I desperately needed it.

“Yeah sure, sounds good. I’ll put some nibbles together and we can just relax.” Maz agrees.

Once the kids are finally in bed, Maz and I settle down on the porch with a glass of white and a mixture of nibbles. We are talking and laughing just having a ball when Corey suddenly appears.

“Uh, Ray…Could I please talk to you a minute…alone?” He asks, not meeting my eye.

“Whatever you have to say to me you can say in front of Maz.” I mumbled, slightly tipsy.

Maz leans in “I can go grab some more wine if you want to…”

I cut her off, “No I don’t have anything to say to him, after all, I know he’s been keeping something from me, and unless he is prepared to be forthcoming with whatever it is, there isn’t much to talk about.” I all but shouted.

Corey sighs heavily “Fine, we will do it your way, but it might be easier if I just show you.” He says, stepping off the porch.

He turns his back to us and starts removing his clothes. “What the hell are you doing? Neither of us wants to see you naked. What kind of sick joke…”

I was cut off my ramble, by a loud cracking sound followed rapidly by more cracking and popping sounds and then right before our very eyes Corey becomes Alpha. I spit my drink and unsteadily stood to my feet.

“You’ve got to be effing kidding me, you're Alpha? But how, what…” At this stage, I was beyond furious. I am pulling at my hair in frustration and struggling to spit out words.

Corey becomes himself again and I glare at his back as he puts his clothes back on. “Listen Ray, calm down. Let me explain…” he says softly like he is talking to a child, sure I might be acting like one, but I believe I’m well within my rights.

“Explain what, how you lied to me, how you let me believe I had someone or rather something I could confide in, ABOUT YOU, when I was feeling all messed up. I bet you were laughing your ass off at how pathetic I was talking to a wolf about my feelings and the whole time it was you…Yes, you saved my daughter’s life and for that, I’ll always be grateful, but for everything else…I HATE YOU! I never ever ever want to speak to you or ever see you again.” I am screaming at the top of my lungs now.

“Ray, please…you are my mate! I didn’t even know I could have a mate but here you are. I’m sorry I messed this up so badly but please, please let’s talk about this” He had tears streaming down his face, which matched the ones silently sliding down my own face.

I looked at him sternly and said in almost a whisper “I don’t want to see you again, get away from me.” Before he could say anything else, I turned and headed inside and straight to my room, where I sobbed until I fell asleep.