Trapped Between Alpha Mates

Chapter 4: Her Mate

-Helena-

As Alpha William pressed his lips against mine, I felt disgusted, and even more so as he deepened the kiss. I didn’t like it! I hated it! It felt wrong, and I wanted to break free, but he was so strong!

“Please…” I croaked out. “Stop…”

He didn’t heed my plea, and then suddenly, he spun me around, pressing me into the door.

“Nothing stops me now,” he whispered. “You’re eighteen.”

Damn it…

Do something!

I wanted to ask what, but I was frozen. His lips were on my neck now, and he was moving down to where someone would mark me one day. It was a very sensitive spot on wolves. Anything touching it made you feel pleasure, but even as pleasure ran through me, disgust followed right after.

“Please…” I whispered.

“Yes, beg me, beautiful Helena.”

Okay, if you aren’t doing anything, I am!

I didn’t get a chance to react. I was already so vulnerable that nothing stopped Amaya from taking over. She charged forward, and before I knew it, she moved our leg between his, kneeing him hard in his groin.

Alpha William groaned and dropped to his knees, but Amaya wasn’t done. She grabbed his head and then head-butted him. This time, I felt the impact too, but it was enough to keep him occupied as I made a run for it.

I heard a loud growl follow me down the hallway, and I knew the alpha was coming after me. As I reached the staircase leading to the front door, a group of wolves appeared, blocking my path. Fear gripped me. If they stopped me, everyone would know what I had done.

Panicking, I turned and ran the other way, desperately searching for an escape. I needed a moment to breathe and think. Maybe the alpha would let this go, but I had to get away first.

I didn’t really think about where I was going. I just chose a random door on the next floor. Bursting in, I was met with a horrible sight.

Tangled up in sheets and body parts, Carter lay in bed with several female wolves. They all sat up, startled by the noise I had made. I was about to apologize and explain my mistake when Carter and I locked eyes. Then it was like time froze. It couldn’t be, I thought.

Mate! Oh no! Carter is our mate! Amaya was shouting so loudly in my head, but I couldn’t move. Nothing had prepared me for this moment. I never thought… He was an alpha, for Goddess’s sake! He wasn’t supposed to be my mate. Our statuses didn’t mix.

Carter looked just as shocked as I felt, but the female wolves were still touching him, and a growl escaped my lips. They all turned to look at me, appearing even more shocked.

“Sh*t… sorry…” I looked away, still accustomed to being the underling.

“What the f*ck are you doing in here?” Carter inquired.

I looked up, seeing how angry he suddenly was. I didn’t understand… I mean, I knew I was no luna, but he had never spoken to me like that.

He got off the bed, holding the sheets around him and dragging them off the other two wolves, leaving them naked in front of me. I suddenly found a very interesting spot on the ceiling, yet I didn’t get to study it for long before Carter wrapped his hand around my jaw and made me look at him.

“You’re not my mate,” he growled into my face.

I felt icy fear course through me. I knew this connection had to come as a shock to him, but he seemed… he seemed almost like he was blaming me for this match, as if I had any control over it.

“You’re nothing!” He shouted it this time, and I just stared at him.

Please… make him stop.

Our wolves were more sensitive to the bond in the beginning than we were, and so Carter’s words were hurting Amaya badly.

“I… I’m sorry,” I whispered, not sure what else to say.

“You’re sorry?” he asked mockingly. “You’re a lone wolf. You can’t be my mate. Do you understand?”

I just nodded and looked down, even though anger swirled inside me. What a birthday, I thought mockingly.

“I reject you.”

I looked up into his eyes, feeling a stinging sensation in my heart.

“I, Carter, the next Alpha of The Gray Hunters Pack, reject you, Helena Smith… Wolf of Nothing,” he added, almost as if for his own amusement.

The stinging sensation grew until it was burning in my heart, and tears ran down the sides of my face. Yet he smiled… He actually smiled!

“Now get out!” he growled at me.

At first, I couldn’t move. So, he shoved me backward. I tripped, almost falling, and just barely caught the doorframe to steady myself, but then he pushed me the rest of the way, and I fell to the floor. The others laughed, and before I knew it, Carter slammed the door in my face. How? Why? I didn’t understand… I knew I had no status… I knew I wasn’t anything, but I was not an evil person. I was not…

Helena… we need to go… Please! Let’s go!

We did. We couldn’t stay there, so I got up. I wasn’t sure if Alpha William might come after me with other wolves or what was going to happen now, but something told me we could never come back here.

I ran back the way I had come. Luckily, no one got in my way this time, and then… I didn’t stop running. I just ran all the way home, even though I lived miles away… What else could I do?

***

“Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to…” I stepped inside the house I lived in. It was in the middle of nowhere, and my mother always took the car to drive to the nearest city for work, but when she saw the look on my face, she stopped singing and put the cake down she was holding.

“Helena?” She walked closer to me, but I couldn’t speak. I felt nothing but pure pain inside me. I had tried to ignore it as I ran home, but now it felt like I could finally rest, and my legs gave out. I fell down on my knees.

“HELENA!” My mother screamed my name and jumped over to me, getting on her own knees. I screamed and screamed because I was in so much pain, and then I just cried.

“What is happening to you?” My mother’s voice was like an echo in my gray world. I couldn’t hear her, and I couldn’t talk. I was burning with agony, and she didn’t know what else to do but just hold me and try to soothe me.

I didn’t know how much time had passed, but eventually, I stopped screaming and sobbing, yet the pain was still there. My mother was rocking back and forth with me as I lay on the floor, unable to move even one finger.

“Shh… it’s okay,” she whispered. “I’m right here. I’m right here.”

Her voice was slowly coming back. At least I could hear her now.

“Is this what it’s like?” I whispered, finally finding my voice.

“What is, sweetheart?”

“Getting your heart broken…”

“What do you mean?”

My mother looked so confused, but my dad had been her true mate. She knew what it was like to lose one, even though he hadn’t rejected her.

“When your heart breaks… is this what it’s like?” I whispered.

“Helena, you’re speaking in riddles. We should call a doctor!” she insisted.

I shook my head a little, gaining some control over my body. “No doctor can fix a broken heart.”

“Helena?” she inquired.

“Just let me lie here… please…”

“Helena, you need help. You’re burning up. You’re white as a sheet. Tell me what happened to you!” she demanded.

“He doesn’t want me… no one does…”

“What do you mean?” she questioned.

“I found my mate…” I confessed.

“What?”

“And he rejected me.”