BETA'S FATE

Chapter 13

Pearl's POV

I watch Conrad walk in and his growl is vibrating in this room. I am on my feet and I see Shane take two steps backwards until his back hits the wall.

"What were you saying?" Conrad growls again.

"A-Alpha it's just-"

"It's just what? It's just that the one you like is not some random girl but my mate?" Conrad roars this time.

"Conrad. Stop" I whisper but he only glares at me before growling at Shane.

Just with that growl, Shane is now on his knee and showing his neck in submission. I run to Conrad and hold his hand. Matebond has it's advantages sometimes.

The sparks calm him down just a little. And his eyes are not glowing anymore. They are back to the green ones. Alpha Conrad's beast side is nowhere to be seen now and the Forest Fairy that I know is looking at me and how I am holding his hand.

"You knew?" Conrad asks and I nod.

"And you didn't tell me" he whispers and I nod again.

"Because he did not like me knowing I am your mate. Two and half years ago, when we first met accidentally. Now tell me did he know then, that I am going to turn out as his Alpha's mate?" I ask him.

"I don't understand why you are taking his side!" Conrad scoffs and he turns to Shane but I pull him to me and punch him once.

"I am not taking his side!! For the love of God, calm down and listen" I raise my voice and he just stares at me.

I share into his green eyes and at this moment, I don't even understand how they are twinkling. They do this thing everytime he looks into my eyes.

"After he came to know I am your mate, he made sure there was a distance" I whisper and he looks at Shane.

"I don't know how much of the conversation you heard earlier. But he also said that staying closer to me is stirring feelings in him. And he cannot do that to you. Because you mean so much to him. Ever wondered why Shane and I are not spending much time like we used to? Because he respects you, Conrad. Don't do anything that is going to ruin that respect he has for you" I tell him.

And I place my hand on his shoulder. I place my other hand on his chest and feel his heart beat slow down. He is not panting anymore too. He is calm than before.

"Get out Shane. We will talk about this later" Conrad says without even looking at Shane.

I bend sidewards to see him because Conrad is standing right in front of me blocking the view. I nod at Shane and he finally stands up. Looks at the back of Conrad's head and walks out without turning around again.

I look at Conrad and this time, he is smirking. Why?

Oh!

I take my hands off him and take a step back as if I just did not help him calm down. I clear my throat and look at him but he is still smirking. I roll my eyes and walk to the door to lock it.

"Ooooh! Locking the door? I have high expectations right now" he smirks and takes a step towards me.

"Wow you expect way too much then" I scoff and he stands frozen, looking at me confused.

"Okay then. What is that for?" He asks nodding at the locked door.

"You are an Alpha" I shrug and take a step closer to him.

"So?" He asks.

"So.. people shouldn't be seeing this" I whisper and he smiles.

"See what?" He asks and I punch him straight in the face.

"f**k that hurts" he screams and then looks at me.

I stand before him with my arms crossed over my chest. He takes a step closer to me and his eyes are glowing again. I let Mist surface for a minute and I bet mine are glowing too.

"What was that for?" He asks me again.

"For acting out like a crazy man. Who is he? Your Beta's brother. Who knows, if he had a mate he would have been your Beta. When you witness something, know about it before you do something you are going to regret" I say with my voice stern.

I see he grinds his teeth and clenches his jaw.

"An Alpha is supposed to be rational. Not to act like that. He has so much of respect towards you and I would hate it if you act that way and lose it" I say.

"Are we done?" He asks me and I narrow my eyes.

"Why so?" I ask him.

"For a little revenge plan" he smirks and I know what he is talking about.

He throws his punches at me and I successfully block them until he holds my hand out of blue. He moves forward and forward until my back hits the wall.

I raise my other hand to punch him but he grabs that too. I stare into his green eyes and they sparkle again before he twists my arms and turns me around so my cheek is pressed against the wall.

"An Alpha against a Beta. Very nice" I say but deep down, I am very much impressed with his skills.

"And I know that you are not just a regular beta" He says and lets go of me.

I turn around and stare at me. He takes both my wrists in his and massages them with his hands. It is not the gentle massage but the sparks that is helping me right now.

Conrad looks into my eyes and nods once before letting me go.

"You have Alpha blood in you" he whispers and my eyes go wide.

"W-what?"

"You don't have to tell me anything. I know what rank someone is when I fight with them, Pea. You are not a Beta. You know how many times I had combats with my pack and other packs Betas and Alphas?" He asks.

"I know. But you did not tell me. That means you don't want to talk about it. And I understand that too" he says.

"If you understand, then why did you tell that out loud? That I have Alpha blood in me? You should have kept that for yourself" I tell him and I stare into his green eyes again.

I know I gave him the nickname of Forest Fairy just out of blue. But now that I see it, it pretty much suits him.

"Because I need you to know. That I can understand if you don't tell me about anything. I want you to know that I will accept anything and everything about you. I am not saying this just as your mate" Conrad says.

And for the first time in a while, my heart skipped a beat.

"So. What are we doing today since we both are going to stay in?" He asks and I smile at him.

"Ever watched Teen wolf?"

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"What?? This doesn't even make sense" Conrad scoffs.

"Tell me something new" I laugh.

"Why are we even watching it when we should be watching p**n if possible!" He says and I sit straight.

I look at him and he smirks with a wink. I throw a pillow at him but he successfully catches it. He closes his eyes and stick his tongue out, and I throw another pillow at the same time.

And this time, it hits him straight in his face. He just glares at me before throwing that pillow to me. And before we know, we are pillow fighting again.

We both fall on bed side by side after the fight and we both chuckle at that. The TV is running and the Teen Wolf is screening. But neither Conrad nor me are watching it.

"Do you watch those?" I ask him.

"Watch what?" He asks me and I turn my head towards him.

"Those videos you were talking about earlier" I shrug.

"It's p**n! There is nothing wrong in saying that out loud and you should not trust a guy if he says he doesn't watch or that he never watched any" Conrad says and I shrug.

"Maybe Ryan doesn't watch" I whisper.

"Oh sweat pea! Everyone does" he chuckles.

"Okay. Whatever. I am losing my Stiles time" I say and I sit again.

"Stiles time? You mean that human boy over there?" Conrad asks me gesturing towards the TV.

"Yep. I watch this show only for him. You know there were nights I dream about that guy. In a cozy house. Vincent running around with his toys. Stiles Stilinski and I having our morning coffee together on couch and laugh at something" I say with a smile and think of the dream again.

"That sounds like the most bullshit dream ever!" Conrad scoffs making me just glare at him.

We both glare at each other and even though my nostrils are blocked because of this cold, I can still smell the jealousy he is radiating at the moment.

"Oh you know? That guy in real life is thirty year old. Maybe I still got that chance to make my dream come true" I smile at him and I see his glare only turns harder.

"What the f**k do you see in him? His nose is sharp, you can chop vegetables. His hair doesn't look soft. His eyes are not that great. Not impressive height" Conrad says and turns towards the screen to see Stiles who is still on the screen now.

But he just watches the show for a minute more until I see his eyebrows raised and mouth forms an o.

"Ooooh! Now this is some stuff I like" he says when the actors start kissing each other.

I roll my eyes. I just told him that I can go after a human instead of accepting him, and here he is.. enjoying what he is watching. Two minutes later the scene ends and then he finally looks at me.

"Yeah. No. He is not good for you" Conrad finally whispers again making me roll my eyes again.

"I am hungry" I whisper and he nods.

The same moment, someone knocks the door. Conrad stands up to open it and I see someone from The Silver Salt Pack hand him a tray of food.

I smile as Conrad turns around and shows me that. He places that on bed and locks the door again. He grabs the chair and the tray is now in between us.

There is porridge. Steamed vegetables. A bottle of water. What looks like pot pie and two tiny pieces of brownies.

"I already told them to bring us lunch" he says and I smile at him.

"So you can be good if you try" I say and he shrugs.

"Depending on the person who is before me" he says and I narrow my eyes at him.

We both take the spoons and have the porridge first. Because it tastes best when it is still hot.

"Is there anyone that you thought about without expecting anything in return?" I ask him and he nods. Wow.

"You" he says and I roll my eyes.

"Except me" I say and he nods again.

"My pack" he says and I nod this time.

"And you don't expect anything in return?" I ask him.

"I don't want anything in return. I am their Alpha and if it is not for them accepting me as one, I would not be here. So my entire life, I dedicated it to protect them and take care of them" he says and I smile.

"They are lucky to have you" I smile at him and he smiles at me back.

I pick a piece of potato with my fork and just groan as I chew. It is a happy groan somehow.

"I love potatoes. I love anything with potatoes actually" I say and he chuckles.

The next second, I notice him picking up all the potatoes those are in his bowl too. And he drops them in my bowl.

These little gestures. I wonder if he knows that it means so much to me even though he thinks they are probably nothing.

"I am not interested in watching. So go ahead and tell me the story" Conrad asks.

"Okay so in this first season, there is an Alpha but no one knows who he is." I start telling him and he nods at every sentence.

I am so immersed in telling him the story that I stop noticing that he is feeding me in between sentences and then nodding again.

"What did I just say?" I ask him out of blue.

"The scratch from that Alpha triggered the girl's banshee genes" Conrad says and I am surprised that he is even listening.

"Yeah so she uses them to find dead bodies." I start telling him.

And by the time I am done telling the story of all the six seasons. I see the tray is empty too. Wow did I tell him that fast or is it too late?

Conrad and I just sit that way in silence until he burps and laughs at that.

"You know you look good when you laugh" I say and he scoffs.

"I mean it. You should laugh often" I say again and he doesn't answer to that. Not even an expression or at least another scoff in return.

"Why do you always have a straight face? This is your pack. Your pack is your family" I whisper.

"If you think talking about my family is going to make me smile again, then that is absolutely the wrong direction Pea" he smiles and I narrow my eyes at him.

"When I was a kid, I was close to my dad" he says and clears his throat.

"My mom was so much into the Luna responsibilities and trying to live up to the image of being Linden Werner's wife" he shrugs.

"And then dad passed away. It was a forest fire. Our silent family fell more silent. The most I hear my mother's voice is when she gives a speech or wishes me on my birthday" Conrad says again.

I hold his hand and give him a small smile. He places his hand above mine and pats it twice.

"But you can say I am the closest to my sister. I am at least this way because of her. Do you know I actually cried the day she left this pack to come and live at yours?" He asks me and I just smile at him.

"Alpha Conrad and crying? I am sorry I cannot picture it" I say and he smiles a little more.

"But I did. I like Ryan, I really do. I know he is the best one I can ever bring for my sister. But the thought that she and I can no longer stay under the same roof killed me" He says.

"And now, the silent Conrad became much more silent. All he does is walk around and nod people. Not like I don't want to do it. But that is how I am. That is how I grew up under the shadows of a silent family" he says.

"Don't tell me your parents never laughed when they were together too" I say quite surprised but his face and the tiny shrug says a lot.

"Pretty much robotic childhood you can say. Yes, I was close to my dad. But doesn't mean I could laugh around, joke around and share everything with him. If hearing my mom's voice on my birthday was her degree, then talking about future Alpha responsibilities every now and then with dad was his degree of giving me a hand out" Conrad says.

And I cannot help but think of Conrad and me. We both never really had a strong place where we could call home. I had a mom. I had a half brother but that's it. I had them. Just like Conrad.

But I could get away from there. And Conrad had to toughen himself up because he is the Alpha. So his father passing away took a toll on him but Nova was there. And now that Nova is not around too, Conrad is again robotic.

"You know what?" I ask him and he raises his eyebrows.

"I am proud of how far you have come" I whisper and he smiles a little.

"If you think I don't talk to you enough, just know that I did not grow up that way. I don't even know how to keep a conversation going. I don't know how to express what I feel. But around you, it is totally different Pea" Conrad says

"I could joke around you. I can pull pranks when I am with you. I can talk a lot. I can smile. I can laugh. You make my heart jump at times. And other times, you make me calm. Like earlier when I was shaking with anger over Shane's revelation. You make me do things that I never think I could have done on my own. Like the speech that evening. It's like .. it's like it is fine even if I don't have a filter of me around you" he says and I nod.

"You don't have to have a filter. Just bring everything you have in your heart. Remember, I forgave you for the peanut allergy prank you pulled on me. So anything else cannot be that worse right?" I ask him and we both chuckle.

A minute of silence later he clears his throat again.

"But that is exactly what's scaring me at the moment" he whispers again.

"What is?"

"Dad is no more. Nova is out of reach. You want rejection, so someday you will not be around too" he whispers.

I know it is not because of matebond, but my heart just got heavy on its own. When he was telling me his story, I was watching little Conrad before me. When he told me he cried when Nova left, I watched twenty three year old Conrad locking himself in his room and crying alone.

And now, I see me back at my pack with my son and Conrad just walking around as if someone just sucked life out of him. That looks so sad to me. I would be fine but he wouldn't be.

"Can I do this once?" He asks and I look at him in confusion silently asking if he wants to go in for another round of revenge plan or whatever we did earlier.

"Do what?" I ask him again.

"This" he whispers.

Before I know, he is on his feet. Leaning towards me. Holding my face with both his hands. And finally, his lips on mine. The sparks are now intense fireworks and there was nothing in my entire life did I experience something like this.

I know I should be pushing him away but I don't know why my lips are moving with his, in perfect sync.