The Beta Wants Me

Chapter Five

" Please have mercy on me, Take it easy on my heart, Even though you don't mean to hurt me, You keep tearing me apart, Would you please have mercy, mercy on my heart, "

                                     -Shawn Mendes

                                           (Mercy)

KAI COACHMAN

[August 26th 2020]

"That's complete bullshit," Declan spits out, his tone laced with heavy venom.

I was still mute which didn't happen to me often because I usually had a lot of s**t to say, I am Kai Coachman after all. I just couldn't fathom what she had said nor did it make any sense to me.

I wanted to brush what she said right over my shoulder and pass it off as her bullshitting because she had some type of crush on me but the look in her eyes told me otherwise. Her eyes were moist with the tears she allowed to stream down her face but her lips were curved into a defiant frown, her face screwed into an angry glare.

Aside from her outward appearance I could feel that she wasn't just pulling tricks out of her sleeves, or lack thereof, but she genuinely felt what she uttered about us being mates was true. Only thing was, I didn't think she was right around that.

Though, I am far from being a werewolf (if I could be any animal in this world I'd most likely be a fox; they're cool as f**k) I felt something with Declan as much as I try to dismiss it. Being with Declan gave me this euphoric feeling I couldn't feel with anyone. His touches were little shocks of electricity onto my skin, his eyes staring into mine held me there and made it hard for me to even look away.

With Bryn I didn't feel any of that. The extent to what I felt was a connection towards her but that seemed to be it.

"It isn't bullshit. Why are you so against me trying to claim my mate anyway?" Bryn furiously wiped the tears in her eyes.

"Because he isn't your mate, he's mine," Declan growled out possessively and embarrassingly, I shivered at the tone his voice took on.

I want to shove bricks into his mouth because he was making me feel weird and oddly turned on and all he was f*****g doing was speaking!

"Why do you think I'm your mate anyways? My pull towards you is zero to nothing," I lied slightly.

There was a pull towards Bryn but it isn't in the way I had it with Declan and it was hardly there, it was a distant connection. I decided not to include that little part of it because I'd rather not piss Declan off...but then again, I can imagine it would be hot if he—bad Kai, no Kai, stop thinking that Kai.

"But I feel something towards you," Bryn urges, her voice growing soft.

"A small crush," Declan scoffs.

"It's more than that," Bryn shoots him a scowl before her eyes come to meet mine and her features soften instantly, "I don't know if it's possible for a human or even a werewolf to have two mates but I know what I feel, I know what my wolf feels."

"I was here first," Declan says childishly and I can't help but roll my eyes and chuckle a little.

"That's not fair," Bryn replies, her hands on her hips.

"What else is not fair is I'm not allowing you to lay a damn finger on Kai and that's that," Declan smirks easily at Bryn who narrows her eyes.

"You're being unreasonable," Bryn bites, "werewolves die without their mate, I could die."

"I'll come to your funeral," I smile kindly.

"I won't," Declan rolled his eyes.

"Are you guys f*****g serious right now," Bryn raises her voice as she now casts her anger in my direction more specifically.

"It was a joke," kind of.

"We could share him?" Bryn says hesitantly and I raise a brow.

I wasn't a candy bar, though I was just as delicious.

"f**k no," Declan displays his distaste towards the idea, "you'll have to kill me before I let someone else touch what's mine."

Let's pretend that wasn't the hottest statement on this planet. God, thank you for bringing Declan onto planet earth. Amen.

"You can't keep him all to yourself!" Bryn explodes.

"I can and I f*****g will. This isn't your pack nor is this your territory. You are on our land and you cannot come in here supposing I share someone who I haven't gotten to spend time with fully because I won't. Hell, Kai doesn't even feel anything towards you like he does with me so it's hard for me to even believe you when you say he's your mate," Declan spits out, every word lacing annoyance mixed authority.

It was the first time I'd seen him say so much at once and it left my heart beating wildly knowing because of me, he was willing to fight someone. I guess it was the pull we had as mates but it still left me gazing at him, my eyes holding something I couldn't even decipher for myself.

He turned and his eyes met mine and almost immediately, heat flushed my cheeks and it was weird. I felt awkward so I turned away, unable to hold his eyes that made my stomach turn like I drank expired milk; which I have done before and I was vomiting for weeks.

Just as it seems that Bryn wishes to say more despite Declan clearly being unrelenting, Killian walks into the living room. At the same time, as if planned, the front door is opened and a few footsteps later Finnick is seen with May by his side.

My mood brightens and I run, leaping over the couch and landing on the wood floors with a thud before crushing the small boy with glasses in my hold. I pull back and ruffle his hair to which he scowls playfully and tries to push me away.

"Bolt!" I shout and pretend to hide behind him as I point in Declan and Bryan's direction, "they're arguing over me."

"I'm sure your narcissistic ass is just eating it up too," May snickers quietly.

Finnick blinks looking at Bryn, his usually remarks that would usually come out of him halted. He shuffled awkwardly and I remembered how uncomfortable he still was around people he wasn't familiar with. I was so used to how comfortable he's grown around all of us and spoke whenever he pleased now that I completely forgot he was still very much socially awkward.

"Speak about this with Elder Roxanne," Killian says and I turn in time to see him take Finnick into his arms and hold him.

Killian opens his once closed eyes to narrow his eyes at me slightly and shove me, playfully, away from where he and his mate were having their moment. I pout and I stand beside May who I glare at, remembering what she did to me before. She blows a kiss at me before walking away from me and  disappearing into the kitchen.

"I don't need an Elder to tell me what I already know," Declan runs a large hand through his hair, sitting down on the couch.

"And what do you know exactly?" Killian still has Finnick wrapped in his arms, Finnick leaning into the embrace happily.

They're goals.

"I know that Bryn is bullshitting," Declan says.

"I'm not bullshitting! You're just scared that an Elder will set you straight and tell you that he is my mate. You're scared your precious mate won't be 'yours,' anymore," Bryn smirks cockily.

"Shut the f**k up before you lose the ability to even speak little girl," Declan now stands, glaring at Bryn.

"Sorry to interrupt," Finnick cuts in quietly, "What's an Elder?"

"An Elder, Pup, is the oldest werewolf in exsistance thus far. Of course there are multiple Elders but the oldest one in our pack is Elder Roxanne and the Elders are usually wise and have insight on everything and will most definitely be able to tell if Bryn is really mated to Kai," Killian explains easily, pecking Finnick on the forehead.

"Hust dof dat," May says inside the kitchen with a mouth full of mochi, she was so completely Asian.

"What did she just say?" Bryn asks in confusion.

"She said to, 'just do that,'" I translated, I spoke the language 'May,' very well since she always had the habit of speaking with her mouth full of something...including Chris's—

"Yeah let's do that," Bryn agrees.

"This is such a waste of time," Declan grumbles.

"You'd think so because you're scared," provokes Bryn.

Declan's face screws up into a hateful look and knowing how he'll rip her apart without consideration for her feelings, because Declan didn't considering people's feelings often, I move quickly to his side and jump onto his back. His reflexes being top notch, he catches my weight easily and cups my ass.

"Declan, cool it," I try to warn him to release the pressure he has on my ass but he goes against my words and squeezes even tighter and I chew on my lip.

I was not going to get hot and bothered in front of everyone.

"Declan—" I was going to threaten him but I'm cut off with the way he slides his hand between the crack of my ass and I bite down the sound I wanted to make, "not now."

"But later," I could hear the smirk in his voice and I wanted to tell him no but he cut off my words as he cupped my right ass cheek in his large palm.

"You guys are oozing s****l tension," May said, a pink mochi hanging out of her mouth with her cheeks the pink hue of the treat in her mouth.

"Don't they always," Killian remarked.

"I don't like this," Bryn eyed us.

"Just like how I don't like you," Declan said.

I chuckled quietly on top of him.

We began our journey to see Elder Roxanne, I was on Declan's back and Bryn walked beside us. We were silent for the most part which I hated because I usually liked for their to be some if any conversation going on. Declan was giving off these hate filled vibes and it was because of Bryn most likely. I didn't like him grumpy like this so I put aside how gay I knew this was going to be and wrapped my arms tighter around his neck as I learned forward and planted a small kiss on his left cheek.

I stretched my neck to see his reaction and I smiled lightly as I saw how a grin instantly came onto his face. Happiness bubbled within me knowing I was the reason he had a smile on his face.

"One more," he said aloud.

"Nope," I popped the, 'p,' playfully as I defiantly shook my head.

"C'mon," his tone turned childish as he shook my body that was on his back.

A laugh escaped me as I kissed the palm of my hand before slapping it to his cheek.

"There," I said with satisfaction.

"f**k You," he grumbled.

"I'm sure you'd like to," I teased and he raised a brow.

"Behave or I promise you'll be up against that wall in five seconds flat, moaning," he threatened darkly.

I swallowed and felt my insides stir.

Why was he like this?!?

"Can you two not," Bryn's voice made us look at her, "he is my mate too you know."

"Sure," Declan rolled his eyes and I sighed.

Honestly, I didn't want to be mated to Bryn. Sure, I go off about being straight and all but I just don't see it with her. I also got attached to Declan already but he doesn't need to know that.

We were silent the rest of the way but we didn't have much longer to go as we descended down the last of the stairs that went down to the basement. It was crazy knowing their mansion literally had like six floors plus a vast basement that was literally its own entire floor. I didn't know if they were low key drug dealers or not but I wanted in.

We caught sight of the elevator and Bryn stopped walking, looking at it for a second before looking back at Declan and glaring.

"You had an elevator this whole time?!" She exclaimed.

"Yes," Declan said simply, "I wanted you to suffer and walk."

"You played yourself, you walked too," she rolls her eyes.

"Yes but walking is nothing for me, you on the other hand, are sweating your makeup off," I could hear the smirk in Declan's voice.

"I'm a warrior Wolf, I'm not sweating," she denies.

"Look in a mirror," Declan laughed to himself as he continued walking through the basement.

Bryn was constantly touching her face to check for any sweat and she seemed extremely mindful of herself now. She wasn't actually sweating, Declan was playing with her and he succeed in what he wanted which was to psych her out. I felt bad but at the same time I didn't.

He was evil but so was I; we were puzzle pieces that didn't fit exactly into each other but we belonged to the same puzzle.

That was so deep, I should become a motivational speaker.

We were in front of a door but before Declan could open the door, it opened itself and a woman appeared. She was short, her posture imperfect but I assume that's what old age did to you sometimes. Her hair was gray and it flowed past her shoulders nearly touching her bum.

She wore a loose dress that drifted down to her legs, on her feet were flats. Her eyes were a faded gray, her skin shockingly lacking wrinkles but was heavily pale. I didn't know how old she was but I assumed that since she was an Elder and the oldest there was that she'd look something like Betty White but she didn't. At most, she looked like she was just touching sixty years old but she still looked good and healthy.

"How old is she?" I whisper in Declan's ear.

"She's one hundred and fifteen years old," Declan whispered back.

My eyes widened instantly. What the f**k?

"As shocking as it may seem, I am," Elder Roxanne chuckles and steps inside the room, "come in."

Declan allows me to slip off his back and we enter along with Bryn. The room is extremely spacious and  every wall has a shelf with rows and piles of books that are neatly stored. The books seemed old as if they dated back into the 1600's and there are artifact looking things in the middle of each shelf.

There was a lounging area to the side where Roxanne took a seat. There was coffee table in the center with a bench on the other side of where Roxanne sat down.

"Have a seat," she ushered with her hands for us to come.

Without argument, we sat on the bench. I was in the middle, somehow closer to Bryn than was intended. Declan notices and his hand snakes around my waist and pulls me closer to him, leaving a noticeable space between Bryn and Declan and I.

"We're here because—"

"Child, I know very well why you're here," Roxanne interrupts Bryn, "aside from being knowledgeable and all, you guys were loud."

"Elder Roxanne just tell her that Kai isn't her mate," Declan says with exasperation.

"Elder Roxanne—"

"Just call me Rox, adding Elder makes me feel old," Rox smiles.

"You are old," I mumble under my breath.

She shoots me a look but stays nothing. She grasps Bryn's hand in hers, feeling her palm before she grabs my hand and holds it beside Bryn's hand. Rox allows her eyes to flutter close as she mumbles something under her breath. I felt like she was doing some kind of voodoo but that was quite far fetched.

Rox re-opens her eyes and she looks at me.

"Plot twist, Declan isn't your mate at all Kai," Rox says.

My eyes widen instantly, my posture suddenly perfect as I sit up and look at her in shock. My stomach dropped and it felt like my heart was squeezing tightly in my chest and it hurt. Declan was just as alert, gazing at Rox in complete and utter confusion.

"I'm just pulling your leg," she snickers evilly.

I release a breath I didn't realize I was even holding. I sag back into my horrible posture, feeling like my world that crashed with her statement were piecing itself back together.

"I thought you didn't even want me, what's with the shocked and sad expression," Declan teases.

"S-shut up," I stutter, unable to look at him.

"Kai, you have a sister," Rox says as she releases my hand.

My face drops and I blink without saying anything for a few moments.

"Yes," I respond.

I felt Declan take my hand under the table and I feel everything in me softening.

"Lyndon?" Rox says her full name and my heart squeezes tightly, my eyes burning as I began to hear inside my head how my mother yelled her name with such desperation at her funeral two years ago.

"Why the f**k are you even asking?" I snap, my eyes hardening.

"Because Bryn," Rox looks at Bryn whose been quiet as a mouse and says, "Lyndon is your mate or should I say, was your mate."

Bryn frowns, her eyes showing her confusion.

"What do you mean?" Bryn asks, her voice wavering as if she was dreading the answer.

Rox licks her lip, looking at me as if expecting me to answer. I didn't want to say it but it only felt right that I should be the one to say it.

"Lyn is," my voice cracks and I clear my throat swiftly, "Lyn is dead."

Her face drops, tears instantly filling her sea foam eyes.

"What?" Her voice cracks.

"Lyn is dead."

I don't know if this was a pleasant update but I hope regardless that it was enjoyable.

Do you feel bad for Bryn or do you still feel hate towards her?

~Babybird.