Filed To Story: Fated is Overrated Novel Free by Brenda Minnaard
Chris drops his head again, replying in a soft, meek voice “I know Lola.. I have been replaying everything I have done to you ever since I shut you out up until the last thing I did to you over and over in my mind in the past 2 weeks. I shouldn’t have taken my frustrations regarding my mother out on you. Or on any other woman to be fair. Although almost all women out there do live up to my views of being gold digging wh*res, just like my mother. I know it’s not an excuse, Lola. I know you, and I know you are nothing like that, I was just too hurt to see it. I made myself believe you would eventually leave me as well, and that it was better for me to shut you out myself, rather than get hurt as badly as I saw my father be. You are the only woman I have ever loved Lola, and I am deeply sorry for all I’ve done”. I’ve always known it had something to do with his mother, and I already suspected he was afraid of getting hurt. But that didn’t make it sting any less, that didn’t make it right. He didn’t even give me a chance.
“You knew me, Chris, past tence. I’ve always known it had to do with your mother – but you never even gave me a chance to talk to you. And for the record, I would never have abandoned you. You had the most loyal person you could find in me. I would never have hurt you like that. I of all people should know what it’s like to be abandoned. And please Chris, the only woman you have ever loved? What, all the bed warmers and threesomes never made their way to your heart? Don’t insult me by downplaying my intelligence, Chris”. I know the hurt of losing parents, so I do feel sympathy for that part, but it still doesn’t make it right. And to insinuate I was anything special to him is a big slap in the face. If he treats someone special to him like that, I wouldn’t want to see how he treats someone he dislikes. It’s all bullsh*t. “I know I can’t say “trust me on this one..”, but the honest truth is that I don’t live up to my reputation. I know it seems all bad, but technically I am still a virgin even. Not that I expect you or anyone to believe me, I know I have f*cked up..”. I hunch over, laughing so hard I sound like an angry seal. After the laughter dims down, and I wipe my face from the tears, I counter “yeah that is a good one indeed. Now, are we done here? I would like to resume my life as soon as possible”. “I swear it’s the truth. But yeah, speaking about that, what are you doing here anyway? And speaking about your life, Lola, please come home with us” he pleads with me. Has he taken a hit to the head or something?
This is so far off from the Chris I have known in the past years, he must have had a concussion or a mental breakdown or something. “What I am doing here or where I will be going is none of your business, Chris. And home? Lol, are you delusional? Red Dagger was never my home. It was the pack I was confined to until I would finish high school and be free to move, but it hasn’t been home for me in a long time, Chris. Not since my mother passed and my best friend shut me out, and became my biggest nightmare. Now, if there is nothing else, please excuse me” I simply state before pushing the door open and heading back to the other office. Ready to give these twatwaffle 1 and twatwaffle 2 a piece of my mind.
Zeke POV
It has been a while since Chris and the rogue left for the other office. Zane and I have gotten curious and although we can’t do it right now with the Alpha, Beta and Delta in the room, we will definitely check the hidden camera footage of the other office later. We are dying to know what was said between the 2. Not that the rogue interests us – we are interested as to why on earth Chris would plead with her, and actually go so far as to beg her to talk with him privately. We have always believed Chris was an OK guy and a good soon to be alpha, for a normal werewolf that is. But as we watched him gravel at her feet we were in shock – no man should ever do that for a woman, but imagine an Alpha doing it! The men in front of us seem to be stunned as well, first and foremost Chris’ father, the current Alpha, Culio. He finally manages to regain his composure and asks “your highnesses if I may ask, how has Lola been found and where?”.
In formal settings such as these, Zane lets me do the talking, so I step forward. “She was found by our guards near our border. She was running from and fighting off 5 rogues. She and one of the rogues were brought in for questioning”. Alpha Culio turns pale at the realization she was in unclaimed land, although he must have known she was as she wouldn’t have been able to cross pack borders. “Dear goddess, your guards arrived just in time then, poor child. If I may ask, why was only 1 rogue brought in for questioning and not all of them?”. As the question left his mouth, the door pops open and Lola storms back in, Chris not yet in sight. Alpha Culio takes us all by surprise when he marches over to Lola and embraces her in a tight hug. “Dear child I am so happy you are OK” right before Chris walks back in. She hesitantly returns the embrace briefly, before nodding and stepping back with a small smile. Now that alpha Culio mentions it – I also don’t know why only 1 rogue beside her was brought back in. It seems strange to me, so I decide to confront the rogue in front of me. “So, rog- ehhh Lola. We were just discussing how you were found and brought in by our guards, when Zane and I realized we hadn’t been informed of the exact circumstances yet. We understood you were being chased by 5 rogues – why was only 1 brought in for questioning?”.
Her gaze turns deadly when redirecting towards me. I am not sure if it is about the question or about the fact that we have invited her pack leadership despite her clear wishes not to do so. Her voice is cold as ice and sounds deadly when she replies with a glint in her eyes I can’t decipher “I butchered 2 of them and the other 2 were killed by your guards before I had a chance to”. She looks straight into my eyes when speaking, and I can read between the lines and pick up the message she is smart enough not to say out loud. ‘Did she just… Threaten us?’ ‘oh yeah..’ I reply to Zane, chuckling in my mind. ‘She has some balls for a weakling without a wolf, to be indirectly threatening the most powerful Lycans out here’ Zane says, seething. ‘We’ll show her her place soon enough if today’s plan doesn’t work brother, don’t you worry’. All the men before us look dumbstruck, before Chris asks “what? How did you kill 2 rogues on your own?? And while being chased by 3 others too?”. She grins widely now whilst giving Chris the same death stare she gave me. “I dropped the first one into a trap across the border as he got squashed to mashed wolf” she pauses, grinning even wider as if she is reminiscing a beautiful occasion, “and the second one got filleted into little wolf steaks when I launched him onto a land mine. And for the record..” she turns her gaze back to Zane and me, and looks me straight in the eye again. “The one that is now being questioned I would have choked to death would your guards not have stopped me”. Zane and I can’t help the low growl erupting in our chest as she again indirectly threatens us. But to my surprise, the weakling without a wolf doesn’t even flinch nor avert her gaze. ‘How come she is not affected by our aura? Do you think it is because she doesn’t have a wolf?’ Zane links me. ‘It must be, although normally it still affects those who don’t, I see no other reason it shouldn’t affect her’.
Zeke POV
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.