Filed To Story: The Guardian Wolf and her Alpha Mate
Taking a deep breath, I close my eyes and smile as the scent of forest after some fresh rain hits my senses.
“You look happy to be here” I hear Bruno state as he appears beside me.
“Correction. Happy to have some fresh air so I don’t have to breathe in your scent in a claustrophobic vehicle any longer” I sneer back at him with a cold smile.
Flitting my eyes to Bruno’s muscular form, I take in his amused smile as he notes my attitude change. Stepping forward, he leans in so close that his warm breath fans my ear, making my body shudder with disgust. “I’ll have you know Mila the more you push me away and try to insult me, the more determined I’ll be to wear you down. I love a good challenge and I have missed your defiance surprisingly” he whispers lowly in my ear.
Keeping my stance relaxed, I don’t allow him to see the disgust I feel inside from his words. Pursing my lips, I step back and simply look at him while shaking my head. Chuckling, he straightens himself, staring down at me as he does so, trying to gage my reaction.
After a moment, he reaches out and grasps my arm roughly before he all but drags me towards a smaller cabin nearer the end. Quickly looking around, I note that each cabin has a group of 8-12 men outside, all covered in tattoos and scars showing their experiences at fighting. Their eyes focus on me as I am forced to cross the clearing. Narrowing my eyes, I hold my head tall and don’t look away from their cold gazes. They will not see me cower away from them I tell myself.
“This is where you’ll be staying” Bruno grunts as we reach the already open door. With a slight push, I’m forced inside as Bruno follows close behind, snapping the door shut. Turning around, I keep my eyes on him as he moves smoothly to the fridge, retrieving two cold drinks before passing me one. Taking it, I check the lid hasn’t been opened previously before sighing and quickly opening it.
Studying Bruno over the bottle as I gulp it down, I cant deny the fact that he is an attractive Alpha. His dark brown curls frame his sun kissed face, his dark eyes are surrounded by long lashes and his strong cheekbones and two dimples still appear when he cracks a rare smile. But unfortunately that’s where the attractiveness ends, his eyes no longer have the ability to take my breath away. His smile no longer makes my knees weak, and his scent now strikes me as repulsive instead of irresistible.
“What are you thinking?” Bruno asks me with a rare grin as I realise he’s caught me staring.
“That it’s a shame you aren’t as attractive as your appearance suggests. Outside you’re a typical handsome Alpha, but really you’re just a cold heartless Alpha in a shell of muscle and tattoos” I shrug at him.
“Was that a compliment?” he asks coming to stand beside me.
“Just a fact” I snap back.
Ignoring my rudeness, he steps past me into the open kitchen and living room. “This is your new home, you’ll have food brought to you so you can cook your meals. There is a bedroom back there and a bathroom. If your behave you can go and use the small patio at the back, but you will have a guard with you at all times when you are outside the cabin” he tells me while lifting his finger to point to a set of double doors facing the forest.
Taking a quick walk round I note the cabin is kitted out, not overly fancy but it has everything I could possibly need for staying in the middle of a forest. The kitchen is surprisingly light and the living room has two sofas facing a TV unit. My eyes pass over the room slowly before they focus on what is in the corner. A small pile of yoga blocks and a mat are there along with a water bottle and a music player.
Furrowing my brows in confusion I look at Bruno who simply shrugs, looking slightly awkward. “I remember you like yoga, I thought it may help you pass the time, maybe this time together it can be easier for the both of us.”
Gulping I take a step back, “What’s going on?”
When he doesn’t reply, I press further. “I mean why are you suddenly interested in making sure I have something here I can find enjoyable. Why put me somewhere like this? Why take me in the first place?”
“So many questions” Bruno sighs.
“Answer me Bruno” I snap. “Tell me the truth for once..it’s about time you did.”
He growls as he slumps down on the sofa, for the first time I notice his eyes are heavy with tiredness, his shoulders hunched as he taps his knee nervously. This is a side of Bruno I have never seen before, in the past he was harsh, blunt and didn’t care about how I or anyone else felt. I suffered through insults and betrayal pains, being openly humiliated when he paraded his chosen Luna, Rebecca, in front of me. He told his pack members I was nothing more than a simple breeder.
“You’re confusing me” I admit when he doesn’t move to speak. “You didn’t want me Bruno, why force this?”
“Because I know I need you, for what I cant tell you just yet. But you should never have left me” he growls.
“Why should I have stayed? Why should I have to put up with you betraying our bond and breaking Alia and myself down?” I ask incredulously.
“Because I was your mate” he snaps at me. “You are mine.”
“I was, and you still treated me that way” I yell at him, my patience thinning as tiredness creeps up on me. Where is Rebecca? What about her true mate? Because from what you’ve just said, Rebecca belongs to her true mate, and I now belong to Axton.”
“Not here” he replies bluntly. “You aren’t Axton’s Mila, you’re mine. You are here to help me achieve what I have been working towards for years. You are my link.”
“Are you going to hurt me Bruno?” I ask him quietly.
“No’ he grunts as his head falls in his hands. “You infuriated me before, the bond was messing with my head and making me doubt myself. I was constantly battling my wolf and my heart. I realised when you left how harsh I had been, I regretted it. I shouldn’t have gone about it the way that I did, I certainly didn’t do the correct thing in keeping you around. But then I found out you had Axton as your second chance, a man I cannot stand. One who will twist your mind and make you hate me further, I couldn’t have that, I knew I needed to get you back.”
“Why f**k someone right before accepting my rejection Bruno? Why not just move on with Rebecca happily?” I snarl. “You caused me so much agony, and you have no idea what danger you put me in the other evening. I had to go into battle and fight in only human form, Alia took my pain, if I hadn’t fought strongly then I could easily have died that night.”
“You were fighting?” he asks slowly as surprise flits across his features. “I thought Jax would have avoided you being involved in that, Fuck.”
“You heard me, and of course I f*****g fought Bruno. I’m an Alpha’s daughter. I would never sit back and expect everyone to treat me any different because of that” I growl. “Why decide to hurt me when you had slowed down over the last few weeks to only behave the way you did.?”
“Because I felt you with Axton” he shouts. “I felt it and it f*****g hurt. I know I had no right to take that out on you. When you were at my pack, I was stuck between you and Rebecca, it was difficult and I admit I reacted badly…extremely badly. I took my frustrations out on you. But to know you were with another and that other was Axton of all people, I hated it.”
“You enjoyed seeing me in pain, you liked the fact you could make me scream from your actions with Rebecca..don’t lie to me. I saw the sick smile on your face when you f****d that b***h in front of me” I scream as tears stream down my face at the unwanted memory. “I find it hard to imagine you regret it and this is some type of change of heart.”
After that, there is silence between us as my words settle. “It does hurt though doesn’t it Bruno” I whisper. “Yet that was nothing, I kissed him, that’s all. Now imagine the pain I endured.”
I know” he sighs, his face dropping as my words hit home, but still he does not apologise.
“I wont forget what you’ve done Bruno” I say after a moment as he simply nods in acceptance. “I’m not sure what this version of Bruno is right now, it’s certainly not one I recognise. But one thing I can say is you have still not apologised despite showing some recognition of your actions. Your forced me to come, and you hate my new mate. I don’t think you have good intentions for me.”
“I know Mila. I’m not going to hurt you, not if you help me. Just do as I say and for your own sake…behave” he growls to me as he stalks forward, his dark eyes boring into mine. Leaning forward, he takes a deep breath of my scent before moaning slightly. “As irresistible as ever, I’ll be back in the morning, things will be clearer then” he murmurs before moving back and opening the door, leaving without another word.
“What the hell” I whisper to myself as my skin crawls from his words. Going over what he said, I end up stumped. Confused at his intentions and his reasoning, my thoughts no clearer than they were this morning. For the first time I had seen a glimpse of regret he has from his actions, but I had no more understanding as to why he behaved the way he did. Although since taking me he has warned me I need to behave, and I definitely take that seriously, he has also said he wont hurt me. Yet when I was his mate, it seemed like he would go out of his way to do just that when he should have been treasuring me as his fated, overjoyed that the moon Goddess paired Axton and myself.
Stumbling through to the bedroom, my body suddenly extremely lethargic as the events of today finally catch up to me, I fall on the bed without taking the time to look around the room.
My last thought before darkness finally takes over is what the f**k is going on, ?
Jax POV:
“So..no Luna” a grim faced Luca states as we all walk into Axton’s office where he’s sat waiting for us.
“No” Axton replies bluntly, his eyes heavy with worry as he passes him Mila’s phone and the note addressed to him. “Look through these, it’s got everything you need to know.”
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