Mate or Fate

Caspian

“ What the hell?” I almost yelled as soon as I stopped out of my room. Liam, Damien and Carl were waiting outside the door or should I say eavesdropping on me.

“ We were concerned about that girl,” Liam said. If I didn't know better I would have believed him. I only shook my head with a sigh.

“ Come with me,” saying that, I walked to my office which was on the same floor. They all trailed behind me.

“ Close the door and take a seat,” I said, walking around the old oak table before sitting on my chair. They all took their seats in front of me and waited for me to continue.

Where should I start from? Honestly I don't know either. But one thing I know is that I don't want her to go anywhere but my room. There has been this ache in my chest since I walked out of my room.

“ Did anyone call from any pack?” I asked.

“ No one called to report any missing members but the beta of the blue heaven pack called,” Damien said, making me raise an eyebrow. They sure are desperate.

“ What did he say?”

“ He was asking why didn't you show up? They all were waiting for the treaty to be signed,” he replied.

“ Ohhh!!!”

“ They are really thinking highly of themselves,” I said and looked at Damien, he looked like he wanted to say something.

“ What is it?”

“ I…. Well….. maybe there is something going on in their pack. I might be wrong but I heard the Alpha was screaming at someone,” he said.

“ Send someone there to keep an eye on the blue heaven pack and get information,” I replied, staring at my desk.

“ On it.”

“ And tell him to find out if Lily was from that pack or not,” I added, nodding his head before linking one of our elite warriors.

“ That's all,” I said and stood up, turning my back towards Carl and Liam.

I stared out of the window towards the sky, the sun had set casting a beautiful orange glow over the land. But my thoughts were somewhere else or with someone.

Alpha?” Liam’s voice pulled me out of my chain of thoughts. I didn't turn around to face them, I waited for him to continue.

“ The elder called Scarlett to come here,” he continued.

“ They chose her to be your chosen mate,” my blood boiled at the words. But in the back of my eyes I could only see the picture of Lily. Her innocent face.

“ F*ck,” I cursed loudly.

“ They won't stop until I interfere,” I said as I turned around. The previous softness and emotions were gone, replaced by the cold.

“ let her come. And let them think that I am going with their plans,” I said with an evil smirk.

I know exactly why they are doing this. They think I don't know anything about what is going on inside of my kingdom. But they forgot I am their king.

“ Forgive me for saying this Alpha.”

“ But you do need a mate before your 30th Birthday. Or…… he trailed off when I glared at him.

“ I don't need anyone. Not until I found out who she is,” I said.

“ Is she your mate?” Liam asked carefully.

“ No.”

Something inside of me broke a little as the words left my mouth. What are you doing to me, little flower?

“ Ok,” and with that they both left me in my office with thousands of questions which I didn't know the answers to yet.

Louise

“ Where is he?” I demanded when after waiting for almost 5 hours for him, he didn't arrive.

“ I….. I am sorry but his beta informed me that there was something urgent so they couldn't come,” Ben replied with his head hung low.

Clenching my teeth, I slammed my first in the centre table of the living room. I was already pissed because of Lily and now how dare he make me wait? And how dare she reject me?

Fu**. I need to teach her a lesson for disobeying her Alpha. I turned around to walk back to my room when I was stopped by Alpha David.

“ Where do you think you are going?” He demanded.

“ To my room,” I replied.

“ I don't know what you have done to piss the Alpha king. But you will fix it and get his sign on the treaty,” he deadpaned as he looked into my eyes.

F**k it, first lily and now this. I am really going to teach her a lesson for rejecting me and then I will mark her after marking Veronica.

She thinks she can escape me? Never. She is my mate and she will remain by my side.

I just turned around to go upstairs to her when Lily's words echoed through the mind link.

“ I, Lily Anderson severed all ties with, blue heaven pack,” and snapped a chorus of painful groans that could be heard in the living room. It's not just me, everyone heard it.

“ She escaped?” I asked, more to myself.

“ What did you do to her?” Ben was on me holding my collar while his father was holding him from behind.

“ What is happening here?” Alpha David’s voice boomed.

“ I am asking you something, Alpha. What did you do to her?” He asked again.

“ She rejected me,” I said looking into his eyes. For a moment he looked taken aback as his hold on my collar loosen.

“ What?” David asked, not me but Ben.

“ she…….. he started but couldn't speak.

“ Benjamin Cole, I demand to know what is going on here?” my father asked using his authority.

“ She is… was his mate,” that was it. A round of gasps echoed through the hall followed by pin drop silence.

“ What?” My mother asked as if she couldn't believe in her ears.

“ Lily was your mate?” She was in disbelief. It took her a moment to gather herself before she stood right in front of me.

“ you were already blessed with a fated mate yet you still chose to take a chosen mate,” it wasn't a question it was a statement.

And the next second my head snapped to the left with a cracking sound as she slapped me with all her strength.

“ you raised your hand on me?”

“ Because of…….

“ Choose your next words carefully, Louise or else we will forget that you are our son,” my father said as he stood right beside his raging mate.

“ You broke her and now she is gone,” Ben's words were a mere whisper but we heard it.

“ you all are so riled up because of a low born, pathetic weak she wolf…… my words were cut off abruptly when my father grabbed my throat stopping the air supply.

“ Don't you dare disrespect her,” were his words before he let go of me.

“ Find her….. even if you have to dig the earth or tear the sky apart. We want her here safe in this house,” my mother said, turning her face away in disgust.

“ I will, and when I do she is going to regret ever escaping from the pack,” I spat before turning around.