Chapter 8 - The Message

Alexandria POV

“Happy birthday little momma” Luke wakes me up with a kiss on the cheek. “yaayy, my birthday is finally here, I get to be the queen of the day and boss you around” I say smirking.

“ you always boss me around anyways” Luke says laughing.

I do love my birthday, it’s when I feel extra special, my brothers and sister always made a big deal out of it, even my father played along. I miss them.

 Luke notices my changed expression and says “I know you miss your family, I really tried to reach them but couldn’t find a safe way to do so, I’m sorry babe” then he kisses my forehead,

His kiss feels wet and he doesn’t pull back. 

“Hey are you drooling on me or something” I say chuckling as I push him of me, he looks at me with blood coming out of his mouth and says “I Love you”.

 I look at his chest and its bleeding too, he drops to the ground and I see him, the man I hate the most, standing behind him with a blooded knife and says “Happy birthday Alexandria” with an evil smirk.

“ No no no LUKE” I wake up with a jerk, sitting up in my bed Taking deep breath to calm myself down. 

I’m startled when I hear someone say “Who the fuck is Luke?” Derek, my new mate, flanked with Dean and some other guy with dark hair and light brown eyes, he has similar features except he has a warm brown skin tone.

I start to take in my surroundings and start remembering what happened yesterday. 

“Alexandria, Who. The fuck. Is. Luke? Derek asks again and I can see and feel his anger. 

This is not going to be good.

“It’s none of your business”.

 “You are my business and I don’t like repeating myself so answer the damn question.” he snarls.

Okay he is not letting this go of course. 

Maybe I can use it to make him reject me; maybe that’s how he’ll let me go.

“ALEXANDRIA” Derek shouts.

 “He’s my husband”.

DEREK POV

Her what? I feel like someone threw cold water at my face.

 She belongs to another?

A lot of things make sense now, But how can I be mated to someone who doesn’t belong to me and where the fuck is that husband of hers? she must be lying. 

“If that’s true, where is he? We didn’t see any man with you and your company file said you are single” I ask trying to control my anger. 

Silence, that’s all I got from her,Maybe they are separated or she is hiding from him, maybe the asshole is abusive, if he is, I’ll protect her and kill the son of bitch. 

“If you are scared of him I can and will protect you, that piece of shit can’t harm you” the reaction I get from her is not what I expected.

“Don’t you dare talk about him like that” she is angry?

 “We are separated for the moment finishing some things and we will be reunited soon, so you see, this is not happening” she says gesturing her hands back and forth between us. 

“I can’t be your mate and I’m defiantly not your Luna so you have to reject me now and I’ll be on my way”.

shock, rage and hurt is all I feel.

she tries to get out of bed but wince in pain and stumbles a little, I want to help her but I honestly can’t move , I’m still in shock.

 “She can’t leave like this, she can barely walk” Dylan mind links me while trying to help her up, which snaps me out of my shock.

 “Where do you think you are going?” I ask her.

 “We already went over this just a second ago. You are rejecting me and I’m leaving” she says while trying to push Dylan out of her way.

 With the mention of rejection again, Rex can’t control his growl as we share the feeling.

 “I’m not rejecting you and you are not going anywhere like this, like it or not you ARE my mate, I’m not putting you in danger by letting you go in this condition alone… If you want to leave tell that husband of yours to come collect you” I tell her then turn to Dylan.

“Dylan , stay here and she doesn’t leave your sight” i command.

 “Yes alpha”.

 “I’m not your prisoner, you can’t keep me here” she almost snarls at me. 

“ yes I can and I will” I turn around and leave the room, just as I leave; a vase with the flowers still inside of it barely miss my head and crash to the wall in front of the room, I ignore it and continue walking.

 “That was a close one” Dean says catching up to me.

 “Something is off, her story doesn’t add up” I think out loud.

 “What story, she barely told us anything” Dean points out.

 “Exactly, she is hiding something ... A lot of things; we need to dig up her history” I tell Dean who is now walking beside me. 

“You think there is no husband?” Dean questions.

 “Husband or not there is defiantly a Luke” there is a whirlwind of emotions and thoughts in my head and I need to let out some steam.

 “I’m going for a run, link me if you find anything out or if there is a change in her condition” I say as we step out of the pack hospital.

“yes alpha”. 

I reach the tree line, take of my cloth and let Rex take over.

Alexandria POV

Okay, that back fired in the worst way possible.

And who does he think he is? Making me a prisoner? I can just kill him... or kick him in the balls, see how he’ll like that huh? 

“You need to calm down Luna or your wounds will reopen” the new guy that’s apparently called Dylan says.

“Don’t call me that…And who the fuck are you?” I lash out at the poor guy. 

I stop and take a deep breath to calm myself down.

“I’m sorry, I know it’s not your fault, didn’t mean to take it out on you.” I apologies,

 “It’s okay; it’s a difficult situation that you are in. I’m Dylan, gamma of the crimson river pack and Derek’s cousin” Dylan says with a smile. 

“I’m Alexandria, prisoner of alpha Derek, nice to meet you” I say with a sarcastic smile. 

“You know, he is only looking out for you, even if you have a husband you are still his mate, even if you were a stranger he wouldn’t have let you leave like this” Dylan says. 

“I know that’s part of it, the other part is just jealousy and anger” I say starting to calm down a bit more. 

It’s easy talking to Dylan it’s like we have a certain connection.  

“You are right Alexandria but can you blame him? He’s been searching for his mate for 10 years now and as soon as he finds her she almost got killed and then he finds out she is already married to someone else” Dylan explains.

 okay, didn’t think about his side of the story, but that only means it will even be harder for him to let me go, and honestly…angry at him or not, for some reason, I feel safe around him and I’m tired of being alone. 

I do miss his blue eyes already even if it was glaring at me.

 I sigh and say “you are right ... But I can’t stay here ... I can’t be with him ... even if I want to, believe me it’s for the best”.

 “What is that buzzing” Dylan says checking his phone.

“Not mine, I think it’s your phone” he contuines. 

I look around for my phone and I see my bag at the corner, oh, shit did someone open it?, can you hand me my bag please” I ask Dylan.

I unzip my bag, everything looks untouched and I find my phone with a message from an unknown number “must be max” I think to myself as I unlock the phone and the message reads “he is close. Change location. Stay hidden” shit shit shit, I feel my breathing is getting heavier, all the memories come back rushing to me, he is going to find me and kill Derek too, history is going to repeat itself, I will bring death wherever I go. 

The room starts to fade out; I think I’m having a panic attack.

 “Luna? Are you okay?” I look up at Dylan but I can’t say a word my eyes starts to tear up, I can’t control myself as I start shaking, Dylan grabs my phone in an attempt to understand what happened, I try to stop him and fail before everything goes dark.