Ch. 14

Chapter Fourteen

CYPRUS

I laughed out loud suddenly. “You don't have anything. I owe you,” I said to him boldly as he scoffed.

“Really? I want Fiona. I clearly just told you I want to get back Fiona. Bring her out from where she is now. She belongs to me. She is my fated mate,” he said as I folded my hands, standing my ground.

“She is your fated mate who you rejected and pushed away. You made her suffer, and I will not just watch her continue suffering because of your stupidity. She's going nowhere with you, and I want you to accept that fact. You can't just come into my territory and expect things to go the way you want. After so many years, you think you still have authority here? I want to remind you that you don't. You have no authority in this place, and I want you to always remember that,” I said to him as he laughed.

“Wow, my younger brother has become so bold talking back at me, claiming he is now better than me. Why don't you always remember your position? Remember where you are. Remember that if I was serious with ruling this pack, if I decided to become the Lincoln Alpha, you would be nowhere,” he said to me as I clenched my hands tightly into a fist.

He always had one way or another of mocking me, and I knew he was going to bring back the past. 

“This is not the time for mockery. I only told you what I believe you need to hear. She doesn't want to be with you. She made it clear to me, and I plan on respecting her decisions,” I said to him as he laughed again.

“Her decisions? Did you really think at this point, with how at stake my life is, she has a chance to decide?” he said as I nodded.

“Yes. She has every right to decide if she wants to be with you or not, and clearly she doesn't. I plan on keeping it that way. If she doesn't want to be with you, just respect her decision. Besides, she belongs to me now,” I said.

At that moment, I heard a slow step behind me. Turning around, I saw it was Fiona. She looked downright flushed, looking at Sergius with so much hatred. 

She slowly walked towards me and wrapped her hands around me suddenly, giving me so much pride knowing that she was actually trying to prove to Sergius that she truly belonged to me. She rested her head on my shoulder, and then stood straight up. 

Afterwards, that was all I needed, her support, and at this point, she had given it to me fully.

“What is going on?” she asked as I smiled at her before responding.

“Honey, he said he wants to take you away, that you don't have a choice. You are his fated mate and you have to go with him, and I am trying to make him understand that you don't belong to him anymore but to me,” I said to her as she let go and slowly walked towards Sergius.

“Didn't you throw me away? Rejected me, claimed I was useless to you and of no use? Then why are you here again? What? You want to rub it in my face about how useless I am? I am not ready to keep being a tool for you to manipulate, and besides, what will an Alpha so huge, so well-known and respected like you come back to beg someone you already rejected?” she said as I waited for him to give his own response.

He always seemed to have a clashing response to everything anybody said to him, and at this point, he clearly looked speechless.

“Fiona, you have the right to say that to me. You belong to me, and you know it. You know why I am here. You are the one making my life miserable. I want you back because I need to end this. Whatever curse you laid on me needs to be revoked,” he said, even though he was trying so hard to make it seem as nothing but a whisper. I could clearly hear every word.

I couldn't help but give a light chuckle as his gaze immediately went back to me.

“What was that?” he asked me as I rolled my eyes.

“What was what? A curse? You really believe you are being cursed? Cursed by who? Who would even want to curse you? You are of no use to anybody being cursed. No, I don't believe in such,” I said to him.

“You just want to find a way to take her back. Whenever I have something, you find a way to steal it from me, and now you want to do it, but it's not going to work.”

“ You never really saw her importance before. Why are you suddenly deeming her important to you because of a curse? Fiona, I don't think we need to keep wasting time on this man here.”

“ He clearly doesn't know what he wants, and he's not even here to apologize for what he did but instead yell at you, telling you to come back so he can make your life miserable so his life can be pleasant enough for him. Whoever cursed you, find the person and stop bothering us,” I said as I grabbed Fiona's hand and went back in.

I could see that excitement in her, and of course, I could already feel Sergius’s anger from behind me as I could hear him groaning and maybe saying a word or two to the Elders. 

Yes, I knew what I did when I did not regard the Elders who were standing there. It seemed they were not even important and were just there as an escort. I knew, of course, they would report all this back to the Eddaos Council, but it was none of my fucking business. 

After all, I never wanted to rule; yet they forced me. If they want to take the position from me, it's fine, but I would never give up Fiona for anything. Sergius would not win this fight again. He won before, he won't win again.

I slowly let go of Fiona immediately as we made it into the hall. She looked scared, rubbing her hands together, pacing back and forth.

“Fiona, why are you scared? What exactly do you think he would do to you?” I said to her as she turned.

“He would make my life miserable. He... he won't. He won't give up easily,” she said, as if she knew him so well.

“I won't give up on you either"