Chapter Seventeen

Alpha Kael’s POV

Omari turns slightly towards me, still hovering over what’s mine. He then gives me a sly smirk. In a split second, I pick him up and fling him hard against the wall. A loud crack follows then complete silence. 

Aria stares at me with wide eyes, she shoots Omari’s still body a swift glance and then stares at me. I growl at this. Why would she spare him a glance, does she still care about him? My large body steps in her line of sight blocking him off completely.

“Come and pick this filth from here,” I order Aldin through the mind link. A loud chuckle follows. 

“Hello to you too, Alpha,” he answers. “Who is this ‘filth’ if I may ask?”

“He’s in the hallway,” After this I blocked him out, hovering over my mate. She staggers backward slightly, her are filled with fear

“Y..your eyes are o…orange,” she stammers in fear. I smile at her obvious observation.

“That should not be the problem right now, right?” I say a little too calmly, I’m sure my eyes look lethal. 

She drew in a sharp breath. “It’s not what it looks like, Kael.” 

“What am I supposed to believe mate, you didn’t even tell me about your history with him,” I growl holding her possessively.

“And worse, I saw you in a compromising position with him, what would have happened if I hadn't shown up?” I ask fury leaking from each word.

“I promise nothing is going on with him, nothing would have happened, I’m done with him.” She pleads. 

I know I shouldn’t feel like this, but the jealousy is eating me up. I have been taking it slow with her because I didn’t want to scare her off or lose her completely. Here, she was basking in the arms of another man, letting him touch her. An overwhelming urge to mark her overrides my senses.

“Mark her, and make her ours,” Alec growls possessively in my head. I land a hard blow on the wall until my arms bleed to distract myself with the pain, from those thoughts.

‘We can’t hurt, mate,” I retort. He then growls in response and goes silent.

“Kael, please stop hurting yourself,” my Kitten's soothing voice echoes in my ears. I can’t stay here, my teeth are already protruding and my eyes keep veering toward the delicate part of her neck.

I take a sharp turn and leave, ignoring her so I can control myself. I then hear her loud sobs echo through the hallway. It takes every ounce of control I have to stop myself from going for her.

“Martha, please take my mate to her room and stay with her a bit, I need to go for a run,” I  ordered through the mind link to my cousin.

My feet hit the wooden floor, leading outside. As soon as I make it in front of the pack house I shift mid-air, my paws hit the hot sandy floor. Most of my pack members litter all over, once they sense me they steer clear of me. 

I could barely make out the trees as I zoomed past them. I know every part of my territory like the back of my palms. I head north to a cliff where I can think with no interference.

“Your mate is worried sick that you probably don’t want her anymore, I’m pretty sure that’s not the case.” Martha says irritated.

“I’m coming, I just need to clear my head,” I explained, as I arrived at the cliff up north. 

Martha then screams, “I don’t care about all that, why did you block her out. She says she has been trying to reach you using the mindlink.”

“I need to be away from her for now, for her own good.”

“You know she will never have anything to do with that low-life, Omari. Please don’t push her away, she needs you now more than ever, cuz.” 

“I know that, bye for now,” I block her out and everyone else.

“I thought we had overruled our feral side?” I ask Alec.

“No one has ever been able to do that, I think we just tamed it a bit but not completely.”

“I guess you’re right, mate just seemed so scared, you remember her incidents with the rogues which may be traumatizing.” I answer, feeling horrible for scaring her.

The scene at the hallway replays in my head and I feel almost ashamed of myself. Instead of me comforting my mate I had accused her and pushed her away. Worse thing is I would have even forcefully marked her. I need to beg her even if it means groveling on my knees so she will still give me a chance. I overheard a part of their conversation which was how I figured that Omari was her first mate.

A faint scent pulled me from my thoughts, it smells like Jasmine mixed with an earthy scent. It is so similar to Margaret’s. My head shoots up and I sniff the ground following the scent’s trail which ends in a dead end. I think this whole situation is messing with my head. Margaret is gone and now the moon goddess has given me a beautiful gift in the form of my Kitten.

“You know something weird that I have noticed is that the pull I felt with Margaret is nothing compared to what I feel for Aria,” Alec says thoughtfully.

“We’ll figure everything out slowly,” I murmur. “I should head back and talk to my mate.”

I head back to the packhouse in a jug, my powerful strides hitting the bare floor and causing small prey to take flight. Soon I got close to the pack house, I picked up some shorts lying on a tree by the pack house with my jaws. Shifting in split seconds, I pull on the shorts racing towards the pack house.

My palms get sweaty and my feet jittery. I slowly approach her room door, taking a deep breath and knocking on the door. 

“Coming,” Martha answers, the pity patter of her feet approaching the door. She pulls it open, and gives me a look of disdain.

“I should head out, call me when you need me, okay,” She tells my mate soothingly and walks past me, without saying a word.

I walk in and shut the door behind me. She looks at me with pleading eyes, that are red and puffy from crying.

“I’m so sorry, I didn’t tell you, It’s just that I felt like I should leave everything in the past.” I pull her into my arms, getting comfortable on her bed. “I thought the more baggage you knew about me the more reasons for you to leave me.”

“Shhhhh, it’s okay,” I say with a soothing voice. “I should be the one apologizing, you were not at fault and I know for a fact that you didn’t enable the nonsense he did.” 

She then gives a look of doubt. “Then why did you hurt yourself and leave?”

“Because I know I don’t deserve you, I’m ill tempered, possessive, and maybe overbearing. I was so jealous and I let it cloud my senses. I’m so sorry, Kitten.”

She makes a sigh of relief and hugs me tight with her tiny arms.

“I’d like us to talk.” I say as she slowly traced the scars on my face in silence.

“Go on.”

“You remember when I told you that I had feral episodes after losing my first mate?” I ask.

“Yes I remember.”

“Well, even though I have been able to suppress most of it. There are still traces of it when I am in a state of rage.” 

“I didn’t want to scare you off seeing the bad instances you have had with rogues.” I finish looking deep into her eyes.

“I know you won’t hurt me physically, Kael. You have shown me how much you care about me, even your wolf. I trust you, you’ve earned it.”

“Thank you so much, Kitten. You mean the world to me.” I say with a smile.

“I am so happy that you have forgiven me at least, because if you hadn’t I’m pretty sure that my cousin would have had my neck by now.”

Her innocent giggles fill the air. “I sure know who to scare you with.”

I give her a playful glare. “Don’t you dare.”

“Watch me.” I place her gently against the bed and begin to tickle the life out of her. Her laughter echoes across the room. 

“I want you to mark me,” she says, my hands freezing at this.