CHAPTER-7: His fated mate

A dangerous growl left Gideon’s throat as He pushed her body down on the mattress forcefully and gripped her neck. Angela’s eyes popped out of its sockets in utter fear.

“You know I can just kill you right here, right now! Heir from a whore like you? I will kill you and that thing inside you before you could bring it to the world, You bitch. You don’t deserve to keep my pup in your disgusting ugly body where another man touched. I will kill you more painfully rather than putting my seed inside you!”

Angela felt pain like a physical blow over her face hearing his ruthless words. He didn’t want a baby with her now?

Her whole body turned cold thinking what if He got to know she was pregnant with his child. Would He kill it? Maybe not. The DNA test would prove it. But what if He snatch her baby and discard her like garbage to punish her. Numerous thoughts erupted in her mind.

She swallowed the hurt and fear before looking into his eyes bravely. “You don’t need to kill me, Gideon. Because I would never ever bore your child!”

Her words hit Gideon like an acid and He choked her in rage. Angela in panic pushed him away but He was much stronger. She thought about her baby’s well-being in fear and stilled in his hold.

“Just…. Kill me already! Death will be easy to live with a bastard like you, Nobody could stay with a monster like you!” She said in a choked breath and Gideon growled before throwing her on the other side of bed.

Angela let out a sigh of relief, she knew it would trigger his ego because she knew He might not kill her but she was afraid for her baby. Gideon likes to torture people to death before killing them.

“No Angela, as I said, death will not be easy for you because you will see this monster every day when I will make your life hell and you will pray for death every day but it will never come to you! I won’t let you go!” Gideon snarled before striding out from there leaving scared Angela behind. She sobbed once again.

“No Gideon, I will never see you again. I will never let you hurt this baby. It’s only mine! You are no one to me now.”

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“I can only help you this much, Dear. You have to find your own way from here!” Dr Zamini told Angela as soon as they drove out of the Shadowcrest territory.

“Thank you so much, Dr Zamini. I can't thank you enough and I am sorry to put your life in danger too!”

Zamini gave her a stack of a few dollars and cupped her face, “Don’t worry, Angela. Your life is more important than all of ours. Find yourself a new home, The baby will bring you a new life. My duty here is done. Moon goddess bless you! I hope we see each other soon!” There was a hint behind her words but Angela thanked her again before she left.

Angela didn’t waste a time as she took a run for a few miles before she could finally see the sunlight shadowing the city hinting she was out of the danger zone. She looked back at the borders of Shadowcrest pack from far and rested her hand on her belly.

‘I won’t let any of you hurt my baby. I am going away for good, Gideon. I will make my own home with my child, without you. I will give him all the love which you all never gave me.I don't regret loving you, but now I'm taking back this love with me.’ She whispered.

Then she said the words which took the burden off her shoulders. “I, Angela Clampitt, accept the rejection of Gideon Woodbead, Alpha of Shadowcrest pack. He is no longer my mate and husband!”

Gideon snapped his eyes open with a loud gasp, as a sharp jerk in his heart stilled him.

Something was off and He could feel it. His wolf, Wrath, was on the edge, scratching his paws in his head. He felt like something was piercing his heart slowly. Like someone was robbing him of something precious. He clutched his heart and mind- linked his Beta.

“Dash, go check pack clinic right now.” His wolf growled as He shot out of the bed, put on his lower and sprinted out of his room to look for his wife. Suddenly her well being concerned him. ‘Fuck,What have you done now, Angela!’ He muttered.

After a while a voice rang in his mind.

“Alpha…..” Dash’s fearful hesitant voice fastened his steps as He felt something was wrong. He never felt Dash this much scared.

On the way, a faint but alluring scent hit his senses like a train as He halted on his tracks and looked around. His wolf was getting impatient at that scent and imploring him to find its source.

‘MATE is here!” Wrath growled loudly.

Gideon’s body chilled up. He parted his lips in realisation. He had long forgotten about finding his fated mate after He turned twenty eight before marriage. That's why his father insisted him to get married and have a chosen mate to carry his lineage.

So how come now! And that too in his own pack. Something was off! Unusually off!

He fisted his hands to control his body reaction and followed the direction of that particular sweet scent of vanilla and honey.

It took him into the care room where Angela was kept last night.

No!

Is she….

Gideon’s heart stiffened thinking the impossible. He stared at the guards whose scents reeked utter fear of him. For a moment, Gideon went blank.

“Alpha, Luna Angela…” Dash swallowed, not mustering up the courage to break the news. But Gideon’s eyes were not on him, He looked for a particular woman who was not there.

“..ran away.” Dash finally spoke out and ever so slowly Gideon turned to him. He stepped inside the room only to find the crumbled sheets on the empty bed where the addicting strong scent was pulling him in.

Suddenly his steps faltered as realisation hit him like a bolt of lightning. Gideon blinked his eyes as He suddenly remembered the date. It was Angela’s birthday. She turned eighteen today.

He staggered back as reality slapped him hard on the face. He felt suffocated like someone was choking him to the death.

His own chosen wife was his fated mate.

He rejected her.

He lost her.

And the worst part, she rejected him too.

At that moment Gideon, for the second time of his life, felt the most pathetic and miserable man on this earth.

Dash hesitated. For a moment, he simply stood there, staring at the man before him. His Alpha, his friend. Gideon already looked like a storm barely contained, his wolf simmering dangerously beneath the surface. Dash knew what this piece of paper would do to him.But hiding it would be worse.

Swallowing hard, he stepped forward and held out the white paper.

“Alpha, you need to see this.”

The paper trembled slightly in his hand. Inwardly, Dash sent a desperate prayer to the Moon Goddess.

‘Please, help him control his Beast.’

Because what Angela had done was unforgivable.

Gideon, who was controlling himself standing there, digesting the truth, glanced at the paper slowly. But the moment his eyes fell on the words written across it, everything changed.

His fingers tightened. Then He snatched the paper, scanning it again as if it was unbelievable to read.

The world beneath him seemed to tilt.

Pregnant! Angela, his wife, was pregnant.

The test had been taken two weeks ago. Two weeks!

And she had never told him. A violent tremor ran through his body.

Was it his child? His pup?

Their earlier conversation slammed into his head like a train.

Her words. Her cold voice.

‘I would never ever bore your child!’

Gideon’s jaw tightened, his eyes darkening into something terrifying.

“Who did this?” His voice came out low. Deadly.

“Who ran this pregnancy test?”

Dash inhaled deeply before answering. “Dr. Zamini said one of her juniors ran it. She only found out about it today.” He paused, watching Gideon carefully. “Looks like Angela had it done secretly!”

A shadow crossed Gideon’s face. Dash continued, his voice strained.“But Gideon, she was kept hungry. Punished physically. She’s human.” His tone hardened with concern. “We don’t even know if the child survived.”

Silence fell between them.

“I have already sent Shane and the others to find her,” Dash added. “They are searching her everywhere. I hope, she had not crossed the border yet.” He exhaled heavily, dread coiling in his chest. Oh Angela… why did you run?

A sharp sound cut through the room. Gideon had crushed the paper in his fist, the paper crumpling like a fragile bone.

A snarl ripped from his throat.

Why? Why would she run if she carried his child?

Unless…

A darker thought slithered into his mind.

What if it wasn’t his? What if it was Adrian’s?

Something inside him broke. His wolf roared in agony and rage, the sound echoing violently through his mind. The Alpha’s aura exploded outward like a shockwave.

The air grew heavy. Every wolf in the room felt it instantly. One by one, they dropped to their knees, necks bent in instinctive submission as their Alpha’s fury froze their skin.

Gideon’s eyes burned with something far more dangerous than anger.

It was betrayal. It was pain.

And it was vengeance.

‘You have made a grave mistake, Mate.’ His wolf’s voice growled darkly within him.

‘Run as far as you can.’

His fists clenched.

‘Because when I find you…’

A cold promise settled in his heart.

‘You will meet the new me.’