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CHAPTER FORTY FOUR
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“I wish I could stay here forever,” I say, as I lay my head on his chest. “I wish you could too,” he laments as he kisses the top of my head. “Someday you’ll be able to, I promise. Someday we’ll find a way to make it so we can stay together.“We’ll figure out a way so we can share a bed every night. We will become a bigger part of each other’s lives. But for now…”“I know,” I say. It’s horrible to even think about leaving, but I know I must.“We have to be careful,” I continue. “I understand that. It’s surprisingly great that Ryan is letting me spend the night here once a week, but we shouldn’t push our luck.”“Exactly,” James says. “Though I want to. I really want to. We have a lot to prove to him and the pack. Which isn’t fair. None of this is fair. We shouldn’t have to prove anything to them.”“But we do,” I acknowledge the hard truth. “We do have a lot to prove so we have to play their games for now.”“Only for now though,” he promises me. “Only for now, and then we’ll be a
Rejected by the Beta CHAPTER FORTY SIX
“Ben, this isn’t fair!” I say, knowing how much like a child I sound. But no matter how much I press him, he won’t elaborate on what he said. He won’t give me the answers I deserve. The answers I need to make sense of everything.“What’s not fair is the fact that you don’t respect me even after all I do for you,” Ben says. “It’s not fair that you still won’t trust me. It’s not fair that you’re jumping down my throat right now.“I love you Bel, but this is getting ridiculous. I’m not going to fight with you. I’m going to bed and I’m going to sleep soundly knowing that I’m doing my best to protect you.”With that, he goes upstairs before I can say anything else, leaving me more confused than ever.Is he right? Maybe a little. I do believe he is doing his best to protect me. I always trust him like that. He would never do anything to knowingly put me in harm’s way.But I still can’t imagine what that has to do with the rogues. And I still want him to tell me what’s going on.It se
Rejected by the Beta CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN
“We found another rogue on our territory,” Ryan says, fixing a glare at me. Though he has accepted Isabel as my mate, he still hasn’t fully warmed up to the idea yet. And that shows in moments like these. Little jabs that suggest he blames me for the problems we’re having with intruders.“I’ll take care of it,” I say with a sigh. “We haven’t caught him yet,” Ryan says. “I’ll have the guards grab him and then you can do the interrogation. You can figure out what to do about him and how to keep rogues off of our territory.”“Don’t worry about it,” I say, eager to prove myself to him. The more useful he thinks I am, the more leverage I’ll have when it comes to negotiating Isabel’s presence here.“I’ll find him and catch him myself,” I say. “I’ll figure out why he’s here and try to figure out what we can do to rectify this problem.”Ryan nods as he looks at me apprehensively. “Okay,” he says. “I’m trusting you with this because you haven’t let me down before. But I swear if it’s Be
Rejected by the Beta CHAPTER FORTY EIGHT
I panic because I know. I can hear them and I think they want me to hear them. They want to torture me like this.These wolfs are the kind of sickos that get off on other people’s pain. They’re drowning in mine and they love it.“Hey Ben,” Nathan says, as nonchalantly as ever. It’s as if he’s my brother’s best friend and they’re having just a normal, everyday conversation.I suppose that’s what it feels like to him. This probably all feels so normal and risk free.“No need to be rude,” Nathan says. “I appreciate your help so far, but it’s only taken us so far. We have bigger plans that we need Isabel for. “This is nothing against you, of course. We meant what we said about not harming her if you helped us, but that was when we only knew she was your sister. Now we know she’s the Beta’s mate, things have changed. That makes her even more valuable.”These are the people Ben has been hanging out with, and suddenly it all makes sense. They must’ve threatened me. That’s why he’s been
Rejected by the Beta CHAPTER FORTY NINE
Ben comes racing through, energized since he hasn’t been part of this fight until now. I can see the exhaustion on Nathan’s face as he looks at Ben.This is unexpected to him. But he gathers up his strength as he and Ben face off. Ben doesn’t waste any time. He goes straight for his neck, forcing Nathan to up his game, leaving James to wrestle with the other two.James finally latches onto a vital vein in Levi’s neck and bites hard, then rips with his teeth.Levi cries out as blood showers the ground. Nathan ignores this. Too intent on Ben to pay attention to any sort of distractions. But Patrick is fueled by watching Levi fall to the ground in a slump.We all know he’ll be dead soon, which fills Patrick with the kind of rage that’s most dangerous. He goes after James with a new fury, lashing out at him, causing horrifying wounds.I continue working on freeing myself from my binds. I need to help them. They won’t like it, but I need to. They’ll die if I don’t. Then, I notice
Rejected by the Beta CHAPTER FIFTY
Despite the rules of only staying at James’ house once a night, Ryan makes an exception and allows Ben and I to stay at James’ house for the night, since we both are so drained, sore, and just plain exhausted after the fight.We wait up anxiously for James to get back home after he gives us the key. And finally, after worrying for so long, the door opens.James walks in all bandaged up and bruised.“Where’s my hug?” he asks with a grin.“I don’t want to hug you,” I reply. “I worry I’ll break you. I don’t want to hurt you even more than you’ve already been hurt.”“Going without a hug would hurt me more,” he argues. “Come on. One hug?”I hug him as lightly as possible before giving him a light kiss. Once we part, Ben stands there looking uncertain.“I wanted to thank you,” he says, walking up to James. “I know things haven’t always great between all of us, but you saved my sister. You fought hard even when you were hurt.“There’s a lot to admire about you, James. So, I do admire
Rejected by the Beta CHAPTER FIFTY ONE
“Finally, this is happening,” I say, as I look at Ben.He smiles down at me with pride, and I know we’re both the happiest we’ve ever been. Life is so beautiful.“Well, you’ve put it off long enough,” he teases. “I’ve never seen anyone have such a long engagement.”“Everything has to be perfect,” I say. “It’s the wedding of my dreams and we had to save up money for that.”“I know Ryan helped bankroll some of it,” Ben replies.He’s not wrong. The only reason why we’re able to get married in this small castle is because of Ryan’s help. We came up with most of the money ourselves, but he was a big contributor.“He insisted it’s because of all our hard work,” I say, recalling that conversation I was incredibly thankful for.“You have worked hard,” Ben admits. “The two of you have brought some incredible changes to the pack. You’ve shaken things up in an impressive way.“Though you know it also has something to do with the soft spot Ryan has for James. I’ve never seen an Alpha who’s
Rejected by the Beta CHAPTER FIFTY TWO
“It’s amazing how time flies,” I say, staring at my growing stomach in the mirror. “Not long ago, I was looking at myself in a wedding dress. Now, we only have to wait four more months until we meet our daughter.”“I can’t wait,” James says, as he hugs me from behind and kisses my neck. “I’m so excited to meet her. I already love our little family.“And yet somehow we’ve still managed to stay on top of things. I’m a much better Beta with your help. Our pack is so much better with Ben’s strength. Everything is going so well. Our future is so bright.”“It is,” I agree. “I couldn’t ask for anything more. I can’t think of anything better.”Still, not long after we leave the house to put into motion any better plans we have. We started having these weekly meetings with Ryan to stay on top of things. We’re always trying to improve our pack’s lives.We’ve even gotten them more involved with the community at large. We’ve made Ryan realize that there’s strength in having good ties with peo
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