The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 56: an Impressionist painting. .MattelWhen Mattel woke up, his head was ringing, eyes blurring out of focus. It took a few seconds to figure out where he was. White bed. No underwear. Beeping monitors. He was in the hospital again.Sitting in a chair by the side of his bed was someone he had not expected to see: Laura.Maura stood and fixed her piercing hazel eyes on him, brushing back a strand of dark black hair.“Mattel, you’re awake”.He felt a prickle of alarm, “How long was I out?”Maura shook her head in anger, “for a few hours. Luckily I got here to take you to the hospital when I did”“When did you get here?” Mattel asked pointedly.“Two and a half hours ago. I flew in to see how the search for your omega was going. Imagine my surprise when I find out Regina has slipped through your fingers again! Why didn’t you just break the bond when I asked you to? Can you imagine what having a badly trained omega will do to the family name? The r
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 57: did you expect that? .Mattel“The agent’s right,” Maura whispered, “trying to figure out where Regina is by the make and model of her car is a pretty impossible task,”“People do the same thing for Amber Alerts all the time,” Mattel argued.“Yes, and how many kidnapped kids are found? Not many. If you really want to find Regina there’s only one thing to do,” Maura let her words hang for a moment.“And what can I do?”“Widen the bond and speak to Regina one on one”“I can’t”, Mattel blurted, shutting Maura down, “I seriously don’t know how and Regina keeps closing the bond on me. Anyway, only a few Alphas and Omegas can carry out bondspeak. It only works if both partners have a close connection and let’s be honest, Regina have made it obvious that she, doesn’t like me. At all”“But you bondspoke with Regina a few days ago, maybe if you reached deep within yourself and meditated, you could find that string again” Maura suggested.“I don’t kn
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 58: Is she safe? .“I’m sorry, Regina.” “No you’re not. I know, because my step father used to be one of you, ruling the world, not afraid of anything. Alphas are never sorry for the things they do. You don’t care that by pursuing this bond you forced me to leave my house, my home, and my life, everything I loved and now here I am! Pregnant and so terrified. And I can’t even hate you because the bond won’t let me”“Believe me, Regina,” Mattel assured, “I never wanted you to leave your life and your home and everything. You didn’t have to run from me. I don’t beat or hurt omegas. I’m a good guy. You know this.” Regina laughed bitterly. “I know this?.” And Mattel could feel Regina’s pain. The raw agony ripping at her heart, swelling into the space, choking the air and light out of everything until she felt like her soul had been bruised.After listening to Regina cry for a few minutes, Mattel whispered, “Regina”“Yes?” his omegas sounded fain
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 59: How the mighty have fallen..During the four hour drive between Montevido and Tacuarembo, Maura would list all sorts of reasons and ways he could have had a more productive conversation with his mate, her mouth moving on and on like the whir of a trapped fly, giving Mattel a headache.Mattel knew his cousin loved him, really, she did.Just not right now.It was midafternoon when they got to Tacuarembo. It was a quiet city filled with well paved asphalt roads, green trees and an open cobalt blue sky. “Cuidad de Tacuarembó” a sign beckoned. A beautiful bridge made up of pink, blue and yellow supports greeted them, and a few cars cruised along on roads. Pedestrians strolled along on white concrete sidewalks, bicycle wheels spun along, the steel spokes illuminated only by the midday sun. It was the kind of place where a man could retire in peace, spend the rest of his life sitting on his front porch, drinking ice tea, free from the chaotic wo
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 60: Two months .Regina watched the landscape go by as the sun slowly rose above the horizon. She tracked it’s slow pace across the sky, her arm tightened across her backpack as if it was an amulet against the problems of the world. Alphas and betas and omegas huddled near her, the refuse of the world, dirty clothes packed with dust, teeth missing, the car stunk of unwashed bodies. And desperation, each eye gleaming with the desire to leave the poverty stricken countryside, buoyed by the hope of a new life in the cities. These people, so much like the multitudinous waves of the world crashed would crash upon the city’s shores, time after time, eon after eon, the dreams of the peasants never die. Regina was neither an expert nor a person that admittedly gave much of a damn about Marxist theory. Class struggle was something that for other people to worry about. She had gotten where she had gotten through sheer grit and hard work, not star
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 61: An Alpha’s Command .As Mattel drove back to the hotel from the airport, he mused that the lack of knowledge was honestly perhaps the worst thing about it. Generally werewolves never liked to think about their own death. Nobody likes to. Death is not a thing that happens to us, it is something we see happen to others, it is an unfortunate day for some poor kid in a third world country who happened to be in the wrong spot at the wrong time as the bomb exploded. But us? Well we’re going to live forever. Living in the midst of a death sentence was almost like staring into the barrel of a Glock and hoping there was no bullet down the end of that long dark chamber.And then Mattel wouldn’t let himself think about it anymore, because morbid thoughts weren’t helping… anyone?Mostly, Mattel was just hoping that Regina was alive. He thought he would feel it if she had died, but with all the weird things that were happening with the bond; for exa
The Alpha’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 62: Southern Kingdom .Mattel was worried. He could have sworn his mate was in heat. He wasn’t completely sure, it was more like a lingering knowing.And that wasn’t good.An omega in heat was an omega in danger. In heat, most omegas desperately needed an alpha to ease their symptoms. And considering the fact that Regina had been on her suppressants, the heat his omega would experience would be longer and perhaps more intense than a usual one. While in heat, Regina would lose control of her wits. She could be killed, raped or otherwise hurt. Mattel was now more worried than ever.He kept the tether open. Strangely, perhaps because Regina had reached for him, the bond between them had strengthened and he felt better than he had in a while. Regina’s reciprocation meant that the bond now went both ways and it was easy for Mattel to both visualize and reach for Regina’s mind across a great distance. However, he left the bond alone. Regina had e
The Alpha’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 63: does it ever end?.Mattel was standing, drenched in rain, by the side of the some side road in Brazil. He stood under a canopy of endless trees and endless green. The rain falling blurred all the shapes and sounds around them, the cold seeped into everyone’s bones. The white jeep they had been riding was stalled on the road, tire slowly deflating, sizzling from the lost oxygen.One of the OCS agents was slowly removing the deflated tire and enduring Mattel’s angry glares.“Can we go any faster?” He growled at the beta.“I’m trying to go as fast as I can, sir” the nervous beta replied, “but if I don’t do it right then the tire could fall off the car and we only have one spare tire” the man explained.“Did I ask you for excuses, you whiny maggot? Shut up and get the tire on,” Mattel ordered.The beta flinched, and lowered his gaze, “Yes, sir”Boyd had let all of Mattel’s complaints go in silence, but even though he was a beta, he was no push