“Stop being formal with me!” he growled. “I am your mate!”
Logan tensed up, and a growl escaped him.
“Don’t growl at my mate.” Logan said, gritting his teeth. “I will have you removed, Alpha Nathan.”
I knew about the warriors around the packhouse. Logan and Andrew worried that Alpha Drake and his father could get aggressive, so they had warriors all around and inside the packhouse.
Alpha Nathan looked at Logan in disbelief.
“You will have me removed?!” he asked. “Are you f**king kidding me?!”
My heart clenched painfully.
I felt the need to go to him and console him.
But I didn’t want to.
I didn’t want to.
“You can’t treat my son like that, Alpha Logan!” Alpha Nathan’s father said angrily.
“He was growling at my mate.” Logan said, tightening his jaw. “I won’t let that happen.”
Logan was still sitting down, but it was only a matter of time before he would lose it and jump at them.
It’s okay, Logan. I mind-linked him as I r*bbed my hand on the back of his neck.
He relaxed under my touch a little. He looked up at me and gave me a small smile.
Thank you, my love. He said.
“I don’t accept it, Emma.” Alpha Nathan said, making me look at him. “You are my mate. You are my Goddess-given mate. He is your cursed mate. You can’t stay with him.”
My heart clenched painfully.
Logan wasn’t cursed. Our love wasn’t a curse.
He is wrong. I mind-linked Logan immediately. You aren’t a curse. Our love isn’t a curse.
I know. Logan mind-linked me back.
I could hear pain in his voice. I could feel the pain in his body. It made me angry. It made me want to scream.
“I think that’s enough.” Logan said as he stood up and pulled me behind him. “You are welcome to spend the night in our pack. If you don’t want to, I will have my warriors escort you back to the border.”
“I am not leaving without her!” Alpha Nathan growled.
Logan clenched his fists.
“Alpha Nathan, please.” I said softly, stepping away from Logan. “You can stay, and we can continue this conversation tomorrow.”
The tensions were too high. We needed to calm down. Nothing good would come out of this situation.
His eyes softened. The pain I saw in them had me ready to scream.
I didn’t want to hurt him. I really didn’t. He didn’t deserve it.
He took a deep breath and tightened his jaw. He never looked away from me.
“Let me hold you.” Alpha Nathan said, making me tense up.
Logan’s arm around me tightened.
“I won’t leave the pack.” Alpha Nathan said, looking at Logan. “I am not giving up on my mate.”
He looked back at me and gulped.
“I won’t give up on you, Emma.” he said. “But I will leave the office, and I will go to my room if you let me hold you. I need to touch you. Please.”
The pain in his voice made my heart clench painfully. I felt the need to go to him. But I couldn’t.
I couldn’t…
“Please, Emma.” Alpha Nathan said softly.
I could feel Logan’s anger. I could feel his fear.
If I let Alpha Nathan hold me, I would hurt Logan. If I didn’t let Alpha Nathan hold me, I would hurt him.
No matter what I did, one of my mates would get hurt.
But I only loved one of them. Only one of them had my entire heart and soul.
“I am sorry, Alpha Nathan.” I said softly. “I can’t do that to my mate.”
I could feel his heart break.
He didn’t even say anything. He just stared at me with a look that made me want to scream.
Logan’s office door opened, and one of our warriors walked inside.
“Peter will show you to your rooms.” Logan said. “I will see you tomorrow, Alpha Nathan.”
Alpha Nathan’s father approached his son and placed a hand on his shoulder.
“Come on, Nathan.” he said.
Alpha Nathan never looked away from me. He kept his eyes on mine as his father started pulling him out of the room. He kept his eyes on mine until Mike closed the door behind them.
Tears fell on my cheeks as soon as the door closed.
Logan sat back down and pulled me onto his lap.
“I am so sorry, baby.” he said, wr*pping his arms around me.
I p**ssed myself as close to him as possible and sobbed.
“Andrew, can you give us a moment?” Logan mumbled as he r*bbed my back gently.
“Of course.” my brother said as he approached Logan and me.
I felt his l*ps on the top of my head.
“I will go check on Alpha Nathan and his father.” Andrew said, making Logan nod.
I heard my brother walking away. I heard the office door open and close.
“Look at me, baby.” Logan said softly, making me look up at him.
He wiped the tears from my cheeks and k**sed me softly.
“I am so sorry.” I said as my heart clenched painfully. “I shouldn’t cry. I shouldn’t…”
Logan p**ssed his l*ps against mine, stopping me from talking.
“It’s okay, Emma.” he said as he stopped k**sing me. “It hurts. I know it hurts. It’s okay to cry.”
He was amazing. I was crying about another man, and he was so understanding. How did he do it? How did I get so lucky to have him in my life?
I wr*pped my arms around his neck and k**sed him as hard as I could.
“I love you.” I mumbled against his l*ps. “Only you.”
Logan grabbed my ponytail and bent my head back. His l*ps descended on the mark on my neck, and I m**ned.
“You are mine.” he growled against my skin, making me shiver.
I was his. Only his.
Nathan POV
I was going to go insane.
She didn’t want me?!
She didn’t care that that f**ker was her cursed mate?! She didn’t care that I was her Goddess-given mate?!
It must have been because she still didn’t let me hold her.
If she had let me hold her…
I had to take a deep breath to calm myself. I wanted to go back and rip her out of his arms.
She belonged with me. She f**king belonged with me!
Noel was in such distress that I didn’t even want to talk to him right now. I doubted that he could do anything else but growl anyway.
I threw my bag on the bed and tangled my fi**gers in my hair, pulling on it as hard as I f**king could.
“What the f**k was that, son?” my dad asked angrily. “You should have fought them. You should have taken her from him! We could have been out of here by now!”
I turned around to look at him. He was pissing me the f**k off.
Was he f**king crazy?! If I tried to take her forcefully, I would achieve nothing. We were in Alpha Logan’s pack, surrounded by his warriors. I wouldn’t even be able to get her out of the office, let alone get her in my car or my pack.
No wonder that my father managed to destroy our pack. The man was an idiot.
But he was my father, and I had to respect him.
“Do you really think that we would get far?” I asked, narrowing my eyes at him. “Did you look around? His f**king warriors are everywhere. The man isn’t an idiot.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.