Jealousy burned me again.
I wanted to touch her! I needed to touch her!
She was mine! Mine!
“They experimented on me.” Emma said quietly, making me look away from the f**ker’s hand on the back of her neck. “They dosed me with wolfsbane and silver, trying to make me use my magic.”
I was in shock. Pure f**king shock.
Some witches and some rogue f**ker were dosing my mate with wolfsbane and silver?!
“We were almost late.” Logan mumbled as he looked down at her. “Her heart stopped after we brought her to our hospital.”
Noel growled.
Pain consumed my body.
She almost died?
I almost lost her even before I got a chance to meet her?
The pain in my body was suffocating me. I didn’t know if I would ever be able to stop it.
My beautiful mate almost died?
Her heart stopped?
Would the pain in my body ever stop? I wasn’t sure that it would.
But what Emma said next had me frozen. I couldn’t feel the pain anymore. I couldn’t feel my body anymore.
“That is the main reason I don’t appreciate you siding with rogues.” Emma said, looking up at me. “I know that you hired them to attack Alpha Drake’s pack to get our attention. I know that you hired them to intercept the shipping of the materials we needed.”
She gulped and narrowed her eyes slightly.
“You used them to do your dirty work.” she said.
I didn’t. My father did.
I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t defend myself. I couldn’t explain it to her.
All I could do was stare at my mate and pray to the Goddess that she would forgive me for this.
I was going to kill my father.
Logan POV
I really enjoyed the look on the f**ker’s face. I enjoyed it so much that it was hard to keep the smirk off my face.
Nice job, baby. I mind-linked Emma.
She didn’t respond.
I could feel her tension.
This had to be so f**king hard for her. Even if I didn’t want to admit it to myself, he was her mate. She felt the bond with him just as much as she felt it with me. Keeping a distance from him and hurting him must have been so f**king hard for her.
‘It wouldn’t be hard for me.’ Leon growled. ‘I would rip him to f**king pieces.’
‘I know.’ I sighed. ‘But you know that we can’t do that, Leon.’
‘I know.’ he growled again. ‘I wish that we could, though.’
‘Me too.’ I said.
“I don’t know what you are talking about.” the f**ker said nervously.
Emma took a deep breath and shook her head.
“Please don’t lie to me, Alpha Nathan.” Emma said calmly. “I know that you are working with rogues.”
Alpha Nathan tightened his jaw and clenched his fists.
“Emma, please give me a chance to explain.” he said, his voice laced with anger.
“I’m not sure that I want to hear your explanation.” Emma sighed. “Maybe you didn’t know that they kidnapped me, but I’m sure that you knew that they killed my parents. I don’t think that there is anything to explain, Alpha Nathan.”
A quiet growl escaped him. I pulled Emma’s chair back.
He looked up at me and narrowed his eyes.
“I am not going to hurt my mate.” he said, gritting his teeth.
Every time he said ‘my mate’, it felt like a hot knife was piercing through my heart.
“Alpha Nathan, please leave my office.” Emma said. “I have work to do.”
He looked at her, and his eyes widened.
“It was my father!” he said, panicking.
I raised an eyebrow at him. Was he really going to do this? Was he really going to blame his father for his stupid decisions?
“Please, Alpha Nathan.” Emma sighed. “You are the Alpha of your pack, aren’t you? It may have been your father’s idea, but it was your order and your decision.”
That’s my f**king girl!
Alpha Nathan clenched his fists.
“You are right, Emma.” he said. “It was my decision. It was a wrong one, I admit. But can you really throw away our bond just because I made one mistake? Logan never made mistakes?”
I froze.
I did. I made a huge f**king mistake.
My heart raced. My palms started sweating.
What would Emma say? Would he convince her to give him a chance? He wasn’t wrong. I made mistakes. So many f**king mistakes.
The second it took Emma to answer him was the longest second of my f**king life.
“I am not throwing away our bond because of your mistake, Alpha Nathan.” Emma said. “I am already mated and married to another man. I don’t want to divorce him. I don’t want to break my bond with him. I love him. That’s the reason I don’t want to be your mate.”
Oh, thank f**k.
My heart was going to jump out of my ch*st. I was so f**king sure of it.
Anger flashed in Alpha Nathan’s eyes.
He tightened his jaw and gulped.
“I don’t accept that, Emma.” he said. “You have to give me a chance. I am so f**king sure that I am your Goddess-given mate. I can’t let you live your life tied to a curse.”
I saw f**king red. A growl that escaped my l*ps was impossible to stop.
I was not her curse! Our love was not a curse! Everything we’ve been through was not a f**king curse!
The f**ker looked up at me.
“One of us is the cursed mate, Alpha Logan.” he said, making me clench my fists. “I come from the oldest pack. I am a descendant of the Alpha who was the first White Wolf’s Goddess-given mate. The chances are on my side, Alpha Logan.”
My heart broke into a million f**king pieces.
Don’t listen to him. Emma mind-linked me.
I couldn’t respond. I couldn’t get the air into my lungs.
“I don’t care about that, Alpha Nathan.” Emma said. “Even if Logan is my cursed mate, I would stay with him. This isn’t about who is my Goddess-given mate and who is my cursed mate. This is about who I love. And I love Logan. I want to stay with Logan.”
Warmth spread through my body.
The broken pieces of my heart hurt a little less. They started to heal. Her love could heal every single part of my body, heart, and soul.
I wanted to mind-link her and tell her how f**king much I loved her, but I couldn’t focus. I could only focus on the lump in my throat.
I needed the f**ker to leave the room so I could take her into my arms and show her how much I loved her.
“I demand a chance, Emma.” a very pissed-off Alpha Nathan said. “I demand you reconsider your decision to stay with Logan. What kind of mate would I be if I left my girl to be affected by a curse her whole life?”
I didn’t know what pissed me off more, him calling her his girl or calling our bond a curse. Or maybe even him demanding something from my mate.
“Careful, Alpha Nathan.” I growled. “You are in no position to demand anything.”
He looked at me and raised his eyebrows.
“I think I am, Alpha Logan.” he said. “Or would you want to do this the hard way?”
We can’t let him start a war! Emma mind-linked me, and I could hear worry in her voice.
He won’t, baby, don’t worry. I said.
“What do you want, Alpha Nathan?” Emma asked, making him look at her.
“A dinner.” the f**ker said. “Just you and me, Emma. I don’t want to be interrupted by your mate, your brother, or any other member of your pack.”
I saw f**king red.
No.
No f**king way.
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.