Klaus
My life was turning into havoc, the more I tried to make it simple, the more it became complicated.
I had tried so hard to win my mate back and the very day she showed me a sign that she was trying to trust me again, Amber brought a holocaust into our lives.
I didn’t know where I was going, or what I was doing. I had lost track of my actions and emotions. Every inch of me was suffering in agony though my feet were following my mother who seemed content.
Was it possible to blank out from your memories even when you weren’t drunk?
Enough.
I closed my eyes and put all my energy into calling out to Todd. Only he could tell me what exactly happened that night. There was no way my hands could ever touch another woman, my brain couldn’t even think of someone else than my mate.
When every boy of my age was banging any chick he could find, I was saving myself for my mate. No Alpha ever waited for his mate to have sex with her. Alphas were notorious for fucking around and bedding as many she-wolves as they could.
Neither I nor my wolf deserved this.
We waited for our mate because we wanted just our mate.
I was feeling like a living dead person. My wolf had shunned me, he wasn’t responding at all, and my other half-part, my mate, seemed to be going farther away from me.
Rather than whining about my situation, I decided to take the control of my life back from the people who thought that they could control me.
I could hear chattering around me but all the voices died down when my slow steps approached the bedside.
“Out. Everyone,” I whispered in a cold voice.
“Of course, you want to spend this beautiful moment with your wife,” my mom said coyly but her smile ceased to be visible as soon as she met my predatory gaze.
“NOT A SINGLE WORD,” I warned through my gritted teeth, coiling my palms into fists.
Everyone left instantly, leaving Amber and me alone in my room.
“Get up from my bed,” I commanded her, not wanting to have her scent in my room.
Amber peeked at me with her puppy eyes, putting her hand on her stomach. “Can you be a little responsible and caring for our child?”
Her words were enough to drive me mad. “Obey me while I’m being nice.”
I could feel my claws coming out, maybe a sign of Todd wanting to come out which scared her and she got up from my bed with tears welling up in her eyes.
“This baby is not mine. Tell me, who is the father of your baby and I’ll let you go with that person. I won’t let anyone embarrass you,” I spluttered out in a firm voice with all respect I could offer her.
“What the fuck you’re bluffing, Klaus?” She shrieked in anger, her blue eyes flickering in a crimson red for a split second.
My brows raised in awe but I didn’t let it show on my face, I instantly put on my face with a void expression.
“This baby is ours. Though I didn’t want a baby yet but this is the Goddess’s blessing. At least, for our baby’s sake, start behaving and respecting,” Amber let out a high-pitched cry, taking offense at what I said earlier.
“You can’t lie to me, Amber. We didn’t get physical, that’s all I know and believe so it would be better if you will tell me nicely who is the father, or else I’ll find out my way and I can promise you that it won’t be good,” giving her my last warning, I trotted away from her and opened the door of my room only to find my mother standing there.
“I want her out of my room and change the bedsheet of my bed before I return. I don’t want her scent to linger in my place,” I nonchalantly informed my mom who had her head down.
“For your baby’s sake, please, stop hurting her,” my mom dared to stop me and I threw a disdainful glance at Amber who was crying in my mom’s embrace now.
“I’m the Alpha and I take commands from no one,” I ruthlessly told her without looking at her.
I barged into Marcus’s room and found him jerking off on his bed which was hilarious. I would have laughed out loud if the situation would have been the contrary.
“Get out, you fucker,” Marcus groaned and panted.
I turned my back toward his face, I didn’t want to see him cuming. Shaking my head to shove all the funny scenes that I imagined, I cleared my throat. “Get dressed and bring me all the details about Amber’s past and check the CCTV footage if you can find any guy who is not from our pack meeting Amber.” I used my Alpha command, all knowing that he couldn’t ignore that.
“What’s the matter?” His voice had a slight pain due to my Alpha command.
“I didn’t cheat on my mate,” I said confidently and left his room.
“Scarlett saw that very well,” his enraged voice fell in my ears but I chose to neglect him for a while.
Just when I placed my hand on the knob of Jenny’s room, a mindlink rushed into my mind.
‘Scarlett isn’t waking up, Layla can’t feel her heart beating,’ Sasha’s panicked voice didn’t go unnoticed by me.
Jenny’s door opened but I stood there like a statue for a second. Panic and pain rushed in my veins, not knowing what to do.
A twang of pain in my heart took all my attention and I clutched my chest, collapsing on the floor. My breath hitched in my throat, Scarlett’s smiling face appeared in front of my eyes before everything went black and all I could hear was my sister’s voice and her hands joggling my forearms.
“Brother. Klaus,” her voice brought me out of my trance and I felt a teardrop falling from my eye and burning against my cheek.
“Scarlett,” I whispered. "I can’t lose her.”
Getting up from the floor, I tried to shift, gathering all my energy to reach out to Todd again but only my claws came out and my skin changed into furs but Todd didn’t come out.
‘We need to save our mate, Todd. Come back to your senses. She needs us,’ I growled at Todd in my mind but I felt his absence.
“You’re not able to shift, are you?” Jenny mumbled in a perplexed voice. “Just wait here.”
‘Fucking arsehole, come out. If anything happens to Scarlett, I’ll make sure to abandon you and leave you. I’ll live as a human,’ a dread warning was the last thing I sent before all the channels in my mind shut down and my energy gave up.
Amber’s red eyes and her lips mouthing 'kiss me' flashed in my mind and I opened my eyes, feeling a jolt of pain surfacing in my heart and my body unable to move for a minute.
“Are you okay?” Jenny asked but I didn’t have time to explain anything to her.
My mate needed me.
I started running toward my Beta’s house and for the first time, I felt the distance between my Beta and my house so much. I had mindlinked Asher to reach there, I knew that Layla was her pack’s doctor but still, I called him.
I was losing my patience.
“You can’t go inside,” Helen stopped me as I reached Scarlett’s room and her reddened eyes had pure hate for me. “You’re the reason behind my daughter’s sufferings. If anything happened to her, I’ll never forgive you.”
“No. No. Nothing wrong can happen to her,” I grabbed her elbows and assured her. Maybe I assured myself more with my words than her. “I’m alive so my mate is. My heart is still beating, it hasn’t stopped working which means that I haven’t lost my mate.”
Sighing helplessly, I walked inside Scarlett’s room, and seeing her lifeless body lying on the bed scattered my heart into pieces.
How could I give her so much pain when I loved her?
I failed her.
I failed my mate.
No matter how much I wanted to fix everything between us, I kept screwing up.
I held her hand in mine and rubbed it with my other hand, fighting back the tears which made my vision blurry.
“Ahh,” Layla heaved a sigh of relief, sitting beside my mate. “Finally, I can feel her veins and heart beating.”
She shot me a scornful glance. “How pathetic it is. You’re the reason behind her pain and the cure, too.”
As soon as she woke up, I could feel myself releasing a breath that I wasn’t aware of when I held it.
“Don’t leave me alone, please.” I pulled her into a tight hug, too scared to let her go.
What if she left me again?
“You can’t get rid of me that easily,” she fanned the flesh of my ear with her warm breath and I enveloped her soothing chocolate and berry scent.
My mate brought her sweet lips closer to mine and before I could even take a look at her face, she closed her eyes and zipped my lips with hers.
Everything else vaporized from my mind and a burden on my chest dwindled. I started kissing her back, fondling her cheeks and neck. My hand brushed against my mark on her neck and I felt a jolt of electricity running down my spine. I plunged my tongue inside her mouth when she moaned in my mouth.
“You taste so sweet, baby,” I told her, parting my lips away from hers. As much as I wanted to kiss her like my life was dependent on that very kiss which was true because I felt the most alive during that kiss, now, when I had taken my lips away from hers, I was feeling like a dead living person but I had to stop before my mate would regret it and think of me as a jerk.
I rested my forehead on hers and caressed her jawline with my thumb with my closed eyes. “Please, don’t leave me alone. Ever. I was so scared.”
I felt her hands brushing against my cheeks which made me realize that the tears slipped away from my eyes.
Scarlett kissed my eyes one by one before kissing my nose. “I’m sorry for making you feel that. I’m not going to leave you alone again ever.”
“You’re not leaving this pack, yeah?” The fear was evident in my shaking voice but at that moment, I didn’t care if I looked like a coward.
I was fucking scared of losing her and I wasn’t feeling embarrassed to accept that.
‘I found out something weird about the red eyes.’ Jenna’s bemused voice surfaced in my brain.