I should be your Beta, not your Mate

Side-Story: 3

Hissing, I looked down before my head jerked up. Tears now streaming down my face from the anger that I couldn't hold back.

»So? He marked me because I'm a human and your kind has the rule to mark their fated-one in three days! He had no choice! And it's not like you asked me, if I was aware! Maybe I knew it and wanted him to mark me willingly!«

Not that I was aware of it, but still.

»Sure, he may be a rogue, he may be without a big pack like yours. But he has his family! There could be thousands of reasons why they are without a pack! You can't just attack him without reason!«

»Your parents' accident was caused by rogues. Don't you dare order me to not kill any rogue that comes in front of you!«

I couldn't believe he dragged my dead parents into this!

»He is my mate!«, I cried.

»He is nothing like that.«

The coldness in his voice made me fully aware of the fact that he was an Alpha. A good leader but sometimes horrible if it was about relationships and being a father.

»Stop giving every rogue the fault at my parents death«, I whispered hurt.

»Ha?!«

I lifted my arm and pointed at the door.

»Get out of my apartment. I wanted you to meet my boyfriend, the person I love, my mate but you choose to not accept him, so I will stand on his side and will reject you.«

»You choose a rogue above the family that raised you?«, my father, Kenny, snarled.

»I'm choosing my mate over the people that want him dead«, I hissed.

They walked past me. Eden threw me one look. Pity and regret were in his eyes, but he should have stopped when I screamed at him. Now it was already too late.

»And if you try killing him in any other way, I will completely break off our contact.«

My parents whirled around and ripped open their mouths to scream and yell at me but I just stared at them. What else could I do? I wasn't as strong as them, I couldn't win in a fight against them. I could only hold my already weak body up and stand my ground.

They went against all their principles. A mate stood above everything? Yeah, I saw that above everything today.

It wasn't like I could feel our bond but he was still my mate, after all, I knew about the bond from the family that raised me and knew about all the feelings that came with it. The family that now rejected my mate.

I couldn't even comprehend how hurt I was because of it.

»Sorry«, Eden said regretfully after our parents left in a fit of anger.

»If you were, you wouldn't have done it in the first place. You know that your kind only marks their mate«, I whispered. Hurt from his betrayal and of what he had done to Keith.

He dropped his head and nodded. »I will try to stop them from doing anything to him. So you can be at peace.«

Could I? Could I be at peace when I didn't know how Keith was right now? I could only hope that they wouldn't send hunters to kill him and his family if he wasn't already dead.

»Fuck«, I cursed and lifted my hand to my forehead before covering my mouth to suppress a sob.

I should have known. I should have known. I should have known.

Eden had already left and I was alone in my almost destroyed apartment. Claw marks and blood covered the ground. How should I explain those marks to my landlord?