The Alpha And His Abused Mate (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 10

When Dr. Kabler broke from our hug, she began talking about treatments and how with the werewolf blood I would be okay in no time. It was all too much though, I quickly got up and burst out of the small room.

I ran down halls, and down a flight of stairs, until I reached a pair of double doors, leading outside.

I felt the wind blow through my hair, as I pushed my legs harder and harder trying to get away from reality as fast as possible.

I knew that I should probably be with my mate, begging and pleading for her to wake up. Zander was howling in my head to go back to our mate, but I needed to do this for myself.

Suddenly footsteps began to come closer and closer to me causing me to become on edge. I was brought to the ground, and whoever had made me fall was sitting on my back. I was about to shift out of anger, but the person on top of me said something stopping me.

"Goddess you have to stop doing this!" It came off sounding like the person was out of breath.

"Alex?" I asked while picking my head off the ground.

"Who else do you think it is you, idiot?"

"I don't know," I stated quietly. He sighed and got off me knowing that I wouldn't try and run again.

"Why did you run this time, you haven't done this since we were what," He paused as if thinking about what to say. "Seventeen?" I nodded remembering the day I had a flashback of the day my parents were killed.

The flashbacks weren't a new thing. They had started a couple days after they both passed, and the only way to forget them was to run. Run far, and run hard. Alex would always end up come find me and bring me back home like a lost puppy. He would remind me that their deaths weren't my fault and I couldn't have stopped it.

Alex would lock me in my room, knowing I would become angry and start to break things. The first time, we were both playing video games. He had beaten me, and I got angry.It was like a switch was flipped. I went from depressed to angry in a matter of minutes.

"What happened?" Alex asked.

"You know the tests," I looked at him making sure he understood. "They came back today."

"And?" The way he questioned me was like he already knew the answer.

"Positive." He threw his head back and cursed as if he was the one with cancer.

"Does Momma K know?" He looked at me while referring to the nickname we used for Dr. Kabler.

"Yeah."

"Are you going to tell Colby and Parker?"

"No way. They've been through so much already. Their fifteen, and both of their parents are dead, I don't want them to know that I could I could die as well. And I'm definitely not telling Bella, that I might end up seeing mom and dad in a matter of months."

He shook his head as if disagreeing with me. "You can't keep this a secret."

"Why not?"

"Cause you're not alone! Colby, Parker, Bella, Morgan, Momma K and I are here for you. Not to mention Ellie. Oh, let's not forget the six hundred wolves that are in the pack. We're Alpha brothers, we stick together. Also, we're are both legal guardians of three children so, and I don't think that if you left we would survive so... on that note." He gave me a small smile and helped me up. We walked around the forest talking about anything and everything.

Ellie's POV:

I woke up to the smell of daisies and chocolate. My eyes fluttered open, and I began frantically for the chocolate.

Laughter erupted from the doorway, causing my attention to snap to the female figure standing in there. Morgan flipped the light switch on and made her way to me.

"What are you looking for?"

"I thought there was chocolate.." I said in a sad tone.

"What kind of chocolate?" Morgan seemed like the kind of person to care about food and food only. I laughed in my head as her eyes shined a little bit brighter at the sound of food.

"Milk chocolate...with peanut butter. " Morgan's seemed to turn pale as she heard what I said.

"Do you smell Alex or River?" I sniffed the air when the smell of mint and grass caused me to perk up.

"Do you?"

"Yeah...yeah, I smell Alex and something really good."

"Shit..." She mumbled. Just then Alex and River walked in. My eyes met River's brown eyes, which had a tint of sadness in them, but yet they still made my heart race. His eye's locked mine while he spoke to Morgan and Alex.

"Mate." I have no idea why that came out of my mouth. I don't even know what that is.

"Will you please leave us alone for a minute." Morgan's mouth was wide open as she pointed between the two of us. Alex dragged her out while trying to contain his laughter.

"Hey." River said in a very quiet whisper.

"Hi," I said in an equally quiet voice. He sat down in the chair beside my bed.

"River? What's a mate?" His breath hitched, as if he was not expecting my question, but knew it was coming.

"Oh, goddess I have no idea how to explain this... You know about Twilight right?" I nodded my head slowly not understanding why he was asking me this.

"What would you say if I told you that werewolves and vampires were real and you and I were both werewolves?" He said, then bit his lip, which I found very attractive.

"I would say you are truly crazy and need to go see a doctor immediately."

"Okay let me try a different way." He grabbed my hand, which sent shocks up my arm. I tried to pull away but his grip was firm.

"Those shocks are courtesy of the mate bond. Mate is shortened for soulmate. In the werewolf world, everyone is destined to be with someone, that person is your mate. You can either choose to accept or reject your mate. I chose to accept mine but she didn't know that.. she was human," He put an emphasis on the word was.

"Then something happened. She was being abused and then one day she got stabbed, she almost died. But I saved her, I bit her which ended turning her into a werewolf as well. Although she did not know about this... she was really clueless throughout the whole thing." He looked at me with a hopeful gaze.

"Do you see what I'm getting at?"

"No, but I see that you're mentally unstable."

"Ellie do you want to know what her name is?"

"Sure why not," I said sarcastically.

"Her name is Ellie Smith. She just turned eighteen on the sixteenth of March. Which was yesterday, by the way... Happy Birthday. She has blonde hair and blue eyes."

"Hey, we could be twins!"

"Oh, my goddess! Ellie, you are her!" My eyebrows scrunched together but they slowly went back to their normal figure as realization dawned on me. I was her... I was the she in Rivers so-called 'story'.

"River I swear if you are just playing around.." I said while pinching his ear.

"Ah... Ah... Good gravy woman let go! I'm not messin' around!" I let go of my deadly grip and dropped my hand to my side.

"So you're telling me that we are werewolves?"

"Yeah."

"I swear to the good Lord abov-"

"It's actually goddess... I swear to the good goddess above."

"Oh my..whatever.," I said while groaning into my hands.

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Well, River is blunt....lol. He's gonna tell everyone about his cancer in the next update.

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