BONUS CHAPTER #3 (CHAPTERS #31 and #33)
ALPHA ULYSSES' POV
When She Broke My Heart For Real.
(Edited- 21/05/2017)
I wake up in the middle of the night, my eyes immediately zeroing on my whimpering Mate. My heart almost jumps out of my chest when I see her face, drenched in sweat.
Her face has lost all its color.
"Mate?" I shake her body, trying to wake her up.
'What is happening?' Asher demands from the back of my mind. His uneasiness mixed with my own.
'I donno' I dismiss him and pay attention on my Mate.
Her hands grip my arm, her fingers digging in my flesh.
"Mate? Delilah? Wake up, Mate!" I try to easy my beating heart but it is of no use.
Her body is shivering and her breaths are coming out in harsh puffs.
'Maybe she is having a nightmare? Try peeping in her head!' Ash orders, pacing tensely in the back of my mind.
I get into action and close my eyes, but nothing happens.
Like usual, I cannot see inside her head... or even read her thoughts.
'I can't get into her hea-'
Ash cuts me off with a growl and says, 'You are fucking useless. Let me see if I can make my way in her dreams. I will kill all the mother fuckers that are hurting her'
Before I can give him the Go signal, he is already gone, and just as quickly as he had vanished from my mind, he returns.
'Why the fuck is she not letting me in?!' He growls in my head and I feel for him.
I block him, trying to keep him out of it, trying to hide her pain from him, but he doesn't let me.
'You block me and I will fucking tell kill you' he snarls and I have no other option but to let him witness her suffering.
It gets harder for me though.
I have to see her suffer and feel his anguish too. Why can't he understand that she is as much mine as his? Why does he fight with me so much when it comes to her? Why can't he believe that I won't hurt her anymore.
'Fuck off, Lys. Throw a fucking pity party for yourself once she is well and dandy' I ignore Asher's comment and in a choked voice, try again.
"Wake up, Mate. I am with you, Sugar... wake up" Calling her that name blurs my vision with tears but I force them back.
Very slowly her eyes flutter open and she chokes out, "Al-p-ha"
She cluthes my arm like her life depends on it. Like I am her anchor. The only thing that is keeping her afloat.
I ask her what's happening, because for the life of me I can't figure it out.
She is in physical pain. And I cannot feel it in me.
This should not happen. I have marked her. I should be able to take away her pain more easily now than I used to do before.
But something is stopping me this time.
I try to invade her mind again, try to crack the wall she has up, but she is blocking me. Hard.
"Don't you dare block me out, Delilah! Don't you fucking dare!" I let out a warning growl and she whimpers.
She tries to loosen her hold on me, her fingers easing off my arm, but I am not letting go.
I am her fucking Mate. I will be her fucking rock, whether she likes it or not.
I order her to look in my eyes, to not hide those burning ambers from me, and for a second, she is staring at me.
My world seems to pause when I see her face paint in pain, her eyes close.
I try to make my voice soothing as I use my Alpha command to tell her to look in my eyes, lying about the calmness in them. When she opens her eyes again, I feel like I have been physically beaten, when I see the pain in them.
It is only so much I can do to not let Asher take over, because he is going crazy inside of me.
'Back off, Ash. I won't be able to help her if you keep throwing your hissy fits in the middle' I warn him and he looks like he is about to fight me on it, but letting out a soft growl, he backs off.
I am shook, but I don't dwell on it for more than a second, because my Mate needs me.
"Why the fuck can I not get into your mind?" I ask her, though I know she can't exactly tell me why.
"I can't take your pain away, Mate. I can't make it go if you won't let me in. Let me in, Mate" I beg and her body shudders in my arms.
My own body tenses at that.
"You c-ca-n nott ta-ake the-e pai-in Alpha" She stutters out a few seconds later and I am taken aback.
"Did Selene tell you that Mate?" I ask on cue. When she nods her head, I feel an emotion other than fear run through my veins.
It is rage.
Red. Hot. Seeting. Rage.
"Oh my fucking Moon" I fist my hair with one hand, and hold on to her as tightly as possible with the other. As if she will slip away if I loosen my hold.
"It's not your fucking pain!" I accuse.
"Al-"
"Did you bind your fucking life with anybody, Mate?"
I am not treated with an answer to my question, but instead with blood. That she coughs out.
I pale on the sight. My Mate is puking blood.
This can't be good...
My hands shake as I wipe away at the corner of her mouth, praying that she doesn't notice the tremble in them.
"Did you bind yourself to anyone Delilah?" This time I back my question with Alpha command and though her face contours in pain, she nods.
"To whom?" I ask though I already have my doubts.
When she doesn't reply instantly, I grit out, "To whom did you bind your life with, Mate?" My hands cup her face.
"Mel-l and Teag-ue" she cries and I feel a part of me break.
I don't let it show though. Don't show her just how much it pains me that she is bonded to another Male.
The only good thing is, well nothing.
Nothing is good about this situation. Not a single fucking thing.
I leap over her and pick up her mobile from the nightstand and hack in to her call logs. At least some good came out of paying attention to Damon hack into thousands of computers in our teens.
When I find her witch friend's number, I diall.
She picks up the phone on the first ring.
"Del?" She croaks out as greeting. In the back of my mind, the part of me that is a compassionate Alpha notes the pain in her voice.
But Delilah's Mate doesn't.
He is only worried about his Mate.
"What the fuck is happening to her?" I don't beat around the bush.
"Alpha Black?" She sounds confused.
"Just tell me what the fuck is happening to her, witch!" I snarl and my Mate's scream makes me tighten my hold on the metallic piece of shit in my hands.
It cracks slightly.
I reach out to rub her hair softly as I spit in the phone.
"NOW!"
"Alpha..."
"I don't have all day, witch. If something happened to my mate because of you two, I am going to fucking kill you both. With my bare hands" It is not a warning. It's a promise.
"It's Teague, Alpha" I knew it had something to do with that Cat. Fucking Bastard!
"His-his beast has gone rogue" she weeps and if my Mate were not in pain, I would've applauded in joy. That asshole deserves to rot in Hell for ever laying his filthy paws on MY Mate.
But sadly his life is linked to my Mate's.
"So why is it hurting my Mate and not you, witch?" That confuses me. If the three of them bonded themselves to each other, how is she more stable than my Mate? That would take a lot of power. Only an ancient witch can pull that off.
"The two of them are bonded tighter to each other than to me, so even if I can feel his pain, it is not as much as she can..." Holy fuck! I didn't need to know that....
"Why can't that fucking Cat take it like a fucking man?! Why is his pain affecting my Mate?!" I growl and my fingers in her hair fist.
"He is trying, Alpha. But Ruin is far more stronger than Teague" He is trying? That's what she's got to say?! Is she kidding me? Isn't he supposed to be the strongest Cat in the world?
"Here's what you are going to do witch. And you are going to do it exactly as I ask you to" I start taking control. No time to waste.
"You are going to hand this phone to your Cat. And my Mate is going to talk some sense into his beast. In the meantime, you are going to bind me to the three of you. You, my Mate, and the Cat. Pronto" I hate that I have to bind myself to that Cat. The witch? I can bare. But that Cat.....
But that's the only way to help my Mate. I can't risk anything here.
"But... you can't just get bonded to us, Alpha Black. You need a strong connection with either one of us to do that" she starts coughing a storm.
"She is my mate" How dare she?
"Alpha Black... I don't think you heard me correctly. I said you need a STRONG conn-"
"She is marked" I sneer and before I can lose control because of her, I press the phone to my Mate's ear.
"She's what?" I can hear the shock in the witch's voice.
Why the fuck is she shocked? It's only natural that MY Mate be marked. By ME.
I want to listen in on her conversation with that Cat, but I know that what I am about to do requires my full concentration. Concentration and Strength.
So I block out each and every sound and seek out the red pit.
Seconds later I see it, and I realize that the witch has succeeded in binding me to the three of them.
At least she is good for something.
I've done this one too many times in the past, taking away my Mate's pain without her knowing, so it isn't as hard as it was when I had did it for the first time. I was only 18 back then.
I don't know how many minutes have passed, trivial details like that don't matter much to me, what matters the most was the pain that I was feeling in my chest where my heart was.
The pain that had started as soon as I had woken up to this nightmare.
Luckily it has faded.
I am content now, despite my aching body. My Mate is at rest. At peace. Like she should be.
"ALPHA ULYSSES!" she is staring down at me with worried eyes. There are tears on her cheeks.
I realize she is worried for me.
Something flutters in my chest. An all too familiar feeling.
She is worried about me.
But I don't want her to be. There is nothing for her to worry.
"Mate...." I try to smile to reassure her. But it is hard.
Damn. What the fuck was that Cat's animal thinking? It is almost going to take me 15 minutes to ride this out.
"What's happening, Alpha? Why are you bleeding?" She keeps on shaking me and I want to tell her to stop.
Not because it is adding to the pain, but I think that if she wastes so much energy on me, she may faint. My eyes are fluttering close and it's a battle to keep them open.
I should have eaten dinner... The thought crosses my mind but I dismiss it on the spot.
I don't regret not eating dinner.
I had promised myself in the afternoon that the next time I eat will be with my Mate. Alone.
When she is not dodging me like she did for today's lunch.
The sting of her slaps on my cheeks make me want to smile.
But it's a tough task.
When I have ridden off some of her share of pain, I start seeking for the other's. The Witch and the Cat's pain.
It is at the very back of her concious, and I realize that not all of it is here.
Damn... that Cat is holding back on a whole lot of shit!
I roll my eyes as I check in my mind for the thread that binds me to him. I find a foreign green link, and a blue one.
When I tap on them, I learn that the blue binds me to the witch and the green to the Cat.
I decide to help the witch out first. Let the Cat suffer for some time more...
When I link myself to her, I realize that she is in as much pain as my Mate was. Only, she has ridden almost all of it.
Did she lie when she said that they are bonded tighter than her? Because I don't feel that her bond to them is weak.
In fact it is as strong as it should be...
I don't waste my time over it though. Just suck the remaining of her pain, and then seep out of her mind.
'Damn... her head was a shabby place' Asher comments.
'I didn't look around much' I dismiss.
'I know. That's why I took a whiff of her essence. We can evaluate her later... I don't exactly trust her'
'Same' I have made my way to the green thread now.
'You gonna be by my side when I go in there?' I want him to be there.
'I don't think you'll be able to take in all his pain without me' He quips and I roll my eyes as I make my way in his head.
No sooner have I entered, I am hit with the worst of pain.
The kind of pain I have never ever felt before.
'Damn Lys. His Beast sure is an asshole for making him go through all this' Asher, ever the voice of truth, points out.
I grunt, buckling under the pain.
'It's almost over, Lys' Are Asher's comforting words to me as he stands tall on his shaking limbs.
I fall to the ground.
'She can't feel it now... the pain' He adds with a wince. I feel bad that he has to take the pain with me.
He doesn't deserve it.
Nevertheless, I am glad that he is by my side.
It always gets lonely when I have to ride this sort of pain, because my body goes in a sort of comatose, blocking everyone out as it battles for itself.
All of a sudden, I feel a pain shoot through my body, and it is way different than the pain I have been battling for the past few minutes.
My body is overdriven now, overcoming the Cat's pain as well as this weird pain.
'Lys...'
'What is it, Ash? Where did this pain come from?'
Before he can answer, I feel my blood heat, and then it starts gushing in my veins with too much pressure.
Shit.
This can't be happening....
'Lys...'
'She marked us, didn't she?' I ask, though I don't need him to confirm because my body is doing enough talking on it's own.
'She didn't know Lys' Ash whispers fiercely, but I can't hear him.
I focus all my power on the green light in my head, and within seconds, the pain starts fading.
'Lys...' Ash warns but I don't hear him anymore.
All I feel at this moment is betrayal.
How could she do this to me? To us?
As soon as I feel that I have enough energy in me to stand, I open my eyes and jump on my feet, out of the bed, away from my Mate.
My hand touches my shoulder to see proof of her betrayal and when I feel the tingling sensation there, I lose my shit.
My body is in a state of bliss, but my mind is a cluttered mess.
She ruined everything!
Every-fucking-thing!
I kick the couch and pick up the lamp and throw it on the wall.
The dressing table makes me even angrier as my deshelved self stares back at me. The moon illuminates my mark proudly, so I punch the mirror making it shatter into pieces.
"Alpha Ulysses?" I hate that her voice is still soothing me when she has no right.
She has absolutely no right to comfort me! Not after what she did to us.
She ruined us...
My chest aches and I find it hard to breathe.
I feel her presence behind me, my body even more sensitive to her now, than it was before. So I turn around and give her the glare that I am famous for.
The glare that I had never thought she'd be in the recieving end of.
"A-aa-alp-phaa" She shrieks as I slam her back against the wall, caging her with my body.
I grad hold of her cheeks, and with little to no hope, whisper "Why the fuck did you do it?"
"Do what-t, Alpha?" She is leaning in to my touch and I am as disgusted with myself as I am with her.
How can I like her touch after what she did?!
"Why the fuck did you mark me, Delilah?!" I growl in the back of my throat, my hold on her face tightening.
"You are hurting me, Alpha" She gasps and I want to apologize and let go of her. My first instinct is to loosen my hold, but then remembering what she did to me, it is hard to follow my instinct.
"Seems fair to me, Delilah. Considering the fact that you don't leave a single fucking opportunity to hurt me. Answer my fucking question, Delilah. Why the fuck did you mark me?!" I hate using my Alpha command on her more than she does, but I still do.
There is that dim light of hope in me... that maybe all is not ruined.
Maybe she marked me out of love and not pity or anything else...
"To save you, Alpha" Her neck is hung in submission and her eyes don't meet mine.
I jerk her chin up with my finger.
Pressing my whole body against her, I lean in the crook of her neck and whisper in her ear, "You had no right, Delilah Raymond! You had no right to do it"
Not wanting to know her emotions this time, I make sure that I have blocked her as I punch the wall one last time before storming out of the room.
I need space. Need to get away from her... I can't hurt her...
I try to walk away. To get out of the house.... maybe go to the woods, to the lake... Our lake...
But I find that I can't get myself to walk more than five feet away from the door.
I lock the door, and then slide down on the ground, leaning my head against the wooden frame. My thoughts haywire, my chest aching.
She starts knocking on the door after sometime, but I know that for her own good I cannot open the damned door.
An hour or so later, the heat waves start hitting her in full force, and every fibre in my body starts aching.
I want to be near her. Ease her ache. But my mind doesn't co-operate.
I just can't get over the fact that this time my Mate has accomplished something I'd never even dreamt of.
This time, she broke my heart for real.
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