I turned to look at him. “I had no intention of running away, Miles, and you know I didn’t. My Dad took me.”
“Hmm. Still went without permission.” He hissed, his eyes almost squinting in anger. Causing me to roll my eyes in irritation. This guy is now in his twenties but still acts like a petulant teenager. Being demanding and spoiled.
“I am going home now, Miles, so if you don’t mind.” I said, moving away from him.
A felt his hand grip tighter upon my shoulder, yanking slightly at my tank top. My heat began to pound at the fact he was being aggressive toward me. “I do mind, actually. I don’t believe I have dismissed you. And I am sure I told you it was Alpha Miles.” He snarls.
“And I think I told you, I would call you that when you gain your title, which is not yet.” I snapped. I know I am only going to anger him further, but I have had just about enough of his attitude towards me.
“You will regret this.” He hisses, as he lowers his face toward mine, his breath smelling of stale cigarettes. I hadn’t even realized Miles had begun smoking. But, that is none of my concern. “You chose to go for a job off pack, when you were told to come home after studying because you belonged here.”
I rolled my eyes again. “Miles, I am not doing this. Why do you need me here? You made it perfectly clear you did not want me as your fated mate. You rejected me. So, why keep me here? Why do you feel the need to have me here? Does it make you feel in control? Because I will not have that. I will go to your father and explain it all. The rejection, everything.”
Miles’s eyes flash darker, telling me his wolf is lingering now. His hand holding me is shaking now. I have definitely caused him to be angry… “You will not go to my fucking Dad!” he roared. “I would lose everything then. They would either make me take you as my fucking mate, and why would I want you for a mate? Or he would take away my title for rejecting the fated mate I was given!”
“Bailey?” I heard Harley’s voice nearby, and both Miles and I turned to look at him. Eyes wide. The look upon his face was one of shock. There is no denying he had heard everything. Though talking about something like this out in the open, and when so angry too, was never going to be the best of ideas…
“Harley…” I began.
“He is your fated mate?” he stutters, his tone a mixture of shock and hurt.
“No.” Miles interrupted. “She wanted me to be. Though she has always been in love with me. Clung to me, like so many of the other girls. But, this time she was telling me of about the fated matebond. She was adamant about it, but I wasn’t feeling the bond.” he lies, and I see a disgusted look pass over Harley’s face. Like, his whole opinion of me had changed in an instant. He believed the words Miles was telling him? The pain in my heart at that realization was immense. Everyone would always believe him over me. “So, I rejected her to make sure, just in case.” Miles says with a shrug.
Harley shakes his head in disbelief. The look he gives me is one of confusion. Disgust. Gone is the friendly, flirty looks that gave me butterflies. No, this is a look that tells me he finds me repulsive. All because of some twisted lie from Miles… Then, he turns and simply walks away without another word.
Today was not going well. Hearing my former fated mate had disobeyed what she had been ordered by going to another pack for an interview infuriates me. Her brother needs to get her under better control. Well, both her brother and her father. But, this is what happens when a she-wolf is allowed too much freedom, too much access to education. She learns too much. She thinks she is above all others. Well, not in my pack she wasn’t, nor would she ever be.
I would not permit her to work for another Alpha. That girl would forever belong to this pack. So she knew her place. I may have rejected her, but she was the mate the moon goddess had blessed me with, and I did not know if her going somewhere else would make me weaker. When she was away at university, I did not feel the same. I felt less strong. I couldn’t explain why, I just felt like she, having been my fated mate brought additional strength when near. Or maybe it was the thrill I got from putting her in her place?
Even when she came home having undertaken something of a makeover. Less of a wallflower, more of a show-stopper at first glance, but underneath it all she was still Bailey West. The pack geek that did nothing but irritate the fuck out of me.
But I had told nobody of our predicament. Why would I share that she was my mate? She was an embarrassment. Forever a laughing-stock of our pack. So I had nobody to gain advice from. And all the books I had scanned through within the pack library had not brought me the answers I needed about whether her presence or lack of it, within the pack, rejected or not would make me weaker. I was going to be the next Alpha. I could not risk being weak. I needed to be the strongest I could be. Or I would be the laughing-stock of the region. Of all the other Alphas.
So, I told her she must stay here. Because with nobody to turn to for advice to learn if her being absent would make me weaker, I had no other option. When my brother discovered the truth, I hoped he might provide some enlightenment, but he was as much use as a chocolate teapot. And spent more time laughing at the mess I was in. He knew as little as me. So I was no better off. So, as much as I despise the stupid bitch, she had to stay. I could make her suffer. Make her feel the pain as I found conquests to enjoy…
While she slowly went crazy through rejection and her lack of purpose with no role within our pack and no potential for a job outside of the pack. I would make her suffer for ever thinking she was better than me.
I glanced at the warrior as he walked away. Before darkly looking at Bailey. “See what you have done now? Another fucking person knows about this shit?” I snapped.
She widens her big brown eyes at me almost innocently. “I think it was you that was yelling, Miles.”
I growled in anger. I don’t understand her. Out of all the people in pack she seemed to be the only one who thought it acceptable to answer me back with disregard for my rank. She infuriated me. Though since she returned from her studies she was a lot more pleasant to look at than she ever had been before. Not that it was relevant.
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