How could she be pregnant with his pup, and not only not tell him, but go rogue and take that pup with her? No, she wasn’t that kind of person, he knew that.
“There is no boyfriend, that I saw, that the tail I had on her saw, and they did track her every move after she started changing, from a distance so she wouldn’t know,” he snarled “No wonder she was holed up in her room.”
Slade’s eyes met Anders now, as he recalled being told, and by everyone, that she had holed herself up in her room, changed the lock to the Beta suite even. She’d known and was trying to hide it from everyone. His brain was in overdrive, thinking back on everything she’d said, all he’d seen with her since she picked him up.
He’d told her he was getting a Goddess Gifted Mate, that Audrey could feel the tingly sparks of their mate bond on her skin already. In that car that day she’d looked at him, asked him near on instantly “Do you scent her?” “Are you sure?” she had been going to tell him, and he knew it. She wasn’t irresponsible, she had been going to tell him.
He’d told her she smelled different, tried to really smell her, recalled now the exact expression on her face, then the threat that followed it, “Do you remember the last time you did that.” She hadn’t wanted him smelling her, picking up on it, if he smelled her all deep like that, it was possible that Hail might have realised what was going on.
She’d dressed differently as well, layered up a shirt over a top, casual loose-fitting jeans instead of the usual slim-fit jeans and tee-shirt or blouse. He could picture her in the car, the way the shirt was knotted even, right over her lower belly.
His own words and sheer happiness about Audrey was, he now understood, what had changed her mind on telling him. “Fuck.” He murmured.
“That is what got you into this mess.” Anders snarled at him as Palmer and Yuri turned up and asked what was going on, but he was just staring at Anders. That man was angry and blaming him?
He felt his own anger rise “My fault.” He snarled at the man “This shit show, what made her go rogue, is not my fucking fault.” He grated out “You and father, the Alpha unit, fucked her over, and now she’s gone rogue.” He pointed at the man “She is pregnant and alone, out there with nothing.” He roared at the man. “You all did that to her.”
“What!!!” both Palmer and Yuri gasped.
“It’s your fault Slade.” Anders yelled right back at him “It’s your pup, there is no one else’s it could be.”
“What!!!” his unit gasped again. He could feel them staring at him now.
“You and father fucking ripped her from her position, took everything from her, that’s why she did this, left.” He yelled right back.
“She left because you don’t fucking remember fucking her.” Anders snarled at him, and Slade and Hail snarled right back at him. Then Hail was just ripped out of him, and launching himself at the pack’s Beta, as he to shifted, and they were suddenly fighting it out wolf on wolf.
There was yelling and screaming, people everywhere, trying to stop the fight that was going on, and he and Anders were both forcibly shifted back by his own father; as he Alpha Ordered them to shift, and they were hauled apart by their own units.
His father demanded to know what was going on. He looked right at the man, still furious, he was also to blame for this mess. It would have been different if only they’d let him tell her the way he wanted to, the way he’d planned to. None of this would be happening, she’d still be here. Safe where she belonged.
“Ori.” He snarled at his own father. “Is pregnant, Anders can smell her, she smells different to normal, even I can smell it. You all fucked this up so badly, that she now hates everyone of us. Is pregnant and turned herself rogue anyway, to get the hell away from all of us. Likely pregnant with my pup, the future heir of this pack. And he dares to blame me, you were the ones to fuck her over, demote her in such a manner that she hates us all.” He yelled at him.
“What?” his own father blinked and turned to stare at Anders for an explanation.
“Her tracks are over there.” Anders stated and stalked off back towards the pack. Slade was just standing there now, he didn’t know what to do. Didn’t even know exactly when she had left the pack or gone rogue even. Hell, where she had chosen to go rogue. He felt a hand touch his arm and turned to look at Palmer. “When?” the man asked.
He even knew what he was asking. “The night before Alpha College, I was drunk and so was she. I thought we had.” He explained to Palmer, “My memory of the night is not so good, I couldn’t get her to admit to anything. Then with Audrey and I,” he muttered, “I actually forgot about it altogether.” He was more than annoyed with himself. “She would have told me, I know that.” He muttered.
He watched both of them sigh heavily themselves, but nod their heads. They, too, thought she would have told him. But it was Palmer that spoke “It’s why she suddenly stopped hanging out with us, she was trying to keep it a secret.”
“She’s not irresponsible.” Yuri stated, “Holed up for a reason.” He was quiet for a minute. “So you’d be the first one to know. Wanted to tell you and discuss it with you before anyone else found out.”
“Had a six hour or more drive back from Alpha College to tell you, why didn’t she tell you?” Palmer asked him.
“I screwed it up by telling her Audrey could feel our Mate Bond already. That Audrey was my Goddess Gifted” he muttered “She changed her mind, I stopped her from saying anything, unwittingly.”
They were just standing there staring at him, it was all out and the pieces were slotting together for them all. And now after what his and her father had done to her, all the betrayal he knew she was feeling, all the pain that had been caused; this was the ramification of the past 24hours actions, of this pack against her.
His father came back and stared at him. “You had six bloody hours in that car with her, a pregnant she-wolf. A full month along with an Alpha pup, how the hell did you not pick up the scent, the heartbeat?”
His eyes closed, because he knew he should have picked it up, he was alpha-blooded and did know that she-wolves smelt different when pregnant. Desirable to their mates, even. Sweet to their pup’s father.
“How?” his father suddenly roared at him.
He looked at the man, “Because I was excited to tell Ori about Audrey being my Mate, I was also tired after being with Audrey all afternoon. I slept most of the way home.”
“My office now, boy.” His father grated out “We have to hunt and find her before she gets away.”
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