Chapter 41 – The Alpha’s Defiant Mate Novel

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Jay-la POV

Jay-la held up a hand to stop him. Why would they do that to me? Her eyes moved past him around the room and looked at the clock on the wall, nearly 5am, then moved back to him. He was standing no more than a meter away could probably reach out and touch him if she wanted to. But this was too much. She had to go and talk with her father. It couldn’t be, she didn’t believe it.

She spun on her heal and yanked the office door open, brushed past Jackson who had been there the whole time, “No, no, no. I don’t believe you.” she was saying as she headed for the front door.

“Jay-la wait.” he called after her, she could hear him following her and right this minute didn’t care.

His hand wrapped around her arm to halt her, and she reacted on instinct, spun around and slapped him right in the face. His head whipped back, his blue eyes went wide with shock and he let go of her arm, just stared at her. “Don’t you dare stop me.” she grated out angrily, she didn’t even know who she was angry with at this moment, him? Her father? Her mother? Her brother? Abbey? Herself even? She was just angry. How could anyone do something like that? She stalked out of the pack house and headed directly for her family home. She would find out the truth from her father himself.

She banged into the house, her family home. She knew he was up could hear him with her wolf hearing. He was in the kitchen. She glanced up the stairs, turned her head and listened her children were all still sleeping. She stalked her way through the house towards where she knew he was preparing breakfast. Her feet were completely numb from the cold, but she just didn’t care at this point.

Jay-la also knew that the Alpha was following her, as was Jackson, either one of them could have given her father the heads up she supposed, probably had. She didn’t care, even Kora was angry along with her now. She too, could not understand why they would put them through that much pain and grief and for what to just get her to come home. Hell Nathan could have done that simply by walking into a room with her. That twitched her brain a little…she pushed it aside, shook her head as if to clear it and refocused on getting answers from her father.

He turned to look at her, a smile already on his face, it was gone in an instant. “Baby girl, what is wrong?” he asked.

She pointed a shaking finger at him as she strode right up to him. “Did you do it? Did you allow mum to be injured just to get me home, for him?” she grated out the last two words. She knew they were standing behind her, could smell them both. He more so, being that he was her Mate.

She watched his eyes move past her to his Alpha and Beta. Then back to her, “Baby girl, please understand…’

She cut him off with a slash of her hand. It was all she needed to know. “I trusted you and you let Abbey shoot mum up with a lethal dose of wolfs-bane, are you insane?” she screamed at him.

“Well actually…” he rubbed his hands over his face “I was the one who hit her with the wolfs-bane. I couldn’t let anyone else do it. Ivy and your mother wouldn’t either, they only trusted me to make sure it wasn’t a lethal dose but close to it.”

Jay-la couldn’t believe what she was hearing, it was true they were in on it. They did this to them, she had nearly completely lost herself in her grief over all that was going on and they did this to her on purpose. She stood staring at him, anger was rolling off of her, she heard Kora snarl in displeasure at what they had gone through. Saw him back up a step.

“I’m sorry baby girl, we just wanted you to come home,” he pleaded with her. “and honestly, I didn’t think you were ever going to. Abbey told us the Alpha was your mate. Neither of us believed her. You’d known each other before, how was it possible? She explained you were here on pack territory and that’s how he knew. It took some convincing, but eventually we believed her, but Bradley was useless at convincing you. So it was put forward by Abbey that if Vera was actually injured, seriously, you would sense it yourself and then we would be able to get you to come here.”

Jay-la just stood there and stared at him, they were all in on it, she couldn’t believe it, and she had left him here with her triplets, trusted him with her children, hugged him and cried all over him with so much joy at seeing him, being with him and now to feel so betrayed by him.

Hurt and it wasn’t just her that hurt. Kora was hurt by them, and her emotional distress had affected her children too. Her fists balled by her sides in anger as she stared at him in disbelief. She really wanted to lash out at him, give him a good beating as she had done Abbey, but her children were up stairs, if she started a fight with him they would hear it and get scared.

She felt a hand touch her gently on the shoulder, knew it was the Alpha and growled at his touch, she was not wanting his hands on her right now, she knew what he was trying to do, a mates’ scent, a mates’ touch could help calm you down. She had yet to accept him so it would not work to the extent he thought it would, couldn’t without her wanting it too, she supposed. He’d have more luck sending his Gamma her way.

His hand slid down to the small of her back to stroke her in gentle circles. “ Jay-la let’s not fight here, the pups are up stairs.” he spoke to her softly, soothingly. She had seen her father do this to her mother on many occasions to help calm her down.

Oh, she just wanted to punch him right in his handsome face, break a bone or two, she knew where her children were. Her green eyes turned on his blue ones. “If you want to keep that hand, I would remove it.” she growled at him. Kora may want her mate, may want Jay-la to accept Nathan, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t break something in the mean time.

Kora was also angry about the situation going on around them. She would not likely hurt her Mate but she would likely allow Jay-la to throw a punch here or their if she thought it would not hurt her and Havoc’s bond in anyway.

Their goddess-given bond was sacred, Jay-la knew it, Kora knew that Jay-la believed in fated mates and that she would not do anything to hurt Kora herself, so some leeway would be given to her with their so-called Mate at certain times, like right this minute, she didn’t want to calm down, so him trying to use the bond on her was annoying more then calming.

His hand fell away from her, she had already proven she would hit him one, had done so already, she was actually a little surprised to see that he took the hit and didn’t go all alpha mad on her.

Havoc pushed forward all of a sudden and stared right at her. Whether he was warning her or trying to get to Kora she couldn’t tell, he didn’t seem angry, just physically showing himself. Kora suddenly surged forward and Jay-la was shoved back, ah that was it, she felt herself being moved by Kora into Havoc’s waiting arms. That bastard knew he could calm her wolf and it was working. She practically melted into him. Burying her face into his neck and breathing him in.

‘ What the hell happened to my feisty wolf?’ she muttered to Kora.

‘Our Mate bond is strong, and we needed to calm down or fight with dad or Alpha would have ensued.’

Jay-la sighed just great, ‘I don’t want to wake up in his bed Kora, do you understand me.’

Kora chortled at her ‘I would never.’ but there was pure mischief in her voice.

For the love of the goddess, Jay-la face palmed herself in Kora’s mind, which only made Kora giggle out loud for all to hear. ‘untangle yourself and give me back my body.’ Jay-la muttered.

She did relinquish her body back but did not untangle herself. And she found herself standing in his arms, her face still buried in his neck, she pushed hard at his chest to get out of his arms. A growl came from him and when she looked up it was still Havoc. “ Let go, Havoc.” she stated firmly.

“Mine,” he stated gruffly back.

“Kora is yours,” she confirmed to him.

A large hand was all of a sudden on her face making her look directly into his eyes, half blue, half green “Kora is mine…you are mine…Accept me.” then he turned her head and slid his nose all the way down her neck right to where he would bite her, to mark her, claim her for himself, leave that pretty silver filigree on the crook of her neck for all to see.

Jay-la blinked at his actions, completely shocked, and wondered if it was he or Nathan who made that statement, or were they actually both talking at the same time. She wasn’t game to state No at this point. She had the distinct feeling that if she tried to in anyway shape or form, decline him he would mark her whether she like it or not. But if she said yes, goddess, he was going to mark her too. There was no way to answer him without his fangs plunging into her neck.

He was challenging her to defy him, and demanding her to say yes at the same time, she could feel his mouth on her neck, goddess her skin was on fire from where his mouth moved in soft kisses on her mark spot, it was getting to be to much, she had to pull away or she was going to let him mark her whether she was ready or not whether she wanted it or not she could hear Kora purring inside of her, she wanted this more than anything. Jay-la knew if he marked her Kora would push forward and mark him back. Damned wolves and their need to mark and mate each other.

All of a sudden she was shoved away and Nathan was staggering backwards, “I’m sorry Jay-la, Havoc was a little out of control.”

Her hand was already touching her mark spot, it was soft and hot, and shot bolts of lighting through her own fingertips when she stroked it, he had not punctured the skin, but he had certainly left a mark on her, that was for sure. A love bite for all to see. The skin was too sensitive for there not to be. Kora huffed, annoyed at the lack of being marked by her mate. She was also annoyed with Nathan for stopping Havoc from uniting them.

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