Chapter 7

Alpha Jax

Something grisly, unfettered took over my system. My wolf stood rooted, pushing over, attempting to break free. I could smell fear from every single one in the room. The sheer power that emanated from me threatened to pull them down to their knees.

‘Pregnant.’

The word was at the tip of my tongue, burning, demanding to be let out through every possible way. I looked at Scarlett as she shook in my arm, her lips trembling. I pictured her beneath a man, relishing in pleasure as he took her over and over again. Possessiveness and jealousy filled me, my wolf demanded the information.

“You couldn’t fucking wait for me?” I demanded, series of growls passing through my throat. Deep and animalistic, they reverberated around the entire room.

“Please,” she whispered, trembling, tears filling her eyes, streaming down her angelic face. She couldn’t fool me though, with the results from the doctor, she was anything but angelic.

“That is not the answer! Who the fuck touched you Scarlett?” She visibly flinched, dropping her gaze to the floor as I tightened my hold on her. No matter how I felt, she was my fated mate and I was bound to take pity on her.

“Please alpha!” she whisper yelled, sniffing loudly. Her chest rose fast as she sucked in air loudly, almost heaving. Her free hand went over her belly and that one action made it worse.

“So now you are blatantly admiring your illegitimate child in front of me? Your mate, I am your fucking Mate! The one who’s supposed to impregnate you.” She raised her head slowly, and through her teary eyes she looked at me. It was as if something inside of her changed, something was switched off or on. Either way, something else had possessed her.

I struggled to put a finger on it but with the way her sobbing came to an abrupt stop, I knew it was more than I anticipated. She held my gaze for seconds before she lowered her eyes to her belly, rubbing it slowly with her right hand.

“I am begging you to listen to me, please alpha.” Her voice cracked, weak and low with resignation.

“You are beating around the bush, I don’t have all day!” My tense muscles strained my shirt, my free fist clenching and unclenching. I wanted to hit something anything, to vent the anger.

The imagination of the scene as she moaned under another male returned full force. It ate me up, it made my eyes narrow into slits as I watched her acting all innocent. What was there to listen? She was already with child and that was that.

“You couldn’t wait till you found your mate like your peers. You spread your legs for another man, you screamed in pleasure as he...”

I couldn’t finish the sentence, the words stuck in my voice box. It was one thing picturing it and an entirely different one saying it aloud. I felt betrayed, hurt by the one person the moon goddess specifically made for me.

“It’s not what you think,” she muttered, her tears no longer cascading down her cheeks.

“Oh spare me that! It’s exactly what I think it is. You are a desperate whore who can’t keep her desires in check. I wouldn’t even be surprised if you end up clueless about the father of that basta—”

“Shut up, shut up Jaxon!” I stepped back, processing the escalation of her tone on me. I hadn’t expected her to raise her voice on me. I don’t know what angered me the most. Her shouting at me and demanding silence from me, addressing me with no respect whatsoever or cutting me off mid-sentence.

“How dare you?” I pushed her down forcefully on her knees, snarling at her. No one survived my rage after addressing me in such a manner. So why was she still alive, with my wolf in no manner attempting to decapitate her? How fucked up were the effects of the bond? It made me weak, barely hours after finding out she was my mate.

“Silas,” she whispered. I thought I heard her wrong, but when she whispered again I was certain I had heard her loud and clear.

“I didn’t...I- I didn’t spread my legs for him,” she hiccupped, her hands covering her face. She hunched her shoulders, the rest of her body trembling. I rolled my eyes, finding her acting quite commendable.

“He- he,” she heaved, her appearance making me feel what I thought I would never feel.

Compassion.

“He rap-e-d me.” It was merely a whisper, but my gifted sense of hearing made it easier to hear her pretty well.

“Do you seriously think I am stupid?”

I chuckled bitterly, rubbing the back of my index finger under my nose. I pushed my wolf back, my human consciousness taking over completely. I wasn’t about to allow him get us fooled because of a mate bond.

“I-I- it’s true,” she stuttered.

“Shut the fuck up!” I countered. She tilted her head widening her eyes unbelievably as she teared up.

“So your weak alpha put you up to this? You thought you’d come here, trick me into thinking I was your mate, pin the pregnancy on me and later tell me about Silas forcing himself on you, hoping I would go after him to avenge for you?”

I laughed, shaking my head at their utter foolishness. The plan would have worked on any other alpha, but on me? That sneaky son of a bitch, he wanted nothing but to lure me out of the pack.

“A trespasser, a lying bitch, a spy and a slut. That is what you are and you’ll soon find out why I am the most powerful, feared alpha in this region.”

She tried crawling, sniffing loudly but I bent down, stopping her from moving. I held her by her hair again, pulling her upwards on her weak limbs.

“Scarlett, Scarlett, Scarlett,” I tsked, leaning down to come into level with her messy face.

“I will send your corpse as a gift to Silas, and a warning note along with it,” I spat.