Alexander’s POV
I was furious, how could she have been pregnant, why did she not save her self for her future husband, for me? As soon as I found out, I left I just could not listen the information about her anymore, my future mate had not saved herself for me and had humped a stupid human being.
Max tried calling me back through mind link but I had had enough of this bullshit, she must have been fucked against her will, she just didn’t seem the type to lose her virginity to anyone. My parents will be furious to find out about this and will never let me have Charlie as a mate as she is not pure, something they were big on.
My fist met the bark of the large tree outside the hospital, the cracking of my knuckles told me that I had hit it hard enough to cause damage and right on cue a branch dropped to the floor right in front of me. The lashing out had done nothing to calm my nerves or my anger. I will find out who did this to her and make them suffer.
Max’s POVAlexander gawped at me, the realisation of what our mother has said settling in to his brain, “You what?” and he lunged across the floor at me but he was too slow and I had already manoeuvred myself from the seat. It seemed that he had completely missed the information that our father had shared.Charlie was an Alpha Luna hybrid, a very rare occurrence for it to happen but sometimes they would never choose a mate. The problem with that is it leaves all of us that are mated to her losing our minds if she doesn’t choose.For the first time in my life, I actually wanted a mate and I wanted Charlie but I knew Alexander will do everything he can to make sure she chooses him. Alexander stands in an attack position. “Did you not hear what they said? It is not up to us!”“I do not care, she is mine” Alexanders eyes blackened and I knew he would shift, he could rarely have a reasonable conversation in human
Charlie’s POVThe idea of me having a wolf was strange and oddly exciting, a wolf that my father had kept at bay for the last seven years and I wondered how he did it. Max told me that I was being drugged but how, I barely ate, I made my own drinks, my bedroom door was always locked at night so how had he done it.“Can you take me to see him?” I knew I was pushing my luck but had to askMax stared at me, I knew he was weighing up his options “Tomorrow, you need to rest right now, you had a big operation”I sigh, I knew I was pushing it but I had questions I needed to ask my father “Okay” I agree with Max, I will rest “How long have I been in hospital?”“Two days” I nod, trying to figure out what day it is, just like he knew what I was thinking “It’s Thursday”Just two days until my eighteenth, at least I would be able to make my own choices then, as much as I
Max’s POVAs I stepped back into Charlies room, it was obvious that there was tension between her and my brother, but something else was different too, Charlie’s scent had grown stronger and I was fighting the urge to grab her and kiss her there and then.Reminding her to breathe, Charlie growls at me as the cold stethoscope touches her back. It was pretty clear what was happening to her body, the wolfsbane was slowly leaving her system and I mind link Alexander to tell him as much.“You said you did not know how long it would take?” He snaps back at me“I didn’t, but it’s obvious isn’t it?, do you not see that her heritage has something to do with this?”Once again Alexander storms out, he hated being wrong or not being a know it all and I follow him, reminding Charlie to take long deep breathes, when she looks at me, her usual grey blue eyes are a dark grey, an odd colour for a wolf.
Alexander’s POVI knew exactly where Damon would take my mate, he would take her back home and treat her as a slave once again. I left my brother talking to my father in Charlie’s hospital room, I was not waiting around for them to decide her fate.Leaving, I hop back in my jeep and speed off down the road, screw them, I would find her and save her from her wretched father. Driving at top speed, I run some red lights and some stop signs, that would be no problem, it’s easy enough to buy people’s help when you have money. When I arrive at her house, there is no sign that anyone is here, to be honest it looks as if no one has been here for days.I move around the house searching for clues, there must be some little detail, anything that will lead me to her. The house stinks of cigarettes and beer cans are littered everywhere. I check her bedroom, images of her bloody and beaten flit across my mind, but for the first time I really look at he
Charlie’s POVThere was very little I could do as he dragged me from my hospital bed, his hand pressed tightly over my mouth, muffling my screams as I tried to fight and get away, he stabbed me in the shoulder with something leaving me in an incredible amount of pain, my body automatically goes limp and no matter how hard I fight it, he flings my unresponsive body over his shoulder and flees the hospital as my eyes drift close.When they eventually open again, they could barely make out anything in the darkness. My mouth was gagged and my broken arm had been bent around my back and bound to my other hand, leaving a shooting pain travelling up my entire arm. As my eyes adjusted to the darkness I could make out the body of another, somebody was slouched against the wall opposite me, with their head hanging.Recognising the hair bun immediately, I try shuffling myself over to him but find my body is tied to the chair I am on and instead I fall sideways crashi
Alexander’s POVHe is carrying her once again, why will he not accept that she is mine, not his. A jealous twang hits me hard as I watch her rest her beautiful head against my brothers naked chest, and closes her eyes, why was she so comforted by his touch yet she seemed to recoil when I touch her.Following them into the hospital he lays her gently on the bed carefully placing her arm down in the sling he had made out of his top and leaves to sort out the x-ray machine.Charlie thanks me once again for helping her and Max, I wish she knew that I would do it a thousand times over if it meant saving her.Sitting and watching her for a moment I finally tell her that she is different and she looks at me sceptically and I continue telling her that she is not like the others but I could not muster the courage to tell her about her true heritage of being an Alpha-Luna.Before I could say anymore I leave as Max comes back in, he raises an eyebrow at
Max’s POVIt was obvious Damon had no clue that we already knew about Charlie’s status, what we couldn’t figure out was why he was poisoning her for so long and waited until days before her eighteenth to almost kill her.Alexander was getting frustrated, he could not always read between the lines and would quite often jump to conclusions.Anyway it was time to focus on this woman, what did she know about Charlie. As we descend the second staircase, I try to ignore the smell, I understood why father left it this way because it did bring our captives to tears, most just wanted to escape the smell and would eventually cave.The woman was already screaming and shouting about how it was a disgrace that she had been left in these conditions, how she wanted to speak to whoever was in charge and that she would co-operate as long as she could leave her cell.Again we trade places with the guard who left in a hurry, much like the first one.
Charlie’s POVI drop my hands but refuse to move, what the hell had I just done “Charlie” and my head snaps up to meet Max’s gaze “Please, just don’t move”Max rushes to help Alexander off the floor, his nose pouring out with blood and he looks mad as he catches sight of me. I stay perfectly still, there was no way I was moving until someone explained to me what had just happened.I call out to Alexander, apologising for what had happened even though I didn’t know myself. Max helps Alexander to a room nearby and returns to me “Are you okay?” and I very slowly shake my head“What was that Max?” he tells me he doesn’t know and that he will call his mother and father in to see if they know anything. When he asks me to go back to my room, I tell him I am not moving and he asks if he can pick me up, I nod but as I move my head the light above me explodes, sending sparks everywhere an