Broken Mate by Norisha May

Chapter Fourteen "Rain?" He asks still holding his hand out to me and giving me a warning look. (Oh...damnit!)

I look at everyone's shocked faces and then I start walking towards him. I get to the stage and take his hand. He lifts me up to the stage and puts his hand on my waist and I close my eyes trying not to pull away.

(I really don't like him touching me although, the contact of his skin feels nice.)

"I am disappointed at this pack, pissed even." He starts to say. "Look what you all have done to my mate." Topen my eyes and see everyone either shocked expressions or looking down.

"And I know it's not just her who's suffered. Those of you that knew and did nothing are just as bad. But this all ends here tonight. I am changing things and goddess forbid that I hear anyone of you complain because this is serious. I have been to many other allied packs and not one of them treats their members in this kind of way and do you all know why?... because of common decency. You don't treat others like this. And I swear to you... if anyone of you hurts her again in any way... I will kill you without any hesitation."

We are all quiet, no one moves or makes a sound. He looks towards his dad who is looking still with a shocked expression.

"Office, all of you." Kayden says to them and then looks at the crowd. "You can continue the party. I have things to deal with."

He turns around and starts walking with his hand still on mine and pulling me with him. I want to run away so bad but I don't, he hasn't hurt me but I am still afraid to anger him.

We go inside and into the office where he lets me go and walks over to the desk. He turns around and leans on the desk looking at me. I feel nervous and don't know what to do. I feel like his eyes are piercing through me. Then I hear footsteps behind me, Grant walks in with Preston, Kayden's father, mother, Abraham, and Richard. I step to the side, backed into the wall away from all of them.

"Kayden what the hell are you doing? You are going to ruin this pack." His father Felix says.

"Ruin? This pack is ranked as one of the lowest. You've already done a fine job at ruining it." Kayden

says.

I feel Abraham stare at me, I look at him and he has so much hate in his eyes.

"I can't condone this son. I can't stand by and see what you do to everything we have built." His father says.

"Then You are welcomed to leave the packhouse. I can have a house ready for you and mother if that is your wish. But you have no saying in any of this anymore." Kayden says.

"Kayden!" Felix raises his voice but Kayden's mom puts a hand on his chest calming him and then she looks at Kayden.

"Son, you are my Alpha now and I will aby by your rules." She says and looks up at Felix and then back at Kayden. "I was blind to my surroundings and I am ashamed for what I allowed to happen to members of our pack. So, I will not fight you on this Kayden." She says.

Kayden nods at her and then looks at Abraham. "And do you have a problem with my mate Abraham?" Kayden asks. "You keep staring at her with a look that I really don't like."

Abraham looks at him with anger, "You've imprisoned my nephew because of"

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Abraham stops talking, teeling the menace that Kayden's aura is showing. Abraham clears his throat. "What will you do with him?" He asks trying to compose himself.

Kayden stares at him with a stern expression. "I'm going to kill him with my own hands." He says and there is no remorse in his words.

Tam shocked but... (This means that I won't have to be afraid of him anymore.) Abraham shakes his head. "But....you...you can't."

Kayden smiles. "Yes, I can. He deserves that and so much more after what he's done to Rain and who knows to who else."

Abraham looks at me and I know that if there was no one here right now, he would kill me. He quickly turns around and leaves the room. "Richard, you have been quiet this whole time, what do you think of all his?" Kayden asks.

Richard sighs. "I welcome this change. And I think that Evan deserves everything that is coming to him.'

(Richard was always the nicer one out of all of them but there was just only so much he could do. Unlike the Alpha and beta, he never had much authority.)

".... I can't allow you to-" Felix starts but Kayden's mom cuts him off. "No, my love, he is Alpha now, and like you, he will lead the pack as he sees fit. And he's our son, I know he will do what he thinks is right for the pack." Felix sighs and nods at her but he doesn't look happy.

nods and then she looks at me and she gives me a small smile which I do not return.

"Alpha." Richard says bowing, he then turns around and leaves.

Once the door is closed Preston busts out laughing. "That was epic. Did you see all their faces out there?"

"You play too much Preston." Grant says shaking his head and then looks at Kayden who is lost in his thoughts.

"Evan is in the dungeon." Grant says.

"I'll deal with him tomorrow." Kayden says.

I continue to watch them all silently like I have been doing from the beginning.

Grant nods. "That other thing you asked of me is done as well." He says.

"Good. Now give me a moment with my mate." He says and now I start to sweat. They both nod and leave me alone with Kayden.

(Oh goddess, what now?)

I look at Kayden who is staring at me. He holds a hand out for me to take and I look at him nervously. I walk closer to him but I do not grab his hand.

He puts his hand down and walks closer to me. He takes my hand and pulls me towards him and tries to hug me but I quickly push away from him.

"Rain, it's official now, and after so much waiting, I want to hug my mate." He says.

Ishake my head and look down. "Please don't, I... I don't like men touching me." I say lowly. "But...I'm your mate, I should be able to touch you." He says sounding irritated. (He's never going to understand.) Chapter Fourteen to my face.

"I'm not going to hurt you." He whispers, then his fingers caress my cheeks. His touch sends a spark through my skin that I have never felt before with anyone else.

"I am an impatient man and I like things going my way but... I will do my best to be patient for you." He says. "But you at least have to try." He says holding a hand out to me.

"We have to walk through the crowd as Alpha and Luna. It's just holding hands." He says and I nod. I take his hand and he leads me out of the office and back to the festivity.

When we walk outside, everyone looks at us. He leads me by the hand and if I'm honest, it makes me feel safer. He leads me to a group of older pack members. They have their own houses on the pack territory with their families so I don't see them that often.

"Congratulations Alpha, I personally can't wait for these changes you mentioned." One of the men says.

"Thank you." Kayden says. "Luna." The man says bowing to me.

I don't say anything as they start talking for a bit. This all suddenly seems so surreal and all I can do is look around me.

(Am I really his mate? Did he really accept me as.... as Luna?... I don't want to be Luna. I don't know anything about this or what I'm supposed to do and I'm not sure leven want to be with him. He is the son of the man that looked the other way at the murder of my father.... but, it's completely unfair for me to hold that over Kayden's head, he had nothing to do with that.)

Kayden gets closer to me and holds me by the waist, my body tenses up as he gets closer to my ear. "If you are tired, we can leave." He says into my ear and I quickly nod. (I really want to get out of here.)

Kayden nods and excuses us from the men. He starts walking into the packhouse and up the stairs holding my hand. He then starts walking in the opposite direction of my room and I panic.

"Where are we going?" I ask feeling worried.

He looks back at me and smiles. "To our room. That attic is not habitable, I had all your things moved to our new room.' "No..... nol won't..." I start panicking and pulling back on his hand.

"Rain calm down." He says pulling on my hand.

"No! let me go!" I pull on my arm almost crouching to the ground hoping that my weight will release me from his grasp.

"Rain we are mates and we are staying together, this is something I am not budging on." He says. I continue to pull away and he gets irritated, he picks me up putting me over his shoulder as I wiggle trying to get out of his grasp. "Let me go!" I shout.

"No." He opens the door to what I guess is our new room. He locks the door behind us and then throws me on the bed.

I back up all the way to the headboard as he looks at me, fixing his now messy hair.