The Beta and his Mate

Xavier’s POV

‘Blaine, any idea who this guy is?’ I asked her, not taking my eyes off the person who clearly called the shots around here.

‘No idea’ she relied as she too kept her eyes locked onto the man in front of us.

“Oh don’t act like that” the man laughed as he looked over at Blaine. “After all, if it wasn’t for your sorry excuse of a father we could have been family” he laughed. Even though he laughed through his statement there was an evil glint in his eyes that told me he was anything but amused.

I heard Blaine growl next to me and I quickly stepped in front of her slightly, whether it was to protect her or him though he didn’t know. She could give as good as she got in a fight and while I would pay to see her wrip this guys throat out I didn’t want to see what his little goonies would do after their boss had been killed.

“Oh come on Blaine, it’s not every day you get to meet the man who should have been your father”.

By now I was beyond confused. Not only was his science way off when thinking that genetically he could be her father, but also how twisted his brain was thinking that he could ever have been with her mum after she had already found his mate.

‘Blaine what’s he talking about, do you know?’

‘I can make a wild guess yeah’ she sighed ‘he’s probably the Alpha my mum had been set up with back before she met my dad. Remember she had gone to his pack to meet the new Alpha to be married off to him and found my father there instead?’

‘And he left his pack stranded purely because he didn’t get what he wanted?’ I asked, shocked that an Alpha would ever do anything so selfish.

“Get them some clothes someone” Benjamin suddenly yelled as he pointed at a random guy, “them talking through their link is really started to piss me off” he growed.

The man scurried off in the hunt for some spare clothes. He was gone only a few short minutes before he came running back in, a T-shirt and two pairs of shorts clutched in his hand.

“Put those on, not being able to see your facial reactions is grating on me”.

I wasn’t sure I liked the idea of us shifting out of our wolf form, but it wasn’t like we had much of a choice in the matter. With a number of guns pointed in our direction and the main man staring us down with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face, I held my chin up as I began to shift.

‘Blaine wait until I’ve finished and then hide behind me so that these freaks do get a show’ I told her, hoping for once that she’d do as she’s told.

I quickly sipped the pair of cut off jean shorts on and turned around so that I could hold the top up for Blaine to hide behind.

“Come on love... give us a show” one of the creeps hollered whilst others around us wolf whistled.

I could feel my eyes swirl gold at the disrespect they were showing my mate but managed to keep a hold on my wolf long enough until Blaine had managed to tug the top over her head and pull the draw strings of the trackies they had given her. I growled when I got a whiff of another man’s scent on the clothes but didn’t act on my anger as we both turned round to face Benjamin, me standing slightly ahead of Blaine just in case anything went down.

“Better” was all he said as he looked over the both of us.

“What the hell do you want with us?” I demanded as I stared the guy straight in the eye “you said so yourself, your little business is over, so why keep us here?”

“But where’s the fun in that?” he laughed as he looked around at the men surrounding him. “You see, we’ve been real nice to our wolves, making sure they had enough food and water so that they would survive... just about anyway” he laughed. “But now we have no reason to keep them alive, we may as well have some fun and games with the wolves we have left” he smirked, looking Blaine straight in the eye as he did so.

I tensed, not liking what this guy was implying as I took a step closer to Blaine, taking her hand in mine. ‘Blaine when I say run, you run okay?’ I linked her as I squeezed her hand tightly.

‘But what about you?’ She questioned as she took in all our options.

‘Just do it okay?’ I begged before closing off the link so that I could talk to Jax.

‘Any time now man, these guys aren’t going to stand around chatting for much longer’ I told him as I tried to spot him in the shadows.

‘I’ve got you man, whenever you’re ready’ he replied.

Benjamin suddenly took a step forward making us take a step back, wanting to keep the same distance between us.

“And Blaine” Benjamin continued “you’ve got a lot of catching up to do” he almost sang as he stared her down. “Over two years of it” he growled as he took another two steps towards us.

“NOW!” I yelled as I let go of Blaine’s hand and lunged for Benjamin.

Gunshots rang in the air as the guards tried to shoot us down but apart from a bullet grazing my left arm they all missed. The wound sting like anything but I didn’t let it faze me as I leapt onto Benjamin and tackled him to the ground, hoping that if I had him in a compromised position the gunshots would stop and I could give Blaine enough time to escape.

Unfortunately I hadn’t been fast enough though as right at the last second Benjamin turned and dodged my attack, his Alpha blood assisting him in moving just that little bit faster and stronger than me. Damn it.

I looked beside me to find Blaine battling against four of her own rogues, all having dropped their weapons and shifted into their wolf form, but before I could do anything to help her Benjamin stood back up and stared me down.

“Come on then Beta, lets see what kind of fight you’ve got in you in human form” he smirked before sailing a punch in my direction, making it land with a crunch straight on my cheek bone.

My vision blurred for a second, the punch having rattled my brain, but I forced my eyes to focus just in time to duck the second punch coming my way. Benjamin missing his target made him stumble slightly forward off balance and before he had time to correct himself I swiftly kneed him in the gut before elbowing him the the back of his neck. It wouldn’t knock him out but it would slow him down long enough for me to get another hit or two in.

Jax had also now joined the fight, taking on a few of his own opponents as they tried to battle taking on an Alpha. They may have had the numbers against us but we definitely had the skill. Half of then were only human and were fairly easy to handle, leaving just four rogue’s left, one for Blaine and three for Jax.

I had the pleasure of going head to head against Benjamin, the man who had caused my mate so much pain in the last few years.

We had each gotten a few solid hits in and thanks to Blaine’s training I knew what to look for and how best to beat this guy. He may be an Alpha but he was still a rogue and they were always hot headed and tire easy without a pack to help back them up.

I was just about to deliver the final blow for the fight, knowing that he wouldn’t have gotten up after the kick, when I heard a yelp come from behind me making me lose my balance and stumble forwards into him.

The yelp had come from Blaine as she limped away from her opponent, a bite mark clearly visible on her back leg. I was just about to run to her, planning on helping her, when I was dragged backwards by the hair on the crown of my head and slammed onto the floor making my head bounce against the stone beneath me. That was going to leave a mark.

I groaned as I began to see stars and held the back of my head where I could feel blood slowly oozing out. I then looked up at Benjamin as he smirked down at me, blood covering his teeth from a split lip I had given him.

“It seems like your bark was a bit too big for your bite there roguekiller” he chuckled as he looked over to where Blaine was being held at gunpoint.

I scrambled to get up, hoping to get to her but was pushed down with Benjamin’s foot as he forced me not to move. “These woman can really distract us right? I mean before her mother I had it all, I was the future Alpha of my pack and I had any girl I could have wanted” he chuckled.

“Then why did you leave?” I asked, wheezing through the pressure that he continued to put on my rib cage.

He just shrugged and looked over at Blaine with a smirk, “I wanted what I couldn’t have” he explained “and her mother made it very clear that she was definitely something I could never have”.

“So you left your pack and started all this just because you couldn’t have one girl? A girl that wasn’t even your mate to begin with?”

“What can I say” he shrugged as he finally looked down at me “I’m someone who holds a grudge” he said as he grinned down at me.

“Take her to my room, I’ll deal with her later” Benjamin growled at the guy holding Blaine at gunpoint.

“NOOO!” I screamed as I tried to force his foot off my chest, failing miserably as the stars behind my eyes danced.

“Well... as fun as this has been, your services are no longer required” Benjamin smirked down at me as he pointed a gun at my face. “Just think, now you get to be with your family” he laughed as he loaded a round into the chamber.

I continued to struggle my way out from under his boot, hoping that I could somehow dislodge it enough for me to slip out and kick the back of his knee in or something. I looked around for anything that could somehow help me but I saw nothing, no rocks that I could smash his shin in with and no nearby guns to point back at him. Jax wasn’t even able to help me, he was still fighting his own opponents, even if he had taken one of them out he still had two snapping at his throat and clawing at his face.

I took one last look at Blaine as I watched her being forcibly dragged away from me and muttered a quick ‘I love you’ through the bond before looking back up at benjamin dead in the eye. If I was going to go down today then the least I could do was stare my killer in the eye and show no fear as I watch him pull the trigger.

“Bye little roguekiller” Benjamin almost sang as he squeezed the trigger, causing a loud bang to echo throughout the stone cave.

But... how was it that I could hear the echo if I was supposed to be dead?

So I’m going to leave this chapter here guys! I was going to leave you without that last line but thought that would just be WAY to cruel for me to do! 🌟

Love you all ❤️