Third Person POV
mate and he thought that it was his right to Bram had been fuming ever since he had returned home after Auren epted his rejection. He was her mate have her back. He made a big mistake by sending her away to Alpha Lucien as a breeder on Maris''s suggestion.
Every fucking day without her was a torture. His wolf was going mad inside him, often growling and pushing g him on the edge to go back to his mate. But he wasn''t going there because he was bound by a treaty. Still, when he went there, he asked Auren toe back. Instead she just epted his rejection!
Every day there were fights between him and Maris. He didn''t like her presence near him. Rather his wolf shunned her away. "Why are you sitting in my room?" Bram snapped at her one night when he returned. "Haven''t Frold you to stay in your room"" After Auten left him, a few dayster, be asked Mans to move into the adjacent room on the pretext that he wanted some time alone. Though she moved there, she would practically spend most of her time with him.
"Huh?" Maris was shocked. She started crying
ving. "What is wro
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is wrong with you these days, Bram!
I made a mistake?"
Bram gritted his teeth. He ran a hand through his hair as his patience thinned by the second. His wolf had almost receded into his mind after Auren epted the rejection. He woulde out now and then only to seek Auren. At least earlier when she hadn''t epted his rejection, his wolf was there. He was a prick, but he was there. Now, Bram felt like he was a husk, Without his wolf, he was more like a human. And his pack was not going to withstand an Alpha without a wolf. It was a matter of time that someone from his pack challenged him.
"Yes. Maris! You made a mistake," he growled, his voice strained with mental exhaustion. "You convinced me to send Auren away. And now this His jaw clenched. Now, he was paying the price for it.
Maris gasped, her eyes going wide with disbelief. "You still care for that omega even though she epted your rejection?" Her voice shook with fury mingled with sadness. “After everything I did for you! After everything we nned together? It''s not like you didn''t know what would happen? You wanted a strong mate and you chose me over her."
Somehow because of her words, his wolf decided to appear in his head. He snarled inside him. "Ask her to go! he hissed. ''I hate her presence. Her smell is repulsive. She umells like a dead rat
"Just fucking leave!" Bram growled, his eyes shing gold
Manis winced. She wiped her tears and said, “You''ll regret this, Bram!”
He scoffed. "I already do"
She collected her dress and rushed out, crying loudly.
Every night Bram spent with Maris, felt like a slow death. It was an agonizing reminder of what he had lost. His moon mute. He thought that Maris was the right choice-the logical choice. Auren was a weak omega, who he could never ept. But now! The thought of Auren standing with Lucies, thriving without her mate, gnawed at him like a festering wound. And worse she had fucking epted his rejection without a second thought
If she had returned that night, he would have made her his mistress. He would have markjed Maris and spent the rest of his time with Auren. At lear that way. His wolf had been appeased. But now, that fucker Lucien was marrying his hate? He wasn''t going to allow it.
Bram had worked hours to find a strategy. And then he cooked a fantastic n. His spies has told hum than Julie had sessfully convinced Auren toe with her for thenthday party. After that, things went ording to his n. So, right now, he was wanting for a phone call.
It was toward morning that he received the phone
that he had been waiting for ever since be had formed this.
than
"They are taking her, the High Council dungeons," she has kled
Bram''s lips lifted into a soule after many days of agony. Finally he could see light at the end of the tunnel. Auren was going to be his once anul for all. Treaty be damned. He knew thews well. He had also heard of how she was defeating trained warriors at every chance she fought them. That meant that she was turning into a formidable wall. Right to stay besale him. He was going to get her back and then ask Maris to leave. Or she could stay as his nustrew. Though he was unsure if he would go and amell her rotteli noent
"Good" he replied "Stay low until I ask you toe out. It is important that you do not show yourself."
"Of course!" sheughed. "We both have to have what we want
in the end, right"
"Yep"" he breathed. Just as he was about to go out and talk to his Beta, Maris caine agalis, her hands curled into t on her sides. "You''re pathetic," she spat, "At host, you asked me to help you throw her out. Now you want her back! I was the one who fortitted that treaty for you, using Muren."
Bram''s eyes unapped to her. "Shun up, Maris" he said in a low, dangerous voice.
"No," she shouted. "You don''t get to do this. You air ying a victim card when you were the one who made this choice. Why are you agai obsessed widi Auren?" Her voice brake and she started crying "Luood by you, makin sure that you didn''t end up with that pu
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sind yet you treat me
e like this
''athetic omega?" he snarled at her. "Auren was many things but pathetic! I called her weak only because you instilled that emotion in me, but now the unath sits like acid in my stomach. She was never weak. You were too cruel to her."
Taris''s face paled. "What? If I was cruel to her, then you encouraged my action! You shouldn''t have done it if you were in doubt"
"Get out!" he roared, his chest rising and falling as his wolf raged.
Shocked as hell as his outrage, Maris ran away from there, wailing loudly. "You hypocrite!"
He took a deep breath. He walked to the window and murmured, "Auren, you thought you could walk away? Thought you would be happy without me? But you are still my mate. The bond didn''t just disappear. I aming to get you back. You''re mine!"
Bram opened his mind link with his Beta, Josh, and said, "Prepare to go to the High Council. We leave at dawn."
His real work was
was going to start now.