Broken Mate by Norisha May
Chapter 23

Chapter Twenty Three

I want her so much right now. I want to make her completely mine but I can't take her. I know she's not ready for that yet.

I control myself and focus on marking her first. I feel conflicted, I don't want to hurt her but I can't hold myself back any longer. I have to mark her. "Do it." She whispers in a breathless voice.

I nibble on her neck and I can feel her skin get goosebumps. I kiss a little longer and then sink my teeth into her. Her body tenses up and she whimpers holding me tighter. A few seconds later, I feel her strength leaving her. My fangs leave her neck and I kiss the wound.

"It's done love, rest now." I say into her ear. I can feel our bond strengthen. Her eyes close, I set her in my arms and hold her the rest of the night.

Morning comes and I look into her beautiful eyes as she wakes. "How are you feeling?"lask her.

"Tired." is all she says in a weak small voice.

"I know." I say, caressing her cheek. "But once you are better, you can mark me too and get back at me."

She gives a small giggle. "Ok." She closes her eyes again and I watch her sleep.

(I love her.)

I think back to yesterday and I thank the goddess that I have Grant. After I lost control and killed that fucker that dared put his hands on her, Grant managed to smooth things out with the warrior's Alpha. Then again, I wouldn't have cared, either way, if it came to it, I would destroy their whole pack for putting their hands on my mate.

I smile looking at her. (She is mine completely.)

I sigh, I don't want to wake her up but I have to.

"Beautiful, wake up. We have to go." I whisper in her ear.

"Just one more minute." She says softly with her eyes closed.

(f**k, I can't do this, she's so cute.)

I want to take her so bad. It doesn't help that I wake up every morning with a hard-on. And to make matters worse, after she gave me that nice hand/blow job and seeing how innocent she is, it made me even more riled up. That fucker Evan tried to take her innocence away. He tried to take what is mine by force. Motherfucker, when I find him, I'll kill him without hesitation.

I get up and decide to take a very cold shower, unfortunately, it doesn't work. I think of her soft skin, my hands sliding through her body. Her lips, the way they taste, and how it felt when they were wrapped around my c**k. I close my eyes with one hand on the wall in front of me and with the other hand, I start stroking my hard cock.

(I want her so much.) 1 speed up, my breathing becomes more erratic and I can't help the small grunts that leave my mouth.

"Mmh." I can feel myself about to c*m. I slow down and focus on massaging the head. My c**k pulses reaching my peek with a grunt and I unload myself on the shower floor with the water washing it all away. I sigh and take deep breaths feeling my body relax. I get out and get ready.

Chapter Twenty Three eyes sullt Closed then nugs me.

She opens her eyes. "Ok." She says sleepily. "But do we really have to go back to the pack?" She says pouting

I laugh. "Yes, we have to."

"I like that it's just the two of us here... minus all the women that want you." She says and now I laugh even louder.

"Yea, how can I forget yesterday's meeting. You really told them." She pouts again and I laugh. Once she's ready, we head home.

(What the f**k is he doing?) "Son, you remember Penelope." My father says as I enter the packhouse holding Rain next to me.

He stands with a very provocatively dressed Penelope next to him as if they were waiting for our arrival.

Rain's hand squeezes mine. I look at her and she still looks a little weak.

I internally sigh. "It is nice to see you again Penelope." I say but I don't really mean those words. "This is my mate, Luna Rain." I say proudly holding Rain closer to me. Penelope smiles but it's not genuine. "Pleasure." She says.

(What is my father up to?) I walk past them to the stairs. "If you excuse me. Rain is not feeling well." "Oh, I hope we get to talk later." Penelope says.

I stop walking and turn around. "How long will you be here?... "I squint my eyes. "Why are you here?" I ask.

"linvited her to have dinner. As an apology for... "My father starts to say but stops and looks at Rain and then back at me, "Well, we'll talk later, you must be tired from the long trip." He says and turns around walking out with Penelope. I stare at them and Rain leans into me. (This is not over old man. I should ask him how he enjoyed his mini vacation later.) I know Rain's tired so I take her upstairs. I help her lie on the bed and make her comfortable. "Do you want me to put the TV for you?" I ask her. She smiles and nods. I turn on the TV and give her the controller. "You have to go, don't you?" She asks looking a little sad. "Yea, I have a lot to do but I'll come to check on you." I say giving her a kiss on the head. "Ok." She says softly.

Thead downstairs to my office and start working but I miss her. I focus as best as I can. My mother then walks into the office.

"How was your trip?" She asks. "It was good."

"Good. Son, I love you and I want whatever makes you happy for you. I know your father is being irrational right now but.... try to pay him no mind. I support you completely as my son and my Alpha." "Thank you, mom. How pissed is he that I sent him to the fortress?" I ask her.

My mom just narrows her eyes at me. "Very, very angry." She says.

She shakes her head with a smile making light of the conversation then leaves. An hour later, I get up and start to head upstairs to go see Rain but then I see her walking down with Layla. She looks more refreshed.

"Hey, I was coming to see you." I say. She smiles. "And I was coming to see you." "How are you feeling?"I take her in my arms. "Much better, Layla wants to go for a walk." She says. "Yea, I missed her, we haven't seen each other for a while now." Layla says.

"Alright, but take two of the warriors with you." She nods, I kiss her and let her go.

(I'm glad that she doesn't fight me on these things.)

I watch her go and then head back to the office. A few minutes later, I am interrupted by my father with Penelope.

"Dad I'm a little busy."

"I'm sure you can take a break and make some time for an important visitor like Penelope." He says.

Levi walks in behind them with a tray.

I sigh and put my papers down. I get up and walk to the sofa in front of where they sit.

"What is this about?" I ask annoyed. Penelope laughs. "Your father just feels like we could come to an arrangement." I scrunch my face. "What kind of arrangement?"

"Well... If you'd officially take Penelope as Luna of our pack-"My father starts to say but Penelope cuts him off.

"I wouldn't mind if you'd keep your... mate on the side, unofficially. It would be a win-win for all of us." "That's enough." I say calmly and get up. "You are both overstepping." "Oh come on son, Rain knows nothing about being a Luna and she doesn't have the connections that Penelope has." My father says agitated.

"She'll learn, and I don't need a mate with connections to anyone, I have my own." I say still calm but only on the outside.

"Oh come on Alpha Kayden, you'd have me and your real mate as well. What man would be crazy to turn that down?" Penelope says crossing her legs and perking up.

I look at her intently and she smiles. "You know, you're not as attractive as you think you are. Nothing is more of a turn-off than when a woman thinks she's better than another. And trust me, you could never compare to my mate." “Kayden that's enough-"A crashing sound interrupts my father.

Levi doubles down holding his chest looking like he is in immense pain with the tray that he was holding now on the floor.

"Levi what's wrong?!" I ask. We all look at him confused and with worry.

My father gasps. "That's.... he lost his mate." My father says.

"That doesn't matter. When you lose your true mate, even if you haven't met them yet, you'll feel the pain." My father says. "Before taking your mother as my mate, I lost my true mate and that's exactly what happened to me." I am surprised, i never knew that. I look at Levi and sadness for him grows inside me. He looks at me with panic.

"Layla... it's Layla, I feel it." He says and now I panic. "But... she was with Rain." I say. Levi passes out in my arms. "S**t!"

I put him down and run out the door to the front to find a commotion on the edge of the woods. "What's going on?!" 1 shout in panic.

Grant is holding a bloodied dead body in his arms. It's one of the warriors that were with Rain and Layla. Panic rises inside me but it's quickly overshadowed by rage, Chapter Twenty Four

-Rain POV

*Warning-Triggering Content. * My head feels heavy and my body aches. (What happened?)

I hear people I don't recognize talking but I can't make out what they are saying. My eyes open slowly to pitch-black darkness. It smells mossy, damp. My eyes adjust to the darkness and I can telli am in a room, most likely underground. The door is made out of metal, it looks old.

"He wants her alive."

"Yeah well, I'm not sure we are even going to make it back alive!"

"I planted a trail, we'll be fine." (They smell like rogues. I can't see them.) "This is Alpha Kayden we are talking about. We should leave her and go."

"And tell Evan what? Huh!? Besides, he's meeting us here. And James got killed too and Trent got hurt, how are we going to explain that?"

"That we weren't able to get her and James died in the process, simple."

"No, he'll be here any minute. Too late." (Wait... where's...) Everything comes back to me and it hits me. - Flashback

"Why so suddenly do you want to go for a walk? And where exactly are we going?" I ask Layla while walking through the forest with two warriors following us.

"To find the mated lovers well." She says with a smile. "The legend?" I ask.

"Yea, if I find it and throw a coin, it will show me my mate's face, right? I'm sure it's Levi" She says.

"That's how the legend goes but that's not real Layla."

OS

(She's such a child.) "And besides, if your so sure that it's Levi, then why find the well?" I ask. "Because I want to be extra sure." She says looking excited. She stops in a clearing and starts to look around. "Abraham told me that it was real and that it was here." She says.

"What? Abraham, told you that the mated lovers well is here? In this spot?"

"Yea, he was really nice for once." She says and I immediately panic and I look at the warriors. They look at me confused.

"HAHAHAHA! So gullible." Aman's voice comes from behind a tree. He walks out and the two warriors that are with me quickly stand into a battle stance. I look around us and we are surrounded by five men. They quickly attack us without any hesitation. "Kill all except the Luna." The man in charge says.

I take Layla in my arms covering her from them. I feel like a mother protecting her cub. Our warriors start fighting but I know we are outnumbered.

(I can't just stand on the side.)

VU

I start to shift but then I feel the pain coming from the back of my head as I feel something hit me. One of the rogues hit me on the head. Everything starts to blur. I look up and I am able to see the rogue in

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Chapter Twenty Four ner light in a Choking nug until we near a crack and she stops moving.

My hairs stand on end realizing what happened. "N000!" I shout.

Then from the side, one of the warriors that were with us and were able to shift sinks his teeth into the man's throat killing him. I am overwhelmed by emotion and pain and then my vision goes dark. -End of flashback

"No, no, no, no, Layla..."I cry unable to hide my pain.

The men hear me and open the door, they turn on the light and I was right. Looks like an underground old bunker.

"What do we do?" One of the men asks the other one. "Nothing, I'll deal with her." I hear Evan's voice come from behind them.

T have so much heartache that I don't react to him at all. Evan's brown hair and brown eyes come into view. He looks like he lost a bit of weight, he used to be muscular. He has that smirk on his face, the one that has haunted me all these years.

"Are we moving?" One of the men asks.

"No, there are pack warriors sniffing close by, we have to lay low for a few hours." Evan says. The men nod and leave.

Evan steps into the room and closes the door behind him. It's just the two of us now. He stinks, his scent is different now.

"You know... I have actually missed you. And in other circumstances, I would have just taken you but you really have made me suffer. And so, I am going to make you suffer first."

"Nothing can be worst than the pain that I feel right now in my heart." I say.

(Somehow, I feel brave. Layla was my little sister, or at least to me she was. I watch her grow since she was brought to the packhouse at only five years old. She was part of my little family and now... she's gone.)

I look at him not feeling afraid at all because nothing he does to me will compare to this pain. (The only thing that scares me right now is not knowing if I will ever see Kayden again. That terrifies me.)

(But him, Evan, him I can survive, I have done it before. He won't control me anymore.) I look at Evan and all I feel is anger.

I don't know where this courage is coming from but I'm holding on to it.

He narrows his eyes at me. I'm sure he was expecting me to stare at him with pleading eyes but I don't. He takes a backpack that he was carrying and opens it. He turns it over and lets its contents fall on the ground. Chains, whips, and other objects I have never seen before fall.

"Come here." He says.

I take a deep breath and stay where I am leaning on the wall on the ground with tears still falling for Layla.

Thear him take something from the items and then a slashing pain that makes me scream hits my

arm.

"Come here, now!" He says holding the whip.

I know it's going to hurt more but I am not going to comply, I stand up and stare at him but make no move towards him which I can see pisses him off even more.

He walks over to me and takes me by the back of the neck, I whimper because of the pain. He pulls

Chapter Twenty Four chains and walks over to the wali wnere inere is a nook. He attaches the chain on it and goes to the opposite side to do the same with the other chain.

While he does this, I quietly get up, and once on my feet, I run to the door. I open it but unfortunately am met with the two men from before. I try to maneuver by them but they quickly catch me.

"No!! Let me go!!" I scream as they hold me and take me back to the room.

They throw me back inside and close the door. I look back and Evan is leaning on the back wall with a smile not looking worried at all.

"You can't run this time." He says. "What do you want!? It can't actually just be me? Why go through all this trouble?" I shout.

“I am not the mastermind of this plan. But getting to see you makes it worth going through all this trouble.” He says.

He walks over to me and lifts my chin up to him.

"I guess the men in my family can't resist the women in yours." He says looking at me with a stare that I only see Kayden give me. I am very confused now.

He then grabs me by the hair. I fight and scream but I can't overpower him. He kneels me back on the floor and puts a shackle around one of my hands. As much as I fight, he manages to do the same to my other hand. I stand there with my arms being pulled by the chains unable to move or to lower myself to the

ground.

Evan steps back and stares at me with excitement in his eyes. He looks me over and stops at my neck giving a low growl.

"He marked you?"

His expression changes again to an excited one. "Tell me, how much does it piss him off that you were mine first?"

(What? How delusional is he?) "I was never yours. I will never be yours!" I shout and he scrunches his face in anger. He holds me tight by the chin and gets close. "You will always be mine." "Never." I say defiantly. He gives me a rough kiss and then steps back. "Yes, you are."

He lifts the whip up and starts hitting me. I grunt and whimper in pain.

(That's it, I have to remember that. I know I won't be able to get out of this but I need to remember that no matter what he does to me, I am Kayden's always.... he is all I want.)

I close my eyes and reserve myself to my fate. He continues to hit me, I can feel blood dripping mostly from my back. When he is finally tired, he throws the whip to the floor and gets closer to me.

"Beg me to stop, beg me as you have done before." He says into my ear.

I keep my eyes closed and my mouth shut.

"Fine, be a tease." He says.

I lift my head and look over to the door, hoping that we will be interrupted.

"No one's coming you know. We have lots of time so I suggest that you start enjoying this a bit more. This can be pleasurable for both of us if you let it."

"NO!" I shout