Two Alphas Can't Be Rejected

ARIA'S POV:

Nothing seemed to make sense

It was always one secret after another, one mystery after another

I thought wolves only get one mate

What could have happened to their previous mate?
 
Am I really safe here? 

I blindly made my way back into the mansion, worry lines etched deep into my face

Suddenly, I realized just how alone I really am in this world, nobody to complain or rant to. The world seemed so grey right then, even when I thought I had somebody I was actually alone

Oh, such a pathetic soul I am

I wasn't expecting to see Alpha Alexander waiting for me at the hallway entrance and he looked so pissed, the veins in his jaw were ticking and that was when I remembered that I had broken the first rule, I had left the mansion.

Timidly, I walked up to him ready to apologize, "I'm....."

"I need to have a word with you, follow me!"

I was taken aback by the coldness in his voice, but I didn't have the time to dwell on that as he was already walking away, I practically had to run after him

And up the stairs we went, sternness and rage radiating off his back muscles, till he opened the door to a dark spacious room

I didn't even have to wonder whose room it was cause his scent assaulted me the moment I stepped into the room

The rug was a pale black, and so were the duvet and the curtains. The bed frames a dark brown like the doors, wardrobe and bedside table. The lamp on it emitted a pale blue light. The room was dark and cozy, and his smell did weird things to me, why did suddenly want to wrap myself in his duvet and just fall asleep there?

"Sit," he ordered

And I don't even argue, I go over to the black sofa by the double sliding doors and sink into it. My head bowed, I awaited the unleashing of his anger

"Preparations are being made for you to leave this place, to stay hidden........ For a while."

I jerked my head up to look at him, "stay hidden? Why? What am I hiding from?" the questions kept spilling from my brain to my mouth

He locked me with his gaze "You wouldn't understand but I promise it's for the best."

I stood up with a gasp, forgetting I wasn't supposed to infuriate him any further than he already was "Oh my goddess! Can I just for once understand what's going on?! When did my life become so confusing and... and..... I'm so lost and confused... and tired," I whispered the last bit weakly, unable to stop the tears and then I resorted to begging "make me understand please, at least just this one thing, please!" 

I noticed him become even more tense, but he didn't budge, he didn't display any emotion aside anger

And I hated the silence, I so much hated the silence that followed but I used the opportunity to gather myself, wipe my tears and pretend that my life was still in my control, "I'd like to see Patrick"

He raised an eyebrow and waited for me for to regain my senses

But I held on and chose to remain adamant "Now please," I stared at the door not giving him a chance to intimidate me out of this by looking into his eyes

"You know you're not in any position to be making requests right?" his voice was low "I saw you with Ethan,"

"He came to meet me at the garden,"

"So that was why you kissed him?"

I frowned, what was he babbling about now? I kissed Alpha Ethan, when and how?

"How was it?" he strolled towards the mini bar in the corner of his room and slowly began to pour himself a drink like it wasn't too early for alcohol, "Perhaps if you had kissed me too, I would've asked you whose kiss you prefer?"

I was sure I was looking at him as though he had grown a second head, but I didn't have the time to try and understand what he was saying. If he intended to hide me I might as well see Patrick one last time, I needed the closure "if you don't want to ask your guards to take me to Patrick, I guess I'll have to locate him myself."

He didn't stop me as I exited his room

They had returned him to the cell where I first met him, so finding him was easy

He stared at me, and I stared back, holding tightly the bars to his cell. His face a mixture of dried blood and tears

"Are you okay?" I asked softly

He smiled, "I've hurt you badly yet you still care if I'm okay or not...." a painful sounding cough interrupted him

"That was the first question you asked me when we first met," I reminded him

"The head servant had flogged you for forgetting to mop the hallways," his eyes held pain, probably reflecting the pain in my eyes

"I was crying and mopping and you saw me, took the mop from me and asked if I was okay. I fell in love with you right there and then," a sad smile crept up my face

"Aria......."

"Remember when the guards would use us as live targets during arrow shooting, I was always so scared, I dreaded Sundays, their training days. So every Sunday you and I sneak out to the mountains......."

"And swim naked in the crystal lake,"

"Surrounded by water lilies and lotuses." I looked up at him with watery eyes "I thought we found joy even in the sadest times? Wasn't that what made us us?" 

He tried to answer but I didn't let him, "You were my home Patrick, you weren't just my love, you were my life. Can you say the same Patrick?"

He sniffed, "I'm sorry Aria, I........'

"I said can you say the same Patrick?"

"I can, but I don't have the right to, I...."

"Did you ever love me Patrick?"

Fresh tears rolled from his eyes, "I did, Aria I promise I did. I just, I just let greed come between us. I wasn't happy Aria. What we were living at Silver moon wasn't a life. We didn't have lives......"

"But we had each other,"

"I know, but it wasn't.... it wasn't...."

"Enough. It wasn't enough. Why didn't you say something?"

"What could I have said Aria? How, how could I have said it?"

"You thought it better to sell me without looking back instead?" he didn't say anything to that so I continued "I wouldn't say I regret meeting you Patrick, you made life bearable for me and you gave me memories I wouldn't have ever dreamed of having. But I do regret not being enough for you like you were for me."

He opened his mouth to speak but in came a troop of guards, and they grabbed my arms. "We have to leave now, and have you hidden before he arrives." one of them tried to explain to me

'Before who arrives?' 

"What's going on? Be careful, you're hurting her." Patrick tried to intervene

While I didn't even struggle against my abductors, because at the end of it all, this was my life now.