secrets

secrets

Alpha Maximus POV

There are decisions that need to be made about the pack and the pack land. I am the Alpha of the north pack lands, and I have responsibility. Do I let it go to one of my wolves and come here? Do I relinquish everything and be her mate and the Alpha of my father’s pack? What is left of it? I must tell Marcus what is going on here. I cannot wait to hear what he will have to say.

I hear Char and Mallory talking with a few of the she-wolves that came down with my pack. She sounds happy, and she is laughing. Did I do that? Did I make her happy? I am not sure about that. Every time we sit down to try to eat a meal together, somehow I manage to upset her, but now maybe we can finally figure out this mate thing between us and move forward with rebuilding.

I pull my phone out of my pocket, and here goes nothing. I call Marcus. He picks up the phone and immediately begins screaming at me. “What the fuck are you doing?” he screams into the phone.

“I am not listening to this,” I say. I hang up the phone. We can have that conversation later. My phone rings, and it is Marcus.

“Hello, brother,” I say. He takes a deep breath.

“It is true that you are sleeping with your brother’s wife?” he asks me.

“No, she can barely be in a room with someone, and she is still very fragile,” I say. This is true, and I have not slept with her, only hold her hand and kissed her. My wolf begins thinking about her and growling. I cannot do this right now.

“Raymond told me that he saw you and Kayla hugged up together,” Marcus says.

“I will be sending Raymond back to you today, number one. I do not need a spy. Got it? Number two, I did hold her when she was crying, not that I owe you an explanation about anything. Number three, I am thinking about moving back home and helping her run the pack because Marcus, Kayla is my mate!” I scream at him.

Marcus begins screaming and throwing a tantrum. “You do not deserve anyone after what you did to that poor girl, Nancy. That is why you were sent away permanently after your last visit home, was it not? You are poison Alpha Maximus, a murderer, and you do not deserve the pack land or Kayla. I doubt she is really your mate. Did you con her to get the pack land and use her?” Marcus screams.

Marcus will always hate me because he was friends with Nancy. He felt I killed her. I did not, but that is how he felt. If he only knew what really happened, he would know it was not my fault. And as far as never coming back, after that, I did not want to come back here. I had no reason to, but now I want to be here with her. I do not need to con anyone to get the pack land because I am the oldest, it is mine, but I am choosing to give it to Kayla as a gift.

I look behind me to see Luna Kayla standing behind me, crying. “She heard you. We are linked because we are mates,” I say.

Marcus goes silent. “Goodbye, brother,” he says.

Marcus hangs up the phone. Luna Kayla embraces me. “You are damaged more like me than I thought,” she says.

She has no idea how badly I am damaged because of my parents and my brothers. I will never say anything bad about Soran to her. He was a good man, but there were dark things here and a dark moment when Soran could have turned down the wrong path, and I am sure I would have been blamed for it.

“I was thinking, if you are up for it, that maybe we could do something together, like a date. We should get to know one another if we are going to be mates, right?” I ask her. She smiles the biggest, most beautiful smile I have seen on her face since bringing her here with me. Her eyes are even smiling at me.

“A date? I do not think I have ever been on a date before. My parents were strict, and then I was promised to someone, so I did not date or ever really go anywhere,” Luna Kayla says.

“Well, I can plan it. Is there anything that you would like to do that you have never done before?” I ask her. I can hear her thoughts, and her thoughts are running crazy.

“You know we have a lot of time to date and do things until you are ready to be my wife,” I say. I stop. Did I just say that? Ready to be my wife? That is what will come next. I cannot just move in with her and expect her not to want to be married. I will have to marry her.

She touches my hand. “Do not be scared. We have a long time before we get to that point,” she says.

Where did this amazing woman come from to be so loving and understanding after everything she experienced at the hands of that bastard Alpha? At that very second, I knew where I wanted to take her and what I wanted to do with her on our first date.

“I will take care of our first date, and you can handle our second date, deal?” I suggest. She smiles at me, leans into me, and kisses me on the lips. I look over as I take her into my arms and see Marcus’s wolf, Raymond.

“I need to handle something,” I say to Luna Kayla. I walk over to Raymond, who is standing at a distance. I extend my hand and shake it. He looks at me oddly. With my other hand, I ball up my fist and punch him in the face.

“Get the fuck back to Marcus and as far away from me as possible,” I say. Raymond hits the ground, and I turn to walk away.

“I guess you forgot that Nancy was my sister, and you killed her,” he says as I walk away. I turn back to him. I rush to him and pick him up by his collar.

“I did not kill your sister, but believe what you want. Ask Marcus who her mate was and who killed her for rejecting him and choosing me. ASK MARCUS!” I scream at him. I drop Raymond on the ground.

“Why don’t you tell me?” he asks me.

“Because I do not speak ill of the dead,” I say. As I am walking away the second time, I remember that Luna Kayla can hear my thoughts. I hope she is not listening. I will tell her everything about Nancy someday, but it is not right for me to soil anyone’s name right now. I will not do it.