My Alpha and Beta

Ch. 61 - Being One

Liam POV

I grabbed my little death goddess by her arm just as she hit the patio.

"Are you fucking stupid, Riley. Were you trying to get yourself killed? All of us killed?" I shouted in her face as I pushed her against the brick wall.

"Me? You're the asshole giving into a fucking psycho, who also happens to be some powerful demon." She pushed me hard in the chest, making me chuckle how it didn't budge me the slightest. She was so weak, and fuck, it turned me on so much. I was pissed at her, but also so fucking grateful she was alive.

"We all need to calm down!" Jax said, wiping the sweat from his face. He nearly shit his pants the second we noticed Demetrius was actually holding Riley's neck in his hand.

She was fucking gorgeous and that baby bump made her so desirable. I licked my lips, raking my eyes over her curvy little body. I couldn't stop the raging need inside me to pull her close, or to yell at her for being so stupid. She almost died, I almost lost her and my child. I can't lose them and she needs to learn how to protect herself.

"Stop looking at me like that. I won't fuck you! I hate you!" She screamed at me and I quickly grabbed her neck in my hand. I didn't squeeze hard though. She is pregnant with my child after all.

"You will fuck me anytime I ask. My little Ruby is a slut that can't help herself. Worse, you have a fucking mouth on you that begs to be punished." My eyes grew dark staring at her. Both rage and lust bubbled inside me. I wasn't playing any more games. I needed her and I needed him. I needed to feel my mates. Their warm bodies alive and connected to mine.

"Liam, don't hurt her."

"I wouldn't hurt her. You know that!" I shouted in Jax's face as my hand remained around her neck. I was tired of his weary looks. I knew he feared Maverick would harm her, but I would never do that, not even in a fit of rage would I harm her in any way she didn't want.

"Do I?" He challenged me with a hand to my wrist. "Let her go."

"No! She is mine. You are mine."

"We are, but you keep pushing us away. We do want you, but completely. Fight with us, for us, not against us." His eyes were navy blue as he looked at me with so much tiredness in them. Tiredness of me and my refusal to sentence our lives to death just to be together for a short time. I wanted a lifetime and I would take it any way we could have, alive.

"I can't do that Jax. I can't give you myself completely." I let go of Riley's neck and my hand wrapped around the back of Jax's neck, bringing our foreheads together. "You see the power Demetrius has. He will destroy our pack if I mark you or some human."

Why can't he understand that?

"It's only threats Liam. Once it's done, he won't kill all of us. He needs you and we can use that to our advantage until we can figure out a way to kill him. I'm not asking you to mark us anyways, just don't mark Lindsey." His voice was pleading with me and I so badly wanted to give into him.

"How don't you understand what a homicidal dick he is? He doesn't care about any of our lives. He kept us around as servants to fuel his ego. What is a god without worshippers?"

"We stick to the original plan. Kill Lindsey, then kill Demetrius."

"When we fail, he will kill us. Probably take Riley as some breeder to rape over and over until he figures out if she can give him a Lycan."

"He wouldn't kill you or her. He showed that hand to us already. For whatever reason he bends to the both of you." Jax moved closer to me and my hand around his neck softened, but we remained only inches apart. "We can fake her death! It will buy us more time. Kill Lindsey, then fake Riley's death during child birth."