My Alpha and Beta

Ch. 77 - Choices

Liam POV

I woke from the sun burning over my eyes. My body was filled with both pleasure and pain. I looked to the woman laying beside me with a sigh. Lindsey was still sound asleep, peaceful and blissful. My mark laid on her neck and her womb filled with my seed.

I pulled my body to stand then walked to the bathroom. I turned on the tub then quickly washed my body as it filled. I didn't care much to look over Lindsey, but when she satisfied me, I needed to make sure she was taken care of. I wouldn't be an abusive or neglectful mate. Last night I made a choice and now she was mine. Most likely she was pregnant too.

I lifted her naked body from the sheets and slowly lowered her in the tub. I chuckled how she remained fast asleep as I washed her, then dressed her, then carried her to my room to lay under my sheets.

I laid beside her and my hand intertwined with hers. She was a good lover and a good Luna. I could grow to love her. I had to now.

My eyes closed as felt water gathering inside to spill over. One last time I will think of them, then I needed to do as Jax did and let them go.

I thought of the night I first laid eyes on Riley. She intrigued me and my wolf. I didn't even think to question the instant connection I felt to her. I just knew I needed to have her and so I did. We danced, we kissed, we drank, then we left for my hotel room.

I devoured every inch of her fragile body and never felt
pleasure like it before. Then I knotted inside her. I grunted at that memory. I knotted in Lindsey last night but it didn't compare to being inside Riley. Immensely pleasurable with both, but Riley was like a perfectly tight and wet hole that molded to fit every piece of me inside her.

Being inside Riley had Maverick clawing at my insides to mark her. I thought he was stupid and wanted to protect our children that would be impossible to create with a human. The asshole knew though. We were one, or more accurately Maverick was one with her.

Every day I spent with Riley the truth was staring at me in the face. I didn't want to see she was connected to me and now I wished I didn't know the real reason.

What if I did mark her and Jax marked me? Fate or not we would be bound together. It wouldn't be real though. Riley never loved me or wanted me the way she did Jax. As equal fated mates I could happily share her, but I couldn't be second. I couldn't find comfort knowing she was tricked to want me.

If Jax had got her Lycan all these years, Riley would have never considered touching me. That was the truth, a truth that gutted me from deep inside my own soul.

I yearned for her as laid in bed, then suddenly I felt as if I was holding her. She laid against Jax in the woods and spoke to me with a broken heart.

I thought it to be a dream and told her my truth and she told me hers. She said she hated me, but also loved me. The hate was real, the love was not. I held her one last time, thought of them one last time, then I let it all go.

I got out of my bed and headed to the kitchen. It was quiet and as much as I wanted to see Jax wrapped around her, I knew I never would again. He broke his link to my pack because he had no intentions of being a part of me ever again.

He would ask to talk over Danny's pack, then take Riley as his Luna. My daughter would still have two dads and one mom, but we wouldn't all live together.

I looked to the ceiling where Lindsey laid asleep. She was my mate, soon my Luna, and in seven months the mother to my second child. My heart sank at my future. It wasn't the one I wanted, but it was the one I chose.

'Demetrius is two hours from the pack.' One of my guards said.

'How do you know?'

'Jax sent units two hours out from the pack houses in every direction. He said to alert you of any movement.'