Alpha's Runaway Mate

On A Rampage

10

Mirabel

I woke up to the ray of sunlight beaming on my face through the curtains. My eyes took time to open up, I kept blinking at the media wall in front of me. How long had I slept? And when did I come here? I looked down at my clothes and they were changed. I gradually remembered dozing off in the car. Did Maximus bring me into my room and change my clothes?

No. He would never do this. He never had crossed limits. He never...

But he kissed me.

I touched my lips and recalled how his lips came onto mine in a blink of an eye. He never made such a move before. He never even called anyone his mate before. I was told mate was only said by partners. Why did he behave so strangely last night? I had to find out.

I leapt out of my bed and went to the bathroom to change. When I got out of there, I found Katrina putting a grey body-con dress on the bed. She turned to me as soon as I shut the door.

"Oh here you are, did you sleep well?" Katrina came to hug me out of habit. I smiled and hugged back, nodding. The moment she pulled back with a warm smile, I rubbed my hands while toying with the right words to ask. "What's wrong?" I knew it was on my face.

"I...I wanted to know who changed my...my clothes," I asked hesitantly, hoping she would take her name. Her expression morphed from worried to amusement.

"Alpha brought you to your room and Sarah changed your clothes, I am amused you didn't even stir, such a deep sleeper you are," Kat revealed, puffing soul back in me. I couldn't process the kissing and mate-calling incidents, how would have I processed him seeing me semi-naked?

"Yeah, my bad, I fell asleep in the car. That party tired me out," I replied truthfully. Wearing heels occasionally can be feet-creakingly tiring.

"It was your party, you were supposed to get tired, nothing to feel bad. By the way, I came here to tell you to get ready. We have some company expected," She told me and I indirectly asked her with a faint frown. "Some officials from other packs wants to visit Alpha before they leave,"

"Oh," That made sense. "I will get ready soon." I nodded and took the dress from the bed. I liked meeting new people. For sixteen years of my life I thought a few hundreds of people that I knew in the boarding house were only the people in this world. I ran away and met this pack, I was shocked to meet new faces. There were so many people with different kinds of hair, eyes and skin tone. This world outside of the house had to offer me so many and it took me years to learn about it.

"Take your time, princess. You need to look gorgeous," Katrina uttered with a slightly bantering tone, conveying a message that I was confused to understand. I chose to ignore it and clear my head with him after lunch. Without further ado, I started getting ready for the day.

In twenty minutes I was done and so did Sarah come to inform me about their arrival. I gave myself a last look and quickly ran my fingers to fix my detangled strand. After that I went out to the giant living room where guests were standing.

Alpha Maximus was greeting them when I joined. They were a family of six. Three women, three men. One couple was old and I concluded he was the alpha with his Luna and the rest were either his children or couples. I placed my hands on my thighs and began walking close to them. They registered my presence. The old man who I assumed Alpha passed me a smile along with Luna. I responded to them with the same kindness.

"It is a pleasure to meet..." Alpha extended his hand. I blinked at the hand in anticipation of whether to take it or not.

"Mirabel," Only not to embarrass my Alpha I quickly considered taking his polite gesture with equal politeness. But somehow I felt a hot gaze scorching my skin. When I peaked at Maximus, I found him glaring at our hands. I awkwardly retreated my hand and gave him a big fake smile.

"I know, we briefly met yesterday," He reminded and then I recalled meeting him when I was looking for Maximus. Hence I never got his name. "Also you met my family as well. This is my lovely wife, Miranda, daughter, Zoey, daughter in law and two sons, Kayson and Liam," I carefully heard him introducing his family. The two beautiful young ladies were offering me radiant smiles, I couldn't hold back and broaden mine. But when my eyes landed on the boys, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous. They both were smiling at me as well but their sharp gaze gave me a giddy feeling in my stomach.

"Shall we sit, Alpha Brown?" Maximus brought me out of the trance. I looked at him but he wasn't paying attention to me rather glaring at the two boys who seemed older than me.

I took the seat next to Maximus to feel safe. The aura of the room had changed drastically for me. The way those boys were looking left me with apprehension. Before I knew my hands were sweaty. I couldn't concentrate much on the ongoing conversation, just kept smiling for the sake of this meeting. After some time the butler came in to call for food. Everyone went to the dining table except I went in the kitchen to waive off the heaviness clouding my mind.

I started helping the chefs with the dessert. I was good with desserts. People often asked me to make them different sweets. I would gladly flaunt my baking skills.

As I was putting the pan in the oven, I heard a commotion coming from the living room. Before anything could make sense, I was running toward the room only to find Maximus hurling the boy Kayson to the wall. He banged him on the huge painting of his grandfather, not caring the boy was terrified to his guts. Everyone was shocked.

Maximus tossed him on his ground and pounced on him to deliver a neck breaking punch. I put my hands on my mouth but the hitch already escaped. He was punching him as if an evil spirit had possessed him.

"Alpha, stop," Callum stepped ahead to intervene but Maximus snarled and glared at him. His eyes were golden again, meaning his wolf had taken over. I wondered what angered him to act this way.

He kept punching until the boy passed out and Alpha Brown came to rescue his son. Three men were holding Maximus. Alpha Brown kneeled to his son, holding and watching his wounds bleed. His family was devastated by the incident that just happened. The boy's elder brother stomped ahead to hit Maximus but before he could reach him, our guards seized him.

"You hit him for a bitch? What is she to you, your whore? You motherfucker fight me, I will rip you apart," Liam insulted on Maximus.

Maximus thundered and pounced ahead to beat him. Even the men couldn't resist his strength. Before anyone knew he was down Liam's throat and everyone panicked.

"Let's get you out of here," Katrina held my arm and dragged me out. I was shivering in her hold. I had never seen Maximus this furious before, he looked like someone who was adamant on taking a life. What for?

"What is happening? He will kill him." I asked her reluctantly. We reached my room in a hurry. Katrina shut the door and made me sit in the bed.

"This shouldn't have happened." She held her head and mumbled to herself.

"What?" I asked again. She huffed.

"The boy made a comment on you. Alpha couldn't bear it," Katrina said. I frowned.

"What comment?" But before she could reply. Jennifer barged in the room, panicking.

"Both the boys have died. Alpha killed them,"