An Alpha To Claim And Love

Chapter Three

After hours of trying to sleep, I eventually did at four thirty in the morning. I was tired and exhausted. My mind was jumbled up into a disaster of a mess making me give in to sleep.

But before I could completely fall asleep, my bedroom door had opened and quietly shut. Soft footsteps made towards my bed and the next thing I know, my bed had dipped down and big arms carefully draped over me, pulling me against the person.

"I'm so sorry," the familiar voice whispered as he kissed my head. Could it really be him? I couldn't open my eyes, because I was too tired. Maybe it was just granddad coming in to comfort me like he did when I was a kid. As much as I wanted to fight whoever it was, I just couldn't. I had no energy left for a fight so I snuggled closer to the warmth and drifted off to a deep sleep.

When I woke up that afternoon, I ended up staying in my clothes I had worn yesterday. Call me gross but who cares. I felt gross and out of place. My body seemed to be burning like I was on fire. Stumbling out of my room while using the walls around me for support I stopped in the hallway and heavily breathed.

"Shit," I cursed as my head was spinning and making everything around me turn.

"I just want to personally apologize for what I've done last night. I hope you can forgive me," the all too familiar voice apologized as I stilled in my tracks and turned towards the voice, no longer needing to use the bathroom.

"I don't know what you did to my baby doll David but you should have already known how much of a crush she has on you. You shouldn't have led her on like that. She's only seventeen! Lenny's turning into an adult soon but it gives you no right to do such a thing," granddad argued, his voice laced with stern and anger.

"Teddy, calm down. You're making the Beta feel bad," grandma tried to coo but it seemed it didn't work.

"My grandbaby had cried her eyes out for the first time in a long time and it wasn't because of her no good abusing mother or bastard of a father. My baby doll cried over a man whose older than her by eight years! Ten years Deanna!" He boomed loudly making my chest cave in and sink to the pit of my stomach. I can feel my knees shake from the lack of energy I have left in me.

Did grams just call David, Beta? No, maybe I'm just hearing this since I'm in no state of even keeping myself up. And did I really cry?

"David, you're a good man. You really are. You helped us out when no one could and I want to thank you for that. But when it comes to my grandbaby, I will have to step in as a father and stop all this before it hurts her any further. She is my responsibility until she becomes an adult. She may be young but she has a heart of a matured woman. Lenny's strong and had always a protection wall up to block out anything that'll ruin her."

"Seeing how broken she was yesterday after you left, had hurt me more than a hundred thousand knifes plunged into me. I have never seen her become..." Granddad's voice cracked as he stopped talking.

"Become so vulnerable and fragile," he softly said making my nose sting. I put my back against the wall. I can hear grams sniffling. "She was broken when she came to us and we fixed her day by day. And each day we fixed her, each day she became stronger. The stronger she had gotten, the more that little broken girl disappeared. She may have her problems and would never tell us how she really feels, but she got through it all and fought against the world."

"David...as a friend. Please, let her go," grandad pleaded with such sadness it broke me inside even more. What have I done? I shouldn't have tried to get an answer from him that day at the hospital. I shouldn't have shown any signs.

"I'm sorry Teddy but I can't," came his voice and my heart leaped and flipped. "I know it looks bad because of the age difference but all I can say is that I have the same feelings for her as she does me. I won't let her go just because you say so. Yes, I've made her mad. Yes, I've made her cry but that won't stop me."