Her Alpha

Chapter 29 - A Heart's Betrayal

I know it's weird to put a Taylor Swift's song as soundtrack to a guy's P.O.V., but it inspired me to write the flashback, so bear with me. Love this song, btw ------------------->

I was going to post this only tomorrow, but I just found out I CAN do it from my phone, so... Here you go. 

I hope you like it...

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BRAD'S P.O.V.

--Flashback--

"...going on is to find my mate'? I want to keep him as my friend! And, besides, who would do something like that?" my heart broke right there. I couldn't believe what I heard. After two years, she was going to dump me to go search for a random guy she didn't even know. After all we'd been through.

I stood at her bedroom door, staring at her in disbelief. That room brought so many good memories of us. But those memories had become painful all of a sudden. "You're going after your mate?"

She turned around to face me really slowly, as if she was hoping I wouldn't be there when she did. Her face was all guilt. "Brad, I..." honestly, I didn't want to hear it. But still, I forced myself to. There was this little bit of hope in me, that she would deny what she had just said. That I had heard wrong... or only part of a conversation that had actually nothing to do with that. It was a stupid bit of hope.

Before she could go on, Kate spoke. She had that guilty, apologetic look on her face that told me she knew I was coming. She wanted me to hear that. So I wasn't wrong. "I'll leave you two alone."

Alexis sank in her bed as soon as she left, hiding her face in her hands. "I'm so sorry. I didn't want you to find out like that."

I put my guard up, not wanting her to understand the pain those words caused me, and just stood there, frozen. I could say I was in shock, but it wasn't true. I was just hurting too much to move. "Why didn't you tell me, Alexis? I could have at least tried to make the most of the little time I had left with you. Instead I was all busy with your patrol mission."

My mouth moved on its own. I actually didn't want to know. But she answered all the same. "I didn't know how to. I never meant to hurt you. I just wanted to find a way our friendship would survive this."

She looked up at my face, letting the tears stream down hers. I put on an emotionless mask. I would pretend I was okay. I would pretend I wasn't heartbroken like a girl. "I'm sorry Alexis. I love you, but after this... I don't think we can still be friends." I walked away after that, letting the pain wash over me. Maybe it was girlish, but I really was hurting a lot. I just loved that girl so much.

As soon as I was out of the house, I left the shift take over my body, searching for a way to ease the pain.

I just took off running, heading nowhere specific. I didn't care about anything at that moment. That was my mistake. I should have at least paid attention to the border line. If I had, I would never have crossed it, and it wouldn't have happened.

But I did go into Hunter territory. And it was there that I laid eyes on the most beautiful girl to walk the Earth. I knew straight away what was going on, when the love I had felt for Alexis was ripped clear off my heart, just to be replaced by something much more dangerous. The obsessive love for my mate. Her name popped up in my head as if she had whispered it in my ear. Helena. I had no idea how I knew, but I did.

--End of Flashback--

I buried my head in my hands, thinking about what I had gotten myself into over something as unimportant as Alexis's mate. I had tried to reject the mate pull, but it was an impossible task. The bond was too strong. So I had gone and talked to Helena. I had mated her. And look at what that caused.