Siren Alpha✔️ [A mmf shifter story]

Chapter Twenty: Heal Me

Twenty. My number! Now you know.
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Freya

8pm. Riley's room.

"Everest called."

"Cole's Beta? Since when does he call you? Can we trust him?" Riley asked.

"I trust him," Dustin replied. "He called me up and told me about the palm root. About how a shifter uses it for only two reasons. Shifter-pox. Mate fevers." He ticked them off his fingers. "You two have been having mate fevers." His eyes grew serious. "He also said that you could die from them."

"Okay. So now what? You're ready to be our mate? " Riley asked.

"If you'll have me."

Riley huffed. I knew what he was thinking. This was all too good to be true.

"Freya," said Dustin," I'm sorry about Sunday. The whole I can't love whoever keeps Riley thing. I do like you. A lot. You're beautiful and sweet and wild and so much more. I like you, believe me."

His eyes were sad. They reflected my own because I was sad too. He had hurt me. A lot. "Why did you say it?"

He was quiet. He did not want to lie to me. But I knew.

"You wanted to hurt me hurt me," I said softly.

Just like Riley had, Dustin had too.

I looked at Riley and he turned bashful, light-blue eyes studying the floor.

"Are you done hurting me?" I asked. I needed to know.

Dustin looked me in the eye. He said," I swear it on my life."

I believed him.

I fought back a smile. "You could hurt me again. Put your life on the line and I'm sure Riley will reap relentlessly." I chewed on my bottom lip. "I only ask that you never hurt me on purpose."

He nodded. "I promise you."

I rushed forward and I hugged him tightly. "Can I hug you?" I asked.

He laughed as he wrapped his arms around me. "Yeah. Yeah you can." He kissed my hair and I fell for him a little bit.

I leaned up and kissed him. My first kiss. I initiated my first kiss. It was sweet and slow. Shy tongues and soft fingers in hair. It made me feel light, even as bats flapped their huge wings in my belly. I pulled back and buried my face in his neck, smiling like a loon.

He smelled like chocolate.

Cinnamon came up behind me and joined the hug. Like me, he asked for the hug after giving it.

I wiggled, rubbing against them. "Is this the part where we mate and I get marked?" I teased.

Dustin chuckled and pulled away, his laugh strained. Riley heard it too because he tensed against me.

"Dustin?" Riley said his name so softly.

Dusting sighed and sat on the bed. "It's not you guys."

"Lemme guess: It's you?"

"When I was with Diana--"

Riley growled, but I saw that whatever Dustin was trying to say came from somewhere deep and dark within him. I nudged Riley and made him shush.

Dustin looked gratefully at me. Then he told us what was eating him up inside.

"My wolf...it went berserk. One minute I was there, next thing I know, she's screaming. Her arm is twisted, her fingers broken, she's bruised everywhere. She said I just lost it. She pressed charges. Mom had to pay her off. That's why she got so relieved when we told her Freya was in a relationship with you and not me."