The Abused Mate

Chapter 4

Claire's Pov

Jasper came, he's here, in front of me. My mate. My mate's here. But that happy dream of him taking me away from here was ruined as soon as I heard the voice I didn't want to hear.

"Whoever said you could come here and take our very own princess from us?"

My heart was pounding, I was as white as a ghost, and my dad was now standing behind Jasper. Shit. He was looking down at me and I whispered all he needed to know.

"Dad...", Jasper lay me up against a tree behind me and smiled, then he turned around and faced my dad fully.

"She's my princess now"

"Like I would let you just take my only daughter away from me. We've had our good times right Claire, why would you want to go with him when you have this pack?", he looked around Jasper and smirked at me.

"Your "good times" were when you were beating me and torturing me in that dark cell..." my voice got quieter as I kept talking and my eyes fell to the ground in front of me. The memories of those times flooding through my mind, enough for the tears I held back to start surfacing. One tear fell.

"I haven't seen you show any kind of emotion for what? 4 years now right? Yeah, when you lost hope of being taken away by your mate. I remember you shouting at me lots of times about how you would find your mate and leave with him when you were 12. Then you stopped about a year later, and then what? Believed he would never show and you'd be stuck here for the rest of your life with all of us keeping you company", he winked at me and I shivered in disgust. 

I slowly slid my knees up to my chest and curled up into a ball trying not to let my tears fall.

"There won't be any need to keep my mate company as she will be coming with me even if I have to fight you all for her" Jasper stood his ground and didn't back down one step as he rolled up his sleeves.

"Aren't you just the prince charming", I look up in time to see dad rolling up his sleeves and getting ready to fight. No he can't, he won't win, dad is ruthless.

"No don't, he'll kill you", I jumped in front of the two, facing Jasper.

"I won't let him kill you, I can't let him kill you...", I forced myself to look him in the eyes, and I couldn't hold the tears back, so tear after tear fell down my face. Jasper walked over to me and stood a mere inch away from me, his face leaned in close and he whispered very quietly.

"I'll be fine, I'm not going to go down without giving a good fight. Remember I said we were going to go home together. Just trust me...", before I could protest his lips were on mine in a soft kiss to silence, which it did. When he pulled away I was standing there frozen with shock and even my dad's voice didn't snap me out of it.

"Any time now love birds", Jasper pushed me lightly behind him. 

"Leo, look after her. If she gets hurt it'll be on you. Also to the rest of you, whatever happens do not interrupt", everyone said 'Yes alpha'.

"Yes, alpha" the one named Leo was right beside me in seconds and was helping me back to the tree I was leaning on and stayed close to me the whole time.

The fight between Jasper and my dad started and I was extremely terrified on what the outcome was going to be. Multiple different moments I was yelling and was going to run in just to be grabbed gently against Leo, I would fight against the hold but I would never break from it.

"Wow kid, you're strong. But not good enough", and within seconds my dad's fist smashed upwards into Jasper's stomach. I had gone limp in Leo's arms, just quietly crying, my tears falling and landing onto the dirt in front of me.