My Big Bad Alpha

Chapter Forty-Four

Abigail
A few days had gone by since I had came home and I had slowly gotten better. My body was still sore and I was still getting headaches from time to time but things were getting better. My parents had gone back to their pack along with Melanie's parents, taking her with them. She was going to be going through some psychiatric help within the pack while being kept on lockdown. Honestly I was relieved that they had figured things out without me. I didn't want to be put in that position, I didn't want to be in the position I was in now. "You almost ready?" Jaxon asked. Looking up at him I smiled as best I could. He was taking me to see Jonah, we were going to decide together what happened to him and his mate. Jaxon has already spoken to him but he wanted me to hear what he had to say about what happened. After he had his breakdown taking Charlie I knew that there had to be some reason behind his helping Melanie and while I hated the fact that he had helped her kidnap me he also saved Charlie. I wanted to forgive him but it stung that he had a hand in my being hurt. To some degree I understood why he did what he did, he had found his mate. Jax had briefly explained what had happened to me once I had came home. He told me that the man was Jonah's mate and that he and Melanie had fooled around just shortly after she had rejected Luka. I was shocked, Mel seemed to be obsessed with Luka and suddenly it was as if she didn't care about him at all. Even if Jaxon had ever rejected me I would never find myself going to another wolf, ever. And there she was not even a month later with another man. I could only imagine how Jonah felt. His mate didn't claim him, swearing he wasn't gay and wanted nothing to do with him. It was heartbreaking and it made me begin to understand why he helped them, he wanted his shot at love. Just like any other wolf. Jaxon had Luka bring him up into his office so that I wouldn't have to go down into the dungeon, so we began to make our way there. "Whenever you're done talking to me just like me know okay? Even if it's only after a few minutes, I don't want you to feel scared." If I was in better shape, more like myself, I might have laughed. Jonah would never hurt me I knew that, no matter how tough he tried to seem he was my friend through it all and I knew around him I had nothing to be afraid of. Smiling softly I told him okay. He opened the office door to where Luka and Jonah already sat someone, probably Jaxon, had had him in presumably silver shackles. I sighed at the sight of them, looking at Jaxon i said. "Take then off please. Jonah isn't going to hurt me." Jonah looked at me and I could see the regret on his face, I knew that he didn't want to do it. "No it's okay Abi really if t makes him more comfortable it's fine." He said quietly. I contemplated arguing but deciding against it I sat down ready to hear everything that Jonah had to say to me. Nervous was an understatement, I didn't want to hear something that would make me change my mind on what I had already decided. We all sat in silence for a few minutes, until Jonah asked me how I was feeling. "Better. Still sore but I'm getting better everyday." I said trying to make him feel a little better about the situation. "I'm sorry. You have no idea how sorry I am, and I will never be able to fix this to the way things were but I want you to know how badly I feel." The tone of his voice hurt my heart, I knew I would be crying before too long. "What happened?" I managed to ask. There we sat for who knows how long as Jonah explained to me what had went on from the time Melanie had rejected Luka until he figured out that they had been lying to him. He told me how Melanie swore that she had no intentions to ever hurt me or Charlie, that was clearly a lie. We talked about how he met his mate and how he didn't want him. How all along all he wanted to do was help make his sister and himself happy, to have the kind of love that Jaxon and I had. And as I had predicted I was a crying mess before everything was said and done but thankfully nothing he had said made me want to change my mind about what I had previously decided to tell Jaxon I wanted as his punishment. Jaxon came over to hold me and was trying to calm me down before telling Jonah what we had discussed. "Do you want to go back up to our room?" He asked softly rubbing my back. I shook my head no and gathered my breath before leaning out of his hug and told him no. "Alright Jonah, as your Alpha and Luna we have decided to punish you how we see fit. You will be stripped of your title and left to work your way through the ranks before ever gaining a new position. You will be training the new shifters everyday until we decide otherwise. And lastly you will no longer be living in the main house, you will be living in a cabin on the outside of the boarder." Jaxon said motioning for Luka to take off his shackles. No one said a word for a few moments until after Luka had removed them and Jonah began to rub his red wrists. I knew that they had to hurt. "What about Chris?" He asked quietly clearly nervous. Jaxon tensed beside me, we had fought about it for a little bit. I thought that maybe he would come around and want to be with Jonah. Jaxon wanted to kill him. There was no way I would be able to let him do that, Jonah deserves to be happy and I couldn't let Jaxon ruin that chance for him. "He will be going back to his pack to be dealt with by his own Alpha." Jonah was clearly relieved, but he nodded. "Thank you. Both of you, I'm sorry." Unable to stop myself I moved from Jaxons side to hug him. Maybe now things would get back to normal.