The Alpha & Beta's Mate (MXW)

Holy Moon Goddess

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***Demetri's POV***

My heart stammered. I turned around, confusion flooding the breath straight from my lungs. As I watched, as if in slow motion, the beauty walked right passed me with a blinding smile adorned on her perfect face. Her stare locked on my Beta. To say I was shocked, would be an understatement. What the fuck is happening right now? My wolf was clawing at me to get out and rip my brothers pretty little head right off his 6'5" frame.

I backed away and slipped around the edge of the garden, absolutely stunned. I couldn't breathe, my breath was literally dancing in front of me, my body begging me to chase it, to return the source of its life to its vital organs.

My mind was running a triathlon. I took a large intake of air in, praying to the Moon Goddess that I could decipher what just occurred.
I peeked around the corner, to see if I had missed something. Low and behold, my brother was wrapped around that gorgeous female nuzzling his nose into the crook of her perfectly smooth neck. I was losing my fucking mind.

Once the wind shifted and the air cleared of her scent, I started to think straight-ish. Running scenarios thru my head, as to what in the name of all things Holy was actually going on.

My brother and I had just claimed the same woman as our mate. To be honest, I'm not sure he even realized what had transpired. I took off towards the forest. I needed a minute. Renzo was absolutely going ballistic, a migraine forming with every second that passed. I got to the tree line, stood behind a tree and stripped before I shifted and took my astonished ass on a run.

I ran for a good hour. Trying desperately to calm Renzo down. He was just not gonna hear a word I said.

"Mate!" Renzo said. "Go get mate, NOW," he roared in my head.

"Renzo" I said trying to calm him, "there's an explanation for this, there has to be. I can't just go ripping Alex apart without an explanation."

"MATE" he growled again, my body trembling as my wolf was trying to rip his way out.

"Renzo just fucking listen to me buddy, there's been a mistake. She's Alex mate. You saw the way they looked at one another. The Moon Goddess doesn't make mistakes buddy. Just try to calm down."

Renzo pitched himself a very annoying puppy fit and whimpered as he folded himself into the back of my mind. Oh great! Here we go. The big baby was gonna give me the damn silent treatment.

After Renzo decided on a simpatico, I reached my clothes and got dressed again before steeling my nerves and walking back towards the house. The party had moved inside and I quietly let myself back in thru the kitchen.
The scent of my brothers mate seeped into my nostrils doing absolutely nothing to help me keep a straight head. This is gonna be a long three days.

As I rounded the corner to head back to the family room, Alex headed towards me with a look of desperation. I looked straight into his identical grey eyes and he mind linked me in haste.

"Demetri?" He pleaded.

"Alex?" I deadpanned.

"Can we talk outside, please" he begged.

I nodded and walked back to the garden with him.

"Look" Alex started. "I'm pretty sure I just heard both of us call, Alisa, mate"

Ah so the stunner was named Alisa. I didn't know if that was the most fitting name for her, but hell who am I to judge?

"Yeah Alex I know" I huffed dejectedly.

"Demetri, I'm not sure what's going on, but I won't let a mate get in between us." Alex whispered.

Guilt! Fucking guilt. I felt it crawl up my body like a poisonous spider. Lapping at my skin like a dehydrated camel. My heart was stuttering as my brother was standing before me pleading with me over his mate. I wasn't having this bullshit. I would rather die as silver slowly infiltrated my body, then watch my brother sacrifice another thing to make my life easier. I knew what I had to say, and because I knew Alex, I would have to let it flow out of me like a dying man's last breath.

"Alex?" I said.

He looked at me with the sorrow of a mother who lost her only child.

"Alex, she is your mate, there is no choice to make. I love you. Go enjoy what the Moon Goddess has given to you."

I almost thought he would listen. Almost.
"No Demetri, you can have her. The Moon Goddess made a mistake. She's yours!" He said with a trembling vibrato.

Oh, hell to the no. We are not doing this. He will not make me. I did something I absolutely do not do, unless completely warranted. And this time it is warranted!

"Alexander Nathan Scott, get your ass in there and claim what is rightfully yours." I boomed in my Alpha tone, leaving no room for comment or discussion.

He snapped out of his desperate state and looked at me with a blaring grin.

I watched as he returned to my mate, I mean his mate.

Oh boy, this is gonna be difficult.
My heart was pinching but oddly enough I felt like things could be worse. Now if I could just get Renzo on the same page. That's gonna be fun, said no one EVER!

I headed back into the family room once again, hoping no one understood what had just happened. I rejoined the group of people and bit my bottom lip in thought before Alex introduced me to his mate, Alisa, formally.
I took her hand and gave her a smile. Letting her know that I accept her as our future Beta Female.

Awk-warrdddd! That's what was happening. A huge shit storm of I can't believe this is my god damned life right now. Oh how the Moon Goddess must be seething at me now....

We stood around chatting for what seemed like absolutely forever, before I excused myself to the suite that Alpha Carter and Luna Elise has so kindly assigned me too. Once I was behind closed doors, I did a thorough job of flipping the fuck out.

My hair looked like someone had ran a leaf blower straight over it. I had yanked and pulled my fingers thru it too many times to count. My head felt like someone had compressed it in a damn vice. I was going mad.

There's no away around it, no explanation for the intense gnawing I was feeling straight in my precious little food storage unit. If you can be perfectly insane, I was the valedictorian of my class. And yet, I wasn't quite so upset that Alex was with Alisa and I was not, I was more upset that somehow the Moon Goddess let that traitorous word slip from my lips.

Instead of continuing to assault my luxurious jet black hair, I decided to do the only thing I was capable at that moment. Sleep! I laid down on the silk adorned king size bed and closed my eyes. Praying for a reprieve from the deafening silence of my wolf less soul, I willed myself to take a very insignificant nap.

***A/N

I am constantly correcting my editing mistakes. However, I am not changing the story. Thank you for bearing with me.