Page 117 of A Broody Mate for the Human

I’m not sure how to react to seeing my sister, but fortunately she knows. Esme rushes towards me and hugs me. “I’m so glad you’re alright,” she blurts out. “We were worried sick. You disappeared, and Stella couldn’t track you anymore.”

Suddenly, I can feel my head spinning as the images and the pain start overwhelming me again. I grasp my head, groaning in pain.

“What’s happening?” Esme gasps.

“His mind opened itself,” Stella mutters. “There is no going back anymore.”

I can feel Dave hurrying to my side, his warm hands grasping my arm. “Allow it to happen,” he whispers. “It’s alright.”

He is still in her bed, the young omega wolf, together with her. What the fuck? She is promised to another man. She can’t lie here with this guy, a wolf of such a low rank, to add insult to injury. We’re dead. If anyone ever finds out, we’re dead. I can only see red. “What the hell did you do?” I yell.

Esme jumps out of her bed, shielding her mate from me. “It’s not his fault,” she blurts out.

My eyes fall on her marked neck. “Are you stupid!?” I yell, stomping closer to her and slapping her. “The alpha is going to kill all of us.”

“What does it matter?” she cries while her mate seems to wake up from his trance. There is anger flashing in his eyes because I have hurt his mate. At any other moment, I would commend an omega wolf for taking it up with me… someone with alpha blood, the future beta of the pack. But not today. When he lunges at me, I grab him by his neck, smashing him against the wall.

“You marked her,” I growl. “She wasn’t yours to mark.”

“She is mine,” he gurgles, clawing at my arms.

Esme is next to me, hammering against my arms. “Let him go,” she cries.

“You’ve sealed our death,” I hiss.

“I would have been dead anyway,” she yells. “Or did you never wonder why Alpha Troi is so desperately searching for a mate for his old ass beta!?”

“What…” her words pull me out of my fury, and my head snaps to the side to look at her.

“He killed his own fated mate,” she sobs. “And his former chosen mate. I tried to tell you over and over again, but you wouldn’t listen. What do I care if the alpha kills me? I would rather die right here, right now, then be mated to that monster.”

I stare at her, looking at her properly again for the first time in months. She grew so thin, and there are bags under her eyes. Her cheek where I struck her is a stark contrast to her pale skin… flaming red.

What the hell did I do?

I let go of her mate, letting him drop to the ground. She rushes past me and towards him while he gasps for air.

What the hell did I do?

I turn on my heels, walking out of her room and out of the house.

“Raphael!?” she calls after me.

I open my eyes shortly, noting how I’m in an unknown room. Dave and the others must have brought me inside.

“I’m here,” Dave reassures me and slips closer to me. He takes my hand in his again. “I won’t leave.”

I nod, closing my eyes again.

“Esme Hayes has betrayed us,” Alpha Troi yells through the phone. Next to him I can hear the voice of his disgusting beta. “Bring her to me, or you and your pack will pay for her.”

How the fuck did they find out so fast? It’s barely been half an hour since I left Esme and her mate. They must have had spies on her.

My own alpha is furious. It’s then that I make the deal with him that I will be the one to end my sister instead of having one of his men do it. I tell him I want to clear my family’s name by doing the deed.

Away from the alpha’s eyes, I run back to the house, ripping open Esme’s door. She has helped her mate up by now, and they are both dressed more decently. “Come,” I yell, grabbing her wrist. I turn to the young man. “You too!”

“Raphael, where—”