The Alpha's Omega Mate-Chapter 132: Possibilities.

~Dahlia’s POV~

My hands shook as I fiddled with my fingers on my thigh, andI was even more skirmish when I noticed Alpha Kai’s strange red eyes following every of my movements like a hawk.

His face had hardened over the past few minutes, and now his eyes, the ones that once gleamed with warmth now radiated only iciness. He was enraged, that I was sure of, but there was no way in hell I would repeat the same mistakes I made with Alpha Zarek with him. There was no way I would allow him to dictate my life due to some stupid alliance that I couldn’t even remember anymore.

Right now, he may think I am an ungrateful person or something, and frankly, I do not care because it was way better than handing him my freedom anyways.

"Have you thought this through?" Alpha Kai’s voice came suddenly, snapping me out of my train of thoughts. I glanced up at him immediately and nodded.

"Yes, Alpha."

"I told you to call me Kai!" He gasped, sounding almost frustrated. Now, the veins around the corners of his neck popped in barely concealed annoyance. Again, I nodded. "You’re not one of my subjects! You are my mate."

"Okay." I replied hesitantly, still very unsure of that ’mate’ part.

I wa soon snapped out of my reverie again when I felt his hands on mine, and the heat searing from that singular contact made my face flame up. He drawled; "Dahlia, it’s not safe out there. Now, I’m not talking about werewolf packs or rogues, I’m talking about the human world that you’re so keen on visiting. There are thieves out there, slavers, raiders, even cursed healers... there are so many bad people out there, I can’t even name them! And they don’t have grounding rules like we do. Most of them are free to do whatever they want as long as they have some money, and there’ll be no Alpha or beta to save you."

"I know." I muttered, my head bowed.

"You know and you you want to go head first into that kind of world? Into a world where you don’t know what to expect? Where your daughter and you can be easily hurt?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because against those people you just mentioned, I can keep myself safe. However, I cannot protect myself from an Alpha who hates me or a Beta who wants my head."

"How?" He snapped, his eyes wild, his voice trembling with rage... and was that worry? "You don’t even know the evils that humans are capable of! Have you ever lived around any of them before?!"

For a minute, I snapped my lips together and thought about his words. I couldn’t remember the details due to how foggy my memories were, but sometime after my father was pronounced dead and the tyrant king took over his pack, I remembered living with some nuns at an orphanage. A place where homeless children like me had stayed until the tyrant king asked for me again some years later, shortly after I turned eighteen.

And by the gods, the humans in the orphanage were horrid!

So horrid that I’d been glad to return to my old pack despite the fact that I knew it now belonged to the man who killed my father.

So horrid that for several months after that, I still had nightmares of my stay in the orphanage.

But that was then, that was when I was still weak, young, still powerless even... it was the time when I couldn’t defend myself against my oppressors. The time when even the slightest sound scared me to my bones. Not now.

I looked up at Alpha Kai this time with conviction. I nodded; "Yes, I did after my parents died."

At the sound of my words, he glanced up at me, a flicker of something that almost seemed like pity fleeting past his gaze before he quickly masked it and sampled on a half smile.

"Dahlia, still..."

"I’d appreciate it if you don’t try to talk me out of it. I’d appreciate it if you let me go peacefully. Like I said earlier, I’m fine with pack activities. I’m done with being a werewolf— or trying to be one. I’m just tired and I cannot let my daughter go through everything that I went through."

Alpha Kai leaned in then, and for a minute, I almost thought that he would kiss me by how close his lips was to my face. By how his breath fanned my face like a lover’s caress. However, he pulled back in the last minute and decided instead to brush the hairs off my face carefully, his eyes soft.

My skin felt like it was lit on fire when his fingers continued to graze the curves of my face, lingering a second too long, staring a bit too hard. In confusion, my tongue darted out to lick my suddenly dry lips, and when his eyes trailed that movement, they darkened.

"Dahlia..." he rasped, his voice hoarse. "I want to keep you safe. I won’t hurt you. I never would, I promise. I’ve never seen you as anything but my equal and I’ll make sure to treat you as one."

Sweet heavens, I wanted to believe him. I wanted to lock each word he’s said to me somewhere deep inside my heart where no one could ever reach, but I couldn’t because deep down, I knew that this was faux— maybe not entirely— but it was only a matter of time before he went back on his words.

Before he begins to hurt me just like Alpha Zarek did.

I scrambled backward, causing his hands to fall from my face, but despite the pained look on his face, my mind was made up. I needed to leave.

"Please, Alpha Ka—"

"Kai!" He yelled exasperatedly, causing me to flinch back in surprise whilst hugging Amara tighter to my chest. "Kai! I asked you to call me Kai because you should! It’s not that hard, Dahlia! It’s just a single syllable, goddamnit!"

His reddened face accompanied with the way he seemed so flustered made an embarrassed blush creep up my cheeks. I turned away from him, dropping my head in surrender, but that seems to rile him up because then he groaned.

"And you should look me in the eyes, Princess. I don’t know how you were treated wherever you’re coming from or the hardships you’ve faced in the past, but I want you to know that it’ll be different here. And I want you to look at me whenever you talk to me because we’re equals. Hell, you might even be stronger than I am!"

Something about his words made me chuckle. I shook my head at him, smiling as I said; "You know that’s impossible."

"Well, I know so much about you, you can’t even begin to imagine. So believe me when I say you may be stronger than I am. Okay, I take that back. You are stronger than I am."

Usually, that would’ve sounded like a joke to me, but for some reason, it didn’t. My fingers trembled slightly at the thought of him knowing about my pretty little secret, but before I could ponder too much over it, he shrugged.

"So I cannot make you stay?"

"No, you cannot." I whispered shyly.

"Really?" He mused, his voice hoarse. "Even if I say I may know something about your father?" He continued, but still, I shook my head.

"No. I’m sorry. But he’s dead. Whatever it is that’s about him should remain dead too."

"What if I say I suspect that he never died?" Alpha Kai asked suddenly, causing my breath to hitch as I turned to face him. My heart soon began to hammer frantically against my chest like a bird seeking escape and my throat instantly dried up as I took several painful gulps.

That isn’t true... that cannot be true.

"You don’t get to play with me like that." I cried, my voice breaking. It may have been several years since my parents demise but I was sure as hell that I’ve still never gotten over it.

The pain was still so deep. Still raw. Still bleeding, and I would not sit here and listen to Kai while he intentionally tried to reopen each wound I’ve tried so hard to bury.

Maybe it was due to the fact that I was never given a chance to mourn them. Maybe it’s because I never got to se their corpses. But—

"His corpse was never found. And I know this because my parents tried to find it, and failed. Countless times."

I gulped, a bile forming at the base of my throat. "He was stabbed and pushed off a cliff by the tyrant Alpha." I croaked out, the color draining from my face when Kai shook his head.

"But he was never found at the foot of the cliff, Dahlia, even when Alpha Logan, the tyrant Alpha like you love to call him, sent search parties to go look for him."

"Kai, what are you—?"

"What I am saying is, he was never found. Even until now. So there’s a possibility that he was never killed. Maybe terribly injured, but not killed."