The Alpha’s Substitute Mate

Malcolm

My heart was beating so fast in my chest, I didn’t need any damned seer to tell me she had left. I felt it. Everyone in the pack felt it when Luna severed her link with the pack” I felt its sharp pain in my gut, but the pain I felt deep in my chest was far worse. It ruptured through my chest and left my heart in ruins. I grabbed a handful of hair roughly, this can’t be happening. Where are you, Isabella?

I can’t lose her, I can’t stand the pain of not having her close to me,” I mumbled to myself and staggered out in the hallway, holding my aching stomach.

Just then Arden came out of his room, ” Where is she?” he screamed to no one in particular in the hallway.

My gaze traveled to him. I was about to speak when a woman obviously the whore he had spent the night with, came out of the room and tried to wrap her arms around him “It’s good she’s gone Alpha, you don’t need her, remember I’m here for you,”

“You slut!” Arden turned his rage on the half-naked woman who was on her bra and panties clinging to him like a beehive.

” This all your fault?”

” My fault? Are you for real? How is it my fault when we both spent the night of passion together?” She replied with a sarcastic expression on her face.

I watched as Arden grabbed her by the neck, and threw her across the hallway and she fell flat on her face. A part of me wanted to intervene because she’s a woman and Arden could be so ruthless and he doesn’t know how to be gentle with a woman.

But I could not forget the fact that this slut had caused Luna so much pain and grief. I looked away and ignored them.

I watched as Arden moved close to where she had curled up like a little mouse and was now shivering in fear.

“Kneel” He spoke in a commanding tone and she hesitated. Immediately his hand went to her neck and he pinned her to the wall, choking the life out of her. Tears burned her eyes and she sank her knees to the ground. He leaned down still holding her and he pierced his sharp long nails into her neck making her bleed. She cried out in pain as her blood started dripping slowly from her neck.

” P…please Alpha, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please” She cried out as pain seared through her.

He didn’t blink an eye ” When I tell you to kneel, you do it immediately. You must follow my command, you slut, and do anything I say.” He snarled

” You dare not speak to me that way. I’ll spare you this time but next time you try it, I will rip your head off from your neck.” He removed his hand from her neck, turned away from her, and walked toward Bella’s chamber.

” Where is she?” He growled and smashed her bedroom door.

” She’s gone, you god-damned bastard, you aren’t gonna find her in there.” I snapped angrily at him.

“What do you mean she’s gone? She can’t be gone, I own her.” He bellowed and flipped over the bed as if he was going to find her underneath it.

” You are a fucking asshole, Arden,” I growled, panting hard, trying to control the rage rushing within me.

He stared blankly at me and his emerald green eyes shifted from me back to her chamber and he yanked all the drawers out of the dresser and emptied the clothes on the floor. ” Her clothes are still here?” he said, his voice sounding almost hopeful. He yanked open her closet door ” More clothes, and luggage are still here, she can’t be gone. Look at all her stuff, they are still here, she can’t be gone,” he looked at me like he desperately wanted me to reassure him that she was around somewhere in the pack. My eyes caught on something in the bedside drawer and I couldn’t shake off that feeling of dread that enveloped me. Arden’s eyes followed mine and he jumped over the ruined bed and grabbed the envelope from the drawer.

He flipped it over and dumped its contents on top of the bed, her wedding ring, debit card, and a piece of paper fluttered out.

He snatched up the paper and read it once quickly then a second time more slowly, before he crumpled it and let out a mournful howl and he couldn’t even mask the fear that pushed forward in his eyes.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

His sudden reaction was confusing and I could feel the pain, the fear, the rage, and everything in between radiating off him.

I felt like punching the living daylight out of him. “What the heck are you doing Arden, how can you even pretend to be sad that she’s gone? You treated her like trash while she was here with you. What did you expect her to do? Just keep taking all your nonsense?” I gaited closer and yelled furiously at him.

” Shut the fuck up!” he growled and crumbled the note and threw it on the floor.

” I will mobilize a search team immediately, they will find her and bring her back to me. She’s mine..” He pushed past me and walked out into the hall.

I sighed sadly, I couldn’t deny it, it hurt so badly. It was a gruesome pain. Like I had been stabbed straight in the heart. I could feel the corners of my eyes darken with extreme emotions that entirely shook my whole body. All I ever wanted at the moment was to be close to her.

I leaned down and picked up the ring, the card, and the crumbled note. I opened the note and glanced over the letter that was addressed to Mum. I put the things back in the envelope.

Something didn’t feel right, the letter was only addressed to Mum, and she didn’t even mention my name.

“Could it be that she didn’t feel the bond between us?”

“Ohh, Goddess, I would die if anything happens to Bella. Nothing mattered in my life if she wasn’t next to me. I needed her badly.