The rightful Alpha

"Hello." I am hesitant to say anything else as I don't know who else is with her, but my mother recognizes my voice immediately and bursts out crying. "I'm ok. I really am."

I reassure her, but in fact, I start crying too. All the pain that this mess has caused everyone that I love. All this pain that they didn't deserve just because I was naive and I thought I could trust him. He showed me who he was. For all our lives, he showed me time and time again who he is as a person and I was stupid enough to think that the mate bond would miraculously transform him into something else.

"Is it her?" Someone asks in the background, but my mom can't answer through the sobs so she just passes the phone. "Rose? Oh, my dear, are you alright? Are you safe?"

Her voice is weak and she's on the verge of tears too. It takes me a bit until I can answer.

"Yeah. I'm safe now. It's a long story." I manage to explain in between loud sobs and I hear her sigh in relief.

"Are you hurt? Do you need anything? To