The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 50: Mask of truth or lies .Mattel shook his head in disgust, it’s only been a month, he thought, I’m not even in the hospital yet.After that overwrought paragraph, the author wrote:If you have any tips or information, call the number 917-334-3456 “This is a disaster”, Mattel muttered, he cursed Maura involvement in this case.He could have brought Damien with him on this search but he was busy with the attackers that were trying to infiltrate his kingdom.And so the article was a disaster. But it worked.Tips poured in over phone and email, along with letters from other alphas and betas expressing condolences for his pain. Mattel had to open a spreadsheet to track all the data he got.On Friday, a black car with tinted windows drove up and stopped in front of Mattel’s house.“Hello,” the man introduced himself in a cool, unemotional voice, “I’m Agent Smith, an OCS representative sent to help assist you in this case”. The man wore a black
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 51: a fear to be caged .Regina flipped through the pages of the newspaper in growing horror. She had never slept with a teacher to get good grades. She hadn’t even known, until puberty that she was an omega. She didn’t know anything about werewolves existing until her mother told her. She grew up living in the human world until they went back to werewolf territories and her mother married her stinking step father.So what was this article talking about trying to diminish her reputation like this? “You believe this?” Regina asked him incredulously.Felix looked preternaturally calm, “It explains a lot Regina . Like how you’ve been wearing long sleeve shirts in this warm 18 degrees (Celsius) weather. Because you’re hiding your Korsakoff’s gland that marks you as a mated omega. And of course, you’ve been ill, bonding sickness. And when you kissed me, that made you sick too right? Is all of this just a game to you, Regina?” Felix asked quietly
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 52: never enough .Regina looked at the skyscrapers that dotted the sky, listening to the blares and beeps of traffic from her hotel in Montevido. Well, 5 star hotel, because Regina enjoyed the little things. Hotel Sofitel Montevido was a wonder and a beauty. Outside, the casual observer was overwhelmed by the slightly gothic architecture, the smooth white walls, and the innumerable painted glass windows. Sitting in this bed, with its Egyptian cotton high thread count sheets, and looking at the artistically slanted roof, Regina could almost imagine that the last month had been a nightmare; that she was still in the human world with her mum, back in the lap of luxury where she belonged. She could tell herself that she was in Uruguay for a business trip to bring some new clients into the firm. If she closed her eyes and tried, she could almost ignore the noxious scent of omega that wafted from her skin, overpowering the gallons of alpha spray
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 53: desire for freedom.As Felix spoke, Mattel held onto every word, filling in the cracks in his picture of Regina.And for the first time ever, Mattel felt a stutter in his chest. It took him a second to realize what that feeling was.Alphas did not grow up feeling very insecure. As a child he had been groomed to believe that as an alpha from one of the richest, most respectable families in the royal family, he was on the top of the world. He carried himself with an arrogance that was almost palpable to the cursory observer. If you had ever asked him about whether his omega would like him before this fiasco, he would have scoffed.“My omega will be grateful to be with me. He or she will worship the ground I stand upon,” Mattel would have stated.But obviously that was not true. Regina didn’t even want him.What had Regina seen in Felix, Mattel wondered, that she did not see in me?He knew Felix was not smarter than him. He certainly wasn’t
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 54: Destination? .Regina stumbled into the discount store, her head spinning from blood loss, shivering. The pain in her head had gone away, replaced by an aching emptiness as her body listed to the side like a drunk or a blind man. As she stumbled along down one alleyway, a man clothed in a ratty gray jacket and dirty pants with unkempt black hair stared at her suspiciously. Regina met the man’s eyes for a moment and then looked away. She walked into the convenience store. The tiny store had a cracked black and white tiled floor, yellow walls and a man who stood behind a plexiglass window. It was a small tacky store, air smelling vaguely of cigarette smoke, despite the fact that smoking in public places had been illegal in Uruguay since 2006.This neighborhood wasn’t inhabited by people who gave too many shits about laws.And Regina, well, she was the biggest lawbreaker of them all.She approached the man behind the plexiglass window. In
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 55: dead, gone, forever..MattelIt was horrible. It took him three hours to get out of Buenos Aires, partially because Agent Smith insisted on proceeding through traffic with a line of black armored cars to show the “might of the OCS”. While Mattel understood that the OCS was interested in using his case as a masterful political stroke, he felt like this was too much.Mattel growled at the Agent again, “Didn’t you say compulsions get weaker as time passes?”The Agent laughed, “I said weaker, not totally ineffective. Most omegas have never learned to resist compulsions. There have only been a few cases where omegas threw off compulsions. And most of those resistant omegas were wild ones.”Mattel frowned further at the Agent’s mocking tone, “I don’t think you understand this. My omega is a wild omega. She was born in the human world. She’s spent most of her life under the delusion that she hates alpha and that she cannot be under their contro
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 56: an Impressionist painting. .MattelWhen Mattel woke up, his head was ringing, eyes blurring out of focus. It took a few seconds to figure out where he was. White bed. No underwear. Beeping monitors. He was in the hospital again.Sitting in a chair by the side of his bed was someone he had not expected to see: Laura.Maura stood and fixed her piercing hazel eyes on him, brushing back a strand of dark black hair.“Mattel, you’re awake”.He felt a prickle of alarm, “How long was I out?”Maura shook her head in anger, “for a few hours. Luckily I got here to take you to the hospital when I did”“When did you get here?” Mattel asked pointedly.“Two and a half hours ago. I flew in to see how the search for your omega was going. Imagine my surprise when I find out Regina has slipped through your fingers again! Why didn’t you just break the bond when I asked you to? Can you imagine what having a badly trained omega will do to the family name? The r
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 57: did you expect that? .Mattel“The agent’s right,” Maura whispered, “trying to figure out where Regina is by the make and model of her car is a pretty impossible task,”“People do the same thing for Amber Alerts all the time,” Mattel argued.“Yes, and how many kidnapped kids are found? Not many. If you really want to find Regina there’s only one thing to do,” Maura let her words hang for a moment.“And what can I do?”“Widen the bond and speak to Regina one on one”“I can’t”, Mattel blurted, shutting Maura down, “I seriously don’t know how and Regina keeps closing the bond on me. Anyway, only a few Alphas and Omegas can carry out bondspeak. It only works if both partners have a close connection and let’s be honest, Regina have made it obvious that she, doesn’t like me. At all”“But you bondspoke with Regina a few days ago, maybe if you reached deep within yourself and meditated, you could find that string again” Maura suggested.“I don’t kn
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate . Chapter 98: Announcements . “We promised we’d do it together. I may have still been out of it, but I kept my promise. She’s just been ‘baby,’ her entire life so far.”Mattel laughs as he kisses her again. “Oh, Regina,” he breathes, then he looks down, observing her body, the way they’re able to be pressed close like this for the first time in months. “I can hold you close again now. No obstructions.”Regina grins, looking like she wants to chastise Mattel for the smirk on his face, but a throat clears. She turns to find Jana and Lionel staring at them, the omega smirking knowingly--and oh, there’s another conversation they have to have now. No one but Mattel knows that Jana is pregnant. There’s something to look forward to. “Do I get a hello?” Jana asks, and Regina throws her arms around Jana, breathing in her friend’s sweet scent as Mattel pulls Lionel into an embrace, the two alphas holding tight to one another even as Mattel’s eyes never leav
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 97: Not without you .The moment her heat is over, Regina rolls out of bed and tells the others to get ready. Apprehensive eyes look back at her, but she knows it’s time. Her body feels stronger than ever, her mind is sharp, and they’ve involved just enough people in the lower town in their plan that they’ve got the numbers to pull off an attack. At least enough to sneak into the dungeons and free their military.Despite their hesitance, Damian and the others get the horses prepared and weapons ready. Hal even prepares a sling for himself--he’ll be the one watching Regina’s baby while they are fighting.She hopes beyond all hope that today is a success, that she’ll get her family back together and they’ll never be separated again. Today, she will reunite her baby with her father, she will, and from here on out, they’ll only know peace.Still, her fingers shake as she dresses herself, doing up the laces of her leather waist coat, and looking
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 96: Accidentally .When she wakes, Regina is feverish and covered in sweat. The moment she comes to awareness, she knows what’s happening, knows that her body has finally returned to normal, but it brings about a feeling of great sadness.She can’t fight when she’s in heat. She can’t do much of anything. A soft groan parts her lips as she throws her blankets back, her entire body growing hot--too hot.“F-Fuck,” She breathes, all the aches and pains in her body not enough to distract her from the tears that spring to her eyes. Six weeks have already passed since she left Mattel behind, and this heat will just put her back another several days if not another week entirely. “Shit.”From her little makeshift crib at her bedside, her baby whimpers as she comes awake. She wonders if she can scent her distress, her curiosity spiking as ehe rolls off of the bed to attend to her, lifting her into her arms. “Hey, my love, I’m so sorry,” She whispers, h
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 95: Side by Side .In the days after Imari discovers Jana’s pregnancy, things become difficult for them. Jana is now chained to the all, and after several sleepless nights, the poor omega managing to find a comfortable position by some miracle.Mattel tries to help her out, but there’s only so much he can do when there’s iron digging into his skin as well. He makes a mental note to completely get rid of the dungeons when this is over, when he and Regina have defeated the evil that’s taken over their kingdom.God, he misses Regina. He misses his baby. His family. Thanks to their situation, he’s only had a few minutes with his daughter and it’s killing him. A part of him is starting to fear that by the time he sees her again, his child will be a woman, and he and Regina will both be old and gray. And that’s if he sees her again.Today, Imari had summoned him and Jana in for a meeting, and they’d managed to buy themselves some time for the rescue
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 94: Must go on .It has been four weeks since Mattel and Jana were left behind at the castle, four weeks without his baby, without either of their mates. Without a doubt, it has been the worst four weeks of his life.At night when he’s trying to sleep, he calls to mind the image of his daughter’s face, the sound of Regina’s laugh. He envisions a world where they’d never been separated. In that world, he imagines that they’d gotten the chance to hold one another in the aftermath, that he’d been by his wife’s side through her recovery.In that world, they’re just a couple with a baby. They don’t have the pressure of kings and royalty. It’s beautiful and evergreen, but it can never be a reality, they can’t abandon the kingdom and leave it behind for Imari. It would be madness.The fight must go on.He and Jana are being marched back into the grand hall, Imari having summoned them somewhat randomly in the middle of the night. Whatever it is, it ca
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 93: A long way to go .Regina swallows the lump in her throat, leaning into Lionel as Castile rises from the picnic blanket to help her, the former moving aside to allow the latter to loop an arm around her back as well. Together, they make their way back toward the cottage, Hal and Damian following suit as the queen hangs her head low, fighting the urge to cry.“I’ll get them,” She whispers.Castile’s palm is warm against her back as he rubs circles into it, his alpha scent soothing. “We know, Regina.”“I’ll kill them.”“We know, Regina,” Damian says, then they guide her into the cottage, laying her gently on the bed as the queen fights back tears. “Get some rest, hold your daughter for a while. Remember why we’re here.”Sniffling quietly, Regina nods, watching as Hal enters the room with her baby, sitting down beside her before handing her gently over to her mother. Silence passes between them as she takes her, supporting the newborn’s head
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 92: Coming for you .The rest of the afternoon passes in relative quiet. Once they got on the road again, Regina spent the bulk of their time mesmerized by her baby. She’s fed her twice on the journey, half worried that they’d run out of formula at some point, but eventually, she sees their friend’s little cottage at a distant bend in the river, smoke pouring out of the chimney—they are going to be all right.By the time they pull up in front of the cottage, the sun is beginning to set, the light streaming in through the carriage window to illuminate her daughter’s face. A smile parts her lips as she reaches up a hand into the light, the little dust particles floating in it dancing around her tiny fingers as Regina’s heart melts.“There’s the sunset, darling,” She tells her, laughing softly to herself as the baby coos softly.On the other side of the carriage, she can hear snoring beneath her infant’s soft coos, and she looks over to find Lio
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 91: together we conquer .Tears prick again at her eyes, a couple of droplets making their way onto her cheeks before she wipes them away, kissing her daughter again before glancing across the carriage where Castile and Lionel are sound asleep in each other’s arms. Jealousy wells up in her chest as she watches, but she says nothing.They’re lucky to be together. She remembers how they got together. How in the beginning, her healer, Castile, and Mattel’s chief of Commander, Lionel had met and immediately fallen for one another at first sight.Only they hadn’t met until Mattel summoned Castile to court to treat an injury—one Regina had inadvertently given him when he’d been giving one of his training lessons. She almost laughs at the memory, but before she can get too lost in it, there’s the sound of Damian pulling on the reins.The other two in the carriage slowly stir awake. Curiosity floods both of their faces, then Castile turns around, pul
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 90: Whatever shall be .The simultaneous feeling of joy at being a father and the sorrow at the loss of his wife and baby is already exhausting. A part of him wants to start thinking of names, Sandra, Ari, hell, just calling her “Baby,” even? But he’s too upset to think. He can barely even focus.Down the hall, there’s shouting, and he forces himself to wipe his tears, rushing toward the cell door as he hears banging and shuffling. He gets there just in time to see guards dressed in the enemy’s colors and symbols carrying a limp Jana in their arms.“Jana!” he cries, but before he can worry about his friend, the omega is thrown into the cell with him. All he can do is watch as he collapses, unconscious, with a bruised eye and a split lip facing the ceiling, then he hears a throat clear, and suddenly Imari, now king of the north, is standing before him.The omega king is taller than he is, but not quite as broad. They’ve met before, but someh