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 58: Is she safe? .“I’m sorry, Regina.” “No you’re not. I know, because my step father used to be one of you, ruling the world, not afraid of anything. Alphas are never sorry for the things they do. You don’t care that by pursuing this bond you forced me to leave my house, my home, and my life, everything I loved and now here I am! Pregnant and so terrified. And I can’t even hate you because the bond won’t let me”“Believe me, Regina,” Mattel assured, “I never wanted you to leave your life and your home and everything. You didn’t have to run from me. I don’t beat or hurt omegas. I’m a good guy. You know this.” Regina laughed bitterly. “I know this?.” And Mattel could feel Regina’s pain. The raw agony ripping at her heart, swelling into the space, choking the air and light out of everything until she felt like her soul had been bruised.After listening to Regina cry for a few minutes, Mattel whispered, “Regina”“Yes?” his omegas sounded fain
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 59: How the mighty have fallen..During the four hour drive between Montevido and Tacuarembo, Maura would list all sorts of reasons and ways he could have had a more productive conversation with his mate, her mouth moving on and on like the whir of a trapped fly, giving Mattel a headache.Mattel knew his cousin loved him, really, she did.Just not right now.It was midafternoon when they got to Tacuarembo. It was a quiet city filled with well paved asphalt roads, green trees and an open cobalt blue sky. “Cuidad de Tacuarembó” a sign beckoned. A beautiful bridge made up of pink, blue and yellow supports greeted them, and a few cars cruised along on roads. Pedestrians strolled along on white concrete sidewalks, bicycle wheels spun along, the steel spokes illuminated only by the midday sun. It was the kind of place where a man could retire in peace, spend the rest of his life sitting on his front porch, drinking ice tea, free from the chaotic wo
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 60: Two months .Regina watched the landscape go by as the sun slowly rose above the horizon. She tracked it’s slow pace across the sky, her arm tightened across her backpack as if it was an amulet against the problems of the world. Alphas and betas and omegas huddled near her, the refuse of the world, dirty clothes packed with dust, teeth missing, the car stunk of unwashed bodies. And desperation, each eye gleaming with the desire to leave the poverty stricken countryside, buoyed by the hope of a new life in the cities. These people, so much like the multitudinous waves of the world crashed would crash upon the city’s shores, time after time, eon after eon, the dreams of the peasants never die. Regina was neither an expert nor a person that admittedly gave much of a damn about Marxist theory. Class struggle was something that for other people to worry about. She had gotten where she had gotten through sheer grit and hard work, not star
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 61: An Alpha’s Command .As Mattel drove back to the hotel from the airport, he mused that the lack of knowledge was honestly perhaps the worst thing about it. Generally werewolves never liked to think about their own death. Nobody likes to. Death is not a thing that happens to us, it is something we see happen to others, it is an unfortunate day for some poor kid in a third world country who happened to be in the wrong spot at the wrong time as the bomb exploded. But us? Well we’re going to live forever. Living in the midst of a death sentence was almost like staring into the barrel of a Glock and hoping there was no bullet down the end of that long dark chamber.And then Mattel wouldn’t let himself think about it anymore, because morbid thoughts weren’t helping… anyone?Mostly, Mattel was just hoping that Regina was alive. He thought he would feel it if she had died, but with all the weird things that were happening with the bond; for exa
The Alpha’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 62: Southern Kingdom .Mattel was worried. He could have sworn his mate was in heat. He wasn’t completely sure, it was more like a lingering knowing.And that wasn’t good.An omega in heat was an omega in danger. In heat, most omegas desperately needed an alpha to ease their symptoms. And considering the fact that Regina had been on her suppressants, the heat his omega would experience would be longer and perhaps more intense than a usual one. While in heat, Regina would lose control of her wits. She could be killed, raped or otherwise hurt. Mattel was now more worried than ever.He kept the tether open. Strangely, perhaps because Regina had reached for him, the bond between them had strengthened and he felt better than he had in a while. Regina’s reciprocation meant that the bond now went both ways and it was easy for Mattel to both visualize and reach for Regina’s mind across a great distance. However, he left the bond alone. Regina had e
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