The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 48: morning sickness and signs .*Regina* Being with Felix was…. nice. There was no other word for it.Regina’s mother and Felix had met when her mum was just 21, fresh out of college and still wet behind the ears. In her position as a junior accountant, her mother was required to travel to different countries to understand the way other banking systems worked and also work with the branches of Boroff & Sons in other countries. Felix was a midlevel banker at a competitor’s firm and their relationship had begun with a playful rivalry. Her mother had told her that being with Felix was good, Felix was unfailingly kind and considerate and her mum had felt her heart open up. But her mother knew she was a werewolf omega and she couldn’t trust Felix or anyone with that secret. So as her mother moved further up in the company, she took a position with less international travel and told Felix that “what was happening between wasn’t going to work
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 49: a cause of no return .Later that night, Felix and Regina wrapped themselves in individual pockets of perfect silence as they boarded the taxi to the Gallileo Galilei planetarium. The building was made of a sparkled sphere embedded with a hundreds of flickering white lights, surrounded by a wheel of glass that glittered black at night.In the planetarium, while Regina and Felix stood, hands barely touching in awe at the beauty of the starry night, Regina mused sadly that it wasn’t necessarily the submissiveness or even the shame of being an omega that hurt the most, it was that she had lost the right to make choices. The moment she discovered what they had been planning in the palace. Heck, she was the one with the baby but apparently she would have no say in this.Betas and Nulls (those without any designation) could choose their lovers, find someone who met their constellation of requirements and settle down. And there’s something magi
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