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 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