The Pack's Alpha (by Cooper) novel Chapter 31

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I could tell that Yorick was furious. Mostly, his fury was directed at Stellan and the alliance bond, but he was also furious at whatever Stellan used to taunt him. I have no doubt that’s what he did. When I’d seen Yorick pummeling Stellan like he intended to kill him, l’d quickly called for Zach and Landon to help. Thankfully, Chase had come running too because it took all three of them to pull Yorick off Stellan.

Now, Yorick wants to know what I haven’t told him. I take his hand, careful of his bloody knuckles.

“Come with me, Yorick,” I say. There are too many prying eyes here.

Knowing Yorick the way that I do now, I should have told him from the beginning, but being a second son, just like Stellan, I had worried about his reaction. Of course, the two men are night and day, but Stellan wasn’t always the way he is now.

As Yorick allows me to lead him back inside, I think back to my discussion with Stellan earlier.

“I don’t care that he’s your fated mate, Cyra. You’re in an alliance bond. Breaking that bond means war. Is that what you want?” he’d asked, basically threatening me.

“Of course not, Stellan! But don’t you want a chance to find your fated mate too?” I’d asked him.

“This alliance isn’t about love, Cyra. It’s an agreement. We can be friends, we can be civil. But you will bear me an heir. Beyond that, I don’t care what you do with your life.

Be with your mate, I won’t stop you.”

As ifI could ever leave my son. How could he even think that l would do that? Like I’m nothing more than a breeder. to him. Well, that and a means to an end.

When we get to my room, I look over his hands. His knuckles are a mess.

“What don’t I know, Cyra?” he growls.

Just then his phone rings. He looks at the caller ID and answers.

“This isn’t a good time.”

“I’ll be right back,” I tell him, grabbing a washcloth and taking it to the bathroom. My mind is spinning. I have to tell him. It won’t change anything, or maybe it will change everything. I don’t know. But he’s right about one thing,! can’t leave him in the dark any longer.

When I get back to my room, he’s pacing. When I open the door, he turns and looks at me with so much anger in his eyes.

“Yorick?”

“When were you going to tell me, Cyra? When, huh? I’ve been beating myself over the head trying to figure out why your father entered you into an alliance bond. I figured it had something to do with money or power, that’s what they’re usually about, but you never once mentioned that you were an only child, Cyra. Even when I asked about a brother, you never corrected me. You just let me think there was a brother. But there isn’t, is there?

There is no brother and Stellan is a second son and he won’t break this bond even though he’s found his fated mate because then he will never be Alpha. Did I get that right?”

“Stellan found his fated mate?” I ask, stunned. He didn’t mention that he’d found her, but it makes so much sense now.

Yorick growls and stalks toward me until he is in my face.

“Are you or are you not an only child, Cyra?”

“Yes,” I whisper. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you…” I begin. He holds up a hand and turns, walking away from me.

“You let me touch you. You let me enter your body. You told me you loved me. But you didn’t trust me with this?

Why?” The hurt in his voice makes my heart feel like it’s going to shatter.

“Stellan wasn’t the same after the bond was signed. He became different. I didn’t know you well, Yorick. I only knew that you were a second son trying to make his way in this world too. I … I wanted to be more to you than a stepping stone to becoming an Alpha of your own pack.”He turns to look at me and his eyes are filled with hurt.

And in all the time that we’ve spent together, I never showed you that I didn’t care where you come from or what your rank is? That I only care about you? That I care that you’re my mate? That I care about us being together?

With everything that we’ve shared and talked about, that never came through?”

“I’m sorry,” I say. “I was scared.”

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