Alpha’s Betted Bride (Gabriella)

Chapter 39

CHAPTER 39 -Gabby’s POV- My eyes fluttered open slowly. My head was pounding and my body was aching in all different places. I looked around the room and groaned with every single move I made. I sat up and winced when I felt the throbbing pain between my legs. I removed the cover and saw that I was naked, my body covered in bruises and dried blood that someone had tried to clean off. I drew in a shaky breath and covered myself up, my body slumped down and my head hit the pillow. The drapes were drawn and the room was dark. All the memories were coming back to me, and one by one I was starting to remember everything. Aidens bet, moving to the town, meeting Easton- or Asher, I guess. And everything that happened afterward. The assault, punches, kicks, slaps and the…. Something was gone, something within me had withered away and couldn’t feel it anymore. the There was a knock on the door but I was just staring up at the ceiling, content in the darkness. I knew I was back at the pack but I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be anywhere anymore. The door opened and someone stepped inside. “You’re up,” She came over and sat down on the edge of the bed. “I’m, Uhm, how are you?” C*ssy asked warily. I could tell she didn’t how to handle the situation, I didn’t know either. All I really wanted was to be left alone. I felt empty, broken, and just as though I was an empty shell of the person I used to be. “Gabby, you’re home now,” no I wasn’t. “Uhm, I’m sorry I don’t know what to say to make things better for you but I do want you to know that I’m here for you and we’re not letting anything happen to you again. You’re safe now,” “Please go.” The first words I spoke and they felt ey felt like razors were cutting up the inside of my throat when I spoke them. I winced and pushed my head back. “Gabby.”

“Just leave me.” She sighed and got up. She stopped in the room before walking out and closing the door behind her. There was an emptiness inside of that I had never felt before, even when I was at my worst and didn’t think that I could fall any lower I still had a lust for life inside of me. That was gone, it was all gone, I was completely empty. I heard chatter outside the room and the door being opened again, Edmund sat down on the bed and he spoke, I knew that he was speaking but I wasn’t hearing anything that he had to say. It was like I was drowning, submerging under the water, falling deeper and deeper down toward the reef. Aiden’s POV- “She doesn’t wanna talk, it’s bad though,” Ca*sy said when she came out of the room. We were waiting outside, not wanting to overwhelm her by going in all at once. “She’ll need time,” Nick said. “It’s not just that. She seemed…not there,” I saw the fear in her eyes and heard the pain in her voice. 1/4 J CHAPTER 39 “I’ll talk to her,” Edmund walked inside and closed the door. We listened in and I heard him speak but she wasn’t replying, I dont think she was even acknowledging his presence. 100% “Is everything alright?” My mother came up the stairs just as Edmond exited the room. He raked his hand through his hair and his nostrils were flaring. “Edmund ?” She said softly and walked up to him. “I don’t……….f*ck,” he kept pacing back around in circles and we were all standing on the other side of the person who meant the world to all of us, feeling helpless. “I need a workout, Edmund, come with me,” He kept pacing and shaking his fread. him towards the stairs.

“Nah, I’m gonna stay here until she’s ready to hey!” I grabbed his arm and pushed hi We were outside on the field, the warriors were working out, doing combat and I positioned myself in front of Edmund. “I’m not gonna fight you,” he said and tossed his head. “Yes you are. We’re both on the verge of stepping over the edge and one wrong move away from killing someone. Neither one of us this uncontrolled, she needs us, both of us. So we’re gonna get our shit together and fight it out so. We both need our control can back.” Edmund’s eyes started glowing and my wolf stepped forward as well. He threw the first punch and then it was on. The warriors around us were stopping and looking at us fight. Both of us drew blood, a lot of it. At some point, the fact that he was Gabby’s brother flew over my head and I think his internal anger with me that he had been suppressing rose to the surface. We were fighting like we were enemies. There was no friendly fire, no holding back and no rules as we went off on each other. We were both panting and pushing together but then I saw it, Edmund was about to shift and so I did too. Our wolves took over and jumped on each other, biting down and clawing like it was a rogue that had breached our borders. “Should we stop them?” “Alpha!” “Aiden, yo!” “They’re gonna kill each other,” “Aiden, that’s enough!” They were stepping in closer but I hoped they would have enough common sense to stay far enough away so not to get hurt because right now, I honestly couldn’t tell who was an ally and who the enemy, They stepped closer. ‘Stay back’

“You’re gonna kill him “Yeah or him you’ 2/4 Wed, May CHAPTER 39 “I SAID, STAY BACK! We bit down on Edmunds’s wolf and he whimpered but got back up and clawed at our throat. “Shit,” “Better prepare a funeral for one of em’,” He staggered back and bowed his head, his chest was heaving and be bit down in the air. We ran towards each other, jumping up and lighting mid air before falling back on the ground and we continued until we were both bleeding, tired, stumbling and the only other thing left to do would be lethal attack. We shifted back and the warriors tossed us over some sweats. “We really thought you guys were gonna kill each other.” “Feel any better?” I adverted my eyes from Bob and looked at Noal and Nick who were standing and watching us. I felt a hand on my shoulder and Edmund looked at me with a messed up face. I didn’t e expect that I looked much better. “Thank you,” he said and nodded his head. “Sure,” We walked back to the pack house and cleaned off. We’d both be healed up soon enough. “Are your boys feeling better?” My mother asked as she came into the private dining room with some coffee for everyone. An omega came in with trays of snacks and placed it on the table. “Yeah, much better,” Edmund said and nodded his head.

“It will do no no one a any good of you two kill each other. So I hope you got everything out of your systems,” My mother said and narrowed her eyes on us. I think we had, we fought a good fight, one that probably would’ve ended in death had we not stopped when we did. I looked at my mother and hung my head, nodding it slowly. “Alpha,” one of my men came into the room looking tense and his eyes dater back and forth between everyone. I stood up and walked toward him. “What’s wrong?”. This was just delivered for you,” He said and handed me an envelope. her back.” I read and I opened it up and took out a letter and a picture. “We’ll meet again soon, enjoy her while you can because the next have her in my hands, you’re not getting her ba clenched my jaw. I flipped over the photo and I growled loudly. He stepped back and bowed his head. “Next time he sees you, he’s dead.” Nick growled over my shoulder as we looked down on the picture of Gabby in the room we found her in. With all of them on the couch. I ripped the picture into tiny bits and tossed them on the floor. I let out a loud growl that echoed in the house 3/4 Alpha’s Betted Bride