The Alpha and His Contract Luna novel Chapter 96

Sebastian.

These past few weeks have been hectic. The news that werewolves had been captured and experimented on, had rocked the wolf community like an earthquake.

I’ve spent the entire time in the hospital. Waiting for Mayra to wake up. I can’t fucking believe that my fated was alive. That this entire time I thought she was dead, she had actually been in captivity.

Sylvia explained everything to me and then told me that I had a choice to make. I could feel the remnants of the shattered bond between Mayra and me. I feel it trying to break through. Trying to push out the bond I had with Red.

I wanted to leave the hospital. To go check on Red but I couldn’t. Every time I tried to leave, the bond would pull me back here.

The doctor explained that it was a way for the bond to make sure that Mayra healed. That my close proximity to her was helping her a great deal.

“What are we going to do?” Fang asked. “How are we supposed to choose between Lauren and Mayra?”

I saw the moment Red shut me off. The moment she distanced herself from me. I probably made things worse when I snarled at one of my warriors when he tried taking Mayra the day we found them.

I haven’t been able to reach her. She doesn’t pick my fucking calls and her mental blocks are back up. Stronger than ever.

She hasn’t even come to the hospital either to see me, or Mayra or the others. So eventually I just gave up. Deciding it would be better to talk to her face to face.

I rub my chest at the pang I feel there. I know this is causing her pain but if she could only let me explain. Let me get my head straight first.

“Bash?” Fang’s voice cuts through my thoughts.

“I don’t know Fang. I fucking don’t know. Mayra is our fated, but Lauren is our mate. We completed the mating process with her. She wears our mark”

I feel defeated. Feel confused. What am I supposed to do now? My life has just turned to into a shitstorm and for the first time in my fucking life I had no idea what path to take.

The sound of a pained groan brings me back to the present.

Shit! Mayra was waking up.

I press the button for the nurse station just as she opens her eyes. They’re a beautiful honey brown color. I feel like they’re sucking me into their depths.

Fisting my hand. I let my claws dig into the skin of my palm. The pain anchoring.

She looks at me in confusion before her mind registers.

“You’re my mate aren’t you?” she asks timidly.

Now that her eyes aren’t trying to suck me in, I see what’s hidden behind them. The shadows playing there. The fucking pain that still torments her. The brokenness that I have no idea if she’ll ever be able to overcome.

“I’m not sure” I state.

I didn’t want to hurt her but I couldn’t give her hope. Not when I wasn’t sure I would choose her in the end. Not when my fucking mind and heart is still on a certain red head.

She nods her head in understanding. I don’t see pain or jealousy or anything like. Just acceptance.

Her eyes turn distant. “There was a woman. She was there with me every night these past couple of months, I'm assuming. She would always take away some of my pain. She promised to find a way to help me. To help all of us.” She says in a soft voice.

Before I can answer, a nurse enters the room. She sees Mayra awake and goes to call the doctor.

“Her name is Lauren…I’m mated to her” I tell Mayra after the nurse leaves.

“Where is she?”

How the hell am I supposed to tell her that I didn’t know where my mate was? That the minute Lauren realized that Mayra was my mate, she shut me out completely.

I’m saved from answering by the doctor. After a brief introduction, he begins checking her.

“Everything seems to be going great.” He begins. “However I am still worried about not only your mental health and possible traumas but also your wolf. She doesn’t seem to be doing that well.”

Mayra doesn’t react. Almost as if she knew this was coming.

The bond keeps pulling me to her. Wanting me to comfort her. To wrap my hands around her and just hold her, but I resist.

I couldn’t do that to Red. Besides, I felt nothing for Mayra except the feelings elicited by the bond. She was basically a stranger.