Falling in love with my Ex's Alpha Chapter 127

***Chad***

'No!'

My heart lurches in dread as I desperately run towards Maia when I witness several rogues attacking her at once.

Driven by an instinctual surge of our mate bond, I attack them to protect her without thinking twice. My instincts are urging me to protect, guard and care for her.

When she walked through the door, and her piercing blue eyes met mine, time seemed to halt, and everything around me just became a blur. My body yearned for the closeness of hers, aching for her. My wolf yearned for her.

My fated mate.

After an agonizing wait spanning endless years, she finally materialized before me.

After I had suffered tirelessly waiting for her to appear at any time, any day, any year.

The missing piece of my existence...

I visited so many packs to try to find her. I searched for her so much.

And then, by a twist of fate or perhaps by the cruel whims of chance, she appeared, emerging just like that, precisely in the midst of chaos.

Unexpected and unannounced.

She appears so out of nowhere that I can't help but feel a bitter taste of irony compared to my exhaustive search for her.

For a totally ironic reason, to help find Katie, my chosen mate.

One of the rogues bites Maia's wolf's back thigh while she is fighting another wolf, and she howls in pain as she tries to break free.

I sink my fangs into the rogue's neck in a desperate attempt to pry his grip from her thigh, but the outcome is not as swift as I had hoped, the rogue is more potent than I expected.

Despite the searing pain inflicted by my bite, he clings to her, he doesn't let go of her even when blood starts to come out of him. Blood trickles from the wound and fails to deter his relentless hold.

Two other rogues take advantage of my back, and each one attacks me from one side. I feel their abrupt blows at the same time, I use my back legs to try to fend them off while I continue attacking the rogue that is attacking Maia, however they don't give up.

They keep attacking me violently. I need to protect her!

I feel blood coming out where they are attacking, I'm already tired and injured since Kaiden's attacks.

I break away from the neck of the rogue that is attacking Maia and rip off the heads of the two rogues that are attacking me.

And then I use all my remaining strength to go back to trying to kill the rogue that is still biting Maia. I bite his neck again, I use my claws to attack his face, and after a few blows, he finally lets go.

She cowers on the ground, seriously injured.

She looks to be Katie's age, and I am impressed by what an excellent warrior she is. Jacob was right about my fated mate pack.

I continue fighting in front of her. I'm already exhausted, but I need to defend her from any other attacks, as she clearly can't fight anymore.

I can feel that she is in a lot of pain, even though we both haven't marked each other.

I didn't have any conversations with Maia about our mate bond or anything else. I have avoided any interaction with her.

I'm so angry. So long for her to appear... Did she have to appear right now?

Why does everything go wrong with me?

I try to do everything right, and I never get rewarded for it.

Kaiden treats Katie like trash, and she's still with him.

Why is *he* her fated mate?

She is the sweetest and kindest person I know. She is so incredible, so loving, so perfect!

Why isn't she *my* fated mate?

It was everything I wanted most. Well, fuck, it's still what I want most.

I can't believe my plan went wrong. I confess that getting involved with rogues has its risks, I know that they are not reliable.

But I calculated every step to avoid anything going wrong, and still, in the end, everything went wrong. Everything went wrong and in the worst possible way.

I would trade places with Katie if I could. I never imagined that she would be kidnapped by them. I would never have done all this if I had known that this would happen.

My plan had no errors. It was simple, I promised the rogue boss that I would make it easier for him to invade Kaiden's pack.

They already wanted to do this, their plan was already ready, I just said I would help them get in.

They didn't reveal the motive, but from what I got, they just wanted to steal and vandalize. That's reason enough for me to intervene and tell Kaiden.

However, I saw an opportunity to get Katie back.

I had accepted that she and Kaiden would mark each other and accept their mate bond. However, time passed, and my feelings for her did not change.

She feels so good with me. I miss her body so much, having her around and being the person she looks for when she walks into a room.

I tried! I tried so hard to forget her.

My wolf is crazy about her. He wants to mark her regardless of any consequences. I need to control myself every time I hug her, every time she's around, every time she looks at me with those innocent eyes, not knowing how I feel, how I crave for her.

My plan was to protect her from the invasion and go to another pack with her. A very distant pack where we could seek refuge and build our lives together.

I would mark her, and I'm sure we would be very happy. We *were* happy!

Kaiden accepted their mate bond months ago and still hasn't marked her. I saw this as a sign from the Goddess Selena. A breach that I asked for in all my prayers.

If he hasn't marked her, it's because she's still not sure about their mate bond. Kaiden is impulsive, he does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, the way he wants.

If he really wanted to mark Katie, he would have done it already.

If he didn't do it, it's because he still has doubts. Well, I don't have any doubts about it. I'm sure I want her.

When he told me she was pregnant, I was stunned. At the same time as I felt horrible about her being kidnapped while pregnant, I couldn't contain the thoughts of the two of us raising the child far away from here. I would raise this baby as if it were my own.

Does he think I would give up on her just because she's pregnant? I would never do that.

I would give all my love for this baby. I am so sorry for putting Katie and the baby in this situation.

I'm sure she won't forgive me for what I did when she finds out.

The harm I caused her is unforgivable. I know this because *I can't forgive myself for what I did*.

All of this is my fault. I regret so much for what I did.

I accepted all of Kaiden's blows and cruel words all these days because I know that I deserve it all.

I feel embarrassed. But I don't have the courage to tell Maia this.

I'm embarrassed to tell her that her fated mate orchestrated this whole mess that she's been helping to sort out over the last few days. A confusion in which she almost died.

I'm embarrassed to tell my fated mate what a horrible person I am for putting a pregnant woman in a risky situation.

I'm embarrassed to tell her that I let rogues invade the pack where I am its own Gamma!

However, what I'm most ashamed of is telling her that regardless of all this, my wolf and I can't give up on our chosen mate.