The Silent Alpha

Chapter 28: Date 3 

***Zane*** 

"You can use my phone if that helps,"

Talia suggests, pulling out her phone from her pocket and unlocking it for me.

Beads of sweat gather at my temple as I stare blankly at the Notepad app.

She's not asking for much, Grayson mutters.

Did you miss the part where she’s been married to a perfect Alpha? I snap at him.

What do you think will go through her head when she realizes she’s mated to a freak? You are being dramatic, Grayson groans.

He wasn’t THAT perfect.

He cheated on her! WITH HER SISTER! That's not the point! The point is my own father refused to recognize meas his son! \retort.

When Talia realizes how truly worthless I am, she'll reject me like everyone else has.

Do you not trust our mate will treat us fairly? Grayson asks.

I look up at my mate, her smile faltering with my everlasting silence.

She deserves the truth...

Grayson sighs.

And so do we.

We won't know how she truly feels about us if all we show her is a lie.

But...Anything.

The phone trembles in my hand, my fingers unwilling to type out a message.

Minutes crawl by before Talia finally loses her patience.

"Okay, I think this date is over,"

Talia laughs dryly, my heart sinking as a few tears cling to her eyes.

She wipes at them angrily and starts to get up, disappointed by my lack of response.

"I honestly don’t even know what I was expecting," she mutters, shaking her head at herself.

"This was such a f*****g mistake and I can’t even be mad at you because I did this to myself," she huffs, rolling her eyes.

"I should have just kept my mouth shut."

She presses the palms of her hands against her eyes to stop the tears from flowing down her cheeks.

"Please take me home," she whimpers.

"I don’t want to be here anymore."

My mind goes into a panic when I hear the hurt in her voice.I open my mouth to explain but it feels as though the wind has been knocked out of me and all that comes out is a gasp.

Come on! I snap at myself.

Say something! But the harder I try to utter a word, the drier my mouth feels and the heavier my tongue becomes.

All the memories of my father screaming at me to speak come flooding back and the words get caught in my throat, unable to escape.

She deserves the truth, I remind myself, taking a few deep breaths and rising to my feet shoulders and turn her towards me, embracing her in my arms.

I try to hold her to my chest but Talia only shakes her head in anger at me.

"No," she cries.

"You don’t get to just hug this all away.I told you my story.I shared my pain with you," she hiccups.

"Why can’t you do the same for me?"

Knowing she is right, I urge her to sit back down, patting the space beside me as my eyes plead with her to sit.

Reluctantly, she settles down, hugging her knees to her chest.

Her brown eyes watch me carefully, scrutinizing my every move.

I pull the phone from my pocket and after she unlocks it, I type out my plan.

"I can’t tell you my story, but I can show you," She reads aloud.

"Close your eyes."

She gives me a confused look but I just smile and place my hand over my own eyes to show her what I need from her.

Very hesitantly, she places both hands over her eyes, sighing deeply in annoyance.

Taking a deep breath, I close my own eyes and concentrate, letting down my walls and accepting the river of thoughts coming from my mate.

"This is silly," her voice echoes in my head.

"Shhh,"

I whisper, Talia suddenly jumping up and looking around frantically.

asks, her eyes opening and

for her to

***Natalia***

the darkness behind my eyelids when suddenly a little white

of a woman echoes from the light, singing a sweet lullaby

wonder, looking around the emptiness but

alone with my thoughts, I decide to follow the voice towards

me, temporarily blinding me for a few moments before settling back and

with a high ceiling, the decor mimicking a

a treehouse sitting on the tree on the

connects

is a

equipped with a sink, a toaster oven, a mini fridge, and cabinets which I assume

sits beside the the left wall and hundreds of books and index cards

this appearing to be a child’s room, there are very few

no windows in the room, an air vent the only means of fresh air, providing ventilation

near the entrance of the room, which appears to

is no child’s room, I

This is a prison.

sheets of paper.He can’t be more than 5

horror, find that his left eye is completely swollen shut, dark bruises littering the entirety of his

crying, furiously wiping at his tears with his sleeve as he scribbles "My name is Zane" over and over again on

him, there is a pile of sheets repeating

Zane’s memories,

to jingle, the little

locks are undone, the door swings open, a beautiful woman

smile resemble

climbs out of his chair to greet the woman

she giggles as she lifts him into her arms, Zane resting his head on her shoulder pushing in a

his piercing blue eyes like the

his mother's arms and rushes to the desk, pulling out a small card with a crudely drawn wolf on

very timidly pokes the man’s arm who is busy setting

at

me kid?" He asks, taking the card and reading the words

very nice and you’re not mean.I like you." he says, his face softening a

I

not

now," the woman laughs,

sweetie, do you have a card

fishes out another card, this

the woman who reads it

her voice cracking a little as she reads before she kneels

good boy, my love," she sighs, trying very hard not to let her tears

is just...." she pauses, searching

baby.He loves you very much.Just in his own way." see in her eyes that even she doesn’t believe

have our lunch, okay?" she forces a smile, little Zane

dismisses Wyatt, the two of them enjoying their

is very quiet as he eats, careful not to chew loudly or

to him the many birds she saw on her run earlier that

bursts open,

his bulging muscles

a scar just below his

combed back and his

you called me in

for a meeting

a gift for

She’s his mother?I wonder.

about Agnes? The man turns to look at Zane who

"Go on, Zane,"

him

what you made for him on his

fear but does not disobey his mother, climbing out of

Zane, glaring at him with flared nostrils keeps his head down, his hand shaking violently as he holds out the

will look me in the eye when addressing me, boy," the

the face, Zane falling over on the ground with

is on her feet in an instant,

shoving him though he

showing you

did not look me in the eye!" Sebastian

man looks another man in the

"He’s just a boy!"

Zane

will one day lead this pack,

his finger at

not leave behind a weak Alpha to

head high, his freshly split lip quivering slightly as he holds the card out

Zane remains strong, holding them back with all of his might

the sobs I know he wants

father, my heart swelling with pride at his sheer strength and courage at

"Read it."

"Sebastian-"

say the words, then he doesn’t deserve

abyss, leaving me all alone in the pitch black with my heart shattering to pieces at

than the memory, however, is the realization that I have been unkind to a man who has grown up feeling unloved

I find Zane staring blankly

him, my mind still

prisoner in his own

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