Chapter 128

Oliver POV

"Mate..." All three heads turned to me quickly, but my focus was on a single one. Goddess she was beautiful.

I knew in that specific moment that Lewis was right, I could never do anything hurt my mate, thoughts of the king going so far as to actually torture his intended into submission suddenly graced my mind and caused a lump to form in my throat as I stared at the beautiful girl in front of me. I could never do anything that would cause upset or pain in anyway, maybe Josh really couldn't feel anything.

I felt like my heart was going to beat out of my chest. I shook my head and swallowed thickly not being able to tear my gaze away from my mate. In honestly, I couldn't help but let Images flash through my mind of her going through everything Dylan had,and it caused my heart to miss a beat.

Genuinely, How could Josh have gone so far? If anyone even looked at my mate the wrong way, I would tear them limb from limb, without so much as batting my eyes.

"What did you just say?" Dylan spoke as she clearly stared at me, I could vaguely see her in my peripheral vision while I simply continued gazing at the girl next to her.

"Oliver, you remember Carlos don't you? Well this is his daughter, Vee." Vee? That was different. It Must have been the shortened version of her name. So this was that traitor's daughter?

Wait!

I probably shouldn't call him a traitor in front of her, she most likely would get defensive. Knowing my mates name though, caused elation to flow through me, and I finally gave in to the urge to introduce myself.

"I'm Beta Oliver..." I stated as my gaze remained on her, wait... should I have said my title? She didn't have to call me that, in fact I didn't want her to ever call me that. "But... you don't have to call me that though, that's just my title. I'm actually still getting used to it, it's kind of new, not that being a gamma was much different than being a beta, there's only a few differences in regards to status, not that you should call me gamma either, you don't have to call me anything really... just Oliver is fine." Goddess... what a stupid thing to say, of course that was my name. Why was I rambling so much. I mentally kicked myself as I continued to stare at my mate. Why I had to meet her while I was incarcerated was beyond me. "I guess you already knew my name though." I chuckled awkwardly, scratching the back of my neck as I cringed at my own words.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Dylan once again spoke and I finally turned my head towards her. A small bewildered yet smug look came from her and I could have genuinely let the ground swallow me up if it was an option. However my eyes did widen at her appearance.

Queen Dylan, was unexpectedly covered in blood. She did seem ok, which made me wonder whose blood it was that she wore, I was even more curious as it was only a few hours ago that I actually saw her and she caused my bullet wound. The blood in question was matted on her long loose dark hair, and splattered on her face. I frowned instantly at her, it was fairly obvious that she had been involved in something.

"What the fuck have you been doing?" I couldn't even stop the question from rolling off my tongue. My mate, was of course, still prominent on my mind and senses but Dylan's appearance fully peeked my curiosity.

"She closed the borders." Lewis replied to my questioning as a proud gaze took over his features. He loved her, there was no doubt in my mind that he loved her.

"There's too many packs in the sector for the districts borders to remain closed. Not to mention the king will instantly reopen it when he comes here while on his tour." My beautiful mate quickly shook her head and sighed, folding her arms over her quite well endowed chest. Goddess, all I wanted to do was hold her tight in my arms, of course I'd love to bury my face into those perky breasts too, but I wouldn't until I got to know her more, I wouldn't touch her until she wanted me to.

"She helped close the sectors border, not the districts." Vee stated with a hint of frustration in her voice, maybe she didn't like Dylan. I feel like our queen was one to invoke emotions regardless of whether they are positive or negative.

"She..." I turned again to Dylan who seemed to have made it her life's mission to constantly place me in a state of shock. "You... Closed the sector?!"

"The district did. I barely did anything. In a few days we will develop a counter measure that will prevent any Lycan from crossing the border into this sector at all." My mates head quickly turned to the queen and nothing but disbelief clouded her.

"So, first you closed the border without a plan, and now you have the royal Beta locked up in the rebellions dungeon?! There's nothing more you can do to the border, but what about him?!What exactly do you plan on doing with him?" My mate turned to the queen exasperated by the lack of thought that had obviously gone into the completed tasks.

"We should be asking you that..." Lewis turned to my mate and sighed while gesturing to me. "He is your mate after all."

"I'm no one's mate." Ouch, my chest quickly contracted tightly causing an agonizing wave to shoot through my body... so that is what it felt like to be rejected by the goddess Lunas gift. "Now get rid of him, keeping him here is a liability that I for one want no part of. Why couldn't you have just killed him?!" How could Vee dismiss me so easily, and in such an abrupt manner? Sure, I probably had a bit of a bad reputation in the eyes of the rebellion, in regards to being so close to the king, but to want me dead, right after finding out that I was her mate, well, that shit hurt me more than words could say.

"Killing him would have been pointless, besides, he's actually not a bad guy, he's just too loyal to the wrong people." I never thought I would see the day that queen Dylan would defend me.

I felt a little bit guilty as I let my gaze meet hers, Lewis's confession at how Josh handled this poor girl, was going round and round in my head, and I genuinely couldn't stop the sigh from leaving my lips, knowing how truly humiliated she must have felt, yet she always showed very little signs of it getting to her, the girl had a constitution similar to cast iron. She was tough as nails.

"Why ARE you so loyal to the king?" My mates question hung in the air while all three sets of eyes stared at me, usually I would have come up with an excuse, I mean me and josh had been friends for quite some time now, and he deserved nothing but my loyalty, except in that moment, I couldn't find it in me to use that as a valid excuse. "Someone who agrees with actions like his graces should held accountable."

"Oliver's actions are on the same level as someone who has done nothing to invoke change." Why was Dylan's voice so accusing? They were on the same side weren't they? They both wanted an end to the new world, hell even I was now thinking of what the world would look like if josh wasn't on the throne. "You had the power to show the world what true equality looked like, and yet you didn't."

Would me and Vee be able to have a normal life together if Josh was no longer king? Then again if he wasn't then who would be? Dylan was human, so it wasn't guaranteed that the lycans would support that. Maybe Lewis? His prowess and combat skills were exceptional when it came to the initial take over 5 years ago. However My rampant thoughts were cut short when Dylan spoke again, while looking at Vee expectantly.

"What do you want to do with him?" So, it was down to her decision?! If only I could've touched her, she would definitely have felt our connection then, it's always more difficult for a human to feel the bond, however even they can't deny it forever, Dylan truly was a rare exception, how she had managed to reject Josh at every single hurdle was beyond me. It really did make zero sense.

"We will leave him here for now, the pack is the only place with a jail that can hold him, And I will not have him living in the safe zone." A safe zone? Does that mean that there was more to the rebellion than what I saw in this pack? Maybe it was much more established than we had originally thought.

"I'll speak to alpha Gilliard about leaving him here, but it's not a permanent solution." Vee nodded her beautiful head and sighed, it was almost as if she was upset by that revelation. Surely she wouldn't want me to stay down here indefinitely, I mean how could she not even want to try to get to know me. "We should probably go back up. There's a lad who saved my life in with the packs doctor now, I intend to personally take him back to his pack, itll pave the way for us to explain the current situation."

“That’s a good idea, we should start with the packs we are allied with, then move onto the more loyal ones.” Lewis wholeheartedly agreed with the queen as they begin to walk away, with my newly found mate in tow, while I still remained incarcerated. All I wanted was some time alone with Vee, at least that way I’d get to know her a little better, even if in the end she still decided to reject me.

“Wait!” I called out, wincing as I tried to stand up on my silver shot leg. All three individuals turned back to me as I frowned in pain, while holding my weight on my good leg and gripping the bars of the cell door with my hands. “Please, can we just talk for a minute?” I looked deep into my mates brown eyes and gulped at how captivating they were. I pleaded silently with all my might that she would agree to talk with me.

“Sixty seconds!” Yes! I watched as she waved the other two love birds away and stepped up to my dungeon room once more. Her arms crossed over her well endowed chest which forced me to attempt to keep my eyes on hers, despite wanting to look down. “Fifty seconds.”

Where the fuck did I even begin? I had no idea how to talk to your mate, I had barely seen it. Sure I’d been around Josh’s parents, but they were far too self righteous for them to be a good example. Lewis’s previous mating barely lasted a day, so I couldn’t take inspiration from how that one, and Josh was much more interested in getting compliance out of Dylan, than actually gaining her good graces, not that I was sure she had any.

So what was I supposed to say to someone so beautiful? To someone who was gifted to me by the moon goddess herself? To My other half, my reason for being?

“So…” I was nervous, especially given my awkwardness beforehand. “What is Vee short for?”

Goddess, I really was stupid!