17.

POV - Stuart
I heard everything that those stupid little mutts said to my mate and their Luna. Even before they left the classroom. They were going to pay for hurting or bring up her past with Miltons ass outside of her permission. I wanted to growl but seeing my mate's face as she came out of the bathroom kept me and my wolf from doing so. In fact, I could have sworn I heard him whimper at the pained look she had. ‘We have a problem, Kallen.’ I told him through our link. ‘You mean other than our mate being upset and not telling me what’s bothering her?’
‘Yes, Karrin and Cal, decided to ambush her in the bathroom. They know Dad bought her from Black Moon, they are reason the entire school and pack knows. And they know very ugly information from her past about what Milton did to her.’
‘Shit. How?’
‘We don’t know. But we need to handle this. If they are going at her over this no telling who else is. Or how far they will be willing to take it. I don’t want to lose her over this. She is our fated mate and nothing will ever change that.’
‘What do you have in mind?’
‘First, she needs to get home. Second, Dad needs to talk to her. And from there we need to announce to the pack who and what she is. After telling them the truth about why she was bought. It will give her more support.’
‘I can handle getting her home early. You get the rest in motion.’ And with that we closed the link and put our plan into motion. We were pissed and they were going to pay. ‘Gussie, Chellea, I need you to me now.’
‘On it.’
“What’s going on?” Wade asked. Karrin and Cal weren’t going to be happy with us once I was done with them for this.
“Karrin and Cal, cornered Kai-Lea in class and the restroom. The Dad bought her from Black Moon, they are reason the entire school and pack knows. And they know very ugly information from her past about what Milton did to her. Even mentioning very specific information, that only Black Moon or Kai-Lea would have. And we all know Kai-Lea won’t say anything about then to anyone other than our parents or Dr. Ayonna.”
“THOSE BITCHES. I HATED WHEN YOU DATED THEM. I’M GOING TO RIP OUT THEIR HAIR.” Gussie growled.
“Find them. And deal with them. I’m going to help Kallen calm her down and let Mom and Dad know.”
“On it.” They said.
‘Wade, make sure they don’t run.’ He simply nods at me.

POV – Kallen
I knew he had other plans to nip this situation in the bud. But as we were needing to get her home for that I wasn’t going to waste time. And inadvertently get her hurt more so than she is right now. She is our everything. Stuart nor I would stop at anything to make her happy. “Kai-Lea, you don’t look so good. Why don’t we go home for the day?” I asked.
“No, I'm fine. Yesterday was the worst of it. I'm good I promise.” she said with as much confidence as she could muster.
“Training took a lot out of you this weekend. Come on.” I told her with a little bit of my Alpha tone so that she wouldn’t push back so much.
“Ok. Yeah.” She said, sounding sad. We left and I linked Stuart and Wade to get the rest of her assignments for the day. She was so down that someone had found out that she was bought that she wouldn’t come to either Stuart or myself. Knowing that hurt both Stuart and myself in ways that we weren’t sure were possible. Having a mate was proving to be indescribable and undeniably confusing yet amazing. As it wasn’t our decision, and we know our Dad only did it as a way to get her safely away from that pack of mongrels. And we’d hoped by this point that she’d know that we’d never hurt her.
“What’s wrong, Kallen?” Mom asked as we entered the house.
“We’ll talk in a minute, Mom.” I said ‘I need to get her to lay down, she’s upset and it's tearing Stuart and I apart on the inside. Meet me in Dad’s office at twenty.’
She just nodded as I walked Kai-Lea up the stairs to her room. “I’m really your fated mate, right? I’m not some bought property, right?” she turned, asking me with tears running down her cheeks. In that moment, I felt our hearts all but shatter, how could she possibly think that? Hadn't we proved that we aren’t going to hurt to her by now? ‘Remember she didn’t grow the same as we did. And there will always be trauma that she will never fully recover or maybe even just deal with.’
‘I know brother but the look on her face.’ I told him.
‘Well, let’s speak as one.’
“WE promise you; you ARE OUR fated mate. Our Dad only bought you to get you out of there. Away from those mongrels.” We told her through our ability to communicate and combine our voices into one.
“Then why do you and Stuart use your Alpha tone on me? Why don’t you kiss me like I'm your girlfriend? Or even talk to me about that stuff.” she asked us, still in tears. “I mean come on. Do you even see me as a girlfriend? Or am I just your concubine?”
And that’s when it clicked for us. As she sees how our parents treat each other, with equal love and respect. Dad never uses his Alpha tone on her, and she never uses her Luna aura on him. They talk all their issues out together. Dad shows Mom every ounce of love and admiration that he has for her every second he can.
“It’s in our nature to be Alphas’, but we won’t use it on you ever again. I promise you. You are our equal. And back there at school the only reason I used it was so that I could get you out of there before Stuart did what he had planned to get back at Karrin and Cal. They had no right cornering you like that. It won’t happen ever again. What all happened anyway? You've been feeling like this since lunchtime, yesterday. Is that when this really started?” I told her with every fiber of my being and Stuarts as I was still linking him into the conversation. This in turn only fueled his anger at Karrin and Cal.
“Yes, they said that ‘they were our boyfriends before you got here. And they were on track to be co-Lunas. Which is unheard of outside of identical sisters. But that you and he were willing to make exceptions with them.’ But then the Alpha found someone for you to share it with, me. Really the chances of me being your fated mate, come on. Get real. Me a pack slave formally known as Flea Doe. And in line to be Alpha Milton’s concubine. So, do I really think I am your fated mate? No. You don’t talk to me, you don’t kiss me unless it’s on the cheek. So why should I believe that.” she cried.