The Four Beta Brothers – Chapter 50
JUNIPER
Axel’s hair dripped onto my hand, and it was the only noise that passed between us. He looked at my lips and then back at my eyes.
“I wanted to tell you so much more,” Axel said. “I probably pushed it too far by even saying that much. If you had remembered everything because of me, then…”
sked me for his trust about why they didn’t tell me, and I agreed to put my faith in him. However, I ran out of his apartment before Ethan gave me any real details.
bed up and down.
ust tell me.”
ed with our family, because Alpha Williams felt it was the pack’s responsibility to take care of you, since your parents were putting their lives on the line for us.”
real estate agents. They never even crossed the street with
u were too young to understand what they did,” A
they really do then?” Part of me wanted to argue against Axel, tell him he was wrong. Bob and Crissa were just ordinary werewolves. They worked during the
that. All I know is that it was dangerous, and it was
accident that caused memory loss, but if our families were so close, then why leave?” I asked. I should’ve aske
ut the accident?” Axel said.
wished it would disappear. There were days I even felt jealous of your memory loss.” He paused and looked down. “You’ve been through a lot today. I’ll tell you if you really want to know, but it won’t be easy to hear. Maybe you should get some sleep and see how you feel in the morning.”
loss of my entire childhood before the accident. I wanted to know what was so terrible that my parents would leave and never come back.
d were exhausted. I was
now, then find out later and regret it.
that day, and other times, it was pouring rain.
away that day at some sort of wolfball training camp, and the rest of us went outside to play. We were playing hide and go seek, and Ethan was the one who was supposed to find everyone. Asher and I ran off towards the treehouse we had built, and you ran off with…”
ay while looking at me. “We used to have another brother.”
, flashes of my dream hitting me like a bird hitting a plane. Axel looked at me, so I explained, “I dreamed about him, but I
He couldn’t say anything.
hen Asher and I heard you scream. It ripped away a part of my soul, and we took off in a run to find you. We ran so fast, but it wasn’t fast enough.
end us away to shield us from seeing James and you like that while he linked the pack for help.
mber any of us.
ists. I smelled blood from where his nails punctured his skin.
Axel said.
taut with anticipation. Finding out that James was real,
ut the bond you had with James was something else.”
I could only remember his turquoise eyes. I couldn’t remember the sound of his laugh or the way his smile looked, yet he was supposed to be my mate.
I should feel, knowing my potential mate was dead.
d, accepting that I would never be able to know whether or not James was actually my mate or if we just shared a special bond as children. Werewolves weren’t supposed to find out who their mates were until their eighteenth birthday, and with how difficult it was to find a mate
several minutes.
ying with them. I was thinking about too many things, so it was difficult to settle on just one thing.
an accident. But there was something gnawing at my insides. “Why couldn’t any of you tell me all of this?”
a of all werewolves gives an order, it’s a serious thing.”
”
t so happy to see you again that I was willing to do almost anything, even if it meant keeping the past from you a secret. I’m not proud of it, though.” Axel still couldn’t look at me, and I couldn’t tell if it was because he felt ashamed of keeping me in the dark or if describing his brother’s death was too much for him.
I felt even more drawn to him, and I just wanted to wipe his pain away.
my towel fell away from my body. I cupped his cheeks and pressed my lips against his again.