Forbidden Encounters

"Damn she's beautiful," Erick thought, as he finally saw his mate's face, her orange to blue-gray eyes wide as she looked back at him, and her slightly up turned nose's nostrils flared out as if she was trying to scent him back.

Her dark auburn hair was tied back in a simple ponytail, her bangs wavy as it trailed down the sides, cupping her face.

His mate's chest heaved, and when she finally gave Erick eye contact, she quickly averted her gaze to the ground.

Erick narrowed his eyes in confusion at this, but that confusion soon disappeared when she started to back away from him.

"No!" Before he could think anything else, he ran at her and grabbed her. Remembering that she was carrying plates, he rolled, protecting her from the glass that shattered onto the ground. He pinned her underneath him, her eyes seemed dazed, but she was alright.

He felt electricity run through him when he touched her soft skin, causing his blood to start heading toward his nether regions. Her wrists fit so easily in his hands before he drew them up to interlace their fingers together. He bent his head down and inhaled her scent on her neck.

"It's her," his thoughts echoed through his head as he slowly trailed down to her crotch, pressing his nose again her as her smell was stronger here, "It's really her."

As he began to pull away, he scented a totally different scent that threw him off a bit. He looked sharply up as he scented the male Omega standing across from them, his fear and shock reeked in the air. A low and hostile growl escaped Erick's throat.

"Go away. NOW!" He projected at the male.

The male shook violently in fear as he made his way out.

"No one will dare take her from me," Erick thought, in sync with his wolf, "No one!"

"Wait! Erick!" Adeline ran inside the dining hall, along with Conroy, Emmanuel, Marco, and Keric now.

"Wait," Adeline took a step toward him, "That's just a—"

Erick barked loudly at her. "That?!" He as his wolf thought, livid.

"Mine...She's MINE!" Erick barked out as he lowered protectively over her, especially as there were more males near his mate.

Adeline's and about everyone else's eyes widened as those words left his lips, but Erick could care less as he once again faced his mate, taking in her scent at her neck. However he stopped upon what he saw. Inside, he wanted to rip his throat out for not noticing it earlier.

It was healing, but there was a large bruise on her neck that looked like she had been recently strangled.

Erick's breathing shallowed as his head slowly turned to her left arm, seeing the bruise that lay right under her elbow in the shape of a grip, also in the same condition as her other one. "...Who...?" His word came out more wolf that human, "Who did this..?!"

His sniffed at the one on her neck first. The scent was faint, but it was still there. He turned and quickly did the same for her arm.

He saw red as his eyes showed absolute fury as he growled, "Marco...Conroy..."

It that moment, he was off of her and in front of Marco as he punched him in the dead center of his face, sending him flying as he hit the floor face first and skid down before his body turned and tumbled down the hallway floor with the same impetus; he landed against the wall of the staircase, crashing the icy white drywall inward along with sounds of cracking in his body.

Conroy didn't even get a chance to face him as Erick grabbed him by his throat and shoved him up, sending him straight through the wall and into the living room as he slammed onto the coffee table, the glass shattered and frame destroyed by his weight.

Just as Conroy twitched and started to stir a bit, Erick ran up to him and forcibly grabbed him by his throat, slamming him hard into the wall.

The females who were there from before backed away from them, utter terror on their face, but they knew better than to stay in there and watch as they walked quickly outside without even so much as a glance back.

Conroy looked at Erick with wide eyes as he struggled to breath. He tried to lift his chin and turn his neck toward Erick, trying to bare his submission to him.

However, as he did, Erick's nails sharpened to claws as he dug them into Conroy's neck, threatening to tear open his arteries and causing Conroy to twitch in pain.

"I have no reason to accept you submission, Conroy Delaney," Erick's voice was almost in a whisper, his lips twitched with his words, "Neither yours nor Marco's."

When Erick tightened his grip and started to pierce his arteries, Conroy tried to grasp at his hand on his throat, but he was losing strength and soon blood, his eyes starting to roll to the back of his head.

~*~*~*~

Jessica snapped out of her daze when the male got off of her. She sat up and watched in sheer terror as the male—Erick—hurled Conroy and punched Marco in his rage using the same speed he used on her. Shaking her head from the rest of the stars she saw, Jessica scrabbled back as she pulled herself to stand against the wall.

However, she couldn't move from that spot. She couldn't run at all as she watched Erick run up to Conroy and slam him into the wall, imbedding him inside it as he choked him. Her eyes shakily looked at Adeline and Keric, her lips dry and trembling—not even a sound was able to escape them.

"Why..? Why?!" Jessica thought as she looked back and forth from Erick to them, "Why...are the Alphas just standing there?!"

Her body shook against the wall, her legs a fierce combination of weak and stiff.

"Erick!" Adeline shouted, her monotone voice held an underlying emotion of panic, Keric behind her as they finally ran to him, "Stop! You don't want your...your mate to see this do you?! What do you think she's feeling watching this?!"

"...Mate...?" The thought tried to register in Jessica's mind, but her state of being kept her in too much shock to react.

"She'd thank me!!" Erick barked out at her, his voice full of anger, his grip getting tighter.

"No! She wouldn't!" Adeline told him, still trying to calm him down, "She's scared of you, Erick!"

Jessica watched as his tense body started to relax at her words. Erick glanced over his shoulder and looked at her.

"Let him go, Alpha. Please," Adeline spoke softer, "Your...mate doesn't need to see this."

"W-w-w...wait," Jessica's thought froze in her mind before her eyes widened even further, the words Adeline spoke finally brought enough strength with it to break through her shock as she processed the words, "Al...Alpha...?! He's the Alpha?!?!"

~/~/~/~

Erick looked at his mate, fear drenched all over her face, causing his wolf to whine inside of him. He turned back toward Conroy, a low growl in his chest as he watched Conroy's eyes start to flutter shut, blood running down his neck; the artery pumping furiously with blood it was going to lose.

He wanted him to die, but the look on his mate's face repeated in his head like a nightmare. He never wanted her to look at him like that, especially now that he finally sees her. With one last snarl, he retracted his claws and let Conroy drop to the floor; blood pouring out of his neck as he breathed deeply, coughing.

"...Why is she hurt?" Erick asked, looking down at Conroy who was too weak to get up, but he was able to reach for his neck to stop further blood from leaving him.

"Yesterday we were making runs though the surrounding towns," Keric replied, his nose twitched at the smell of blood, "Conroy, Marco, Emmanuel, and myself. When were arrived in Jackson, we scented a lone wolf."

Erick growled, showing he was still on the danger line and wanted him to get to the point, "Why is she hurt, Keric?"

"She ran from us. Marco caught up with her first and...tackled her to the ground. She tried to get away and Conroy..." Keric cleared his throat, "slammed her into a tree and choked her."

Erick growled in rage and enmity, staring at Conroy with death dealing eyes as Keric continued, "I intervened and Marco grabbed her arm to get her to come along with us back to the den."

Erick turned his head at Keric and glared at him, his elongated teeth bared at him, his hands in fists he wanted to beat the shit out of him as well, "Why did you allow her to be hurt, Keric?"

Keric averted his eyes and kept his voice leveled to not upset him further, "We did not know that she, a lone wolf, was your mate. Otherwise, it would have never happened, my Alpha."

Erick turned his head sharply at Adeline, who let out a small gulp and averted her eyes as he did, "Why was she not sent to the Infirmary after being admitted in?"

"...They were bruises," Adeline answered, voice somewhat on the softer side, "I'd figure that she'd heal—"

"Bullshit!" Erick barked, "Otherwise she would have healed before I got back!"