The Alpha and the Mistake

Chapter 31

It took me a couple of days before I was discharged completely from the medical ward. I couldn't be

happier to get up on my feet and be able to move about. Of course, that was before people started

smothering me. My mom, Harry, Alpha Brent, Ryder's mom, Ryder and the gang, and even people I've

never even met before. It was nice at first but after a week of gushing, praises, gifts, and all that I'd had

enough.

So I kind of took to hiding when I could again. One thing anyone refused to talk about was Mike. No

one wanted to talk about where he was or what was going to happen to him. Not even Alpha Brent

when I asked him. It was downright frustrating. As time went on and people's expressions were getting

more serious every time I asked. I had a feeling whatever answer they'd give me I wasn't going to like.

Somewhere between then and now, I decided to take matters into my own hands. It took a while to

finally find out where Mike was. I crept as silently as I could, pausing ever so often and listening for

sounds of people. These super senses were awesome. They were keeping Mike in a holding cell their

version of jail. With the war over and only Mike to watch, it wasn't difficult to convince the few guards

there were that I deserved to see Mike. If only for revenge sake.

His cell was underground. Those were reserved for the really dangerous or the really disliked. Despite

everything, I didn't see Mike as super dangerous. He was sitting on the cement floor with his knees up

to his chest and his arms resting on his knees. His head bowed, but he lifted it as soon as he heard

me. "Missy? Still alive and kicking."

"It's Brook now, Mike. I'm not going to be Missy ever again," I told him walking up to his cell.

"What are you here for, Brook? Want to gloat how now I am the unwanted mistake, now my family is all

dead?"

"Beth is alive," I replied.

"Beth is a traitor who sold out her family for a better one," he said, his tone sharp with anger.

"Can you blame her for wanting to be happy and un-abused?"

Mike scowled and looked away from me.

"Mike I'm sorry you lost your parents. I know you loved your mom," I told him, and he still wouldn't look

at me. I took a step towards his cell and grabbed the bars. I jumped back a second later with a yell. I

looked at my hands in confusion while Mike laughed as if it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen. Oh

right, I'd forgotten about the silver thing. I was going to have to throw out like half my jewelry now. I

scowled at Mike. "Oh shut up! I came here to help you, you big dumb idiot."

"You? Help me?" He repeated with disbelief. "Why would you do that when you hate me?"

"I don't hate you, Mike," I told him. "You, in the end, were doing what your dad told you to do because if

you didn't you or, worse yet, your mother, would pay for it. I hate Anne. She pretended to be my friend

and everything for no one but herself and her stupid ideas of being popular. I hate her, and she better

hope to stay far away from me," I said with a growl. I tossed a large orange letter-sized envelope, rolled

shut at the top, at him.

He flinched then looked confused. "What's this?"

I leaned against the wall near the bars but making sure not to touch them this time. "Your fresh start.

It's not a whole lot, fifty thousand, but it'll be enough to start over. Harry gave it to me to escape, but I

don't want to go to California anymore."

"You expect me to believe you're going to give me a bunch of money and what let me walk out of

here?"

"Believe it or not, but yes that's what I'm doing."

"Why?" Suspicion and wariness colored his expression.

"You lost her because of me," I said with a pang guilty. "Also, you haven't done anything so bad you

need to die for it and fear is never a good decision-maker. Now, don't get me wrong. You're a big

bullying asshole, and I never want to see you again after today, but Beth is getting her second chance

so why shouldn't you? Go far away from here and be Mike, not Mike Alpha Ryan's evil son."

"My uncle will never let me walk out of here."

"Probably not, but I convinced the guards to take a break. They think I'm extracting some kind of

revenge on you. So decide, a fresh start or die as the bad guy?" I unlocked his cell.

Mike scrambled to his feet and ran out of the door, and I smirked as I closed the cell door, making sure novelbin

not to touch the bars. I walked upstairs, leaving the keys, pleased with myself.

"So Mike's gone then?" Ryder's dad said from behind me.

I paled, debating if I wanted to turn around or not. Hesitantly I turned on my heel to face the alpha.

"Uh... Alpha, I can explain," I said, getting in touch with my kid caught red-handed in the cookie jar vibe.

"I know. There are cameras down there," he said, and I cringed. "I've been arguing with my council

since his capture for this very result. They all are too afraid he'll become his father and return for

revenge."

"We'd be no better than Ryan if we treated Mike like them. As a doctor once said, we have to be

better," I replied, glad Alpha Brent didn't seem angry.

"What doctor was this?" Ryder's dad asked.

I scowled at him. "Ugh, you're not supposed to say what but who! What a way to ruin a joke," I

complained as Alpha Brent looked at me confused.

"Right, so let's go tell the others your decision to Mike's fate and remind them no one has more say

than you."

The council wasn't exactly happy, but I stood my ground, even against Ryder. Mike deserved a second

chance. When Ryder got over being butthurt about it, he agreed with me. The council was sore for it for

a while. When a year passed, and there were no tales of the cruel, revenge-obsessed Mike, they got

over it.

I'm expecting a little brother in a few months. Mom surprised me with that bit of news. I think Dean is

the most excited and I have no clue why. I really wish that guy would get his mate already! Beth found

hers half a year after her brother left. Some up and coming, enforcer from Louisiana I heard.

All I know is she almost fell down the stairs when she first met him. I'd call her idiotic, but now I can feel

the bond, I get how it makes you do some stupid stuff. Andy recovered fine and is good as new, but

Dean and Ryder call him Disandy from time to time to piss him off. Now as for Ryder and I, we're doing

great. Despite my instincts, we're taking it slow.

I won't have some stupid bond tell me who I should love. It's not that I don't love him because I do but I

want things to be my choice. Like going to college and forcing Ryder to enroll too. If he wants to be

alpha, then he should be educated as possible. His parents really love me now.

In the end, I have to say my plan to escape to California was utterly destroyed and stomped into the

ground, but life gave me a much better plan I never saw coming, and I'm so much happier.