Beauty and The Beta (Bailey) novel Chapter 21

Chapter 21 Miles

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Today was not going well. Hearing my former fated mate had disobeyed what she had been. ordered by going to another pack for an interview infuriates me. Her brother needs to get her under better control. Well, both her brother and her father. But, this is what happens when a she- wolf is allowed too much freedom, too much access to education. She learns too much. She thinks she is above all others. Well, not in my pack she wasn’t, nor would she ever be.

I would not permit her to work for another Alpha. That girl would forever belong to this pack. So she knew her place. I may have rejected her, but she was the mate the moon goddess had blessed me with, and I did not know if her going somewhere else would make me weaker. When she was away at university, I did not feel the same. I felt less strong. Though, at that time, I had not rejected her and my wolf pined for her, the pathetic f**ker.

He would whimper and whine for his mate. Beg for me to bring her home. Why he would want that pathetic excuse for a she-wolf I do not know. Even when she came home having undertaken. something of a makeover. Less of a wallflower, more of a show-stopper at first glance, but underneath it all she was still Bailey West. The pack geek that did nothing but irritate the f**k out of me.

But I had told nobody of our predicament. Why would I share that she was my mate? She was an embarrassment. Forever a laughing-stock of our pack. So I had nobody to gain advice from. And all the books I had scanned through within the pack library had not brought me the answers I needed about whether her presence or lack of it, within the pack, rejected or not would make me weaker. I was going to be the next Alpha. I could not risk being weak. I needed to be the strongest I could be. Or I would be the laughing-stock of the region. Of all the other Alphas.

So, I told her she must stay here. Because with nobody to turn to for advice to learn if her being absent would make me weaker, I had no other option. When my brother discovered the truth, I hoped he might provide some enlightenment, but he was as much use as a chocolate teapot. And spent more time laughing at the mess I was in. He knew as little as me. So I was no better off. So, as much as I despise the st*pid b*tch, she had to stay. I could make her suffer. Make her feel the pain as I found conquests to enjoy…

While she slowly went crazy through rejection and her lack of purpose with no role within our pack and no potential for a job outside of the pack. I would make her suffer for ever thinking she was better than me.

I glanced at the warrior as he walked away. Before darkly looking at Bailey. “See what you have done now? Another f**king person knows about this sh it?” I snapped.

She widens her big brown eyes at me almost innocently. “I think it was you that was yelling.

Miles.”

I growled in anger. I don’t understand her. Out of all the people in pack she seemed to be the only one who thought it acceptable to answer me back with disregard for my rank. She infuriated. me. Though since she returned from her studies she was a lot more pleasant to look at than she ever had been before. Not that it was relevant.

“Do not go there Bailey, you stu pid b*tch. And I will say again, that job you went for the interview for is not happening. You belong here. This is your pack. I will be your Alpha soon enough. You

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Chapter 21 Miles

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will answer to me and no other.” I dictate, because I know that I need her here to ensure my strength. She was my fated mate. Or had been until I rejected her. The fated mate brings strength to their significant other’s wolf. I would not risk that. Not for anything. She would have to suffer.

“So you keep saying.” She rolled her eyes, and I felt anger rippling under my skin. I needed to get away from her, before I knocked her flying. I have been taught not to hit a woman. But this one, well, she pushed those boundaries, and certainly tested my control. Besides, I needed to speak to that warrior, Harley, I think Bailey called him.