The Alpha novel Chapter 10

Beta Mallory came in the morning to get me. He took me to get breakfast and then said it was almost time for the therapy appointment.

Truthfully, I didn’t want to go. What would it do for me? They expect me to confide in some random person and tell my whole life story so they could ‘help me’. No. Pointless. What help could they provide? Could they take away twelve years of abuse? No.

Pointless.

We arrived at some office. It was a nice size, a dark brown interior with maroon furniture.

Quickly I met a doctor. He was about an inch taller than Beta Mallory. He had darker skin, possibly of Spanish descent, curly dark brown hair, and dark brown eyes that stood out with his natural crow feet.

“Good afternoon, I’m Doctor Socorro. Nice to meet you.” He held out a hand to shake and a smile on his face.

It was quite friendly and infectious. Dang it, I wasn’t supposed to like this.

“V-v-violet…” I mumbled and shyly shook his hand.

'It’s your fucking name and you can’t even say it.'

“Alright Violet, lovely name, shall we get started?” I nodded and he said his bidding to Beta Mallory and took me to his office.

It resembled the lobby, with maroon furniture and nut-brown walls. It had a window, a desk, a beanbag, a sofa, it was very inviting.

“Please, make yourself comfortable.” He walked over to his desk and grabbed a clipboard and sat in the seat across from the sofa I sat at.

“How about we start by telling a little bit about ourselves? I know very little about you, only your name and a glimpse of your past- in fact not a lot of people know what you’ve been through…” he had a very smooth, nice voice, “so, I’ll go first.”

I nodded as he waited for a sign by me.

“As you know- my name is Socorro. My parents are from Spain, and I was born there but moved here when I was younger. I do visit often. I’m forty-three. I have a beautiful mate, we’ve been married for twenty-four years and we have three wonderful children. One boy and two girls.” He smiled at the end and let me speak.

There isn’t much to me.

“I-I’m t-twenty one….” I had no clue what to say, “...u-umm… A-alpha D-Derek i-is m-my mate.” In the end, I shrugged. There wasn’t anything el-

Oh my. What if Alpha Derek didn’t want people to know we’re mates?

Tears pricked my eyes as I knew I’d be punished for my slip-up.

“Violet, it’s okay.” He assured seeing I was getting upset.

I nodded and sniffled.

'Crybaby.'

'You’re seriously gonna cry?'

'About something you said?'

'Fucking pathetic...'

“It’s okay.” He smiled. Something about him made me want to talk to him. It was frustrating to me, I didn’t want to do this but he made it seem different.

“Now through-out this whole session- if you don’t want to answer or go into detail, you are never obligated to. If you feel uncomfortable- you are welcome to leave.” Again, I nodded. “And of course, this is confidential.”

“So, Violet, what brings you here?” He inquired.

I shrugged.

“A-alpha wanted m-me to c-come.”

He wrote on his board and gave me a reassuring smile.

He asked me some more ice-breaker questions and quite truthfully I found it a little easy and slightly refreshing to talk to him.

Have you ever met with a counselor?

Generally, how do you feel? Describe your mood?

What are your views on therapy?

They were fine, the next one was not.

“Violet, one thing I’ve been filled in on- some suicidal tendencies…” He trailed and looked at me, it wasn’t full of judgment, it was full of acceptance and it was understanding.

“Now, what causes you to feel this way?”

“Th-the...v…”’ I stopped. No. I couldn’t tell him.

So instead of answering, I shook my head.

“C-can we s-stop?” I was hesitant in answering and I felt like it was wrong of me to do.

He smiled at me and shook his head ‘yes’.

He got up and as we walked out, he said I did well and he would like for me to come back, I nodded.

Beta Mallory walked me back to Alpha Derek’s house making conversation on the way.

“B-beta M-Mallory-” I started only to be cut off by him.

“Viv,” he stopped me using his nickname for me, “I’ve told you, just call me Mallory.” He lightly chuckled and I gave a small smile.

“Viv, is that a smile?” He teased, which caused me to blush a little bit.

I lightly shook my head as a small laugh left me lips.

“O-okay, M-Mallory, do you l-live in A-alp-pha D-Derek’s h-house?” I questioned.

“Technically no, but I do have a room there. I mean, I’m over there quite frequently so sometimes I’ll just stay the night- but I do have my own house. In fact…” He trailed and then directed his hand to a house we were passing, “that’s my house.”

It was a light beige, single-family home. A two-story with some windows and a set of patio chairs in the front.

“I-it’s cute,” I told him honestly.

“Why, thank you.” He chuckled.

We arrived at the house and stopped by the kitchen to get some food. I had some fruit and water as I wasn’t really hungry.

'That’s why you’re not gaining weight.'

'Chris would’ve already fucked you for not following his orders.'

I knew they were wrong but it was hard to argue with the voices in your head. Weight isn’t something I can bump up overnight. Beta Mallory and Reseda both told me that. Alpha Derek hasn’t so much, I don’t recall us talking about it.

Then, again, the need to see my mate struck. Sage was whining to see him.

“M-Mallory, is A-alpha De-Derek in h-his office?” I was hesitant in asking him, but my wolf was persistent.

“Yeah, do you want to see him?” A smirk grew on his face when he asked, I blushed and did a mousy nod, “awe, the bond, adorable…” his eyes zoned out for a second meaning he was mind linking someone, most likely Alpha Derek. “Alright, yeah I’ll take you. Follow along, madam.” He cheesily said and did a fake bow which earned a small giggle from me.

He walked me from the kitchen upstairs and till we reached a big brown door. His office. I felt winded just from walking up the stairs, come to think of it, I’ve done a lot of walking today.

My heart fluttered as Mallory knocked on the door, announcing his name as well.

“Come in.” A gruff reply came from the other side. Mallory opened the door and told me to go in, greeted his Alpha, then left.