The challenge two alphas one girl novel Chapter 25

Thaddeus’ POV

I had not even glimpsed my little mate, Friday, yesterday so I woke up rather disgruntled. I went straight to her room and was surprised to find her up and dressed at this early hour. She was in a short-sleeved mini black dress with her waves tousled and billowing all around her. She flung herself at me and I scooped her up eagerly. I placed a chaste k!ss to her l!ps.

“Maze hid you from me yesterday,” I said, grumbling inwardly.

She k!ssed my nose, my cheeks and my eyelids.

“I missed you,” she said simply.

“I missed you too,” I murmured. If Maze insisted on monopolising his time with Friday, I would do the same.

“I have a fun day planned,” I said, chuckling.

Friday’s POV

Thaddeus came to my room early and I was thrilled to see him. I drank a cookies n’ cream Frappuccino he had brought me while he drove me to the location of our date. I really did need to cut back on the sugar come to think of it. Thaddeus was driving away from the centre of the town. We passed fields and lush greenery. Eventually he turned onto a long private driveway. A h.uge ranch-style house loomed in the distance. I gasped when I saw them. There were the most gorgeous horses prancing around the field in front of the house. Some were jet black and gleaming. Others were as white as untouched snow.

Thaddeus opened my door for me. “My parents own a couple ranches and this is one of them,” he explained, grinning at how excited I was.

“Have you ever ridden a horse before?” He asked.

“No, but I’ve ridden a wolf,” I said innocently. He smirked.

Thaddeus led me over to the field where the horses trotted to and fro.

“Pick a horse,” he instructed.

“That one!” I said, pointing to a very shiny completely black horse.

Thaddeus was hesitant. “That one is a stallion,” he said.

Stallions were difficult to control because they were male horses who were not castrated and therefore more aggressive due to the hormones they had.

“I can handle it!” I insisted.

“If you say so, little Luna,” he said, chuckling.

Thaddeus saddled up the stallion who was called Blackjack. I was so excited. Thaddeus also rode a stallion, a brown one called Brownie. These names were not that creative but the horses were gorgeous. I followed Thaddeus’ lead. He was holding the reigns for both horses so we could ride them side by side.

“Do your twin brothers have mates?” I asked him.

“No not yet, do yours?” Thaddeus asked.

I snorted. “Definitely not and they both say they don’t want a mate,” I said. Fallon and Fargo were nicer to me than Fang was but they were also much more childish than Fang. They argued incessantly with each other. I pitied the girl who would have to be their mate.

“You know identical twins and triplets usually share just one mate because they were once one fertilised egg that split into two or three,” explained Thaddeus.

I was aware of the sharing a mate thing because of my twin brothers. They could not share anything without throwing temper tantrums so it made sense that they did not want a mate they would have to share.

“My brothers hate that fact,” I told Thaddeus.

“Timothy wants a mate really badly. He’s a hopeless r0mantic like me I guess. Titus, on the other hand, couldn’t be bothered. I actually dined with your twin bros yesterday,” said Thaddeus grinning.

I gr0aned. “Were they awful company?”

“I prefer them to Fang,” Thaddeus said, shrugging.

I laughed. “That’s not much of a compliment. Do the twins have a problem with the actual sharing part?”

“No,” said Thaddeus. “It’s not that. Titus doesn’t want a mate because he thinks being fated is like being forced into a relationship and anytime you tell Titus what to do, he is sure to do the opposite.”

I smiled. I was really looking forward to leaving Marigold a few days from now and meeting Thaddeus’ family and his pack members.

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“I can’t believe there are open-minded packs out there where me being wolf-less wouldn’t stop me from being welcomed into the pack,” I said more to myself than to Thaddeus.

Thaddeus smiled sadly. “I’m sorry I didn’t find you sooner.”

“It’s not your fault!” I said quickly.

Thaddeus and I rode through a private trail where flowering vines wrapped around the trees on either side. I had an idea. Not a smart one but an idea none the less.

“Let’s race!” I said to Thaddeus snatching my own reign from him and galloping off on the horse.

“No! Friday! Wait!” Thaddeus yelled.

He tailed me. I encouraged Blackjack to run faster. Thaddeus sped up. I giggled playfully and made Blackjack take a sharp turn. That was a mistake. The horse stopped suddenly, whinnying. The horse raised its front legs and tossed me off of it. I hit the ground with a thud. I saw dark sp0ts clouding my vision.

A mere split-second later, I was in Thaddeus’ arms. He was caressing me, checking me carefully for bruises. I m0aned. My body throbbed. Thaddeus scooped me up and put me in the car. He sped back to the packhorse. He carried me in. Theo came rushing towards us and Thaddeus sent him to find the pack doctors and nurses. I sighed, holding onto the Thaddeus. His warmth was comforting and kept me from feeling the pain. Maze came into view, concern evident in his expression.

“What happened?” Asked Maze.

“We went horseback riding and she fell off her horse,” said Thaddeus, his voice and expression pained.

“Baby sis, we need to have a chat,” Fang insisted.

“No, she fell onto her left side, thank goodness. It could’ve been worse. She could’ve broken her neck,” said Thaddeus, his voice cracking a little.

“She’s loopy,” Thaddeus said. “Now is not a good time, Fang.”

“So I can’t go out at all?” Friday asked the doctor.

“Of course, you can, honey,” said Doctor Tom-san, an elderly woman with cat eye glasses. “But you’ll need to keep the foot elevated and avoid too much activity.”

“It’s times like this I do actually wish I weren’t wolf less,” mumbled Friday.

Maze’s POV

When I saw Thaddeus rushing into the pack house, cradling Friday and calling for the doctors, my heart plummeted. I ran to her. She had a few scratches here and there. There were no obvious deformities but she could not weight-bear on her left foot. The doctors confirmed it was broken. It would take Friday six weeks to heal. Friday lamented the fact that she was wolf-less and thus healed slowly. I stroked her hair and k!ssed her knuckles. I expected Thaddeus to growl at this but he was lost in his own thoughts. I made sure the doctors gave her strong pain-k!llers.

Friday was singing to herself. The pain-k!llers definitely did the trick. She pretended her hand was a microphone and extended it to Thaddeus so he could sing into it. He did not know the song and neither did I when Friday’s “microphone” reached me. She told us we were both disqualified from the compet!tion for being underprepared and that the consolation prize was a year worth of soup. She fell asleep after that.

I walked with Thaddeus as he carried Friday up to the Alpha floor. I wished I was carrying her but it was technically still his day.

“Thanks,” said Thaddeus matter-of-factly, nodding.

“For what?” I asked, genuinely curious.

“For not being a h.uge j.erk about this to Friday or even to me,” he said.

I half-smiled. I guessed my reputation really did precede me.

Friday’s POV

My head was spinning. I was sandwiched between Thaddeus and Maze who both had their mouths on my neck and their fangs in my flesh. I heard a strange noise. It distracted me momentarily which was not at all an easy feat. I had fallen asleep still between my two alphas. I was nursing a plethora of hickeys and bite marks. I extricated myself to investigate. Someone was whispering. I looked around. I sp0tted my reflection in a nearby mirror and gasped. My brown eyes had turned black.

I awoke with a start. I was drenched in sweat. Thaddeus rushed to me and enveloped me in his arms. He stroked my hair and k!ssed my forehead, squeezing me tightly, cradling my head against his c.hest.

“Shhh, little Friday,” said Thaddeus.

I looked up at him and he looked down at me. Our l!ps met and the electricity I had become accustomed to coursed through me as k!ssed me passionately, cupping my face in his hands. I straddled him, kneeling, with my arms around his neck. We were nose to nose, forehead to forehead. My left foot was throbbing inside its cast due to the awkward position but I ignored it.

“Friday,” said Thaddeus, his blue eyes anxious.

“Yeah,” I said softly.

“I love you,” he whispered.