Chapter The Dance #7
A slower song came on as Dalton led Paige away from the girls. We could all hear him though. Melanie ran over to me linking, “Is he proposing?!” I answered, “He is.” Melanie clapped and bounced up and down. I had to force my eyes away from her breasts.
Paige’s gasp drew my attention. Dalton was down on one knee. Tears filled Paige’s eyes, and she said, “Of course I’ll marry you! I was beginning to think you weren’t going to ask.” I laughed as Dalton slid the ring on her finger.
I snapped us all champagne and howled in celebration with my family and Dalton’s. The girls instantly surrounded Paige. After things settled down, I used the attention on Paige and Dalton to slip out with Melanie.
My wife asked, “Where are we going?” I led her to an empty classroom, picked her up, and put her on the teacher's desk. Oden said, “This is one of your best ideas.” I rolled my eyes at him. I whispered in her ear, “I’m stealing a moment with my mate at the dance.” I lightly nibbled on her ear then kissed and gently sucked on her neck.
Melanie moaned softly as her scent intensified. The smell of her arousal was driving me mad. I kissed her lips gently and her arms wrapped around my neck. I slid my hand up her thigh, gently tracing her skin. I trailed my fingers along her underwear, finding her soaking wet.
I moved it out of the way and slid my finger inside her. Melanie gasped and I slid my tongue into her mouth. I used my other hand to gently cup the breast that had been teasing me. Melanie began to pant. I slowly drove her over the edge.
When she came, I kissed her forehead and told her, “You look so beautiful when you come apart for me.” My wife blushed. I withdrew my hand and led her back to the gym. Jason linked me, “Go wash your damn hands, you pervert. I can smell my sister all over you and it’s disturbing.”
I snorted replying, “She’s my wife.” Jason shot me a look. I told Melanie, “I’ll be right back.” She nodded and I left the gym. When I finished washing my hands, I began to feel foggy. I linked Oden, “What the hell?” Oden answered, “I don’t know.”
I fell to my knees feeling like I just had to close my eyes. I vaguely heard someone calling for me before I felt the tingles on my skin. I whispered, “I just have to close my eyes.” Then I was out like a light.
I woke up to Everly laughing. Tristan said, “I had hoped it was you, Everly.” I bolted up asking, “What the hell is going on?” Everly frowned, “Alexander? What are you doing in here? You were just outside.”
I groaned, “The Ribbon isn’t supposed to take me if I’m awake! Now the damn thing can make me tired and send me places? Because waiting for me to fall asleep is too damn convenient?! Son of a bitch.”
Tristan gasped, “Wait, the Ribbon? You met your mate? Congratulations, man.” We heard a commotion outside. I heard my own growl and a hit. My eyes widened in horror because I knew what this event was.
I asked, “T, is this Elise’s Luna Ceremony?” Tristan nodded. I ran to the door. I yelled, “FOLLOW ME NOW, T!” Tristan groaned but I could hear the both of them following me. I burst out the door and yelled, “EVERYBODY STOP!”
The other me whirled around. His eyes filled with hope now that I was here. I could see the anger, frustration still behind them. Angela popped to me and whispered, “You can fix it.” I nodded, “I’ll fix it, little one. This wasn’t your fault.”
I yelled, “WARRIORS ON ME NOW!” My dad called, “Son, what’s going on?” Oden linked, “You’re not noticing something.” I replied, “I’m busy. What am I not noticing?” Oden answered, “We aren’t here alone in this reality. Mate is here.” FUCK!
I explained, “We have to go and get to Red Run right now!” My mom said, “If you say so.” She popped away. My dad growled, “FUCKING SERIOUSLY?” Peter asked, “What’s going on?” Elise and EJ ran back in wolf form with the pack.
Elise looked terrified when she asked, “What’s wrong with Ladybug?” Sam answered, “Nothing. She just got grounded.” I declared, “My mate is being fucking kidnapped, but my Melanie is here too. Yours is probably with her. So, we have to go.” I felt pain rip through me.
I snarled, “SHE IS HURT!” I popped to my mate. The other Melanie’s eyes were wide with horror. My Melanie whispered, “I saved him this time.” I looked down at the man who looked like Tristan. I grabbed him by the throat.
The other Melanie screamed, “XANDER PLEASE, don’t hurt him! It’s T!” I assured her, “This is not your version of T.” I used my pushing power. I reached out for the Coven members minds creating this illusion and crushed their brains, so the illusion disappeared.
I snapped the neck of the Warlock I was holding. I heard a gasp for breath and turned around. I roared in anger because my Melanie had been shot. The smell of her blood hadn’t reached me until now. What the hell kind of illusion had they put my mate in?!
My Melanie was fading. I growled, “Come the fuck on! I need to heal you!” Melanie reasoned, “The Ribbon sends us back if we get hurt.” I tried to heal her, but she was already gone. I roared, enraged. The stupid illusion had kept me from smelling her blood.
I could hear fighting outside and threw everyone in the room out of my way and grabbed the man with the gun. I snarled, “Did you shoot my mate?” The other Melanie whispered, “He shot her twice. She pushed me out of the way and then… T… what’s going on? How was that not T? I don’t understand?”
The other me burst into the room and ran over to her. He growled, “MINE!” He picked her up off the floor. I squeezed the man’s throat, “Where is my mother and who the fuck are you?” He wheezed, “Slade Carter.” Well, he must be wearing a Fairy charm somewhere because he didn’t look like himself.
I threw him at EJ saying, “He’s the leader of the Hunters. Where is mom?” I heard my dad roar in rage and the other me popped away. I felt a distant pull to my mom, so I popped to her. This realities version of my mom was gasping for breath.
I knelt down with the other me and started to heal her. When we were done, she jumped up, “Ok, that’s it. I’m with Swear-y Haley! FUCKING WITCH BITCHES AND THEIR FUCKING ILLUSIONS! She told us all and we didn’t listen!”
I chuckled, “That’s my mom.” Oden agreed, “That’s definitely what they call our mom.
” It was funny and at least they weren’t referring to her height.
The other version of my mom said, “Well, your mom is right. Swear-y Haley said we just need to end those bitches and put them in fucking ditches. That’s a direct quote. ”
I grinned saying, “Definitely my mom.” Mom waved, “This one had a dang Fairy charm too!” My dad pulled her to him asking, “What happened? Who is this woman?” My mom ground out, “I thought it was Melanie. I mean she looked like Sam and Drake. She was putting up a fucking fight about leaving, but I just thought it was some type of trauma.”
“Or that she’d been put into a state of shock from being attacked. Then the illusion snapped, and I grabbed her Fairy charm. I was about to ask why in the damn hell she had one then she stabbed me. It only happened because she looked like Melanie. These Witches are a problem, and they must go.”
My dad held onto her tightly. My mom snorted, “It wasn’t that bad of a stabbing, Eric.” My dad growled, “No getting stabbed.” My mom sighed, “Christ Almighty. I will never hear the end of this.” I asked, “Where’s Blade?”
My mom groaned, “He’ll never leave my damn side again, that’s where Blade is. Does anyone care that I killed the fake Melanie?” I laughed, “I’m sure this realities me would’ve loved to kill her.” The other me growled, “Yes, I would’ve. Mom, this is the real Melanie and she’s mine.”
My mom said, “I figured that was the case since the other reality you came in to save her from the damn army waiting to take her.” I frowned asking, “Army? What army?” I popped back to the front of the McAlister’s house and gaped at the sight before me.
There were wolves down all over the place. Tank was hurt. I popped to him as he coughed up blood. Ziggy shouted, “TANK!” Tank wheezed, “They are trying to kidnap Ladybug. I have to fight.” I knew then and there he’d done the same that night in our reality.
I told him, “She’s safe with your me. I’m going to heal you.” Ziggy snarled, “Someone fucking stomped on my mate!” I healed his ribs and lung and stepped back. I turned and promptly snarled when I saw Robert wasn’t in chains.
I popped beside my mate’s bully and threw him on the ground. Jason asked, “Alexander, what’s wrong?” I answered, “He’s part of the plot to take her!” Robert said, “No, I’m not. You’re wrong! You just don’t like me because you’re jealous.”
I scoffed, “Of what? A weak ass Alpha blood wolf who lusts after she wolves that are not his? A man who has been bullying a little girl for over a decade? A man who plotted against his pack and his Beta’s daughter because his biological dad told him to? Please.”
“You’re weak and pathetic. You also seem to have forgotten there are people here who can make you tell the truth, you asshole. Now, someone that’s here take over Black Path so I can get the fuck out of here and heal my damn mate.”
“My wife saved her younger self, and her brother, from being shot. When she knew it wasn’t her damn brother! God damn it! My Melanie knows this wasn’t real and she dove in front of that goddamn Warlock anyway!”
Oden linked, “If you saw someone trying to shoot EJ and Brutus we’d do the same thing. Or any of our brothers. I used him because Apollo is mate’s big brother.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know full well what I would do.
Tristan asked, “Ladybug took a shot for a fake me?” I replied, “Yours wasn’t shot though so that’s good.” Tristan growled, “When you go back to your reality tell my sister I’m the one who takes bullets for her. I don’t care what reality it is, she’s not to do that.”