The Alpha’s Fated Mate Is an Outcast

Mr. Ruderth had his driver stop the car at the gate, pure rage boiling inside of him. Just like she'd been told, Eleni had stayed under the shed close to the walled fence of the mansion, waiting for Alexis. 

Her face furrowed when she sighted her husband's car driving over towards the gate that was being opened by his guard. She rushed over without a second thought and followed them in, hoping that Alexis was with them.

Surely she must have met her father as she wanted. 

Mr. Ruderth stepped down from the car, and so did Eve. But there was no sign of Alexis, and now she was confused. Ruderth himself didn't look like he was going to say a word to her because he was heading towards the entrance of the mansion. 

"Adolf, Honey, wait, where is Alexis?"

Mr. Ruderth's jaw clenched. He didn't stop, storming his way towards the marble stairs that led to his entrance, his daughter following beside him. 

Eleni didn't let him get into the house, grabbing his hand. "Adolf, wait, you're not telling me anything. Alexis, you—you have to have met her, right? Where is she? Why isn't she with you two?" 

Mr. Ruderth sneered, pissed off and irritated. He turned to look at her face, and when he saw that worried look—that expression, it made him all the more furious, snatching his hand back so roughly, that she staggered back a few steps.

"You knew." It wasn't a question. His tone equaled the rage in his eyes. "You knew your daughter was coming there, yet you let her." 

Then he glanced at Eve, nodding to the door. "Inside." 

Eve nodded without question, making her way inside immediately. 

He faced his wife. "What is your problem, Eleni? You knew that girl was trouble, you and I knew she was never going to manifest. We never should have let her live, but you wouldn't listen. Even if we couldn't get rid of her, we could have given her away somewhere, anywhere, but you wanted to keep her! YOU DID, ELENI!" 

Eleni stared at him like she had never met the man she was looking at. Her fingers trembled by her side. "Do you…do you hear yourself, Adolf?" 

Her lips trembled as though she were trying to hold herself back from breaking down. 

"You were and you are willing to hurt your own child because of what? Because she is different? It's not her fault that she isn't like everyone else. It's dangerous for her, and it's our job to protect her as her parents, but you…you don't just not love her, Adolf, you have become one of the dangers she needs and always needed protection from. What did you want me to do? Sit and watch my child get taken away from me? Well, unlike you, I love Alexis, and I would rather die along with my child than abandon her for my own selfishness!" 

She yelled at him at the very end, causing the man to grow angrier than he was.

"Do it away from me!" he snapped at her. "If you're going to be such a sweet mother to her, do it away from me! You think she deserves our love? A girl who is putting our lives at risk. I have business all around, what do you think will happen when word gets out that a man like me brought into this world, a girl who is something incomprehensible? A girl that could easily be mistaken for a human? Over my dead body!"

Then he stormed closer to her, pointing a furious finger in her face. "Eleni, if your daughter implicates me and my daughter in this nonsense she started, I promise you, I'll kill her with my own hands. You two better pretend you have no relation to me, or else!"

His threat was no joke, and it looked like Eleni got the memo, pure and clear, because of the way she stood, staring at him shakily.

"Get out of my house. NOW!" He turned around and began stalking off into his mansion.

She stood frozen for a moment, her trembling hands clutching her dress. Her eyes darted widely to the ground, her breaths shallow and uneven.

If Alexis hadn't come back with her father, that meant she was still at the Alpha's mansion. Did anyone find out? Has anything happened to her? 

"No…no, no," she muttered, shaking her head fiercely, her breaths coming out in shallow, frantic gasps. Her feet, though weak and still in that moment, carried her towards the gate, and she left, abandoning their things outside to run off—to find Alexis.

Her chest burned with each run, but she didn't stop, she couldn't. She thought of calling, but Alexis didn't have a cell, never had one. Her father never permitted it. 

Everything with Alexis was a risk—nothing good came with her. He never missed reminding her of that every single day. 

———

"Dad!" Eve turned to her father, who sat at the loveseat, a glass of alcoholic wine in his grasp. The man still seemed pissed off, and it's been about thirty minutes now. 

"Dad—" 

"What is it?" He snapped towards her. "Eve, what is it?" 

Eve jolted a bit, having never seen or heard him snap at her like that before. And as if he noticed, Mr. Ruderth breathed, rubbing his temple. "I'm sorry. What's the problem?" 

She fluttered her eyes, fidgeting with her fingers. "The gala…has it really been canceled?" 

"You heard the supreme alpha." 

"But… W-was it because of Alexis? I saw the Alpha holding her. Are they—" 

"Are they what? Mates? Will you listen to yourself?" The man seemed all the more annoyed with her dumbness. "Your sister hasn't manifested. She is nothing, not even an omega, and you think…she would be a mate to a supreme alpha, an alpha above us standard alphas?" 

"Then why did he cancel the gala because of her?"

"It wasn't because of Alexis. Something went wrong, I'm sure of it." 

The girl seemed devastated. "Am I never going to find a mate then? You wanted to introduce me to the alpha. W-what are we going to do? What if he takes Alexis instead?" 

"Take Alexis? On what grounds?" he questioned. 

Eve fidgeted with her now sweaty fingers, irritation and displeasure crawling up her spine. "She's prettier than me." 

"And?" Mr. Ruderth didn't disagree. "Do you think beauty will override the outcast she is?" 

"Wouldn't it? Dad, the alpha didn't look like he was going to hurt Alexis, if anything, he looked…" 

"Looked what?" 

"Interested. He was interested. I know what I saw." 

"And you are sure of this?" 

"Yes." She frantically nodded. "I really want this, the alpha, to be his substitute mate. And I'm worried. What if something is going on between Alexis and the alpha—" 

"What could be going on between a supreme alpha and a woman who can't even be considered an omega?" 

"But… Y-you told me you would make it happen, that I can somehow fill in as a substitute, but none of that happened, and Alexis—"

"You shut up and calm down," Mr. Ruderth snapped, chucking down his glass of wine. "I know what I'm doing. I already have my plans, so keep quiet. I'll meet the alpha myself and figure out what the hell is going on."

"A man like Keelion Fane will and would never have anything to do with an outcast like Alexis, and I'm sure of it!"