4. An unexpected meeting (part 2)

Aiden´s P.O.V.

I don´t have time to duck away as he punches me right in the face. Hard. I fly at least a meter before I land on the floor, my ears ringing and my head throbbing painfully. To my dismay, I´ve fallen in some of the broken glass from the tray I had let go of a few moments ago. Pain shoots through me but I can´t pay it any mind, as it is time for me to go right NOW.

The Alpha who hasn´t even directed his whole attention to me is currently looking at the human who is too out of it by now to even comprehend the situation. This is my chance. Before he can turn around again, I get up from the floor in my dizzy state and try my best to run a straight line towards the room behind the bar.

As I get in, I shut the door, go to get my stuff from one of lockers and stumble over some bag lying on the floor. I fall on my knees and the right side of my hip and let out a painfilled groan followed by a barely audible whimper. Why had I been so stupid? I should have just ignored the pull towards him and kept my head down. Stupid Omega.

I knew it couldn´t be true that my mate, or better mates wanted me, although it was nice to think about for one second. I shouldn´t have let him kiss me because now, it will hurt even more to forget him.

I try to heave myself off the floor, failing twice before I come to somewhat of a standing position, holding onto the lockers. I gather all my stuff and hurry outside. As the door closes behind me, I know that this was my last day of working here. I´ve broken glasses, caused a scene and left it all after making this mess. I´m so fired!

But I seriously have to go home, my head is killing me and I just need to be alone right now.

Twenty minutes later, I am in front of my little apartment door, fumbling around for the key. When I find it, I step inside, close the door behind me, just let go of my things, not capable of putting them away thoroughly, and lean against the wall before sliding down on my matress.

I take in shaky breaths. Did we just get rejected? I ask Jax. He doesn´t respond, probably as shaken as I am. The rejection between mates could kill the weaker one, I´ve heard about it from Julia.

I can feel blood coming out of my nose and the cuts on my arms from the glass start to sting. Slowly, I rise from my matress and make my way over to my sink. As I stare in the mirror, I see abroken person. I have a black eye now along with a cut on my forehead and a bloody nose. But I also see the Omega, the lowest rank of them all, the thing that will get me rejected at any point in my life. I just wish I could sink in a hole and never come out.

"It´s okay, Aiden. It´s okay. Let them be happy. Don´t you dare get yourself in between them ever again. Know your place.", I say to my reflection as I repeat the last words the Alpha would say to me every night. Know your place.

It hurts to say these words but it is my fault that they are probably fighting right now...

I take a wet cloth and clean the wounds as best as I can. My hands gebin to shake as tears begin to make their way down my cheeks. I grab for some plasters in my bag when I accidentally push the bottle of scent blocking liquid from the counter. It falls to the floor and breaks into hundrets of pieces. Starteled by the loud noise, I begin to shake even more, also because it is very cold for me in this room. That was my last one.

Not even bothering anymore, I make my way back over to my bed and carefully lie down, now fully sobbing. I swore to myself that I would never cry again in order to not show them any weakness. But tonight is an exeption. Tonight, I won´t let myself be numb anymore...

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Francisco Lachowski as Luke

3rd person´s P.O.V.

The door swings open with such force that it almost flies off its hinges, as Noah comes walking through the front door of their mansion with a half unconscious Luke over his shoulder He´s followed by equally as angry Wilder and James who just manage to hide it better than Noah does.

He has always been the one with a short temper, beeing the youngest of the three Alphas, he hasn´t gained full control over his Alpha yet. And at the moment he is seriously pissed off.

Without a word, he walks up the stairs as Wilder closes the door behind them, following them immediately. As soon as all of them get to their huge bedroom, Noah gently throws Luke on the bed, earning a pained groan.

"You wanna tell me what you were doing there, Luke?! Why do you keep disobeying us?", Noah asks, his voice dangerously low.

He doesn´t receive an answer as Luke suddenly gets up and runs to the bathroom, throwing up most of what he has consumed that night. He dry heaves for a bit before tiredly slumping on the floor, holding onto the toilet seat, resting his forehead on it. He knows it was a stupid idea to climb out the window to meet Jamie and not tell anyone. But the rebellious teen in him made a rash decision.

Soon, he feels arms rubbing his back as he just sits there, too tired to defend himself right now.

"We´ll talk about this in the morning when you´ve had some rest", says James, getting a cloth to wipe Luke´s mouth.

With that, they all get ready for bed, holding on tightly to Luke as they go to sleep...