Three Alphas, Fated To One, Played By One, But Mated To One-Chapter 74: The Past

Valerie’s POV

I hadn’t expected Mike to come to the training grounds after storming off back to the pack house earlier.

I know he is a proud man and the fact that I ignored him and preferred to talk to Karl and have him protect me was a big blow to his ego.

However, I wasn’t interested in a tainted man.

Even though he is my mate, he was already attached to another woman. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Even after acknowledging me as his mate and becoming Luna in name, he was still frolicking around with Innocent.

She spent nights in his room when he wasn’t acting like a witch and pacing outside my door at night.

Even though I wanted to ignore him, I know that I still have to show him respect in front of others.

Unless he crosses me, I will not deliberately make things difficult for him.

I stopped training and my eyes locked with Mike’s.

I felt a jolt of electricity run throughout my body just from that one look.

He was wearing a suit today. It was a designer suit with perfect cuts that made him look even more attractive than usual.

My heart inside my chest beat so fast I thought it would collapse.

I tried hard to look away because I know that if I kept looking, I might do something I regret later.

I still remember Lizzie’s warning. To never let Mike touch me.

Karl also turned around when he saw my focused gaze and looked behind him.

When he saw Mike, his relaxed posture straightened slightly

I walked towards Mike with steady steps after calming my heart down.

Karl followed a step behind.

I noticed Mike’s jaw tighten and realized that the scene in front of him affected him.

I couldn’t tell whether it was jealousy or something else, but that made me proud.

Didn’t he always act all intimate with Innocent even in front of me?

Then let him taste the feeling of ants gnawing on his heart today.

He was lucky I wasn’t prepared to cross the line just to spite him. Otherwise, I would do more with Karl just to let him feel the pain.

"Alpha," I greeted Mike calmly.

My voice was steady and respectful. But I made sure it was distant and Mike could feel it.

I wanted nothing to do with him, whether he is my mate or not.

I could feel Mike’s eyes on me. Scrutinizing me.

But I didn’t care much about it. He wasn’t that important to me anymore.

Not the way we were as kids.

As I approached him, a memory surfaced on my mind.

We were young. I was about eight years old and Mike was almost nine.

My father had brought us to the training grounds and we were sparring.

Then after Mike let me win like he always did, I noticed that he was looking at me intensely.

"Why are you looking at me like that Mike?" I asked with a voice that still carried a babyish tone.

"You are going to be a great beauty when you grow up." He said seriously and just like the child I was, I giggled in happiness.

No matter what age a woman is, they all love compliments.

And even as a child, I was happy that Mike thought I was beautiful.

"Then I will become your mates. You will then have the most beautiful mate in the world." I said innocently.

"Yeah, a lot of other boys will definitely envy me."

"Heheheee..."

I had laughed happily and pounced on Mike giving him a kiss on the cheek as if to claim him as mine.

That was a lifetime ago and the memory felt so distant yet so clear.

Our innocent conversation back then had come true.

I had indeed become Mike’s mate, but apart from that, nothing else was true.

I wasn’t the most beautiful and no one certainly envied Mike.

In fact, others probably mocked him behind his back for being mates to the pack slave.

Now, when I see the look of longing in his eyes, it reminds me of our childhood. But we are no longer children and we can never go back to the way we were.

As I got closer, I heard Andrew suddenly chuckling.

He was standing beside Mike casually.

"Well," he said lightly, "looks like the whole family is here."

I shot him an annoyed glare.

Then I turned my attention back to Mike.

"What exactly are you doing?" He asked before I could speak.

"Training." I answered curtly.

"I can see that." He said in annoyance.

I raised my eyebrow at his unnecessary aggressive behavior.

"Then why ask?"

My tone was polite, but there was a challenge in it. As if daring him to stop me.

Karl suddenly spoke.

"She’s trying to get her strength back."

Mike’s eyes shifted to him immediately.

"And you are?" Mike asked in obvious irritation.

"Supervising, of course."

The arrogance in that single word made Mike’s expression change and I could almost hear his wolf growl softly inside his mind.

This was something I couldn’t understand.

Why I was almost able to feel his wolf.

I didn’t think it was the mate bond. Something else must be going on. But for now, I still couldn’t figure out what it was.

"Is that so?" Mike said coolly.

I watched as Karl met Mike’s gaze without hesitation.

"Of course."

For a moment, the air between them grew tense.

Two alphas.

Standing face to face and neither willing to back down.

"You two are ridiculous."

I said softly with my arms crossed on my chest.

Both of them turned to look at me.

"If you want to fight, go somewhere else. I’m busy." I said without a care.

For a second, silence filled the training ground.

Then, Andrew burst out in laughter. Even I was caught off guard.

Leon looked amused as well and I couldn’t figure out why.

Until I looked around and realized something.

I had just dismissed two alphas without any fear and even ordered them around.

Eehh...that wasn’t what a normal werewolf could do.

Would my recklessness expose Lizzie?

But thinking that everyone thought I didn’t have a wolf, I calmed down.

Karl chuckled quietly.

"You heard the Luna," he said.

I could see Mike get even more irritated.

But before they could escalate the issue, I turned back toward the training field.

And walked away.

Completely ignoring Mike and Karl.

Since they wanted to measure who had a larger ego, I was not going to get involved.

I will just let them fight if they want to.