Chapter 30: Have You Found Your MATE?

Slowly, Meris walked her way towards the bathroom.

She stepped inside and moved further in. The sound of running water could be heard and the closer she got, the harder her chest pounded.

What had happened between these two?

Why did their pheromones mix and surround the entire room? Had they...

Her guts mixed, making her feel sick all of a sudden.

She stepped deeper into the bathroom and froze almost immediately.

At the sink, Dante was bent over, palm collecting water from under the running tap to spill across his mating spot near his ear. It was...

...Bleeding!

She flinched, gasping.

And that sound caused Dante to quickly raise his head. He met her gaze.

Meris’s eyes were bouncing from his face to the bleeding spot on his neck. "D-Dante, w-what’s going on with you?"

When he didn’t answer her, she quickly rushed over to him. "Did she do this to you? Did that tramp do this to!—" She grabbed his arm and the very moment her touch met his skin, he shoved her way, taking steps back from her as if recoiling in disgust.

On his face, there was absolute pure rejection as if her touch alone ignited a sort of revolting emotion coursing through his spine.

[I don’t accept her!] his wolf wailed.

Meris fell to the floor on her bottom. She looked at him, shock emerging on her face. "D-Dante... You pushed me... W-why?"

Dante glanced at her.

He lowered his gaze to his hands.

He hadn’t meant to push her. He didn’t even feel like himself.

Sudden dizziness overcame him, hitting his head. He grabbed his head, staggering backward a little.

His pheromone was still leaking.

"Out..." he mouthed. "Get out."

"DANTE!" Meris pushed herself up to her feet. "First you pushed me, and now, you’re asking me to leave? Look at your condition. If anyone should be here with you, shouldn’t it be me?!"

"Leave!"

She refused, ignoring his warning. "What were you doing in here with her, Dante? Why was she in your room?"

Bubbles of tears emerged in her eyes.

"You don’t like that I get jealous over things like this, but then you go ahead and act like this. Not only was she in your room, but you were even releasing your pheromone around her. How could you do that?"

She punished her polished finger into his chest.

"I am your mate! Your mate, Dante! What alpha releases his pheromone around other omegas despite having a mate?! Do you even realize what you are doing to me?!"

Dante shook his head.

His dizziness was intensifying. "It isn’t like that! It wasn’t—"

"It wasn’t what? Why was she in here there? Why did she look like that when she came out? What were you two DOING!—"

He snatched her wrist and glared into her face.

"Enough!"

She was startled by his sudden raise of yours.

"I’ve told you it wasn’t that way. Get out of my room!"

But instead of leaving, Meris stood her ground. She slowly began to release her pheromone, gradually filling the bathroom.

Dante grunted under his breath, gripping his head even tighter. "STOP!—STOP THAT!"

She went out.

She released her pheromones even more, wanting to tame him and put him under control.

And it seemed to be working.

Dante had staggered back to rest against the sink. His shoulders were rising and falling in heavy breathing as if he were calming down.

He was blinking several times, lips parted.

"Dante..." Meris’s pheromone release never ceased. "Dante, it’s me Meris, your mate."

She asked, "Are you alright? Do you need me to take care of you?"

She moved closer to him and she grabbed his arm, smiling so gently and maliciously.

"Dante, let me take care of you, hm? Let me clean off your wound and then you can tell me what happened, what she did to you to inflict this injury on—"

"I told you to STOP IT!"

Dante flew into a sudden rage that caught her off guard. He shoved her grip off and before she could even notice the sudden change in him, he gripped her by the bicep and began to drag her out of the bathroom.

"I don’t need your pheromone! Stop releasing it around me!"

"Dante, Dante, Dante, please," she begged and wiggled in his hold as he pulled her away towards the door.

He kept dragging her.

"Dante, please, wait, let me explain. I was just trying to make you feel good. I’m your mate. I wanted to make you feel—"

He shoved her out of the room and before she could utter another word, he slammed the door shut in her face.

He touched his neck, at the blood sipping through his mating spot.

"This... What is going on?"

Dante could no longer ignore it. Whatever was happening to him had something to do with Selene.

And I am going to figure it out. As he thought, he walked to his bed, picked up his phone and made a phone call.

[Alpha?]

"Make an appointment for me immediately. I am coming to the hospital. I need to have a word with you."

[Yes, alpha!]

...

Meanwhile in her room, Selene sat on the floor of the bathroom, body hunched over the bathtub.

Her hair was poured over into the water filled to the brim of the tub.

Every now and then, she would take deep breaths, calming herself down.

And when she lifted her face, she was ghostly white, pale as if she’d just seen a ghost.

She couldn’t understand,

Just what had happened...?

How could she have reacted to Dante...?

Selene didn’t have a mate, and other than her mate, she was incapable of reacting to any alpha.

So then why? Why has she reacted that way to him merely because he breathed against her mating spot? Why had she gone into a pre-heat merely because he released his pheromone?

It wasn’t as if she hadn’t been around many alphas...! She was a true Wild Omega!

She felt terrified. Uncertain and terrified.

Several knocks suddenly resounded against her door.

"Madam! Madam, I’m back!"

A young woman’s voice came from outside the room.

Selene quickly shot up to her feet. She rushed out of the bathroom and into the bedroom, hurrying her way to the door.

Pulling it open, she was met with Ellenor who held a gentle smile. "Did you bring it?"

Ellenor nodded at her question. She reached into her pocket and took out a medicine pack. "Here it is, Madam. It is a high quality supressants. They should do the job in less than 5 minutes."

Selene snatched the pack before she could even be done speaking. "Thank you!"

She was about to close the door when Ellenor quickly asked, "But Madam, what do you need suppressants for?"

She was a beta, and so at this moment, she couldn’t smell the pheromones leaking off Selene.

"Is everything okay with you?" There was a little frown on her face. Just like everyone else, she knew the lore behind Wild Omegas. They didn’t even get heats until they met their mates. But even finding a mate was rare for them.

She suddenly couldn’t help but wonder, gasping, "Ah! Madam, have you...found your mate?"

The question made Selene startle backwards.

Panic painted her expression.

"Madam." Ellenor blinked in confusion. Yet before she could utter the next batch of her sentence, Selene grabbed the door and slammed it shut in her face.

She turned her back and pressed it to the door.

Her chest was pounding.

"Mate..."

She swallowed thickly.

"M-mate... T-that couldn’t be... Impossible!"