Her Alpha Mates - Chapter 98: Chapter 98

MYRA
I stared at the screen wide-eyed- it was flashing zero seconds. I could hear my heart throbbing in my chest as I waited for the bombs to detonate and take the two of us out, but nothing happened.
Instead, Arika threw her head back and laughed mockingly.
"That look on your face is priceless," She smiled, fighting the pain from the gunshot wounds I had given her. I turned to her, surprised.
What did this mean?
"So it's all set up?" I wondered out loud, ready to take her down. If this was all a setup, then I could save my servers after I put a bullet or two in her skull.
"Oh no," she laughed. "That was to scare you. Do you think I'm that suicidal?"
"You're a crazy bitch," I sneered, "But I have the remote now,"
"That's a plaything. The real deal is here," She chuckled in pain and pulled out another remote form under her bloodied clothes. "Though when I press a button on this one. There'd be no countdown. Straight fireworks. Now that you know what's up, give me the keys, Myra. I'm done playing," she demanded, a hint of impatience and pain in her voice.
She was crouching low, seemingly unable to get up. My wounds were burning from the silver as well. I raised my gun at her, but she raised the remote, her finger hovering on the final button.
I hesitated. I licked my lips and looked at my servers. It was either my death or whatever dangerous information I had collected since all those years fell into the wrong hands. It was either my death or the revocation of an ancient treaty between the wolves and the Drakkons that would lead to a devastating war.
The option was clear in front of me. I swallowed hard and stared at the remote in her hand, the finger hovering over the button that now controlled so many things in this world.
"So you're committing suicide?" I asked. Not that I doubted it. I was buying some time for myself- to accept that I'd never see either of my mates again. A terrible pain stabbed my chest. It was far worse than the pain that the silver knife and the bullet had inflicted on me.
I'd die without seeing my mates for the last time. I remembered our last time together- the way Hunter had caressed my back assuringly throughout our whole hike and the way Mateo kissed me so fiercely. I wish I could taste the two for the last time. I wish I could be with them for the last time. I wish we had marked and completed the mating bond- no! That'd have worsened this for them. Even though my wolf was saddened by the fact that she'd never get to wear the mark of either of her mates or get to mark them back, I accepted it. It was for the best.
I knew it was the moon goddess's doing. She was still pissed at me for troubling my mates. She'd given me everything I'd asked for, only for me to disrespect her by rejecting her and trying to run away from them. I probably deserved this, but my mates didn't. I deserved everything that happened to me, and that was going to happen to me... but it'd hurt them more.
It made me feel like the biggest piece of crap. I really was the most terrible bitch out there for being so fucking selfish. Mateo and Hunter deserved a lot better than me.
"Anything to see you dead," Arika laughed in my face. There was a bitterness in her laughter that sparked a last-minute hope inside me. It felt like that sudden surge of power and awareness a few moments before death. This was it.
"It makes me feel less insignificant to know that someone from my family is willing to die for me," I smiled at her- a genuine smile, unlike hers, which contained so much bitterness. The smile faded from her lips, and momentarily, I saw an emotion flicker in her eyes.
"Wait-that's not what I meant," she shot, sounding offended. But I could see that my words had touched her somewhere deep-somewhere we never dared to venture. Even though we were different, we were cut from the same cloth. I could tell what the words did to her.
"Doesn't matter," I smiled. Arika stared at me for a hard second, her eyes growing rheumy even though she forced a determined look on her face. Her mask slipped slightly, and I caught a peek at her wounds. They matched mine. I nodded to her, hoping she'd know I understood why she was doing this.
She was doing this because she had nothing to lose. She'd never had anything worth losing... just like me, until the brothers found me. She didn't have anything like that. She didn't have anyone to see tomorrow with.
"Oh! We have a guest!" Arika shot abruptly, and I turned to find a giant black wolf glaring murderously at Arika.
Mateo! My wolf howled happily inside me- too glad to see one of her mates.
For a brief second, Mateo's wolf glanced at me, visually examining me for wounds. His eyes lingered on all the blood all over me, and he growled at Arika.
"That's one of the mutts you're fucking, isn't it? Ugh, look at that ugly thing. I told you to come here alone, but I'm not surprised. Now take this!" Arika shot at me, and I ducked, shielding myself with the cybernetic arm. Whatever flicker of compassion I was feeling towards her was instantly gone.
Mateo growled and lunged at her.
"Mateo!" I screamed, watching his wolf racing towards Arika while she fired at him. I watched with wide eyes as she shot him point-blank in the head. I forgot how to breathe for a second as I watched his wolf jerk back and fall aside.
"MATEO!" I cried out loud, seeing his wolf on the floor, unmoving. "YOU BITCH! I WILL KILL YOU!" I screamed at her, dragging myself to Mateo somehow. The pain in my leg was unbearable, but it had all been forgotten.
"I lied! Haha! This time, the countdown's real. I'm getting out of here. Fuck you and your mate and those fucking servers!" I heard Arika laughing as she ran out, dragging her injured leg. I wanted to go after her, but the pool of blood that was steadily growing around Mateo didn't permit me to move.
I collapsed beside him, circling my arms around his wolf's neck and pulling it over my lap. Tears ran down my face as I stared at the gaping, bleeding wound on his wolf's forehead-a silver bullet to the head.
It was the ultimate death.
"I'm sorry, Mateo," I sobbed. I didn't want to. I wanted to take the bullet out, maybe, or try to revive him or do something to save him, but I couldn't move. I was completely numb. I didn't want to leave his side. I searched his wolf's eyes which were dark slits without any life in them. That made me sob harder. This happened all because of me.
"I've been so terrible with you, and you're all being punished because of me... I don't deserve you," I sobbed uncontrollably. "I love you, Mateo. I will always love you," I kissed his head, feeling the world slipping away. It was only me and him. I wanted him for the last time. No. I wanted him with me forever, but that didn't happen because I made some foolish decisions in the past- decisions that brought him here because of me.
Arika's laughter echoed in my ears, and slowly, the numbing and the grief were being taken over by a burning rage. I was going to destroy her... take my sweet time to torture her before giving her death.
"I'll fuck that bitch up for doing this to you. I'll skin her alive... I'll-" I sobbed harder, unable to find any words to let out the anger inside me. No matter what, my Mateo wouldn't return to me anymore. But I wasn't going to let that bitch get away with this. I kissed his head last time and held him against my chest before laying it down gently on the floor. My heart broke seeing him lifeless.
I wanted to stay, but I couldn't. I needed to catch that bitch before she could get too far. She was injured, but this was the best time. I took a last glance at my dead mate and followed the trail of blood in the snow. I spotted her dragging her injured leg a few feet ahead of me.
"I'll make you regret this till your next life," I gritted, following her to avenge my Mateo.