Alpha Markus and Celeste
Chapter 72
Chapter 72 – Markus
Markus P.O.V.
I watched Celeste eat her pop tart in the morning. My neck was hurting from falling asleep with no pillow last night. I was still mad that she tried to sleep away from me, but then, at the same time, I knew I deserved it. I was keeping something from her and it was time to come clean. We’d had 3 different fights over her having a guard while on packgrounds. She didn’t understand why. I hadn’t planned on keeping it from her for more than a few hours, but all the tests that Dr West and Dr Castle kept doing had made me nervous. They were
worried she’d have issues with her health because of the long-term malnutrition. What if this news caused harm to her or the pups? But
now, I knew keeping it from her was worse. She had blocked me out of her emotions and that made me and Atlas stress over not being
able to feel if something was wrong.
She was eating her pop tart, not saying anything as she waited for me to explain myself. I pushed my hand through my hair and got
right to it. “Luna Luisa and Sandra have escaped,” I said and that made Celeste choke on her pop tart. I ran over as she hunched over choking and patted her back. She continued to hyperventilate long past choking. I could feel her emotions going all over the place as she
processed the information. I sat down and put her on my lap and hugged her, letting the mate bond and Atlas and my determination to
keep her safe calm her down. I smelled burning. Celeste’s eyes were ablaze and I looked around and saw that the waste basket was on fire.
‘Gillian, can you come to my office? Celeste is having a panic attack and the waste basket is on fire.’
‘On my way,’ he said. Less than a minute later, he came in with a fire extinguisher and put out the waste basket, then the chair that
was right behind us.
“You told her then?” He asked. I nodded, but that was to be a mistake. Celeste snapped his head to Gillian and he paled at the look she gave him.
She glared at me. “Did everyone but me know?” I looked away guiltily. She stood up suddenly and started going around the couch. I
“Where are you going?” I asked.
“I am going for a run,” she said and panic filled me.
“No,” I said.
“No? Am la prisoner now?” she asked, her eyes burning with fire again and Gillian doused the curtains with the fire
extinguisher.
“No, of course not. Tuli please. It’s not safe,” I begged.
She thought about it and nodded and for a second I thought I was in the clear before she plunged the dagger into my heart. “I am going to spend the day in our bedroom. I don’t want to see you right now. I don’t want to see any of you. You all need to respect me for who I am. I will no longer be a passenger in my life.” She walked around me and stopped at the door. “Try to push me and I will jump out the window and go on my run and we both know, none of you can catch Kara,” she growled. Her eyes flickering to black a couple of times.
She was fighting Kara, but I felt like she was fighting her to stop her from losing her s**t on us. Kara had been feeling the hormones a lot
harder than Celeste. I felt her shut me out of the bond again as she stomped past the door towards the elevator. I saw Zack follow her up.
I walked over to the desk and dropped on it, putting my head on my hands. This is not how I hoped this would go, but at this point, I
counted myself lucky she hadn’t run away.
Kara shut you out too? – I asked Atlas.
He whined -Shortly after telling me what she wanted to do with our d***s if we got close enough. We f****d up.
“Umm, should I tell Maya to go check on her?” Gillian asked.
I shook my head. “No, I’m pretty sure she was included in her s**t list right now. I don’t doubt she would follow on her threat. The
best thing to do is wait out her anger and then hope some groveling will smooth things out later,” I answered miserably. “Have we heard
anything from the council?” I asked. Finding them would go a long way to mulling things over with Celeste. I had sent two of my best
trackers to help.
“They followed them to no man’s land but they are hesitant to send 3 wolves by themselves into rogue territory.”
Islammed my fist against the desk, hearing it crack. “Have they figured out how they got away?”
“Beta Trevor got his hands on a wolfsbane dart gun from one of the guards and managed to get the keys to their cuffs off him. He
uncuffed the women but didn’t manage to get them off him or Alpha Geoff. The girls shifted and ran as the guards struggled with the men,” he informed me, “We will find them, Markus. I sent a couple of guards to join the others. They know what’s at stake. They won’t let
us down. Celeste will be OK.”
I leaned back into the chair and tried pulling on the mind link. I was blocked. “But will we?” I said mostly to myself.
“Celeste is kind and rational. Her hormones may be making things worse right now, but she will forgive you. Just give her time.”
I looked at Gillian. “You haven’t said ‘I told you so!” I mentioned, remembering he was against keeping things from her.