Fated to the Alpha's Sons: An Omegas Rise to Fame
Chapter 96: Locked in.

Chapter 96: Locked in.

"Shit!" Theo cursed dashing into the hallway, pressing hard on the middle of the false wall so it could open quickly.

Theo was absolutely terrified. Not because he thought she was going to suffocate in the basement- she had a few hours, but because he had locked her up and was now scared she was going to find out.

"What happened?" Tristan asked coming up behind him, Troy on his trail, both of their shoulders mirroring Theo’s seriously tensed ones.

Theo didn’t answer. He hurriedly slipped past the small space that had opened into the dark staircase, literally flying down the stairs then paused when he got to the door, taking a shaky deep breath.

"What the hell happened?" Troy asked this time, the suspense was killing them. He needed to know if they needed to break down the stupid door or something.

"I locked her in. I’m worried she might have found out. It’s been a while since we cut off her footage." Theo said lowly, his worry beyond audible.

Tristan and Troy stayed quiet for a few seconds, processing and thinking of the best possible replies to give their brother.

They couldn’t tell him that all was going to be okay, because they knew that if she did try to open it and realized that she had been locked in, Bethany wasn’t going to take it lightly with him, and they weren’t sure how well he was going to take her anger.

He could go into full blown depression. Yep, that bad.

"Just calm down." Tristan soothed, his hand on Theo’s shoulder. "If she did find out she’d be pissed, but she can’t be pissed at you forever. You did it for her safety. Nothing else, just remember that." He said softly.

"Yeah. And we’ve got you, all the way. You know that." Troy added, patting his other shoulder.

Theo took another deep breath, soothing the handful of his nerves that he could. With borrowed confidence, he unlocked the heavy metal door with a passcode, stepping back as it opened before him.

Swallowing, he walked into the basement, the usual still air in the basement feeling heavier than usual, it’s quietness couldn’t help but ring heavily in his ears, causing his heart rate to pick up fast.

"Calm down, Brother. She’s your mate." Tristan said, a step behind him. His footsteps completely silent on the tiles.

When they got to the front of the office, Theo couldn’t help but stop walking. He peered at her straightened back through his glass walls, her tense shoulders told him all he needed to know and what exactly he was about walking into.

Taking in another shaky breath, he walked into the office while his brothers waited behind, not at all surprised when she didn’t acknowledge his presence.

He rolled his shoulders as he cleared his throat, going to stand beside her.

"Princess." He said, but it came out as a whisper. "Princess." He called again firmly this time, taking a step closer. When he didn’t get the slightest response from her he continued.

"Princess, I’m so sorry." He apologized, his voice heavy with guilt.

"Sorry for what Theo?" She asked turning to him. Her eyes empty, same with her expression. She was giving him nothing but a question, hoping earnestly that he had the correct answer.

"I’m sorry for locking you in." Theo responded, swallowing the lumps that had formed in this throat.

"You mean for not trusting me right? Because you made me understand and promise to not come up, and I honestly did. I sat put here until you asked Troy to turn off the footage. And when I went to check the door, you had locked it. Why, Theo? You didn’t thinking I understood it that I listened to you? You don’t trust me?" Bethany asked earnestly, her words wrapped in a very thick blanket of hurt.

"I trusted you , Princess-" Theo responded, his heart weighing heavily in his chest due to how much hurt he harboured.

"Then why?" She asked immediately, almost cutting his words off. "Why did you look me in?"

"Because I was worried!" He blurted, his tone higher than before. "I was worried that even if you didn’t come out, they could come in to get you. That was why I locked it. I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you, I honestly didn’t remember. I didn’t even think of it until I closed the door. I didn’t do it because I didn’t trust you, Princess. I did it because I was worried. I’m so sorry." He apologized, kneeling before her, his hands on her thighs.

A lone tear dropped from her cheek to his forearm, followed by another then another before she broke into tears, soft sobs leaving her lips as she cursed herself in her head.

Why did she always doubt them? Why did she always think the worst of them? Didn’t she love them? Or was she just the worst mate that ever lived?

So many questions popped in and out of her mind as she recalled the horrible thoughts she had let consume her while she sat waiting for her mate to come explain himself.

"Baby. Please stop crying, please." Theo pleaded, at the verge of shedding tears of his own, while his brothers stood absolutely still and silent outside the walls of his office, watching their brother and mate settle their scores.

"I’m so sorry." She whispered in between sobs.

"No, Princess. You don’t have anything to be sorry about." Theo tried to pacify, holding her hand in his, while another rubbed her back slowly and softly.

"I do. I shouldn’t have gotten so angry, I shut have trusted you, I should I have hoped, instead of judging. Why did I have to judge? why did I have to make you beg? No mate does that to her mate. They respect and believe their mates. They are absolutely smitten, but here I am, taking it slow. I’m the absolute worst." She remarked, eliciting low disapproving growls from her mates.

"Princess. We are not like other mates. You know that. You were mated to not one but three grown, experienced and older men. It’s normal to doubt, it’s normal to be scared. None of us are going to judge you for that, Princess. We might be assholes, but we’re not foolish." Theo cooed softly brushing the back of her palm softly with the pad of his thumb, his eyes on her downcast teary face.

"But the fact that I’m allowed to doubt doesn’t make doing it all the time a good thing." She pointed.

"Yes your right, Princess. But you do not do it all the time. You let me leave you behind in my basement, beneath my cabin in the middle of the woods because I said it could endanger our lives if you followed me. That’s not doubt, Princess. That’s trust. Complete trust. -"

"- And you were right to feel the way you felt because everything pointed to that and I was terribly wrong. So you weren’t doubting me, or confused or anything. You did what any one of us would’ve done, Okay?"

"Okay." She responded, releasing a soft sigh of relief, her sad eyes going to Theo’s.

"I’m still so-"

Bethany captured his lips with hers, kissing him softly, completely dissolving the words he meant to say, taking him by surprise.

She was now more than aware of the presence of her other mates she had tried to ignore earlier, and to her surprise; the fact that they were watching her kiss off every single bit of apology Theo had left did nothing to quell the hunger that swelled within her.

Rather, it did the very opposite.

Theo, although taken by surprise begun kissing her back, trying as possible to not suck off her lips along side the remnants of her delicious cherry lip gloss.

Bethany threaded her fingers through his incredibly soft hair from her back of his neck, letting her fingers massage his warm scalp before pulling him away softly, her eyes boring into his, before moving to his parted almost swollen lips. Her cheeks reddened as she thought of how she was responsible for that.

"You did it because you wanted to protect me, Theo. You don’t have to apologize." She said softly, her lips curling into a light smile.

"Thank you." He said in a hoarse voice, smiling as well.

She pulled him into her chest, his large head laying comfortably on her boobs as she placed her jaw on his head, relishing the warmth his contact caused to course through her, her heavy gaze on her other mates stood quietly, an array of emotions flickering in their eyes.

"Thank you too." She muttered to Theo, tucking her bottom lip in-between her teeth as she peered at them, causing both of them to stare back at her. The hunger in their gazes increasing.

Theo’s movement against her snapped her out of it, causing her to break the stare, looking away to hide her blush as Theo leaned away from her.

How the mood had suddenly gone from sad to heated, she really couldn’t say, but what she knew was that; now more than ever, she wanted them.

All three of them, at once.