The Alpha's Fated Mate Is an Outcast-Chapter 123

"Aren’t you?" Augustus eyed her. "I know the real you, and this isn’t it. You are in bad shape and that’s okay. I’m sure you’ll heal no matter how slow."

Alexis couldn’t make a response to his words but instead stared blankly at the ceiling.

"I miss him," she said suddenly. "All I think about every second is him. It hurts my heart so bad, I feel like hurting myself. It’s excruciating Augustus and I don’t...I don’t even have anything that belongs to him. Anything that could comfort me, help me endure his absence. I can’t even call him or hear his voice, because that would just be leading him to me and I know him. He’ll come find him."

The sound of sniffling filled the room and the wetness in her eyes spilled down the side of her face. "I feel so miserable."

Augustus glanced at the bed. "Alexis—"

"It’s useless to vent because it won’t solve anything. But what else can I do?" she mumbled, her sobs almost silent.

The man watched her turn to her side on the bed and stood up from the seat. He walked over to the bed and squatted down until he was eye to eye.

Alexis stared at him, blinking her wet eyes.

Augustus reached out a hand and endearingly caressed her hair as if soothing her. He said, "I’ll make everything better... A bit more endurable for you."

"How?" she asked. She couldn’t see how anything could be fixed.

"When my little sister wanted something she couldn’t have, I always told her something—" A smile pulled on his lips. "—To believe in magic. And guess what?"

"What?"

"She gets them by the next day."

Alexis chuckled. "Really?"

"Yeah." Augustus nodded. "So you know what to do. Believe in one and I don’t know, you might just get something that will soothe your pain, even if it’s just a little bit."

Alexis peered at him and he patted her head before he rose to his feet and proceeded to the door to leave. "Sleep well, Alex."

And he shut the door. He made his way down the hall, specifically towards a particular room. He stopped in front of the door and knocked a few times, but even after a minute and counting, no one answered, and that caused a frown to pull on his face.

Augustus grabbed the handle and reluctantly went into the room. He didn’t close the door but made his way over to the bathroom where he could hear someone coughing.

"Kaelis?"

The man turned with a startle and stared at him with eyes impossibly widened. "What are you doing here?"

Augustus furrowed his brows and slanted his head to the side.

"What’s wrong with you?"

"What are you talking about?" Kaelis’s words were rushed.

Augustus eyed him and instead of asking any further questions, he pulled him aside and stepped into the bathroom. He looked into the sink where he had been coughing and arched a brow at the blood.

Then he turned back to stare at him with questions all over his face. "What’s wrong with you?"

"Nothing." There was a bite in Kaelis’s tone.

Augustus wasn’t exactly buying it because he stepped toward the shorter man and grasped him by the chin. He tilted his head from side to side, noting the blood on his lips.

"Are you sick?"

"Like as if we get sick. Listen to yourself. I’m not human." Kaelis slapped his hand off and pinched between his brows. "I just think I ate something I didn’t agree with, that’s just it."

"Why are you here, though?" he asked.

Augustus was silent for a few moments, that blank look on his face. But then he shrugged. "I need you to go somewhere with me."

Kaelis arched a brow at him. "Go somewhere...with you?"

"Yes."

"No."

"I never gave you a choice."

He glared at him. "You don’t just order me around. It’s ten in the evening, I’m not going anywhere with you."

Augustus peered intently at him and slowly took out the pocket knife he always had on him. "I’ll stab you."

"What?"

Kaelis rapidly blinked at him. "Are you crazy or something?"

"I told you you’ve pledged your life to Alexis and what I need you to help me do has something to do with her. It is either you come with me, or you refuse. I’ll take your nose as you’re backing out and that will give me no other choice but to end you here right now."

He gazed at the man in disbelief and cackled. "You’ve to be joking with me—"

His body was roughly slammed into the nearest wall, the knife stabbed into the wall next to his head. Kaelis held his breath, eye shifted to the knife.

"Do I look like I’m joking? Do you see a smile on my face? What gives you the impression that I’m kidding you?"

"Maybe because you don’t smile and I had no other choice but to believe you’re joking, because you’ve got to be insane to threaten my life just because I refused to accompany you on wherever the fuck you’re going!"

"Well, now you know I’m not joking around with you." Augustus narrowed his eyes at him. "So are you coming or should I put this into your throat?"

Kaelis stared at him, incredulous. "You’re insane." And then he shoved him off. "Fine. I’m coming. Where are we going?"

Augustus pocketed the knife and adjusted the suit he had on. "We’re going back to the pack?"

"What?"

"We’ve got to get something for Alexis, something that belongs to Keelion. Since she will be away from him for a while, the least I can do is get her a belonging of his, to help her deal with the separation."

Kaelis didn’t seem entirely against the idea, but he was worried.

"This seems risky, Augustus. What if we are caught? All this would be for nothing."

"And that’s why we won’t get caught." Augustus tossed a car key to him. "You’re driving."