The Game Of Quadruplet Mates
After

Jeremy, What If

I often have dreams of what it would be like if things were different. If I didn't call my Alpha to the Games and I chose June without hesitation.

He wouldn't come.

It would just be June and I, because at the very beginning, I didn't know what it was about June of the farm pack, but the moment our eyes locked, I knew it wouldn't get any better than that. Her smile, her searching eyes and that hesitant way she speaks. It was all so endearing... so capturing that I knew instantly she is who I want to be with for the rest of my life. I could feel it deep in my soul that she was the one. There was no question, no doubt, nothing.

I just knew.

Coming to the Games, it was forced and I would have rather be sent elsewhere because mates aren't real, this was all a joke. The Games are just business deals. Worse, everyone I hated was here.

But looking at her now, at June, who smiled and giggled, it was all worth it. She would look at me and I would be at a loss for words. I would stare in awe and feel completely enamoured. She had me. All she had to do was be there.

I knew I would choose her at the end of the Games. I just knew I would. I haven't been this sure of anything except her. The decision to claim her was pretty quick, but the decision to keep it quiet was longer. Normally, I would tell my Alpha everything. He would know everything before anyone else, but for the first time, I wanted this to be just between June and I. Something special.

The Alpha was probably busy anyway and I wanted to surprise him.

I stayed in that lake with June for a very long time. No one called us. No one interrupted us. It was just us until the moon was high above the sky and dinner was just right around the corner. When it was time, we left the lake together, dripping wet and shivering. I had June in my arms as we walked to her room. She let me stay as she got ready and when Konstantin's help came for her, I sent them away.

We went to dinner together, holding hands and laughing the entire time. All eyes were on us but I didn't mind it, keeping June even closer. She introduced me to her friend Larissa and I happily welcomed her to our table. While we ate dinner, eating some of the best food, a boy named Pete came but when I saw June's face contort in anger, he was shoved off before he could say more.

Later in the night, when it was announced that there was a party happening, June and I went with Larissa and her new man. Whoever he was. We danced all night and drank until we felt silly. No one came again. No one interrupted us. And when June was so drunk that she could barely stand on her own two feet, I walked June to her room and lay her down on the bed but before I could leave, she takes my hand and asked me to stay, so I did, lying down beside her until the next day.

With no one coming between us, we had breakfast together and I introduced Larissa to a man from the nameless pack. They hit it off and June thanks me for it.

"I just want her to be chosen." She tells me when Larissa and my pack member walk away to have a private chat. "Even if she won't accept."

I smile at her and when Konstantin comes yet again, June politely rejects him, taking my hand and walking us to the lake to be alone.

We sat together there, sitting side by side with our elbows touching. I thought of my life up until now and June just fit. She was perfect and as I touched the fabric of her identifier on my wrist that I never took off, that I never lost, I couldn't help but smile.

"I'm going to choose you later." I told June because I didn't want her to worry about the ceremony. Many have told me that the fear of not being chosen is the biggest nightmare for any she wolf and I wanted to make sure she doesn't feel that. She looks up, surprised and blushing. "You don't have to. I know you're a Beta and I'm just a girl from the farms. My dowry is a bolt of silk. It's not even a good one. You get nothing from me."

"And that's where you're wrong, June." I would take her hands in mine, placing a kiss on her knuckles. "Because to me you're already everything and more. You're perfect. You don't have to change a thing about yourself. You're already more and more and more for me."

At the ceremony, Cora throws a tantrum because my Alpha doesn't come and Konstantin is forced to choose her, binding them forever. I swear there were tears in his eyes as he walked away. I pitied him then. Because no one deserves to be stuck with Cora, but I didn't care as much because he was just another bully in my life and nothing more. Much later, Larissa was chosen by my pack member and she accepts, rolling her eyes but smiling anyway.

And when June's turn came, the elder officiating the ceremony didn't have to finish whatever he was going to say. I was up on my feet and taking her face in my hands. We bind ourselves to each other and in that moment when silver cuts through skin, when licked closed, I think we both knew that we were fated. That we were destined to be together... made for one another.

We smiled.

Not saying a word.

It was our secret.

The planned attack pushes through right after the ceremony and June is kept safe and hidden in the room. We managed to kill most of the city pack but Cora, the city Alpha and Konstantin escape.

A plane is sent for us, bringing whatever we can back to the pack with us and when June gets scared of the plane, I take her hand and kiss her the entire flight home. I watch as she first sees the mountains and the valley, her smile is so broad and happy that I can't help but share it. "It's beautiful." "You're home now." I whispered to her ear, feeling the flutter of my heart at our close distance. "Our home."

She takes my hand, squeezing it tight. As we step off the plane, the Alpha is waiting for us. Something would happen then. He would stop. He would know June instantly. His eyes would widen, he would swallow and take a step back. He would look like he was having a heart attack.

I hadn't told him that I was choosing... but I know it is more. I will ignore it because June and I are bound now. We were destined mates and I wasn't letting go.

"J...June." He would whisper and she would look up in confusion, but would bow to him all the same. The Alpha looks like he wants to say more, to do more, but he looks between us and says nothing more.

"Hello, Alpha." She would call him and he would wince.

We see this all but ignore it, taking each others hand and hurry back to my house where I would mark her. The Alpha would disappear for a few days and it would just be June and I.

After a few months, June and Larissa would plan to go back to their old farm pack to celebrate. Knowing June's love for her father, I put together everything, asking the permission of the Alpha, who barely says anything. He would keep to himself and barely felt present. I would bring whatever money I have with us to the farm lands, giving it to her father upon arrival.

He would know me.

And on the night of the celebration, he would tell me who my father was and that he was the last of my family.

My Alpha arrives for the celebration, watching from afar, and June's father would know him as they quietly spoke to each other and I would see him cry.

That night, when everyone is merry and happy and June is hugging and kissing me for all to see, Pete will arrive, but before he can speak, I'll take him out of the celebrations... which is when the city pack will try to take June but my Alpha would be there to stop them, protecting her with a force that will surprise me.

He vows to take revenge. With a quiet order that forces me to stay on the farm lands to protect June and her father, my Alpha starts the war with the city. He destroys everything but my mother still comes for June and I.

I would be too horrified to fight her off, but June will take care of her, winning the fight with pure luck and anger for me. We'll replace out that she's the daughter of the real city pack Alpha, and then as we make it to the destroyed city, we will learn that my beloved Alpha dies by throwing him and my uncle off a building, killing them both. I will cry. I will feel broken. I will mourn the loss of my brother.

Because I know that Ajax wouldn't want to live in a world where June wasn't his.

And killing the city pack was his last mission... his last goal in life before joining his family in death.

June and I would be the only ones left, with Konstantin killing Cora during the attack but with him taking his own life too. Whatever Cora did to him, breaking him beyond repair.

June and I would be the only ones left, and we would rule of what remains. Together.

Forever.

But that was all a dream, a fleeting thought and nothing more.

The reality is, June isn't mine. Not in this life at least.

But maybe there is someone out there for me and I'll be waiting for her.

"Jeremy," Konstantin calls with a roll of his eyes. "Get your head out of the clouds. We have to meet the survivors. The ones living in the city pack lands? They're your people now. Remember, Alpha?"

I blinked away thoughts of June. "Oh, right."

"I heard there's a really pretty girl..." He suggested with a wiggle of his eyebrows.

My hand flies out to his face, stopping him from continuing. "Stop it."

"What?" Konstantin mumbles through my hands. "Larissa said she's your type."

"You two don't know my type." I argued, shrugging, knowing that they did know my type.

He smiles at me encouragingly. "I think you're going to like her. It's been a year. Maybe... it's time?"

Maybe it was time.

We will see.

I wasn't in any rush.

I had all the time in the world.