The badboy Alpha's bait

chapter SIXTEEN

Catherine's POV

*(EARLIER)*

"He's going to hurt me. Even if I escape he's going to find me and kill me" I cry to Corner as he cups my face. It's almost midnight now and I regret not finding shelter sooner. Corner offered to take me to his house but I kindly rejected because I don't want him to get into more trouble with Aaron.

"Then come with me. He won't find you"

"I told you I can't do that either. I don't want anything to happen to you because of me. You know how powerful Aaron is, he could kill you"

"I won't let him, and I've said it before I'm not scared of him"

"Well I am. He killed my father, and I've watched him kill others. He's scary"

"But you can't go back there Catherine, you said it yourself he'll hurt you!"

"But he won't kill me at least, because he needs me as a bait to save his mate"

"What?"

"Someone kidnapped his mate, and now he thinks the person is after me so he's keeping me hostage. He plans to attack the kidnapper when he comes for me, or worse, give me to him in return for his mate"

I tell Corner because he's the one I trust most at the moment. He looks at me surprised. I know, he's probably thinking how a common human like me could possibly be wrapped up in such a bad mess.

"I'm sorry" Corner says quietly to me after a while of watching me silently. He has that expression on his face that he had when he saw me in the bathroom covered in paint earlier, except it is worse. He feels bad for me and I don't want him to, because he doesn't have to.

"It's ok" I tell him quietly as I try to muster a smile.

"I have to go now" I say to him before I start to walk away. I halt in a stop and turn around to look at him. He's still watching me sadly.

"Thank you" I say to Corner and mean every bit of it. He's the one who's always been there for me since I came to that school. I can't imagine how I would've coped if he wasn't there. I smile a little as he just stands still staring at me, then I turn around to walk away. Its silly I'm going back to that mansion when all I've thought of since I got there is escaping. But if I don't, I know Aaron would find me and kill me, he's capable of it.

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I don't know what I expected when I walked in through the door and caught Aaron's gaze meet mine immediately. Did I think he would run up and hug me after feeling bad for me when he saw me in the bathroom. He's Aaron, I should get used to the fact that He's a strong alpha who is using me as a bait to catch a badguy in order to rescue his mate.

Now my cheek still hurts from his slap and I can just hope that it doesn't get swollen. After he slapped me, I watched him from the floor how his feirce blue eyes looked down at me like he was going to kill me. It was the scariest I've ever seen him, and not even when I saw him in my dream tearing my father apart.

Sarah helped me up, and the others just stood there watching as I had expected. Although I wanted to be alone so I asked her to leave the room when she came in to apologize on Aaron's behalf. She didn't need to do that.

I wrap my hands around my knees as I'm seated on the bed. I don't want to cry because it's feels like that's all I've been doing since the day my father ran into the woods and I never saw him again.

Thinking about my father hurts right now because then I remember the last words I told the old man 'i hate you'. I told the person that loved and cared for me the most that I hated him. I was rude to my father when all he ever did was protect me from these monsters that are keeping me hostage as a bait.

The silly part is they want me to go to school with them and pretend like what I'm happy? I can never be happy as long as I'm in this mansion. I can never be happy as long as Aaron is alive and breathing. I hate him so much, I hate him so much I want him dead.

All of these would never have happened if my curiosity about the outside world didn't get the best of me. Because I was too eager to live like other human beings out there I disobeyed my father, and now look at me, kept as the alpha's bait. It's better if I never wanted to know the world, because sometimes what you don't know can't hurt you.

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Aaron's POV

**HOURS LATER**

I stop running when my legs are too weak to continue. The person stops Infront of me, he or she doesn't turn around for me to see their face. A black hood is covering every part of thier body, but I know who it is already.

"You're the hood are you not? You're the b*****d that kidnapped my mate, Kim" I angrily sneer at the person standing 7 feet away from me.

"Hello Aaron. I hope you received my message" A deep male voice replies to me. Just as I had suspected, the hood is a guy.

"Where is Kim?!"