Cruel Alpha

Chapter 3

DENIAL & DESIRES

-DIANE

I was forced to wear a dress today.

The Council had summoned me. So there I stood before all of them as they scrutinized me closely.

Dave had come with me, but he was forced to wait outside. There were some places that a mere guard could not go.

There were five councilmen, all dressed in black robes, seated at higher chairs and placing me standing in the center below them.

They were murmuring to themselves. I guessed they still found it hard to believe that I had accepted to be mated and the supposed mate was none other than the Alpha himself.

I was growing impatient with waiting for the Alpha. It was getting hard for me to stand the sharp gazes of the councilmen. I folded my arms and but my lips impatiently.

"Can we just start and get it over with?" I demanded.

"Silence! Child! You do not speak unless you're asked to!" A man snapped at me.

I gritted my teeth and looked away. I wanted to protest. I hated being silenced. But I remained silent for the sake and honor of my late father. At least, they respected him.

As if on cue, the double doors burst open and behold! Alpha Maxwell graciously walked into the hall. His green eyes glinted with mischief. His smile was etched wickedly on his face and I could not miss the ego written all over his aura.

Yet I could not control the feelings that hit me. My wolf stirred and my stomach did a flip. My wolf wanted him and I looked away from him immediately.

"Well, what do we have here?" His deep baritone voice began.

For some reason, I felt a cold chill creep up my back. His voice had done this to me.

"Greetings to the Alpha!" The man who had scolded me began. The rest of the council arose and acknowledged his presence.

Alpha Maxwell passed me without sparing me a glance. "What is the purpose of this meeting again?" He demanded and looked around as if he had somewhere better to be.

"It's about your mating ceremony. The goddess has given you Diane, you should accept her," the first man began.

The others did not seem to talk. They were more like a support for the head councilman.

I saw anger flash through Alpha Maxwell's face. "Is this why you dared to summon me and disrupt my plans for the day? I have better business to attend to, rather than entertain this sorry excuse of a woman. Is she even fit to be called a woman?" He exclaimed.

His words hit my heart hard. I had no idea why he was disrespecting me in this manner. I had done nothing wrong.

"I am a woman! Can't you see?" I exclaimed without thinking.

Maxwell turned his attention away from the councilmen and glared at me. He furrowed his brows as if noticing me for the first time.

"Filthy mice don't dare pop their heads when Lions are around. Due to the fact that they know they will be torn to shreds by the lions! The lions won't even dare eat them because they are not worthy enough!" Maxwell exclaimed.

I gasped in shock. If I was not mistaken, then I was the filthy mouse he was referring to and he was the lion.

"I'm not a filthy mouse," I heard myself squeak and I wanted to slap myself for speaking again.

Maxwell chuckled. It was an evil one. "You seem to not know your place, Diane. Might I remind you? You do not belong here. Neither did your ancestors. You belong in the slum with the rest of the sluts and filth. You do not belong by my side but at my feet!" He exclaimed.

I glared at Maxwell as if he had lost it. I still did not understand the point of all the disrespect. I did not hurt anyone. I did nothing wrong yet he was coming at me.

"My Alpha, we do not want you to face the wrath of the goddess. She will be angry if you do not give it a try," the councilman said shakily. "You can always separate later," he added.

Maxwell gave the councilman a strange look as if he was lost in thought. Then he turned back his green evil gaze at me. He gave me a smirk full of mischiefabdb I feared what it meant.

"On second thought, maybe I will take you back as my mate. Pending the time my true mate gets revealed to me by the goddess. I will do to you whatever I want. I will use you as I please," he started and the hunger in his voice for evil was evident.

I stared back at him wide-eyed. I did not want this union any longer. I wanted to walk away. I was right all along. Mating ceremonies were trash! They were just a way to trap people further. They were a way of keeping us caged. But I was already in too deep to back off.

I should have refused when the goddess brought the idea. I should have stood my ground. If she had threatened me, I would have found a way to survive it. I have been doing just that all my life; surviving. Dave was also here to follow me anywhere I would go.

Yet I had allowed the moon goddess to trick me into it.

"You cannot treat me like that," I spoke up after a long.

Maxwell who had turned back towards the councilmen spun around to face me.

"What was that?" He demanded as if he cared.

"You can not treat me as you wish. The goddess won't let you," I accused.

Maxwell broke into thick laughter. He laughed so hard that it echoed throughout the entire room.

"Who told you that? Who told you the moon goddess will come to your rescue? Who told you that the moon goddess can stop me?" He demanded and I could hear the laughter coming back.

I glared at them as that was the only thing that I could do. My heart began to pound. I had thought that I still had a way out but his words were beginning to scare me.

Maxwell began to approach me again. "I think I'm beginning to like you. It's going to be fun torturing you until you forget how to use your sharp little mouth to speak!" He spat and caressed my cheek with his fingers.

I flinched away in fear. My heart began to race at the thought of what Maxwell would do to me when we were behind closed doors.

"As a matter of fact, I might just begin your torture session now!" He added suddenly.

I widened my eyes at him. I did not like where this was going. I threw glances at all the councilmen present. They did not seem to object to all his injustice. It was either they were too scared to defend what was right or they enjoyed watching.

Alpha Maxwell closed his hand on my neck softly and I shuddered with fear. Then his eyes ran down my body and I knew he was up to no good.

"Strip yourself naked now!" He commanded.

My heart skipped two beats before dropping to my stomach. My breathing accelerated. I stared at him in disbelief as I felt my eyes moisten.

"I won't!" I retorted.

Maxwell smirked before leaning brown to my ears. "There were many things I could do to you for disobeying. I could decide to hurt you or the people you love. I could begin by snapping your neck and probably torturing that favorite guard of yours over and over again; slowly until he dies. What say you?" He threatened.

My body started trembling as more tears filled up my eyes. I knew my face had gone red from all the cries that I was muffling down.

I felt pure hatred for Alpha Maxwell. But there was nothing could do but please him. I threw one last look at all the council members before pulling at the laces at the chest area of my dress.

I cried as I pulled it open. My fingers trembled as I pushed down the dress off my shoulders. It dropped to the floor; leaving me in a very thin layer of my underdress. It was so thin that my breasts were visibly outlined under the clothes and my n*****s pointed out at it.

The councilmen were all watching. None of them tried to hide away their faces. They all watched me and enjoyed the view. Maxwell most of all enjoyed what he saw as his eyes glinted with mischief.

"It must seem that she really is a woman after all," Maxwell stated.

I felt so embarrassed and ashamed. My body shook with my tears. My heart ached with every beat. The dark hole in my heart only got deeper.

What had I done to deserve all this? What was my crime? Why did Maxwell hate me this much?

Last of all, what had I gotten myself into?