BLOOD MOON: THE LYCAN ALPHA'S LITTLE WITCH

Mate!

Chapter 2

*Mate!*

Dimitri's point of view

IT WAS JUST YESTERDAY THAT I got a whiff of her scent at tropical thunder. Yes, after all this time I finally felt her for the first time, my so-called mate. But for her own sake I really wish I hadn't.

'Mate!' Luca my wolf has practically been singing that exact word in my head over and over again ever since yesterday when he smelt her, it was agonizingly painful to bear. I guess he was leaping with joy at the thought of finally meeting his so-called soulmate but I wasn't, and to be honest meeting someone chosen for me by the moon goddess wasn't exactly thrilling to me. It sounds too cliche if you asked me. There were still a lot of things that needed my attention first, things that needed to be done, and she smelt like a human. What the hell could she possibly do to help me or the pack?

I don't care what Celeste or her damn prophecies had said, but a human mate was of no use to me and even more to the entire pack, if anything she would only stand in my way.

My name is Dimitri Axel Castellan and just to pique your curiosity I'm not just your regular werewolf, I am a Lycan. Well the last one that still roamed this already f****d up world as it is, our sworn enemies, the vampires, made sure of that.

To the mundane world I am the CEO of Castellan corp and Europe's youngest and most eligible billionaire playboy. But when I'm not out signing checks, making deals or breaking pretty girls' hearts, I'm the Alpha of the Blood Moon pack, the biggest and most formidable pack in the entire continents and the world. To the supernatural world I am known as the Blood Alpha and everyone's worst nightmare.

My father, the former Alpha lycan king and my mother the Luna queen died a few years after I was born. Four years to be more exact. A flashback of that cursed day crept back into my mind. The day both my parents were killed, the day we were raided and attacked by the Volkari coven, it's been already two decades and three years ever since but the memory was fresh to me like it was just yesterday, it haunted and plagued my thoughts. I guess time could heal some wounds but this wound won't.

In case you were wondering, the Volkari's were a coven of very ancient and elite vampires. They were nothing but blood thirsty parasites if you asked me and are the immortal enemies of us werewolves. What made them so dangerous was that they had thousands of armies and they were presumably spread out to every corner of the world with one sole motive, to cause destruction wherever they went.

Vampires in the Volkari pack were evil and every pack knew better than to draw their attention. I brushed those thoughts out of my mind as I slammed the door of my black Rolls Royce shut, as I reached my intended destination. I had arrived at Coffee bay, the best café in Bournville, they served the best coffee which I literally ran on.

I pushed open the door to the café where Lance and Gabe were already seated at a table, waiting for me. Lance is my childhood friend, one of the very few people I could completely trust and he is also my beta and second in command in my pack so our bond was strengthened. He is also one of the pack's best warriors if I do say so myself. While Gabe is my delta and he is also my annoying little cousin that gets on my nerves from time to time. Sometimes I f*****g hate that mutt.

The familiar and ever so appealing sweet scent of vanilla and fresh lilacs mixed together was all over the place again.

Oh good goddess! She must be very close. The scent only grew stronger and stronger.

For f**k sake why was fate playing this cruel game with me. I could feel Luca growl in excitement just by catching a whiff of her scent, as he chanted the word 'Mate! Mate! Mate!' like a holy mantra, for the first time I really wished he could just keep quiet. I and Luca agreed on almost everything except on the matter of finding our mate, he wanted her but I didn't.

"Alpha!" Lance my b.eta said standing to his feet with a courteous bow and Gabe my delta did the same except that he had a cheesy wide smile on, I gave them back an acknowledging nod. And we all took our seats as the waiter took our orders.

Lance presented me with some paperwork and contracts that desperately needed my signatures on them. I had been really preoccupied these days looking for some kind of loophole to escape our pack's curse but hitting a dead end at every turn. The blood moon was set to rise in the next ninety three days, we really were running out of time. Just then the door chimed open and I saw her walk in, with her footsteps echoing all around the room.

She had long, dirty blond hair that reached up to her waist, which she immediately brushed back from her face as soon as she walked in. And don't get me started on her eyes, she had a pair of electric blue eyes, the prettiest I had ever seen with a set of incredibly perfect lips. The best I had ever seen.

"Mate!" I couldn't hold back Luca from uttering out the word, causing both Lance and Gabe to instantly freeze and stare at me in total surprise and shock. I didn't tell them about her appearance yesterday.

'What the f**k Luca?' I instantly regretted saying the word the minute it departed from my lips.

"Alpha-" Lance turned back to look at my mate who was wearing a very revealing white off-shoulder crop top and blue denim jeans that owned up to every curve.

'Our mate is really hot' I heard Luca compliment while I just rolled my eyes at the brute. But I had to agree with him, she was indeed a beauty to the eyes, unlike many I had seen. A beauty like hers was natural and authentic.

"Is that Luna?" Lance asked, narrowing his gaze on me as if trying to read my thoughts.

"Judging by the bad scowl brother has on his face it has got to be my sister in law" Gabe said laughing like a jackass.

"Shut up!" I grit out with a low key growl knocking that stupid smile off his face. Sister in law? What a joke.

"You should go and talk to her Alpha, Celeste claims that she is the pack's last hope." Lance suggests. They both knew how much I dreaded the idea of finally meeting my mate. I didn't want her. I don't need her.

'But your pack does.' Luca murmured ever so tauntingly to me. Now I really wish there was like a little off button to shut that loud talker up. The f**k, he was slowly driving me up the edge of insanity.

'Shut the hell up' I retorted mentally, but he was right though. According to Celeste the pack's witch, 'she would be the pack's salvation from the curse that plagued us for centuries or she would be our destruction splattered with our own blood'. It was a real dicey prophecy, our salvation or our destruction, whichever it was I didn't want to take a chance to find out. The pack had just started to move on from the tragedy that had occurred previously. I can't put them through another one, it was my duty to them as their alpha to protect them.

'What are you going to do now?' I heard Luca hiss. He was really enjoying seeing me tormented. Stupid wolf. I had a plan--

'More like a dumb temporary fix. Really Alpha? Was that the best plan you could come up with?' Luca interrupted sarcastically, getting on my last nerves. My plan was indeed a temporary fix but or a way to buy time, but nevertheless it entailed avoiding my mate wherever she was but now that plan was sinking fast in the sand because here she was in front of me, unavoidable.

"I'll talk to her. Eventually. But for now I just need some time to think." I watched her order just a cup of black coffee to go, for a split-second both our eyes met then she quickly looked away and so did I. I stood up going to my car, I needed time to think about what to do next.

'Sounds like you are just running away, again.' Luca spoke disapprovingly.

'I don't run away from anyone or anything.' I retorted back at him mentally while going to my car.

'Destiny is always going to bring our mate closer to us, it's inevitable! It's Fate!' Luca said while I just ignored him. I'll deal with fate later.

On getting into my car I realized I had left my iPhone at the café. This mate thing was really starting to mess with my head. Guess I'm heading right back in. That was when the pleasantly unexpected happened.