Rejecting The Alpha

chapter 4

I began pacing the hallway as I tried desperately to calm myself down. Cora whimpered, not being around our mate anymore seemed to crush her. All that changed suddenly when her whimpers turned to cries of excitement. It didn't take long for me to understand why when the smell of woods and mint filled the air around me.

I turned to see Luka standing behind me. His smile was now gone as his eyes poured into me. Controlling myself around him was easier said than done. No matter how much I despised the man, I wanted his hands on me.

" Why did you follow me?" I snapped.

" We need to talk"

I took a step back as he advanced towards me. I may want his hands on me but I damn sure wasn't going to let it happen.

" You need to leave"

" Not without you" he responded as he took another step.

" I'm not moving in with you"

I tried to sound matter of fact but if I were being honest, for the first time in my life, I've met a man that intimated me. That made me want to submit.

I jumped as he placed both hands on the wall behind me, pinning me in place. His breath was hot on my neck as he ran his lips up to my ear. " You don't get to make that choice, princess"

My body trembled under him. I hated the way he was making me feel. Weak, willing.Turned on.

" Why do you think your father offered your hand to me?" He asked as his lips grazed my ear.

I shook my head. I had no clue but I had a feeling I was about to find out.

I could feel him smile against my skin as his lips were now pressed against my shoulder. " Your pack has become weak. It continues to become weak. He come to me for help, I offered but in return I needed something"

" You- you wanted me?"

He shook his head. " I didn't even know you existed until he told me I could marry his daughter" he pulled away and stared into my eyes, his hands still on the wall behind me. " I just didn't think that by agreeing to that offer, that I would find my mate"

His lips hovered only inches from mine. So he felt it too. The pull. The connection. The god forsaken bond that we had without even knowing one another.

" All it'll take, Rieka, is one bite. My mark and you're mine. I'll be yours. You'll be free from this pathetic pack and be part of the silver pack. You will be the queen of the most feared and powerful pack here. You'll be respected and feared. You will never want for anything.Our pupswill never want for anything"

Pups?

He was already thinking about me having his children? Excitement Soared through me. I wasn't sure why but the thought of being pregnant by him exited me. Or more so, the action it will take to become pregnant by him excited me.

He moved one hand off the wall and placed it on my face. I closed my eyes as his rough callus thumb rubbed across my cheek. His voice was softer, more gentle now.

" I'm going to mark you, Princess" he said as he placed his forehead on mine. " But not now. I want it to be a more,intimatemoment when I permanently make you mine"

My body went weak at his words. It was useless to fight him. My body craved him. Cora, craved him. I could hear her whimper as he pulled away from me. Was his wolf acting the same? Going completely insane without my touch?

" I'll give you the weekend" he said as he looked down at me.

" For what?" I asked the question but I already knew the answer.

" To pack and say your goodbyes"

I watched with a mix of disappointment and relief as he turned and began to walk away from me. Back to the others. He ran a hand through his chestnut hair, moving it out of his face as he rounded the corner, out of view.

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I sat on my bed and stared at the wall. I wanted to fight back, show him the kind of Luna he's wanting to marry. If I went against my own alpha, my own father, what made him think I'd listen to him?

Probably the fact I was sure he wouldn't hesitate to kill me. Then again, would he kill his mate? I mean, it's rare but we do get second chances with mates. It's normally only ever happened to those who lost their mate in battle, where they risked their lives but even then, most don't get that second chance.

Mates are typically a one and done deal.

I stayed zoned out on my bed when my bedroom door swung open. I didn't have to look up to know who it was. Taylor always knocks and I'm not sure father even knows where my room is. Lucy quick walked towards me, an apologetic expression spread across her face.

She plopped down on the bed next to me. " I'm so sorry, Rieka. Ireallytried but that man wouldn't break"

I shook my head as I sucked in my bottom lip, still zoned out and facing away from her. It didn't seem like it mattered anymore. Everything I had thought and felt went out the door when I laid eyes on him.

" It's fine" I finally responded.

" No it's not. That man is just so-ugh"

" He told me" I said before she could finish.

She furrowed her brows. " Who told you?"

I finally looked at her. Her blue eyes staring at me as her dark eyeliner was already begining to fade, her mascara was starting to run and her cherry lipstick was smeared. I gave her a smile. She really did try. She went as far as letting him suck her face. Then again, the man was hot just like his alpha, so maybe she just wanted a taste.

" Luka" I finally responded.

Her eyes widened. " What? When? Where?" She yelled.

I let out a sigh as I looked away from her. " When I walked out of the dining room. He followed me"

" Ohhh. I thought his excuse to use the restroom was a blatant lie" she responded.

I nodded. " He found me in the hallway. He told me our pack was weak. That father come to him for help.Askedour rival for help" I laughed out of annoyance. " Luka agreed, for a price"

" Oh my god" Lucy whispered. " You were the payment"

I pursed my lips as I nodded my head. I was still trying to wrap my head around why my father would just use me like that. We've never seen eye to eye but I never thought he would do something like this. He changed once my mother died. He became a shell of the man he once was.

I remember the day he found her. I was still young, barley old enough to remember but I remember a fight had broke out. A pack from another town had invaded the community father and the others built. Mother took Taylor and I into one of the small safety bunks under the pack house. I remember hearing screams and howls as the pack shifted, ready for war. I remember hearing the cries of women and children as they raced to the other bunkers under the pack house. Iremember the kiss my mother planted on my forehead before telling me she loved me.

I watched her shift into the beautiful gray wolf she was and race out of the bunker to fight by her mates side. That's the thing about being a Luna. You're the female alpha. You fight when you're needed. Even if she wasn't the Luna, she would have fought. That's how much she loved my father. If he was going down, so was she.

It was the same battle that our beta lost his life. My father's best friend, Taylors father. Beta Tim.

Father's personality changed once he lost his best friend and mate. He became an angry person. He was hurting. I understand that, even as a young child I understand that he was in pain from the loss. He blamed himself. But what I couldn't understand is why he never seen that I was also hurting.

I was young. I had lost my mother and a man that was like an uncle to me in the same night. And some aspect, I lost my father too. I grew to believe the reason he acted as he did with me was because when he looked at me, he sees her. He is reminded of that night and the guilt he feels for it. Maybe that's why he offered me to Luka. It was easier for him to see me go with another pack than for him to keep seeing the ghost of his wife on my face.

I let out a breath as I turned back to look at Lucy, tears had filled my eyes as one betrayed me as I fell down my cheek.

" He's my mate" I cried.