Rejected By My Mate, Claimed By The Alpha

Chapter Eight

Eight: “I’ll keep you safe”

I could feel the lactic acid eating away at my muscles. Every single step that I took felt like excruciating pain. And I only thought of one thing right now, one thing.

And it just kept ringing in my mind right now. If only I could shift. If only I had my wolf, I would definitely be in a much better position during this predicament, but that was not the case.

I did not have my wolf. And I was weak in the hands of my enemy. I continued to leap as far as I could with every single stride I took towards my run, but it still felt like it was not getting me anywhere.

I could see the wolf getting closer to me. A black wolf had been trailing me for a few minutes now. And now it was the ultimate showdown. I would either survive or die trying.

I was running as fast as I could. And yet I still felt like soon it would catch up to me. I turned around to see if it was still behind me and definitely, there it was.

I could definitely see that sinister smile on its face as it continued to chase me in this dark forest. I was screaming for help and nobody could hear me. In fact, I felt like I could not even scream loud enough because every single time that I attempted to call out my parents' names, nothing worked well enough.

Every single attempt led to me feeling like my voice was failing me.

“ Stop, why are you doing this?” I yelled out loud as I turned around to see that it was still trailing me with that sinister smile on its face. And I got nothing, no response and I had no idea who it could be and what they could want with me.

But I only knew that whatever it was, it was definitely nothing good. It was all bad intentions and I did not want any of whatever it was that it had planned out for me to happen at all. I kept running until I could no longer breathe and eventually tripped on a rock falling flat on my face.

“Ow!”, I groaned out in pain before I tried to prop myself up, but fell back on my face again. I could hear it. I could definitely sense it as well.

Even though I did not have my wolf, my senses were quite sharp. It was right behind me. I quickly turned my body around and was now laying on my back and there it was.

As soon as I tried to shift my body, it held me down with one of its paws and pressed down on my chest. “Ow, ouch!” I moaned out in pain.

The pressure, it was just too much. The wolf was large and imposing, very, very dark with red eyes and very sharp teeth. I only wanted to be saved from all of this, but it felt like this was the end of my life.

“Why are you doing this? What do you want from me?” I asked yet again, hoping to get an answer this time around, but absolutely nothing. All that happened was for the wolf to open its mouth wide and roar at me, growling at me with severe anger evident in the tone of that growl. “Please, please don't kill me.”

I begged for my life. Yes, I wanted to live. I did not want to die at the hands of a stranger.

I did not even know what it wanted from me. I had not done anything to hurt anyone. So why was I in this predicament right now? The wolf inched closer to my face, the teeth easy for me to see with the light of the moon shining and reflecting on them.

I felt the warmth of its saliva as it trickled down my skin and burned it and I shut my eyes to avoid it getting into them. It was scary. I don't think I'd ever been as scared as I was right now.

A growl erupted from within the wolf and soon enough I felt it the worst pain of my life. Its teeth sunk into my stomach and I screamed out loud. It had to be the loudest scream that I could have possibly ever made.

The loudest that my body could ever master. Soon I jolted awake and I was hyperventilating. I quickly looked to my sides and realized I was no longer within my nightmare.

I was not in that forest and even though I was fully aware of what it was, the effect had been done and I was feeling very hysterical. The tears were trickling down my face. It was not even the very first tears at all.

I must have been crying in my sleep as well. I could not even stop myself from sobbing and screaming out loud like there was still danger. I couldn't recall the continuation of the dream like it had happened to me a few days ago.

It was a dream that haunted me over the years. The day my parents died, I kept having dreams about it like it was happening over and over again and I absolutely hated it. Nothing could ever get me to forget about that day because I kept dreaming about it the way that I was dreaming about it tonight.

It had not happened in a couple of months and yet here it was. It was a miracle if even two months went by without me having this dream again, this very horrid nightmare. Those many, many years ago, my father was able to save me.

He came and fought the wolf in his wolf form, but he did not win the battle and I still have scars on my stomach from that day. I just fled like my dad told me to and left him there to die. I still felt so guilty about it and it ate me up every single day when I realized that it was all my fault.

The fact that I could not shift into my wolf made me even more vulnerable and easy to defeat. Soon the door flew open and in, walked Alpha Kane. He searched every inch of the room with a quick scan of his eyes before he fled to the bathroom. , very quickly. He went straight to the closet and opened the doors before shutting them while I sat there continuously crying.

He was by my side in a few seconds looking at me with such an intense gaze, like he was really trying to read me. I could not stop myself from crying. I don't want him to see me in this state right now, but I really could not stop myself at all.

“Who was it?” He immediately asked me and I quickly shook my head at him. Is that what he was looking for? Did he think I was screaming because there was someone in my room?

“Just a bad dream.” I said to him the words barely being able to make it out of my mouth.

“You see, this is exactly why you're supposed to be sleeping with me.” He said to me and I just cried out yet again as I recalled the dream. Every single time that I had this dream I was this hysteric and it never got old.

There was absolutely nothing that could make me get used to it. I needed comfort. I needed to feel safe without even thinking.

I lunged at him and pulled him into a hug, laying my head against his chest. His hands enveloped me and he began caressing my head, playing with my hair.

“ You should come sleep in my bed, I can’t protect you well enough from another room”, he said to me.

And it took me a while just trying to get myself to finally stop crying before I actually pulled back and looked him straight in the eyes.

“I'm scared”. I said to him and it was true.

I definitely was scared. This dream was just a constant reminder that I still did not know who the culprit was. I still had no idea who the black wolf was, but I remembered every single detail about that wolf.

I remembered exactly how his eyes were shaped, the small gold streaks on its fur, the shape of its teeth, that sinister look on its face. I could pick it out in a crowd, in a huge crowd of wolves, but I had not been given the opportunity to walk into it again. I mean, what were the odds anyway of me walking into a random wolf when I don't even go out into forests anymore?

“ I'll keep you safe.”

He said to me as he caressed my cheek and his lips touched my forehead, how soft and soothing his kiss was. All I did was nod and wrap my arms around his neck. He immediately understood what he had to do as he lifted me up a bridal style and carried me to his bedroom.