LOGAN’S POV
For the first time in my entire life, there was something moving within me, not like an insect or a bacteria that needed to be removed quickly, but more of a feeling. It was not just one feeling but the rush of every positive feeling. The grip I had on her throat lessened as I stared directly into her eyes, unable to pull away, unable to look away. Every part of my hand that was around her throat tingled with electricity, a jolt that I would gladly let kill me. On her throat, my hand felt like home, a place I didn't want to let go. I had no idea if it would be the same for every part of her body, but I wanted to try it. I wanted to touch her, to trace my finger on her face, to sink my teeth to her skin, to mark her as mine, to take her home.
I had been near her for a split second when she entered before, I had stared into her eyes, but none of that could be compared to whatever this feeling was now. She smelled nice, so luscious, an evidence that she would taste so nice too. The thought alone made my throat move, and made my tongue take a swipe on my lips. For the first time in forever, since I got my wolf at a young age, the sheer and sinister voice of the damned cursed thing sounded in my brain, “She’s ours! Mark her!”
My grip loosened completely from her throat as the voice continued to pound in my head, yelling to mark her, to tame her, to take her. “Mark her! Mark her! Mark her!”
I clenched my jaw so hard, my hands flying to both sides of my head and grabbing it forcefully, my face crumpled up in pain because of the way it kept yelling. The murmurs of everyone around me added to it, asking various questions to whosoever, murmuring whatever was coming to their mind at first.
I noticed from the corner of my eyes how dumbstricken she was still standing, just staring at me with those luscious pink lips my wolf wanted to nibble on so badly, those beautiful golden orbs of hers that I could stare at forever.
“Shut up, you f*****g thing!” I growled out, slapping my head myself.
“What have you done to him, you witch!” I heard a female voice yell out.
I tried to trace the voice because of how loud it was and noticed it to be a girl who was already making her way towards Calista, her facial features angry at every step that she took. I watched Calista’s dumbstricken face morph into shock as a loud slap was delivered to her face, and instantly, a fit of rage clouded my eyes. Before the girl could say one more word or touch her one more time, I rushed towards her, pushing her right off and far from Calista.
I watched how everyone let out a gasp as the girl in question fell down hard to the ground, and not even an ounce of pity left my body. I gritted my teeth together, glancing at each of their frozen faces, “No one should ever touch her again. If anyone dares, I will tear your limbs one after the other, starting from your feet till the pain kills you.”
Without waiting for any of their reaction, I grabbed Calista’s hand and pulled her out of the class. She didn’t even resist for one second, or a minute, and just let me keep dragging her to wherever. I ended up in front of the girls bathroom, opening the door and pulling her before locking it from the inside. I left her still standing shocked while I walked angrily to all of the doors, checking each of the toilets one after the other and making sure there was no one inside.
“f**k! f**k! Keep the f**k quiet!!” I yelled out, slamming the last door close before returning to Calista.
She seemed to have pulled herself out from whatever she was going through and her eyes immediately clashed mine as I stood in front of her again, “We need to talk.” I said immediately, my wolf’s voice now silent in my head.
“I reject you.” She said immediately, stunning me.
I opened my mouth to counter it only for her to beat me to it, “I don’t want to be with someone like you who derives pleasure in haunting and torturing other people. I thought you were different before, but now you’re no different from them. From what they all think you are.”
My brain formatted all the words I had wanted to say before, the voice of my wolf going completely quiet in my head as I registered her new words. I raised my brows up in confusion, my eyes squinting at her, “What do you mean? What do they call me? What am i?” I asked.
She stepped closer to me, her eyes wide and bold, her aura full with so much confidence I would have thought she was not the same Lista that always gets stomped on everytime, “You’re the cursed one, the soulless alpha prince. You have no care for anyone, and youve proved it to me, you’re a monster just like your father who killed your moth…
I didn’t let her say the rest of the words before grabbing her throat, ignoring the fresh tickles of electricity that made me want to touch her, the little girly butterflies tingling in me that made me want to stop hurting her, “You know nothing about me, Calista…” I muttered angrily, all the veins on my face popped out.
I was choking her, yet she still stared at me with her eyes filled with disgust, “I know about you. I know about people like you.” She started.
Her eyes were starting to water as my hand tightened more and more on her neck, “You’re a bully, someone who looks for every opportunity to blame someone on their own misfortune, on their own trauma. You don’t want to take blame that this is how you are, how you’re born, but instea...instea…” she coughed out, her eyes now turning a shade of red, “...instead you keep passing the blame, looking for fault..
I shook my head at her slowly, the weight of her words drilling a kind of pain in my heart, it was painful to hear someone, nope,to hear my mate speak of me that way. I gritted my teeth hard, gnashed them together before releasing her. I sniffed in, a feeling washing over me.
“You do not know me, Calista. You have no idea what I am..wh..
“You’re just a bully! A soulless bully!” She managed to yell out, her voice still crooked from the grip.
I lowered my head at a new realization, clenching my jaw hard before looking back up at her, “For years now I had been told that my mate would come in to change everything for me, to make me happy, to make me feel alive..” I scoffed at the stupid thought of it, the back of my eyes burning in absolute pain.
“For f*****g 18 years, I have been told that you would be the light of me, of this f*****g pack!”
“Guess you’ve been lied to because bullies like you don’t deserve any form of happiness!”
Her words made me laugh from the pit of my stomach, the one that gave no hope, a laugh so dry with no emotion, just soulless like they’ve claimed me to be. I watched as the corners of her face masked up with confusion as my laughter died down, “If I can't get happiness, do you think any of you would be able to get it?”
I walked towards her, my hands in my pocket and lowered my mouth to those bunny ears of hers that I desperately wanted to swipe my tongue against, to nibble on, to moan in. I clenched my jaw, killing any of those feelings. She was not my mate, she could not be the one promised to me.
She was just like all of them, like my father who saw me as nothing but a tool, like my mother who left me in this world to a devilish beast.
“You should run whenever you see me now, Calista. Because if anything ever goes wrong in my life, I'm blaming you now.”
I moved away from her, a move I didn't want at all. I was going to fight against it all, deny everything she made me feel, and make her life a living hell.
“You’re just a monster, just like your father.” She muttered scaringly, shaking her head as she said it.
The corners of my lips stretched into a thin smile, I knew I would hate everything that I was going to do to her, but I was going to do it, because if I couldn't be happy, she also didn’t deserve to be, “I’ve told you, Calista. I’m what my father thinks he is.”