Defiance and Dignity

Compliance

Nikolai

Four years had gone by before I had found her. Though finding my mate was not my priority, every year that passed after twenty one only made the seed of doubt grow. The pack wondered if my fated mate would ever show.

While others typically presented at age twenty one like my brother Benjamin, they would have encountered their mate that same year. Many had actually believed Natasha, a friend of childhood and omega, was guaranteed her place by my side.

Only I didn’t feel what one was supposed to when they met their mate. Not with her at least.

My mate was human.

That thought never occurred to me in those four years. Simply because it was not a possibility. A werewolves fate is with another of its kind. That’s the way it’s always been.

The human world was one a wolf shouldn’t venture to far into and vice versa.

Humans and werewolves don’t mix.

Then how come the moment I laid eyes on her, caught her scent in the air, I questioned it all?

That day I traveled through the city to get back to my pack after a meeting with other leaders, I stopped by a coffee shop and on my way out, in a crowd of people I felt it.

That wave of something entirely different and new. It stopped me in my tracks.

There she was. Sienna. My mate.

She held a cup of coffee with her friend and she walked right past me.

How could she walk right past and me like nothing while my wolf was growling and threatening to change forms just to claim her.

I watched her walk away. It took everything in me to not chase after her, to get my wolf under control, and to be able to breathe again when she was no longer present.

Maybe I had gotten it wrong.

No.

There was no other explanation.

I needed to confirm it, to have no doubt so I entrusted a beta of mine to dig up what he could about her. I didn’t disclose the reason why and he didn’t need one.

Sienna Quinn Parker.

Human.

Twenty one years old.

That would explain why I only just had encountered her. Still, I needed more answers. That led me to her work place. Only she couldn’t provide me with any answers considering she felt nothing towards me.

I kept her existence to myself. I hadn’t told my pack I had found my fated mate while they still searched for potential ones. How would one go about telling them their future Luna was a human?

That wouldn’t be accepted. She would be casted out. My position as Alpha leader would be jeopardized. We would only be each other’s ruin.

Wouldn’t it be the best for us to keep to our own worlds?

That was the plan. It had been ongoing for months until a certain busybody by the name of Benjamin tried to uncover what I tried to keep hidden.

The visits I would make to the city, to her work, to be in the same vicinity as her was for me. I still didn’t fully understand how a human could be my mate. She had no werewolf blood running through her veins. She didn’t have a wolf. She didn’t feel that same tug and need to be close. She didn’t know me.

Perhaps fate had made a mistake or maybe I was being punished in an odd yet cruel way. Only I hadn’t done anything to warrant this.

But maybe this is for the best. My top priority had always been being the best Alpha pack leader I could be and having a mate beside me could cloud my judgement.

The visits I would make were necessary. In a way, I was using her. Mates emit pheromones between each other, it’s different than their typical scent. Sienna didn’t have the pheromones of an omega, just her scent, which was the norm for humans. I couldn’t receive them but I could release them.

A build up of pheromones could hinder Alpha’s abilities, it was partly why my pack was worried and in search for Luna.

She was meant to be mine.

And I had rejected her.

Not explicitly, that would only harm my wolf.

And not in the true way.

Mates could reject one another.

One could have a mate and they not be fated, typically those relationships don’t last. Sooner or later when they find their fated they live and love only for them.

Fated mates held more gravitas.

When it comes to a rejection of fated mates, one could even die from heartbreak or at the very least feel like they will

Sienna wouldn’t have the chance to reject me if she didn’t know about me.

She could live the rest of her life like any other normal human.

Drowning her in my pheromones was a bit excessive but it was the only way my wolf would survive without her. To a wolf’s senses they could detect she’s been marked.

Humans couldn’t pick up on wolf’s pheromones so there was no difference.

When I wouldn’t visit, I would still keep up to date. I told myself it was only for my wolf’s reassurance that I kept tabs on her.

Everything was going the way I wanted it to.

Until that night.

My wolf wanted to rip that man’s arms off for attempting against her.

It was normal to feel protective. A mate should feel safe and cared for in their alpha’s presence. Sienna’s expression held otherwise.

My wolf whined at the sight. I could hear her heart beat faster and shaky breaths.

I made a mistake that night.

I called out to her. I couldn’t help it.

After having knocked the man unconscious I set after her.

I felt conflicted. On one hand I regretted scaring her to the point where she got herself injured but on the other if I hadn’t intervened could she have been in more danger?

“Sienna!”

My heart raced as I reached her. She was muddy and bruised up. She looked so fragile and small in my arms. I placed my jacket over her while I carried her out from there.

“She’s okay” I alerted my whining and growling wolf. She wasn’t fine so to say but I needed him to be calm so that I could be.

I held her close as I got into the car with her. I brushed her hair away from her face. Her bruised cheek tugged at my heart. I had debated whether I should have taken her to a hospital but ultimately decided to take her back to the manor.

“I notified the family doctor sir, he should be there by the time we arrive.”

Truth was I couldn’t take her to the hospital, not when my wolf was anxious and needed to be sure she would be okay.

“This way” My arms held her closer as we enter the manor.

“What the fu-“ I shut the door on Benjamin and entered the room where the doctor was.