The Alpha's Unwanted Mate

CHAPTER 3 He's My Mate

　　Nara

　　That cedarwood scent, I know it. It is familiar to me. I sniff again, he is here. I'd recognize it anywhere. It is the scent I once loved and now hate most in the world. It belongs to the boy who broke my heart. Kian. My eyes flutter open, and the first thing that shot through was pain. It hurts everywhere, and my head throbs. What is causing this? Then I remember what happened earlier in the kitchen. Trisha, Lang, and Karl were beating me, and Kian showed up.

　　I sit up abruptly and wince in pain, shocked. Kian saved me.

　　"How do you feel?" A deep, alluring voice asks, and I freeze, then my heart lurches. I see him standing across the room, arm crossed, face void of emotion. I'd been dreading to see him.

　　Tall and incredibly handsome with an athletic build. His hair is short, cut to a buzz.

　　However, what shocks me is the bond that forms in place as our gazes lock. Kian Karson is my mate. My heart is drumming loudly; I can hear it in my ears.

　　"Mate," I whisper, I can feel myself pale at the realization.

　　He stalks closer to me and sits at the edge of the bed, looking unaffected by my words.

　　"How do you feel?" he asks again. How can he be concerned about how I feel when my life has just done a 180? I have a mate, and it's him. My best friend, who turned out to be my hater.

　　"How long have you known, Kian?" I ask, looking into his greyish-blue eyes.

　　"Three years," he answers, voice displeased, and a grimace on his devilishly handsome face. A sharp ache pierces my chest.

　　"You should have told me." My voice is quiet.

　　"What would you have done?"

　　"I don't know," I admit. I really don't know what I could have done. I'm still in shock. The bond between us, I can feel it, so magnetic, taking me to him. My body pains and my throbbing headache have all gone away just being in his presence.

　　His phone rings, and he gets it. I can hear a woman's voice on the other end, calling him baby, and my heart breaks.

　　Kian glances at me, his face shows indifference, and then he leaves the room.

　　Kian didn't come back to my room that night, and when I woke up in the morning, I rushed out to prepare breakfast for everyone. Despite feeling like s**t, I prepared all the meals and cleaned the house spotless, with the omegas Luna Tina had assigned me.

　　After doing my duties, I went to the old garage, converted into a bedroom, since there was no space for me in their fancy packhouse, despite it being a four-story Victorian mansion.

　　Everyone in the pack was required to attend Kian's swearing-in ceremony, so I used the common bathrooms on the first floor to bathe and wore a mini ruffled- hem dress. It was a dress no one wanted after pack designers brought in racks and racks for all the ladies to choose from.

　　I left the garage and went out to the party where everyone was. The Luna had hired a catering company to serve the party tonight, so I was here as a member, even though I was officially one, since I was never initiated.

　　I was standing in the corner alone, with a lemonade in hand, while my eyes roved the garden. I wanted to see Kian. We haven't spoken since the clinic, and I need to know the way forward. I'm about to go look for him when Ciera approaches me. She is an omega and one of the five people in this pack who are nice to me. She is a pretty girl with purple bangs, green eyes, and a lovely face.

　　We go to the same high school, but she hangs out with other people and rarely speaks to me. I, on the other hand, am a loner.

　　"Hi, good to see you here," she smiles, and I nod to acknowledge her. Ciera starts talking about school, but I don't know half the people she mentions.

　　"Look who had the guts to come here," I hear Trisha's annoying voice, and I don't hold back my groan. I swear this girl gets off on bullying me.

　　"Trash, I mean Trisha," I bite out with a sarcastic smile, and she gasps. Lang's mouth hangs open, and Ciera ditches me. No surprise.

　　"How dare you, Nara!" She raises her hand to slap me, but stops, as if remembering something. She backs away, only pinning me with a glare.

　　"Trisha, is she causing you trouble?" The Gamma's deep voice startles me, and Trisha goes to her father, hugging him.

　　"Daddy, this girl called me trash. She bullies me," she cries, and I roll my eyes. The Gamma glares at me with so much hate. This man has always hated me since the day I was brought here. After I was found, he suggested to Alpha Kebby that I should be killed, because I might become like my father in the future.

　　"You little dirt of the earth, how dare you bully my daughter?" he growls, eyes menacing, if he could kill me, he would without hesitation. A long time ago, I'd shrink after every disdainful stare and tell them Please don't treat me like this, I'm not my father, but now, I've gotten used to the hatred.

　　"I didn't bully her, Gamma. She's the one bullying me, but you should know that because you watched her bully me for years and you've never once scolded her," I spat. I can feel anger coursing through me. He approaches me, and fear creeps through me.

　　"How dare you speak back at me? You are dirt like your parents; you have no right." he backhands me, and I feel my lip split, blood licking.

　　"Good, uncle," Lang praises. I glare at the gamma, my body shaking and my eyes stinging with unshed tears. Don't cry, don't cry, Nara.