Rejected By One Alpha, Claimed By Another

Chapter Five

My cheeks turned bright pink as I stared at his bare chest. His body was a work of art, a masterpiece even. I bit my lips to stop myself from drooling, but that didn't help matters.

Alpha Carter, on the other hand, didn't seem to be half as flustered as I was. In fact, he seemed to be more relaxed than ever. "Is there a reason you came back aside to stare at my chest?" He asked with what seemed to be a smirk, but it disappeared before I could tell.

I quickly regained my composure. "i-i wasn't staring," I stuttered and looked away. "Then why are you here?" He asked and walked past me. I spun around to see him opening his walk-in closet and he disappeared into it. He quickly returned fully dressed now, and I was almost sad to see his chest covered, but I quickly snapped out of it.

"I'm here to tell you I made up my mind," I said after remembering the reason I came there in the first place. "Great, what is your choice?" he said and moved closer to me till we were just inches away.

"I-i-i" i began stuttering because of how close he was. I wasn't sure if it was due to his strong alpha aura or maybe it was because of how sexy he looked, but something about him was preventing me from thinking straight.

"Speak Genny," he said in a low voice, I took deep breaths unable to say a word. "I have places to be Genny," he added. I finally found my words and blurted out "I accept!"

His lips curved into a smile and he moved even closer, leaving barely any space between us. "You're being serious, right?" He asked looking straight into my eyes with passion, "yes, yes Alph…" "Call me Alex, just Alex," he instructed and without warning captured my lips in his.

My eyes widened in shock as Alpha Car… I mean Alex and I made out. We finally disengaged after what seemed like forever and he stared into my eyes with a burning passion, like he didn't want the moment to end.

"I promise to treat you like the queen you are" he whispered in a calm voice, one that I knew I could trust. "Thank you" I whispered back and as we leaned in for another kiss, the door flew open and a guard walked in, "Alpha, you need to come and see this" he said.

Alex looked like he didn't want to leave me and I didn't want him to leave either but I knew whatever it was, it was probably important, "I should get going, I need to inform my family of my decision" I said and the moment the words left my mouth, I realized that I would have to go home and face Nat and her mother.

As much as I would have enjoyed the look on Nat's and Helen's faces when I announce to them that I was going to be their Luna, Steph was still around and I didn't want to see her broken knowing that she would never have a mate again.

"Or on second thought, can I stay here and someone will inform them for me?" I requested, "Sure, I'll send one of my men. You can stay here till the coronation, I'll be back before noon" He replied and left the room with the guard.

While he was away, I took time to explore the room. It had a walk-in closet, an enormous bathroom, a kitchen and a nice view of the entire pack. I could get used to that.

Alex returned before noon as promised and he immediately began asking how I wanted the coronation to be. We spent all day planning the coronation and when nighttime came, the problem of where I was going to sleep came up.

Although there was a gigantic bed in the room that would fit me and Alex, I was too shy to sleep next to him and offered to sleep on the couch. It looked more comfortable than my bed at home after all. "Nonsense, what kind of man leaves a lady to sleep on the couch? If you really can't sleep with me on the bed then I will sleep on the couch" he said.

I was touched by his kind gesture but there was no way I was going to let the alpha of the pack sleep on the couch for me so after negotiating, we decided to both sleep on the bed but with some pillows between us acting as barriers.

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Two weeks had passed since I accepted to be the Luna of the pack and living with Alex had been nothing but paradise. It was the day of my coronation and the day he was going to mark me and make me his new mate.

He had forced Steph to accept his rejection which I'm not proud of but I had to do what I had to do. I invited Nat, Quinn and Helen for the fun of it and also invited Klein and Floral.

Klein, who had been away when Alex proposed, was in utter disbelief to receive my invite and even during the coronation he looked like he was still trying to determine whether he was dreaming.

Everything was going smoothly, too smoothly and I couldn't shake off the eerie feeling that something bad was about to happen. And it did.

Just as Alex was about to mark me when the door to the hall flew open and some scary looking men walked in, and one of them had the aura of an Alpha.

"How dare you hold this coronation a few weeks after rejecting my daughter?" The alpha growled, it was Steph's father!