Mated To Alpha Wayne

CHAPTER 3 - ALIVE WITH A MARK

KRAKEN PACK ✓

"I can't get married now, grandfather." Alpha Wayne refused his grandfather's plan, checking out the documents in his study where they were sitting. "You are already an Alpha, you need a Luna by your side." Old man Kraken replied, holding his black fashionable walking stick to the ground.

Alpha Wayne scoffed, placing the pack's seal on one of the papers. "I can go about the pack duties myself, I don't need the help of any Luna." He answered, walking the old man out of his study. "You like it or not, you need to find your mate or I will get you another." His grandfather gave his final words.

"Find your mate or I'll get you another." His grandfather's words repeated in his head like it was the dumbest thing he had ever heard. He doesn't even know anything about having a mate or finding himself one. "Is there a problem, Alpha?" Graham teased as they walked into the bedroom and Alpha Wayne scoffed.

Alpha Wayne removed his robe, leaving him in just sweatpants. "The same topic of me finding my mate or the old man threatens to get me another." He replied, rolling his eyes as two maids entered the bathroom to prepare his bath.

"What do you intend to do now?" Graham asked. "Ask my late father's old friend for a mating process. The lady who bears the mark will be my mate." Alpha Wayne smirked before entering the bathroom to have a good night's bath.

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"Where did you vanish, Elvira?" Kristin asked immediately when Elvira entered their apartment, trying to cover her sad features. "Tell me what happened. I know you are hiding something." Kristin narrowed her eyes on her only friend.

Elvira gave a fake smile, going into the kitchen to dish out her food. "What do you mean? I'm not hiding anything from you." She answered, changing her mind to taking juice from the fridge instead. "I know you are lying and we swore to ourselves as friends never to hide things from each other." Her friend said.

"Kristin, I'm not lying to ---" Elvira was still saying but was cut off by a paper thrown to her face. "Tell me what that is. Tell me why that paper looks like a documented hospital bill that has your brother's name on it!" Kristin yelled, her eyelids shaking as though she wanted to cry.

If she hadn't found those documents in the opened drawer in her friend's room after running out of the house suddenly, she wouldn't believe Elvira would try to lie to her face again. "Kristin, wait! I didn't mean ---"...." You lied to my face Elvira. Do I look like a fool? We have been together since childhood, I've known your brother all my life. First, it was you hiding your health issue from me, and now, your brother's? Am I a stranger to you?" Kristin's tears finally fell, she walked out on her and banged the door of her room shut.

TWO DAYS LATER ✓

Kristin refused to talk to Elvira. They just simply pass by each other without a word which hurts the both of them a lot. "Kristin, I know you are still angry but ---" Kristin banged the door on her face even before she finished talking. "I'm sorry, Kristin. I'm sorry." Elvira broke into tears, resting by the door.

After some minutes, Elvira was starting to feel somewhat dizzy, which was thought to be the stress of the entire week. None of them had even gone to work which means they already lost that job. "I'm sorry, Kristin. Please forgive me. I promise not to hide anything from you ever again." Elvira jumped up immediately and the door opened.

Kristin was already crying, holding a bouquet which made Elvira surprised. "Silly girl, you have forgotten today is your birthday but I didn't. Happy birthday best friend---" Elvira was at first smiling in happiness until she suddenly collapsed with Kristin screaming for help, carrying her friend in her hands.

"We are sorry, we couldn't save her." The doctors broke the news and Kristin gripped his collar tight. "What do you mean you couldn't save her? Is that not your f*****g job? You were supposed to save my friend!" She yelled at him, her eyes burning red from too much crying.

Kristin refused to accept the fact that her friend just ended up dead, "What the f**k are you saying? She -- she was fine throughout. How could she suddenly end up dead?" She cried, crashing to the ground. Elvira was covered and wheeled out on a carrier from the ward. "Can you just check her again? A pulse, heartbeat? Something!" Kristin yelled and cried as she tried to stop the carrier.

Kristin just couldn't believe it, deep regret and guilt started eating her up. "I should have forgiven her. I should have sorted out our differences. I should have spent more time with her." She blames herself the more, crying miserably. "You don't need to feel guilty." Elvira's grandmother patted her back, trying not to cry too.

"She just wanted to save her brother, why is she the one dead instead? Why?" Kristen cried beside the bed where Elvira's brother was lying. It was the same doctor who told her Elvira's brother also needed surgery and almost immediately, she begged her dad for the money hoping his surgery would be done soon once her father gave her the money.

Less than another three days later, Elvira was placed in a coffin ready to be buried. Just her grandmother, her best friend, and two other close friends were present. Elvira has no family; even her stepmother and stepsisters didn't attend, and they gave silly excuses. "The dead one will now proceed to the ground." The priest dictated.

Another round of tears as Elvira's corpse was being leveled into the ground. Meanwhile, "I want the mating process." Alpha Wayne said, sitting on a couch in another house that is far still inside the Kraken pack. It belonged to his father's friend, Marl Deem.

"Silly child, why do you want the mating process? You should have found your mate already or you just choose to be blind to her." Marl said, picking fruits from the plate with a toothpick. "I only want this to be able to refuse my grandfather's plan." Alpha Wayne replied, taking out the fruits too.

Graham also sat and took out the fruits; he has been with the Kraken family since he was young so he is already family. "She's already in your mind, son," Marl said and Alpha Wayne's eyes dimmed. The only person who has refused to vacate his mind was the lady who stole his bracelet, he just couldn't stop thinking about her and it took almost everything in him not to try to look for her again.

"Bring me your bracelet." Alpha Wayne looked at him weirdly before stretching the bracelet to him. Marl wriggled the bracelet and pulled a tiny strand of hair that no normal person would have seen out of it. Alpha Wayne cut himself and his blood dripped onto the plate where the strand of hair was placed.

Inside the coffin, Elvira gasped back to life with a burning sensation at the side of her neck but she also wondered why she was laid in a coffin. Am I dead already? No, she still has her brother to take care of. She hasn't apologized properly to her best friend. She still has her grandmother to provide for too, she can't die this way.

The coffin was too tight, she was already sweating profusely. If she can't find her way out of the coffin, it is heat that will kill her this time. She started knocking on the door of the coffin with all her strength, she knocked for ten minutes but no one was answering her. Was she buried finally? Has everyone gone?

They couldn't afford a glass coffin like the rich people. The coffin was painted white and just had a small glass view of the face of the corpse but she had been leveled to the ground so no one could see her. "Help! Somebody, help!!" Elvira shouted, knocking and pushing the coffin several more times.

It was time for the family of the deceased to pour sand on the coffin before the coffin would be finally covered with sand. The others had already poured sand but no one saw any change in the coffin. Elvira was already suffocating, she would surely die this time if no one rescued her.

Kristin is the next to pour sand. She crouched downwards, took some sand, and poured it slowly downwards while tears flowed freely from her eyes as she remembered memories of Elvira since their childhood. Kristin paused when she thought she saw the coffin move like someone just banged it from inside.

"Now, we cover the coffin with sand and say the final prayers." The priest said and different men were ready to do the needful. "Wait!" Kristin shouted, seeing the coffin shaking again and this time, she could swear that she saw two hands on the coffin, hitting it weakly. "She's alive!" She cried out, and the other family rushed there.

The priest tried to stop them, thinking the dead one had probably become a ghost trapped in the underworld and had come back to kill them all. Elvira gasped in air consecutively when the coffin opened until she started coughing. Kristin enveloped her in a bone-crushing hug, crying on her shoulder.

"Don't scare me to death like that again." Kristen didn't care if her friend's awakening was strange. She arose from the dead, that's the most important thing. Maybe God wants to have another child like his only son, Jesus Christ to have made her escape death.

Elvira was carried home and they started to pamper. Kristin never allowed her to bathe herself or do anything else while her grandmother spoiled her with food and anytime she tried to complain, "You have escaped the land of the dead." Her grandmother would say.

Throughout the week, Elvira had noticed her neck always burned, especially at night. Looking at the area of her neck in the mirror, it is a red mark, like something stung her and it looked like it was growing bigger as she touched it so she stopped touching it.

Meanwhile, Alpha Wayne has sent people out to search for the one who has a mark on the side of her neck but they only returned with no news of seeing any girl with such a mark. "You know who she is. You know who bears the mark, Wayne. Don't deny it." Marl said.