Gone, Found and Freed

Chapter 4 - Found

    POV Alina

    I couldn’t help it. I don’t know how I’m supposed to explain to him that another man wants me. I know that as my mate, he would try and kill Drystan if he were to ever lay eyes on him. Drystan is a monster. After what he did to dad, I knew he was a monster and I’m pretty sure wanting to claim me was some sick and twisted bullshit to try and replace mom. He didn’t have to do what he did after mom died, but he did it anyways. Dad was innocent and the entire pack knew it. When Drystan sentenced him to segregation, my heart sank because I knew that dad would never make it out alive. Segregation is the worst thing that a werewolf can be sentenced to. Basically, you’re thrown in a hole for seven days with no food or water and covered up without any type of light. Sure enough, the day that they went to pull dad out of that hell hole, he had already perished. Thinking about it breaks my heart. Knowing that I never got to say goodbye, or that he had to die in there alone without ever being able to feel the warm sun on his face again. And for what? Because he found his mate and she just so happened to be my mom? Drystan’s mate rejected him before they were ever able to mark or do the mating ritual, so he’s spent his life trying to pick a chosen mate. When my mom promised him that she would accept him if she hadn’t found her mate by her twenty first birthday and then turning around and finding dad two weeks prior, I’m sure it hurt his ego a little bit. But he didn’t have to set my dad up for a crime that he didn’t commit due to his bitterness. If he was capable of killing my father, who knows what he would do to Ace.

    I see the light to my cabin and sprint toward it faster. I’m sure that Ace isn’t far behind me. I know that as my mate, he’s not going to let me go so easily. I shift from my wolf form back into my human form and run inside. I throw on some clothes and immediately start packing a bag. I must run again. I have no choice. It’s the only way to protect both of us from Drystan’s wrath. I pick up my keys and switch off all the lights and take one last good look at my home. I pick up my bags getting ready to take off and I smell him. I see his shadow through my window go from wolf to human. I hear his footsteps coming up to the front door and I gulps. I’ve never been more terrified. Lily however is prancing in the back of my head and howling.

    “Mate! Go to mate! Need mate!” she says with her voice full of excitement.

    “Well, it looks like we don’t have a choice now. There’s no where to go!” I exclaim. She starts howling and I shh her. I hear a small bang on the door and figured that he just leaned himself against it.

    “Little mate, open this door now!” He screams. Obviously the sweet and tender Ace is gone and the royally pissed off Maximus is here. Lily purrs at the sound of his voice and I roll my eyes. I don’t say anything or respond in anyway. Hopefully he thinks that I haven’t made it here yet or that I already left. “I can smell you little mate! If you don’t open this door by the count of three, I’m breaking it in!” he shouts again.

    “Lily, what do I do?” I ask shaking.

    “Uhh, open the door?” she responds, and I can almost hear her eyes roll.

    “One!” I hear him say again. At least he’s somewhat patient.

    “Alina, just open the door. Open the door for mate!” Lily says excited again.

    “Lily I can’t!” I say in almost tears.

    “Why? He’s obviously going to come in anyways.” She says trying to convince me.

    “TWO!” he says louder this time.

    “ALINA! OPEN THE DOOR!” Lily screams at me this time. I walk over to the door as quietly as possible and I hear him groan and take a deep breath in. He can smell me from just the other side of the door.

    I can tell that he and his wolf have agreed on their feeling about this current situation. I take a deep breath and just as I’m about to reach for the doorknob, “Thr…”

    I cut him off quickly in hopes that I can save my door, “Okay! Okay! Just stop! I’m gonna open it!”

    I unlock it and slightly open it and quickly go to sit on my small couch. The door slowly creeps open wider and wider as I watch him walk in. The cabin is still dark, so I can’t see his face. Just his figure. Obviously, he can’t see me either because I can tell that he’s looking around.

    “Where are you little mate?” he questions angrily.

    “I’m here,” I say putting my head down and reaching over to a small table where a lamp sits. I flick the lamp on and he turns and looks directly at me. I gulp.

    “Why?” he says with small tears in his eyes. “Why would you reject me?”