Alpha Kayden and His hybrid Mate

Chapter 10 | Bewitched

~Alpha Kayden~

"What's the matter. Don't like the pizza?" Sienna asked me as she stuffed herself with a big slice loaded with pepperoni, salami, and bacon.

"It's okay." I wasn't sure how many slices I ate so far, or if they tasted any good. My mind wasn't there at the moment.

"If it's the movie you don't like, it will get better, I promise." She nibbled on my ear before placing a wet kiss on my neck.

I was in no mood for the pizza, movie, or her kisses. Something was terribly wrong with me. I couldn't stay at the club once Kiki left. Sienna suggested we watch a movie at her place and make out.

I thought spending some time alone with my girlfriend would keep my thoughts from wandering in sinful directions. Those thoughts didn't give a flying fart what I thought about them.

The sight of Kiki in her sexy black dress kept flashing in front of my eyes. When did that little twelve year old girl turn into such a beautiful woman?

She was barely eighteen and no one really called her a beauty... except me and my stupid thoughts, which were filled with every little detail about her. The way her skin glowed under the sunlight or how her cinnamon brown eyes changed color to molten gold when she looked at me from that battered pickup truck every morning.

Axel, my wolf, always seemed to have a soft corner for her, no matter how much I wanted to dislike her. I was curious about her even before I ever met her. When I refused to return from my grandma's place several years ago, my dad was disappointed in me. He called Kiki royalty and some other nonsensical things, threatening to disown me. He wanted her to take over the pack if I didn't care about him or about Thunder Bay Pack.

"She's fit to be a Luna Queen, not just any luna. Superior alpha blood runs through her veins. The way she trains, she's going to be unstoppable in a few years. I can't wait for her to turn thirteen. For all I know, she might shift much earlier than others." He talked about her like he was her proud father.

When grandma died and I had to return to Two Harbors, I thought she would be a pain in the ass, especially because my dad mentioned making her my chosen luna. Sienna and I were already in a relationship, and I spent most of my time with her and her folks.

I considered it an honor a white warrior wolf chose me to be her lover. They loved their freedom and were too strong and arrogant to sleep around with random alphas. I trained with them most of my life, and Sienna considered me her equal. Axel had immense respect for her, and we also admired her beauty. She was a sweet, down to earth person despite being invincible, winning all my affection.

When I was forced to return and take charge of a few things as my dad's health deteriorated from a drinking problem, Sienna surprised me by wanting to accompany me to my pack and live with me if I promised to make her my chosen mate.

Nothing sounded more perfect to me than choosing her. I saw my dad suffer the consequences of being too attached to his true mate. My mom was a smart woman, but she foolishly chose to support my dad's decision and fight a losing battle till her last breath. The mate bond kept him from moving on and getting married again even years after mom left us.

Picking Sienna as the chosen mate would spare me of all that unnecessary fuss mates make about each other, getting weak and sucked into so much drama. I can reject whoever my mate turns out to be, if she ever shows up, once the Luna Ceremony takes place and I officially claim Sienna.

Everything was going as planned until recently. I thought I was in love with Sienna. Maybe I still am. But what the hell was this new pull I felt towards Kiki? It was only getting stronger and stronger as days passed.

Axel liked her from the moment he saw the petite girl when she challenged Sienna some six years ago. I thought Kiki and I were going to be mates. She felt some unknown jealousy toward my girlfriend even before turning thirteen. And Axel felt some kind of attraction years before I was eighteen. They say it was possible to slightly sense our mates much before turning eighteen.

I was sixteen then and wasn't looking forward to turning eighteen and finding out she was my mate. I wanted Sienna to be my mate, but unfortunately, the Moon Goddess wouldn't bother the white warrior wolves with such lame mate bonds. Lucky folks! They slept with whoever they wanted and lived as lone wolves or as a family of three or four, not a pack full of wolves and politics over pack borders.

Kiki never shifted and put an abrupt end to all my dad's tauntings. She shattered the castles he built in the air about making her my luna and then taking over the palace and whatnot. Axel was strangely excited when it was time for her to shift. He urged me to pay attention to her every time she walked by, even when she was proven to be wolfless.

She wasn't my mate. Both Axel and I knew that very well. Even if she was a human and couldn't feel the mate bond, it wouldn't have just let me be. Axel would have screamed mate a thousand times and burst out of me to mark her without thinking twice. None of that happened when I turned eighteen. I almost felt nothing for her. Almost.

Axel was impatient to meet his mate and didn't share my feelings about taking a chosen mate. He loved Sienna, but we both knew it wasn't the same.

He never cared to check other she-wolves out because he agreed Sienna was wholesome in every way. But his thoughts changed when Kiki was around. What I felt for Kiki these past three years was a faint, unreasonable sort of attraction, not the strong mate kind of pull. But things seem to be changing slowly.

While Axel isn't telling me she's our mate, he's not been able to ignore her either. He yearns for her, for her to look at him, touch him, and kiss him. She was adopted by Zeta Archer, so I wondered if she was a witch's daughter and put a spell on me. I knew she was drawn to me. She probably did something to make sure I reciprocated her feelings. There could be no other explanation for this.

While Sienna was eating popcorn and resting her head on my shoulder, I wished I was with Kiki. I was thinking about the sexy dress she wore tonight, and about how possessive I felt about her. It was a feeling unknown to me.

The golden hue of the lounge lights on her skin when I first looked at her tonight drove me crazy. Everything around her seemed to add to her bewitching looks, and I wanted to drown myself in those eyes and run my tongue over that neck.

"I have somewhere to go." I stood up, to my own surprise, and started moving to the front door.

"What's wrong? We can watch some other movie? Or do you want to..." A mischievous look flashed on Sienna's face.

I should feel like a scoundrel for thinking about Kiki at this time, but I wasn't in my senses. I had to see her right at this moment. Stripping my clothes off and shifting into my wolf form, I chose to go for a run. Axel wouldn't calm down, no matter what I did.

Okay... There was no harm in just taking a peek at Kiki, right?

What was she up to anyway? I wanted to find out. It was as if my life depended on this information.