~Elena~
My eyes fluttered open slowly and I had to blink thrice before I realised that I was in an unfamiliar room, I placed my hand on my head and winced in pains, my back was aching and I found different bruises on my body that made my eyes tear up, the only thing that my mind could drift back to was somebody injecting me.
They must have beaten me up in my unconscious state, I really did not expect her to go that far, she did not have the balls to do so when I was awake, I attempted moving out of the bed but I could not.
‘’Please, make it stop.’’ I begged nobody in particular to make my headache go away.
I took my time to observe the room and realised that it was a male’s room, I did not want to believe that my mate chose to play the hero again.
The bathroom door opened and my mouth dropped open at the sight of water dripping down Nolan’s shirtless body with a white towel wrapped around his waist, my breath even hitched because he was super hot.
What the hell was wrong with me? The person in question was my enemy, so I had to behave myself.
‘’Close your mouth or bugs might fly into it.’’ He cautioned me.
I really did not have to worry about such a thing happening because his room was too clean for insects to be flying around, I cleared my throat and lowered my head in shame.
‘’Good thing that you are awake, how are you feeling?’’ he inquired with a tone that resembled concern.
I shrugged my shoulders, ‘’I don’t know. I will be fine soon, I am an alpha’s daughter.’’
More like, I was.
‘’You were.’’ he corrected me as if it was the most important thing to do.
Yeah, thank you so much for reminding me that my parents were dead.
He got into his walk-in closet since his room was gigantic and came out, wearing a black top and shorts.
My breathing got heavy as I noticed that he was coming to sit on his bed, next to me, it was even more embarrassing for me because he could hear my racing heart, for goodness sake, I was supposed to loathe him but the fact that he was acting different from the rest gave a soft spot for him in my heart.
He attempted grabbing my hands but I flinched and retreated, his eyes met mine and he gave me a small smile, ‘’Hey, I am not going to bite you. I just want to examine you.’’
As soon as he said that, the voices in my head started replaying when I was unconscious, I could hear him yelling at Nyla and threatening to lock up the pack doctor for his misconduct.
I reluctantly gave him my hand and watched as his mood changed when he saw it. His claws started growing out and the same eye colour that appeared when he warned the guard to stop was visible again. I hope he was not going to go wild and attack me.
‘’They should not have hurt you.’’ he stated in a husky voice, he sounded as if he was not talking to me and I was some sort of precious boundary that nobody dared to cross or else, he would go wild.
I removed my hand from his, good thing that I did not feel any chills run through my spine, it was a sign that I still harboured hatred for him in my heart.
‘’Why do you care so much? First of all, you saved me from getting killed when nobody asked you to be the hero of the day. You know if you had just minded your business, I would have had a nice family reunion, you wanted me to stay on Earth so that your pack can torture me, right?! Now, you are doing it again, what exactly are you trying to prove, that you are different? I am never going to believe that.’’ I deadpanned.
He looked to the side and shook his head, ‘’You are welcome, spoilt brat.’’
Huh?
‘’Excuse me?’’
‘’You really need to control that smart mouth of yours, it will get you into trouble one day and I would not be there to save you.’’ he warned me like I cared.
I narrowed my eyes at him before replying to him, ‘’Stop feeling so important, I have alpha blood in me. I will survive on my own, with or without your help.’’
I expected a serious reaction from him but all I got was folded arms with a smirk playing on his handsome face, ‘’Feisty…. I like it.’’
Eww.
‘’You know, for the past few hours. I have been wondering why the goddess decided to pair us to be one but then, I realised that you are actually my type of girl. The kind that put up a fake strong font meanwhile she’s so fragile on the inside. We are literally a match made in Heaven except the fact that we are sworn enemies.’’ I could sense a bit of sarcasm in his statement.
‘’Nope. Your father made me an orphan, so there is no way that I am going to settle for someone like you. I might be a slave now but I am still not going to loose my dignity, my parents would be turning in their grave if they find out I accepted you.’’ I retorted.
‘’Uh, they never got buried. Their heads are in a private room and their bodies were burnt with the rest piles of corpses of the pack members.’’ he told me in a nonchalant tone.
He would continue reminding me of my horrible reality if I stay around him.
‘’You are so annoying.’’
He c****d his brow at me and chuckled, ‘’Annoying? You cannot handle the truth, how’s that?’’
‘’f**k off!’’
He rolled his eyes at me and almost facepalmed himself, ‘’This is my room and house, I am being nice by letting you in here. If not, you would be in the omega quarters and they would have beaten you to stupor. You are starting to make me seem like a fool for caring.’’
‘’Well, nobody asked you to! Be like your father, stay heartless!’’
‘’Not when it comes to my mate.’’ he told me in a husky tone.
His eyes slowly darted to my lips and he licked his lips, I started praying that he would not attempt to kiss me because I would surely slap him and it might bring out the raging beast in him, I would not want to imagine what he would do to me.
‘’You need to rest, you haven’t healed fully. I will get you food.’’
This was the time for one of us to reject each other and stop being delusional about us being compatible when we were far from that. I was not going to deceive myself that our union would bring peace between both packs.
These people murdered my family and I was never going to forgive them for that, even if the goddess chose to beg me, I hated all of them with every bit of blood running through my veins.
He stood up to leave and I was fast to speak, my words made him halt in his steps but he never turned back to face me, ‘’Reject me, Nolan Carlos or I will.’’