Kane's POV
That wouldn't have been good if Copper hadn't stopped me. Seeing her talking with that boy almost ran me off. My wolf nearly lost his sanity.
She met my gaze and without question, she reached inside the car. I glared down at the paper in cold anger. I gazed daggers at the boy as he stared at Leona from the stairs waving her goodbye.
It was very frustrating!
It wasn't a dream as I wanted it to be. I signed and jumped in my car after seeing that Copper and Leona had already left for the pack house.
I wasn't the likable type of alpha, just to avoid slaughtering anyone that angers me, I don't normally leave my pack. I left my pack because of the peace agreement that I thought would favor my people. I thought reuniting with the blood moon pack would be possible.
Ring moon pack was strong but not everything was in our pack. I thought we needed a partner to hold our steam, at least an alpha who would look at me differently far from what the others think of me but now I wouldn't think like that anymore.
It seems everything that happened wealth it if I give it a good thought. After all, the moon goddess decided to torture me in a way I never thought was possible. I was a hybrid and I wasn't looking forward to finding what they call a fated mate. It was sounding like a joke to me. The goddess must be crazy thinking a kid would be able to hold me down and shear my life with me.
I stopped the car after driving for less than an hour.
I turned to go back to the pack house. I didn't feel like f*****g anymore. It was pure torture with Leona and the pull from the mate bond didn't make it easy either.
It was crazy how everything happened, I never wanted a mate nor dreamed of it. Now it is clear the moon goddess was only seeing pleasure in my torture. How on earth did she think I would accept a kid as my fated mate and honor her as the bond demanded? I meant, how could she satisfy me as her mate?
I had to close my eyes every minute to be able to hold in my stupid desire. It was supposed to be different since she was under age but the pull of the bond was turning me into a monster." I being that wouldn't make any difference" I murmured. I had always had everything under control but not this one. I had to do something before I end up killing the kid.
I didn't want to take advantage of her innocence. She was too young to be mated to a grown alpha like me, what the f**k was nature planning to put on my plate?.
I concluded that was a punishment, not a blessing as many wolves deemed it.
Finding a fated mate was regarded as a blessing. Because a fated mate serves as the other half of each other. There was nothing like betrayal in the bond. It was seen as a pure bond that combines two beings for better or worse, no matter what, such beings can not live apart from each other.
I probably couldn't see the blessing side of the bond when all I went through was torture because of the strong pull, my mate was underage and couldn't satisfy my wolf as it was meant to be.
'are you planning on rejecting Leona?' Leo, my wolf asked but that isn't the case, the case was she had no idea what she was causing me. ' I will do that if I have to ' i replied as her innocent face played in my memory. She was beautiful and lively but I also knew I had a lot of fight ahead of me if I would have to keep her as my mate till she ran into the right age.
It wouldn't be easy.
I lowered my speed as I approached the main entrance of the pack land. I could see my warriors on guard. I loved my men in a far different way. A way I thought was right and they respected me and fear me when necessary. I was used to being the beast alpha that most of my subjects feared, it didn't bother me since I had a few members who behaved freely with me.
I was the mysterious alpha history was waiting to record. Other werewolf communities had tagged me for what I was made of. I was evil, but my pack members never said that to my face nor behind me but I could tell they fear me and thought the worst of me.
" alpha" Jonathan, my best warrior bowed." Nothing should be speared " I warned. I didn't train my warriors to capture but to kill. We stood alone, I was a standing alpha. My pack had never depended on any other for protection for fifty years after I was born. I was evil, as they say because I possessed the impossible. A hybrid would either match the quality of one being but I took both. As if that wasn't enough, I had to save the pack from my dad, and I had to make a choice " taken, alpha" I pushed the door opened and took off my jacket before I shifted and run into the woods.
' do you think she knows?' My wolf Leo asked, I shook my head. I doubt she did, it wouldn't have been difficult if she had an idea but rather more difficult. How long would she be able to avoid the stupid pull if indeed she feels it?
' I think she feels something for us' Leo said but I wasn't in the mood to discuss that. ' are you even listening?' He growled and I shut him off. I wanted to clear my head.
I entered into the familiar curve that sits almost at the west border and the familiar scent penetrated my nose." do I owe a death sentence?" I heard his sarcastic voice. I shifted back and he appeared shoving me with black long pants" I don't remember crossing your path, alpha," he said as he settled beside the table and starts sharpening his blade " is there anything bothering the mighty alpha Kane? I still don't want to believe a she-wolf can mess you up" He turned to face me.' That is our mate you are talking about, old man ' Leo spat, he seemed offended by his words which I wasn't.
My grandfather was always like that, he says things the way he sees them. He hated mingling and living among the rest just like most wolves who lived in a pack and call home off course he became like that when my grandma was killed.
He was betrayed and played during his reign as alpha of the ring moon pack. He was the reason I wanted nothing to do with a mate. Losing a mate was like losing yourself, just like he had lost himself and living alone along the borders like some kind of rogue.
" I heard you have found your mate, congratulation" he mumbled and I rolled my eyes. What was there to congratulate? " isn't that supposed to be a question?" I asked " not at all" he scoffed. " news does travel fast" I snored moving my steps and running my fingers on the painted wall. " I know you do like my paintings," he said and I chuckled. He was full of himself, I bet I wouldn't blame him after all, my dad was no different.
" so tell me how is the lady? Is she comfortable around a killer like you?" That was his problem, not mine if he seriously thinks I was a killer. I rolled my eyes, I have got a pack to protect and peace doesn't come without fighting.
" Not what I can see" she was okay with me, I guessed. " then you are here to invite me for her welcoming ceremony as your Luna?" I shook my head. That old man was indeed full of expectations" not until a decay" I said and he swivel the chair to the other side.
" let me guess, she is a kid?" He said with a nod. I knew my grandfather was watching out for my every move. There was nothing he didn't know about me." That is good torture then" he busts laughing as if there was something fun about the situation.
I strode and took a seat on the rock beside him." Am on the verge of rejecting her" I voiced out and gave me a warning look. " do you think that will be the end? Rejection isn't the way forward, alpha" he stood up and got us a beer.
" you should count yourself lucky," he said in between laughter. Lucky about what exactly? My grandfather was the annoying type, he finds fun in every situation and here he was laughing and asking me to count myself lucky.
As if there was something to be proud of. Lived it the torture or the age gap between us?
" I must say you are lucky, son" he nodded gaping the drink down his throat. " no, you are not saying that" I replied. How could he say I was lucky when I was nothing near? What the hell was so?
" You got to see the goodness in every situation, Kane. Don't let your lust fool you" he said as if I was the problem.
" I was against my son mating a vampire. But see me now, look how safe the pack is since you took over. I am more than proud of you Kane. You are the son I wanted and more. You have corrected the mistakes he committed. Now, the strongest alpha every wolf could think of, is you" my expression remained the same. I knew he was my fun but I just hated his way of appreciation." Your mate is the only wolf that could save you in a matter of life and death without thinking. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be in this cave if it wasn't for Dora. She wouldn't be dead if not for this mate bond" his words made sense. Leona did the same earlier, it was more frustrating than I thought. So that only meant, one thing" that shouldn't be a problem considering the number of she-wolves you have in your quarters?" He sipped his drink with a raised brow." get her to safety" he suggested as he looked up at me.
" I don't think so" I finished my drink " f*****g others under her nose, is that what you want?" Of course not, Leona might be young but not stupid.
He raised high his lashes and met my gaze" she will grow up hating you" he said undertone.
" Leona deserves better, Kane. A bloody killer like you isn't wealthy of an innocent young girl like that" he doesn't fail to remind me of how cruel I was, as if I asked the moon goddess for a mate less an innocent one.
" Are you by any means telling me I can't look out for my mate?" how could I entrust her in the care of another and live peacefully knowing my little mate was nowhere near me?" How much more blood will you split? How many packs will you destroy? Just do the needful"
" as many as possible" I growled and starts to walk" You should perhaps consider that, everyone is watching, Kane. You wouldn't know who "
I knew that voice, he was warning me." I hope to meet her before she leaves" he said. He knew I wouldn't take his words as a joke.
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