Chapter3
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Chapter 3
Damon's POV
My mate, of all people, was a Crescent wolf. Of all the cursed things that could happen to me, this was the last thing I wanted.
I stared at her, forcing my expression to stay blank keeping my expression unreadable but my insides twisted in anger. I had spent years keeping her kind out of my borders, spent years fighting their raids, years watching them destroy what was mine. And now fate has decided to bind me to one of them.
I should have felt a level of rage which I did but deep down I felt something else moved it was something that I did not want to name.
I turned to the guards. “Take her to my house.” I said in a flat tone.
Their jaws dropped, they looked at each other and they were confused. “Alpha?”
“She stays under watch, no one touches her without my command.” I added.
They hesitated but still asked. “Shouldn’t we put her in the cells?”
“I said my house.” I repeated in a sharper tone. “Not the dungeon.” I breathed.
The guards nodded quickly then they dragged her away. I did not look back as they were taking her the moment she was gone, I let out a slow breath I did not realize that I was holding.
My wolf pushed forward in my head, he was both restless and angry.
‘She is ours.’ He growled.
“She is a Crescent.” I snapped back.
‘She is ours.’
“I said no.” This time with a tone of finality.
I shut him out, pushing him back. I didn't need his voice right now, not when my thoughts were already tangled.
I had spent my whole life despising the Crescents. They had taken my father, burned homes, broken every treaty that we offered. And now I was tied to one, it felt like a cruel joke.
The thoughts kept coming as I drove to my office. When I reached my office, Ronan was already waiting. He was pacing, his arms were folded and he was angry.
“What was that? Why didn’t you kill her? She is a Crescent, Damon.” He said in a demanding tone.
I didn't answer him, instead I walked past him, poured myself a glass of water, and drank it slowly. I needed to look composed because Ronan could see through me easily.
“Because I said so.” I replied, setting the glass down.
“That is not an answer.” He retorted.
“It is the only one you are getting.”
He frowned. “You think she is a spy?”
“I think she is trouble, I want her alive until I know why she crossed the border.” I said.
Ronan shook his head. “You never keep Crescents alive.”
“There is a first time for everything.”
He stared at me for a while. “You are not telling me something.”
“I don’t owe you every thought in my head,” I said evenly.
His jaw tightened. “Fine but I will need to know where to place her.”
“In my house, guard her, no one goes near her, no harm comes to her unless I say so.” I said and he paused.
He looked at me in disbelief. “Your house? Are you serious?”
“Do as I say, Ronan.”
He hesitated for a long while, then he exhaled. “You have gotten a strange way of dealing with enemies lately.”
“Get out.” I said quietly.
He turned around and left, closing the door behind him. The silence that followed was deafening. I went to sit on the chair then pressed my hands together. I could still perceive her faint scent that lingered in the air. It was faint blood, fear, and something else.
Something that didn’t belong in my world, the heavens must be playing a cruel game and I was the fool in it.
I waited for it to be late at night before I decided to go home when I got home the guards at the door straightened their posture immediately.
“Alpha.”
“Leave us.” I ordered.
They bowed and left, when I entered the room, she was sitting by the window. Her arms were wrapped around herself, her face was pale and exhausted, but her eyes were steady.
She did not flinch when she saw me.
“Alpha.” She greeted me in a low voice.
“Selene.” I replied saying her name felt strange.
She didn’t lower her gaze. “Are you here to kill me now?”
“No.”
“Why?”
“I changed my mind.”
She let out a laugh.“I’m sure you did.”
I ignored the tone. “Why did you cross into my land?”
“I did not plan to, “I was running.”
“From what?”
She hesitated, her jaw was tightening. “From someone I shouldn't have trusted.”
“That doesn’t tell me anything,” I said.
She looked into my eyes again. “Good, I don’t owe you anything.”
My anger flared. “You are standing in my territory, Crescent, you owe me the truth.”
“I owe you nothing, I did not ask to end up here.”
“You trespassed, you bled on my land, you are alive because I allowed it.”
Her lip curled into a smug. “Then maybe you should not have.”
I stepped closer. “Careful, wolf you forget who you are speaking to.”
“No, I know exactly who I’m speaking to, the very Alpha who hates my kind.”
“I have reason to.”
“Then hate me, but don’t pretend you are merciful for keeping me alive.”
I clenched my jaw, holding back the urge to snap. Her words shouldn’t matter, but they did.
“You are lucky, if it were anyone else, you would be dead.”
Her eyes hardened. “You are not doing me a favor, you are just delaying what you already wanted to do.”
The Silence settled between us, it was tense and heavy, she stood slowly, meeting my gaze without fear.
“You don’t need to acknowledge whatever this is between us, Alpha. I don’t want it either.” She said and I froze.
She took another step closer. “You can free me, I will leave, I will disappear, you will never have to see me again.”
Her voice was calm, but her heartbeat I could hear was steady and sure.
Something in me twisted, it was sharp and strange my wolf snarled in protest.
“You are not going anywhere.” I said.
“Not until I decide what to do with you.” I said and her jaw tightened.
“Then decide fast because I will never love you.”
The words hit like a blow; it was quiet but brutal. I stared at her for a long moment, then turned toward the door.
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