Alpha Luna

5. And So?

She yelped in pain while he didn't even flinch. But he stopped and sighed loudly, answering a question he had earlier ignored.

"No. I'm not insane, but you might be. Stop fighting me. You'll only get hurt."

"Put me down," she sounded like a child who was about to throw a fit.

"If you really want that..." Just for his own satisfaction, he left her legs and she went down butt first to the tiled floor.

"You..." She groaned in frustration.

"You were the one who asked to be put down." He cut her with a nonchalant shrug, very much enjoying the mortification on her face.

"Well, you could have done it nicely. I might be a Valkyrian-Witch, but I have human everything." She muttered, not bothering to stand up as she glared at him.

"A Val...what?" He asked with a frown.

"Don't tell me you don't know who Valkyries are." She looked like she was laughing at him.

"I thought that was a fairytale," he said truthfully.

"You are a living hybrid and you thought Valkyries were fairytales?" She scoffed "How narrow minded." Although she understood. Valkyries were grossly overlooked in most texts.

"So, you are a hybrid too?" He asked, ignoring her remark.

"In your language, yes." Now, she stood up. "I wasn't pleased to meet you and I'm happily departing from you. It was a very educating and humiliating day for me but, I'm done. I'll hand in my resignation first thing tomorrow and, hopefully, I'll never see you again." She said, extending her hands to him.

He took it, and held it a little too tight.

"What part of 'you are going to stay right here until I decide otherwise' don't you understand?"

"Let's see," she feigned thinking, stroking her chin dramatically for three full seconds "How about all the parts?"

"And here I thought you were smart." He muttered sarcastically and she pursed her lips.

"Look, Wesley......"

"Sky." He corrected.

"Steven." She looked dead serious. "I don't know what you're going on about. Mate, safety blah blah blah. But trust me, you got the wrong girl. If you'll be so sensible as to let me go, I'll forget this," she gestured between them, "ever happened.”

“Kayleigh…” he sighed, “I will let you go. I promise. Just not now.” He dragged his hand over his face. “Normally, I'd have tried to win your affection before telling you about this mate stuff and then, we wouldn't have been having this merry-go-round conversation."

"Then why didn't you?" She challenged, actually annoyed that he expected her to jump into his lap. She had always been a fan of good, old-fashioned romance.

"You're in danger and the best way to protect you is to keep you in the pack.”

"In danger from what?"

"My pack and a few others are having a sort of war and will do anything to get to you."

"Well, that’s a lame excuse…," then she remembered the previous night. "The people from last night?" She asked and he hissed.

"They're from a rival pack. You'll do well to stay far away from them. They're probably the most dangerous."

"Wait, why will they do anything to get me? Am I some sort of trophy?" Despite her resentment, if people were gunning for her life, she had to know why.

"Because you're my mate." He said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Wow. This just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it? What does your..." She thought for a moment before grinding the word she was searching for "alpha have to say about this?"

"Sweetheart", he said, laughter in his voice, "I am the Alpha. That's why they'll do anything to get you. If anything happens to a werewolf’s mate, they go haywire and the other packs are counting on it."

"Hmm." She understood his dilemma. But she did not sympathize with it. “Well, I suggest you break that bond because like I said, I am very uninterested in your offer of protection.”

“I wasn’t offering.”

“I am also not asking. I am going to go home.” She assured him.

"That's not possible, sweetheart."

"I cannot stay here," she declared.

"Why not?"

"First, my mom will be worried."

"I'll inform her."

"Second, I do not like being confined, so there's no way I'm staying in this house until you decide otherwise. Hell will freeze over before I agree to that."

"I have a nitrogen tank. Do you have a map to hell?" That earned him a glare.

"Again, I barely know you, so there is no way in Oden's name that I am going to stay with you over some mate nonsense."

"It's not nonsense and you know it." How could she not feel it? The strength of the bond that bound them?

"Lastly, I don't have any stuff here which reminds me how awful I must look.......and smell." She was not going to get into another fight with him in the space of half an hour.

"Cherry got you some stuff this morning. But of course, considering how hot headed you are, you didn't bother looking into any of the closets in your room."

"All in all," she continued, as if he had said nothing, "I am not staying. Maybe in our next life, we'll meet again and meet right. But for now, go away". And she was completely serious.

"Kayleigh," he scrubbed a hand across his face, "I'm trying to be nice and considerate here. Look, I'm not going to force you to like me or anything like that. I'm going to try to be patient with you. But you cannot leave this house until I say so and that is non-negotiable." He was almost yelling now his patience running as thin as he could manage.

"And I'm telling you right now so get it into that thick wildlife skull of yours. No one, not even my mother, can tell me what I can or cannot do, where I can or cannot go and you definitely can't force me into anything, so whether you like it or not, I will leave here and you have absolutely no say about it!"

"That's what you think." And with that he stalked out, slamming the door so hard, the windows rattled.

"My brother can be a butt-head sometimes", She heard from behind her and turned to see Cherry.

"Well, if he thinks he can keep me here, he is seriously mistaken." She said as she looked towards the door.

"Yeah, I wouldn't do that if I were you." Cherry said, shaking her head seriously, and Kayleigh would have ignored her if not for the fact that immediately she opened the door, 6 pairs of eyes turned to her and stood in position. She didn't need a fortune teller to tell her that they were going to make sure she didn't move a step out of the house.

"I am going to murder your brother, damn the consequences!" Kayleigh yelled, slamming the door almost as hard as Sky did.

"If that was possible, trust me, I'd have done it a long time ago."

"I stink. Literally." Kayleigh muttered.

"Come on. I'll take you back to your room." Cherry offered, and Kayleigh nodded. She'd figure out how to get out of there when she didn't smell like a sweaty man that slept a whole day after running a thousand miles.