Rejected by the Alpha, Chosen by Fate

Chapter 3

The Alpha's eyes twitched, recognizing the person that was defying him as his own son, his heir.

"You ungrateful mutt!" He pulled his hand out of Damien's hold and punched his son burying his hand deep enough for blood to splatter out of the younger male's mouth.

Seraphina watched with horror, still trying to wrap her head around what the Alpha had told her, Damien slowly got up from the floor; "you won't be laying a finger on her..." He said recklessly, Seraphina was touched by the unexpected gesture of kindness from a guy who only treated her like a piece of walking trash unless she was under him in bed.

Alpha Drake looked between them suspiciously, his knuckles tightening until they looked pure white. "You... Are you interested in your father's woman?"

Seraphina nearly doubled over with disgust at the mere thought of being this monstrous woman. Damian gritted his teeth, "do you think that I'm anything like you father? I have standards and won't hop on the first thing I see wearing a skirt,"

A light flush past Sarafina's face, embarrassment embracing her as Damien poured insults on her while ironically 'defending' her.

"If you don't want her for yourself then why are you so vexed that I am taking her as my newest concubine?" His father demanded to know.

Damien wiped the blood from the side of his mouth, "I'm tired, aren't you? You say your women are on birth control but you keep giving birth to each other here... Now I have a bunch of siblings that I never asked for and I'm sick of it, I don't need anymore hurdles in getting what I want so..."

He clenched his jaw, "I challenge you to a dual father,"he said, "a duel for the title of Alpha,"

Everyone was talking about the upcoming Alpha duel. It was in everyone's mouth, even the pups, somehow everyone knew it would come to this. The relationship between father and son had grown more and more strained over the years, so this was just an expected domino effect.

Seraphina thought Damian wouldn't show up that night, he did and was slightly drunk too.

With a light stagger he made it to the side of the bed.

"Get up," he said, eyes burning. Seraphina already knew what was coming. But tonight she was tired, "I don't think I can do it tonight," she said barely above a whisper, her eyes slightly meeting his.

"It's too soon for your period to start," he said confidently, Seraphina Shiva to remembering that he had a special calendar where he circled out the days for her period, during those 5 days he didn't even want to breathe the same air as her much less lay next to high in bed.

"I'm not on my period," she replied.

His left eyebrow twitched, "then where are you wasting my time? Bend over I need to let out a lot of steam tonight,"

Seraphina sucked in a deep breath, should she tell him about what his father told her? Would he believe her? Would he even care?

Between hesitation and contemplation he yanked her out of the bed.

"You should know how very thin my patience is right now. I'm not going to play games with you, just bend over like you always do!" His grip was gradually getting harder on her wrist, pulling her up to her feet.

"How many times do I have to tell you that you are nothing? You don't even deserve a quarter of the attention that I give to you... Do you know how many women would kill to be in bed with me?"

"So go be with them!" She screamed trying to pull away from him, "leave me alone and go be with them instead, I'm tired!"

The room was awfully quiet after that, he released her hand and Seraphina glands at the fresh bruise left on her wrist by his hold, biting back any complaints at first but not being able to hold back anymore.

"I'm not an Omega..." She finally admitted the truth, "earlier your father told me that I was from alpha blood,"

Damien looked like she was growing a horn on the side of her head but she kept talking about everything that's happened and when she was done he said; "but father said that she was killed in a fire," Damian said in disbelief and he was silent for a moment.

Then he sat on the bed, his fingers interlaced; "why are you suddenly telling me this?"

"I don't really know either," she said gently massaging her wrist, even if she came from the most untainted of bloodlines he would always see her as nothing more than miserly omega, but her life was really just that pathetic that the only person she could talk to was a man who snuck into bed with her at night then treated her like garbage during daytime while everyone else was watching.

He was silent for the longest time and then he dropped a bomb; "do you want revenge?"

Something in Sarafina's head clicked into place when Damien said that, revenge, did she want that?

Suddenly all of her immense anger has somewhere to go, all the years that she had lived and worked to the bone being treated even lower than an omega when she was actually alpha blood, of course... She wanted him to pay, no she needed him to feel even if it was just half of her own suffering.

"If I said yes..." Seraphina began carefully, "what could I possibly do to an Alpha to take him down a peg? In the end it doesn't matter where my origins belong if I belong to a fallen pack,"

Damien got up, approaching her with a look in his eyes that always screamed danger ahead, then he cradled her shoulder and said breathlessly; "What else? We're going to kill him,"