I felt like someone was messing with my vision when I saw the almighty, captivating, handsome alpha hold me close to his chest like he was scared of letting me fall. I was like beauty in the beast's arms, not that he was ugly though. I looked up at his face to see if he had an expression, but it was void of any.
It looked like I was in a slow-motion scene but in reality, it all happened a five seconds.
I shook my head out of the myth, it's just me cooking up things in my head again, like when I first met him in the forest.
"Be careful." His husky voice gave me the chills as his hands loosed around me, my body missed the feel of that protective touch already.
I stood on my own and cleared my throat because I lost my breath for a few seconds "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." I knew whatever I had to say wouldn't make sense, luckily Marina stepped in for me.
"Thank you so much, alpha." She bowed her head in respect, winking at me to do the same.
I followed suit.
"Please rise." he gestured to us to look at him.
"I'd like to see you privately," Damien said, I felt hot blood running through my head. Tell me that doesn't mean I'll have to be alone with him again.
"Play your cards well," Marina whispered to me before leaving us to be alone. I didn't know what she meant by that, maybe she wanted me to be on my best behavior.
"Follow me." He eyed me and turned in the direction of the woods.
I walked behind him like a stray puppy, his masculine figure in the dark was giving the big bad alpha vibes. Oh shit! Where was he taking me, is he going to seduce me? We kept walking deep into the woods while my mind kept wandering where he was taking me and why me.
"You'll fall for him if he does seduce you." my wolf was stating the obvious.
My emotions were all over the place, maybe he wanted to kill me and use me as a sacrifice. "Where are we going?" I was forced to ask, forget being on my best behavior, I won't have a life to act as a good girl if I die today.
He turned to me and noticed the fear on my face, we were deep into the woods after all, like how did he expect me to feel? He should know better than to bring an unmated female wolf alone here.
"Are you scared?" There was an evil smirk on his face, something he tends to do whenever he reads me well.
"No, I'm just wondering why an alpha will bring an omega into the forest. It could be for any reason, but I'd like to know before I go any further." I insisted, folding my hands below my chest as I waited for some explanation.
"Reasons like?" He asked, an amused light spiked in his eyes. Was he asking me that?
"Well, maybe you want to sacrifice me and give to the were-dragons as a peace offering since I'm dispensable and not born of your pack, or you want to kill me for no just reason, or you want to take advantage..."
"Stop right there," the expression on his face was not calm any longer, it seemed like what I said pissed him off. "You're full of yourself."
"Alpha, is she the one?" A strange lady walked out of the trees behind us. She looked pale but beautiful still.
"I'm starting to think it's a mistake, her mouth runs faster than her sense." I couldn't tell if he was still angry or if it was just a joke on me.
Ouch, that was an insult. I guess I deserved it, I went out of line after all, he's my alpha I was not to question his honest intentions.
The lady's eyes accessed me from head to toe like I was her next dinner. A warm smile crept over her face just after and that somehow put me at ease.
"Sweetheart, let me see your hands." She walked close to me and took my hands. Her eyes closed like she was mesmerized by my hands, rubbing them softly and all, her smile was too weird even. 'I'm not gay ma'am' That was what I wanted to say but I've already given my alpha every reason to call my tongue loose. So I swallowed the words back inside.
"I need a strand of your hair." She asked politely like there was nothing weird about her question or this whole scene.
When she noticed how uneasy I was she decided to be the civil one and explain to me what I was doing here.
"Darling don't be frightened, my name is Catherine. I'm the pack's witch." she let go of my hands "From the alpha's order, he wants to know your origin since you told him you were not born in this pack, it's only normal for him to know the origin of all his pack members. And as it stands you are the only one still alive that joined the pack and was not born in the pack."
"But why in this creepy place?." I had to ask, after all, she has a hut, so why not just go meet her there?
"I needed to get a reading from you under the full moon and on a concentrated ground." She replied.
The concentrated ground also means a ground where lots have died and lots have been buried, it only made me feel more scared that I already was.
I nodded and gave her a few strands of my hair.
"Once you are back, it will be ready." She said to Damien and left us.
"Back from where?" I don't know why I felt I could casually ask him anything.
"A pack called for my assistance."
"You fight for other packs?"
"Yes, it's called being a mercenary. I get paid to fight other wars." He explained.
"That's why our pack is the richest in the world." Now I understood why we were referred to as the wealthy pack. "But we have our wars to fight."
"Yes, in a month or so, we will go for war to defend our pack." He stated confidently like he was sure we would win.
"We'll win," I said.
"Nobody wins in this type of war, it has been on for ages, and it continues still." His words resonated deeply with me but I was too lazy to dissect them.
I walked behind him, mesmerized by his presence placing a shadow over me. I was walking in the dark but I was not scared any longer.
"You do owe me an apology for taking me off guard like that." I dare to say.
"And I'll give you a good apology when I come back from the war I'm going to fight tomorrow."
My heart skipped happily, I tried to Imagine what type of apology he would offer me, but I couldn't predict. Maybe some spoils from war? That could even change, if the witch sees bad things about me, he might apologize by sending me out of this pack, I can only pray that I'll be accepted fully.
'You're special and they will realize that.' My wolf seemed to be sure that I'd be an asset to this pack, but she wasn't letting me know much. Something always tells me it was not only her that speaks to me, there is this dormant voice I still hear sometimes, my wolf was suppressing something in me but refuses to tell me about it yet, she always said that when the right time comes she would explain everything.
"I'll end my walk here," Damien said as we arrived at the front of the orphanage in the pack.
Was he planning to continue it to my room before? I chuckled but tried to hide it.
"What's funny." He looked at me like I was a psycho, maybe I am.
"Nothing." I cleared my throat and bowed. "Good night alpha." With that, I went inside.
Wondering how spending time with him makes me feel. "Good, on top of the world." I danced around my room after having my shower. Wishing the night had continued.
"It's not as if anything romantic happened, he was on my nerves and I kinda pissed him off at one point, so why do I feel this giggly?" I hugged my pillow.
"You are beginning to have feelings for him." My darling wolf is always ever ready to state the obvious.
"Gosh no, he's too old for me." I acted irritated but deep down I practically didn't care.
Since he is not going to be around for a whole day in the pack, I could use it to my advantage and try not to think of him. It can all go back to before when I only heard his name and heard things about him, but never met him.
If he gets the information on me that I'm going to be of no harm to the pack, that means I'll be cleared and he would have no business with me again.
I don't know why I felt bad about the idea and at the same time, something tells me that he is not done with me yet.