Chapter 1 MEET OUR NEW MATE

Kaia

I ran as far as my legs could take me into the woods without looking back.

"Get her!. Don't let that witch escape!" Alpha Beckett, one of my pursers shouted behind me hot on his heels as he leads his armies of Pack warriors after me.

I could barely make out where I was going as it was dark and my senses were all a blur as the only thing that mattered to me right now was to survive the night.

"Fuck!" I cried, tripping over a sharp, metal trap that caught my right leg. Placing my hands over my mouth to silence my cries, I tried to free my leg from the metal trap but it wouldn't budge.

Please, dear moon goddess selene. Help me.

With a muffled groan, I made another attempt to remove the metal trap off my legs and this time it came off. But at what cost?. My pursers had finally caught up with me.

A wide grin splayed across Alpha Beckett's face as he draws out his sword against my neck. "I think it's best you give up now, don't you agree?"

"Pleas.."

"Your words would only prolong your suffering" Alpha Beckett warns, cutting me off.

Bashing the hilt of his sword against my head, Alpha Beckett turns to his pack warriors. "Finish her"

"Yes, Alpha!"

No one was coming to save me. The moon goddess selene had turned her back against me, Alpha Beckett held my parents hostage. What else did I even have to live for?.

I shut my eyes tightly to receive my fate as Alpha Beckett's sword came down onto me.

But then, I heard faint sound of two metals clanking together.

Throwing my eyes wide open, I stare at the back of a mysterious man before me. He had drawn his sword just in time against Alpha Beckett's.

Alpha Beckett's face had a mix of displeasure "Who are you to intrude?"

"Me?" He scoffs. "I'm no-one of any particular interest but I won't have you lay a finger on my mate"

I stilled. His mate?. Who?. Me?.

As far as I was concerned, I wasn't mated to anyone. The entire buckmoon pack and Alpha Beckett knew that.

Alpha Beckett lets out an hysterical laugh. "That witch has no mate, boy"

"Is that so?" The mysterious man inquired asnhe turns around to face me. It was then I'd gotten a good look at his face.

His features were ordinary except the mole he had at the side of his eyebrow.

"They say we aren't mate" he says to me. "I don't know who is mistaken"

Was he trying to help me?. Why?. Did he know me from somewhere?.

I couldn't wrap my head around these questions and honestly, I wasn't trying to. All I knew was that I wanted to survive this night at all cost.

Playing by his game, a slow smirk splayed across my lips as I replied Alpha Beckett. "Surprise"

Anger seemed evident in Alpha Beckett's eyes. "You!. So you were mated to another and still insisted to marry my son!. Truly, he died because of you!. All of you, kill them all!"

With a loud shout, Alpha Beckett's pack warriors rushed towards us with their swords pulled out and ready to fight.

We were outnumbered. It was 50 pack warriors against 2. Coupled with the fact that I couldn't fight because of my injured knee, it all boiled down to my mysterious "mate" to fight them all off.

Could he do that?. Sh*t, I'm cooked!. As I began to scurry away on the ground, I turned to see my "mate" actually fight off all the pack warriors that launched their attacks on him with a single hand.

Who on earth is this man?. Watching his face break in a wide smile as his sword sliced across the flesh of his opponent, fear gripped me.

"Run Kaia" My wolf, Serena probes me from the midst of the chaos.

"I can barely move my feet" I say, reminding her of the wound in my leg. "It's yet to heal"

"Are you plotting with your wolf to escape?" A strong voice inquires, catching me off-guard. It was my "Mate".

He'd gotten rid of all Alpha Beckett's pack warriors. As for Alpha Beckett, he was nowhere in sight. It was just this mysterious man and I surrounded by a pool of dead bodies.

"Thank you for coming to my rescue but I have to be on my way"

He lets out an hysterical laughther. "You seem to be misunderstanding a few things here, princess. So, let me spell it out for you"

Throwing his finger in the air, he begins. "I didn't save you out of the goodness of my heart. I did it so you could be in debt to me for the rest of your life"

I blinked. "For the rest of my life?"

"You heard that, right" He concludes. "Second, from this moment on; you belong to me. So if you and your cunning little wolf tries to escape from me, bear in mind that the wages of trespassing me is death"

I froze. Death?.

"Thirdly, I'll be taking you back to my pack as my mate. Not just mine but also my brothers" He extends his hands out to me. "Before it doesn't seem like fair play, I'll give you a choice; Either take my hands or be turned over to Alpha Beckett"

I was enraged at the fact that I had no choice but to come to his terms. Anything at all was better than being handed back to Alpha Beckett.

Slowly, I placed my hands over his as he grips it firmly; yanking me up to my feet and whisking me up in his arms.

I unconsciously wrap my arms around his shoulders for support.

"If I were you, I'd grab on tighter" His rough voice advised.

"Thank you, I'm go-"

My words were cut short as my "mate" took to speed. I understood now why he gave that advise to hold onto him tighter.

After a while, he came to a stop infront of a golden gate. The gates were immediately opened by two guards at other ends whom bowed before my mate.

"Welcome back, Alpha Xendith" They greeted in unison. "How was your hunt?"

Xendith. So that's his name.

"As you can see" He says, referring to me. "It was eventful"

Xendith walks through the front lawn into the huge pack mansion. The pack mansion had three distinct floors.

He made his way to the third floor and walked into a room. There, three pair of eyes stared at us in dismay.

"I'm back" Xendith announced to the three male figures before him.

"And what is "THAT" you're holding?" one of them asked referring to me as a thing rather than a person.

"Her?" Xendith chuckled. "Meet our new mate, brothers"