Chapter 5 5... Future Luna...

{Callie}

Everyone had assembled in the meeting room, standing upright and listening to the Alpha attentively. Randall stood in front of us, with his beta at his right and his Gamma at his left.

Viewing his black black attire from afar made him look like the real devil he is, and that alone should bring fear to everyone. I wonder how they all cope with his negativities.

'They cope the same way you're gonna cope' My inner voice said.

"In few days time, we are gonna be out for a battle to help one of the packs from our tribe, The sacred lotus pack" He announced. Authority was dripping in the tone of his voice which comes natural to him as an Alpha.

"If you know you have been selected for the battle, do not stop with your trainings, I hope that is clear?"

"Yes, Alpha" They chorused.

My eyes wouldn't leave Randall, watching the way he talks and shows his authority. The pull I feel whenever we are in the same room is stronger than anything I've ever felt, but I keep suppressing it, because that is what I should be doing. I feel the mate bond so sharp in me like we've been ritually binded.

I never uttered a single word of response to his general questions because I was scared he would pick out my voice from other voices and call me out.

He pushed for access to my mind for linking and I opened up for mind link.

'I thought I told you it's too early to seduce me' He said with the mind, but still kept a straight face for his pack members.

'And..." I gulped down saliva to gain the strength to question him "What did I do this time?' I feel comfortable and a little bit bold when communicating with him through the mindlink than the verbal way.

'You were literally eye fucking me, little flower' He replied.

Holy fucking goddess. He caught me staring?

'I think you should focus on your Alpha job' I retorted even when I was scared he might get me killed for talking back at him. "Your alpha job, sir" I added to sound respectful.

He smiled wickedly "And another thing, everyone..." He said loudly to the pack members "I want you all to meet my mate"

Fucking hell. I'm not ready to face the pack members right now. 'No, don't do this, please' I begged him with the mind.

He smiled evilly 'I'm just doing my job, little flower'

"Callie?" He called aloud.

He called me Callie, not the stupid nickname (little flower). The way my real name rolled off his tongue pleased the wolf part of me, but the current situation I'm in is not something pleasing.

He waved his hand at me "Come up here"

I almost wanted to bury myself under the ground.

I climbed up the steps to where he was standing with confidence.

The Beta and the Omega took few steps aback for me to take my place beside the Alpha as the future Luna, but I was nervous as hell.

'Come closer' He ordered through the mind.

I obeyed as I couldn't resist the authority in his voice.

'Not close enough' He complained.

I almost rolled my eyes at him, but I still obeyed him.

'Do you think standing very close to me will get you disvirgined?' He mocked me still using the mind link.

I turned red. I guess my timidness could be easily read as being an innocent in the sex aspect, just the way his boldness could be read as being sexually experienced.

The pack members had started mummuring among themselves and I am five hundred and fifty percent sure it's about me.

"Okay! silence!" He ordered.

I looked down at my feet, interlocking my fingers into one another.

'Look up' His voice boomed in my head. 'Stare directly at them, you are their future Luna'

"This is Callie, my mate" He introduced briefly.

A tall, bulky guy eyed me "This is our future Luna?" There was amusement in his voice.

"You've got a problem with that?" Randall asked back. The guy shook his head but a short girl was bold enough to give a response.

"Yes"

Randall narrowed his eyes at the girl. "You have a problem with Callie being your future Luna?"

"Yes" she lowered her eyes. "We don't want a weak Luna"

He smiled "You don't want a weak Luna" He repeated slowly.

"Yes" The girl replied.

"Okay" Then his smile wiped off "Lock her up for twelve hours" He ordered coldly.

Two female guards grabbed her by the arm immediately to follow the Alpha's orders. The short girl shook her head, and tried to fight the guards off, but the fear in her was clear in her eyes.

"Alpha, please" she begged

'Please, do not punish her' I also begged through the mind communication.

"Actually, make that twenty four hours!" He yelled to the guards.

I gave him a sharp look 'I thought I just begged you on her behalf'

'If you keep doing that, the pack members will continue to see you as a weakling'

'That is not an act of weakness' I disagreed.

'Only a weak person will say that' He said back to me, hurting me.

"Does anyone else has a problem with the future Luna?" He asked the pack members.

They all stared at me, then back at the Alpha.

"No, Alpha" They chorused gently.

"Good" He said then to me he said through the mind, 'You see, teaching her a lesson made her serve as an example to the others'

"If anyone here ever says something bad about the future Luna, I won't care about the relationship we've had in the past or the one at present.." He was staring at someone and when I traced his eyes, it was Ana. "I won't hesitate to punish you severly"

I guess they had some kind of relationship in the past which is why I think Ana does not like me.

Alpha Randall is not only known for his ruthlessness, but also for his ways with girls. Not having a mate gave him a lot of chances to get any girl he wants and do anything he wants to with them, and no one will ever question him. He doesn't use force, he doesn't have to, they come to him all the time and he picks his favorite.

I wonder why the girls still flock around him even with his evil personality.

"The mating ceremony will take place in three days time, and it's gonna be before the battle, so we are going for the battle after the mating ceremony" He announced.

My heart skipped a beat at his announcement.

The beta was the first to howl approvingly, then the others joined.

The mating ceremony is a doctrine among the werewolves, especially the top levels werewolves, like the Alpha, the beta, the prince, the Gamma, etc. In the ceremony, a lot of important people will be present to witness the mates publicly accept or reject each other.

The problem now is that I am so confused if to accept a maniac like the Alpha or reject him for my own safety.

After the meeting, Alpha Randall walked with me to my bedroom. His strides are long but at least, unlike Ana, he doesn't take the stairs like a vampire.

We got to the entrance of my bedroom, and when I thought he would walk away to his room, he stood by the door.

I rose questioning brows at him.

"I need to talk to you about some things..." He said expressionlessly.

He caught my hesitation to allow him into my new bedroom and let his eyes move from my hair to my legs briefly. I felt nervous.

"After accepting me as your mate, we are gonna be sharing a bedroom" He reminded me, before stepping into the room and shutting the door.

He stood afront me, maintaining eye contact with me. I couldn't take the heat from his intense look and the closeness between us at the moment, so I took a step aback.

"I'll assign someone to you, she will take care of your needs, her name is Vera"

I just hope this Vera will like me.

"Don't worry about that, I'm assigning her to you because I know she will like you"

I blinked at him. Is he reading my thoughts now?

"Yes, I am" He said.

"Please, can you not do that? It makes me uncomfortable" I requested with a small voice.

He didn't say anything to that, instead he moved to another topic.

"In three days time, you will accept me as your mate, before that time, try to get used to how we operate here in the pack house, is that clear?"

He speaks to me more like I'm one of his pack members he gives orders to, than his mate, and that made me remember what happened in the meeting room. He locked a girl up for viewing me the same way he views me.

"The girl you locked up..." I chewed my inner cheek, scared to voice out my thoughts, but I summoned courage to do that anyways. "She sees me as a weakling, and you do the same, then why'd you lock her up?"

"Are you saying I should allow her rain insults on you?" He asked with a look of 'What kind of werewolf are you?'

"No, you don't have to allow that, but don't you both view me the same way? or.." I paused "You probably don't mean what you said about me being weak"

"I mean every single word of it. I can literally feel how weak you are"

His words are like a sharp knife, meant to hurt me deep.

"You see, I wonder why the goddess chose someone like you as my mate. If I had a choice in this mating shit, I wouldn't pick you for myself, but I do not have a choice" His voice and expression showed that he does not care about how I feel.

Bastard.

He gave me a sharp look, his gray blue eyes gradually changing it's colour to a dark red. He moved closer to me, while I moved back fearfully till my back hit the wall.

He's gonna kill me. Someone help me, he's gonna kill me right here, right now.

"Do not call me a bastard, because I am not one" He warned with a strong tone.

I swallowed and nodded fastly. He is still reading my mind even when I told him it makes me uncomfortable.

"I thought...I thought you weren't reading my mind anymore"

"We are mates, any time our minds are opened to each other, trust me, it's hard not to pick out what goes on in your little head"

If he can hear my thoughts while our minds are still linked to each other, then why can't I get the thoughts in his brain box.

"I'm an Alpha, blocking you from hearing my inner thoughts is easy for me. The only thing you can do is having a right guess about how I feel, but not what I'm thinking about"

It's unfair. He gets to hear my personal thoughts and I can't even get a single word from his brain box.

"It's not unfair, little flower. After becoming my binded mate, I'll make sure I make you strong enough to acquire some abilities to do a lot of things for the pack"

He shut his eyes, I guess someone mind linked him, probably his Beta.

He stepped away from me and left my bedroom, and that was when I was able to have a steady heartbeat.

I shut my mind from him, I don't want him hearing my thoughts.

His last sentence echoed in my head; 'After becoming my binded mate, I'll make sure I make you strong enough to acquire some abilities to do a lot of things for the pack'.

Does that mean he only accommodated me to help him in his evils works? I mean , come on, why would he want me close to him even when he does not want me wholeheartedly as his mate.

I would love to reject him as my mate but its not an option. I will be the one to feel most of the pains, which I heard it's not just something that heals quickly.

Oh, goddess, this is so complicated. Do I accept or reject the Alpha?