Alpha Aiden and His Invisible Mate

Chapter 1

-Anastasia's POV-

On my way home - or should I say the place where I slept? - I couldn't help but think of what I had been through this morning. Jenna and Anne ripped off my top and called me the sex slave of the Alpha's two sons after they saw the bruises all over my body.

"If only I can help you, I will beat up that b*tch." Amy popped out and growled in my mind. She was my wolf, but we couldn't shift. So everyone thought I had no wolf even though I explained that I had a wolf. They didn't trust me and called me a liar since they all couldn't mindlink me.

It's been two years since my older brother dumped me to our aunt and left with no reason. And it's been two years since I lived in hell, suffering from my peers' jeers and my aunt's torturing on my own. I guessed I would end up dead soon cause I couldn't bear living in such a shit life anymore.

"Do your chores, you lazy rat!" A woman's sharp voice belonging to Aunt Mary brought me out of my reverie, but I knew I was now in the real-life nightmare which I would never get rid of.

"Clean up the dishes!" Aunt Mary added in her usual commanding way before she slammed my bedroom door shut.

My aunt is the Luna of Black Mountain pack. She raised me with her two sons after my parents died and my only brother left, but I didn't feel indebted to her. She would pretend to be nice to me in front of the pack to make herself look selfless, but ordered me to do all the chores at home, made me eat the leftovers, and sleep in the hovel.

She treated me like dirt for a variety of reasons, but the main reason was ... I couldn't shift.

Yeah, I had a wolf, to whom I can talk, but so what? No one else could contact my wolf, and it's the same as wolf-less. So, I was supposed to be her own slave cause she gave food and shelter to me, the inferior Omega.

As the cold water flew from the tap, I washed the dishes like a robot. Tears flowed down my cheeks. I knew I had to endure this because of my identity, but I just needed to suffer from this for half a year before I graduated from school and left the shithole.

"I wish I could do the chores for you," Amy murmured sadly in my mind.

"Don't worry, pup." I faked a smile. "It's gonna be over one day."

"Hey, b*tch. Doing your slave job, huh?" Jack's voice came from behind. I knew he must be drunk because he always drank with his 'friends' when the Alpha was not home. So did his younger brother Jason.

"Yes?" I took in a deep breath and turned off the tap before I whipped around, only to find him leaning against the kitchen counter. With his eyes full of lust, he stepped to me.

I knew he would harass me like usual. The two boys always groped me secretly. They were cowards, so they wouldn't want the Luna to find out what they did to me. They pawed at me while still having expectations for their future mates.

But...my aunt had just gone out.

My heart sank. I knew something would go wrong.

"Why are you alone here?" Jason came in. "Did anyone touch you today?" He smirked. Obviously, he had heard about what happened at school.

I bit my lips and tried to get away from them, but they quickly grabbed my arms before I could run away.

"Shh...The game is not over." Jack played with a lock of my hair and approached me. He stuck his tongue and licked my neck slowly. "Salty."

I held my breath and shuddered. Tears continued to flow down my cheeks and down to my neck. Usually they would only grope me, but today they were too drunk. They may cross the line....

While I was busy thinking how to run away, I felt a hand slipping under my top and unhooking my bra. It was Jason. He hugged me from behind and buried his head in my neck, smelling me.

"Weird," Jason murmured while Jack chuckled. "Why is she smelling good?"

"Taste her. She is salty." Jack smacked his lips after licked my tears off and suddenly his hands pinched my breast. I screamed out of pain. This makes him laugh under his breath. "Look! What a slut."

I couldn't take it anymore. I was nearly exploding with disgust. Just when Jack looked down at my chest, I punched him in his nose and got rid of Jason. Jack shouted and ran for me as I raced towards the back door.

I was desperate to get away. I would do everything. Anything.

I reached the door and tried to pull it, but it wouldn' budge. I remembered that it was locked by my aunt. I couldn't get out when Jack and Jason pounced on me.

Jack slapped me hard across the face. "You b*tch! You dared hit me? I'll make you sorry you did that."

My head was spinning. Everything was reduced into a blur. One of them threw me onto his shoulders and walked upstairs, but I was barely there. The toxic mix of fear and anger made me wanna throw up.

"Let me go!" I shrieked but neither of them answered me. If they heard me, they didn't give a clue. They just kicked the door open and threw me on the bed.

"Help!" I screamed as I wrestled with Jason when he was trying to rip off my top. Nobody would know I was in danger. And I believed nobody would come to save me even if they knew about it....

A muffled cry escaped my lips. The tears on my face were a useless proof of the despair I felt inside. This was the end, I told myself as my clothes were ripped off. Jack was rubbing my hips hard as Jason buried his head in my breast. My skin crawled with repulsion, but struggling was pointless.

I closed my eyes. I was ready to accept what would happen to me.

Evil. This was nothing shot of evil, and I found myself vowing to kill them....

But something strange happened.

Suddenly I felt the man on top of me getting swept down off me, followed by a disgruntled shout. I opened my eyes, only to find Jack and Jason lying on the floor. At the end of the bed stood a tall man who had his back to me.

"How dare you...." Jack jumped to his feet and lunged at the man, but he was punched down again.

"Shut up, son of a b*tch." The man grabbed Jack by the collar, yanked him up, and whispered in his ear, "Tell your father to find me in the Night Howlers Pack. I will be waiting for him there."

Jason swallowed and didn't dare say or do anything after he saw what happened to his brother.

Then, the man turned around. I held my breath as I observed his face.

His eyes were hazel, and staring at them brought back a tidal wave of familiar feelings and memories. Looking at them threw me back into countless moments where that gentle gaze held mine as a little girl. Those square shoulders ... I sat on them a million times as a small child. And his pointed nose. How many times had he touched that nose to mine, every time I played a trick on him?

Why was he here?

I thought he died somewhere without anyone knowing, or he became a rogue and wandered out there.

But... he came back.

Ajax, my brother.

Chapter 2

-Anastasia's POV-

"Why?" I murmured as Ajax took off his shirt and covered me with it.

He didn't answer me but helped me stand up before pulling me closer to his chest.

"Why are you here?" I stared at his sad face as he guided me out of the house. The locked door was already open, but I couldn't care less. I couldn't believe he was here. "After two years?"

"I will explain." He gave me a blank look before he turned around and threw me into the backseat of a jeep parked by the house. He didn't kill the twin sons of Alpha Don but only kicked their asses. Was that what a brother should do for his younger sister? I didn't know and didn't want to know.

For the moment I only wanted to know why he came back. Just in the way he left, he returned without a reason.

I bit my lips and watched him getting on the driver's seat and starting the engine.

"Why can't you explain now?"

My nails sank in my palms, but I didn't care about the pain.

"We have to leave as soon as possible." He looked at the route and didn't even glance at me. This gave me a feeling of the way Jenna and Anne treated me, though he was supposed to be my older brother, my only family in the world.

I could feel my tears welling up in my eyes. I tried to control them but I couldn't. "Explain to me, NOW!"

I didn't know why I just burst into tears. Usually I would hold them back because tears were a sign of weakness. And I didn't want to look weak in front of my bullies. But at this point I didn't care.

I hated him.

He had left me living in hell and gone out without telling me what he had been leaving for. I had suffered from the worry about him at first and then at myself...God knew how I had survived the torture. But after two years he just showed up out of nowhere, took me with him, and was now leading me to a place I didn't know about.

The d*mn selfish man! How could he return and act like nothing happened?

I jumped on him, forcing him to stop the car in the middle of the woods. He wrestled with me, trying to take control of the steering wheel before he could press the brake and stopped the car.

"Are you crazy?" Ajax shouted at me and pried off my hands away from the steering wheel as the car screeched to a halt. He jumped out of the jeep and dragged me out of it.

"You wanna a fight?" he demanded, pushing me onto the ground and crossing his arms.

"Yes! You're driving me crazy and I just want to kick your *ss!" I shrieked and pounced on him after getting on my feet.

In an agile manner, he ducked and swept me down with his right leg. I bounced up from the ground before hitting his gut with my fists.

He let out a painful growl and pulled my hair, angling my head so that I'm facing him. I could not help but loosen my control of his legs and I was lifted up in the air.

I grabbed his hands tightly in order to ease his grip of my hair. "Let me go, you jerk!"

"Now can you listen to me?" he said calmly as though we never had a fight just now.

"NO!" I screamed and kicked him in his crotch. He collapsed on his knees, his grip on my hair loosening as his hands flew to the area I just kicked.

"Now can you listen to me?" I smirked and stepped towards him before he swept me down.

"Didn't you learn a lesson after getting your *ss handed to you?" He laughed loudly and grabbed my arms before I could react to him. "You're persistent."

My face heated up. My anger got welled up in my chest. "Say whatever you want."

He sighed and said with his knees on my back, "Just want you to know I won't really hurt you, sister."

I bit my lips and answered back with teeth clenched. "Huh, you call me sister? I don't remember I have a brother!"

He didn't answer. Instead he just boarded into the jeep and didn't say anything. I sat on the backseat glaring at his back. I knew he could see me from the mirror but I didn't care if he would give me another fight after he got pissed off.

But he didn't. He just drove his car when I was huffing like a wounded lioness.

Damn it. I knew nothing about my only family who just saved me from the twin perverts' hands but later kicked my ass. What kind of guy was he? Why did he save me yet bully me?

Ajax remained silent on the way to his so-called Night Howlers Pack after sending me in the jeep. I knew I was not strong enough to kick him off so I chose to tough it out by staying with him for the moment. Anyway, I was good at enduring tortures after being left alone.

After a while, Ajax talked all the way there even when I gave him no answers. He looked like an idiot.

"Anastasia, we will arrive in a new pack. You can start a new life there."

A new life...God knew if it was real.

"No one will bully you, I promise."

Your promise meant nothing to me!

"But you need to obey the rules there. They are strict."

Godda*mn. I knew how to obey rules. I always knew.

"We will see the Alpha first and then I will show you around."

Who cared who the Alpha was...Every alpha was the same. Cruel and commanding.

But I already started to imagine what he would look like...A pointed nose like Ajax? As tall as Jenna's father? It is rumored he is the most handsome Alpha in North America.

Ajax stopped suddenly in front of an office and my nose hit his back because my thoughts were wandering wildly...

He didn't give a look at me and told me to stay outside before he knocked on the door and went in.

I sat down on the couch, waiting for him to come out. Why was I always controlled by others? I had to listen to Aunt Mary when I was at her home. Now I had to listen to Ajax.

When could I live a normal life?

Ajax came out soon and patted my shoulders, "You have to see the Alpha." I shrugged off his hands and strode to the office when I knocked on the door.

I swallowed and heard a man's deep voice, "Come in."

He had a melodious voice and it somehow made me shiver. I didn't know what the feeling was...Ajax nudged me to go inside. I gave him a glare and opened the door.

There sat a square shouldered man who lifted up his head when he heard the door creaking. He had blue eyes whose color was like the ocean of depth, which reminded me of his voice. The thin lips...they kinda impressed me. I once heard that men with thin lips were cold-hearted. Was he emotionless?

The afternoon sunlight was still dazzling and scorching, but his gaze left me soaked in coolness. The heat I was enduring went away as soon as we had eye contact.

He stood up from his leather chair and strode to me before he called me

"Anastasia?"

That was the moment I recalled another rumor.

He was also the most dangerous Alpha in North America.

And he was gonna kill me. Definitely.

Chapter 3

-Anastasia's POV-

"Anastasia?"

"Yes." I straightened up once hearing him call my name.

"Relax. I won't eat you up." The Alpha showed me a gentle smile which surprised me.

He looked like a gentleman. It was not what I had heard about him before. When I was running errands for Jenna, I had heard from her that there was an alpha who killed his father and took over the pack...And the pack was called Night Howlers...So, the man killed his father? I couldn't imagine that.

"Be seated, please."

He nodded at me and I sat down, "Yes, alpha." I believed I behaved well just like what my brother told me to do.

"My name is Aiden." He raised his eyebrows after hearing what I said, "You can call me Aiden."

"...Can I?" I lifted up my eyelids and found he was still smiling at me.

He gave me a look which reads, "Just obey my order."

"Yes, Aiden." I must look stupid for repeatingly saying yes.

"So your name is Anastasia, right?" He played with a pen in his right hand, asking.

"Yes." Dam*n, I said yes again.

"I've heard from your brother. He took you away because you suffered a lot there?" I didn't dare to look at his sharp eyes and kept my head bowed.

"...Yes. I was an Omega." I swallowed. "A slave to the Alpha's house."

Aiden nodded. "No worries. We don't keep slaves in Crimson. As long as you fight well and fair, you will be treated with respect." He sniffed, "And I don't like Alpha Don. He is an old fat idiot."

Oh good, we have something in common then.

He stepped closer to me which made me feel a bit uncomfortable. He had a strong alpha scent, much stronger than Don's. It made me hold my breath and dare not to look up at him.

"Come here." He lowered his voice and grabbed my right hand.

"I won't hurt you." He whispered in my ears. His hot breath made me shudder. That was a strange feeling.

I lifted up my head only to find that I could only face his chest because he was too tall. And we were too close. Did the ritual have to be so intimate? His heartbeat was so clear to me that my heart pounded faster than usual.

What will he do to me?

Whatever that is, I'm kinda anticipating.

With my attention wandering, I suddenly felt a drip of warmth on my face. My senses told me it was blood.

"Sorry, the blood doesn't listen to me." He said in a sing-song tone and then he bowed his upper body and crushed me into the soft couch.

"Well...It doesn't matter..." I stuttered as he approached my face. His breath heated up my cheeks and I forgot to breathe.

We were so close that I had a feeling that his lips would crush on my cheek. I could even count his eyelashes...I bet there was a siren in the blue sea of his eyes. If not, why was I absorbed into it and almost drawn?

Finally, he pressed his finger on the drop of blood and wiped it off. He tasted the drop of blood while he still stared into my eyes.

"Sweet." He chuckled, leaving me blushed.

Was he referring to his own blood or anything else? I couldn't help but wonder.

"Time is running off. You're wasting an alpha's blood." He showed me the bleeding wrist which was about to heal.

"Drink it."

I shivered, approaching his wrist. My lips crushed on it and I started to suck blood from the wound. It was a bit salty...and sweet as honey.

The blood flew down my throat and into my stomach which churned after I drank it. An extreme pain got me. I groaned..

I had ever experienced this kind of pain before. My aunt's lashes were nothing compared to it. It was affecting my nerves, breaking the old pack bond and forging a new one. My wolf Amy also growled in great pain, but no one could hear her except me.

My head was dizzy, I felt I was laid down flat by someone with a good scent. His scent comforted me a bit. I could not help but crouch closer to him.

"Now, it's your turn." I heard him chuckling and he tilted his upper body to me and grabbed my left hand.

"Might hurt...Relax." He whispered. But how could I relax when he showed his fangs to me??

HIs fangs sank into my wrist and the blood flew down my arm.

"Just a drop of your blood..." He said so, but he buried his head in my wrist and started to lick all the spilt blood. A current of electricity went down my spine when his tongue agilely moved on my skin. Then he sucked the rest of the blood from the healing wound until it disappeared.

I realized I was holding my breath when he sucked my blood after he lifted up his head and stared at me.

I guessed he had some magic. Otherwise why would I pass out in his gaze?

When I came to consciousness, I found my brother sitting next to me, staring at me with his hazel eyes.

"She is fine now. I'll take her home." Ajax turned around and pulled me to him. I staggered and peeked at Alpha Aiden who was smiling at me.

I quickly bowed my head in order to avoid eye contact and left with Ajax.

"I will show you around the pack." Ajax said while leading me out of the pack house.

Crimson Crest is a medium size town with around 1000 werewolves. Like every other pack town, it has its own school, shopping mall, hospital, and a temple for the Moon Goddess.

Ajax was a terrible guide and we didn't talk much during the tour. He drove me to a school and left me there, saying he had to deal with some emergency. Before he left, he called a girl whose name was Farisa and said she can be my guide here.

"What a jer*k." I cursed after Ajax hopped on his jeep and left.

He always left me alone. Always.

Maybe it was the smoke that caused my eyes to blur.