Bonded To The Lycan King

Melody's POV

As the sound of the drums drew closer, I couldn't help the throbbing of my heart, it was louder than the drum in fact. I could feel sweat running down my cheeks and my hands quivering at each step I took. Today will make a very significant day, not just in my life but also in the history of my Pack.

Two years ago, it was my language,yeah because I believed that love is only an over emphasized word and is especially not meant for an Alpha like me, but it seems the whole universe wanted to prove me wrong and here I am ready to sacrifice even the name I bear to him; To Weston.

I felt all doubt flew as I stared into his deep ocean blue eyes. The only thing I can think of is a happy life with the one person that makes life meaningful to me,to the one person I can lay my life down for. I can't thank him enough for coming into my life, he deserves anything he wants from me.

With my lips curved upwards I took quick steps to the podium and stood by his side. He interlocked our fingers immediately while smiling broadly to me,I couldn't help looking into that ocean blue eyes of his that drew me towards him, Its forces superseding every other objection.

"You look so beautiful tonight, just like the moon goddess." He whispered as he adjusted closer to me.

"Stop with the flattery." I blushed with a slight smile.

"You know it's true my love." He continued and just when I was about to reply to him, seer of the Pack walked towards us.

"It's time!" She announced as she stamps her staff on the ground and the sound of the drum intensified.

"Greetings our Alpha!" The crowd chorused.

"Greetings my people, I'm honored to have you all present today."I voiced out with my alpha authority forcing them all to bow.

"Now let's proceed." She voiced out as she raised a knife upwards facing the moon reflection on the sky.

"Today, Melody Brown,the Alpha of the Ash River Pack, wants her position as the Alpha transferred to her mate, Weston North!" She voiced out with a loud voice as though the moon goddess would actually hear her.

"You're scared." Weston whispered into my ears.

Perhaps because he has claimed me, he can feel most of my emotions and when it's severe he can even share the pain with me. That's the beautiful thing about having your mate, not only that, but you both love yourselves.

"Yeah,you can't blame me for that." I replied as I exhaled deeply.

"Yeah, I understand your feelings, you can stop the ritual now if you're having any sort of doubt." He suggested while caressing my back palm slowly and I can feel his eyes fixed on me

"No, I don't want to stop it because I trust you, I trust the bond we share." I replied with a bright smile as I looked up at him.

"Thank you so much, I promise you right this minute on this sacred ground, you'll never regret your decision to do this." He was still speaking when the seer of the Pack walked towards him and gave him a cut with the knife in her hand.

"My Alpha, suck the blood." She requested, I turned my head towards her with a heaving heart, she kept a stoic expression, leaving the decision to obey her to be my choice alone.

"Baby..." The softness in his voice when he called my name, compelled me to bend my head and suck on the cut on his arm.

She began to speak in foreign language as she dipped her knife into the furnace of fire in front of us and then made a cut with it on my arm. Then she looked up at Weston who had his eyes fixed on me.

"Suck on the cut." She ordered with her eyes on me, I directed my gaze to Weston immediately, making an eye contact with her makes me feel weird.

"With your hands interlocked together, walk around this furnace." She requested, I looked up at Weston and smiled to myself; it's worth a thousand more.

"I love you." He said to my hearing as we walked around the furnace in a circular motion.

That word that left his lips the very first day he saw me, even as a rogue on the run, he still had the courage to say those words to me. I was meant to shoot him to death that day, after all, I just lost my parents in a battle, I was in agony and rage.

But then I didn't. He knew that I'm a warrior but that didn't stop him from walking towards me, he perceived the wolfsbane on me, yet he marked his claim on my neck, even when he heard the voices of my fellow warriors approaching with anger,he stood his ground.

Even till date, I don't know how or when I fell for him, perhaps it was when he locked our lips together, it felt like my fate was bonded to him and everything about him seems so right even when it's wrong.

"You should kneel before her, my Alpha?" She called out to me and I looked up at her.

" Stand in front of him." We did as she said and just then my heart began to palpitate rapidly. This is the last ritual and everything my father worked hard for will be in the hands of another man; my mate.

"Continuously without a pause,blow air into his mouth with your hands placed on his shoulders." The minute I began to do that,the seer of the Pack began to incarnate.

I felt it, I felt something leaving my body, each second that went by left me weaker,it was hurting not just me but my wolf is also in pain. My eye color changed to blue; that of my wolf and I felt my canine elongate. Even without looking at the mirror right now, I know that my veins have all popped out all over my body.

"Ahhhhuuuuu!" I howled in pain, I couldn't take it any longer, I felt my eye color change to red; that of a beta.

I felt my back hit the bare floor with an excruciating pain and then Weston stood up, his eye color blue; My Alpha.

Yeah, I did the right thing, I can't let my people belittle my mate because they knew that he was once a rogue. I will give him my name if that's what it takes to make him happy.

Even without being told by anyone, I bowed to him, I raised my hand up for him to help me stand to my feet but he smiled instead and turned to my people.

Perhaps, the pain was still there but I had to endure, I dragged myself up from the podium and walked towards Weston and gave him a back hug. Tears streamed down my cheeks,the sacrifice I had to make to make my rogue mate happy, I have to prove to him that I mean it when I say that I love him.

"I present to you, Alpha Weston of the Ash River Pack!" The voice of Selen announced and the congregation bowed with a loud howl.

"Young lady, you should show some respect to your Alpha as well." He whispered into my ears, I raised my face slowly to look at him but before I could do that. He pushed me with a great force that sent me to the floor and I landed with a loud thud.

"West..." He cut me short immediately.

"It's Alpha Weston to you." He corrected me. I'm really confused right now. Just a minute ago he said he loves me, so what changed?

"A great announcement please,this has to do with my relationship with your former Alpha." He said as he stretched his hand towards me and I took it and stood up.

"I, Alpha Weston Norths of the Ash River Pack, hereby reject you, Melody Brown as my mate!" He announced with a loud voice and as though the universe heard his declaration, lightening appeared on the dark sky accompanied by a loud deafening thunder.

Melody's POV

The rays of the sun shone brightly into my eyes forcing me to shield my eyes with my palm. I felt an excruciating pain when I tried to turn my neck to the other side. I forced my eyelids open immediately and I was shocked to the bone marrow to find myself on a cemented floor.

Not minding the pain on my neck I turned to the other side and I narrowed my eyes at the sight before me. I'm not just in the park house but I'm directly in the Omega's quarter, lying on the bare floor whereas there are beds in here.

"Ahhhh!" I screamed in pain as I tried to stand to my feet.

"Why do I feel like someone who was beaten by a thousand giants?" I muttered to myself while standing to my feet.

The minute I looked up, I came face to face with the woman I have made myself become, even my reflection in the mirror seems like a terrible nightmare to me. I look just as dejected as I really am. I chuckled as I took a step closer to the mirror, at each step I took, I felt it, it was so obvious even, I've never been this weak in my life.

"Melody Brown, just Melody Brown." I said with a forlorn smile.

I've been dippy and pea brained and I will never be this stupid ever again, I've learned my lessons the hard way. Love is a wicked feeling, it's a feeling of knavery and stratagem, it only makes one lead one self to an unending ocean of destruction.

It ribs one apart slowly in a sweet manner, each cut it makes brings smiles to one's face, till it takes the very last cut,then it leaves holes on each cut, leaving one in a lifetime of pain and regret,yet the good memories bring a whole different emotion; sweet pain.

"You're up already?" That came an unfamiliar voice,I turned towards the door immediately.

"Good morning." I greeted the head omega.

"I'm sorry that you slept over here, the Alpha himself ordered that you should be brought here. We didn't purposely leave you to sleep on the bare floor..."Her explanation was beginning to irk the hell out of me.

"Stop, it doesn't matter." I let out with my eyes shut trying to keep my emotions at bay, I took a deep breath and I walked towards her then place my hands on her shoulders.

"The deed has been done, it's okay."I continued with my hands placed on her shoulders.

"My Alpha..."

"It's Melody." I cut her short immediately and she swallowed hard.

"Melody, food is ready, please come downstairs for your breakfast." She requested and attempted turning to the door.

"You don't have to treat me differently, I'm one of you now."I assured her but she didn't say a word as she walked out of the room.

I exhaled deeply then walked towards the wardrobe and saw a few clothes hanging, none were mine, just then it dawned on me that the Omegas only have three different clothes, they don't have the liberty of wearing whatever they wanted.

"Melody, Mrs J asked me to bring your uniform to you." A lady by the door said and I turned towards her as she walked in and dropped the clothes on the bed.

"I can show you to the bathroom if you want."she suggested and I nodded.

"Take off your clothes." She asserted while staring down at me with her hand wrapped around her chest.

"You should probably..."

"Turn for you to change?" She asked sarcastically with a raised eyebrow.

"In that case, you didn't think it through before coming up with the idea of transferring your Alpha position to your mate. A reminder, the Omega's bathroom, is an open bath, there's no door whatsoever, most times the males pass by or even the guards and we don't do a thing." She said with her hands on her waist.

"Okay." I managed to say then took off my clothes and wrapped a really short towel which she gave me around my waist.

Reaching in the bathroom, the entire place was so crowded, everyone stopped what they were doing the minute they saw me and began to stare at me, as though I'm a newly launched television program. Not minding their stares I walked into the bathtub and took a really quick bath and walked out of there immediately.

I feel so suffocated here, the only thing I really want to do is to run far off into the forest, I need to stretch my bones. As soon as I came back to the room,I put on one of the clothes I was given and rushed out into the woods, this is just what I need.

Running as fast as my legs could carry me ,trying to shift to my wolf but to no avail, all my efforts were void. "Come on." I mind linked to my wolf but the worst part of the whole thing is that I can't feel her.

Perhaps the pain was unbearable for her but even so I should feel her presence at least, to be assured that she's still here with me. I kept running and stabbing my feet hard on the sandy ground but to no avail. My wolf has gone dormant.

I fell on the floor in agony , "Ahhhhhhuuuuuuu!" I exclaimed in agony, this pain is unbearable.

"Ahhhhhhuuuuuuu!" I exclaimed while scrunching my stomach with my hands and for the very first time in five years,tears welled down my cheeks and I let it,

Why on earth am I so unlucky? People do love right? Why is mine so different? My parents loved themselves till death but mine betrayed me even before we could seal our fate to the world.

I never knew that he had his plans all mapped out, he was deceiving me all along, he never loved me. But then why would he play with my emotions in such a way? What did I do for him to hate me so much?

I heard footsteps approaching and I stood up from the ground staggering as I tried to maintain my balance. I immediately went to a huge tree beside me and hid myself.

"Don't you think that that's stupid of you to do?" I heard a masculine voice from behind and I turned towards the voice rapidly.

His chiseled jaw highlighted his kissable lips and his ocean green eyes, that can get anyone stuck in its mystery, made me completely dumb for a while. Then, there goes that perfectly sharped abs that makes my palm ache to touch it. He's breathtakingly beautiful, though that alluring aura of dominance makes the air around him impenetrable.

"Don't you think the level of your stupidity just escalated, the minute you decided to do a foolish job such as this, just to get chicken change?"I retorted when I finally got my voice as I stared from his face down to his toe.

"What did you just say?" I leaned on the tree for support at the domineering aura which he possesses, he's definitely a powerful Alpha, I can feel it.

"Your...your level of...."I stuttered while fighting so hard to keep to my stance but I'm obviously quivering already.

"Mind Your Words!" He said each word with emphasis as he closed the distance between us and raised my hands upwards and held it together with one of his hands.

"I'm sorry."I apologized as I tried to squeeze out my hand from his hold.

"I can hardly perceive a wolf scent on you." He commented while sniffling all over my face, I closed my eyes and turned to the left.

I saw a flying arrow from behind and tried to call the stranger's attention but he was still sniffling like a dog. "Hey! Look!" I screamed in shock but he didn't even bulge.

He dragged me towards another tree as the arrow hit hard on the tree. "Stay here." He said to me as he began to run towards trees with the speed of lighting.

He dragged out two people standing behind a tree and without saying a word he ripped off their necks.

"You should go back to your Pack, it's not safe out here."He said afterwards as he began to walk towards a particular lane, not minding that his clothes were stained with blood.

"I'm Melody and you're?" I asked with a loud voice.

"Alpha Byron Kings." He replied, still walking towards the same path.

"Thanks." He didn't say a word and I watched him untill I could no longer see even his silhouette.

I walked towards the body he left lying lifeless and I couldn't help running towards the lane that leads to my pack. Those men were obviously sent by Weston to have me killed, they're his two best soldiers.

Just as I drew closer to my Pack, I felt a sharp arrow pierce into my chest and it made an opening on my back. Just a few more steps and I will be there. I continued running but this time, it wasn't only an arrow but two at a time, each piercing into my chest at a time, I couldn't take the pain as I fell to the floor with a loud thud; there's wolf bane on it.

But why does he want me killed? What did I do to deserve this? Darkness covered my vision even before my tears could slip down.

Alpha Byron's POV

It was already late when I arrived at my mansion which is in the middle of the woods, surrounded with mountains, letting me enjoy the view of nature the way I love it. Though my pack is a bit far from here but then I don't even want to be anywhere close to my Pack, I will still perform my duty as their Alpha whenever they need me but for now, just this once in my life, let me be selfish; till I take my last breath.

"Your food is in the dining area." My butler said to me the minute I stepped into the living room.

"I crave for something else." I whispered into his ears and I felt him quiver.

"It's about to snow,I..." He was about to give me flimsy excuses but then I raised my hand to his face and he swallowed his next statement.

"I will take care of that." I said as I began to climb the staircase leading to my room.

Even from afar my beast can perceive it, yeah, a tasty blood, I felt my canines elongate and my claws followed suit,then my eye color changed immediately. I can't go downstairs, else I might inflict injury on my butler, I howled loudly then climbed to the rooftop and jumped down from there.

"Ahhh Uuuuuuuu!"I howled the more as I looked at the full moon.

I began to run in the direction of the blood scent, as fast as my legs could carry me, I kept running down into the woods, till the scent of the blood became stronger,I knew that I was closer to my target. Reaching there, I raised the lady up ready to tear her the more, but then for some reasons my beast dropped her back on the ground.

I looked up at the sky and howled in agony, then slowly I came back to my scenes.

"What a proud Alpha, you've made me." I chuckled lightly as I walked towards the lady lying lifeless on the ground.

An Alpha whose people are afraid of him, yeah they are. Why on earth would an Alpha always be thirsty for blood? Honestly I didn't bargain for this type of life. From the very first time I ripped off the neck of a fox as a child and drank from its blood, I knew that the thirst for blood would really be hard to quench and I was right.

I raised the hand of the lady lying on the ground, what's her name again? Melody, right? I can't recall accurately what she said her name was. Thankfully I can still feel her pulse, I raised her to my shoulder and began to run towards my mansion. Her pulse is weak already and if she's not attended to fast, then she might not survive.

Even as a child, I felt that aura around me that I'm different from the rest of the kids. The fact that none of my parents survived after my birth, was a great sign but then my uncle always vocalized it without minding my age; A living curse.

His words manifested when I shifted at the age of seven, everyone became afraid of me on the first day I shifted under the full red moon. I was smiling but then everyone was taking steps backwards. I didn't know their reason for doing so, even my uncle ran off into his mansion. Then I heard a lady mutter, "A cursed Alpha."

I ran towards the pod water so as to see my reflection, and indeed without a doubt, I am indeed a curse.

With a red fur and white eyes and to top it all my wolf isn't standing on his fours but instead he stood on his twos, larger than a normal wolf; A legendary Lycan.

Hell was let loose when I found out that I couldn't even control my beast. At seven, the agony of being born into the world already began.

"My Alpha!" My butler called out the minute he sighted me from a distance and ran towards me.

He tried to take Melody from my hands but then I gave him a warning gaze and he let her be but instead tailed behind me. "Sherie!" I called out on top of my voice as I walked into the living room and then made my way to the passageway that led to Sherie's room.

"My Alpha." The old lady answered as she walked out of her room but then opened the door wide when she saw me with someone.

"How did this happen?" She inquired as I dropped Melody on the bare floor.

"I don't know, it's obvious that she was shot with an arrow containing wolf bane." I replied with my hands in my pants pocket.

"Ohh, poor thing, though, a wolf scent is just a little on her, is she perhaps a hybrid or..."

"Enough of the questions Sherie, you wouldn't want her dead, would you?"I inquired and she looked down at her feet and I walked out of her room.

Even as old as she may appear, she's still good at what she does with the herbs though she isn't a trained healer. When I was young, she was the only one that wasn't afraid of me even when I almost ripped her head off. She was a mother figure to me and I'm forever grateful to her for coming into my life.

I walked to the dining area and my butler followed suit immediately and dished out food for me. "Thanks."I muttered as I began to munch down the delicious food.

After eating I made my way to my room and then to the bathroom, I took off my clothes and walked to the shower and turned it on and let the water wash off the day's stress. The fact that Logan had the audacity to collide with some of the elders against me, is still an outstanding problem that needs my urgent attention. But then if I go to my Pack with the surging anger in my heart, my action would be ripping off the elders heads and that would save me the time to debate on baseless matters.

Walking out of the bathroom, I took a black brief and pants and put them on. I walked to my window frame and stood. My main reason for building a house here is because of the peace its view brings to me. Staring down at the mountains and the tall trees that stood without a care in the world. Then there's the pod by the hill, that makes this whole area more serene. Just then I saw an arrow that flew towards the window.

"The fuck!" I cursed under my breath as I paddled out of my room.

I walked out of the living room and was embraced by the cold eerie breeze of the night. I looked around but couldn't see or sense anyone, I walked towards a particular tree whose growth is slanted of all the trees here. Then I saw a writing on its body with red ink.

"I found you, little brother."