REJECTED BY THE ALPHA SO I CLAIMED HIS WOLF: NOW HE'S BEGGING TO BE MINE

Violet's POV

"Where is the blood?" Alpha Kane roared as he jumped off the bed, forcing me out of my pretend sleep as I faked a yawn and stretched.

I knew this day would come. I'd anticipated it with dread, but no matter how many times I thought this moment over in my mind, it never really prepared me for this moment.

I could feel the blood rush in my head as I jumped out of bed, dragging the bedsheets to cover my naked body.

"What's going on?" I asked as my heart thumped in my ears.

"Give me that!" Alpha Kane dragged the bedsheet from my hold, exposing me to the harsh cold coming in through the windows. "Answer me, you whore! Why the fuck is there no blood?!" He wasn't asking. He was demanding.

With not only his voice, but also a tough authority that brought me to my knees.

I had three options. I could pretend to be as clueless as he was, but that opportunity had passed. Second, I could come up with a lie, and finally, I could get to my feet and run out of this mansion right now and ensure I'm never caught so I never have to tell them the truth.

The truth about how I'd done this same Dual Lotus sacrifice with a wolf when I was 18 and terribly sick. How I'd lost my virginity to save my life, how a wolf had offered himself, but I never saw him after that, neither do I know if he still exists.

"This was the plan you had with your lousy pack, right? Take advantage of my pack all in the name of-"

"My pack would never do that!" I immediately defended, even though he had technically just nailed the truth.

The whole pack knew about this, yet I was sent here instead of my sister to marry the fearsome king of Bloodbane pack for the sake of a promise our great grandparents made centuries ago.

And I was no longer a virgin, the very thing he was promised in return for aiding us and backing us up for the war that just passed.

"Oh really? Do you really think I wouldn't find out if I wanted to?" He neared me, his fangs getting bared out of anger and the uncontrollable switching of his eye colors, from his wolf green that shone through the room like emerald and the Alpha wolf piercing through my soul right now.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't know anything about it," I whimpered as I backed away. It was the only thing I could think to do, get away from this man. That was until my back hit the painted wall and I realized I was pressed between two hard places.

"Please," I pleaded as I started to sob.

I hated how weak I sounded. I hated that I had to sound this weak when I was also wronged and robbed of my choices. But for the sake of everyone back home, I would endure this.

Not because I was selfish and self-sacrificial, but because I had no other choice to. My father, the alpha of the pack, said to me as we laid his grandmother to rest just the day before I was shipped off to Bloodbane's pack as a bride for sale, "We have laid to rest the last person who has your back. So keep your witch blood in check and do us all a favor by never coming back. It's the least you can do for us," he'd said, and he was hundred percent right.

It's the least I could do for them.

So when Alpha Kane held my jaw and dangerously tipped my head to the side and said, "You have two options. You either leave this room and never show your face in my pack, or I call the security for fraud and you and your whole pack are razed to the ground." My breath hitched and I felt some iota of hatred for myself.

Because despite the danger at this moment, my body still reacted to him.

We might not be mates, but the love he showered my body was the most I'd ever gotten in my whole life, and I was ashamed to admit my body, my wolf, and my soul craved for more.

To be ravished like that again. "Are you even listening to me?"

"Hmm hmm," I nodded and exhaled back to the present. "Please don't burn down my pack," they would haunt me even in their death. "But I have one question. If you allow me to escape, wouldn't that cause even more issues?" I asked.

"You sure are a bold one for daring to negotiate with me," he said, but I wasn't feeling any bold, not with the tremors in my calves and core. "I can claim you ran away and that would be the end of it. No one dares question the alpha," he said with a flick of his finger. And I had no doubt about his words.

"Thank you very much, Alpha Kane," I said as I hurried towards the closet to find an outfit to wear, given how he'd shredded mine just before we climbed into bed.

"And just what are you doing?" He asked from behind me, making me shiver and drop the clothes in my hand.

"I need to wear something," I said.

"No, you don't need to wear anything. Leave this pack naked, I don't care. Just never show your face. After all, you've fucked others."

That was how I had no choice but to change into my wolf form and sprint out through the window and into the woods, running with everything like my life depended on it, because it did.

Alpha Kane's last words were, "If I set my eyes on you again, I'll make sure they are the last things you see before sending you to hell."

And for someone whose strength rivaled everyone else's and was called the alpha of death, I had no doubt he'd fulfilled that promise to millions of others in the past.

When I jumped out the window, I was working purely on adrenaline and didn't notice the sprain in my ankle, nor the fact that my pheromones were leaking and we were still underneath the auspicious hour of the blood moon.

This time was chosen for us to consummate the ceremony because it was taught that the goddess would bless our union, and even if we weren't mates, we could still be bound for life.

A twig snapped and echoed into the night. I froze, surprised at the echo, until I perked my ears and the sound of dangerous growling in the distance grew closer.

I needed to run, faster. But no matter how fast I tried, I felt surrounded, until I was in a circle I could no longer escape.

Other wolves. Rogues surrounded me, having caught up to my scent, and they were after me to seek companionship.

Neither my sprained ankle nor my poor luck could save me this night.

Their snarls surrounded me from all corners and their eyes glimmered in the dark, piercing like a predator watching his prey.

My wolf whimpered, feeling small and cornered, and all I could do was back away with my tail tucked in, until I felt something wet land on my rear, only to look up and see a massive wolf two times my size with a deep slash running across his left eye, salivating as he bared his fangs at me.

Violet's POV

At this point, I'd mentally counted, and there were ten of them around me. Even if I managed to fight one with my sprained ankle that was taking forever to heal, I would still need to suffer the wrath of the remaining 9 who still remained in the shadows.

I whimpered and curled even smaller, praying to the goddess to open the ground and swallow me alone.

It was better if I ended my 24 years that way, than for my body to be found decayed days later, after being harassed.

I looked to my left and right and suddenly didn't see the eyes anymore. But the solid figure behind me remained.

Did I hallucinate the others or was the presence of this huge scarred wolf so strong that it felt like there were ten of them?

Also, why was he staring at me with a drool and not saying anything? Was it in a daze? Why did this particular wolf look so fucking familiar.

The sight of him scratched an itch in my memory that distracted me from my initial thoughts of escaping. And that brief moment of relaxation coupled with all I'd been feeling made me feel conscious of how exposed I was.

It felt like the breeze was reaching under the fur of my wolf and tingling all the nerves on the edge of my skin.

My wolf purred, relaxing under this strong gaze and urging me to do the same.

"He's scary," I shivered in my head as I urged my wolf to run. Alpha Kane was after us. But she gave me a reply that absolutely stunned me.

"Mate," she growled in warning and stepped closer, to rub off her scent on him.

"What the fuck?!" I screamed, trying to get her out of whatever daze or magic spell this wolf had cast on her. We didn't know his name, neither did we know which pack he was from. But for all I knew, he could be a rogue.

"Sister!" I pleaded with my wolf, "we need to get out of here!" The alarm bells were ringing in my head. The only one who could be our mate was the one we met 6 years ago, the one who marked me back then to save my life from the curse my mother placed on me at birth.

If we were meeting again, then things would have to go in reverse, and if we were mates like my sister (my wolf) was saying, then I would have to mark him.

Once again, that's if he wanted to be claimed or even recognize us as his mate.

But wasn't that a weird thing altogether?

I get rejected after the most fearsome alpha finds out I'm not a virgin and I'm used goods, only to run into the rogue that took my virginity years back under dangerous circumstances.

Wasn't that a little too coincidental, even for red moon night?

"I'm not a rogue," I heard a very distinct deep voice in my head, that definitely didn't belong to me, nor Sister. And that could only mean one thing which I should have expected when SHE WENT SILENT.

They were forming the mate link and now he was in my head.

"Do you want to reject me?" he asked and I found myself spellbound.

"I don't even know your name!" I defended.

"Silus!" he growled, "I'm hurt you don't remember me from back then, but I've searched everywhere for you."

"Then how did you know to find me here? Why did you hunt me?"

"Will you mark me?" he asked a second time, almost pleadingly, and I thought to discuss it with Sister, but by the time I came back from surface level consciousness and focused on my environment, I realized that my wolf had taken the bold step and was just about to sink her fangs into his neck.

We didn't even figure out which type of wolf he was yet.

Nor which pack he actually belonged to when her fangs sank into his flesh and I felt my whole mind erupt with a power that could only be coming from him.

We tuned into the same frequency immediately and that could only mean one thing, he was also an alpha, but if alpha, how could he be so submissive and wanting me to mark him at first sight.

Except what he said about looking for me for the past 6 years was real.

"At this rate, we would have sex and start popping cubs in 9 months," I thought to myself as I tried to get out of the heady feeling that was the mate pull.

The pitter patter started from a distance as rain droplets landed on leaf petals and then the forest ground.

"How about we find some shade from this rain?" Silus suggested, leading the way as I followed behind, still in wolf form until we reached a cabin so well furnished it could only belong to royalty. However, if he was living right at the edge of the border, then there had to be more than meets the eye, except the only thing I could see right now was the heat between us.

My breath caught in my throat suddenly as soon as he turned around and rubbed the rain off my brown fur.

"What's the name?" He finally asked, as we stared nose to nose.

"Violet," I replied, unable to break the gaze. "I mean your wolf's name."

"Sister. That's what I call her," I said as he rose to his full length still on all fours and came around me, sniffing every inch of me, making my body tingle with sensations and my heart thudding in my chest while I spread my legs in anticipation for what would happen next.

"We have accepted each other, do you consent to what I'm about to do?" he asked.

I nodded eagerly, but needed Sister's affirmation and I couldn't be more jealous that I wasn't feeling this in my human body. However, she's staked her claim on him for this night because she found him first.

"Yes," Sister replied with a drool like we've been in heat and waiting for this moment for hours. Like we weren't just banished with nowhere to go or call a home.

I knew where this was going, but when he wrapped his front limbs around my waist and grinded his hips on mine, my whole body trembled with need and a knowledge that this was about to be the best night of our lives.

Chapter 3

Violet's POV

If I thought getting sniffed was enough to have me feeling heady, then I clearly hadn't felt his tongue yet.

The soft warmth of his breath fanning my rear strongly contrasted the pitter patter of the rain outside and there was nothing better than feeling exposed from the back and unable to see what he was doing.

Sure it was pure torture. The wait and desire to turn around and see him, but I knew from the way his breath tingled on my flesh that he was close and teasing.

"Please make him stop the tease," I pleaded with Sister, but she seemed to be enjoying the wait even more. Wagging her tail to fan his face.

"Be patient, mate," Silus said through the mind link. Like I had a choice.

I couldn't request to go outside. That would be crazy, because one, the rain was picking up and two, I just got banished from the pack lands while my family would not hesitate to throw me in the dungeons seeing how I was no longer useful to them.

As if sensing my distraction, Silus flicked his tongue on my already sensitive opening.

Like chills in the winter, I shivered involuntarily and arched my back.

"Are you sure you're okay with this? We should rest and get you dried up," he said, but what use was that.

"There's no need to delay the inevitable," I urged, referring to the act we were about to perform.

The nicking of his fangs made my skin sore but I only craved for more. The cold made me lean into him such that when he finally poked me, it felt like a missing part of me was finally filled.

I closed my eyes and let my body enjoy it.

When I opened my eyes, it was morning already, not only that, I was back in my human form and too exhausted to walk.

A few minutes of laying in bed and trying to feel all my achy body parts passed before I finally rolled to the edge and got down.

I tried to communicate to Sister so I could shift to my wolf form to recover some energy, but she was experiencing post mating euphoria and locked me out of her mind.

With groans and the wall as support, I made my way out of the room, then picked up the scent of something delicious from a distance I soon discovered was the kitchen.

There was a buffet on the dining table and a note on the seat that read "You must be really tired. Please enjoy this to replenish your energy. I will be back after sundown - Silus" and I felt my face blushing as I held the paper to my chest with a blush on my face as I sat down to eat.

I uncovered the food and just as I was about to eat the food, I noticed the warmth was maintained with magic.

An alpha with magic? He was just like me.

This realization took me back to the time the magic I'd inherited from my grandmother went out of control.

I sighed, took in a deep breath and began to eat. With nowhere to go, my only choice was to wait for him to get back.

My mate, my savior.

But the moon goddess seemed like she wasn't going to make this easy on me.

I'd barely gone through half my breakfast when I heard the snarls surrounding the cabin.

My heart rate picked up, but I took a brave stance, holding a kitchen knife and the fire extinguisher.

"Who is there?" I asked in a small voice hoping to lower the alertness of whoever it was.

There was certainly more than one wolf, their scent unfamiliar as I peeked from the kitchen window.

"Come out and we wouldn't need to drag you."

"What do you want from me?" I shouted back to reason with them, "I'm just a guest."

But what I got in exchange was a mocking laughter.

"Who cares if you're a guest or not. We are rogues and there's only one thing we want when we smell a female." The biggest amongst them said with a growl that incited the fear in my heart.

"Besides, you're on the border of two packs. You can't possibly be a guest to both. Except you are a rogue," they snarled and started to break things on the outside.

"This would be a long day," I said to myself hoping Sister would lend me her strength as I packed up my strength and pushed open the front door.

I could face them. I was raised like a warrior.

These rogues would not destroy Silus' cabin on my watch.

"You finally came out, huh?" They snarled and licked their lips as drool dripped down their fangs onto their chin.

I gagged but couldn't look away.

It was important to lock eyes on the enemy, all 5 of them.

My father had trained me to be useful to him all my life and that included joining his soldiers in training.

By estimate, I could take on three of them. But what about the other two?

I'll need the moon goddess and an element of surprise.

"How about we talk this out as brothers and sisters. There's no need to use force," I said.

"If I had a sister, I wouldn't come for you!" The biggest amongst them said followed by hoots from the other four.

"Disgusting." I spat and flung the extinguisher in a half circle. It caught and flung one against the other.

I'd deliberately chosen the smallest looking amongst them. A rotund 5ft5.

"You bitch!" Their leader yelled and charged at me.

I stumbled backwards but gripped the knife tight, ready to swing it as soon as he came close enough.

However, he never did. Instead I opened my eyes to the sight of him getting flung back.

"Fuck. Come out here and fight us!" He groaned in pain as his two standing subordinates hurried to help him.

"What just happened?" I found myself asking as I took another look around and realized the line drawn around the perimeter of the house.

"Magic." Sister whispered and a smile spread on my face. Silus made sure I was well protected before he left.

The protective halo surrounding the house glowed at that moment, reflecting the sunlight.

"Cowards!" I spat.

It finally made sense why they demanded I came outside rather than charging in headon.

"Don't get too cocky, girl," a deeper voice said from a distance. The owner was leading a group of another set of rogues.

I gulped and took a small step back.

"This protection magic definitely has a weakness and we have the number and force to break it if it doesn't have one," the owner of this new deep voice licked the blood dripping down the cut on his chin.

"And then we will come for you," he bared his fangs and snapped his fingers as the 6 he came with stepped forward with a dangerous glint in their dull eyes.

I guess the moon goddess really had it out for me today.3.