The Unwanted Mate ; Alpha's Regret

selene's pov.

I watched as everybody and their mothers walked past me in their best attire on their way to Alpha's ball.

It was the most awaited party of the year and everyone was dressing to impress. Not to mention the fact that the Alpha might be choosing a mate this time around. Everyone was trying to look their best so that they could be chosen.

"I wish you'd change your mind and come," christina said behind me and I rolled my eyes, turning around to face her.

I gasped at the beautiful red gown adorning her figure.

"You look amazing!" I remarked, my eyes eating up her lovely dress that suited her olive skin tone and blonde hair.

"Thank you," she said, twirling around to show it off.

"You are welcome," I smiled, proud of how gorgeous she looked, "and I'm not interested in going to a party. Especially one in the pack house." I remarked, walking past her to get some earrings that I thought would look better on her.

"Why not?" She asked.

I looked over at her from my dresser.

"You know why, I wouldn't be welcomed there plus I need to stay home with my father tonight, he doesn't look so good,"

"Oh, come on. What if this is your chance to meet the Alpha? What if he likes you back ?"

I burst out laughing as I plucked the earrings from my dresser and walked over to her.

"Right because the Alpha of the pack is going to take one look at my ugly outcast ass and nod that I'm the one. Please,"

I laughed again. I was laughing but it hurt because it was the truth. I was not the type of girl the Alpha would go for, hell, not even the omegas wanted me.

I was an outcast, a loner and according to most members of the pack, no better than a rogue and they were right

My father, the former Beta of the pack and now an elder, had rescued me twenty years ago during the great rogue attack in the pack.

He'd found me outside the border, close to a tree crying with blood all over me, he had wanted to leave me there but couldn't stomach it, so he'd taken me in and when the Elders had queried him for bringing an unknown rogue child into the pack, he'd pleaded and had even had to step down as elder in-order to keep me.

"Don't sell yourself short like that, selene, you are gorgeous and the Alpha would be dumb not to find you attractive."

I rolled my eyes and gestured for her to turn around. I put the earrings on her and she squealed in excitement at how great it went with the dress.

"Thank you so much, It looks great!" She said and hugged me.

christina was the only friend I had in the pack, she was the only one who treated me like I was worth anything. We had met in pup elementary school, where other pups were making fun of me and beating me up, she was defending me and following me around like a lost puppy. Even when I tried pushing her away, for some reason she never stopped having my back.

"You are welcome., You should probably hurry before the Alpha falls in love with someone else other than you."

I showed her out the door and handed her bag over to her.

"Bye," she waved at me.

I let out a tired sigh as I watched her go.

I turned to go back into the house but as I did, I felt something hard hit me on my shoulders followed by a harsh voice yelling a me to go back to my rogue life.

I looked over at the culprit, it was a fourteen-year-old boy, one of the Elders' son

Ignoring him, I walked back inside. I wasn't going to let anyone break my spirit today.

Sure, I didn't get to go to the Alpha's birthday party and one of their year anniversary as Alpha party but that didn't mean u was worthless. I ignored the pain in my heart and went to check on my father.

As I got close the his door, I could hear him coughing. I hastened my steps and barged into his room only to find him on the floor, convulsing.

"Dad!" I ran to him, my heart beating in my chest. I pulled his head up and placed him on my lap, unsure of what to do to stop the rapid rise and fall of his chest entire and body.

"Dad! Wait, please." I pleaded with him. trying to get him to calm down.

Quickly, I dragged a pillow from his bed placed it in place of his head, and then cleared the area to prevent him from injuring himself. I began to take off his clothes so that he could breathe properly.

What on earth was going on? He'd taken his meds barely an hour ago.

"Dad, please, stay with me!" I pleaded, my heart beating as I tried to get his seizure to stop.

I moved down to his abdominal area and began to press in his stomach.

Eventually, his seizure stopped but he was barely breathing. y breathing became shallow as I tapped him to wake up but he did

"Father wake up!" I pleaded with him, opening his eyes to check for any sign of life.

I quickly felt his pulse and it was faint, too faint.

I needed to find a doctor now.

"I'll be back dad, I'm going to go get the pack doctor," I said to him and ran with all my might to the pack clinic only to find it locked.

In a state of confusion, I wondered where on earth the doctor could and I realized there was only one place all of the doctors and nurses could be at this time, The Alpha's party.

Without wasting a single second, I ran to the pack house, my heart beating within my chest as fear gripped me.

I was doing my best to be strong but I had to terrible feeling that I would not make it in time to my father.

The thoughts alone fueled my legs to run even faster.

"Doctor Harrison!" I called as soon as I got to the pack house, surprisingly the pack guards didn't stop me as I tried to go in.

"Has anyone seen Doctor Harrison?" I yelled, pushing through the crowd to get to him.

"Eww, what is she doing here?" A voice said as I passed them

"The slave girl is here," another one said.

"Is she even allowed here?" Another voice said but I ignored them, I was too focused on finding Doctor Harrison or any doctor at all.

I was still moving through the crowd checking every face, trying to find Doctor Harrison, when I felt the hands of someone grab me.

"You came!" christina squealed.

A strong scent filled my nostrils and I glanced away from the christina, trying to find where it was coming from.

I wasn't sure when I let go of christina but I was now in front of the ballroom, walking towards the Alpha of the pack.

His blue eyes met with mine and the air became thick with tension.

Slowly, the Alpha stood up from his chair, his eyes still glued to mine as if something was connecting our eyes, and growled out.

"Mate"l

Chapter two

selene's pov.

"Mate,"

My Wolf growled out after him and the entire pack gasped in shock. I couldn't see their faces, I was too shocked and focused on my destined mate to pay them any mind but I could tell what every one of them was thinking.

The Alpha inched closer to me, the mate bond pulling us closer and closer to each other relentlessly. I couldn't stop moving even if I wanted to and I certainly didn't want to, my wolf wouldn't let me. She was too excited to be claimed and so was I. I could feel my heart and my soul aching for him to mark me it was almost painful.

I wasn't touching him yet but I could feel the intensity of our bond like it was something tangible like his skin.

My breathing was labored the more I neared him, the more my breath came out in a short burst of air.

I wanted him so much that I forgot everything I had come here for. I was eager to be claimed by the Alpha who I have incidentally always had a huge fucking crush on.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that the Alpha would even look at me not to mention be my mate. But here I was about to be claimed and marked by him. I could feel butterflies in my stomach. Just like I could feel Jen, my wolf jumping restlessly within me.

I was barely a hair's breadth away from him just about to touch him when two burly guards suddenly came to stand in front of me, disrupting the process.

"What are you doing?" I glowered with wide eyes, feral that they had just blocked my path.

"How dare you try to walk up to the Alpha, you disgusting vermin!" One of them growled, his eyes boring into mine as he held me back.

"Let me pass, Alpha Caden is my mate! I have a right to be near him"

I glared at them, trying to push past them just as my wolf, Jen wanted but failing miserably as they were too strong.

"Alpha Caden, tell them, tell them to let me go!" I pleaded, wondering why he was just standing there watching and not claiming me as his.

My heart began to beat fast within my chest when I realized what was happening. His cold gaze and unresponsiveness told me what I needed to know or maybe already even knew was going to happen. There was no way he was going to accept a slave rogue like me as his mate. It was obvious in the way he was staring at me in disgust. My heart twisted in pain. I didn't want my mate to reject me. I couldn't take it. I know I won't be able to make it.

My eyes began to sting and my body began to shake. Jen was feral and wasn't happy and I could hear her scream out in pain.

"Let her go!." The voice of Alpha Caden suddenly penetrated through my swirling thoughts and my eyes widened in shock and then in joy. So, he wasn't rejecting me?

A flood of relief washed over me as the guards let go of me.

The room felt so tense, I could suffocate in it. I wasn't sure what to even do now that I had been released.

I smiled in excitement as the Alpha inched closer to me.

He was going to kiss me and make me mine, that was the only reason he was trying to close the gap between us. I couldn't believe christina was right all along

"I reject you as my mate." He said as soon as he got close enough to me.

It was as if time stopped and with it, every form of movement from the crowd stopped. I blinked rapidly

"What?" I whispered audibly as his words sank in.

"I said I reject you as my mate, Did you think I'd accept a..." he looked me up and down in disgust, "A slave girl, a fucking rogue my mate?!" He chuckled darkly.

'But..."

"You are lucky you are allowed in this pack, if I had my way, you'd be dead and gone for the evil your people committed in this pack," he cut through my protest, his words slicing and cutting through my heart like a razor-sharp knife. The expression on his face hurt more than even his words and at that moment, I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

Why was he doing this? Why was he rejecting me? I panicked.

"Please, you can't send me away," I said, trying to close the gap between us but I was quickly stopped by the guards.

"Let me go!" I yelled as I struggled to get out of their hold.

"Take this disgusting creature to the dungeon and leave her there till I say otherwise," Alpha Caden said with zero emotions in his eyes.

"No, you can't do this!" I yelled as the guards dragged me out of the party. The laughter from the party made me even more feral and I began to scream for Alpha Caden to help me.

The guards opened the door to the cell and threw me in. I quickly pulled myself and ran to the door, trying to escape but it was too late, the door was already locked.

"Please, let go of me! I didn't do anything!"

"Shut up you vermin! You tried to attack the Alpha, that's treason and it's purbushible by death" one of the guards growled,

"Father!" I yelled as I came back to my senses.

*Please, I need you to let me go. My father is dying, I need to find him a doctor! please!" I pleaded in tears.

How had I completely forgotten about my mission?

"Nice try," the guard said with a roll of his eyes.

"Please, I'm being serious, help me!" I pleaded. How could I have been so distracted that I had forgotten about my father.?

"Fine, just help me find Doctor Harrison and take him to my father, he needs immediate attention!" I begged, I was practically on my knees. I couldn't lose my father. He was the only one I had in the world, the only one ego truly loved me without reservation.

I continued to plead with the guards until one of them yelled out in frustration,

"Fine, we'll get your father a doctor!"

I let out a sigh of relief and sank to the ground. I prayed to the moon goddess he would be with my father till Doctor Harrison got there.

I wasn't sure exactly when I fell asleep but when I opened my eyes, I was face to face with Alpha Caden.

Chapter 3

Caden's pov

I clenched my jaw, watching as my guards practically dragged my so-called mate out of the party with the party attendees laughing at the scene.

I was finding it difficult to sit still. What had started as a pleasant meeting was starting to look like a terrible fucking mistake.

One of the major reasons that I cared to celebrate my birthday and my Coronation anniversary was because I had a plan and it was to invite the Dragonmoon pack princesses so I could find some kind of common ground with the processes but once again they had sent a simple councilman to cover for the fact that they couldn't make it and as if that wasn't enough, that vermin of a rogue had to ruin it all by being my mate.

I was already tired and bored of the night

"Boss, that was a little hard," my beta said, using the mind link.

"I don't care. I'm going upstairs, figuring a way to get the guests out of my house early enough,"

"But you are the host,* my beta pointed out

"Not anymore, take over for me," I said and immediately left the party.

Back in my room, I paced my bedroom floor, trying to figure out where on earth u had gone fuckin wrong!

selene? Or whatever her name was the best the moon goddess could?

Fudk that!

I wasn't even interested in getting married right now, there was only one thing I cared about and it was getting my hands on the Dragonmoon powers. Mating with one of the princesses would instantly grant me not just her army of bending werewolf, it would also grant me some of the powers and abilities I needed to protect my pack j and find and torture to the death the rogues that had killed my parents many years ago.

My hands balled into fists and my nails dug into my palms.

I was going to kill her for daring to walk up to me, for thinking there was any way I was going to marry a fucking slave girl rogue.

She was lucky that she'd not been banished yet. The only reason she was still in my pack was because of Elder Jones. Had saved her many years ago after the great rogue war.

I growled as my wolf growled restlessly.

He was upset that I had rejected his mate.

"Calm down Julius, she's been fat beneath us." I tried to placate him but that only seemed to anger him.

Deciding to ignore his anger, I jumped into the shower and washed up. Maybe I'd be able to finally silence him and forget about the whole thing.

But as the water cascaded down my back, all I could see was the slave girl: 's face looking up at me eagerly like an eager pup. I would be lying if I said I didn't want to immediately kiss her and mate with her then. The mate pull had been so strong that if my guards had not stopped me, I'd have probably kissed her before stopping me.

Even now, I could still feel the pull to her and I hated it! This was a distraction that I would need to cut off somehow. It was a distraction, I couldn't afford it.

I could not be mated to an enemy of the pack.

I turned off the shower and stepped out, drying myself with a towel as I went.

I was going to kill these feelings whether they liked it or not and if they didn't die, then I'd have to kill the object of them.

I put on my sweatshirt and climbed into bed, trying my best to forget about the disaster of a night but after a whole two hours of trying to sleep, I gave up and climbed out of bed.

I put on a shirt and sweatpants and decided to go out for a run, I needed to cool off. I wasn't sure if my Beta had managed to send everyone home, but I could still hear music coming from the hall.

I found my way out of the pack house and somehow, into the hallway of the dungeon.

"Sire," the guard on duty bowed as he noticed me walking towards him.

"The key to the dungeon of the slave girl," I said in response, stressing out my hands for it before I even got to where he stood.

"You... you want me to open her cell..."

"The key!" I growled and he quickly went through each key with him and handed me the right one when he found it.

I balled the keys in my hands and moved past the guard and in no time, found her cell. I opened the door without thinking and found the rogue, fast asleep with streaks of tears running down her face.

Fuck! I had half the mind to claw her face and her heart out and end this torturous mate bond feelings or kiss her.

What the fuck was wrong with me? I growled internally at myself.

"Kids her, she's yours," my wolf said internally, urging me to mark her.

"Not!" I barked a little too loudly and the girl beneath me stirred in her sleep and soon enough, her eyes fluttered open.

"Alpha Caden!" Her eyes widened and she scrambled up to sit up, ," you came for me," she said with a smile.

I stared at her, disgusted by the look in her eyes but at the same time wanting and needing her beneath me.

I was pathetic, lusting after a rogue... I should have killed her as a baby when I had the chance.

"Wipe that look off your face, I did not come back for you, Yiu thinks I'd want a rogue as my Luna?" I scoffed

His face fell and it looked like my words hurt her

good, she deserved every bit of rejection.

"If you aren't here for me, I understand but I want to know if my father is okay. I begged the guards to get a doctor to him when I was being dragged here,"

I frowned, knowing full well that my men wouldn't take a prisoner's request seriously.

It also made me mad that she was okay with my rejection and more concerned about her traitor father.

I called out to one of the guards and one of them came running to my side.

"Did anybody get a doctor to Jones' house?" I asked.

"No, sir," the guard shook his head

"Send two guards with Doctor Harrison to his house and check on him,"

"Yes sir,"