The Mate's Prophecy

Chapter 3

(Cassie POV)

I slammed the door as I rushed into my room. What the hell was wrong with me. I was still shaken from the kiss. I touched my lips with my fingers and instantly remembered the feel of Jackson’s lips on mine. This wasn’t right, how could I have feelings for him! Of all people. How could I be upset over Hunter but then think of Jackson and the way his lips felt on mine. Or the way his hands felt as they slide down my body towards my- 

“F**K!” I exclaimed “What the hell?” I shook the invading thoughts from my head and started to pace my room. I was clearly going stir crazy locked up in here, I needed to get out! 

I quickly changed into a sports bra and joggers and pulled my hair up into a high ponytail and grabbed my earphones and phone. Of course it couldn’t be considered a real phone since it was blocked from making calls apart from to certain numbers and there wasn’t any internet connection. I suspected that if it wasn’t for the fact I still couldn’t mindlink I wouldn’t have had one at all. As it was, it was a glorified music player.  I headed out of the room towards the gym. Maybe I could burn off some of the pent up tension in me on the treadmill.

The gym was empty when I got there, which I expected. Jackson would be working on Alpha duties and his businesses and didn’t think Julian ever saw the inside of this room. The old Alpha creeped me out to be honest, especially since he claimed he knew me in the dungeons. I knew he looked familiar but I couldn’t quite place where from. I couldn’t imagine that he would be a person you could forget easily. 

I jumped on the treadmill and started it up on an intense course. Within a few minutes I was enjoying the burn from my muscles as I pushed them to their limits, the sound of The Score’s latest album blasting in my ears and my eyes closed as I imagined it was a forest I was running through and not some machine. I was so into it that I didn’t even notice that Jackson had come into the room until I looked up and saw him standing behind me in the mirror. The look in his eyes made me falter on the machine and I quickly pressed the stop button before I landed flat on my face. I stepped off the machine carefully while keeping my eyes on him. He watched me as I leaned down to grab my water bottle and a slow grin crept across his face as his eyes flickered to my rear end. 

I took a drink from my water and turned around ready to say something sarcastic. But he was suddenly right in front of me, barely inches away. I took an involuntary step back and his grin widened as he mimicked me and took a step forward. He sniffed the air around me and growled. 

“You smell amazing my dear” he said, backing me against the wall “I could smell you from my office, and simply had to come and investigate” he sniffed again before moving in close and sniffing at the crook of my neck. I shivered in response.

“I smell good” I said doubtfully “I am covered in sweat”

“Mmmmm” he purred in my ear before I felt his tongue as he licked up my neck. My breathing quickened as he growled into my neck again “you taste nice too” he then started kissing down the side of my neck towards my marking spot. At the same time he wrapped his arms around my waist pulling me into him. I closed my eyes as he pushed us both against the wall and began to run his hands along my body slipping into the top of my waistband at my hips. I couldn’t help myself as I bucked my hips into him feeling his bulge rub against me. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew what was happening, what I was feeling was wrong. But I couldn’t seem to bring myself to care as Jackson grabbed my ponytail and pulled my head back and to the side, exposing my throat to him. I felt him sniff again and he chuckled.

“Now you really do smell amazing” and I knew it was my arousal that he was smelling as the room filled with it. 

“I want you Cassie” he whispered against my skin “tell me you’re mine,” he nibbled at my marking spot and I let out a soft moan “Please Cassie, say it, say you are mine, and then I can set us both free” He slipped his hand further into my joggers and I gasped

“I’m-”  I was interrupted by the sound of a fake cough.

I opened my eyes to see that Parker was leaning against the back wall grinning at us. Jackson growled but let me push him off me.

“Get a good look did you?” I snapped, and he laughed in response. 

“Just doing my job, Luna” I glared at him for the last part. I didn't like being reminded that I had agreed to mate with Jackson. I don’t think Parker liked it much either. But at least Jackson had been true to his word and appointed Parker the Gamma rank. 

Jackson growled at him again and Parker's grin grew. I could tell there was some sort of tension between them. Now that my head was clearing up I was starting to feel somewhat embarrassed about what he had seen, and how I had reacted to Jacksons advances. I glared at both of them before grabbing my stuff and pushing past Jackson and storming out of the room.

I didn’t much like the idea of being watched all the time. I mean I could tell from the way the guards at the exits straightened up when I walked by that I was always being watched. But Parker made it obvious, and that shattered my thinly veiled illusion that I was in fact here of my own choice. Although right at this point in time I was rather glad that Parker had been there.

I walked into my room, closing the door behind me and headed for the bathroom. I rolled my eyes as I heard my room door open just as I was closing the bathroom door. Nope, privacy was also an illusion. Whether it was Jackson, Parker or even Brady, everyone just walked into the room like they owned the place. 

I turned on the shower and climbed in, taking my time to enjoy the multiple hot jetstreams before washing my hair and body and actually getting out of the shower. I wrapped a towel around myself and walked out of the bathroom. Parker was sitting comfortably on my sofa playing on his phone and didn’t even look up. I quickly dressed in the dressing room. Putting on my usual style black joggers with a purple loose fit top, I then went back into the bedroom and threw myself on the sofa in a huff.

Parker glanced over the phone at me, amused “What’s up Luna?” 

I rolled my eyes “Stop calling me that” I snapped again, and he chuckled “What you doing?” I asked as his eyes returned to his phone.

“Nothing, and the answer is no,” he said, sighing and putting his phone away. I rolled my eyes again. 

“Aw come on I am dying without the internet” and Parker glared at me “It’s not like I have anyone to call anyway” I sighed “Everyone I know probably hates me now anyway”

Parker rolled his eyes “don’t be such a drama queen” he said “nobody hates you”. I slouched down on the sofa in a mood. I didn’t leave my friends and family to be locked up, isolated from the whole world.

Parker grabbed the remote and began looking through the movies. He finally settled on some movie about magicians who were criminals. I laid across the sofa putting my legs across his lap and we settled in to watch the movie. About half an hour into it I remembered breakfast.

“Parker?” I asked watching him

“Yeah?” He continued watching the movie.

“Who’s Julia?” Parker’s eyes shot to my face before he returned them to the tv trying to make it look like he hadn’t reacted.

“Dunno beautiful,” he said “It's not an uncommon name”

“Parker” I glared at him

“Do you mean the lass on the movie, I don’t think she’s called Julia, she’s called-”

“Parker!” I shouted and he stopped talking but started to look uncomfortable. 

“Listen Cassie” Parker said, pausing the movie “Jackson isn’t a nice guy, you know that right?” 

“Yeah I’m fully aware of how much of a b*stard he is” I said getting annoyed “It’s not like I planned on being tied to him for fun is it?” I was only here to save Hunter, that was the only thing that mattered to me “but what does that have to do with this Julia?”

“Well Jackson likes s*x” Parker says “and it’s not like he isn’t spoilt for choice, being Alpha” he shrugged.

“Oh so he sleeps with her” I say, and Parker nodded

“Among others yeah, but Julia been around the longest” he said “and she is seriously dedicated to him, like almost stalker like if he didn’t entertain it” 

“Ok so she’s not exactly going to be impressed that he plans on mating with me then” I sigh “should I expect another Eden then?” and Parker screwed his face up in disgust.

He went to speak when there was a knock at the door, we both looked over at it in surprise. I looked back at Parker and he shrugged. He got and went to the door and opened it and then looked back at me.

“Guess now is the time to find out” and stands to one side. 

A woman walked in and looked around nervously, her eyes landed on me and she smiled weakly. She was dressed in a too short skirt with a top that was designed to push up her breasts and 4 inch stilettos. Her dirty blonde hair hung loose to her shoulders and her face seemed to be caked in a thick layer of make-up. She looked like someone who was exactly an Eden type, apart from her body language. She hunched forward like she was expecting a beating and her eyes flitted around while she wrung her hands together with a clear aura of nervous tension around her.

“Hi… erm Luna, I’m Julia” she stuttered “A-Alpha Jackson said I should come and see you”