Alpha, My Tempest Mate

Chapter Five

“I’m kind of jealous now,” Ryland said with a chuckle.

“W-what?!” I stammered from embarrassment.

“My brother always got the most gorgeous women and now he has a goddess as his mate,” Ryland said in complete awe as his tone dripped with honesty.

My cheeks enflamed at his words as my mind began to race a mile a minute. No one had ever called me beautiful before, men rarely looked at me like he was but then again, I never paid any attention to them anyway. But to be called a goddess of all things?! I wasn’t a goddess, if anyone here was a goddess then it was Deia as she was a full-blooded Ansian.

“I-I'm not a goddess!” I said defiantly while feigning ignorance.

The truth was that I was flattered from his words, it was a feeling that I had rarely felt, and it created butterflies in my stomach. I pinched my arm after a moment when it hit me how foolish I was acting. I could practically melt with the way how Ryland looked at me, yet I couldn’t allow myself to be distracted.

I forced a frown on my delicately full lips as I turned on my heels and walked away from Ryland and his smooth tongue. I refused to be caught up in his little games, I didn’t know what he was up to, but I wasn’t going to be a victim.

“See you soon Louvel,” Ryland said quietly under his breath as he watched me walk away.

If I didn’t have a sensitive hearing then I wouldn’t have caught his silent words, but I did.

Little Wolf.

I quickly turned the corner and exited the bedroom and slammed the door behind me. I pressed my back against the cool wall and covered my face with my palms to hide my foolish embarrassment and intense blushing.

“I need to be careful around that man…” I mumbled to myself.

I collected my composure and decided to continue my walk around the mansion regardless of what had just happened. My heart had been beating fast and my mind wouldn’t seem to calm down from our encounter. I had no idea that humans could be so smooth and yet so fascinating at the same time.

“Louvel,” I mumbled his words under my breath as I continued to walk aimlessly now.

I didn’t care if he was a human, I was going to make Ryland regret that he had made me so flustered. Maybe it would convince him to stay the hell away from me so I could live here in peace. I needed to survive in this pack until Deia had reached the age of 18 and married Ezra to form an alliance or until it was discovered who her mate was. There was no way her mate was Ezra as it had turned out that he was my mate.

I need to reject Ezra! The thought came to me quickly.

My wolf whimpered within me as the thought came to me, but I tried to ignore her. The thought of losing my mate made me sad yet it was a feeling that I wouldn’t allow myself to linger on. If I rejected Ezra, then maybe the goddess would make him Deia's mate which would be perfect.

I forced a fake smile on my face as I made my mind up on what I was going to do. I was going to find Ezra and reject him, he hated me so I’m sure that my rejection will make him happy. God knows that he’s already thought of this and is simply waiting until he runs into me.

I wanted Deia to be happy.

Ezra:

“Things continue to be quiet and peaceful,” Asher, my second in command said steadily as he stood next to me while going over extensive paperwork.

He had been my Beta for many years now.

I had been made Alpha at the age of one when my father was murdered for the heinous crimes that he had committed over the years. Everything had finally been linked to him and he watched as the walls slowly crumbled around him. I have sworn to never be like him.

My father Janus had tried to simultaneously murder his family members with the intent of creating offspring who would worship him like a god. The details of his crimes weren’t spared as those around me refused to keep me in the dark. They didn’t want me to end up like the murderous man who had given me life. A man whose body was discarded over a cliff somewhere so the fishes could nibble on his deceased corpse.

I felt no remorse.

“Good, we have Intel that there are still supporters of Janus's ways. We need to hunt them down and slit their throats before they can have the opportunity to make Janus out as a saint,” I said as I spat the venom that had formed in my mouth at the mention of his name.

We had been working for years to squash anyone who had sided with my father, but his supporters were like cockroaches. They never fully seemed to disappear even when their previous alpha was now long dead. The mere mention of his foul name was blasphemy to my ears, to make things worse my mate was nowhere.

My mate who I had heard was spared the grief and wrath of the knowledge of who her biological father was. I had kept close tabs on Ersa over the years as I had always been aware of her and wanted to know all I could about her. I knew the heartache that she grew up with, as an outcast and never truly fitting it. She was looked down on as her pack members believed she was half-blood which they used to mock her.

Harsh words were said about her when her parents couldn’t hear so they never knew about her hard upbringing. Yet those words had managed to reach my ears as I had informants in their pack. Informants that had multiple tasks laid out for them, one of those tasks was to protect my possible mate.