I was laid in bed staring at the ceiling. Her words kept swimming through my mind over and over on repeat. Her face played a picture in my mind over and over. She didn't look distraught or sad, just tired. Like she had accepted what she was saying to me and she expected no less. How bad her life must be to just accept everything she had told me. I know I was to blame here too. Just another person to treat her as less. I needed to explain to her that this was all due to my position and the situation. Any other time , I believed my fathers words a mate is brought to us for a reason and they're our perfect match. But no matter how hard I tried to think of the fate's reason for this one, there was none. Unless it was to have me killed in an Alpha challenge or run out of my pack.
This rejection was due to circumstances.My wolf growled at me in my head , he was calling it bullshit. " Pride and ego ", he says, and I rolled my eyes. He had been a grumpy ass fucker for days now. We weren't exactly talking , the fact he was willing to force my hand the other day f****d me off. And the fact I won't go claim her f***s him off. His needs were purely animalistic , he didn't understand or care for the politics involved.
Three days I hadn't laid eyes on her for. And I felt like my skin was crawling. My nerves jumped and my temper was on a short fuse. I had gone months after first seeing her and was fine, with not seeing her or it affecting who I slept with . Why now was it affecting me so much ? I had been searching for books and journals of ancestors to the pack and nothing. Not one thing. All other documented rejection of mates had been done verbally , both rejecting the other then the pain they felt as the link was severed. What I had read though , which was worrying, those wolves had then never gone on to find another true mate. They all ended up having to settle into a bonded mate pairing.
Maybe that was what I needed to start looking for now. I had the idea of if I bonded with another , that could sever the link. I couldn't have two mates after all. I just needed to find one willing to reject their own mate if they were to come along after our pairing. Groaning, I sat up on the bed and looked at the alarm clock. It was only five in the morning. I hadn't slept for days. But I knew there was no point lying back down , sleep wouldn't come. So instead of getting dressed , I pulled the towel off of the bedpost I had thrown there last night after my shower. And wrap it around my hips. Padding quietly through the house , I headed out the back of the house.
The morning had a cool breeze and everything was still quiet. In the distance, I heard and sensed the night wolves doing their patrols. But besides that, nothing. " I'm going to let you out for a run ,you need to behave" I said quietly to my wolf. He huffed in my mind and I was going to take that as he agreed. Throwing the towel onto a nearby chair , I let the change come and grinned at how therapeutic it felt. When our pads hit the grass , we took off in a bolt. Whipping through the streets until we hit the tree line. I let him have free reign , and it seemed he was in the mood to hunt.
We were happily chasing down prey , when a scent hit our nose. f**k. I knew that scent now as it was imprinted fully on my brain. My wolf froze in its tracks and stood listening , sniffing the air. " I told you to behave ", I warned in my mind. It fell on deaf ears , our head whipped to the left as we heard movement and the scent got stronger. In the distance a flash of white ran through the trees and he took off. He wasn't wasting any time either , he was putting every bit of power he had into the sprint.
The flash of white happened again , closer this time. He caught the small wolf easily , her head turned and looked at us , then the white wolf changed directions and picked up speed. It seemed her wolf wanted to play. And for the first time in weeks, my wolf felt excited and happy as they began a game of cat and mouse. He slowed himself down so he could play with her. We would easily catch them if we tried, even though she was fast, I had to admit , but he didn't want to. For around ten minutes they kept it up. And then he pounced, sailing through the air and landing on the wolf's back gently. They ended up in a roll , where the white wolf ended up pinned on its back beneath us.
" Dont you dare " I growled at him , and tried my hardest to take back over. But he fought me. The wolf beneath us whined with need. My wolf's head dipped and he started licking the white wolf's face and she reciprocated. They kept it up , but he wasn't taking it further. I felt him start to pull back, letting me shift back , until I the man caged in the wolf , and I saw her start to change too. I don't know why I didn't move. But when we were both back fully human , I was between her spread legs , my arms caged in her head and our faces were close.
So , close, I felt her breath blow across my face as she panted. Looking between us, we were both naked. And my d**k was aimed at where it clearly wanted to be buried. I could feel the heat coming off of her and smell her arousal. Gritting my teeth , my nostrils flared as I looked back up at her face. She was staring at me glassy-eyed. And I knew what the f**k my wolf had done here , he was trying to push human me to do it. He had put temptation there in my f*****g face.
I felt light-headed and intoxicated. Leaning down, I pushed my nose in her hair and inhaled. It made me groan at just how good it smelt. Running my nose up her cheek , I feel her soft skin beneath it and hear when she gasps. Her body arches with it , and I feel her bare breast rub against my chest. I keep moving until our noses are side by side touching. Our lips were mere millimeters apart. Our breaths mixed with each other. Her violet blue eyes were wide. Without a sane thought in my head , because I think there had been no f*****g blood left in my head.
I closed that small gap and just brushed my lips against hers. Just a slight touch. But it's all that was needed. Groaning at the feel of her soft lips, I squeezed my eyes shut. And cursed against her mouth, before I attacked her like a savage beast. I wasn't gentle or kind , pure need fulfilled me as I slammed my lips solidly down on hers. I took what I wanted with no apology. She was inexperienced and sloopy. A big red flag at her inexperience , and that fact I shouldn't be doing this.
But her taste exploded against my tongue and near on blew my brain. My hands went into her hair, gripping her head and keeping her still whilst I got my fix. I reminded myself of a starving wild beast that hadn't had food in weeks. It wasn't until I felt wet heat start to engulf the tip of my d**k that my senses came slamming back into me, I must have started thrusting near her entrance without realising. I threw my body back and off of her. Landing in a crouched attack position meters away. My lungs heaved and my wolf demanded I go back.
Fuck , f**k it all, I had started to pretty much have s*x with her just then. Without a thought , my body had moved on instinct. " You didn't f*****g stop me " I growled at her as she scrambled to sit up. She looked mortified like the realization was just hitting her too. " You said you wouldn't let me mate with you, yet you didn't stop. I was about to . . I was about .. to s**t . . . I was about to f**k you Anthea , you're a virgin and I wasn't about to be gentle ", I spat out of frustration. It wasn't her fault , I knew that. But everything just nearly went up in f*****g smoke. Had she no self-preservation , I could have hurt her. The first time, had to be gentle and a wolf had to be fully in control. I had definitely not been. My kisses should have clued her in on that , her lips looked bruised with the force I had taken them. " You kissed me " she said out of breath.
Standing up, I grab my hair. Pulling it. "s**t I know , I'm sorry. My wolf, he knew what he was doing " I began to pace. " It's getting harder to stay away from you , my body f*****g craves you and now I've f*****g tasted you, it's going to be worse " I was ranting, more to myself than her. " I'm sorry " she said softly , but I heard the pain in her words. Looking up , she was trying to cover her body with her hands.
It pained me to see. Walking over, I grabbed her hands and held them in mine. I needed her to understand this , needed her to see I wasn't trying to be like everyone else in her life. " Anthea, this isn't your fault , this isn't my fault. We didn't ask for this and if I was an ordinary wolf I would mate with you no issues. But I'm the next Alpha , you understand that right. You understand why I can not. " She doesn't look at me , but at the floor when she nods. So I release one of her hands and use my finger to lift her chin. Her violet blue eyes bore into mine and I felt myself getting lost in them. I felt my head start to dip, my lips heading back to hers. So I let her go and moved back looking away from her. " I need to go , I'm sorry Anthea. I'm going to pick a bond mate and hopefully that will cut our link. It will be over soon ". And I took off running on foot. My wolf wasn't happy. I wasn't about to let him back out so he could go back to her. I wasn't a monster , my mother raised me to treat women better. But she must think I am. And I wouldn't blame her.