My mate, my b*****e

CHAPTER FIVE.

CHARLOTTE.

He didn’t bother to answer my question and he didn’t bother to say anything to me again until I got tired and closed my eyes. I didn’t for how long I had my eyes closed until the barouche came to a sudden halt and I was forced to open my eyes.

The mansion in front of me was the biggest I have ever seen and it was surrounded by a big forest on all sides. From the outside it was so magnificent and i couldn’t help but open my mouth in awe. Right from the expensive and exquisite.

The exquisite grounds, which total nearly 4 acres, feature formal lawns, large terraces, an array of striking rhododendrons and azaleas, mature trees, an orangery garden, a stone temple and a split-level courtyard garden. This was even more extravagant than the king’s palace and i couldn’t get enough of it.

While still lost in admiration of the beauty in front of me, I see Adonis climb down from the barouche and make his way into the house without even saying anything to me.

Well it was not like I cared or I wanted him to tell me something but I was new here right, it was not like I had everything already figured out.

I was still admiring the house when someone tapped me from behind and I turned to see another fine young man behind me. He was not as beautiful as Adonis but he was still attractive and handsome, it seemed like all the men from his pack were all pretty and they dressed differently unlike us. Maybe they were not from England after all.

“Hello” I said with a slight bow as I was taught, “I am Charlotte”

“No one cares about your name” he snickered and I immediately got a dislike of him. Where I come from, men don’t speak with so much arrogance like I have heard from him and Adonis.

“Come with me” he ordered.

“Where, pray tell?”

Without even saying anything again, he grabbed me by the hand and pulled me away despite trying to get his hands off of me.

He pulled me away into another hall and I stopped short, the hall was big and extremely beautiful but this was not what struck me. I could see some ladies also wearing pants and some of them were not heavily clad like it was. This was like a whole new world out here and I began to wonder where they came from.

Adonis was seated on a throne like chair and now he had a chalice of wine twirling in his hand.

When I was finally in front of him, the man pushed me and i fell on my knees making a part of my corset to break in the process which made me groan in pain.

“Easy” I mouthed while rolling my eyes, if only I knew what the man in front of me had planned.

“This is charlotte” Adonis voice resonated round the whole room and I finally turned my attention to him, “she is the daughter of Hawkings”

At the mention of my father’s name, everyone began to laugh which was somewhat embarrassing for me. My father was a well respected man in England, how could they laugh at him like this?

“The man with the weakest pack?” A random person from the crowd chipped in and the laughter intensified.

“My father is not a weakling” I forced myself to say and everyone went silent but I could hear side whispers. It was like I said something abominable and it was forbidden.

“Do you know where you are?” Adonis asked again, this time he handed the chalice to the lady beside him and stood up before takimg slow strides towards me, “does anyone here look like someone from your forsaken England?”

“You are speaking ill of the throne”

Before i could even get the full words out of my mouth, he grabbed me by the throat and yanked me up. I could see hate and anger in his eyes, it felt like I had done something wrong and he wanted to punish me. He wanted to make me pay for what I didn’t know I did.

“In this place, you don’t talk back to me. Do you hear ?”

“I…” my voice trailed off, I didn’t know what to say anymore. His nails were digging deep into my neck and i could feel the blood sipping out, I didn’t know if he wanted to kill me or just scare me.

“Pay respects to the leader of the pack” the man behind me who I later found out his name was Zeth ordered and reality dawned on me. Adonis was the alpha of his pack, he was the leader of his pack and evryone here was a member.

“I bet she hasn’t even wolfed out yet” another lady mocked, she was the one who had collected Adonis chalice from him, “a weak omega at that”

Adonis pushed me to the ground and another part of my corset broke injuring my thighs in the process and i winced in pain, it was so painful.

“How long am I going to stay here?” I managed to ask while trying to hold back a tear, this was not how I imagined everything was going to be. I thought I was going to be accepted and treated well in the pack but here I was, I already feel like an outcast.

Adonis walked back to his throne and sat down while fixing his whole gaze on me,

“She will join the sisterhood”

A silent murmur went off from the crowd when he talked and his forehead creased into a frown.

“Does anyone have a problem with that?”

“Adonis” the other lady whose name was Victoria walked up to him and snaked her hand around his neck, “isn’t it too soon? She is not even a member of the pack, why should she join the sisterhood?

“Now she is a member of our pack, you have a problem with that?”

The frown on his face deepened as he asked her, “are you trying to flaunt my orders?”

“Of course not Adonis” Victoria quickly responded, “I am just saying what is in the minds of everyone. She is just a weak omega who will be nothing but a liability on the pack”

“She will join the academy” he announced again which left me dumbfounded. I was here in his presence and he was making decisions for my life without even asking me, was this how things were done here?

“Take her away” Adonis ordered after a while, “get rid of the rubbish she is wearing”

The rubbish he was talking about were my clothes, this was gotten from the most expensive store in England and it was worth a lot of money. How could he even say that.

Victoria and another lady walked up to me with a sneer on their faces, they didn’t hide the fact that they hated me.

“Come with me” Victoria ordered and i tried to stand up but the pain in my leg was too much, I didn’t know I was that wounded until I saw the blood stain on my inner garment.

“Why aren’t you standing up?” The other lady who’s name turned out to be Alice asked, “do you want to be carried like how you are in your mansion?

Hissing in pain, I pulled myself up and gave Adonis one last glance before limping towards the girls. I could feel a thousand eyes on me and it felt like the ground should open up and swallow me, I have never been so judged in my life by the stares of people like that.

We passed through many rooms and halls until we came to a particular door and Victoria pushed it open before entering it and the two of us did the same.

It was the same size as my room back in England but this was much more exquisite, It seemed like Adonis or should I say the pack was extremely rich.

“This is where you will be staying until you are taken to the sisterhood” Alice announced.

“What is the sisterhood?” I managed to ask even if I had a feeling that none of them was going to answer me.

“Why?” Victoria inquired, “are you scared already?”

“I just want to know,” I replied while looking up at her. She was taller than me and obviously older but in a few years i should be taller than her but luckily seeing how scantily she was dressed in men’s pants, I knew I was much more beautiful and well rounded than her.

“The sisterhood is an association of omegas from different packs” Alice finally answered, “you will get to meet them soon”

My curiosity took the better of me, I wanted to know more. I wanted to be sure Adonis was not after my life in any way, “What do they do?

“Aren’t you being too inquisitive?” Victoria flared up, “you wait until you are taken. Do you hear me?” With that she walked out of the room and Alice followed suit.

I was dumbfounded, I didn’t even know what I did to make them hate me so much.

The surge of pain through my body reminded me of the Injury I had on my thighs and I winced in pain. My luggage was no where to be found and even if it was, I didn’t even know how to dress myself. My modiste was the one who always dressed me up and i just sat there and looked pretty.

I was not sure for how long I stood near the bed when a gentle knock came on the door and it pushed open to reveal a girl.

She entered the room as her lips curled into a smile which was welcoming and I immediately relaxed. She was not dressed in men clothes and she was not dressed in the kind of gown I was wearing either. She was clad in a more simple yet elegant gown which looked so good on her. For a moment I wondered how i was going to look if I wore something like this.

“I am Ariel,” she said.

“Charlotte'' I managed to answer, “Charlotte Hawkings, my father..” my voice trailed off, everyone already considered my father a weakling here, I didn’t want to embarrass him anymore.

“Are you hungry?” She asked out of nowhere.

“Are you trying to be my friend?” I asked her back.

“I saw you were wounded and i decided to come and help, you don’t look like someone who can clean their own wounds”

“Is it that obvious?”

“Of course” she gave a little chuckle, “I am half English by the way. I just don’t speak how you speak”

“Indeed, I can see that” I replied while studying her. She wasn’t hostile and her smile didn’t feel forced.

“Come” she gently held onto my hand and led me towards the bed, “let me take a look at your injury”

I lowered myself on the bed and shifted my clothes away from my thighs making her heave a sigh, the wound looks bad.

“Your corset really did some damage to you”

The door pushed open again and another girl entered, she didn’t look pleased to see me and before I could even say anything, she bent down and kissed Ariel on the cheek which was surprising to me.

“I was looking for you”

“I am trying to help her clean her wound” Ariel responded,

“Why were you looking for me though?”

“Are the two of you sisters?”

“Lovers,” the girl replied with an eye roll and I nodded my head awkwardly. I have heard about people of the same gender liking themselves but I haven’t seen one until now.

The other lady whose name was rose was dressed in pants and had a very short hair, she also had a male corset on even if I wanted to deny it, she does look good in it.

“What is the sisterhood about?” I inquired after a while, I was really curious about it.

“It is a place where all the weak pack members and people who are unable to wolf our stay” Rose answered, “and that’s where you will be going”

“Rose” Ariel reprimanded her, “be nice” then she turned to me, “you don’t have to be afraid Charlotte, you will meet people of your kind there and I am sure you will be fine”

“Will I be taught how to wolf out there?”

“More like be tortured into it” Rose responded, “Adonis won’t hesitate to make your life miserable if you don’t keep up”

“Is he the teacher?”

“Are you always this inquisitive?” Rose was already getting irritated, “we can’t tell you everything now, can we?”

“Be nice, rose” Ariel ordered again, “I will go horse racing with you”

It seemed to suddenly put her in a good mood because her lips curled into a huge smile and she began to be all chatty and sweet with me, wow.

“Everyone is just super hyper, Adonis is yet to find his mate”

Mate? That word struck me. I remember asking my modiste for it but mother interrupted us even before she could answer me.

“What is a mate?”

The two of them looked at me in suprise, they must have been shocked.

“You don’t know who a mate is?” Rose was really surprised.

“I have not idea, pray tell me”

“As a werewolf” Ariel began, “you can only fall and stay in love with only one person in your life and that is your mate. When you meet your mate, you will instantly feel a connection to him”

“I see” his mind wandered off to all the men I have come in contact with and none of them had a connection to me or neither did I feel any attraction towards any of them except….

My thoughts were interrupted when Ariel sat beside me and placed her hand on my shoulder,

“You don’t have to think about all of this now Charlotte.

You are still young and you still have a lot of things you need to take care off, your mate will eventually manifest itself”

“Who knows, it may be another weak omega like you”

“Rose!!!”

“Sorry” she rolled her eyes, “I am stating facts, that’s the truth”

“So my mate will come find me?”

“Or you may find him, it is vice versa”

“Will my mate be as pretty as Adonis?” I asked in a whisper and i could see Ariel trying to hide her laughter while rose burst out laughing. I must have said a funny thing right?

“You are just an omega wolf Charlotte, what makes you think you can be Adonis mate? Moreover you are from England, Adonis hates them”

“He hates…..”

My voice trailed off when the door pushed open and Victoria entered, she had a rough looking dress in her hand.

“Here” she threw it on the bed, “change into this”

“I brought my luggage”

With a scoff, she walked over to the bed and yanked my neck, “in this place, we follow orders. Do you hear me?” With that, she sauntered out of the room.

“That is Victoria, she is a beta” Ariel explained

“A beta?”

“Next in line to the alpha” rose retorted, it seems they didn’t like her at all.