My mate, my b*****e

CHAPTER THREE.

The sun shone brightly on my face as I slowly opened my eyes. Sighing softly I pushed myself to a sitting position and this was when my door pushed open and my modiste entered with a new clothing apparel in hand.

“Ughhh” I muttered under my breath, I know this is how the women of this era dressed but it was too much. all the corsets and skirts, it was more like a job more than a dress. How I hated them.

“You shouldn’t be in bed by this time” Alice advised, “everyone is already at the breakfast table”

“I am not hungry, Alice” I replied as I climbed out of bed, “I will just read a book in the garden. The day shows signs of being bright and having a lot of good things to offer”

“I heard your father telling some of the infantrymen not to let you step out of your room. I think he wants to put you under room arrest”

My forehead creased into a frown as I heard her, “why? What did I do?”

I was still talking when my mother sauntered into the room looking all dressed up already, she didn’t even look pleased to see me.

“Why are you not ready? Your father awaits you at breakfast”

“Why has father ordered his men not to let me out of my room, mother?” I inquired, “did I do something wrong?”

“Perhaps your recklessness has made him angry, I suggest you listen to him and make the most of it. You have a lot to learn by the way, the governess says you have been very mischievous”

“I demand to speak to my father. I…

The words hung in my throat when we heard a loud scream from downstairs and we all rushed out of the room. I didn’t even care to put on one of those weird garments and I rushed down the stairs in my nightwear and my hair was all scattered around my face.

I froze the moment we got to the last staircase. Father was on his knees and someone’s hand was secure against his throat. A group of infantrymen were all gathered around having their guns pointed at him but the man didn’t care and i actually didn’t care about what he was doing to father, I was more concerned about him and the way he looked.

Dressed in a pair of black flat pants and a white shirt, a corset was worn over his shirt and it looked extraordinary. This was the first time I was seeing a man dressed differently from the usual men dressing of our time. His hair was left to fall in ringlets beside him and his ocean blue eyes made it difficult to look away from him. Did i mention how well built he was? I have never seen a man who was as beautiful as the man gripping my father by the neck.

His sharp jawlines and handsome face gave off a different kind of aura. It seemed like a Greek god has come down to live amongst us. To me, this man was the most beautiful man I have ever and will ever see.

My revirie of thought was interrupted when he pulled my father to a standing position and i could see his nails gracefully digging into his neck but I was too mesmerized by him to even care about my father now.

“Please let him go” mother began to beg and this was when for a moment, I was not spellbound again. Even if I was already having fantasies about him in my head.

“How dare you make a mockery of my name?” The beautiful man sneered as his nails continued to dig deep into my father’s neck, he looked evil yet so inviting.

“It is not as it seems, master Adonis” my father managed to get the words out of his mouth and I grasped onto the name. A fine name for a fine young man, he was obviously not a man from England.

“Please don’t hurt me” father continued to beg, “I will make sure to find a mate for you as soon as possible”

This man didn’t even care, I could see him draining the life out of my father.

“Why are you so pretty?” I asked from the stairs and everyone turned their attention towards me while his own lips curled into a smirk as he began to move towards me. An evil smirk which I found inviting.

“Should I kill you instead of your father then?” He asked while taking slow strides towards me, the smirk on his face had already disappeared by this time.

“She doesn’t mean that, master Adonis” my mother immediately chipped in, “she is just a child and doesn’t know what she is saying”

“I pretty much know what I am talking about mother” i replied, “I can’t help but admire this beautiful man in front of me”

“Take her to her room immediately” Mother ordered some of the infantrymen who were standing closer to me but before they could even touch me, the beautiful man in front of me stopped them with a wave of his hand as he came face to face with him.

I used that opportunity to study him from up close and his beauty could not even be matched. He was a million in one person.

While I was still busy admiring the beautiful man in front of me, his hand flew to my neck and he closed his hand around the bronze necklace on my neck.

“Your pack’s omega?”

Reality dawned on me when the words came out of his mouth, he must be like one of us then but why was father and mother so scared of him? It was not like he was going to hurt us if he was one of us right?

“She is just a child, master” father continued to beg, “she doesn’t know anything”

Mother walked up to the two of us and went down on her knees much to my surprise. This was the first time I was seeing mother begging someone so earnestly like this. She didn’t even bother to pacify father when he was mad.

“Master, you can take me to do your bidding for you, please let my daughter go. She doesn’t even know anything about her origin, she is just a naive young girl who is mesmerized by the beauty on yoru face”

It seems like the man was not even listening to them as his eyes continued to linger on me.

“What is your name?” His voice was authoritative and dominating which made me to get more mesmerized by him. He was evil yet so charming, i couldn’t stop myself even if I wanted to.

“Charlotte” i managed to answer, “my name is Charlotte”

“When did you find out about your origin?”

“Twenty Four calendar months ago”

With a slight look of surprise on his face, his head turned toward father who was still on his knees.

“You did so well to hide her, didn’t you?”

“We were not aware that she already knew about herself” my mother told me, “we only just found out yesterday”

“Madam Hawkings” the man in front of me called out again, “you know I hate liars”

“You are yet to find your mate” father immediately chipped in, “why don’t I do the honors of finding her for you.

With his eyes darting across everyone in the room, he gave a little cackle.

“I am not as weak as you to bed a mate before I make a name for myself Hawkings. Your lack is weak and will soon go extinct, you should be lucky I came at the right time to save you from the shame”

“And we have been grateful to you for that” father answered him, “i have done what you always ask of me”

“Send your infantrymen outside, I want to have a word you in private”

“Alice, take Charlotte with you”

“The lady stays,” Adonis ordered with an evil smirk still lingering on his face.

The moment everyone was out, he walked back to my father’s favorite chair and lowered himself on it before crossing one leg over the other.

“Give me what I came for, Hawkings” he demanded.

“I haven’t gotten it yet, i am working towards it” father replied, “give me some more time”

“We wouldn’t want to alert the king, he may…” mother tried to talk but he halted her and turned to me,

“Have you wolfed out yet?”

“Wolf out?” I was not sure what he meant.

As if he had gotten the answer he wanted, the man stood up and walked up to father.

“Prepare her, she stays with me until you give me what I want”

I was taken aback, this escalated into something different so quickly. Was he being serious right now?

“I don’t want to go with you”

The smirk on his face disappeared as he grabbed my father by the throat again and i could see blood trickling down from it.

“You don’t have a choice now, do you?” The smirk on his lips intensified.