Given To Alpha Tristan

CHAPTER TWO

THALIA’S POV

I was walking through the corridor, leading to the ceremony hall. Luna was behind me, shoving me forward whenever she thought I was walking too slowly.

"Move! Don't make it seem to anybody like you're being forced to do this; we are at the door, behave yourself," Luna Marcella said, shoving me forward one more time.

From where I stood in front of the door, I closed my eyes in tension when I heard voices from within the ceremony ground.

The ceremony ground was a peaceful and beautiful clearing within our pack were mates are officially joined. It was an open space and the moonlight flooded the space since there was no roof.

Just as I was about to push the giant doors of the ceremony ground open, she held my arm and withheld it.

“Wait!” she said as we stood there in front of the closed door. I was so confused, I didn't know if I should be crying or screaming for being thrust into a marriage with a devil like Alpha Tristan.

“Thalia, ever since your stupid parents dumped you and we took you in, you’ve been totally useless until today. Now, at least, giving you out in marriage to Alpha Tristan is going to make us filthy rich, and beyond..."

"We are going to get an extension of our territory. It was never a waste that we picked you up from the gutter,” she said, and her words were dripping with mockery as she glanced towards me with a sly smile.

Hearing her say such things about my parents really hurt. I didn’t know them, but anytime I heard someone speaking ill of them, it made me sad, knowing that maybe they didn’t abandon me but lost me or died, although I was told they couldn't bend to pack laws and went rogue, that was one of the reasons Alpha Rafael hated me so much.

“Don't feel bad, Thalia; don’t listen to her,” Nova growled angrily in my head.

“Maybe it is true, Nova,” I whispered underneath my breath to Nova, who became sad and at the same time really angry on my behalf.

Lyra was beside her mother laughing about all of this. She enjoyed the pain I was going through.

Suddenly, my thoughts got interrupted the moment the doors to the grand ceremony hall flung open, revealing no one else but Alpha Rafael, the cruel and fiercest alpha I have ever seen, the alpha of my pack.

“Get over here; let’s get this over and done with. I can’t wait to get my money,” he said through his clenched teeth, grabbing at my arm roughly to the point I could feel his fingers were going to leave a mark.

“She is just shy,” Alpha Rafael said casually to members of the other pack who were staring at us and wondered why I was struggling to pull my hand from his earlier.

I was struggling despite his attempt to force me to behave the way he wanted. And then I just stopped struggling when my eyes caught the towering young man at the altar. Oh my God, I saw him, I saw Alpha Tristan for the very first time, the monster everyone talked about.

I couldn’t get my eyes off him, I couldn’t breathe the moment my eyes hit his features. He was really tall, his suit fitting tightly to his sculptured physique, which was accentuated by his thick biceps and broadened chest. With a perfect jaw line and a pair of significant cheekbones, he was just the perfect man to steal my gaze.

I had expected to see an actual monster, not a man this perfect and well... hot.

I quickly shook my head as I drew near to the altar, as if I was trying to wake up from a dream.

Alpha Raphael handed me to him just when we were near the altar.

As he grabbed my hand, I could feel like my entire body was trembling, not because I was afraid but because a man that gorgeous was standing right next to me under the moonlight, walking me down the aisle. Impossible...

For a moment, it was as though it was just me and him standing on the ceremony ground. I couldn’t bring myself to realize that other people were there as all my senses were fixed on him.

“Be patient, Thalia, he is going to be your mate soon,” Nova admonished in my head, noticing that I was completely lost to the sight of my mate-to-be.

“I just... I never thought he'd be this...” I said to Nova in my head.

I got distracted by the voice of the priest as he commenced with the rituals.

“Ladies and gentlemen, today is indeed a special day amongst us, as a member of the pack will be going off to be bonded to another. It is indeed a thing of joy and an emotional moment, as we let a member go,” the elder said, and I swallowed.

In reality, none of them wanted me there, not even the elder who was in charge of joining me with my mate.

I realized he was only making it sound like I was worth something in front of our visitors who were from my mate’s pack. I quietly rolled my eyes at the fake speech he was giving as though they cherished me.

He continued...

“It is an honor to be here this day to unite and bless these children before us, who seek to be united by the goddess as mates!” Elder Gilbert said, showing enthusiasm.

“The time is not our friend, and we cannot afford to delay this union any further, so I shall now proceed,” Elder Gilbert said, and my brows met in confusion when he grabbed a dagger.

"Give me your hand, Thalia," he instructed, taking my hand and running the blade through the edge of my palm. I winced when my palm started bleeding.

“Do you, Thalia of Wolf Blood Pack, accept to become a member of the White Claw Pack?” Elder Gilbert said.

“Yes, I accept,” I said with a shaky voice as I was becoming really scared with the way Alpha Tristan glared at me quietly.

Elder Gilbert then moved forward to stand before Alpha Tristan, his hands were trembling as he tried to ask Alpha Tristan to bring forth his palm also. I believed that he was afraid of communicating with a murderer like him, talk more of cutting his palm.

Suddenly, as if wanting to save Elder Gilbert the embarasment, Alpha Tristan picked up the blade that just slipped out of Elder Gilbert's trembling hands.

Alpha Tristan quietly cut himself and handed the blade back to Elder Gilbert. I was so shocked because he didn't even flinch or wince in pain. He seemed so cold, as though he was also incapable of feeling pain.

“Do you, Alpha Tristan Ulric, accept Thalia, as your mate and the new member of the White Claw Pack?” the elder said with a trembling voice, and I gulped.

This was it, it sounded like a dream, but it was real. Only two words were left and he was going to take me to his pack... The murderer was going to take me.

“I do,” Alpha Tristan said.

Elder Gilbert then placed my palm over his, making sure the points which were bleeding merged.

Suddenly, I felt a vibrations around my hand up until it reached my feet, and when it stopped, I gasped.

“It is done!” The elder said, and just before he could say another word, Alpha Tristan turned to me.

He threw one fierce glance at me and said these words...

“I’ll be waiting in the car; don’t keep me waiting, Dalia,” he said with a rough tone as if he was going to devour me, and I gulped, watching him storm away from the altar.

He didn't even know my name was Thalia, causing me to be more shocked.

Everyone was shocked because he didn’t even wait for the elder to officially conclude the ceremony, but no one could say a word.

They all knew who he was, he was Alpha Tristan Ulric.