Devoured By Flames

Chapter 4~ Flames and more Flames

~Azula~

The room was filled with blindingly red-orange flames, they flickered and soared to life at his command, yet they did not burn her, they couldn’t. “YOU ARE MINE,” he snarled, golden eyes darkening, his wolf was surfacing.

“How! How can I be yours? Mate or not I belong to no man, and that will be the first thing you learn about me,” she snarled in return holding her ground as her stunning blue eyes held his unwaveringly.

“And now I feel as if I have to remind you!” She growled putting her hands on his chest to keep some distance between them.

“Yesterday you spoke of my death so casually, and now you speak as if you have ownership of me! Where is your logic? Because from where I’m standing, I honestly think it’s stuck up your ass!” She snapped as he closed the distance hand slamming against the wall beside her head.

He seemed to be considering something, “fine I’ll have you as a mistress, you will stay by my side as this phony prophecy unravels, I’ll keep you safe and in return, I want you in my bed.”

Did he seriously think he had the grounds to argue this?

“As much as you seem to struggle with this concept, I am your mate and will continue to be so until you or I reject each other” but she didn’t finish as this caused him to growl the fire whipping and twirling about him angrily, the ancient magic he possessed on display.

“I will not reduce myself to such a title,” regardless of the fact she was an omega.

“You will not reject me!” He demanded. Seems they were getting nowhere.

‘I'm sorry Seraphina,’ Azula whispered to her wolf, who only whimpered knowing what she was about to do. It was for the best, it’s not like she wanted to give up on her mate, the opposite really but this complicated everything. she had been born and raised to complete this prophecy to stop people from needlessly dying, to help dethrone a corrupt leader that has yet to rise but would probably do so soon.

“I will do as I please,” she scolded twisting under his arm to escape his grasp, his flames had died down a bit though they still covered him. He tried to take a step forward as she raised her hand blue flames erupted to cover her as well.

Her gaze never left him “plus” she stated in a soft voice with a gentle tilt of her head “didn’t you know, blue flames burn hotter than red” blue flames sprang forth consuming his own forcing him backward, her blue eyes nearly gave the appearance to be glowing as the flames enhanced their beauty.

“I Azula Southcrest, Omega of the Blue moon pack, reject you, Alpha Vulcan Bates of the Blood moon pack as my mate.” Though as soon as the words left her mouth her flames vanished as did his, she bent over clutching her chest in pain as her vision danced.

Even if she had been the one to reject him, she knew they would both have to suffer through this. His pained voice was the last thing she heard “I reject your rejection.” The pain was finally enough to cause her to faint, though unaware of the arms that managed to catch her before she had slammed against the ground.

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Azula began to stir several hours later, the steady motion immediately letting her know she was in a car. Trying to sit up but hands were gently placed on her shoulder to her keep her down. “Don’t try to sit up Little Flame” the sparks erupted across her skin as she twisted to catch his gaze.

“I didn’t get to say goodbye,” she groaned softly truly upset over that fact, watching as Vulcan pinched the bridge of his nose.

“I’m quite aware of that fact since I’ve been the one stuck carrying you around since you fainted.” He growled.

“I didn’t ask you to carry me” she deadpanned.

“And I didn’t ask you to faint” he deadpanned in return.

She hesitated before finally asking “what was even the reason you came into my room this morning?” He never got to his actual reason before arguing had broken out.

“To let you know you did not need to take any belongings or clothes with you, I fully expected you to come back and visit your family, so I had arranged for your things to remain there so when you visited you had them” he began to explain.

“Your mother gave me the correct sizes and I sent out my sister to retrieve you some clothes and other things.” She didn’t know how to react to this, many different thoughts ran through her mind. One was that he knew her sizes now which caused a soft blush to appear over her cheeks. The second was it seemed thoughtful compared to the man she met last night. He still had terrible mood swings though.

“He cares,” Seraphina said softly,

“He is struggling to come to grips with whatever is going through his head, but it’s obvious I’m some way he truly does care Azula,” but that didn’t change anything or who they were or what they were supposed to do and accomplish and … Why did she have to find her mate now?

Her chin was gripped dragging her out of her thoughts as he looked down upon her, “you will not reject me again, I will always reject your rejection” he finally spoke bringing up what had happened despite having wanted to avoid it. “Don’t do it again or I swear I’ll lock you in a tower.” He growled possessively.

“Like you could keep me there.” She chided.

“Want to test that?” He barked out leaning closer as she blushed turning her head choosing silence.

The car ride continued for another thirty minutes before she was helped to sit up. Honestly grateful because she couldn’t think clearly, not when she was so close to him.

Watching the scenery in silence, glancing at him and the oddly silent driver. She could tell he was mind linking someone her eyes immediately searching their surroundings as she could see the entrance to the pack! Relief washing over her they had made it. So much had already happened … but so much more was to come.