An Alpha's Choice

Chapter 3: Mate

-Kaytlyn-

I had just left the convenience store when I felt I was being watched. I looked over my shoulder to see a dark figure behind me. He was wearing a black hoodie and had covered his face with the hood. Great, I thought, there was a reason why females didn’t walk home alone at night … but I had no one else to protect me but me. I reached inside my leather jacket and got ahold of the small knife I always carried with me. It wasn’t longer than four and a half inches, seven with the shaft, but it was good enough to do some damage. I picked up the pace only to see two more shadows appear further ahead. I quickly turned a corner but, as stupid as I was, I did not see that I had walked directly into an alley and it quickly came to an end. A big red brick wall blocked me from going further and the three shadows started to appear. I could hear one of them laughing a little while a thick rotten smell moved towards me. Of course, rogues. The human city didn’t really belong to any alpha, but usually rogues liked to stay far away. They liked being able to do as they pleased and not have to face any consequences. Lone wolves, on the other hand, you saw a lot of them in the cities. They felt safer and more protected in the concrete forest.

“Let us just get this over with,” I growled.

I wasn’t really a fighter. I always chose peace, but when you owned a bar where a lot of shady people liked to come, you learned a thing or two about kicking some a** when it came down to it. Though it was clear I was outnumbered and most likely wouldn’t walk out of here as the winner, I refused to not make it hard for them to win. I didn’t back down. I showed my teeth … or more like fangs in this situation. I could see the males were shocked I didn’t cower down or begged them to leave me alone, but they didn’t give up that easily either. Quickly, one advanced and I cut him in a quick motion. He hissed and moved away, as the other friend came towards me. I cut the air, as he saw it coming, before he made a move again. I was pressed up against the wall before I headbutted him. He groaned, moving back with a bleeding nose. The third one. The one who had followed me to begin with growled deeply as he showed his long fangs too. He moved towards me. I sliced the knife through the air and was able to cut one of his hands, before he got ahold of my wrist and forced the knife out of my hand. It made a cling sound as it hit the ground, then he pressed me up against the wall again, his rotten rogue smell suffocating me and his disgusting body too close. I thrashed and was able to kick his shin, but he didn’t let go, he just groaned loudly and growled at me warningly, but if he hoped for someone submissive, he had chased the wrong female. I was able to move my leg between us then and kneed him good and hard right to his weak spot. It was like the life left his eyes and he quickly mumbled to the others:

“Get her.”

The one with the bleeding arm advanced so I punched him in the face, hearing a loud crunching sound coming from my hand. There was a reason why only males punched males. I waved my hand in the air, as I tried to get the pain to go away, but there was no time. My punch had barely done anything but irritate the male, and with a flat hand he slapped me good and hard. My head whipped to the side, just as the one with the bleeding nose got ahold of my arms. This time I leaned my body back so I could move my legs in between us and pushed him away with all my force. I was able to send him a few steps back, but then the one who had hit me took over and pressed me so hard up against the wall, I couldn’t move. I thrashed and screamed this time:

“Let me the f*ck go!”

The male only laughed in my face, and I felt his disgusting breath on my skin, but before he got a chance to do … exactly what I knew he wanted to do, the alley was lit up with blue and red lights. The three males turned around to see the human cops using their flashlights to see down the alley, and they didn’t look happy at all with what they saw.

“You there!” a male human yelled.

While these rogues could easily rip the humans in half, there was an unspoken rule: humans could not know we existed. It was as simple as that. That lower specie liked all that fantasy and sci-fi sh*t, but more importantly, they loved science and we would be picked apart so they could learn every little bit about our anatomy. No thank you. The three males did not want to risk anything and killing two cops was not a good idea, so instead they backed away from me and ran towards the two cops, who they quickly avoided with their quick speed and agility. The police looked confused, as the three males went in three different directions. The humans had to split up and quickly went their separate ways, forgetting all about me, which suited me fine. There was no way I was being brought to a human police station to make a statement … Oh yes office three rogues. Big. With fangs. Most likely, going to rape me, but don’t worry, I am bada** female so I will be fine. Can I go now?

Yeah, that was not happening. I picked up the little knife and started to walk out of the alley. I looked to both sides, making sure the coast was clear and then I walked away quickly, even if the ground beneath me moved like waves. F*ck I was dizzy, and I was really far away from my bar. I found a small bench near a park and sat down grabbing my head only to notice the pain and then something warm and sticky on my lips. My tongue darted out a little, and I tasted the metallic taste of my own blood. Just great. I wondered how bad my injuries were, even though I barely felt the pain, the adrenalin still running through me. I knew I had to get out of here, but I most likely had a concussion, and I didn’t want to risk passing out on the way home, but where else could I go …

It was a bad idea that popped into my head. A very bad one, but the truth was it was the closest thing. My parents’ house wasn’t that far from here. Only ten minutes on foot. Sh*t how I wished I had not agreed to go to my friend’s poker game, then I would never have found myself in this part of town. I had only stopped to buy a pack of cigarettes because she had asked me to. I felt around in my jacket. At least they were still there. I sighed and lifted myself and then I started to walk towards the house.

It was harder than I thought it would be. It was literally like I was trying to walk on water and what I thought would only take ten minutes took about twenty, before the big shiny house finally appeared. A good thing my parents hadn’t changed the code for the gate and still hid an extra key under a stupid little statue of a horse near the entrance, but I didn’t use the front door. No, I didn’t want to risk being caught here. Things had been made really clear last time I was in this house. I was not welcome and would never be again. So, instead, I walked inside from the back door and quickly poked my head inside. It was dark in this part of the mansion, but it suited me fine. It was best I wasn’t seen. I walked up the stairs and then came to another door. I poked my head outside again, seeing the coast was clear. I just had to make it to my room. I closed the door quietly and started to walk towards the stairs, but as I got closer, I looked one more time behind me, making sure I wasn’t seen, but as I did, I didn’t see the big male appearing in front of me and we walked directly into each other.

We landed on the floor together. Me on top of him. The male’s phone went a little trip over the floor before being stopped by a wall nearby. I shook my head, feeling shaken from almost being thrown to the floor, but as I slowly came back to myself, I looked into the most blue eyes I had ever seen, and it was like the world disappeared around us.

Mate!

“Ooh, f*ck …”

-Chris-

Nothing shocked me. Not anymore. Not with the father I had and not with the life I had lived. I had experienced enough sh*t to expect anything, whether it was crazy and insane kinks or if it was someone trying to assassinate the king in strange ways. It didn’t shock me, but this female … She shocked me. Her green eyes staring down at me. So beautiful and her full and curvy body on top of me had me responding in a second, while her sweet rosy scent intoxicated me. It was even mixed with a slight scent of booze and smoke, and it, for some reason, just made her even sexier to me.

Mate!

Oh, hell yes, she was. How could she not be? She was a mouthwatering sight with silver-dyed hair, the sharp eyeliner, sweet pink lips and a body to die for. Her breasts looked close to popping out from the tight top, as her arms pressed together around them while she tried to hold herself up and her strong and thick thighs clung tightly around my waist. Sh*t, she was small. I could easily lift her off me, but she fit so perfectly on top. I even felt my hips move slightly just imagining her in a bed on top of me and naked. F*ck, I was ready to explore that thought just here in the hallway.

“Ooh, f*ck,” she said as she lifted herself higher.

I smiled and followed her up, lifting myself up on my elbows, as I stared at the sweet pink mouth, but then I noticed the small cut in it. What on earth? I felt an anger I had never felt before running through me at the sight. Had someone hurt her? Had someone hurt my female?

“What has-“

But I barely got to say anything before she placed her hand over my mouth and shushed me.

“I’m not here,” she whispered.

I looked at her confused, as I felt her warm hand over my mouth. I felt compelled to lick it just to see her reaction and get a chance to taste her, but instead I just studied her, as her eyes scanned the hallway and she listened for sounds. A necklace dangled from her neck right in front of my eyes. It had a green stone in it … Holy f*ck! I looked at her again, finally seeing it. The similarities not only to the older female and male that were waiting for me to return and sit with their youngest daughter, but I saw her in the portrait. Yes, it was her. There was no doubt about it, but then why was I told she was dead? The family’s strange behavior as I brought her up finally made sense. Seemed like this family had some skeletons hidden here, and I had just uncovered one.

“You didn’t see me. You hear me?” she asked with a warning in her tone.

Oh, she was a bossy one, wasn’t she? Why did I like that so much? I was always the one in control, strapping people down and doing with them as I pleased, but an image of her having me tied down to the bed, as she did to me as she pleased, had my c*ck straining painfully against the zipper in my pants. Sh*t, ten seconds with this female and I was enchanted. I was like a little lost puppy finding a master … or mistress.

She slowly moved her hand, thinking I would not say anything, and as I stayed frozen and quiet, she seemed to relax a little.

“Good boy,” she said, clapping me on my chest a few times.

What the f*ck did she just call me? Okay, that awoke the f*cking alpha in me, and as she tried to get up, I wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close. She gasped, before she placed her hands on my shoulders, trying to push herself free.

“I don’t think you understand who you are talking to, little mate,” I said in a dark tone, before licking over the soft skin on her neck.

I felt her shiver in my arms, and her scent turning even sweeter.

“An a**hole that was not taught to not touch a lady without her permission,” she sneered.

It had me laughing. Oh, she liked to talk back, didn’t she? I was certain we could put her mouth to better use, like around my c*ck. F*cking hell, I could already see those sweet pink lips spread around the shaft, as her green eyes looked up at me so sweetly. It almost had me coming in my pants.

“Is that how you speak to your alpha?” I growled with a smile on my lips.

“Hah! You aren’t my alpha, and I don’t know what makes you think I’ll ever want you as my alpha,” she said.

Mhmm, this female had claws and teeth. I liked it. Correction. I f*cking loved it. It would be a fight getting her to submit and it would be a fight I would love. She would bite and scratch before I could have her on her knees as I f*cked her from behind, but let us not fool ourselves. We all knew the females ran the show. I would never touch her if she told me she didn’t want me to. I wouldn’t do anything she didn’t want me to, but even now, while she told me to f*ck off, her hands were grabbing tightly onto my jacket. She wasn’t pushing me away anymore but wanted me closer. I wasn’t sure if she even noticed it. She still had a slight spicy smell mixed with her sweet scent. She was annoyed.

“Who the f*ck are you even?” she growled, pulling back.

“Does it matter?” I asked. “I know who you are, Kaytlyn.”

She looked at me confused, but I just gave her a smug smile. She rolled her eyes, clearly not liking this little game.

“And you are supposed to be dead,” I said.

“Sorry to disappoint,” she said and crossed her arms.

She was not sorry at all. She even seemed amused that I was pointing it out.

“No, you’re not,” I said.

She shrugged arrogantly.

“So? What are you going to do about it, whoever you are?"

She should not have asked me that. That was a very stupid mistake when you were dealing with an alpha who was in a desperate need to mate with his little mate, and whose a** was pressed to his c*ck.

“How about getting you out of those tight jeans of yours and f*ck you good and hard on the floor, so your family can hear your screams as you come and know you aren’t so dead?”