Chapter 7
Blaze
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As Zion, my second beta spoke, I was suddenly consumed with the urge to punch him, not because he was lying right now, but because he was actually saying the truth. I had completely forgotten about that clause in my rage fit, and when my eyes settled on Elena once again, anger filled up my chest. I was mad at myself for biting her, because now I cannot reject her despite wanting to.
I hadn’t even been in my right mind when I bit her. That was my beast’s handiwork and irritation coursed through me because my beast didn’t even feel remorseful or apologetic, he was instead smug and pleased about the Facte that I wasn’t gonna be rejecting Elena, our fated mate.
But I won’t be accepting her either.
“But she can reject me, right? I’ll just get her to do it.” I stated after a few minutes. My betas exchanged long glances before they shook their heads.
“Your majesty, the woman has a dormant wolf- basically, she’s wolfless. A wolfless person cannot reject their mate, they don’t have that power.” They explained and I let out a ragged sigh as I dragged a hand over my face, feeling extremely irritated at this entire situation
Never in my wildest dream could I have guessed that my fated mate was the same bride I was supposed to wed, but had refused to. The more I stared at her, the more I got furious because I was suddenly wondering she had conspired with my father. I wouldn’t put it past him. She claimed that it was pure coincidence that we crossed paths tonight but no way in hell am I believing that. My betas knew where I went tonight and I was certain my father did as well. Perhaps he was the one that put her up to this, he probably doused her with one of his numerous potions so I’d start to smell a scent on her. That should explain why I was suddenly taken in by her.
Who knows? She might not even be my fated mate like I had thought. Perhaps it was the effect of the magical scent she wore that made me think so.
My beast growled within me. He wasn’t pleased with my line of thoughts and he insisted that we had genuinely felt a connection to her and that she was indeed our fated mate but ignored my best because I was certain he was only speaking this way because he was horny and had actually desired her. My beast has never desired any woman I managed to lay with before, so it’s logical that he’d choose to ignore the obvious now that he found himself attracted to her.
I mean, he was yet to even show a flicker of disgust over the fact that our supposed fated mate is a shameless and cheating whore.
The amount of things about her on the internet… the amount of alphas who claimed to have slept with her…
As those thoughts flowed through my head, so did disgust follow suit. I can’t believe someone who was mated to someone could be this shameless. And now, the thought of accepting this same person as my own mate is almost laughable. No way in hell would I be doing that. My pack might be in desperate need for a Luna and I might also be in desperate need of finding my fated mate, but I definitely don’t want it like this.
If we’d be able to break the bond that supposedly makes us fated mates, I was certain I’d get another fated
mate out there.
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But, I still don’t 100% believe that she’s my fated mate so I’m going to try to find out if the pull I felt towards her was natural or from the use of magical potions. My father loved to mix with stuff like that, that’s exactly what he fed my mother while she was pregnant with me: a potion which was supposed to make me a god by the time I’d be born, one which he’d be able to control like his little weapon. Unfortunately, I was born cursed instead and I’ve never forgiven my father for that till date.
i let out a long sigh as I began to massage my pounding forehead, then I nodded towards Elena.
I didn’t want her to remain in this palace a moment longer, I wanted her gone right now so I’d completely forget of her existence. But I wasn’t cruel to the point of sending a woman on her own out in the night, so I spoke.
“Give her a room to spend the night in. Come morning, I’d have figured out what to do with her.” I said to my betas who instantly nodded, but when I glanced over at Elena, she had a wary look across her face.
“Do with me?” She whispered, sounding genuinely confused and irritation flared through me when I felt something lurch in my chest at the sight of her eyes. They were so large and pretty, so innocent looking and enchanting. One genuinely won’t be able to believe that someone like this would be able to cheat on her mate and also backstab him.
“Give her a room in a completely different wing from mine, I want her very far away from me.” After instructing my betas one more time, I turned to face her.
“Don’t get the wrong idea or try to sneak into my room tonight. You’ll be caught by my guards and be severely punished.”
“I don’t know why you still believed I had an ulterior motive or why you believe I’m desperate enough to sneak into your room. To be honest, I just wish you’d let me leave. I really don’t want to be here, and I don’t want to be mated to you either…”
A growl left my chest before I could stop it and it vibrated through the air, making Elena’s eyes widened as she trailed off. My beast didn’t like what she wasn’t suddenly saying, and I wasn’t sure i did either— which is stupid, because I still want to reject her.
All my thoughts are starting to get jumbled together in my head and I believe it’s the stress getting to me.
I narrowed my eyes at her and stepped closer to her. She was pressed against a wall so there was nowhere she could run to. For a moment, that intoxicating scent that drove me wild back in the woods, suddenly filled up
my
lungs and I flattened, breathing through clenched teeth before I forced myself to stop breathing in that scent because it might really not be natural. It’s honestly more logical that way because I can barely tolerate most scents, so it’s weird that I don’t just tolerate hers, but also can’t get enough of it.
A glare was on my face when I finally spoke. “Well, unfortunately you can’t leave, you don’t have a choice but to stay here till I say otherwise.”
She blinked up at me, those large eyes doing something weird to my chest again. We weren’t touching, but the gap between us might as well be nonexistent because I could suddenly feel how warm she was through her clothes without touching her. But unfortunately, I’ve touched her once, so I know how her body feels under my touch. Soft, warm and so… sensitive,
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I didn’t like where that thought was going so I quickly shot it down.
“Are we clear?” I questioned, watching as her eyes widened as she swallowed emptily and wet her lips with her tongue, a set of plump lips which looked swollen now that I was staring at it, and I realized that was because of how hard I kissed her back in the woods.
Fucking hell.
“Blaze..,” she began but I clicked my tongue.
“You’re not permitted to use my name anymore, you’ll refer to me as your majesty. And don’t forget to always know your place and remember where you belong once in my presence. You’ll speak after being spoken to. and you’ll watch your mouth at all times. Are we clear?”
She averted those doe eyes and nodded tensely, but I felt weirdly unsatisfied and so I grasped her chin and made her look at me once again.
“When I speak to you, you’re expected to use your words. Are we clear?”
Something flashed through her eyes as she stared up at me. I wasn’t sure if it was fury or defiance, but it was gone before I could identify it.
“Yes, your majesty.” She finally responded and I dropped her chin so fast like I just got scalded, then I turned and walked away from that gathering without turning back.
Once in my room, my restlessness turned into rage at the sight of the flower trail leading from the door to my bed, and a scoff rose in my throat. My father had genuinely believed that I’d return here to bed a bride I didn’t pick myself?
On stepping out the room, I stalked down till I found the guards and I gripped one by the throat.
“Who the fuck let that mess be put in my bedroom? Have I not explicitly warned that my father’s orders aren’t law whenever it involves me?
“We’re sorry, your majesty, one of us was killed when we refused to let them through so we were left with no choice.” The rest of the guards explained after falling to their knees and anger burst through me towards my father.
I really need to have a talk him as fast as possible
I left the guards‘ presence after threatening to have their hides comes morning, but I wasn’t gonna do that. They hadn’t been left with a choice against my father’s ruthless army, so in a way, I understood them. This is something I need to correct from the source of the problem, and that’s what the talk I’d have with him tomorrow would hopefully fix.
Come tomorrow, I was certain I’d have also figured out what to do with Elena as well.
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