CHAPTER 4
Lyell's Point Of View
Alexa.
There's no way I wouldn't recognize those big, round, almost innocent beautiful eyes. They were the first things I noticed back then, and they are the very things captivating me now.
She opened her mouth to talk but I covered her mouth with my palm. "You don't wanna get caught, do you?" I whispered softly in her ear and I felt her squirm against me. I smirked smugly at how much effect I had on her.
Her big eyes glared at me. I'm sure if I uncovered her mouth, she would curse me out. When I was sure the intruder was gone, I let her mouth go.
"Who are you?" She demanded, her voice laced with anger but her eyes held curiosity and I drank her up. Her expressions, her body language.
Everything.
"Who do you think I am?" I teased, putting my body closer to hers. She shuddered against my body, making tingles shoot up my arm and travel through my body. The mate-bond telling me she was the one.
"I need to go," she tries to push me away but I held her in one place. "And how sure are you that wouldn't get caught?"
She eyed me venomously. "I appreciate your help but I can do this on my own." She said, her voice coming out shaky under her breath.
She feels the pull but she's trying so hard to ignore it.
Dex is panting for us to mark her and I almost growl, demanding him to submit and not scare our mate.
"Says the one who was trembling in fear a few seconds ago," I taunted and she glared at me.
"I will not-"
Faster than she could blink, I held her in my arms and she let out a quiet yelp. I took off at full speed and ran through the garden to the main entrance. I was so fast the guard didn't even notice me pass by him.
I stopped in a forest a few distances away from the palace. I let her down and she rushed to a tree to puke out all the contents of her stomach.
"Are you out of your mind?!" She fired, turning to puke again.
YOU HURT MATE! Dex snapped at me.
She turned to me to say something then she suddenly paused. Her eyes zeroed in on my arm and I looked down at it. I was injured and bleeding. Shit! I quickly covered it with my hand but it was too late.
"You...your blood..it's...it's blue," she stuttered, taking a few steps back.
"Listen to me-"
"You... you're a half-vampire?" She asks, taking more steps backward.
The expression on her face hurt me. She looked disgusted and repulsed by me.
"I can't believe this," she said, laughing hysterically. "My mate is a fucking monster?"
I frowned. "Monster?"
She closed the distance between us and stood on her tippy toes to grab me by my collar. "I don't know what's going on in that little head of yours," she began, staring at me dead in the eyes, "but just know any relationship between us is impossible. I detest the likes of you and I would rather die than be mated to your type."
Every word of hers was laced with hatred and disgust and they pierced my heart like an arrow. The woman glaring at me so disdainfully wasn't the Alexa I knew. She was different.
There was no life in her eyes.
Her innocent eyes were always full of sweetness and adolescent mischief was now devoid of everything but coldness.
"Why is that?"
"Because I hate the likes of you. I don't want anything to do with you nor do I want to be mated to you. In fact, reject me right now."
"No."
Her grip on my collar tightened as her brows knitted in anger. "No?"
"If you want it that badly then reject me if you can."
She can't do that.
She is wolfless.
A wolfless wolf can't reject her mate.
"You can't." I said as a matter of fact.
"Fine." She let me go. "If you don't reject me then I'll just go my own way." She said, turning to leave.
"Where do you think you're going?" I demanded. She paused on her steps and turned to me.
My eyes trailed down her body.
Alexa.
She's grown so much.
I feel stupid remembering how I used to call her scrawny when we were young.
She was in no way scrawny.
She was different. Different in a good way.
Why am I just noticing what she was wearing?
Why was she dressed in this?
"Away from you." She pointed threateningly. "Don't follow me if you don't want to bleed in more severe places."
I sighted a log beside me and I took a seat.
She tilted her head in confusion. "What are you doing?"
"Sitting," I shrugged. "You told me not to follow you."
She eyed me suspiciously before turning and stomping away.
"Alpha, where are you?" Riaz asked through the mind link.
"I'm fine. Everyone return to the pack. I have something to deal with."
"Yes, Alpha."
I laid down, supporting my neck with my arm, and closed my eyes.
My ears perked up when I felt her quick steps in the leaf rustles. I opened my eyes and sat up. She frowned when she saw me.
"Welcome back."
She looked around quizzically. She turned and left in the opposite direction she first took. I waited patiently for her.
"What the hell?" She groaned as she came back to the very spot from where she left.
"You can't leave this forest without me," I told her. "Leave with me."
"No." She deadpanned.
"Why?"
"I would rather die than follow you." She said with finality, folding her arms on her chest.
"I really didn't want to do this," I said under my breath as I approached her. She stepped back fearfully as I got closer, "wh..what are you doing?"
"Hold on tight,"
"What do you-"
I swept her off her feet and threw her over my shoulder.
"You monster, let me down! Let me down, you dirty creature! Let me down!"
"Stop wiggling around or you'll fall."
"Let me down!"
"Scream again and I'll spank you." I threatened and she went quiet immediately.
Good.
Nice and quiet.