Violet POV
I stifled a gasp.
The Alpha of the White Fur pack was my mate? Goddess. He was the most cruel Alpha in all of America. No. No. No. No.
He was staring at me intensely, his hands clenched into tight fists, every muscle in his body strained with tension.
“Take her to the dungeons.” He sneered.
“No,” I protested in the hope that he would acknowledge me as his mate and help me out of my misery, but the way he was looking at me, it explained everything. He hated me and would reject me.
He walked towards me with disgust. Leaning down, he wrapped his long fingers around my neck tightly almost to the point of pain and growled “You will come with me to the White Fur pack.”
Even through all the pain, my head became dizzy when I picked up his scent of mist and pine. I trembled as delightful shivers ran down my body upon his touch, which felt more like a caress over every sensitive part of me. I coughed, surprised by the power of his touch. It was as if the chill in my bones would return if he removed his hand.
“Take her now. Lock her up and call me when she is ready.” He looked at me with a wicked smile. Shoving me, he rose to his feet and after giving me one last look of disdain, he walked away, leaving me in a puddle of mess.
The warriors picked me up. I got up with a limp, my thigh covered in blood from Sade’s bite. They covered me with a rag and dragged me to the dungeons of the White Fur pack where I was shoved inside a dark prison. The man who brought me here scoffed, “I am Jackson. You should be thankful that our Alpha didn’t order us to eliminate you instantly. I don’t know his plans, but I don’t like them.”
As soon as he left, I curled my arms around my knees and placed my head in between them, exhausted mentally and physically. Because of a lot of blood loss, I gave in to the inky darkness that slowly surrounded me and I fell on the cold ground with a thud.
Hours later, the scent of pine and mist enveloped me, forcing me to flutter open my eyes, but I was too weak and I clutched onto a hard and warm body and went back to the comfort of my darkness. When I woke up again, a fever swept over me and I wanted to call my father for help, but my lips felt sealed together. I focused on my mouth, willing it to open, because then I would be able to ask for water. A warm body pressed against me and my heart sped up, breathing deeply. It smelled wonderful, lush and decadent. It forced me up, but I thrashed against it wanting nothing more than to go back to my darkness.
“Stop fighting me!” he ordered, and I felt like I had to obey his command. My jaws were opened forcibly and something poured inside my mouth. It was warm and tasted like metal and honey. Like elixir. I moaned and sighed at the feel of the warm liquid down my throat and slept again.
It was still dark when I got up next. My body felt like it had never ever borne torture. I wriggled my toes, lifted my palm and turned my neck to the left and then to the right. I stilled as my gaze locked with the arctic green eyes of my tormentor. My mate. He was lying right next to me, playing with my hair, watching it slip through his fingers. I gasped at his silhouette against the silvery moon that threw its cool rays through the curtain of the window. My heart fluttered like a trapped dove in my ribcage and my lips parted.
“What’s your name?” he asked, his voice a deep rumble.
“Violet Clark,” I replied, struggling to lift myself up.
He pinned me down. “I am Dane Llyod, Alpha of the White Fur pack. And don’t get up.”
Dane was leaning so close to me that our breaths mingled. He smirked when I found myself leaning in his touch.
“You were unconscious for two days,” he said, staring in my eyes. “How are you feeling now?”
Gods above! Two days? “Better…” I bit my lip.
“This is my cabin,” he said. “And from today onwards, you will stay here.”
I nodded obediently with a smile as a smirk formed on his face.
“What were you doing with the rogues?” he asked me in a harsh tone.
I tensed and got up. “I was with my rogue father and stepmother, who decided to ditch me,” I fed him the truth after debating what I should say and looked away. I was sure that he would reject me after learning this.
“So you don’t have anywhere to go,” he remarked.
“No,” I said in a breathy voice. My wolf was jumping inside. She was happy that we will stay with our mate now.
He got up, walked behind me and made me turn my face. My cheeks heated under his scorching gaze, burning with desire.He leaned over and kissed me in a rough, hot and urgent way. Sort of claiming. When he pulled away, he said, “I want to know you, mate. In every possible way.” His lusty words found their way to my belly and I burned hotter at the thought of him claiming me. Intoxicated by his scent, starved of love all my life, I wanted to flow in this beautiful feeling.
Instinctively, my hands roamed up his chest, brushing over his broad shoulders and his corded neck. My hands twined around his neck. I pushed myself against his body and my lips against his. Our mouths meshed. He forced mine open to explore me with his velvety tongue. Our breaths mingled and our hands couldn’t get enough of each other. Desperate for more, I clutched his silky soft hair.
“Can I have you?” he said, his voice demanding, his Alpha aura licking my skin in complete submission.
“Yes.” I wanted to submit to him.
In the next moment, he crashed his lips on mine, his hands trapping my head from behind as if I was his most prized possession. Dane’s mist and pine scent was like a drug to me. A potion that went straight to my head but gripped my heart. Before I knew it, Dane was above me, staring down at me with his intense green eyes that turned golden. He dragged my dress up, his claw grazing my skin. I shivered in anticipation as something coiled tightly in my belly.
For the first time, I felt tiny because of the sheer size of the wolf above me. He had muscles packed over muscles. He straddled me and removed his shirt. I gasped. He had a beautiful body. And then we lost control of ourselves and our sense of time.
Violet POV That night Dane didn’t leave me even for a minute. He was relentless, and I wanted to give him all I had. And all I had was me, my virginity. I came with no status, no money or family. My only family abandoned me to be killed after injuring me. It was Moon Goddess who had bestowed this opportunity on me and I wouldn’t dare to lose it. By morning, I was thoroughly exhausted. I snuggled into his chest and went off to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, he wasn’t there. But every part of my body was singing. I stretched my limbs, feeling great for the first time in my life. I think I was the luckiest she-wolf born. My wolf, Opal, was cartwheeling inside. ‘I am so happy, Violet,’ she said. ‘Our mate loves us, but where is he?’ I giggled as I walked to the bathroom. ‘He must have gone to the pack, Opal,’ I informed her, as if she should have known it already. ‘After all, he is the pack’s Alpha. He must have gone for his Alpha duties.’ ‘Yes!’ Opal pricked her ears up and
Violet POV Dane got up and walked to the bar to pour wine for himself. “Please don’t make it difficult for me, Violet. You will stay here in this lodge and you are going to get every benefit. I will surround you with every luxury.” “What if I refuse?” “Why would you?” he growled. “If I remember, you were a rogue who had no family. I have rescued you and will provide you with everything you lacked in all your otherwise shabby life. Besides, it is common amongst Alphas to have more than one woman beside their Luna,” he shrugged. That was a bolt to my self-respect. My mate will be fucking another woman, have her children while I will watch them? Something inside me snapped. He made me feel… used. All at once, a shrill voice boomed. “Dane!” Dane snapped his head. “Shit! Mother is here! How did she know of this place?” He strode out, ordering me, “Stay here!” “Where is she?” his mother shouted at him. “Stop it, mother!” Dane growled. “Reject her!” she growled. “Now!” I came out
Violet POV Next morning, the bed was empty and cold when I woke up. No doubt Dane had gone to be with Emily. The thought left me wounded and depressed. A heavy weight rested on my shoulders that he would never accept me fully. I saw a little note on the bedside table. It was from Dane and read: “I will be back by night. Eat food. Don’t think of leaving. — Dane.” I dragged myself out of the bed and went to the bathroom. When I looked in the mirror, it reflected back a very despondent girl. My eyes were puffy with crying and my lips were swollen. There were strains of tears on my face. Everything hurt, but my heart hurt the most. The whole day went like a whirlwind as I charted my escape. I had lost my appetite, but I still ate. I found a satchel in the lodge and started stashing important things in it like a pair of clothes, food and a torch. I was going to escape during the night. Dane had sent more warriors to guard the lodge as a warning that I could never run away from hi
Dane’s POV For the whole day, they bogged me down with meetings. I wanted to go back to Violet as soon as possible but my Beta Jackson came up with a relentless schedule of meetings. I remembered that after drinking my blood, Violet recovered pretty fast. An Alpha’s blood was like an elixir to his mate. All her curves filled in the right places. The black and blue marks faded and her skin glowed. I gritted my teeth, recalling that mother had done something too nasty yesterday. She had announced my engagement to the pack without consulting me. She had invited all the guests. I wanted to wriggle out of it by calling it off, but when Alphas from other packs started pouring in, it was impossible. Emily was extremely happy. She had called many of her human friends from the fashion world. She also invited the paparazzi which I hated. I had a long fight with my mother and she ended up crying, so I agreed to the ceremony. Even though I wanted this to be a simple affair, my mother and
Dane POVShe was sitting right in front of me. It had been five years since I had been finding her. I had spent thousands of dollars on spies and private agencies, but no one could trace her. She haunted my dreams every night.It was me who had rejected the mating bond between us, ever since my heart felt like a shrapnel in my chest because it knew what it wanted. And it wanted its mate. My wolf wanted his mate. I realized that I couldn’t stay without her, but it was too late by then. Regret swamped me all these years.And here she was — looking beautiful as sin. Gorgeous as sunshine. She had dyed her sandy brown hair to blond that cascaded till her shoulders. But why were they appearing like they were natural? She had no makeup except pink gloss on her lips and white kohl in her eyes.I couldn’t help notice that her hips and breasts had swelled even more. She was a thin girl and now she exuded womanly grace. Suddenly, every feeling that I had fought to keep inside surged like a tsuna
Violet POV I had never been this flustered and frightened in the last five years, ever since I escaped the White Fur pack’s Alpha. Seeing Dane brought back every memory that haunted me over the years. His sharp green eyes, his midnight blue hair… His had tousled hair and bags beneath his eyes, but that didn’t do a thing to minimize his Alpha aura. Even now, he looked like a God, commanding and sucking up all the air of the room, his tall and muscular presence looming over everyone else. His rejection twisted like a dagger deep inside my soul at that time. Even now, it carried the same acrid feeling, though I had come so far ahead in my life. Dangerous attraction and bitterness warred inside me. I hate to admit that seeing Emily with him brought forth hot and ugly, rage-filled jealousy that I struggled to suppress. But that was least of all the problems. My two major problems were: First, my wolf that had slept inside me for so many years inside me and who I was sure would never w
Violet POVJayden got up. “I am not taking a ‘no’ for an answer. If you don’t want the new assignment, you are coming on a date with me.”What kind of deal was that and how did it solve my problem? But I knew Jayden. He would surely force me to go to Emily if I didn’t agree. I took a ragged breath and nodded reluctantly. “Okay, but you shouldn’t put your hopes high. I don’t want any man…”“Finally!” He grinned, his blue eyes beaming with a twinkle. “I will book us a reservation at the Ginger Hotel’s rooftop and will pick you up at 8PM sharp.”I sighed, nodding at him. Jayden got up with that hopeful look and exited my room while I plunged into a bit of researching about Emily so that I could feed Martha, reasons not to take her. An hour later, I had enough material about Emily, but everything was good. I wanted one bad news desperately. It was as if those around carefully crafted her career. She was truly a successful model. So why was she changing her modeling agency? At the same tim
Violet POV I clenched her teeth to stop them from chattering and focused on Jayden, even though Dane’s presence in the room sucked all the air out of me. I think the goddess allocated the entire shitty luck quota of my entire life today. “Is anything the matter?” Jayden asked when me. Surely, I was looking lost. “Nothing,” I smiled, unable to stop the blush on my cheeks. I could feel Dane’s heated gaze on me, but I kept my eyes on Jayden. Jayden smiled back. “Thank you for coming for a date with me,” he said, taking the napkin and spreading it on his lap. “I wonder what it would be to have you by my side forever.” I picked up the glass of water and sipped it to wet my dry throat. “I wouldn’t keep my hopes high,” I explained to him for the hundredth time. “Please don’t push me away, Violet. Give us a chance.” I shook my head. “You are a good catch, Jayden, but—” “Violet,” he said, placing his hand over mine. “Don’t reject me. You are a beautiful woman who is very talented and an