Chapter 9: Alpha Daniel

Allison’s POV

I’m dying.

I’m fucking dying as I pant hard for the last hours, feeling like it’s been two weeks of pure hell as I try to ripe my skin off, feeling like it is burning me, almost making me feel the sizzling of a frying pan in my stomach on a hellfire.

I’m locked in the smaller bedroom that is already trashed by my struggle to get out. I can’t do this anymore. I need…. Something and I will do anything to make the pain stop by now as I tumble down the bed, hitting the wooden floors hard with my shoulder and head; it doesn’t even hurt, not even a little against the pain in my stomach trying to burn me alive.

“Let me out! Please!” my voice is raw, and yes, that’s right, I’m even begging by now, something that I never do, even as an omega. I never beg while getting my ass beaten, but this time it’s different. I’m being boiled!

When nobody answers, even though I know people are outside, I can hear them. I begin to cry. God, I’m so pathetic, sobbing like a child that got a bruise. I’m better than this, harder, tougher…. I cry harder as the wave hits my body hard again, making me beg for mercy!

“Shut the fuck up bitch, or I’m going to have to tell the Alpha that I fucked your brains out! A dark menacing voice barked at my pleading, making me go quiet on the spot, crawling my way back into bed. I will fucking kill him, that arrogant asshole who’s obviously guarding my door.

“Try me, asshole!” I screamed back at the prick that laughed back at me. I knew that he couldn’t even get to me if he wanted, I was locked in, and the only one with the key was the Alpha. I knew that from the force of guards trying to break down the door to get to me. I didn’t know how a simple door to my room was enough to hold them off, but I wasn’t complaining. Some of the females they sent in when the Alpha unlocked the door had told me what was happening, heat.

I had heard of it, of course, but that only happened to marked females making the realization that he had marked me. That fucking cocksucker bastard had marked me when he tried to kill me that night when I said I would run away.

I scoffed now that the pain was subsiding. Finally! It was getting longer between the laps, thank the moon goddess. I hated every part of it, the pain, the madness, and he did this to me. I hated him more than ever now. I had let my guard down and tried to call for him when I was hurting, desperate for someone to help me. Still, when I realized he wasn’t going to show up, I mean, he had marked me. Still, he had another Luna, a chosen one, and I wanted no part of being a side affair to that dick that was supposed to be my mate.

The rattling of keys meant that my captivator was back, and I sat up and stared at the tall man standing in the doorways. He was broad and bulky, like any alpha, his brown hair greyer than I had seen before when we first met. Was he aging faster or something? I studied his face. Yes, he seemed older for some reason. The cunning dark eyes had more lines around them, making him appear older, maybe his true age more than the 40 he looked like before.

He saw me studying him at gave me a quick smirk before stepping completely and closing the door behind him, locking it like I had a chance in hell fighting my way through him.

“Finally came to rape me, alpha.” I didn’t even ask him; it was more of a statement; maybe that was his game, saving me and luring me into trusting him, then snapping and attacking me, just like Daniel had done. I shudder at the thought of my handsome mate. He was gorgeous. Too bad he was the last man on earth I wanted to fuck.

He laughed a light-hearted laugh at my words, but I still saw the blackness in his eyes. The beast inside him was never far away. He was no different than the rest, more animals than men. I should have spat in his face if he didn’t have the gratefulness for saving me from his own men back when he found me.

“You have a nasty pretty mouth Luna, but you seem like wildfire, just like your mate.” His voice went from playful to dangerous seconds after saying that sentence.

I scoffed for the second time in a short time since my last heat. He called me Luna, that dick, right? I wasn’t the Luna, and even if I was, I would never accept it, considering my mate rejected me the way he did.

“I’m not a Luna, just cut the crap, alpha and tell me what the hell you want with me or let me go if you’re not going to kill me.” I crossed my arms over my chest, staring furiously at the old Alpha, looking like he had fun listening to my feeble attempts to let me go.

“it’s not what I want from you, Luna Allison; it’s what I can have from trading you..." He looked so damn smug right now that I wanted to charge off the already trashed bed and punch him in the throat, but he just smirked more at the obvious anger that made him like to play with me even more. I may be just an omega, but when I saw a dangerous man, this older Alpha was a prime example of someone cunning enough to get what he wanted, one way or another.

It was my turn to laugh this time. He seriously thought Daniel was going to what? Pay him because of me? Boy, was he barking at the wrong treat…

“don’t expect him to pay a dime for me, Alpha; if you know my name, then you know that Alpha Daniel doesn’t do sentimental crap like paying for a useless Luna when he already has one!" I smirked at his handsome old face. Damn, alphas always looked like they had the perfect face and body when the rest of us was just plain and simple. Well, at least by werewolves’ standards.

He raised the thick eyebrows, already filled with grey spots crackling at his youthful appearance that was starting to falter. He really did look older for some reason….

“Oh, that’s where you are the wrong, Luna. He has accepted my offer already, not that I believe him; of course, the price for your release was high, too high for me to think that he will willingly give up It for you, mate or not.

He was looking smug now like he had it all figured out. I scoffed against his arrogance. I didn’t believe for a second that my asshole of a mate was even trying to rescue me, he had what he wanted, a strong, beautiful Luna, and I was just a loose end, something to get rid of.

“You know that if he comes here, he will slaughter everyone,” I said, aware of Daniel's rage, his beast that had almost killed me, his own mate, what little hope that the south had of mercy if he invaded, would be nonexistence to that brutal jackass.

I smiled back at him like I was going to enjoy seeing them all die, but in my heart, I was sad. I didn’t want a war, especially not over me!

Daniel needed control, and he was never going to get it with that slut he was marking, don’t ask me how I knew it. I just did.

“For an Omega, you sure know a lot about the Alpha…. the older Alpha, who hadn’t even had the courtesy of sharing his name with me, had gotten a more curious look like he was still trying to figure out my endgame like an even had one, all I wanted was to survive and get away from this study mate of mine.

“See this?” I turned my neck, fully aware that he had seen the long gash on the side of my neck already, and smiled more when his eyes stared at it from my words.

“This is what he did to me, his own mate, his Luna. He almost killed me, Alpha, don’t expect mercy from him because he has none. I said it sadder than I had tried to let on, I wanted to be cold, but my emotions seemed to sipe out at any chance they could, fuck.

The older Alpha just observed me; if he had any pity or understanding for what I was telling him, it didn’t show in the hard lines of his aging face.

Suddenly he does the last thing I imagine him to do, his laughing, I mean a full-blown hard laugh in your face, making my blood boil before I even realize it.

“You sure did pass that test, didn’t you, Luna…” his dark eyes squinting at me, bastard. He was making fun of me. I hated Alphas, cold-hearted beasts, all of them! I sneer back at his sentence. What does he want from me if he already made the damn trade? I didn’t need him, or anyone else for that matter. I was a survivor long before I met Daniel or the southern ride alpha.

“Fuck you,” I said it cold back at him when a small smirk rested on the corners of his lips, eyes pitch-black with a glint of promise that he could kill me easily if I didn’t show him more respect.

“Keep it up, Luna, and maybe I will….” The threat was loud and clear. He was resting me, the heat, and all he had to do was give in to the natural instinct of the beast. I gulped at the thought of a man trying to touch me. I would kill them.

“You know he would kill you and everyone else you love,” I said confidently, still backed up in the corner of the room where I had retreated. I didn’t know Daniel that much. Still, I had heard the rumors about him and felt his wrath. His beast was unforgiving and unsatiable.

“Brave words for a girl in heat. You know that if I even touched you right now, you would succumb to me, beg me to fuck you.” He was leaning against the wall, almost tempted to do what he was talking about, as I shied away with my eyes, knowing he was probably not lying, but I didn’t want that. I wanted my freedom and my…mate… I gritted my teeth before my weakness, stupid heat making me long for him. I didn’t want him that asshole, not really.

He didn’t say anything more to me when I didn’t answer, and I slid down when the door was shut tight again, and I heard the lock turning.

What the hell was that? I didn’t understand why the Alpha was even talking to me? He had already struck a deal with Daniel, and I knew nothing, and I mean nothing crucial, making it even worth his time here. I didn’t seem to care about myself, not when he found me or now, so what was going on?

Maybe he just liked toying with me, like all the other assholes did: Alpha, beta, gamma, delta. I hated all of them, making my life miserable since birth. I finally stood up from the floor and walked slowly to the small window; it was too small to escape from, making this a perfect place to keep prisoners that were too important to keep in the dungeons, like myself. How the hell had that happened.

It was almost autumn by now, and honestly, I missed the gardens down by the omega quarters; at least I didn’t have to put up with being kidnapped and traded like a sack of potatoes to my mate, that obviously wanted me as a side chick and nothing more.

I didn’t know how long I had been staring at the scenery.

Suddenly, a familiar voice of my stupid mate was in my head, and I muttered under my breath as I answered his question, am I okay? I scoffed. Was I okay? No. Not by far.

“What the hell do you want from me, Alpha?” I said his title scornfully, making the heat in my chest burst, knowing that it was his anger and not mine. He was close, and I couldn’t feel his emotions otherwise.

“Is that how you reply to your alpha, your mate?” a stern voice was not happy; it was loud and clear that he demanded respect, from me, from everyone; well, I wasn’t in the giving mood today, too bad for him.

“You are not my Alpha or my mate. Didn’t you get the memo? I’m a rogue, and my mate rejected me right after he told me he loved me.” The bitterness in my voice was hard not to miss. I hated him for what he had done and hated that more than every goddamn beating I had taken growing up.

He replied, his voice a bit softer this time but not enough to make him seem like he was going all mushy on me as I crossed my arms under my chest and sat down on the broken bed, pouting at the scratted wall in front of me.

“Allie, baby, this is not the time or the place for this discussion. I need you to listen to me, I will come to get you once I finish these fuckers, and you and I will complete the mate bond like we should have done the first time I saw you.

He was walking now, don’t ask me how I knew. I just did when I rolled my eyes. I knew what he was talking about, in his fucking dreams, that I would never fuck him after what he had done to me.

“Go fuck that Sabrina whore instead; if I wasn’t a good enough mate before you, why even bother showing up now? Just let me go, Dan.” I cursed at myself for using a nickname again, dammit, like I couldn’t resist it, trying to make him mine when he wasn’t.

“Says the woman rejecting me, didn't want to be my mate!?” He sounded jealous even now when he should have figured out that I was lying. I was trying to save him from being humiliated, being mated with me. I wish I had never done that.

“I. fucking. Lied. You asshole!” I sneered the words back at his cocky voice, making him mute on me, which would shut him the hell up for a few minutes at least.

I didn’t hear anything for a few minutes before I could hear fighting and wolves clashing together, making my inside cold and numb. Oh, my goddess, he did it and started a war over me.

The rogue Omega.