Chapter 15
He wasn’t much to look at but he was rigged in the right places and had tattoos littering the better part of his body that I could see.
What was it with this family and tattoos?
He had his bulging arm around Kiara’s shoulder and I was surprised he hasn’t squashed her yet. Not that I would protest him squashing her. Nope. I would just turn a blind eye. He made himself comfortable before lifting his gaze from a smiling Kiara who had been chatting his ears off in a language I didn’t understand. He’s gaze settled on me and after studying me for a moment, he spoke;
“I am Hephaestus. Uncle to Kiara and Chaos”
“Oh... I’m Alpha River and welcome. I wasn’t informed you were coming” I said with a small smile as I took the seat in front of him
“I was supposed to arrive tomorrow but I wasn’t busy today and I decided to pass by”
“That’s okay. Do you need me to get Chaos for you?”
“No... no actually I came to see you. Chaos had always wanted her own personal library and training center and her mother thought it will be nice to build one for her as a mating present.”
“That’s great and I’m guess you wanted the go ahead to start building?”
“Yes”
“Well I have no problem. You can choose anywhere close to our home and start as soon as possible”
“Thank you. I will like to survey the land today and my workers and I will start on it as soon as possible”
“Thank you rather. It will be a great surprise to give her after our mating ceremony. She will be ecstatic”
“She surely will be” Kiara cut in with a smug smile on her face
I pretended to not have heard her before asking our guest if he wanted something to drink and apologized for not asking as soon as he had arrived. He declined though and asked if he could go out and survey the land right away.
I offered to take him but he said he was okay with Kiara. And that he need to catch up on lost times since it had been a while since they had seen each other. I forced a smile on my face and nodded in his direction when he stood to take his leave.
After he and Kiara had left, I sat back and tried to figure out what had just happened. I mean the visitor’s closed off attitude towards me. I felt he didn’t like me and was not impressed with me but I couldn’t figure out why.
First Kiara and now their uncle with a weird ass long name that I don’t remember. Even though he told me some few minutes ago.
I run my hand through my hair in frustration before pushing everything into the back of my mind. Tomorrow was my mating ceremony and I was not going to let anyone rain on my parade. Not at all.
THE NEXT DAY
Today was the day of the mating ceremony and to say the pack was just happy will be an understatement. They were elated and overjoyed because an alpha’s mating ceremony happens just once and the blessings that rains on them on that particular day left remarkable prints and impacts on their lives for the rest of their existence.
Alpha River was in higher spirits himself and couldn’t help but celebrate in his own way. He spent the majority of the day with his high-ranked members and friends in the conference room, making merry and reminiscing over old times.
Chaos stayed locked up in her room trying to avoid anyone as much as she could whiles Kiara stayed with Uncle Hephaestus who had already started on her new home.
A smile still found its way onto her face when she remembers the call, he had given her as soon as he had left the pack. His precise words had been;
“Princess, am sorry you are mated to that jerk. I don’t even know why your father isn’t doing anything about it. I honestly don’t know how you put up with his cheating lying self. I only spent a few minutes in his presence and every word and smile he spoke or plastered on his face made me want to bash his face in. But then I remembered you will give him more hell than I ever could and I will just have to wait impatiently and enjoy it when his time is up”
She had laughed that day because her uncle didn’t like violence and for him to condone what Chaos was up to and even trying to take part in it proved how much she meant to him. He was a man of few words and emotions and moments like this ought to be treasured because they rarely happen.
The smile though vanished quickly from Chaos’s face when she recalled what she had witnessed last night. The conversation she had overhead between her mate and his father. She was glad that someone saw the absurdness of what her mate and his lover were doing.
Her already frozen heart caked with more ice when she saw how her mate was nonchalant about the whole thing. She didn’t ask for a mate and she didn’t ask to be treated like thrash.
What he was doing to her was wrong on so many levels. Disrespecting her integrity, taking her for granted, being made a fool of, total mockery of her status and pre-meditated deceit and abuse; both emotionally and mentally.
She has always had a tight screw on her emotions but when she heard the garbage that was spewing out of her mate’s mouth, she couldn’t help the tears that trailed down her face in agony.
Havoc, her wolf had been whimpering since yesterday and was feeling restless. She was withering in the pain of her mate’s rejection. Kaeden had tried to reach out to her a couple of times but she had blocked him off.
Chaos’s mind was made up and so was her wolf’s. There was going to be hell to pay and someone better be ready to receive it.