Chapter 47: Rejecting A Wolf

"Aiden!" Aurora went around Tom in an attempt to go toward Aiden in a panic. She might resent her family, but that didn't mean she wanted to see them get hurt because of her.

Tom quickly stretched his hands out and grabbed Aurora gently before tugging her behind him once again.

"You're hurting innocent wolves to get what you want now?" Tom looked at Aiden before looking back at Astrada and sneered.

"Innocent? No, he's guilty of the crime of withholding important information from the council just like the rest of them. A crime so severe that the punishment is death." Astrada grinned at Tom.

Aurora could hear Tom's teeth creaking from the force he was grinding them. But she was also in a state of panic.

'Didn't that mean everyone who knew about the rejection could be executed?' she shuddered at the thought. She hated them, but to want them dead was something else.

She pursed her lips in thought, 'So that's how they forced me to cooperate.'

She hated that she was weak to this. You'd think her heart was completely frozen after everything that happened but it wasn't. It would be easier if she could just shut her emotions off completely and watch from a detached point of view. Her dead eyes became even more so as she thought of her own powerlessness.

"Won't you please cooperate?" Astrada asked politely, but the wicked gleam in her eyes said otherwise. "Because I don't want to hurt your precious pack members. After all, aren't they all breaking the council's rules one way or another?"

Tom stiffened as he heard that, "You knew." He stated through gritted teeth.

"It was pretty obvious since Aurora disappeared like magic. Did you really think we wouldn't keep an eye on you?" Astrada mocked Tom, who went pale with fright.

"I'll go with you!" Aurora shouted from behind Tom, "Just don't hurt anybody."

"Aww, the girl got more sense than you do." Astrada clicked her tongue while tapping her chin. " We promise not to hurt anybody, Tom here is very important to us."

"No, I can't let you do this!" Tom turned and faced Aurora, grabbing her by her shoulder and shaking her a bit in hopes of making her wake up.

"It's my choice, " She stated, looking Tom deep in his eyes. "You can't stop me from willingly going because it's better than resisting and making a mess of things.

"You have gone mad!" Tom gritted his teeth."It's suicide!"

"Calm down, you need to help stall for time, Nick has almost gotten everyone out of the pack," Aurora mouthed to him. Tom frowned as his eyes looked pained.

Closing his eyes tightly before he reopened them he made up his mind.

He then turned his head to look at Astrada and the other who was watching them with interest and making him more certain of his choice.

He looked back at Aurora and turned around once more, shielding Aurora behind his back.

"She's my mate! You won't be touching her." Tom exclaimed, Astrada looked at Tom in disbelief.

"Of all the excuses I thought you would make up to prevent us from taking her, I never thought you'd lie." Astrada shook her head as she said this.

"Am I prone to lying Astrada?" Tom scoffed, "She's my mate."

Astrada was silent. She looked at Tom's face and his body language in shock. Tom was not prone to lying.

But by just looking at his body language as he shields Aurora behind him, then it might be true.

"Even if this is true, you know what that means, right?" Astrada asked slowly. "This has never happened in the history of our race."

"I will go with you. But you won't touch her, force her to do anything, or harm her!" Tom nodded and said, Aurora watched his back guarding her silently.

She knew he would have announced it sooner or later. He was stubborn like that. Even if she warned him not to or told him that he was nothing but a disposable pawn. He wouldn't listen and still insist on going.

He knew that Nick and Dillion would keep the pack members safe. So he could only stall for time. But this was also an attempt to keep Aurora safe.

True enough, it would keep her safe, but for a limited amount of time. But Aurora hoped that it could last long enough for her to see Jace. Anything else was not as important.

She could help but scratch her left palm with her fingernails after thinking about that. This was revenge. Doing this was revenge, and it would give birth to something worse.

'After this, they'll all pay." Deep down in her gut told her this was the way to do this. And she'll trust herself since she shouldn't trust anyone.

"Then I invite you to follow me to the cars," Astrada spoke after being silent for a while. Tom was about to make things difficult when Dillion's mind linked him.

'We are safe,' he could hear the reluctance in her voice, but he couldn't do anything to comfort her.

'Hide in human territory,' he ordered before cutting off the mind link. He then grabbed Aurora's thin hand in his and tugged her towards Astrada.

"I don't want to be in the same car with you, and Aurora won't separate her from me." Astrada didn't say anything and complied. Arranging for them to sit in a car together.

The driver got in and immediately put the safety lock on while starting the car and backing out.

Another car followed behind closely while Astrada stood there watching it leave.

"Find them, find those fucking pack members now!" Astrada stomped her foot in rage, she just received a mind link that the members of the pack were all missing.

How could she not be angry? Such a powerful witch was living right under their noses, and they didn't even care and now it bit them in the ass.

Meanwhile, as the car drove to go out of Tom's territory, Aurora couldn't keep her silence anymore.

"Why say I'm your mate? You could have done something else to distract them. Why risk everything for me?" Aurora could help but ask after sitting in the car with Tom.

"You're my mate, I'd risk anything for you." Tom immediately replied like it was the most natural thing in the world.

"They aren't going to listen. You know that it's impossible to sway them." She said plainly, "They'll have it their way.'

"They'll listen," he firmly assured her. But she wasn't assured. She was, in fact, more worried about him. She barely knew him, and yet here he was risking everything for her.

They barely had two conversations. 'Mates huh, is this what a mate was supposed to be like?'

"No, they won't, and you know it. You took an unnecessary risk. " She tried to convince him. But he turned his head and stared at her.

"I'd risk anything for you, I don't care if you hate me, I just want to keep you safe." He said to her while staring into her eyes. That was his truth.

"You are a fool. Fools don't live long." She shook her head and told him

"That's okay, I'll die to keep you safe, and if that makes me a fool, then so be it."Tom shrugged as he answered.

"I truly wished I had met you earlier. If that happened, how good would that be?" she sighed, "I always dreamed of my mate telling me that, but all I got was suffering. I'm still suffering. It'll never go away."

"I'll do whatever it takes to make your dreams come true," Tom told her, but she gave him a side glance before shaking her head.

"The only person who can make my dreams come true is me. And believe me, when I say, I can't wait to see what I envisioned." A strange smile crept up on her face. Her dead eyes seemed to be brought to life in that instance, stunning Tom into silence. "I will thrive on their chaos."

Tom looked at her and then at the driver in front as he pursed his lips.