VALERIE'S POV
"Valerie, Valerie, wait up,"
"Valeriana, you know you can't run away from me,"
"If you don't stop now, you know what I will do,"
I sighed in frustration before stopping when I noticed people starting to look at us.
"What?" I looked at the alpha, and he narrowed his eyes.
"Why are you avoiding me?" He asked innocently, as if he didn't know why I would do that.
"Because I am a rogue, and it's only normal I run away from a potentially threatening alpha. Someone who can end my life in a second, and no one would question him," I looked him straight in the eyes, and he stared back before holding my hand and pulling me in another direction.
It was good that my friends weren't here, or it would've been hard to explain why I was letting this so-called officer manhandle me like this.
"Mr. Alpha, I would like it if you -" The rest of my words stuck in my throat when he brought his face almost an inch away from mine as I leaned back into the tree in this back forest where he brought me.
"Do you hate me?" He asked, the seriousness in his voice making me feel guilty.
"I don't hate you, Alpha. This has nothing to do with you," I said, and he cupped my cheeks.
"Don't you know, the more you run away from me, the more attracted I feel? We are predators, Valeriana. We like to chase,” I sighed.
“You don’t need to be afraid of me, sunshine. I won’t hurt you until. I hate people who lie and betray, and you are one the most honest person with her feelings that I met. Damn, you make me mad about you," He massaged my cheeks before looking at my lips momentarily.
"If you don't like me back, you have all the right to push me away, and I won't ask you why," The alpha whispered before he tilted his head and leaned further into me.
I won't lie.
The feeling of his body touching mine was the best feeling in a long time. The way his hard chest pressed on mine and his abdomen pushed me further into the tree, I know what I have been yearning for all this time.
I didn't dodge. I glared back before my eyes flickered to his lips for a moment before I looked back into his eyes.
"I wish you had dodged. It would've been easier to maintain some distance from you," The alpha whispered, his hot breath fanning my face before he grabbed a fistful of my hair. His other hand cupped the back of my neck as he pulled me and crashed his lips on mine.
His lips were nothing like him. They weren’t rough like this alpha. They were soft like petals as they caressed my lips softly at a slow tempo.
"Damn, you taste so good," he groaned before he deepened the kiss, his teeth grazing my lower lips to ask for entrance that I immediately granted.
Nothing made sense. It felt like a bubble of pleasure burst inside me, traveling to my core as I touched his chest, wanting to feel this alpha’s heartbeat to see if this was as real for him as it was for me.
The taste of chocolate and something sweet entered my mouth when his tongue touched mine, and I couldn't keep the moan from escaping my lips.
"Mmmm," I tilted my head to let him have easier access to my lips.
Even after a few minutes passed, he didn't stop, and the more he was assaulting my lips, the more aroused I was becoming.
I swear he can feel and sense it too.
My body was becoming limp under his mercy, and I know if he hadn't held me, I would've fallen to my knees long ago.
After what felt like an eternity but was only a few minutes, he finally pulled away, placing his forehead on mine.
"Do you feel anything?" He asked with care, and I returned to reality.
I just had my first kiss with an alpha. I mean, I have been kissed before, but this was by far the best kiss of my life. Is this because it was the kiss of an alpha?
"Aroused?" I answered after a long time, and I could see this wasn't the answer he was looking for.
"Just that?" He asked.
Well, it means a lot, Mr. Alpha. I don't get aroused just by anyone and with everyone. You are the first one to make me feel this needy. I wanted to say it but decided against it.
"What else do you expect?"
"Feelings? Didn't you feel anything?" The Alpha asked again.
"Being aroused is a feeling itself. You should know it's an animalistic desire that can't be ignored so easily and we are animals with heightened senses," I said.
I know I was shaming what I felt and his feelings, but I guess this was the only way to keep him away from me.
It was good. What I experienced just now was great. But I can’t let this happen again. Once this alpha finds out I am the infamous cursed wolf under the council's protection, he would be the first to get me thrown out of this pack.
Having your heart broken is not something I am looking for after what happened to my previous pack, and I became the rogue.
Logan would be disappointed too. He has warned me about the alphas who would want to use me for their pleasure just because I am a rogue, and as much as I want to believe this grey-eyed alpha because his feelings have been the last genuine I have seen, I don't want to take my chances.
"So you're telling me all you felt was an animalistic arousal from that kiss?" The alpha asked me, and I nodded.
"Well, it can't be helped then. I will have to keep trying until you finally believe me,"
I narrowed my eyes at his words.
"What do you mean?" I asked for clarity.
"I will visit you daily and kiss you until you finally come to me and confess your feelings," he ran his hand through his hair, and I felt my heart skipping a beat.
"Your heart has already started to beat for me, no?" He bent and placed his ear on my chest, and my breath hitched.
Why was I feeling like this? And wasn’t he acting too boldly?
'Only if he turns his head and places his lips to see if our heart is beating for him or not, how pleasurable -' Adele started, and I quickly put up the mental barrier to block the kind of image she was trying to portray in my head.
Damn that wolf! I growled in my head before gulping and looking away as my core felt hot and needy.
"What are you doing? It's inappropriate!" I said, wanting to push him away. However, it felt like my body had a mind of its own as it didn't even move an inch.
"I can feel your emotions from your fast-beating heart," He smiled enchantingly.
"Hah! What tyranny is this?!" I scoffed, and he shook his head with amusement, his ear rubbing my delicate area, and I coughed before finally stepping back.
"We can talk like this," I said before looking at my phone vibrating with an incoming call from Logan.
"I have to go now," I said, without looking at him, afraid my eyes would give my feelings out.
"Hey, Logan. What's up?" I asked before practically running out of the University.
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AMBROSE'S POV
"Alpha, where have you been? Your mind barrier was up, and I couldn't find you," George rushed to me when I walked to the ground.
"Wait. You look happy. Did something happen?" He narrowed his eyes at me.
"Nothing that you should know about. By the way, did you find out about that rogue that the council mentioned?" I looked at him.
"It completely slipped my mind. I will do it today for sure," George sighed.
I shook my head at him.
"Anyway, if your so-called facade of inspection officer is done, can we go back? You said it would be for a week, and it has been a week now," George looked at me pleadingly, and I grinned.
I know why he was acting so urgently like this. Since I was trying to spend more time with Valeriana, most of the paperwork has fallen on him and Lucas, and they are having a hard time dealing with it since I used to handle it all.
However, could it be helped? Earlier, I didn't have a reason to enjoy the world. This work was my solace and escape from my lonely reality, but now I want to know what it feels like to live your life.
"Sure. Let's go," We walked to the dean's office after having lunch.
Knock! Knock! I knocked at the door.
"Come in," the dean said.
"Mr. Ambrose, you should've just called me rather than come all the way here yourself," he smiled, and I nodded.
"We are done with the most inspection. One more team will arrive to inspect your labs and other facilities. Engage your students in more co-curricular activities. I observed their physique and stamina is next to none," I looked towards the ground.
"Noted, sir. We will add more activities this semester," he nodded.
"Anyway, I came here to let you know I will be leaving the campus grounds today," I turned to him.
I wanted to know about any scholarship program I could help Valerie with so that she won't have to work so hard, but his phone rang, and I nodded at him to pick it up before sitting on the seat.
I looked around the plain office and the multiple files before my gaze landed on the file.
'Students Exchange program'
Valeriana is also in this program, no? Let's see what this file contains about her.
Turning the pages around, I looked at a particular form.
'Valerie Katya'
This girl. Where have I heard this name?
Wait. It's the rogue we had to look at and keep in line.
Isn't it funny how there are two Valeries' here? Well, my rogue's name is Valeriana. I smiled at the word 'mine,' before turning the page around, and the smile on my face froze.
“Isn't this Valeriana?” George said from behind me, and I looked down at the details with clenched teeth. The more I looked, the more anger I felt.
What was this? Valeriana was actually Valerie Katya? The rogue I had to keep in line? Did she know? Is this why she avoids me? Wait. Here, it says she is not even 19. Is she a teenage mom? Is that why her pack threw her out?
Many questions roamed in my head, and only one person could answer them.
"Sorry, Mr. Ambrose, the call -" I slammed the file on the table before walking out of the cabin.
"We will contact you soon," George probably apologized to the dean for my behavior, but I was too angry to be polite right now.
"Alpha, wait up. Maybe there is a reason -"
"I gave her hints, George. I told her that I would bear anything but betrayal. She had countless chances to tell me the truth. It's not like I would've killed her," I snarled, running my hand on my face angrily.
I have to see her and know, or I will go mad.