Chapter 134: Do You Think I'll Let Him Go Easily?

••• Aleksander's POV •••

I stepped into the room and suddenly everything around me became silent and the air seemed to stop flowing as I looked at the beautiful she-wolf being tied up in a star shape on my bed.

An intense unfamiliar feeling seemed to burst out from inside my heart. It felt like I had found something that I hadn't even fucking known I had been missing all this while.

"Mate!" the beautiful she-wolf blurted out.

My existence in this world suddenly seemed to be meaningful and completed at the same time as I heard her sweet voice calling me her mate.

Suddenly everything in this world seemed to make sense with her being here with me.

"Mate! She really is our mate!" My wolf, Orion, howled in my head.

He had been yelling the word 'mate' ever since we saw her at the pier and smelled her scent, but I was too confused and wanted to bring her back to my place as fast as possible to think much about it.

'Maybe you got it wrong' - Those were my words to Orion when he acknowledged her as our mate at the pier.

I'd asked my trusted guards to put her in my room and tied her up on the bed since I needed to deal with Hayden's spy when we reached my pack from the pier.

And now here I was, frozen in my spot because of her scent and all those unfamiliar-yet-not-uncomfortable feelings, feeling drawn to her and unable to resist the pull of the matebond.

I suppressed my excitement as I walked closer to her.

I hadn't expected the femme fatale I had been thinking of making her mine was actually my fated mate given by the Moon Goddess.

I was twenty-five years old this year and had had no luck in finding my mate. I always thought she-wolves were nothing more than playthings to meet my desire and that was how I had always treated she-wolves - as sex objects.

Though my men had urged me to find a chosen-mate she-wolf to consummate a contracted marriage and produce an heir, yet I never had any interest in that matter.

I felt so damn lucky to not have followed my men's shitty suggestion or this would be a troublesome situation.

Orion tried to establish a connection with her wolf, but…

"It's strange… I received no response from her wolf. It looks like she doesn't have any wolf," he mumbled.

"Maybe she lost her wolf after her second rejection," I told him nonchalantly.

"That's why it's strange. If she's wolfless, I shouldn't have been able to feel that she's our mate, but strangely I could still sense it. What could be the reasons for it…" he pondered about it.

"I don't care about all those things," I told him.

I didn't care if she had no wolf, I didn't care about how my wolf knew she was our mate, I didn't care about anything.

All I cared about was that she was our fucking mate, and this should be easier for me to get her to stay with me.

"Who are you?" my beautiful mate asked.

"I am Aleksander Luciano, the Alpha of the Hell Walker Pack," I replied with a smirk.

Her wide eyes widened ever more, they looked like they were about to pop out of their sockets.

"You are the mafia Alpha?" she asked in disbelief.

"I am. The one and only." I chuckled.

How could someone so alluring, beautiful, and sharp be so cute at the same time?

"Charlotte Adler…" I tasted her name on my tongue and it felt so damn right as it rolled off my tongue. "Or should I call you Lottie? I have to admit I have been investigating you… And I do admire your beauty and intelligence."

"You are the Alpha of the Hell Walker Pack?" she repeated her question, but this time with disgust rather than disbelief.

Her repulsiveness toward my identity was like a knife stabbing my heart. Even Orion was whimpering in pain as he saw the disgust in our mate's eyes.

"Release me! You can't treat your mate this way. You can't just kidnap your mate and tie her up like this. I'm your mate, not your prisoner," she tried to negotiate with me in an attempt to get me to untie her.

I chuckled as I moved closer and sat on the bed next to her, leaning over to sniff her scent and a moan escaped my lips as her intoxicating scent filled my nostril.

She turned her head sideways, trying to move her head away from me, not wanting to look at me, and I felt another sharp pain in my heart.

Ignoring it, knowing she would be challenging, I chuckled. "Take it easy, little mate."

She was slender and not so short, but compared to me, she looked small.

I rubbed a place on her neck with my thumb where my mark would be and saw her face flushed as she bit her lips. I assumed she was trying to hold back her moan.

That little touch sent an electric shock through my whole body and I chuckled as I saw how her body was reacting to my touch.

She felt the tingle too, huh?

My thumb left her neck as I withdrew my hand and stood up.

I took out my phone from my pants pocket and tapped on the message I had sent to her in the guise of Hayden.

"Don't you want to know about Hayden's condition?" I asked her when she kept ignoring me.

Her head snapped back in my direction as she finally looked at me.

"See this message?" I showed her my phone screen.

"You were the one who sent the message to me? Why would you disguise yourself as Hayden to lure me out?" she questioned me with narrowed eyes after she read the message on my phone.

"Since I was able to trick you into coming here, it would be easy to trick him into coming here too, no?" I put the phone back into my pocket and slipped both hands into my pants pocket, appearing lazy and bored.

"You are using me to get to Hayden? Your real target is Hayden?"

Both, my little mate… My targets were both of you…

She glared at me with hateful eyes and Orion howled in pain again while I tried to shake off the heaviness in my own heart.

This act of her being disgusted with me and hating me didn't feel like a challenge anymore now that she turned out to be my fated mate.

This game wasn't fun at all since it fucking made me feel hurt and it felt like it was getting old as I wasn't that patient to begin with.

I really needed to make her submit to me soon.

"You would be able to enjoy being unharmed when you are here because you are my mate, but I can't say the same about Hayden. He wouldn't necessarily be able to remain unharmed," I continued speaking and blackmailing her since she seemed to have no interest in saying anything. "He, after all, had messed up on my turf."

Her perfectly arched eyebrows furrowed. "Messed up on your turf? Did you… You knew he was the one who…"

I laughed as she finally realized that Hayden had been exposed for recording the video.

I took out my phone again and showed her the video I had sent to Hayden.

"Do you know who the person in this video is?" I asked her as she watched the video.

"William?" she blurted out the name. "Why did you torture him?"

"Ahhh… So you do know him, after all. I caught him while he was causing trouble at one of the Hell Walker Pack's entrances. He wouldn't have infiltrated my pack or created trouble by himself, would he? He must have received an order from his Alpha," I said lazily and continued, "Since his Alpha is Hayden, it can be safe to assume that Hayden was the one who instructed him to mess up my turf so he himself could have the chance to record that video."

"And since Hayden was the one who wanted to mess with me in the first place, do you think I'll let him go easily, Lottie?" I purposely used the name her close friends and family members used when talking to her.

My mate's slender body trembled as she realized I wouldn't forgive Hayden easily.

"What do you want?"

I smirked as I heard her utter the words I wanted to hear from her.