Taming The Alpha's Mate

Emma's heart was thumping hard as she ran through the thick forest, the tall trees casting a shade over her. She had been searching for her best friend and boyfriend Tommy Sanders since morning. He had taken a walk after breakfast and not returned. Tommy occasionally took lone walks in the forest, but he had never taken that long to return. The sun was setting and he was still nowhere to be seen. Emma had a very bad feeling about it but decided to stay strong.

Emma called out Tommy's name repeatedly, but there was no response. The dense forest was silent as a grave. All that could be heard was her and Richard's steps as they ran through the woods. As Emma neared a clearing, her worst fears began to take shape. She smelled his blood at a distance, and noticed a shape of a human on the ground as she ran towards that direction. Emma increased her spread and was soon at the spot.

Tommy was lying still on the leafy ground, his eyes closed with dried blood all over his hair and chest. Emma felt to her knees beside the body and let out a bloodcurdling scream that echoed through the forest. Tears cascaded down her face as she tried to wake him, despite knowing the efforts were useless. She pulled out the sharp stake that had been buried into his chest and sat down, wailing. Richard started looking around the place while Emma stared at Tommy's lifeless body.

He had been the only family she had left, and now he was gone. Emma's parents had been killed by vampires five years ago and Tommy's pack had taken her in before it was conquered by a rival alpha who ruled with an iron fist. Two years ago, the two had run away from the pack because of their love for freedom and hatred for authoritarianism. In the past two years, they had lived as rogues, moving from place to place, enjoying life one day at a time.

For the first time in years, Emma felt truly alone. She had met up with other rogues and they had formed a small group of eight. She liked the other members but the relationships with all of them were nothing like what she had with Tommy. He had been her world.

Her heart broke when she thought of all the plans they had made together. It was hard for her to believe that he was really gone, never to be seen again. She leaned down and kissed his bruised lips. The lips that had been warm and soft were now cold and hard. She straightened up and touched his skin.

"What am I going to do without you, Tommy?"

Richard went and crouched next to her. "I'm so sorry, Emma."

Emma leaned on him and he placed a hand around her. "I have lost everything, Richard. How am I supposed to live now?"

"I know it's not the same but you have us," Richard said. "We will always be here for you."

Emma stayed silent. The other members of the group arrived and expressed their shock after seeing the body. Alison, a girl who had been trying to seduce Tommy at every turn went and knelt beside his body while wailing.

Seeing that made Emma angry but she didn't want to cause a scene so she stood up and went to sit on a tree trunk, a few meters away. She sat down and placed her head on her lap, sobbing the whole time.

Ten minutes later, Richard went where she was.