Chapter 26 Kiss me
I sat in silence in the pack library. The heavy scent of ancient parchment mixed with faint coppery traces of old blood, and the cold stone walls seemed to absorb the flickering candlelight, casting long shadows. What my werewolf lieutenant told me made me both frightened and annoyed. Silently fuming, I scoured the pages of the old books. There had to be something that described what my lieutenant saw while saving Karen, the only fragile human among us, her pale skin contrasting starkly with the werewolf darkness that surrounded her. He told me that it was something about frenzied red-eyed rogues. The shameless rogue who attacked Karen.
After looking for almost two hours, my wolf and I groaned out in anger. Though I was werewolf born, the predatory instinct, that feral hunger, still churned within me like a restless beast. Some pages seemed to be missing, ripped from the brittle tomes or lost to time. "Urghhh," I let out as I threw the book down. These old books were always in my bookshelves with everything but now some pages were missing. "Eric," I growled angrily at one of my guards.
"Yes, Alpha," He entered my office quickly, his pale eyes glinting with the cold light of the moon. "Bring me all the beautiful and strong shewolves," I ordered while closing another book. There was still no clue of what I was searching for. "Yes, Alpha," He answered. With him gone, I went on with searching through all the books. After a good couple of minutes, he lastly came back.
"Here they are, Alpha," He murmured. At that, I leaned back in my chair and I looked down at the women in front of me. Their flawless, almost otherworldly skin shimmered faintly under the torchlight, their eyes gleaming like polished onyx or crimson rubies, signs of their werewolf heritage. The possibilities of a headache danced in front of my head as my eyes skimmed through their faces. With each face I looked at, my disappointment grew. A wrinkle was now forming between my eyebrows slowly as Eric brought more women into the room.
"What is this?" I asked with the mixture of anger and annoyance. Seeing all these unknown faces was pissing me off. I didn't like crowds at all. My question hung a frown on Eric's face before he looked at the women in bewilderment and then turned his gaze at me. "Why Alpha? You told me to bring them, didn't you?" He questioned urgently. I could see the frustration on his face. This was all making us have headache pain.
But this was all because of the fucking mate bond.
I took a deep breath to compose myself. I was so close to losing my temper. This was all happening because of the mate the moon goddess fated me with. "Yes I told you to bring them but not these types," I growled at some ladies who had the audacity to send flirty looks my way. My growl scared them all and they lowered their heads.
Seeing them act like this only annoyed me more. They were shewolves, but a human was better than them. Karen, her warm pulse faint beneath porcelain skin, the softness of her breath contrasting with the cold, eternal hunger that plagued us, she was betrayed, had her cousin brother killed by me, but she wouldn't have lowered her eyes. She would have instead looked back into my eyes. Heck, she would have glared at me. She was stronger than these prostitutes. I was now finding it hard to bear up with the sight of them.
I wanted them to be sent away; otherwise, I was afraid they would end up being buried somewhere in the woods, lost and forgotten. "What's next Alpha?" Eric asked respectfully but with a frown on his face. Before I could respond to him, he stepped in front of the women and examined them all. He then turned and looked at me.
"These are the strong shewolves in the pack," He mumbled but I only shook my face with disgust on my face. "None of them looks like what I told you to bring," I couldn't help but growl at him. I hardly growled at matters that were so petty but this one was making me lose my patience.
I already had a long day, annoyed that the guards couldn't catch Karen as she escaped. "I have brought you the most strong and beautiful shewolves, Alpha," He was now provoking me. "Eric," I spoke very calmly this time. My anger and disappointment evident in my voice. "Take them away," I hissed out and at that he didn't say anymore.
As soon as the shewolves were gone, I leaned back in the chair fighting my rage. I was so mad, so mad. The bitch plagued all my mind. She was the only thing I was thinking about. The mate bond was getting worse. My wolf yearned for her very badly. I felt like an addict searching for more substance to abuse. I felt like I was being controlled, controlled by her.
My wolf took control last night and I ended up going in her room. In the morning, I woke up with a hard on and ended up fucking Harriet. That was still not enough. The mate bond was making me feel pathetic and weak. I wanted to end this because now the thought of her was making me think of all the different ways I could take her, fuck all night and in the morning.
"What happened to you Alpha?" Eric asked concerned after the shewolves left. I was still slumped in my chair with my forehead in my hand. I squeezed my eyes shut trying my best to push the image of the human from my head. It was all nothing. It was like fighting a tide. The more I fought it, the more it pulled me into the sea.
"Go search for everything about that pack," I murmured before walking out of the room. I walked towards my chambers. It was already very late, past midnight. I had work to do but the yearning for her was becoming unbearable. Without giving it a second thought I made my way to her room.
"You finally learned a lesson," I spoke as soon as I entered her room. The faint warmth of her human breath brushed against the cold air in the room. "I haven't, not until I am dead," Her response shocked me to the core. I had thought that she was already asleep but I was wrong. It was already late but she was awake looking up at the ceiling. Due to the fact that she was chosen by the moon goddess, all her wounds healed within a few hours and she was again defiantly plotting another idea in her head.