“Do you mind sitting down? You’re making me nervous,” the beta’s mate said. I faced her. She was sitting on the couch in the massive pack house’s living room, fidgeting nervously while rubbing her hands together.
“I’m only pacing around. That shouldn’t make you nervous.”
“Perhaps you don’t know. You’re exhuming a certain power I don’t understand. Hence my nervousness. You’re making me scared.”
“Suck it up because it’s not stopping anytime soon.”
“I’ve heard about you,” she begun. I rolled my eyes, ready to face her judgmental tone. Many people only knew the worst about me, not the good.
“The beautiful female alpha.” She said that like it was so surreal. “Lucian’s mate. The woman he can’t be with because of a prophesy of sorts.”
“Keep quiet, please. I’m trying to concentrate here.”
“On what?”
“You should be doing the same, seeing as your mate is off to fight vampires. Who knows what is happening now?”
“Don’t worry about Lucian, he can…”
“Please don’t.” I held up my hand to silence her. I had enough of people telling me that he could take care of himself. Mistakes happened in battle, irreversible ones.
“My mate marked me so I can tell if he’s breathing or not. I guess you’re right, you need to concentrate. But I don’t think you will be able to, with all that agitation coming off you in waves.”
“How does it feel to be marked?” she looked confused at first but answered.
“It’s the best feeling in the world. To be able to read your other half’s mind. Feel everything that they are feeling while communicating in ways words can never express. You don’t need to tell the other one that you love them. They already know.”
“Sounds like an invasion of privacy to me.”
“Its strange at first. I won’t lie, but it gets easier strengthening the bond with the one meant for you.”
“I heard it hurts when he sinks his teeth into your flesh.”
“It does, yet the ecstasy that rushes through your veins after that is indescribable.” I didn’t understand why I was talking to her about the mate bond or everything else.
“Are you going to let him?”
“Can I ask you something?”
“Answer mine first,” she said, smirking.
I laughed and said, “I like you.”
“Many people do,” she said. It was then that I realized that we didn’t know each other. We just started talking, with me spilling out things I normally wouldn’t say in front of a stranger.
“About Lucian, I don’t know what I want. He’s nice, I can’t deny that, but at the same time, he lied to me.”
“He did it to keep you safe, give him some credit. And stop resisting that bond, or it will explode.”
“You people put him in such high esteem.”
“He’s a good man.”
“A good man,” I mused. “That’s not enough, and interestingly, I only get to see the bad side of him. Why is that?”
“That was the plan,” she said.
“A very convincing one. I still can’t tell if he’s acting or not.”
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The Alpha's Mate
Lãng mạnSybil Blackwood is to be the alpha of the Mystic Pack but The Council members are doing everything in their power to stop her. They don't want a woman in a position of power and one of The Council members, Lucian Nightshade is hell-bent on seeing th...
