Aries

Chapter 3

Might want to hear the song above before reading.

"Mate," he said, his lips dangerously close to my ears. Ethan's fingers splayed on my back as he tried to pull me closer. "Mine."

From the pheromones that released from every pore of his skin, I knew he was hanging by a thin thread. His mating scent was a drug that I could not resist. This scent was made to entice me, to make sure that I was nothing but a moaning mess around him. It was a scent that only I could have control over. Not anybody. Not even his marked female.

"Ethan!" Harper shrilled.

As much as I could not see her seething face, I could hear the fury in her voice. I could not bring my eyes to see anyone or anything other than the Alpha before me. I closed my eyes and brought my limp arms around him.

The chanting in my head was nothing more than a soft whisper of claim when I rested my face on his chest. I was complete. At that moment, someone could have shot me and I would have died with a smile on my face.

Then, my mate was snatched away from me. Cold, lithe fingers grabbed his arms and he was pulled away. Harper stood before us and a deluge was nothing compared to the wrath she had.

"How dare you!" she cried, pulling my mate towards her.

Ethan blinked and stumbled behind. Perhaps the touch of his chosen female was just enough to make him come out of the effects of the bond.

As he took a step back towards Harper, a piece of my heart fell. The pressure I had felt in my mind shattered. The enhanced gifts it gave me lingered while its voice just shattered.

My throat felt heavy as though a huge rock was placed upon it. With each second he looked at me and then at Harper, it was pure agony.

My legs shook beneath me and I did not know how I was holding up. My breaths became ragged and my heart no longer beat in a rhythm.

"Ethan!" Alpha Charles called, climbing down the dais and stood next to his son. "What is the meaning of this?"

Even though Ethan was the alpha, Alpha Charles held some authority over him through his age. At his father's question, Ethan snarled lowly.

"Lyra is mine," he said quietly. "My mate."

Alpha Violet who stood behind her mate gasped and looked up as if to thank the moon. A prayer left her lips as she clasped her fingers together.

Dad wore a proud smile while mom gritted her teeth. Dad was a beta and he was happy that one of his blood was his Alpha's mate, while it was my mom's pride that was on the line. Even if her alpha was her daughter's mate, he had chosen, marked another female before he met me. Mom would not forget this until her last breath.

Rhaze pursed her lips and had a neutral face. Her position as my sister and Ethan's delta was tearing her apart. The fight she had with herself was visible to me by her rigid stance.

Cain, on the other hand, muttered something to a shifter I have never seen in my life something.

"Your mate?" Harper shrieked. "You chose me!"

Ethan closed his eyes and groaned. A noise that sent another bolt of shiver down my spine.

"Alpha Ethan," mom said in a collected tone. "Tonight's the Mating Moon."

I was aware of everyone's eyes on me. Mating Moon was the full moon night that came in rainy season. The night when the Alpha Naming ceremony took place and of course, the Crowning of Alpha female.

Whoever Ethan chose to mate tonight would be the alpha female of this pack.

If he chose me, the mark on Harper's neck would vanish and she would be forced to return to her pack.