The Alpha's Love

part five

POV: RIVER

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Walking back to the village took what seemed like years.

It probably would've taken half the time if wolfie boy hadn't walked like a grandma snail.

As we rounded a tree he was still carrying me bridal style, since I had gashed my knee he wanted to take me back to their pack village.

We hadn't talked for the first few minutes, just exchanging glares every once in a while.

I caught him glaring at me for the last time until I said something.

"Are you not going to try to apologize to me after you hunted me down and bum barred me with wolfie shit? Why wouldn't you just let me go, I'm not of any worth to you." I claimed finally speaking up.

This seemed to had taken him off guard since he stared ahead for a few moments before turning his attention to me.

"I'm- I'm sorry. There's no way you would've known that it's my instinct to chase you if you run. All male wolves have that desire especially alphas." He bit his lip taking a quick glare at me.

I looked at him curiously raising an eyebrow.

"To chase me? You should've had no issue letting me go, this is a fucking kidnapping."

"Well if you make it sound like that then yes I kidnapped my own mate. It's amazing that my wolf even picked a mate since lycans aren't made to have mates from birth our wolves pick our own. I was able to find you in a day. One day, it could've taken me years to find you. Then to let you run away and to fall in love with someone else wasn't an option."

He seemed angry, but almost sad at the same time especially when he got to the last sentence about me falling in love with another.

I took a moment to focus on the passing trees to try to get any type of understanding of what he was talking about.

"Are you saying I'm your mate?"

He looked down at me and gave me a nod

"You are, a mate is a soulmate. Every wolf gets a mate when he turns 18, but since I'm a Lycan our wolves choose our mates and my wolf's choice was you."

"So you expect me to fall in love with you?"
I restated.

"Well yes. That's how mates work, but since you're a human you can't feel any of the connections to me like I have to you. I've heard of alphas changing their mates to wolves when they marked them even though-"

I cut him off. "You're not changing me nor will I become a wolf or Lycan of any type. I'm just regular old River and that's it, I'm free to love who I want and it certainly isn't going to be you."

His emotions seemed to have taken a pause but he kept walking. "You're meant to be with me, you'll be a Lycan too, you'll be my Luna and you'll give me an heir."

"I'm not having sex with a man I just met let alone having a baby this young." I frowned.

I've had dreams of moving to Europe and studying at one of their many universities and possibly meeting the man of my dreams there, but my heart dropped at the thought of that being taken away from me.