Eleven.

Amaly POV

Slowly, I can feel my limbs again. Feeling groggy. What the hell happened last night. Was this a hangover? Can’t be. I don’t have a headache or anything.

I try to move but my body was feeling extra heavy from some sort. Like something is weighing me down. What’s with the tingling feeling and the sparks radiating through my body.

My eyes shot open.

Jaxxon.

Looking and digesting my surroundings. Where am I? I turned my head to the side to see the creature next to me. His hand draped across my stomach like he was hugging me to sleep. His head next to my shoulder with his nose right next to it. Like he was sniffing my skin.

Wait? Did I sleep with him? Oh goddess please tell me I wasn’t drunk and let him inside of me. ‘I wouldn’t have mind if you did,’ Akira says stretching in my head. I start panicking, like my heart was ready to jump out my chest.

And he stirs in his sleep.

“Princess…” he croaks out. Why does that sound so sexy in his morning tone?… “are you ok? You had me worried when you blacked out.”

I need to get out of this thought before he smells my arousal.

‘Let him wake you up’ Akira says yawning. ‘Mate have hard wood’

‘It’s morning wood, not hard wood’

‘Same thing. Same place. Same use.’

“Princess?” He says lifting his head to look at me with concern.

He is definitely gorgeous when he wakes. Wait, why am I here? Is this his room?

“Where am I?” I asked looking into his dreamy eyes.

And he chuckles.

“Why am I here? How am I here? How did I get here?? Ohhh fuck, did we sleep together?”

“Would that be a bad thing if we did sugar lips?” He smirks.

“Jaxxon… this is not right at all…”

“What’s not right? Your mines to claim! I have every right to claim what’s mine!” He pushed himself up, to sit up on the bed to look at me.

He didn’t have a shirt on and I could see how fine this man truly was. His bare chest out showing every rigid ab he had.

Getting to my senses.

“No, you don’t.” Getting out of the bed to realize these weren’t even my clothes but his. “Did you undress me? Oh goddess, did you violate me while I was out too??”

Suddenly a vision appeared, two of his omegas that I recognize appeared at his door. Him stepping out the closet and handing them the clothes to dress me with, while he steps to the bathroom and shower. And the vision dissipates.

“What’s wrong? Did you see something?” Jaxxon asked concerned as he tries to come to me but I put my hands up to stop him.

“Nothing. Where’s my car? I need to go home.”

“I brought you here for the pack doctor to see you.”

“So instead of taking me home and letting our own pack doctor tend to me, you bring me to your pack house, to your bedroom for your pack doctor to see?”

I look around and start grabbing my belongings.

“Where are you going love?” Jaxxon says with a hurt tone.

“Don’t call me that. Anywhere but here….”

“Please, can’t you talk to me?……”

“No.”

I take off running down the stairs hoping Olivia or Marcus was around. After running down 4 flights of stairs, I make it to the bottom and see Luna Maria walking.

“Oh Hi dear. Your awake. Please let’s go to the office.” Luna Maria tells me, guiding me in the direction of the office.

“Why? I just want to go home.” Knowing I don’t want to be here any longer.

“You will darling. Your parents are already inside talking. They arrived not too long ago.” I turned to look at her.

Something is up and whatever I’m about to find out, I know I wouldn’t like.

We both look at the top of the stairs, Jaxxon is only in his briefs staring down at us. Apparently he slept half naked next to me. He looked like a God. His muscular body covered in tattoos. His biceps were huge that I never paid attention to it before. Standing straight with his six pack of abs seen clearly with his v line. Is that the outline of….??? Oh help me… Was I drooling?

I looked at his eyes to know his mother and him were mind linking each other. He looked back at me knowing I was checking his body out as he smirks. “Like what you see sugar lips?” He says. And I turned my head to look elsewhere trying to void the eye contact.

“Jaxxon Taylor. Go put on some real clothes. There’s guest here and I would not like the other she wolves looking at my son like a piece of meat. Nor would I believe his mate would like that either!” She says as she looks at me. “Once you’re dress, we’ll be in the office.”

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As we walk into their office, I notice the shifts in mood from those inside. My parents come to me and both hug me. They check for anything out of the ordinary, then my mother guides me to the couch.

In walks Jaxxon, dress in a solid navy single breast button up shirt, with matching navy trouser. He was dress to the crisp. He wore the word handsome very well. And here I was still in his tee shirt and some shorts. Not sure why he didn’t get me any of Olivia’s clothing.

He walks around the desk next to his father as he stands, looking at me. I could see in his eyes he was fighting for my attention.

“Amaly…” he starts.

Then suddenly different visions starts popping in my mind and surrounds me. Visions of those around me. I grabbed my forehead with one hand feeling like my head was spinning. “STOP!!” I screamed aloud and then the images stop.

My father kneels down in front of me “baby girl, what are you seeing? Are they visions?” He asks.

I look to my father, then to Jaxxon, tears on the edge of my eyes, “Visions of you commanding those that knew I was your mate. You hid me?”

“No princess, it’s not like that all…..”

“You all knew” as I looked at each person in the room. To see even Olivia and Marcus at the back of the room. “You all knew and hid it from me. Why?” I said with tears beginning to stream down my face.

Jaxxon starts to walk towards me, holding my hand up, “do not come any closer to me.” And he stops.

“Baby girl, you were not at the legal age to claim anyone as a mate. If Jaxxon had marked his claim on you when he knew, he would be held accountable for going against the wolf law. Only both mates can mark one another if they both scent one another at the rightful age. You know this.”

“Do not defend his actions father. He didn’t have to mark me. But the acknowledgment of his mate bond would have kept me grounded. And I would have felt secure of myself knowing who I wanted all along.”

“What?” Jaxxon replied, “you wanted to be with me? Before the mate bond?”

I turned to look at my best friend who looked heart broken as her brother also looked at her for an answer. She nods, crying as her tears fall and Marcus soothing her. I felt betrayed. Not just by my best friend but from everyone around me.

Slowly, I spoke “I do not want any of this. You hid from me and our mate bond for 2 years. I want to live like I did before I realized who you were to me.”

“W.. wh.. what?” Jaxxon stutters out.

“Honey. You don’t mean that.” My mother says.

I stood up with my chest held high and looked straight at Jaxxon. “I, Princess Amaly Ramirez of the Northern West Territory, reject you, Alpha Jaxxon Taylor as my fated mate!” I can hear Akira crying in the background watching as things play out. He runs to me and grabs my arms as I came crushing down to my knees. Grabbing my chest for the stabbing pain I was feeling like someone was squeezing my heart. Everyone around us had started to panic. I could feel what everyone was thinking.

He breaks and says, “I, Alpha Jaxxon Taylor reject your rejection and will never accept anyone else as my mate, but Princess Amaly Ramirez who is my one true goddess given mate” his tearful eyes, begging me to give him that chance. I shake my head, trying to release my arms from him.

He grabs hold of my face and looks into my eyes. “Your the one I’ve always wanted,” and then kisses me in front of everyone. I melt into the kiss for a second, but the memories rush back and I push him away with a bit of forced power. Power I haven’t really felt before. What was it?

I don’t want this. I don’t want him. ‘I do’ Akira cries.

How could everyone know and lie to my face.

“Baby girl..” father says, “not one soul can interfere with the mate bond. If anyone in this room interfered in your journey to the mate bond you shared with Jaxxon, It would have altered your destiny. The hostility you seek in your heart, you need to let it go. We’re descendants of the moon goddess herself, do you really think we would play with the life she has planned for our children?”

Was my father right?

“He is your mate. Gifted to you from the moon goddess. She chooses the one worthy of your heart. If her choosing isn’t good enough, are you willing to let go of all of it? She did well choosing Jaxxon as your equal. I know, and I’m sure everyone here knows that Jaxxon has always had your heart. Even when someone else had occupied it momentarily.”

Allen. He was talking about him knowing I had given myself to a chosen. But why did this hurt so much?

“Can we go home? Please?” I looked at my father. Ready to climb into my bed and sleep this off.

“Yes. Let’s go.” This time it was my mother. “Give her time son.” My mother tells Jaxxon.

Olivia tries to walk to me but I put my hand up to stop her, “You knew and knew how hurt I was Olivia. Please don’t bother.”, I say and walked away. I get into my fathers car, to see Jaxxon standing on the steps, disheveled.

Lost.

This really hurts. I was so confused.

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Jaxxon POV

She rejected me. She did it.

‘Asshole. I tell you. You scared. If mate no come back. I will leave for good too.’ Pyro interrupting my thoughts.

‘Pyro can you see I’m actually trying’

‘Mate hurt cause you hurt mate. Akira fight her. Why she wake angry, know nothing. Her power coming.

‘What power. Her visions?”

‘Yes. She be able read you mind. If you lie or no.’

What did she see? I’m going to her pack house and stay there.

I have to win her heart. Now that I know, I was always in hers.

I’ll give her a few days to rest but doesn’t mean I won’t start now.

‘Marcus’, I linked him

‘Yes, Alpha’

‘Send 4 dozen rose bouquets to the Princess. Make sure she knows it’s from me. Wait. Also bring me one rose so that I can place my scent on it’ at least I know it’ll trigger Akira to sniff my scent out and know it’s from us.

‘Uhh. Ok.’

‘Don’t hesitate on doing it.’

‘You don’t think she’ll toss it? After.. umm.. the rejection?’ He asked concerned.

‘She might but Akira will snatch the one rose with my scent. It’ll comfort her. That gesture alone will give me hope.’

‘Sure thing Alpha.’

I’ve got to start somewhere. I really wanted to sit down and let her know everything. From the beginning to the end. To let her know I truly wanted to court her when I found out she was destined to mine.

And Allen.

She needed to know that he knew. She needed to know the truth about how things went down and my true intentions that day. I never wanted to push her away, but knowing she had committed herself to him only triggered me.

Hearing her tell him that she loved him that day, killed me inside. That love should have been for me. My mate. He stole my mate from me to only abandon her when he found his. How unfair that truly was.

I’ll make her understand how much I valued her. How I always valued her.

Lost in my thoughts, I didn’t see Tiffany stroll into my office. No knock or introduction. She walks so confidently towards me and around my desk and stood in front of me. I looked at her with pure disgust.

She drops to her knees and her hands grabbing onto my thighs. Trying to run her hands up to my shaft, and it tries to go to my belt. I grabbed her wrists with one hand and yank her up and I stood tall.

“What the fuck do you think your doing?” Pyro lacing my voice. Tiffany starts to shake terrified.

“I… I… uhhh.. thought you would be happy to see me. I.. missed… you.” She stutters out. “I…. miss.. us.” I dropped her hands and grabbed her throat and slammed her against the wall as I held her up. Her feet dangling in the air.

“There is no us nor has it ever been. I have no intentions of ever being with you ever again. Never had intentions of you being with me. No intentions of making you luna. NO INTENTIONS OF YOU EVER BEING MY MATE!! You were a mistake. Understand this Tiffany!”, i said viciously.

I can hear Marcus and my father scrambling inside the office to get to me. Tiffany starts to sob as her hands are holding my wrist.

“But Jaxxon… you have always had my heart and I have always loved you.” She sobs out.

Only for that to infuriate me more as I toss her to the side and she lands on her ass.

“I have never had feelings for you. You were someone I just fucked.”

Staring at her, ready to rip her apart, “I, future Alpha of the Midnight Shadow Pack banish you, Tiffany Anderson from stepping foot into this pack house.”

Tiffany eyes bulged. “No!”

“Tiffany,” my father steps up and she looks at him and I knew my father. “I, Alpha Kane, current alpha of the Midnight Shadow Pack hereby banish you from entering the Midnight Shadow Pack or ever step foot on our pack lands.”

“Noooooooo. Please no. I love you Jaxxon!!” She cries and my father backslaps her.

“You dare insult my son by calling him by his name. Your a disgrace. Get out my of pack house and go back to yours. The next time you disrespect my son, I will not tolerate it any further. That is a promise.” He looks at her.

“Marcus, please escort Tiffany from the pack house and make sure she leaves our territory”, I say to my beta and he nods.

At the door, I see my sister with her arms crossed knowing that she deserved every bit of it. “I told you to stay away and this is what you got.” Olivia counters in. Looking at me, “I’ll go with Beta Marcus to make sure she leaves our grounds.” I nod knowing my sister would keep her word.