I REJECT YOU AS MY MATE...

CHAPTER ONE

ELIJAH’S POV

The first shall be the last and the last shall be the first.

My father loved that statement and I think I’m going to adopt it.

Ten years.

Ten solid years, we have been oppressed by the West Wing Pack. Their Alpha was a heartless man. He always sent his soldiers to come to our pack and abduct our young maidens so he could turn them into servants in his pack.

Whenever he had a building project, he would order my father to provide laborers for him and my father had no choice but to obey him else a much more catastrophic fate will befall us.

We lived in fear and always wondered what his next move would be.

I can still recall a time when that Alpha had ordered my father and I to his pack and when we got there, he asked us to work in his farmlands.

Such humiliation..

He never cared about the fact that my father was an Alpha and needed to be feared, he always treated my father like a piece of trash and I hated him for that.

My greatest prayer was for the Moon goddess to Redeem my pack from the hands of that tyrant Alpha and she did.

One fateful night, my mum, dad and I were having dinner when a letter came in from someone I don’t know till this day. No body knew how the letter got in, the guard claimed he just saw it at the castle gate and it was addressed to my father, the Alpha.

The letter contained a detail attack plan of our enemy Alpha. It also had a note stating that he planned on ambushing our pack at midnight in order to have us all killed so he can take our land and rule over our subjects at Alpha.

It also contained the exact number of soldiers he was bringing and the armies entire weak point.

Whoever did that must have been very close to the Alpha, but decided to betray him.

We trusted the letter from the anonymous sender and prepared for the attack.

My father prepared soldiers two times the number that was coming to attack us and made sure they hid at strategic points of the pack.

Once the Alpha and his soldiers came, we finished them off and won the battle, but I also lost my father in the battle.

However, I’m grateful that I have been able to redeem my subjects from that tyrant Alpha.

I had intended to enslave every member of the West Wing Pack, but after so much persuasion from my mother, I have changed my mind and decided to let them live freely in their pack, but they will be under my leadership.

That doesn’t mean I’m just going to let this go, I have a special request to ask of them and they will have no choice but to grant it for me.

“A penny for your thoughts” A familiar voice speaks from behind and I when I turn to look, a wide smile appears in my lips when I see my fiancé, Ella.

Ella isn’t my mate, but I have chosen her to be my mate and future Luna. Her mate died from a deadly disease and for me, I still haven’t found my real mate and I don’t have time to wait for her.

My father is gone, that means I have to take his position as Alpha of this pack and I cannot do that without a Luna by my side, so I decided to make Ella my mate.

Now, you must be asking what I’m going to do if I happen to find my mate, well… when I reach that bridge, I will cross it, for now, I’m just going to be with Ella.

She is fierce, confident, gorgeous and such a strong girl. She will make a perfect Luna.

“Why is it taking you so long to get ready?” She asks making her way towards me.

“I’m actually done, I was just… thinking”

“Thinking?” She asks with a creased brow. “What about? If I may ask”

“About this victory, about our redemption, about everything this entire pack had been through. It’s overwhelming and I just want to believe that this isn’t a dream” I reminisce and a solid smack lands on my left cheek. I look at Ella utterly stunted with my eyes wide open. “What was that for?”

“Just a wake up call. This isn’t a dream.. You fought that battle and you won. You just redeemed your subjects from tyranny and now you are the great Alpha you are supposed to be. This is reality” She explains and I nod my head as I smile.

“Yeah, you are right. This is not a dream.”

“Come on, everyone is waiting”

“Are the West Wing Pack members here already?”

“They arrived about thirty minutes ago”

“Let’s do this”

I say as I lead the way out of my bedroom.

Ella and I go into the large hall where the Peace Meeting is supposed to hold and the population in it out-stands me. I invited just a few members, but it seems they all decided to show up.

Well that is not a problem, it’s a good thing they will all be here to hear what I have to say.

Everyone in the hall rises on their feet as we walk in and…. Boy!

I have never felt so great in my life.

I walk over to the stage where the mic is located and stand in front of it.

I look at my mother who’s smiling at me and I internally roll my eyes.

This is all her plan.

I clear my throat and take off the microphone from the stand. I’m not going to stand here and talk like some journalist reporting news.

“You know… I’m tempted to say Welcome to the Far North Pack, but I dare not make that mistake. Looking at you all in here, I have just one thing on my mind, to have you all killed…” I stop on my tracks and look at the crowd. “No, that would be too easy. I just want to enslave of all you, make your lives miserable the same way your Alpha did you to us when he was still…” My words are cut short by the sweet smell of baked cake with vanilla flavor. I halt on my steps and inhale deeply with eyes closed so I can get more of the sweet smell. All the hair on my body stand erect and my heart does a serious of summersaults when the smell gets stronger.

My wolf, Kane, jerks up abruptly within me and blood pauses in my veins when he calls the word… “mate”. I instantly shoot my eyes open and my breath hitches when my eyes meet with the most charming emerald green eyes I have ever seen in my entire life. Those eyes belong to a tall slender lady who has just walked into the hall and I very well know who she is.

Her name is Cassie and she is daughter of my enemy Alpha and that makes her my enemy too.

How on earth can my mate be my enemy?

I close my eyes for a brief second, hoping that when I open, she will be gone or the face will change to someone else, but when I do, I still see the face with the same emerald green eyes staring at me.

I wave a disappointment washes through me and I let out a heavy sigh of frustration.

Destiny can sure play dirty games at times.

“Cassie!” I call and she jumps in fright. “Follow me” I instruct as I place the mic on the stand and that earns me confused glances from both mum and Ella. I’m going to explain everything to them later, I need to sort this out right here and now.

“Alpha Elijah” Cassie calls with a tiny voice and I close my eyes and deeply inhale her very sweet Pheromone that only I can perceive.

The mate bond is so strong that the decision I’m about to make right now causes my heart to bleed, but I have to do it.

I slowly turn around to face her and she immediately bows her head down in submission.

“Lift up your head” I command and she obeys.

I take a few steps closer to her and when we are just a few inches away from each other, I stop and scan her from head to toe.

She’s got a perfect figure, curves at the right places and would pass for the most beautiful She-wolf in the world, but the deeds of her father will keep ringing on my mind and I can’t help but hate her.

My wolf , Kane, doesn’t want me to hate her.

I don’t want to hate her, but I choose to, because she has to suffer for what her father did to me and my subjects.

“By now, you must have noticed that we are mates” I speak and she nods silently.

“Yeah”

“That’s rather unfortunate, giving how much hatred I have in my heart for you. This is a huge mistake and I will die before I accept you as my mate with and Luna. Cassie, I Alpha Elijah, reject you as my mate and future Luna. I would never get involved with the daughter of my enemy , so you are free to go out there and find love and protection in some other man’s arms, because you will never find it in mind. Stay clear of my part if you want to stay alive.”

“But… Alpha Elijah. You can’t do this” She cries.

“Well, I just did. Now get back into the hall before I snap your neck and end your miserable life.” I command and she scampers away like a scared rodent.

“You dare reject our mate?” Kane asks in anger within me.

“Kane, I’m the one in control and yes I have rejected her. There is nothing you can do about that” I shut him out and make my way into the hall.

This whole charade just got more interesting.