Chapter Five: Rejected?

Erika’s POV

I stiffened as the huge man that had just addressed all of us pointed me out from the crowd of girls. I had thought that I could hide in the middle there and make myself so invisible.

Some of the girls around me pushed me out and I walked slowly to the stage with my head bent hoping one of them would not raise the kind of questioning I had gotten in my room earlier today.

I wouldn’t have imagined that I would be fighting for my life so desperately amidst a pack of wolves.

“Follow me.” He commanded the moment I walked up to where he was. I nodded gently and followed after him, the difference in our height putting a distance between us as each of his strides was about four of mine.

“Hurry up, you don’t want to keep the Alpha waiting.” He said with a tinge of impatience in his tone making me start to jog after him.

After some minutes, we stopped in front of a mansion, even the richest man in my town didn’t have a house this huge. The front gates were adorned with golden howling wolf statues that seemed extremely ferocious to me.

The gates opened automatically and the buff man led me into the house and then stopped in front of a door.

For a brief moment, I had a feeling like I was being presented to some kind of king. But there’s no way I would be that unlucky right?

“Wait here, you will be ushered in.” The man that led me here said and then turned to leave. My heart lurched in fear. How was he supposed to know I was here?

“How would he know I’m here?” I asked, raising my voice slightly before he could go too far.

“Dummy, I told him using the mind link already.” He answered dismissively and left.

I had read supernatural books, the kind that was supposed to remain a writer’s imagination that you were allowed to experience and while the whole idea was thrilling in fantasy, the reality was starting to prove that it was not the same anymore.

Was I supposed to be able to communicate with him using some mind link?

While I was still lost in my thoughts, the door opened and I felt my mind go blank the moment I looked at the man that stood in the doorway.

He was huge! Just by standing there, he was taking up the whole space and even though he wasn’t as wide as the man that had led me here, he seemed to command a kind of authority just by standing there and breathing.

“Mate.” He growled, the intensity of the growl sent shivers and vibrations through my smile and I brought myself to look at his face.

His face was nothing as I had imagined. With sparkling blue eyes and the most beautiful features I had ever seen, he looked nothing like the growl from now or even how commanding his presence felt.

But did he say, mate? Or was it maid he said?

Without another word, he pulled me in through the door, and it seemed like he hadn’t even exerted any force at all.

“I have waited so long for you.” He whispered, his breath fanning my neck as he pushed me against the door and leaned in close.

He smelled like I imagined nature will with a hint of some musk. Although I was uncomfortable with how close he was, I didn’t dare to say anything.

“What’s your name little mate?” he asked using his free hand to trail from my cheeks to my neck. I was ticklish, something I only realized when Anita became my roommate, and right now, even when I felt like I could lose my life any minute, I was struggling not to laugh.

The alpha man kept peering into my eyes like he wanted to see something. Would he see that I was human and not a part of them?

“Where’s your wolf?” He asked with crinkled brows and a glint of disappointment flashed through his blue orbs.

I wanted to say something different, yet I couldn’t bring myself to lie. “I’m human,” I muttered weakly hoping he wouldn’t kill me off at this very moment.

Surprise morphed into a rage in his blue orbs as he looked at me like I was a ghost. “How are you here if you aren’t part of us?” He growled as he exerted force on my arm.

“Damn Sebastian!” He cursed the moment I told him what had happened to get me into their world.

“The moon goddess decided that after my years of mating, what I deserved was a filthy weak human as my mate.” He murmured with scorn and disgust leaving me by the wall while he walked into the large room.

“I, Alpha Killian Strox, reject you, this filthy human as my fated mate at this very moment. May the bond be broken and may we be provided more suitable mates.” Alpha Killian spat with disgust clouding his feature and I smiled, a bitter one that didn’t mirror how much pain I was feeling.

I should be happy, happy that I would perhaps be thrown out of the pack since he had discovered I was human, and yet, there was this searing pain in my heart that had me clenching my fists tightly just to endure it

“Get out.” He growled, the feral sound of it sent deep fear through making me shiver involuntarily.

I wondered if I was supposed to get out and run away from here. I didn’t even know the way back. Before I could summon the courage, the doors opened and two men dragged me out of Killian’s presence.

‘Damn this mind link thing.’