Chapter 4

Blake:

“What the hell was that?” Dad asked the second everyone left the dining table. 

I simply raised an eyebrow as an answer before getting up and walking out of the room, heading to my bedroom which just happened to be next to my wife’s. Mum’s orders, not mine.

“Blake Knight…”

“I am the Alpha of this pack, and unless the woman learns to respect me…”

“She just got here” mum snapped and I gave her a smile.

“Then she would learn not to cross her limits” I said calmly “she dared cross her limits on me, my mate…”

“Your mate is dead, Blake, get that drilled…”

I growled, stopping mum from what she was about to say, and noticing the sensitivity of the topic, dad pulled her back behind him “you two are the only elders allowed in this mansion, you know that the others have their own villas in the compound. However, if you two keep interfering in my decisions and life…”

“Is that a threat?” Dad asked.

“Take it as a warning, a pack can only have one Alpha, and you yourself chose to resign your position” I said glaring at dad before walking inside my room and sitting on my bed. My chest ached as I processed everything that has happened throughout the day. 

Me getting married.

A woman, a stranger might I add, entering my life.

The pain I felt despite my mate being dead, at the fact that it seemed like I was cheating her love. She had been killed right before my eyes a year back, having been pregnant with my baby, the pack was attacked. Her and my unborn daughter met their fate that night.

I ran my fingers through my hair as pain made my wolf, Ares, whimper. He had been silent since her death, occasionally warning me not to do something that would end up killing me, but I wasn’t as stupid as not to know that he too wanted to die.

Forcing myself to lay down, I knew that I needed to get some sleep if I was to be able to do anything progressive tomorrow. Work had been delayed somehow due to everything that happened, things that I needed to do this evening were postponed until tomorrow morning after getting into as many arguments.

My bedroom door was knocked and I sighed before standing up to open the door, smirking when I caught sight of Sasha who was looking at me with hungry eyes “I heard that you were angry, and thought maybe, just maybe, you could use a hand, mouth, or even something a little deeper?”

I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her inside before she could say another word, pinning her to the wall. She bit her bottom lip as she noticed the lust in my eyes, our breaths mixing for a second.

“You came at the exact right time”

“Don’t I always?”

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I woke up to Sasha running her finger over my toned stomach. Her eyes were fixed on my chest as she lay nude against me. The two of us had slept late last night, she had passed out after her fourth orgasm. I was surprised to see her awake before me, but then again, she did sleep a while before I did. 

“Good morning” she said, smiling.

“Good morning, love” I said softly. I tightened my arms around her before cupping her cheeks and connecting our lips together “thank you for last night”

“I am always here if you need me” she smiled as she spoke and I ran my finger over her jawline. I wasn’t as stupid as to fall for her sweet talk, but I wasn’t going to waste someone who I knew was willing to please me when she knew that her own mate had rejected her. That was mainly the reason why I had allowed myself to lay a finger on her, else I wouldn’t have thought about touching her.

“I know” was my simple answer before I untangled myself from her and got out of bed. Covering my lower half with a blanket, I earned myself an eyebrow from Sasha.

“You do realize that you were buried deep inside me last night, right?” Sasha asked.

“I do, but I would be jumping you here and now if I walk naked in front of you, and judging by you passing out…” I raised an amused eyebrow at her before walking into the bathroom to freshen up. Hearing the bedroom door unlock as Sasha walked out of the bedroom a while later.

It was a silent agreement between the two of us, at least from my side, I wanted no attachment. Though I knew her own reasons for wanting to be around me, one which mainly included power, the second was revenge. She wanted to prove to her mate that she could find someone better than he was, and in all reality, even I wasn’t as stupid as to want to get myself into such arguments. The woman had brought it on herself to be rejected, but she wouldn’t understand if anyone tried to explain, and I personally didn’t care about doing so. She did her job in satisfying, and in return, she too was satisfied.

I quickly showered and got ready for work. My eyes caught sight of Natalia’s room which was still closed, I could hear her heartbeat inside the room, and smell her scent. These two facts indicated that she was either asleep, or just didn’t want to walk out of the room. Both options didn’t matter to me anymore than she did.

I walked down the stairs to find mum and dad sitting in the living room, neither one of them was in the dining room for breakfast “don’t wait for me, I’m headed to work”

“We need to talk, Blake” mum said, making me stop my tracks.

“What did I do this time?” I asked sarcastically.

“You didn’t do anything out of the ordinary, but your father and I believe that it would be best for us to go and live in one of the villas. As our Alpha, it is customary for us to ask for your permission…”

“Permission granted, choose whichever one you like, and I’ll be sure it is set for you in a short period of time” I said, stopping mum from finishing her sentence.

“When have you become this heartless, Blake?” Dad asked me, frowning in confusion.

“The second you all, no exception, chose that it would be fit for me to ignore my love for my mate, dead or alive. Set me to marry a woman that I didn’t know, a woman who is human, or in her case, an element manipulator, funny part is, you both see yourselves as correct and I as the bloody monster” I said glaring at them both “I am no longer a child, and I have work, therefore, please do find someone else to waste your energy on”

“You are crossing your limit”

“I have said nothing but the truth, if that is considered as crossing limits; then I apologize” with that said, I turned to the door and walked out of the house before any of them could respond.

My driver who was waiting for me by the door nodded and opened the car’s door for me, waiting for me to enter the car before closing the door. His eyes met mine through the rear mirror once he buckled himself in.

“To work, then I would need you to get a few things done for mum and dad”