4 Not home any longer

Dahlia's POV Continued

"Just realizing you are no longer home little Alpha? I can smell your fear, you know."

He said as he began circling around me.

"You ran into me, you came running with tears streaming down your face, in a wedding dress at that. You say that 'You were' supposed to marry the boy that should become Beta to your own pack, isn't that right?

Yet what I'm trying to understand is why you would run away from a mate" He sniffed the air around me, "One you have mated with, yet you bear no mark from him. Tell me Alpha Dahlia Knight, why have you run away?"

He stepped back in front of me, his eyes still black as night as he stared straight into my soul.

"I rejected him."

His eyes went wide as he stood there looking at me.

"When did you do this?"

"I rejected him, I found him balls deep inside an Omega.

Then ran from that damn hall I was to marry him in."

I slammed my mouth shut after I spoke, I can't believe I had said that out loud, I'm such an idiot.

"Did he accept this rejection of yours?"

I shook my head but raised my chin when I smirked to myself.

"He may not have accepted it, but I felt the tether snap. I am no longer bound to him. He may feel the connection but I never will again."

"You went through a rejection, to your fated mate, yet here you stand, strong, as if it didn't just happen?"

"My wolf absorbed most of the impact, allowing me to stand up straight and do what I did, then run. My mother, she will be looking for me, my father, well he will be furious, even more so now."

"Why now?"

I looked up at him as his eyes locked into mine, almost taking my breath away. I don't know what it is but I feel this strange pull towards him when he looks me in the eye. My breathing seemed to pick up, quickening as I stood there, my heart racing making me feel a few beads if sweat ran down the back of my neck under my hair.

"Little wolf, are you going to answer me or stand there staring, not that I truly mind the fear yet lust you hold in your eyes as you look at me."

"Furious because I ran into your territory after rejecting and running from the wedding he was so adamant on me having.

A Beta's wife rather than an Alpha female so my brother can take the rank right, no one in the Knight family has ever produced a female, well, until me. He isn't exactly fond of me."

I snapped my lips closed, what the hell is wrong with me, talking to him so freely about my life, or anything to do with my pack and father.

'Alanah?'

A whimper, that was all I heard from her. She was still in so much pain from the rejection, losing her mate. It doesn't matter how shifty he was, or the fact that his own wolf allowed him to act in such a way after feeling our bond, she is still suffering the pain of it.

"So I should allow you to return or I should bring you back with me to my pack house."

My eyes went wide when it hit me that technically he could put me in his dungeons if he so chose to, then choosing to not shift so I wouldn't ruin the dress wouldn't matter, it would be ruined no matter what.

An Alpha female, let alone the one of his hated rival, I'm perfect bait to draw my father out, or so he may believe. Knowing my father wouldn't come for me, he would say I chose my fate by being dumb enough to run across the borders and into enemy territory, or even say that I did it intentionally.

"And which will you be choosing?"

He circled me again, making me feel rather self conscious when I felt his body heat pressing into my back as he sniffed up my neck sending a chill down my spine as my core tightened, my eyes went wider than ever before and I felt myself dampen my panties.

Why is this arousing me? I should feel nothing but fear yet all I want is for him to press my body against the tree, lift my dress, be able to feel his hand run up my inner thigh before he... STOP!

What the actual hell is wrong with me?

His hands wrapped around my waist, they engulfed me with their size. Looking down I could see his fingers touching showing off either the sheer size of him or exactly how tiny my waist is in this corset dress.

'I wonder if he could do that without the corset?'

A whimper but no response from Alanah still, I hated not having her to speak to, it makes me feel rather empty.

I suddenly turned my body around, looking up at this beast of a man standing directly into my body, his eyes traveling to my lips.

"I think I will keep you. If your father wants you, he can come and get you, if not, I've found myself a bride."

My eyes felt as if they were going to bulge from my head when his hands squeezed my waist, his tongue ran across his lips before he smirked, his eyes swirling with a darkness that made my heart skip a beat.

"Unless you object to that, express that now or forever hold your peace, as they say."

"I... um... I don't know how I feel or what I think about this. If I actually ask to go back home, would you let me?"

My voice sounded meek, it came out small and breathy as his scent started to fill my senses.

"If you tell me you want to go home, I will take you home."

His right hand leaving my waist, it running up the side of my body sending a strange sensation through me as my breath hitched.

"Can I... um..."

I couldn't seem to get the words out, honestly the thought of going back home now, it felt overwhelming, hard, disappointing. My mother's face crossed through my mind, how sad she would be without me, but then my father's face crossed through my mind, his anger burning through his eyes made me shiver.