Alpha Axel POV
Gianna broke the kiss; it felt like a quick peck to the lips. She had a fearful look on her face; I didn't know if she was afraid of me or if she was afraid of her mate, who froze in place behind her. Either way, I found her situation amusing.
I curled my hand on her head and smashed my lips against hers. She didn't fight against me but gave in easily and allowed me to slowly kiss her in front of her mate. Her lips were soft and tempted me with desires to devour her mouth with my tongue, but I resisted the urge and slowly pulled away. The thumb of my fingers moves through her red cheeks. This time I couldn't stop the amused smile from coming to my lips.
"Gianna?!" Alpha Nathan's voice was broken; the expression on his face made me feel like kissing his mate again. "What is this? How could you have done this to me on our wedding day?"
I left Gianna as she turned around and faced her mate; for a second, she looked guilty, but the emotions were quickly replaced by anger and hatred. "What you did is even worse."
I made hand gestures to his neck, where the female wolf he had sex with left a noticeable love bite for his mate to see. As an alpha, my senses were stronger than other werewolves, the scent of another woman wrapped strongly around him, to show that his curseful betrayal has been recent, and yet he wants to play the victim and act as though he was innocent.
A pale look flashed on Alpha Nathan's face as he tried to use his hand to cover what had been left on his neck; the love bite left him with shame; his hand couldn't save the relationship he had already destroyed.
"I, Gianna Benton, reject you, alpha Nathan Holland, as my mate." Gianna said in a cold tone, If she felt any pain from her words, she didn't show it. "This wedding isn't happening," she stated firmly, and strangely at that moment, I thought she was cool.
Gianna Benton. I knew who she was before she had bumped into me by mistake. Secretly, I have been doing research about her family and the mysterious blood that flows in their veins that makes her family special and well respected for generations. When Alpha Nathan sent me his wedding invitation, I didn't want to come, but using his invitation as an excuse to come to his pack and find a wife, Gianna's sister, to be exact, was too perfect to miss out on. What I didn't know was that what I wanted would come running to me.
If Gianna thinks that I'm going to let her go after the words she muttered to me, then she was dreaming; I'm never letting her go, not after she willingly threw herself at me.
Alpha Nathan gave out a dry laugh; his regret was replaced by anger as he said, "You reject me?" He questioned in disbelief, "Who do you think you are to reject me?" He had a mad look in his eyes as he slowly approached Gianna.
She trembles slightly as she moves her body backwards, closer to me. Her pitiful situation was perfect, because once I saved her from her crazy mate, she would feel indebted to me and would be willing to marry me, not that she had a choice either way; I was going to make sure that I got what I wanted.
"Back off." I stood between Alpha Nathan and Gianna.
Alpha Nathan was angry, but his sense wasn't totally gone, because he didn't make any attempts to attack me. I was in the mood to please the woman who was hiding behind me so that I could use her without her knowledge. If Alpha Nathan let himself make the mistake of attacking me, I was to make sure that I put on a nice show, although we were both alphas; not all alphas were equal, and Alpha Nathan is far below me.
Alpha Nathan sighed heavily, roughly ran his finger through his hair in frustration, and said softly, "Come back to me, Gianna; let's forgive each other and move on away from this." He stretched his hand out for Gianna to take hold of it, but she ignored him and didn't even bother to look his way.
I smirk at Alpha Nathan, his mate is mine now, and to prove that to him, I repeat his actions and say to Gianna, "Come to me." She took my hand.
"Gianna, if you reject me, you are never going to find another mate, never again; no man would want to love a weak woman like you."
Gianna chuckled as she placed a hand on my chest. "I already found another mate; Alpha Axel is my second chance mate." She stared into my eyes pleadingly. I was so impressed with how smoothly she lied; it sounded so true that I would have believed her if I were Alpha Nathan.
"I didn't come here to attend your wedding; I came to take my mate away." I held Gianna's hand. "We are getting married tomorrow; of course you are invited, Alpha Nathan. The wedding might end up happening today if my mate insists. I brushed a piece of Gianna's hair that was covering her eyes; the shock on her face was amusing. "After all, I know that she can't wait to get married."
Nathan walked away; he was speechless.
"Are you sure about this?" beta Carl asked, and he looked at me through the rearview mirror from the driver's seat. "It's not too late for you to change your mind; our plan was to get her sister, not her." He said in a stubborn manner, "From what I heard, her sister is better than her. As alpha, you must be careful with who you choose to be your Luna."
I smiled at Carl's lecture; he was making a big deal out of nothing. I wasn't marrying because of love; "It doesn't matter which of the sisters becomes my Luna; all that matters is the blood that flows in their veins."
Gianna was outside the car talking with her parents, who were probably giving her good advice to run away from me. I was waiting in the car; my car was soundproof, so my conversation with Carl couldn't be heard. After Alpha Nathan's rejection, he lied to his pack members that Gianna cheated on him with me, and because of that he was breaking off their marriage. His pack members, along with Gianna's parents, hated her. I'm so happy that they resented her and want her out of their pack; that way she won't have silly thoughts of coming back to her pack after leaving with me.
"Let's go, Carl," I said after Gianna sat down in the car.
She was nervous as she turned to me and said, "About the wedding..."
"There's no negotiation about that; you begged me, and I accepted," I held her chin. "I'm the one who is in charge of the time and day of our wedding; take it as payment for my services. What I did earlier with you wasn't for free." My fingers brushed her lips; she pulled her face away from me and stared at the window.
You are trapped with me. Gianna Benton, from today onwards, you belong only to me.
Gianna POV“What do you have against Carl?” I asked, swimming towards Riley. She was sitting down at the edge of the pool, moving her legs slowly in the water.Riley was taken aback by my question; her sunglasses nearly fell off her hair, but she quickly adjusted it. “I don't have anything against beta Carl.” She lied nervously.Riley didn't know that I had noticed her sudden changes of mood, along with how she gets weirdly nervous when Carl is around. There is something about him she wasn't telling me; I'm sure of it.I don't know much about Carl, but seeing the way he handled Vera, without Axel and me knowing, must mean that he's not a bad guy.“Since you two are on good terms, I'm sure you won't mind if I call him over to come and hang out with us.” I watched Riley's expression, testing her. I expected her to stop me, but she didn't.“You called for me, Luna.” Carl bowed his head.I put on my robe and turned to look at Riley; she kept her eyes down at the water, her feet had stoppe
Gianna POVI stared at the phone on my desk for the 10th time today, but there was still no call from Axel. Normally at this time he would try to piss me off by giving me more tasks than I could handle, but Axel had been calmed lately; he's not trying to make me quit my job anymore.“I know, it's so vexing, isn't it?” Aurora asked and continued to rant on what I didn't care about.For a second, I almost forgot that Aurora was in my office. Now that Axel wasn't troubling me anymore, I had so much free time that I didn't know what to do with it. In the meantime, Aurora was exploiting my time and thought that the angry expression on my face was a reaction to whatever gibberish she was saying.Riley warned me about getting into a conversation with Aurora; although she was a nice person, she talks too much. Once she starts moving her mouth, no one knows when she is going to stop. And unfortunately for me, I wasn't the only one with too much time on my hands; Aurora too, that's why she was
Gianna POVI was overly self-conscious of Axel's hand that held my waist; he sometimes drew little patterns on my back. We were at the party held in celebration of the company's growth. I was putting on a long black body-hugging gown; the gown was decorated with little shiny silver stones, and the back of the gown was a little open… okay, maybe it exposed more skin than I felt comfortable with, but Riley insisted that I should buy the gown, that Axel was going to love it. I should have known that I couldn't trust her when she convinced me with a mischievous smile plastered on her face.Axel was putting on a tuxedo; my heels brought my height a bit closer to his. Since we came to the party, Axel has refused to let me go; he held me in a way that felt like he was giving a warning to every male werewolf around that I was his. The thought of it made my heart flutter even though I knew that it was wrong because Axel and I didn't share that sort of special relationship.“Where do you think
Gianna POVI waited anxiously outside Axel's office. He was with Dr. Gatlin; I tried listening to their conversation, but their voices were too low for me to hear anything through the door.His office isn't soundproof, so why can't I hear them?! I thought angrily as I leaned my ears closer to the door; they were discussing about me.“Gianna.” Axel called from inside.His sudden voice startled me; I almost lost my footing as I hit my head against the door.“You can come in,” Axel said.I nervously stepped into Axel's office, and Dr. Gatlin sat down on a seat close to Axel, who was leaning on his desk with his arm crossed over his chest. Axel was putting on a blue button-up long sleeve that was tucked into his black suit pants; his suit jacket was left over the head of his seat. Every piece of clothing I have seen him wear looks good on him.“For now, Dr. Gatlin and I have agreed that he is only going to be studying your blood.”I sucked in a deep breath as I took notes of Axel's words
Gianna POV“This place is amazing, Anna.” Riley openly gawked at the pack house. Well, the house was more like a mansion than a normal average house.I smiled warmly at the nickname Riley gave me. After becoming friends with Riley, I thought she would get tired of me and leave me after seeing how uncool I was; after all, I was boring; I was not as fun as Quinn, who could make anyone like her. But Riley was still by my side; she hung out with me and treated me like normal. Others at the company got a little tense around me because I was Luna.“This is my first time being inside the pack house; most times, Alpha Axel invites everyone in the pack for an official ceremony; omegas are usually not allowed inside.” Riley avoided my eyes and put her head down. Even though she won't say it, I could tell that she was ashamed of being an omega.Omegas are normally treated differently from other werewolves. I'm not an omega, so I won't even try and pretend as though I understand what Riley had go
Axel POV“Are you even listening to me?” Carl asked in a frustrated tone.Times like this make me question myself if he had forgotten that I was his alpha. If I didn't know how much Carl cared for me, I wouldn't let him raise his voice at me like this. Carl felt like a brother to me even though he's in no way related to me.“Yes, yes, I shouldn't let myself get too attached to my wife.” I replied in relation to Carl's advice and watched him as he paced around my office as though he owned the place. But he was only checking around to make sure that no one was listening to us. Any conversation that had to do with Gianna was confidential; not many people were allowed to know what we were up to.“I'm serious, Alpha. I understand that you want to provide for her and make her comfortable in the little time she had to spend with you, but don't make it any more than that. I don't like the way you act around her; don't forget that we only need to use her and nothing else.”“I asked her for a c
Gianna POV I patted my tummy, hoping to feel that familiar baby bump that I was used to, but it was gone. I was about to wonder where my baby was when I heard a baby cry from a baby crib by the side of my bed.“My baby.” I got up from the bed to carry my baby but stopped when I saw a baby whose face was covered in blood.“You wicked woman!” Alpha Nathan said as he strangled me from behind. “You killed my child.”Quinn snickered as she smiled at me, “This is all your fault, Gianna; you should have signed the divorce papers.” “Gianna! Gianna! Wake up!”A scream came out of my mouth as my eyes snapped open, and I saw Alpha Axel.Where am I? Who is he?“Are you okay?” Alpha Axel tried stretching his hand to me, but I quickly shifted away from him as I remembered Alpha Nathan's hands that strangled me to death.Alpha Axel, I thought as my memories started coming back to me. I was breathing heavily and was completely covered in sweat.‘It was just a dream,’ I told myself in order to get m
Gianna POV“What do you think?” Axel asked. From the look on his face, I could tell that he wanted me to be impressed, and I was. What woman won't be impressed by a man who listens to her and is willing to go this far?“Is there something on the list you don't like?” Axel glanced at the list and glared at Carl, who was responsible for arranging the list.“No, no, no,” I repeated, “The list is okay.” There was nothing wrong with the list Carl made. It literally contains every woman's dream job.Last night I spoke to Axel about how bored I was staying in the pack house all day. I told him of how I would like to do something for myself. I thought he didn't listen to me when I spoke to him last night because he was sleepy, but now I know that I was wrong. Axel ordered Carl to get him a list of jobs that would pique my interest, not as though he was going to introduce me to a place but Axel was going to open a full store for me, and he was also willing to let me start a company of my own i
Gianna POVI opened the door to Axel's office, and just as I had heard from the maids in the house, he was surrounded by naked girls who were barely dressed."busted." His friend laughed at him. "I'm leaving," he said when I threw a death glare his way. The girls who were with Axel followed him out of the door; they didn't care that I was Axel's wife as they smirked at me.Not this again. I thought I wasn't going to let myself go through this again. My experience with Alpha Nathan was enough, and I don't need another."I want a divorce," I said with a strong voice, my hands on my waist as I stared at Axel, who was still sitting at his desk. He had a bored expression on his face and wasn't worried about my impossible request for a divorce; our marriage hadn't been up to a month. Nothing had happened between us; we both slept in separate rooms since I came to the pack. I barely bother to come out of my room. My foolish decision to marry Alpha Axel hits me every day after the day of our