CHAPTER FOUR: THE ARRIVAL.

THE ARRIVAL. 

Kyra. 

Eighteen; the age when most girls were dreaming of prom dresses and college acceptance letters but for me it was a countdown to a fate I couldn't escape. 

It all began like a dream. Just yesterday I was told I was going to pay for a debt I did not owe. 

I stood looking out of my window watching the early morning rain send pangs of sound on the roof making me shiver as I waited for him. 

As the clock struck 12:00 in the afternoon as if  the rain was waiting for it to make a shrill sound, the sound of rain pounding against the windows suddenly began to pour slowly.

I have spent the eve of my birthday drowning in my fears, in my memories and in my diary. 

I stared down at my beautiful designer dress, a sense of uneasiness settled over me like a suffocating blanket 

It seems like I was lost in my thoughts or lost down memory lane for as soon as the sun began its journey through the sky there was a knock at my door. 

I froze my heart pounding in my chest as I struggled to summon the courage to answer ,with trembling hands I made my way to the door, my pulse raising with each step. 

I pulled  the door open ,standing before me was Rosa giving me her best smile and beneath those eyes I could see pain. 

Mother was gone and was quickly buried in the family tomb,it was something which was done in a hurry ,in order not to disturb the peace of the Pack, only a few wolves were attendant. 

She gave me a knowing look and I knew what it meant . I glanced back at my pink colored room giving it a last stare.

“He's there.” Came the short reply. 

I nodded numbly as I followed her downstairs ,my legs shaking beneath me. I was hoping to fall down and wake up from this dream but instead we reached the bottom of the stairs without that happening.

My heart pounding in my chest as fear and confusion rolled around me. 

I couldn't share the feeling of dread that lingered in the air like a heavy flog 

I thought about my mate. Will he be cruel? Will he treat me like trash ? The thought alone made me shrink. 

“He's waiting for you in the drawing room.” Rosa said softly her tone stunged with sympathy 

I swallowed hard, my heart hammering in my chest as I followed her down the hallway,it  still felt like a lead weight dragging me closer to a fate I couldn't escape from.

But I wished I had a choice to say no, to run away. I wanted to ask a thousand questions. Why didn't mother pay him off?

Why me ? why I was I chosen as a form of collateral 

Every wolf has a mate but mine was a stranger. I couldn't knock out the feeling of fear in me ,couldn't knock out the feeling of dread descending in me 

I was cold and alone and Rosa was the only family I had left in the whole world 

Most of the maids had left yesterday leaving the house cold and empty. 

When we reached the drawing room, Rosa stood at the doorway giving me reassuring smile before stepping aside to let me enter 

I took a deep breath and try smoothing non-existent wrinkles on my dress, staging myself for whatever lay beyond as I stepped into the room. 

He stood by the window, his back to me as he looked at the greenfield and the rain pouring down slowly.

The light overhead cast long shadows across the room and blurred  his features. 

“Kyra.”  He said in  one slow and commanding tone  without turning to face me .”I have been waiting for you .”

I felt a shiver run down my spine and the sound of his voice was deep and silky, a kind of voice that will make you want to dance, so sexy.

I shook my head

What was wrong with me ?

The air crackled with tensed silence 

“I have come for you .” He continued 

I tried to speak, to protest but the word formed in  my throat like a bubble that refused to burst .

Slowly he turned around to face me and I gasped.

I was met with a sight that stole my breath away. I couldn't breathe. 

There staring at me was the most handsome man I have ever seen ,his eyes were piercing shade of blue, cold and calculating as it bored into me 

His jaw was set in  a firm line which led into a thin sexy lips 

There was a sense of nobility in his demeanor as he towered over me making me look like a dwarf .

He was strikingly handsome and I, the prettiest girl in High School look like one of Cinderella's ugly sisters 

He was older than me though but he's young features gave him away 

I stood  there staring at him like a Greek god which he was .

“Who are you ?” I managed to say after minute of silence my voice barely audible above a whisper 

He regarded me with a cool expression, his sexy lips turning up in a faint smirk .

“ I am your mate .” He said simply

My heart did a little pounding and I stared at this perfect being .

Mate .the word a cold in my mind before I could respond. A soft voice broke in.

“He is Alpha Damon Salvador.”

Rosa introduced and he gave a small nod his hands clasped behind him and his charcoal expensive suit hugged his biceps that I feared they could tear out any moment from now 

I tore my gaze  from him and glanced  at Rosa, grateful for the distraction.

“I'm sure your mother told you of the debt which you have to pay?” 

I couldn't nod my head felt so heavy all of a sudden 

“She had been briefed all about that.”

Rosa came to my rescue again