Chapter 7

Alpha Ravok 

I hated her. I fucking hated her existence. From the moment the elders told me that she was a single, rejected mother, I knew I wouldn't like her. I was right, and she only made it worse when she ran away from me in such a disrespectful manner. Normally, I would not have chased after her. It would have been nice to tell the elders that she had run away, but for some strange reason, I found myself going after her. 

When I met her in the middle of nowhere, the sudden urge to just make her suffer for disrespecting me hit hard, but then her kids—they hugged me and for the first time since I met Blair…the woman I loved, she told me her name was Blair. Anyways, only she and now the kids calmed my always angry heart and wolf. I hated kids, they were too noisy but I fell in love with the babies I held. Possessively, I ordered for them to be taken to my house, not even having the mom in mind. As I said before, I hated what she represented. A single, rejected mother. 

No man would ever reject their mate, I had never heard of it, and even if they did, they would not abandon their children. So, if she were a rejected single mom, it meant she was bad. She meant trouble and that was the last thing I needed. But what actually topped the list, the reason I hated her was that she agreed to marry me. She was going to ruin my chances of finding Blair. If Blair were close, she would feel sad that I was getting married to someone else and I did not want her to feel that way. 

So in all honesty, after taking the kids home and deciding that I was going to adopt them as my pups, I wanted to end her miserable life. 

Hey, don't judge me, I'm not those perfect male leads in books. Besides, Anna didn't seem like a capable mother. One of the kids looked really sick and they were both malnourished. So instead of complicating things by getting married to her, I could send her to the goddess, give my new pups a good life, find my Blair and we would all live happily ever after. 

However, she touched me and I felt that same feeling I felt when Blair touched me, except, it was short this time so I quickly brushed it off thinking it was my imagination. A little later, she fainted. Pathetic. What if she were with her kids at that moment? They would have been scared by her sudden unconsciousness. 

For a while, I stood over her, watching as the rain drenched her. I didn't care if she would catch a cold. Matter of fact, I was only staring because she had the same body stature as Blair…though she seemed thinner. I had not seen Blair then, but a day didn't go by that I didn't touch her body, calculating and memorizing every inch of her. 

I turned around, ready to leave her there but stopped. “Arghhh.” I groaned in irritation as I raked my hands through my hair. Why was I stopping? Why did I suddenly wonder if she would be okay? I have never cared for anyone, not even my parents. 

“This bitch!” I cursed in irritation as I turned to face her. For a few minutes, I was fighting with myself as I didn't want to help her but I was failing badly and before I knew it, she was cradled in my arms.

With a deep frown on my face, and a few curses here and there, I pushed her into my car. Damn, no one would believe me but I actually covered her with my coat! I had only ever shown kindness to Blair. Was this woman a witch? Because honestly, it would explain why I was doing this, why I was taking her back home, knowing that I would have no other fucking option but to make her my contracted wife. I hated her so much it made my blood boil, but there I was, driving her back home, and checking at intervals to make sure she was okay back there. 

Fuck my life! Could things even get more complicated than this?! 

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I arrived at the packhouse, feeling deeply irritated at myself for being kind to a rejected disgrace. I didn't even help her out of the car, I let my warriors do it while I stomped into my bathroom to have a cold bath. In there, I still couldn't stop cussing and my wolf couldn't stop prancing in my head. He was as restless as I was. He didn't like her, but couldn't understand why he couldn't hate her too. 

“So you're going to marry her?” He asked. 

“Does it look like I have a choice?” I sighed. “I think it's best to let her be with her kids…the pups I'm suddenly protective of. She should be grateful I like them, otherwise I would have ended her life.” I uttered, deciding to go with that excuse. It was more believable to me than telling Knox, my wolf, that a tiny part of me might actually want her around. 

Speaking of the kids, my Beta said they had fallen asleep. 

“What about our Blair? With a wife and two pups, we wouldn't have as much time to look for Blair.”

I scoffed as I shut off the shower. Drying my hair with a white towel, I stepped out. “You don’t honestly think Anna matters to me, do you? I like her kids, but she’s not my priority, and she won’t stop me from finding Blair.” A slow smirk tugged at my lips as a thought settled in. “Maybe I should make Anna's stay here frustrating, just as her presence here is to me.”

I had just gotten dressed and was about to get a nap, when a knock on the door came in. From the familiar smell, I knew it was my Beta so I asked him to enter. 

“What?”

He hesitated, scratching the back of his head. I raised a brow, as I scrutinized him. Lucas only scratched his head when he was nervous and he was hardly nervous. What could this be about? 

Getting irritated, I barked. “Speak! 

“A-alpha, it's Anna.”