believe me

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate

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Chapter 4: believe me

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Regina’s POV

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“But I’m your mate!” I whispered, my emotions going over the border as the tears piling at the side of my eyes finally fall through.

I couldn’t believe his nonchalance. His attitude was making me to hurt so bad and my wolf was already whimpering in pain.

My mate was doesn’t want to acknowledge our mating bond?

But I thought every alpha...

Alpha Mattel slowly walked back to me.

At that moment, I feared for my life and the beating of my heart paces up, afraid of what would be my fate if I managed to anger him...

His fully black pupils were slowly turning into a shade of onyx. I couldn’t tell which color.

He looked very upset with the choice of words that I had blurted out to him.

I quickly lowered my gaze to the ground knowing this was the moment I was going to die.

“You think I’m your mate?” He asked lowly, releasing a light chuckle. “I have heard that sentence quite a lot from many other females so it triggers a lot of rage in me. If I ever hear those words leave your lips again, I’ll show you why they think of me as death himself, do you understand?”

He asked huskily. His voice reverberated in my ears holding a binding dominance.

I moved back slightly and bit my lower lip hard.

There was no way my wolf would agree to that due to her restlessness. I could feel it.

He was my mate therefore I have the right to call him such.

Or doesn’t he know?

“I said, you should not call me your mate, do you understand?” He asked again, emitting his strong alpha pheromones in the process. The same pheromones have the ability to force any sub-gender to submit to him.

I bit my lips harder trying to stay in place, not to give in as my wolf’s whimpers begin to grow.

She was scared, very scared of our mate.

And I was as well.

“I can’t, you really are my mate and I don’t know why you can’t—.”

A scream escaped my lips when i was suddenly grabbed by my chin and brought forward to him.

Our faces were only centimeters close.

“I’m being kind to you right now.” He muttered piercing his fingers into my jaw.

I could feel his claws threatening to come out from his hands.

“I’m resisting myself.” He continued speaking. “From splitting that head of yours into two. Were you deaf when I asked you a question?”

“I’m s-sorry.” I cried out when his grip tightened.

“No, you aren’t.” He whispered forcing his fingers furthermore into my chin and holding my face tightly.

What was he trying to do?

A few tears drop from my eyes as I try to move my face away from his grasp but his grip was too tight.

I hated the pain that he was inflicting on me.

So the tales were actually true? He is a monster.

Not so long ago I was treated the same way by my terrible step father and now my own mate who was supposed to love and accept me was doing the very same thing to me.

“S-Stop!” I manage to let out as my cries turned into sobs.

It didn’t look like he was getting affected by my pain.

Suddenly the loud sound of an aluminum tray falling distracted him as a woman shouted. “Sire!”

He grunted and released hold of my face pushing me to the ground. I fell with a loud thud hurting my ass before looking up to meet his eyes.

They were back to pure black now.

“You’ve ruined my already dampened mood.” He said, his facial features tightening as he called out. “Zedd!”

“Sire, what are you—.”

He raised his hand to shut her and she stopped talking immediately.

I glanced at the woman who looked like she could be in her mid-forties. She had a look of sympathy on her face.

“—coming into my home… claiming to be my mate,” Alpha Mattel was mumbling as he called out again. “Zedd!”

Seconds later, a man, dressed in similar clothing to the other men I saw before came rushing into the chambers as he bowed in front of him.

“Take her to the maids quarters.” Alpha Mattel ordered the guard.

I looked back at him with widened eyes.

Did he not really want me at all??

“You do not speak to an alpha unless spoken to.” He said seriously, his every word laced with venom.

And at that moment, I hated him.

Hatred rushed in my veins towards the moon goddess who had given me an uncaring inhuman monster for a mate.

“Sire, you really shouldn’t...” The woman was saying.

The guard ‘Zedd’ approached me slowly.

Afraid for my life, I was about to stand up and run to the entrance when I was grabbed by the leg and pushed back down on the ground.

I winced in pain as the guard caught hold of each of my hands pulling them back so as to stop me from fighting back.

“Stop!!. Please stop!” I was screaming and calling out to my mate who was standing still looking down at me, unaffected, his expression colder than it was when he first appeared.

I couldn’t believe this was the man I had been waiting for all my life.

The one I had I had hoped would save me from my step father.

Was I cursed also? To have a man known as death be my mate!

I refused to believe that the man in front of me was my so-called mate.

“Stay still!” The guard said as he tried to pull me up holding my hands hostage at my back.

Not thinking at all, I lifted my leg hitting him in the crotch immediately as he pulled back with a loud growl leaving my hands free.

“Your mate is being assaulted in front of you!” I yell at King Mattel. Pain and anger throbbed in my chest at the sight of him acting indifferent toward me. “You really are a monster as they say, you are a fucking nightmare, no wonder children are scared of you!” I spit out saying what crosses my mind letting out my frustration at him. “I have been waiting years for my mate, thinking of how loved I was going to be by him. But now I’m disgusted that my mate is a gruesome terror like you. I hate you!”

I manage to say all that before a hard punch across my face made me dizzy.

“Don’t you dare disrespect the king!”

After that, my hearing slowly began to dim and all I could hear was my wolf’s loud whimpers.

I blinked a few times to clear my vision but I was getting dizzier.

My face was aching so badly as I tried to steady my breathing.

It was as if my face was split into two.

A rough hand touched my cheek rather gently and immediately the feeling of the pain subsided and the hairs on my body tingled.

My mate.

He was definitely my mate.

I slowly leaned into the warmth of his hand as I opened my eyes afraid of what I’ll face next.

Mattel was on his knees in front of me.

But that wasn’t what scared me.

On the right side of his cheek was a red spot that was forming into a bruise.

If one partner is injured or fatally wounded, they can speed up the recovery process but that would mean taking their injury.

Only mates can do this for each other.

Which means...

“Do you believe me now? That I’m your mate?” I whispered allowing a stray tear to fall down my eye.

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TBC