Not His Mate

"Welcome to your new home, Miss. Lucy" Tyler welcomed the mate of the Alpha as she stepped into the mansion. 

"Alpha Carl is not back from work yet but as soon as he is back, he would definitely be glad to see that you are here" Tyler added. 

"Thank you" Ethel responded, she could feel her heart pounding with every step she took. 

And in her head was this voice that was screaming at her that this was going to go wrong, this was all folly. 

"Follow me, I will lead you into your room" Tyler gave her a warm smile that Ethel responded to with an equally warm smile. 

Tyler walked forward and Ethel followed behind him until a question popped up in her mind. Was she going to be sharing the room with Alpha Carl?

"Excuse me?" She tried to sound as confident as Lucy would have sounded. 

"Yes?" Tyler looked back at her. 

"Would I be sharing a room with... With my mate?" She could feel something inside of her snort at her when she said those words. 

"Actually no, it's Alpha Carl's orders. The both of you would be staying apart for now" Tyler replied and Ethel could not hold back the breath of relief that left her lips. 

"That's fine with me" She said and followed after him. 

It took about a minute to get up the stairs to the room that she would be occupying. 

"Here, you'd be staying here. If you feel even slightly uncomfortable about anything, please do let me know and I will get it taken care of as soon as possible" The beta's voice was absolutely gentle. 

Ethel wondered when last she had heard someone talk to her so gently apart from her mother but she soon reminded herself that he wasn't talking to her, he was talking to Lucy. 

"Thank you" she thanked him and walked into the room. 

The room was a little bit bigger than her room back at home which was not surprising but its beauty was surprising. 

"Based on your preferences, your closet has been stocked with clothes and accessories"

More like based on Lucy's preference. 

"Thank you for your help" she thanked him yet again. 

"You do not have to be so polite" Tyler smiled and walked backwards, to the door. 

"I'd be leaving now" he walked out of the room and shut the door behind him.

Ethel let out a breath of relief as the door shut behind him but almost immediately, the door opened and she snapped her body back into position. 

"Uhm, what about Ethel?" Tyler asked. 

"Ethel?"

"Yeah, your twin sister" Tyler replied. 

"She is doing very well, I guess" she could only mumble the last two words. 

"Extend my greetings to her" he grinned and then exited the room leaving Ethel with arched brows. 

Someone outside of her family still remembered that she existed and even asked about her?!

It made the insides of her stomach tighten with excitement. The eyes of the beta had seemed to shine when he had talked about her and a thought flew into Ethel's head.

Did beta Tyler like her?!

The thought made her snap her head towards the door. She gulped down hard and then shook her head. It could not be possible, she barely went out, when would the beta have seen her not to talk of actually liking her. It was impossible for anyone to like her. 

Ethel brought herself back into the present and looked around the room, it was well lit and she was grateful for that fact. 

Ethel walked into the closet to check out the clothes and just as she had guessed, none of the clothes actually fit her usual style, they all fit Lucy's style. 

Ethel leaned against the wall and breathed out heavily, wondering when she would be able to live life and really live it to the best of it, the way she wanted.

*

"It has been only a few minutes since your mate arrived, Alpha" Tyler informed Carl, taking the briefcase and jacket from Carl as he alighted the car.

Carl glanced at his wristwatch, noting the time, it was 9:02. He walked into the house, not giving a response to what Tyler had said. 

Getting to the stairs, he ran his left hand into his hair and pulled at the dark hair that seemed to have grown out a little bit but made him look even more handsome with the extra length of it. 

He walked up the stairs, and removed the tie around his neck. He handed the tie over to Tyler and moved over to the room where he was sure that his mate would be in, Lucy Denise. 

Without knocking on the door, he pushed it open and walked in and the first sight that welcomed him was her bent over a table, trying to pick something on the other side of the table without walking to the other side of the table. 

Her ass was outlined by the black gown that she was wearing and from where he was, he could see her thighs bared out by the slit of the dress that she was wearing.

Her upper body was pressed against the table as she tried harder to reach whatever it was she was trying to reach. 

Carl could not help it but have his mind run dirty. He suddenly and strangely wanted to walk over to her, grab her by the waist and press his body against that sexy body. 

His mind ran through what it would look like to see that sexy ass jiggled and shook with his hard thrusts into her. He wanted to grab this ass he was staring at and watch the flesh of it spill between his fingers.

More and dirtier imaginations ran through his mind as his eyes remained glued to her body. 

"Fuck" he cussed as he felt his dick twitch inside of his trousers. 

'What the hell was this?' he asked himself. 

He was getting hard, just staring at the clothed butt of his mate. 

'Well, she is my mate' he shrugged even though he found it strange that he was this attracted to someone. 

Ethel finally picked the earring that she had been reaching for and stood up straight with a victorious smile on her face, happy at herself for being able to pick the earring over the table.

Little things like this were the things that brought her the small joys of her heart. 

But as she stood straight, she felt her knees buck as she realized she was no longer alone in the room, he was there, Alpha Carl. 

Her heart skipped a beat as the big question jumped into her mind. 

'Was he going to figure it out right away that she wasn't Lucy? And if he did... What was going to be her fate?'

Ethel felt her mouth go dry. She had seen him a couple of times in the past but she had never seen him this close or be in a room with him alone. 

The man in front of her looked way too perfect with his looks. His dark hair was touching the lower part of his neck and though his hair had clearly grown out, the cut was still visible and if anything, the outgrowing of his hair made him look hot. His eyeballs were brown and seemed to be a window into another world. Ethel felt that his eyes made her understand why it was said that eyes were windows to the soul. 

Her gaze fell to his body, even with the black shirt on his body, it was evident what it was, he was heavily, sexily and gorgeously built. 

All in all, Ethel concluded that this man was hot and that Lucy was lucky to have him as her mate. 

She shook herself out of checking him out and that was when she noticed that he was checking her out too but Ethel immediately felt nervous and her palms went sweaty as she thought of the possibility of him actually noticing that she was not his mate but that was not the case, at least not yet because he was really checking her out. 

His eyes went over her curves, up to her body and then her boobs that were held tightly in that black dress.

Carl could not believe it when he gulped down hard, salivating, just looking at her exposed cleavages. He felt his dick get harder and he immediately regretted his decision to put her in a separate room.

He tore his eyes off her body and looked at her face, wondering why she looked even more attractive tonight. For sure, it was not the first time he was seeing her but why did it look like she was a bit different from usual?

"A... Alpha Carl" Ethel stuttered out her first words to him.

"You are welcome to my home" Carl welcomed her and his voice almost threw Ethel off the edge. 

How did he have a voice so deep and so good?

He walked further into the room and with each of his steps, Ethel's heart was racing super fast, in fear of being discovered and strangely, in excitement. 

Carl got to her and he did not seem to have noticed anything yet which made Ethel relieved but she lowered her face which Carl regarded as him being shy. 

"You don't need to feel shy around me, Lucy" Carl said to her, bending a little to her height to look at her face but Ethel lowered her face the more.

Carl took one of his finger to her head and lifted her face up. 

He pulled her closer into a hug and her lovely scent wafted into his nostrils. Ethel froze as she felt something hard poking against her stomach. 

'He... He was hard? Just by looking at her? Or was he hard before walking into the room?' she asked herself. 

Carl buried his face in her neck, enjoying the very first hug he would be having with his mate but then he noticed something.... Something was off about her. 

This scent... Her scent, it was lovely and sweet but it was different and he could also not feel something, he could not feel the mate bond. 

This woman.... She was not his mate!