Chapter 3

Sebastian's pov

"And you said she is a human?" Kael, my beta, looked at me perplexed and I merely hummed in agreement.

I clenched my fists and went back to attacking the punching bag in front of me.

"Battering the punching bag won't offer you a solution." Kael pointed out and as much as I didn't want to agree with him, I knew he was right.

"It would, however, reduce the urge I have to strangle something or someone." I looked at him pointedly but he merely chuckled.

I flexed my fingers as I paused my assault on the punching bag and  tried to calm my raging emotions and ragged breath.

"Why would the moon goddess give me a human as a mate?" I frowned.

"Are you sure you weren't merely attracted to this human?" Kael asked and my wolf growled within me.

"I think I would know what attraction feels like Kael. My wolf yearned to mark this human right on the spot. I have never felt so aware of another person neither had my wolf ever lost control like I almost had when she stood mere inches away from me." I revealed annoyed by Kael's insinuation.

One of my men walked into the gym and bowed.

"What is it?" I gritted out, unable to mask my irritation and frustrations.

"I have the report you asked for Alpha." He replied, snagging my attention.

Without another word I took the file from him and walked into my office, slamming the door shut behind me.

I poured myself a glass of whiskey before I settled in my chair and began skimming through the file.

Cassandra...that was my mate's name.

Such a sweet, meek name was befitting for her but behind that meek, calm exterior I sensed a heat, a fire and an uncontrollable passion behind her eyes, waiting to be explored.

The prophecy claimed my mate would be the one to redeem the werewolf world and lift the curse so how could my mate be a human?

I was at a loss for how to handle the situation as I read through the file containing everything seemed important about my little human mate.

I took a slow sip of my whiskey as an idea formed in my mind.

"Kael." I shouted and within seconds he appeared at my doorway.

"For the next few days you are in charge of the pack. I have a quick errand to run." I informed him and I could see the question swirling in his eyes but he merely nodded and left the room.

"I'm coming Cassandra." I muttered as I looked out the window.

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"I must admit I do not understand." Curtis, Cassandra's father stared at me in confusion.

The man was trying to feign ignorance and I smirked.

"Mr. Peterson, this paper clearly shows how many gambling establishments you owe." I pushed the paper with outrageous figures towards him.

He scanned the paper for a moment before his panicked eyes looked at me.

"How did you get this?" He asked.

"So you do not deny it?" I quirked a brow.

"I made some bad decisions on most of those gambling tables but I promised to pay them back." He confessed.

"And how do you intend to do that?" I pushed.

Curtis grappled for words but came up short.

"I have a proposition for you. One which would benefit us both." I began and the man's eyes looked weary.

"I'm listening." He nodded.

"I would pay off all your debts and set you up on an allowance which would afford you to live comfortably." I looked him dead in the eyes.

"In exchange, I want your daughter Cassandra to follow me back to my pack and stay as my mate." I dropped the other shoe and the man's eyes nearly bulged out of his sockets.

"You are insinuating I sell my child Alpha." The man pointed out.

"It wouldn't be selling because she is my mate and with or without you I'll still claim her." I shrugged.

The man contemplated my words for a moment.

"Cassandra is a free spirit, she would never be forced to do anything she doesn't want to." He warned me.

"Leave her to me, all you have to do is sign these documents and I'll do the rest." I pushed the agreement I had drawn up towards him.

He read it's contents carefully.

"You'll pay for all my debts?" He asked again.

"Every last one of them." I assured him and his eyes roamed around my face, searching.

He either seemed to be pleased with whatever he found or he desperately wanted to clear off his debts. Either ways he signed the papers with determination and pushed them back towards me.

"If this wasn't in my favour, I would applaud you on just how easy it was to hand your daughter over to a stranger just for money." I sneered.

What if it weren't me but another man who had made Cassandra's father such an offer and he hadn't refused.

My wolf growled at the thought.

"You may inform her if you wish and I'll make the necessary arrangements to have her join me in my home." I informed her father and he sucked in a sharp breath.

Without another word I strolled out of the man's office, a satisfied smirk on my lips.