Chapter Five: Leo

“Mummy… daddy please!” The silence which had engulfed my every thought was soon broken by the same little girl's voice, her tone so shaky and full of fear as she stood lost in the middle of a large and crowded wood.

“I wanna go home! Ethan!” She cried even louder but saying a name I had never heard before this point, it was as though my mind was slowly unlocking more of the memories I had blocked out through the years, who was this Ethan?

Her cries swirled around my head faster and faster, getting louder and louder, it was as though I was suffocating in the sound.

Taking the biggest breath of air into my lungs, my eyes snap open sending my body in the sitting position, sweat seeming to drip from my forehead as my breathing quickened as though I had run miles in my sleep. Even though that was one of the shortest flashbacks I’d ever had, it was a new one… who could Ethan be… was he a relative of mine that I somehow remembered after all of these years later. Why was I only now just remembering his name?

The more my brain woke up from sleep and the flashback faded into the black along with the others, my eyes started to actually see the surroundings I had found myself in and what I now sat on top of. Instant shock and panic were all I felt as I leaped out of the comfiest bed I had ever sat on and looked around the room, even the clothes which now sat on my body weren’t mine!

The room was absolutely the largest place I had ever seen, the walls a pristine white colour with gold detailing around the edges, what seemed to be a Queen-sized bed I had found myself in stood off to the side. Behind me were larger windows and doors seeming to lead out into a balcony, the beautiful land and outside not remotely familiar to me.

“Where am I?” I asked out loud looking around the odd room I had found myself in, just from the outside, it looked as though these people had a lot of money.

“Mate took us here after you passed out!” My wolf exclaimed in my head overjoyed, but her voice a little louder than I would have liked at this hour of the morning allowing me to whine.

But the moment she spoke about our mate, memories of yesterday seemed to flash in my mind so violently, I was close to getting a headache. Henry laying unconscious on the floor, me and those border guards fighting, throwing myself through a window and those eyes, the bluest eyes I’d ever seen as my mate knelt down in front of me while the rain pelted us from the sky.

My heart pounded in my chest even now thinking about my mate and his bright eyes, I don’t believe I had fully grasped the fact that I’d found him, someone I thought I would never get the chance. But the moment my mate came to my mind, the image of Henry played out again breaking my heart, could he still be in that same place hurt?

“We need to leave; I have to find Henry and make sure he’s okay!” I say to my wolf now staring around the room for my exit, even though I didn’t actually know where I was, I’d figure it out.

“As I told you yesterday, no one else matters anymore now we have found out mate! He is the only person we are to think about!” My wolf growled so fiercely in my mind at my comment, but shaking my head and running towards the glass does which led out into the balcony, I grab the gold handle and begin to try and pull it open.

But no matter how hard I pulled on those gold handles, the doors wouldn’t budge in the slightest, but now I was much closer to the glass doors, I saw something which made my heart sink. Bars seemed to be placed on the outside of the doors, the metal so thick that it prevented the doors from opening even the smallest fraction, even if I were to smash the glass, the gaps between the bars would prevent my body from slipping through.

“After your antics yesterday, I thought the only way to ensure you are safe and do not attempt to flee again was to place bars on the windows.” The deep voice which seems to always allow a shiver of pleasure through my spine sounds from behind me, turning my head around in an instant, I find my mate, stood in front of the closed doubles doors of the room, a smirk on his face and his hands in his pockets.

Instantly, I couldn’t stop the shock that rippled through me having him now in a room with me, backing away from the doors and further into the corner getting away from him, my eyes instantly lock on my mate as he watched me. My entire body shaking while he, stood with such great posture and that same power radiating from him.

“Once I have determined that I can trust you enough not to flee, the bars will be removed.” He spoke once again when I didn’t go to open my mouth, my body now fully resting in the corner of the room, somehow my mind still not understanding who this man was and how he could be my mate!

“W-why am I here?” Was the first question to spill from my lips, my voice cracking at the end due to how dry my throat was, which this man in front of me seemed to sense.

“I will have a butler bring you a fresh glass of water to help soothe your throat.” My mate said seeming to take a dangerous step closer to me and away from the door, in seconds, said double doors open and in walked a man in a posh outfit.

Walking into the centre of the room right in the middle of myself and my mate, this man places down a little gold table, and with another fancy seeming glass and a jug filled with delicious looking water, he tips a serving into the glass and places both the glass and the jug to rest on the table. Sending a bow of respect towards my mate, the man exits the room once again closing the door behind him.

Even though my mate was correct and all my body wanted was the water, I refused to move even an inch from my place in the corner of the room and locked eyes with him, which he knew in a moment.

“Do you need my assistance to drink the water?” My mate asks with a hint of a smirk on his lips as he took another deadly step in my direction, leading me to push my body so far into the corner as though I could slip through the wall, but of course I couldn’t.

“How about we have mate help us with another more intimate task?” My wolf purred so loud in my head watching our mate walk towards me, her comment making me have to force a red tint to not flush my cheeks in that second once I realised what she meant.

“Why am I here?” My sore voice repeated my previous question that he’d completely ignored, where a chuckle left his lips as he watched me stand with my back against the wall.

“It is simple really, you are my mate, I live here and now due to the fact I own you… this is where you will live.” He explained as though the answer was so simple that there was no reason for me to even ask it, where my eyes went so wide I was worried they’d fall right out of their sockets once he said he owned me.

“With this in mind, I believe it is only right for me to formally, introduce myself. I am Alpha King Leonardo Walsh, but you my dearest mate, shall call me Leo. This is my palace where you will begin to reside at from this moment on, how may I address you?” My mate formally spoke telling me his name, but it was his title that caused such a wave of shock through me, even though that border guard had told me the Alpha King was visiting the Alpha, I didn’t expect him to be my mate?!

“You’re the Alpha King?” Was my next question not answering his at all, where he simply nodded his head with a smile placing his hands behind his back watching me.

“Why aren’t you rejecting me?” The biggest question in my brain spilled from my lips, my wolf seeming to not like this question as she growled in my head and from the scowl that formed in my mate's face, he also didn’t appreciate that.

“Why would I do such a thing?” He asked much darker with his eyes turning a shade blacker, those same footsteps of his which he had paused for a moment only continuing as he drew closer to me.

“Because I’m nothing but a filthy rogue, I’m not what you need as a mate with your title.” I said having to truly explain what I meant which I thought he would understand.

But when a deep growl rumpled through his chest and faster than he did last night with the border guards, he strides towards me but instead of hitting me, both hands smack off the wall either side of my head as he looked so deep into my eyes.

I may have asked the wrong question.