CHAPTER 5: CONTRACT WITH ALPHA CALEB

***CALEB***

I looked at the beauty before me as she and Carla, my younger sister conversed, she wasn't spilling much, but I knew some secret she wished to bury and not talk about laid buried behind those eyes of hers.

I was so taken by her that when she asked how I wanted her to pay back, I blurted out, "Marry me," I had said the word out loud before I realized what had happened.

"Come on Caleb, you don't want to take advantage of someone in this kind of situation," Carla said, trying to talk sense into me.

"Take advantage? Why will I, you know as much as I do that I am Asexual, no she-wolf out there appeals to me sexually," I said, I was asexual, I have been for as long as I could remember, I just never felt any form of pull towards any gender romantically, but looking at Kayla now, I can admit i wasn't so sure anymore.

"So why will you want to marry her," Carla argued back.

"If I do Marry her, her child will be mine automatically, that way I will secure my line without the councils being on my neck every damn time," I explained, but deep within me, I knew there was more to wanting her child to be mine, I wanted her to be mine.

Carla looked half convinced, but I knew the Miss Goody Two shoes that was my sister was definitely still against making Kayla do that.

"And it will only be for a year when the child is born, she can leave it here if she wishes, or she could stay here in the pack and raise it with me, as its mother, but we'd be separated after a year," I explained, trying to convince Carla and ultimately Kayla.

I wanted her beside me, I didn't know why, but that was what I wanted.

"I'm sorry but I can't, is there another way I could repay you?" Kayla spoke up, it was almost as though she hated me without even completely knowing me, or was it that she abhorred men in general, I would never know, since she wasn't saying much.

"Of course, you don't have to," Carla said to her in the calmest tone, "here in Crescentclaw pack, you always have to pay back what you get, but you can pay back in any other way, not necessarily marrying my brother," she said, eyeing me as she spoke to Kayla.

"I will do anything, but get married to anyone," Kayla said in a final tone, whatever it was that had happened to her, I wanted to know.

"It's fine, you can rest now and work as a slave here for the next one year, then you'll be free of whatever you owe and may choose to leave afterwards," Carla said reassuringly.

I scoffed when she acted like this, it almost seemed as though she was the alpha here and not me.

***

I stood by the window of my house, watching as different members of the pack used and maltreated Kayla, it was the law, she was not one of us and as long as she survived in our land, she could be used in any way, I wondered how long she'd survive in this place, they were more respectful to her than I'd thought they'd be, I wonder what they'll do when they found out she was from Ravenclaw pack, our number one enemy's territory.

"You keep watching her, why?" Carla said from behind me, startling me, I jumped.

"I'm just worried she might be in danger around here," I said grimly.

"I know, behind all of those hard Wolfie features of yours lay a considerate man, I knew you wanted to protect her and that's why you asked her to marry you, but why?" Carla noted.

I glanced back at the window just in time to see Kayla make her way into my place. In a matter of minutes, she entered the room I and Carla were in.

The room went silent for a while, no one saying anything, then Kayla spoke up.

"I'll do it," she announced.

"You'll do what?" I asked, Carla looked more confused.

"Oh no, you don't have to do anything you don't want to," Carla said to her realizing what she had meant.

"No, I want to do it, I am tired of being stepped on everywhere I go, I am tired of being weak, and if marrying you for a year will make everyone else beneath me then I am ready! Plus you guys saved my life, so if I can make your lives comfortable in any way I'm willing to help," she explained, she sounded so angry and determined.

"I Will have to mark you," I spoke up, Carla looked at me as though she was going to rip off my head if I didn't shut my mouth, but I ignored her and continued. "Have you ever been marked?" I asked her.

"No," she simply replied.

"Then how did the baby come about?" I nonchalantly asked, did she just sleep with men even though they weren't mated to her? I thought and somehow the thought of that made my heart churn.

"CALEB!!!," Carla screamed my name calling me to order.

Okay, maybe that wasn't the right question to ask, I concluded in my thoughts.

"It's fine," Kayla shrugged at Carla, then turned to me, "Its father never marked me, we only had fun once and it landed in this," she replied pointing to her stomach, her eyes had a glint of sadness in them as she spoke, but she still managed to keep a straight face.

Then, began to roll up the sleeves of her clothes, she stretched out her hand to me, "here, mark me," she said with so much conviction.

I gave her a questioning look, asking with my eyes if she was sure, she nodded and then stretched out her hand more as though she was impatient to get it over with.

I closed my eyes, my fangs began to grow out, breathed in hard, and then, I marked her.