A PROPOSITION...

CHAPTER FOUR

ELLA’S POV

I am living the life every girl in this pack probably wants to live.

Living in a big castle, having maids attend to me whenever I want and being engaged to the Alpha of our pack. I didn’t ask for this, it just came to me and I do not intend to let it go.

I still remember the first day Alpha Elijah and I had our first conversation. We met at my mate’s funeral. He died of a deadly disease about last year. I was crying and Alpha Elijah came to comfort me and I guess that’s when it occurred to him that I was the one for him.

He invited me over for dinner the next day at his castle and I did not hesitate to say yes. I can still remember how I couldn’t get the thought off my mind all night. I even bought a new dress to wear to that dinner.

On that fateful evening, he sent his driver to come pick me up in one of his cars and I remember I almost blushed my life away.

I had lunch together with his Mother and father and they were so nice to me to me at first, but when they heard that we were getting more serious, they started to object.

They were strongly against him marrying someone who was not his mate, especially his father, the Alpha.

Now that his father is dead, I’m a bit relieved because only his mother gets to oppose our relationship, but I know Elijah won’t listen to her.

When he told me last night that he had found his mate, I almost lost my mind, but I managed to cool down a but when he told me he has rejected her. But then, that is not a guarantee that he won’t want to get back with her one day.

I know what a mate bond is, I felt it when my mate was alive and I know how strong it is, that’s why I’m worried about Cassie being here. Only her pheromone alone is enough to make Elijah go crazy and I need to do everything I can to make her leave this pack, else I will lose him to her.

I can feel it.

I walk across the hall way of the dungeon, looking for Cassie’s cell and when I finally find it, I walk over to the barred door and stand tall before her.

She’s sitting on the cold floor hugging her knees to her chest with her head bowed on them. Her black hair is all over the place and I’m jealous of how clean and healthy it looks.

In the next three days, I’m going to come back here just to laugh at her hair which will by then, look very shabby.

“Cassie, isn’t it?” I ask and she raises up her head to look at me and her radiating beauty almost knocks me off my feet. I blink hard and take a step backwards as my heart starts to beat violently in my chest.

Now I feel a million times more insecure.

She is absolutely gorgeous and the dominant Alpha aura around her insanely dominates me. It makes me understand that I am nowhere her level.

“Yes, and you are?”

“Ella”

“Oh… the fiancé” She says with a sad smile and I nod.

“Yes, the fiancé and I presume, you are the mate”

“The rejected mate!” She corrects and a satisfactory smile spreads across my lips.

“Cool, nice to finally meet you in person”

“I can’t say the same for you. Why are you here?”

“How does it feel to be rejected by your very own mate?”

“It feels depressing.” She rises from the floor and walks towards the barred door. “And you, how does it feel like to be with someone who’s not your mate?”

“Refreshing”

“I thought as much”

“Look, you are not needed here. I could arrange an escape plan for you. You can go away from all this trouble and humiliation. I’m not bluffing” I suggest and she scoffs and gives me an intense look.

“Is that insecurity I sense in your words and intentions? Do you in away feel that me being here will affect your relationship with Elijah?”

“What? Me? Insecure? Because of you? Of course not! I just want to do you a favor!”

“On what grounds?” She asks with a raised brow and I go mute. “Do you honestly think that I would be here if I didn’t want to? Remember I came here myself, I left them to have me handcuffed and put in here. You might not know this, but I’m an Alpha and I can chose to leave this place whenever I want, without being caught. I’m just doing this because it is the right thing to do, not because your darling Blake asked me to. Got it?”

“You’ve got some nerve you know, talking about him like that and calling him by his first name like he is your mate”

“The fact that I’m locked in here doesn’t change my status, I’m an Alpha and I can call anyone, however I want, if they don’t like it, I dare them to make me stop”

The audacity of this bitch.

What exactly does she think she is? Talking about an Alpha so casually.

“You really have a death wish, don’t you?”

“If you don’t have anything else to say, you can leave” She says as she sits on the floor and takes the hugging knees position. I angrily stomp my feet on the floor and leave her presence.

She has no ideas what she’s doing. She just denied a once in a lifetime opportunity and I’m going to make sure she regrets it.

“And what did you go to do there, if I may ask?” A voice asks from in front and I immediately halt on my tracks and look up, only to see Alpha Blake’s mother approaching me with a stern look on.

The last thing she would ever do is smile in my presence.

She hates me like there’s no tomorrow. At first I cared, but now, I don’t give a damn!

She is not the one I’m engaged to.

“Good day Luna” I greet

“That doesn’t answer the question, what are you doing in here?”

“I … I came to see Cassie”

“It’s Alpha Cassie for you. You have no right to call her by her first name”

“I’m sorry Luna”

“Sorry for yourself. Why did you go to see her?”

“So we could talk”

“To talk, you mean to taunt her about the fact you snatched her mate?”

“Luna I…”

“Keep it to yourself. Henceforth, you are forbidden from going to see Alpha Cassie, if you do, I will make sure you are punished, is that understood?”

“Yes Ma’am”

“Good” Then she walks past me before I can raise my head up.

I turn around and watch her as she gracefully walks over to Cassie’s cell.

She’s a Luna and Cassie is an Alpha, I can’t defend myself against them… yet.

When I finally get married to Blake and officially become Luna, I will get my revenge.

That, I swear.