Chapter 2

Naomi's pov.

"Mate,"

My Wolf growled out after him and the entire pack gasped in shock. I couldn't see their faces, I was too shocked and focused on my destined mate to pay them any mind but I could tell what every one of them was thinking.

The Alpha inched closer to me, the mate bond pulling us closer and closer to each other relentlessly. I couldn't stop moving even if I wanted to and I certainly didn't want to, my wolf wouldn't let me. She was too excited to be claimed and so was I. I could feel my heart and my soul aching for him to mark me it was almost painful.

I wasn't touching him yet but I could feel the intensity of our bond like it was something tangible like his skin.

My breathing was labored the more I neared him, the more my breath came out in a short burst of air.

I wanted him so much that I forgot everything I had come here for. I was eager to be claimed by the Alpha who I have incidentally always had a huge fucking crush on.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that the Alpha would even look at me not to mention be my mate. But here I was about to be claimed and marked by him. I could feel butterflies in my stomach. Just like I could feel Jen, my wolf jumping restlessly within me.

I was barely a hair's breadth away from him just about to touch him when two burly guards suddenly came to stand in front of me, disrupting the process.

"What are you doing?" I glowered with wide eyes, feral that they had just blocked my path.

"How dare you try to walk up to the Alpha, you disgusting vermin!" One of them growled, his eyes boring into mine as he held me back.

"Let me pass, Alpha Baron is my mate! I have a right to be near him"

I glared at them, trying to push past them just as my wolf, Jen wanted but failing miserably as they were too strong.

"Alpha Baron, tell them, tell them to let me go!" I pleaded, wondering why he was just standing there watching and not claiming me as his.

My heart began to beat fast within my chest when I realized what was happening. His cold gaze and unresponsiveness told me what I needed to know or maybe already even knew was going to happen. There was no way he was going to accept a slave rogue like me as his mate. It was obvious in the way he was staring at me in disgust. My heart twisted in pain. I didn't want my mate to reject me. I couldn't take it. I know I won't be able to make it.

My eyes began to sting and my body began to shake. Jen was feral and wasn't happy and I could hear her scream out in pain.

"Let her go!." The voice of Alpha Baron suddenly penetrated through my swirling thoughts and my eyes widened in shock and then in joy. So, he wasn't rejecting me?

A flood of relief washed over me as the guards let go of me.

The room felt so tense, I could suffocate in it. I wasn't sure what to even do now that I had been released.

I smiled in excitement as the Alpha inched closer to me.

He was going to kiss me and make me mine, that was the only reason he was trying to close the gap between us. I couldn't believe Lily was right all along

"I reject you as my mate." He said as soon as he got close enough to me.

It was as if time stopped and with it, every form of movement from the crowd stopped. I blinked rapidly

"What?" I whispered audibly as his words sank in.

"I said I reject you as my mate, Did you think I'd accept a…" he looked me up and down in disgust, "A slave girl, a fucking rogue my mate?!" He chuckled darkly.

'But…"

"You are lucky you are allowed in this pack, if I had my way, you'd be dead and gone for the evil your people committed in this pack," he cut through my protest, his words slicing and cutting through my heart like a razor-sharp knife. The expression on his face hurt more than even his words and at that moment, I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

Why was he doing this? Why was he rejecting me? I panicked.

"Please, you can't send me away," I said, trying to close the gap between us but I was quickly stopped by the guards.

"Let me go!" I yelled as I struggled to get out of their hold.

"Take this disgusting creature to the dungeon and leave her there till I say otherwise," Alpha Baron said with zero emotions in his eyes.

"No, you can't do this!" I yelled as the guards dragged me out of the party. The laughter from the party made me even more feral and I began to scream for Alpha Baron to help me.

The guards opened the door to the cell and threw me in. I quickly pulled myself and ran to the door, trying to escape but it was too late, the door was already locked.

"Please, let go of me! I didn't do anything!"

"Shut up you vermin! You tried to attack the Alpha, that's treason and it's purbushible by death" one of the guards growled,

"Father!" I yelled as I came back to my senses.

*Please, I need you to let me go. My father is dying, I need to find him a doctor! please!" I pleaded in tears.

How had I completely forgotten about my mission?

"Nice try," the guard said with a roll of his eyes.

"Please, I'm being serious, help me!" I pleaded. How could I have been so distracted that I had forgotten about my father.?

"Fine, just help me find Doctor Harrison and take him to my father, he needs immediate attention!" I begged, I was practically on my knees. I couldn't lose my father. He was the only one I had in the world, the only one ego truly loved me without reservation.

I continued to plead with the guards until one of them yelled out in frustration,

"Fine, we'll get your father a doctor!"

I let out a sigh of relief and sank to the ground. I  prayed to the moon goddess he would be with my father till Doctor Harrison got there.

I wasn't sure exactly when I fell asleep but when I opened my eyes, I was face to face with Alpha Baron.