chapter 4

Suddenly his fingers trace away from Elena’s hair and towards her cheek. He touches the side of her face and brings his hand towards her jaw with abrupt movement. Her eyes are full of tears. She feels herself suffocating. It was the first time that she had a panic attack in the presence of anyone else.

 ‘Look at me,’’  his command is mighty yet again. The fingers that gaze under her chin spread goosebumps all over her delibated body. It doesn't help with the panic attack and it certainly does not calm her down. 

Suddenly his fingers circle Elena’s throat. Her grey eyes grow wide as she is forced to stare deep in his eyes. An unsettling feeling rests at the bottom of her stomach. 

Suddenly the panic attack is gone. as if his eyes had popped into her fragile broken soul and commanded her body. She feel like nothing but a pawn in this game. Like he was the master and she; just a piece on the chessboard waiting to be moved.

‘Mate.’’

The Echo of that word inside Elena’s head braids the catastrophe. Her wolf has recognized him. Now it suddenly makes sense to her. The kind of control that he had over her had nothing to do with him being an Alpha. He was able to maximize it because Elena was meant to submit to him. It was the werewolf nature. 

When an alpha or any other normal wolf was mated to a woman that was of a lower status than himself, then submission was demanded with no excuse. The comparison between both Elena and the Alpha’s statuses was indismissible. 

She surprised that he had not yet killed me. A man as powerful and ruthless as alpha Roman Aguilera wouldn't want to be associated with an Omega, especially one that hasn't been able to kill yet.

“What's your story?’’  there it was again. his deep silky voice. 

The way he looks into her eyes speaks volumes to my soul. Elena is on the verge of transformation. Her wolf is on edge. Out-of-control. She can't blame her. This was her mate for crying out loud. The Moon goddess had played yet another cruel joke on Elena.

She stares at him with confusion. Her eyes dwindle to his moving mouth.

‘Answer me, weakling.’’  Finally, his perception had been revealed. .

“I don't have a story.”

“You are that stupid.’’  his fingers leave her chin and he clenches them with annoyance and irritation. Elena could see his disgust. Yet again, she had managed to be a disappointment to another man in her life. was she not better off dead? Maybe if he fulfilled what he had truly come here to do, then she could feel the peace of finally leaving this world.

What was she to do? Now that her heart was filled with so much hatred and resentment towards herself.

“As werewolves, the moon goddess has created us with a beastly nature for our survival. Our wolf is a signature. The frequencies we leave behind once we are long gone and forgotten. Pieces of evidence that we walked the earth and toiled the ground. With this nature will have the right to be rampant. which is our pride. But you are becoming the exception. And the frequencies you create are weaker than those of a human. Do you have anything to say for yourself?’’

Elena feels the need to look at her father. Yet any attempt she makes at raising her head is met with an invisible force that commands her to stay down.

“Killing a human is no way of showing strength.’’

 There it was again, his fingers abruptly wrapping around her neck.  He forces her to look at him,   his eyes return to bloodshot red. 

His wolf had emerged. Angry and disappointed. 

“For the commander of the warriors,  and a man rumored to be a showcase of great strength, You have a weak daughter and I am compelled to think that this is what you've taught her.’’

Her father's head remains cast down. Alpha Roman looks at Elena with so much  revulsion. Just like her father often did. But there was a difference. His fingers around her throat don't only give her fear but arousal. That's impossible,  right?

How was it possible that a weak omega was paired to the most powerful Alpha.

There has to be a mistake’ roman whispers to his wolf. 

Alpha Roman Aguilera is feared by all other alphas? He is ruthless. Impatient. Rampant. He is famous for raiding territories and not discriminating between werewolves and humans. He has slaughtered villages and towns. He has brought cities to their knees. He holds the most enormous werewolf army in all of history. He takes after his father. The Aguilera family is all but a mystery. It is rumored that Alpha Roman Aguilera has a sister. A sister who is betrothed to only one man whom the alpha Roman chooses.

“Speak..’’ his command echoes through the house. My father doesn't stop himself. He is desperate.

“ I have tried my best. I have taught Elena over and over again that a werewolfs' power comes from brutality. Yet my daughter seems to hold a weakness of her own.  She forms bonds and connections with other people no matter who or what they are. These connections are what makes her weak. Her heart is not bread for power or brutality.’’

Alpha Roman remains staring at Elena. His scent is beautiful. All she want to do is be near him even if it means she was going to die. Her body is paralyzed with fear. But the wolf is awake inside her. Excited.

‘Mate.’ elena’s wolf repeated inside her head. 

“Do you know what is going to happen to you?”  alpha Roman asks. Elena was not sure whether that was a rhetorical question. She finds herself obliged to remain quiet. She did not want to anger him but again, she just wanted him to get this over and done with.

“Can you please make it quick?”  Her statement only makes his amusement grow.

“Quick?’’  he asks, sarcasm dripping from his tone. 

“Stand to your feet! Both of you.’’ Her body follows the command before her mind can even comprehend it. Already standing to her full height, which is about half of Alpha Roman’s. Elena’s father stands a short distance away from her. He avoids the eyes of the alpha yet Elena couldn’t cannot tear hers away from his.

“Leave us.  Wait by the door for my instructions.’’ 

Her father leaves the room without a second of hesitation. And Elena is left in the presence of the alpha. All alone. Feeling invisible. Feeling like he could crush her under his finger if he wanted to. But the connection between them both draws her towards him. All she wanted to do was have his hands on her body. Touching her. Even if it meant choking or killing her. She can feel that poison growing inside her like a deficiency. The poison of wanting and needing an alpha as ruthless as Roman Aguilera.

 What will become of her now, that she was mated to the man who wanted to kill her?