C H A P T E R 6 - Elijah.

She shouldn’t have come here. She should have stayed downstairs, and any problem that she had to discuss with me, could have waited until the morning. This was how I felt now, but it wasn’t how I had felt before she had gotten here. I had practically been begging the moon goddess to send her up here, to get her to come to my room to talk to me.

Of course, my intentions with her did not involve talking, but it seemed like that was all that she was willing to do. I didn’t plan on doing anything to change her mind, but I did have faith in the fact that her mind would change on its own accord. After all, did she realise that the way that she was looking at me, was not the way that a delta looked at her Alpha? It was not acceptable.

Did she even know how she was looking at me?

I could feel the same sense of attraction towards her that I had felt in the club earlier this evening, like there was some kind of magnetic force that was pulling me towards her. I didn’t know how to explain it, and the fact that she wasn’t fighting against my grip on her hands, made me think that maybe she didn’t have as much of a problem with what was happening as she was trying to portray. After all, it wasn’t like something like this happened to her every day…

Unless it was something that happened to her everyday, and I just did not know it because she was new in my pack. For goodness sake, she wasn’t even in my pack yet to begin with. I couldn’t be making judgements like this on her character without actually knowing her.

But since when had stuff like this actually bothered me? She was just a girl, a girl who had been a great fuck. And she was young. Way too young for me to be feeling the way that I was feeling towards her and if news of this were to come out, I was certain of the fact that it would have incredibly negative impacts on my pack, as well as myself.

It was not something that I wanted to risk.

“You can let go of me.”

Her voice was soft, unsure. Which struck me as strange, because it did not make sense to me why she would be feeling the way that she was feeling. I wanted nothing more than to have the ground open up beneath me. So, I did what I needed to do at a time like this, and I let go of her.

I could instantly feel the effect from the distance that was now between us, feel the heat leaving my body now that our proximity was not as close as it had been moments ago.

Despite the fact that I had now done what she had asked of me, I found that the she still continued to stand here. It was like she wasn’t quite sure what she was supposed to do now, although I had been under the impression that she was going to storm out of here in the same way that she had stormed in here. After all, what reason could she possibly have to stay?

“Please do not tell my father about this.”

Hearing her make that request caused a bitter taste to fill my mouth, and if I had to be honest, I did not like it. I didn’t like it one bit. It made me feel like I was in the wrong, like I had done something wrong, when I knew that I hadn’t. The only thing that I would be doing wrong, would be telling her father and I didn’t have any intention of doing that.

And just like that, I felt anger start to bubble up within me. I had hoped that perhaps I would be able to have an actual conversation with her. That we would somehow be able to come to an agreement that we could be able to see one another when we had the time. But now that I realised that she was ashamed of this, and that she wanted to make sure that her father didn’t find out, I realised that I didn’t need to be entertaining myself with child play like this.

“You know what, Samantha… You do not need to be worried about your father finding out about what the two of us did. I can promise you that if he does, it will not be because I said anything.”

It felt like there was a hand wrapped around my throat, making it difficult to speak, but still, I made sure that I said what I had to say. I didn’t want her to think that I was some weakling. Because I wasn’t. I was the Alpha of this pack, and just because I was capable of appreciating a lovely woman when I found her, did not mean that there was something wrong with me.

Our kind was a sexual one, and it was almost natural for all of us to have intercourse with one another. It was the laws of nature. It was something that was done in order to ensure that we would be able to please our mates when the time came to find them. I knew that I had not yet found mine, but I had learnt of all of these things. I was not concerned or worried about any of it.

I had no problem with what I was doing and that was why I would continue to do so. After all, I knew that there was still a risk of me not having a mate in the first place. I wasn’t just going to put my life on hold for someone who might not even exist.

She was just standing there and staring at me, and there was something about the look in her eyes that made me quite uncomfortable. I didn’t know how long she was going to stand there and stare at me, and that was why I decided to take matters into my own hands once more. I went up to the door and opened it for her, making sure that I did not open it too widely, just in case there was someone out in the hallway.

“Is Samantha here?”

I almost jumped out of my skin when a head popped in through the gap in the door, and I almost slammed the door shut and severed the head of the person who had done so. But if I had gone that far, I would have found myself in the same situation that I had been in before, and I wouldn’t have had a Beta. I needed a Beta more than I needed a mate at this point in time.

I could tell that he was suspicious of what Samantha was doing here, because his eyes narrowed as soon as he saw her and I felt like I had no choice but to open the door further for him to come in. I could already feel the gears turning in my head as I tried to come up with possible explanations as to why she was in my room. I knew that there were many things that I could say, but all of them would have resulted in her getting lectured.

And if I had to make an estimated guess, I would say that she didn’t take well to those. And then of course, there was the fact that all of the colour had drained out of her face. She looked like she had seena ghost, and honestly speaking, I could unerstand why. 

"Samantha is here, yes. She came to apologise to me for her behaviour earlier tonight - which was quite brave of her to do, all things considered." 

I made sure that I opened the door wider so that my Beta would be able to come in and see for himself that there was nothing going on other than that. Thankfully, the distance between Samantha and I was an acceptable one, and neither one of us looked like we had done something that we needed to feel guilty for. Well, neither one of us, unless you took in the lack of colour on Samantha's face. If I was her father, I would definitely consider it as enough evidence to question the situation. 

I could tell by the expression on my Beta's face, that he wasn't happy with this, but even so, what was I supposed to say to him? I had no business getting involved in any of this, because if I did, then maybe, just maybe, her father would realise that there was something strange going on. Had she not already shared with me that that was the last thing that she wanted? 

I did what I believed would be the best thing to do at the time, but once I started speaking, once the words had already left my mouth, I realised that I might have saved her from her fathers suspicion, but I definitely did not spare her from his anger. 

"Please educate your daughter on the rules of decency. Coming into an Alpha's room in the middle of the night is not something that she should be doing, and I hope that this does not happen again. I do not wish to create conflict between the two of us this early, but there are lines that are not to be crossed." 

I spared a glance at Samantha, and I was not even remotely surprised by the way that she was looking at me. The colour in her face had returned, for her cheeks were flooded with color. If I had to take a guess, I would have said that it must have been from a combination of anger and embarressment. After all, what else could it have been? 

"I will do what I can to ensure that it does not happen again." 

"I do not mind too much this time around. She apologised for something that she had done, and there are very few people who can put their ego aside and do that. I simply do not wish for it to happen again." 

Perhaps it was not the best that I could do in terms of getting her out of trouble, but I did not want to seem like I was trying to hard. I was no fool. I knew just as well as anyone else that there were certain people who were capable of picking up on things like this. I did not know whether or not her father was one of those people. It was better for me to be safe rather than sorry. 

"That is understandable. Thank you for being so considerate. Samantha - you should go to bed." 

The instruction came from her father, and based off of the tone of his voice, I found that it was safe for me to assume that my efforts had been in vain. He was still upset with her, and it didn't look like it was going to go away any time soon. I wished that there was something that I could do to lighten the situation, but there was nothing. 

Despite her willingness to stand up to me earlier this evening, it seemed like that rebelious streak of hers disappeared when it came to her father. She did not say anything to him, and instead went ahead and left my room. But something that tiggered me slightly, that told me that this conversation was not entirely done, was the fact that my Beta continued to stay here. He waited until after the door had closed behind his daughter, and then he turned to me. 

"Alpha... I believe that there are some matters that I need to discuss with you."

And what matters would those be?