Chapter 3

Lilac*

With my head buried to the ground I stood in the corner of the lounge.

I suddenly felt the presence of my wolf, Edya had been so resilience since the day Sander forcefully took us as his mate, and the torture only made my wolf distance itself from me.

I felt her anxiety, like she was restless and it's also disturbed my state of mind.

I wished that I can communicate with her but Sander took away the chance of ever being able to communicate with my wolf.

She-wolf beta can only gain more power and the ability to communicate with their wolf spirit if she mated her real mate not a chosen like Sander.

Edya steer dangerously and began pacing around my head, which made me felt so dizzy.

What was wrong with her?

Well, even when her steers was like a distraction I felt she would quiet down with time.

The huge door to the lounge opened and the two men entered, with each step they took I felt the air got so thick.

I was suddenly star strucked with the strong immensing smell of the earth after summer rain (petrichor) mixed with mint.

It was so strongly alluring, so savory and intoxicating that I had to sniffled the air and it was not enough to calm the fresh raising storm that had seem to instantly built up in me within that second.

I discreetly sniffled in again and I felt my core ached in need, my legs trembled and my heart fluttered.

I had never felt this way before.

What was happening to me?

I was suddenly pulled out of my thoughts, this scent.... my eyes opened wider as my gaze fell on the beautiful peer of red eyes. The kind of red eyes which would send chills to anyone who stared too long into it.

It reminded me of a description of the devil, but this alpha was a beautiful devil.

His red eyes stared right back at me, which made my heart skip a bit.

Goddess help me.

The tall slender man in front of me had a curtain bang dark hair with sprinkles of gray, no beards nor mustache, his round face was well defined and he had a two button like earrings on his both ears.

They had already took their seat and I was to serve them the nectar.

At the sight of him I felt the sudden surge of feelings which made me want to fall into the arms of the alpha.

This feeling.

He is...he was..Was he?

As I walked up to them, my hands began trembling violently.

One step, two step. The tray in my hands slipped from my fingers and the glass jug shattered with it content splashed on my clothes.

This shouldn't be happening....why now? How do I face my mate under this circumstances. A chosen Luna to an alpha and also a mate to the demon Alpha.

I wished the earth would just opened and swallowed me.

I stood stucked at that very spot then I felt some pain in my feet, maybe the broken glasses made it way into my skin but I wasn't bothered by it at all.

"What do you think you are doing?" Sander gave me a cold glare, I saw how his veins burge out on his forehead probably trying to control his anger, he wouldn't want to show his nasty side in front of alpha drayce.

I could feel alpha Drayce's red eyes roaming round my body, scanning me.

I suddenly felt so self-conscious, I wasn't looking tattered but with my drowsy eyes even with the heaviest make up on, with a closer look anyone is likely to get a hint of how puffy my eyes were. And my clothes were not tattered but bugus, the gown covered my curves hidden away all the traces of my beauty.

Alpha Drayce was my mate?

Brews of coated sweat on my forehead and I gulp hard for air, the room suddenly became too hot and the air felt so poisonous to breath in.

I felt ashamed.

"Lilac! Go to your room now!" Sander snapped at me and I panicked.

I abruptly turned to leave when I realized that I had just stepped on the broken glasses.

It hurt so much that I clenched my teeth to each other to prevent me from screaming.

But even when I tried to hide it, I could not take a step further. With the presence poor state my body was in I knew I will passed out from the pain if I walk with those pieces of glass stuck under my feet.

"Why are you still there?" Sander barked again and I wished I could just shoved those glass in his *ss.

Before I betrayed myself and start crying, I heard foot steps and felt someone standing beside me.

In a bridal style I was swooped off my feet, I didn't have to look up at the person as I already knew who it was. His smell and the electrifying feeling of his body even when we had clothes on made me almost lost my mind.

His touch made my panties wet and I almost moan in pleasure.

I was excited but the fear of what Sander might do to me won over my excitement.

He gently layed me on the couch in a corner of the lounge.

"Are you always this clumsy?" He asked and I could not help but raised my head and my eyes met his gaze.

His voice was so soft yet deep and his questions sounds more like a warning, a threatening one.

I stared deep into his eyes and I could tell it's holds lots of questions and untold feelings in them.

I didn't lingered on the stare as I look away almost immediately, hidden the pink little blush that had crept on my face.

I didn't have the guts to answer his question.

Then there was the rushed foot steps of Sander, he ran and stood besides Drayce.

"You should not bother yourself with, I will take..."

"Why do you treat your Luna this way?" Alpha Drayce asked with a bloodshot glare.

and I thought, is it me or does he just like asking questions which sounded like a threat to my ears.

"Is this how you treat woman in your pack?" Alpha Drayce fired him yet another question.

Sander smiled pleadingly but I didn't missed that I WILL DEAL WITH YOU LATER glare he shot at me, I swallowed hard.

I followed Sander gaze which was directed at my leg where Alpha Drayce held as he try to ascertain where the pieces are hidden underneath my skin.

I gently pulled my feet towards myself which shrugged off his hands from my legs.

"I'm fine sir" I tried to get up from my seat.

The heart wrecking pain I got from underneath my feet made me staggered and I lost my balance but the alpha was so quick as he wrapped his hand around my waist pulling me towards himself.

I felt awkward and embarrassed, I couldn't raise my eyes to look at Sander because I already felt his glare drilling into my back.

Drayce let go of me almost immediately,

"Sit down"

I couldn't disagree or act stubborn since he use a powerful tone on me, it will look really disrespectful to Sander's guest if I pissed him off.

Sander did warned me against messing things up.

Alpha Drayce sat beside me on the couch and placed my feet on his thigh, I almost retracted my legs as I tried to cover myself properly, I tried to recall the color of my undies that I had put on, I hope it was one of those breathtaking sexy lingeries Alpha Sander got for me and not those ones I use on my regular days.

"Be still" he said and I nodded like a little lizard in response.

I place my two hands on my chest as it pounded like it would burst out of my ribcage, my face was all flushed and I couldn't help but glanced around me.

I saw Alpha Drayce's men in suits, they all had an ironed face with dark glasses on and they were all huge like bouncers.

The embarrassing part was that they're eyes were all on us.

I gave Drayce a last scanning look, he wore a mid wieght dark blue and black striped flannel shirt on which he didn't bother to button down at all, with it was a dark denim trouser and a sturdy boots, his transparent white T-shirts showed of his toned chest which made me swallowed hard, even when he is a slender one, it shows that he is a gym lover.

Alpha Drayce looks emotionless as he remove the shard glasses from my feet, Unlike Sander's serious face which sender shivers of fear down my spine Alpha Drayce's serious face seemed amusing and interesting to me.

Occasionally he would blew air into the open wound after removing each shard glass and applyed the disinfectant which hurt like hell.

Each time he blew air on it, I felt all sort of tingles in my body, his hands were doing a lot of things to my body and I could only hoped Sander does not noticed.

"You shouldn't be careless with your body" he said as he stood up. again, it sounded like a warning. "Bryan," he called.

A young man with deep brown eyes and a dyed dark blue side part haircut came forward and took the small bowl with shard glass from him, I noticed he had a silver squinty cross earrings on his left ear and he dressed so casually, different from the ones in suits.

"Yes Alpha" he said as he turned around with the bowl in his hands while one of my girls showed him the way.

"Thank you Alpha" I said almost in a whisper.

His eyes stared deeply back at me but he nodded with warmth but no smiles at all, funny enough Alpha Drayce's little gesture brought smile to my face.

Alpha Drayce wipe off his hands and shoved them back in his pockets casually as he turned to face Sander with a risen brows.

"Lilac, go and get the girls for the alpha" I heard the commanding voice of the devil, Sander.

My heart clench and I almost got a heart stroke.

I had forgotten what the Alpha is here for but then, how can he find his mate when am his fated mate and does the alpha feels the mate bond thingy? Does he know that am his mate?

Or did he already know and decided to take a chosen?