Chapter 4: MATE

4: MATE

SELENE

He was so close to me, I could literally feel him, it felt like something was crawling on my skin, not the irritating type of something but the exciting type.

I tried to struggle but he held me firmly, whoever this man was, he was strong as hell, and I was powerless in his grip.

Instructively, I wrapped my legs around his waist as he pushed further into me, his groin and his bulge finding my groin and pressing into it.

He held my hands apart and pinned them beside me to the tree with both of his hands, his torso was pressing into me, keeping my back upright against the tree as he sniffled and growled close to my ear.

“Mate!” he growled once again.

It was fierce, it was primal and it was infectious, “Mate!” I snarled too before I realized what I was doing.

The air was thick with the powerful scent of Moon Flower and raw hormones, I could smell him, like really smell him, his scent, the smell of his sweat, the wildness and heat that was coming off him, I could smell it all.

I wanted him like I wanted nothing else, I was hungry for him, eager for this touch, from the hard bulge that was pressing roughly against my inner thighs, I knew he wanted me too.

“I said, Kill him not fuck him!” the voice whispered again in my ear.

It was like someone slapped me in the face and the hold was broken.

What the hell was I thinking? Another mate bond? So soon? So quickly after my last mate cheated on me and then killed me and my unborn child to hide his infidelity?

Why was I getting the hots for yet another mate? This was not going to be any different, he too would do the same thing, cheat and lie and kill as it pleased him.

I would be an absolute fool if I let the mate bond blind me into falling for another scumbag again.

His hold on my wrists slacked as he slowly began to breathe against my face, his deep blue eyes filled with lust as he stared at me hungrily.

The look of lust and hunger left my face and was quickly replaced by an angry look.

I yelled then yanked my hands free from his grip and slapped him hard across the face.

The man staggered backwards and looked at me with a mixture of pain and confusion.

I didn’t care, all I wanted was to rip his heart out of his chest and that was exactly what I tried to do.

As I dashed forward to deal the death blow, two strong hands held onto me on either side of my shoulder and pushed me to the ground.

I tried to struggle but I was outnumbered. There were three men behind me, two of them held me down and the third was unsheathing a blade to stab me in the back.

Where the hell did these three men come from? That was what I thought as the dagger came down swiftly, aiming for my spine.

“Stop!” the man thundered in his deep voice and the third man paused his attack.

“We are taking her back with us,” he said, looking directly at me.

I sneered at him, my eyes filled with fury and anger, I regretted not being able to deal the death blow before his men came to his rescue.

After that, he did not say another word to me, he just walked past me.

The two men holding me down kept me down until the third guy could bind me with thick ropes and then they pulled me along with them deeper and deeper into the thick forest, farther and farther away from my home, from my revenge!

I struggled wildly but it was to no avail but that didn’t stop me.

I kept struggling until I got to their pack and was thrown into a jail cell.

“Get me out of here, damn it!” I yelled as I slammed into the silver bars. Just making contact with it made me weak, there seemed to be no way of escape.

“Hello?” a small shy voice whispered from the darkness.

I ignored it, for all I knew, it was the same voice that had been whispering in my ear since I came back from the dead.

“I will kill you all when I get out of here, do you hear me? Let me out!” I yelled and slammed into the bar again, once more the silver weakened me and I staggered backward and fell to the ground that was covered in straw.

“There is no point, those bars are made of silver,” the small voice said.

I spun around, I was not imagining it, there was someone else here with me, “Who are you?” there was much hostility in my voice as I stared into the darkness, my wolf sight kicked in and I could make out a girl, she looked at least eight years younger than me with crew cut black hair and huge scared eyes.

She shuddered further into the darkness, shaken by the look on my face and the tone of my voice.

I took a deep breath, “I’m sorry about that, I have had a bad day… who are you?” My voice was much friendlier.

“Calista, and you?” the girl replied.

I gave her a warm smile, “Hey Calista, I am Selene… do you have any idea where we are?”

“We are prisoners of the Denizen!” she said.

I frowned, the Denizen pack, one of the rivals and not-too-distant neighbors of my own pack. Shit! So I had fallen into enemy hands.

“I have to get out of here, Calista, I don’t belong here!” I said as I looked around, searching for a possible route of escape.

“I’m sorry Selene but… there is no escaping the Denizen,” she said and curled up into a ball, “We are all going to die here!”

I frowned, I was not going to die anywhere, not until I had ripped out the heart of that traitor!

The silver cell yawned o

pen and I looked up to find two guards staring down at me, “The alpha has summoned you!”