Chapter three: She's marked

Next morning;

Lilly woke up to the soreness she's feeling over her body. Her body was in pain that it felt like it didn't belong to her. She found herself facing a very handsome unfamiliar face. Her eyes widened and as if shocked by electricity, she quickly sat up on the bed. She looked around and realized that she was in an unfamiliar room.

"Where am I? What happened?" She questioned herself, and tried to remember, but she groaned when a pang of headache hit her.

"After getting drunk, I went outside to curse Alberto." She stated, trying to remember what happened the previous night. "I met a strange man... And kissed him and we came to a hotel and... And..." She stopped suddenly when she realized what happened. "What have I done?" She questioned, regretting her action. " Haven't you learned your lesson yet," she scolded herself. She knew it was like a sin to get involved with another man when she was hurt by one.

Immediately she got off the bed, and in a swift moment she put on her clothes. During the dressing, her eyes flicked to the huge mirror in the room.

Her eyes widened when she noticed a bite on her neck, she used her hand to trace it , but quickly withdrew it when pain stung her.

"What a lunatic Alpha? Marking someone over a one night stand." She said.

Although she'd never been marked before, even she'd always wondered why Alberto never marked her and claimed her his. But who knew that he never really wanted her. When noticed that she was thinking about him, she decided to put the thought off her mind, and used the tip top of her cloth to covered the bite.

She's about to head towards the entrance when she heard a voice, and she stopped.

"Where do you think you are going?"

Immediately, she turned and her eyes locked with the man whom she had shared the night with.

Her eyes ran through his shirtless body, six packs stomach and his arms were crossed over his chest, enhancing the wolf tattoo in his left arm.

For a moment or two she couldn't withdraw her eyes from him. She stood frozen, looking intently at him. He was an attractive man with a dark ocean like eyes. In the moment she was encharted, but quickly got hold of herself.

"What do you mean?" She questioned, still couldn't take her eyes off him. "We have no business together and whatever happened between us was a mistake." She said, and the man smiled, revealing his perfect teeth.

"I don't think so," he said, moving closer to her.

He's now standing so close to her that his sweet scent filled her nose, arousing her wolf.

"What...are you talking about?" She stammered, trying to keep her wolf in place from taking control.

He brought his face to her ear.

"You are mine, mine alone." He said, and her face crumbled into a frown.

"Yours?" She laughed nervously, "you don't mean it, right?" She questioned doubtfully, but the seriousness on the man's face said otherwise. She scoffed, "what's this? It's nothing. It's just a mistake night."

"I don't think it is." He replied, making Lilly wondered if he was a nut. "I've marked you, so you are mine now."

"The bite...it's just a bite." She said, although she knew that the bite meant more than that. She was awared that once a girl was marked, she'd been chosen as a mate. However that wasn't for her, she had just gone through a heartbreak, and she couldn't afford to experience the same thing; only if she comes out of that one alive.

"Do you think so?" He questioned, his eyes piercing into hers.

She wondered who the man was, to be so confident to claim her his, even when she refused. And her senses told her that that kind of man must be dangerous, and one must flee from him.

"Yes," she answered, swallowing hard. "The mark... is nothing, and moreover you can't make me do what I don't intent to do"

"I think I can make you do more."

Unknown to her that Logan Knight had no intention in letting her go, it'd taken him years for him to finally found a mate.

He'd searched many wolf packs but he couldn't find, so he'd thought of giving up, but his grandfather and pack members kept nagging him to find a mate to complete his Alpha circle. He knew that he must align with his grandfather and pack members want.

And the previous night, after arriving from his long journey which had taken him to another pack which was in another country to settle an issue between two packs. He immediately went to the bar where his little sister, Rose, worked, to go and surprise her. It'd been a month since his departure, and he missed her so much.

Rose and his grandfather were the only family he got, their(Logan and Rose) parents were brutally murdered by a group of alphas, when they were young. And the incident of that night was still afresh in his head, giving him sleepless nights.

When he got to the bar, he saw a lady who kept cursing, and realized that she was drunk.

At first he ignored her, but when he heard her mention a particular name, Alberto Johnson, he stopped and looked her way. Alberto was the son of Alpha Johnson, who was also among the five Alphas that murdered his parents.

And Alberto, who had just first had the taste of power, attacked two of his pack members, making him count him as his enemy.

Seeing her cursed him so much, he believed that Alberto must had caused her pain.

The moment he got to her, he noticed himself drawn to her, his wolf was awaken. She intoxicated him that his wolf stirred within him, ready to free himself. Then he knew that she was the one he was looking for; his mate.

Seeing that she was drunk, he knew that she would be an easy catch. He then tried to use his charm, which he usually used to drew many girls closer to him, and it didn't fail. It really worked on her.

When he saw that she was aroused as him, then he told her to go somewhere safe enough for them to devour each other.

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"I can help you take your revenge on him." He said, making Lilly looked at him doubtfully.

"What are you talking about?"

"Alberto, isn't he the man you despise so much?" He asked.

Lilly wondered how he found out, then she realized that he must had heard her when she was cursing him.

"I'm not interested." She answered, knowing that he must be planning something.

He smiled, It amused him to see her so confident; only if she knew who he's, he knew she would be shivering already.

"Do you know who I am?" He asked, his voice was cold that it could send shiver into any girls spine, any girl but not Lily who was feeling hurt and angry at that moment.

"Alpha! So?" She retaliated, "You thought you can use me, or isn't that what Alphas do? You use one like a slave then discard her as if she was nothing. As if she too has no soul or heart that will be in pain." She sobbed, and Logan's heart sank upon hearing the sadness in her voice.

Without him knowing, he moved closer to her, and wiped away the tears that lined in her eyes. She looked up at him curiously and subconsciously, taken aback at his gesture.

Feeling embarrassed for crying in front of him, Lilly decided to get out of the place, and moreover she was trying hard to hold her wolf in control, or else she might do what she would regret forever. Her wolf was ready to give in any minute, but she couldn't let that happen. She wasn't going to let anyone use her just like Alberto did.

She walked hurriedly to the door.

“Tell me your name." He said, almost in a commanding tone.

“I don't tell my identity to a stranger, and also it's none of your business." She said, without turning back.

"I will find you, trust me. You carry my mark, so you belong to me." Logan said.

She pulled the door open and stormed out.

Logan then brought out his phone and dialed his beta's number. Who was the same person that drove them to the hotel the previous night.

"Follow the lady and find out where she stays and who she is." He said into the phone, and disconnected the call immediately.

"You are mine," he said firmly.