Chapter five

Amelia’s POV

I instantly froze after I heard my mate's name, Alpha Grayson, one of the most feared Alphas, yet something gave off a weird taste as I tried to recall something important about him that I forget countless of times. I couldn't help but feel weird as I knew his name, but he never knew mine, almost as if he didn't want to know my name.

I shrugged off the thought and stared at my mother, who still, covered her mouth in awe as she regained her posture and I knew she was deeply affected by the power that radiated off him as he stood there with unseeing eyes, his eyes did not meet my father's and I faltered at the lack of sight that he seemed to have. Alpha Archer's eyes looked at my father, but his eyes never meeting him, and it occurred to me one thing that I should've remembered when I first met him.

"You're blind." It was something that I blurted out and it made me look at him, a wolf without his eyesight is vulnerable and weak, yet he turned out to be a strong and feared Alpha, obviously meant that his other senses doubled and now I understood everything. Alpha Grayson's face whisked around and stared at me, well, looked at me and gave me a somewhat sympathetic frown and kept his gaze on me.

"Yes, I am," he said, he heavily sighed and turned his attention back to my father who gave him a stern gaze and then switched back to me.

"Let me guess, as my daughter is your mate, you would want to take her back to your pack, claim her and never let her mother and I see her again." my dad stated, and I paled at the thought once again. I couldn't leave my pack. My friends and family were here, I wouldn't leave them even if he was an Alpha, I would never leave them. My mother paled at the thought too and looked at me with a worried expression and then back at Alpha Grayson, whose gaze was hardened and his stance stiff at my dad's immediate guess at what he would do.

"Of course, she is mine." and there it goes, the 'mine' thing. The thought of being called an object sickened me, as well as the thought I would never see my parents again, it hurt to know that I would never see my own pack ever again.

"Excuse me?" I breathed out, trying to calm the anger that would soon radiate from me and into the air. Saying this, was an act of defiance towards him as an Alpha and I knew instantly that this was not going to end well and I had sealed my fate. Both my dad and Alpha Grayson looked at me, my wolf growling at me for stating that I was not his, and it made me get mad at her for being inconsiderate to my feelings. Alpha Grayson was obviously displeased at my act of defiance and disrespect and I could feel it in the air, his anger radiated off him and I felt as if I could hear his wolf growling at this point.

I boldly looked into Alpha Grayson's eyes and even though he couldn't see me, I still took the advantage of it and stared into his crystal blues. "I am not going with you, you cannot simply take me away from here," I stated, feeling a new amount of strength as I bravely gazed onto him.

In the corner of my eye, I could see that my dad stood there, mouth agape as he watched everything unfold. I could feel his pride simmering out from him as his eldest daughter stood her ground. Some members of the celebration looked on as they felt the anger of an Alpha in the room and watched him and I having a stare off, even if the Alpha couldn't stare back at me.

The little emotion in his eyes was visible, it was swirling with anger because he didn't like the fact that I told him I wasn't his and I wasn't going with him, a sign of disrespect and Alphas hated disrespect.

"You will go with mine, whether you like it or not. Mate or not, you will go with me to my pack," he said sternly, reaching out to grab my left arm, drawing me closer as he gave me a hard expression.

"You can't make me" I spoke, feeling my arm being squeezed tightly. This was an act of dominance over a female, or if anyone who disrespects a higher rank and the more, I disrespected him, the more his grip tightened on my arm.

I ignored the sparks; I ignored the pain that seeped through. The act of dominance was both a pleasurable, yet painful experience as I continued to rant.

"I am not an object, let go of me. I am not yours, I have a pack here and as a member of this pack, I refuse to leave it, no matter what you want. You may be an Alpha, but this is my territory and only I can make the decision of leaving." I growled, and his grip tightened on my arm, his anger was boiling and soon the whole hall will feel it. I knew a load of wolves were watching us now, both Alphas, Betas, Gammas and normal wolves were gazing at an Alpha and his mate fighting, both are wolves not liking our situation.

Crescent was snarling at him, no more lovey-dovey with him, and certainly no more thinking that our mate was worthy of us. She was annoyed, agitated, angry. She did not like how this Alpha male is treating her and how he did not respect our wishes. We are his mate. He has to listen to us. We were at the point of snarling, his grip was tightening on my arm every second, and I was feeling numb, all moments that we had in the empty hallway was gone and now it was replaced by pure anger. We were both affected by our wishes and we both knew it was not going to turn out well. Our anger mixed together as one as we both growled at each other in annoyance, his anger worsening by the minute and I knew he was going to snap soon.

"You are coming with me. No. Matter. What. You don't want to start a war, do you? I'm sure your pack would like to suffer because of your idiocy to not come with me." and at that point, I knew that I hated him. He not only disrespected my wishes, but he obviously would go to the extent of starting a war between his pack and mine. He wouldn't dare to even come close to me if he did. My wolf disliked him strongly, yet she was held back because of the mate bond, but we both knew at that point in time we would rather go, rogue than go with him now.

"You're losing your opportunity to gain respect from me, you want to start a war? This is my pack, as a mate, you should understand that if you harm my pack, there will be consequences. Not only will I lose any respect I have left for you, but you have already lost any hope of me ever loving you." I snarled, and to add more salt to the wound. "I would rather go rogue, than to ever be with you."

I breathed it out, my arm losing feeling as I glanced at my arm which had turned a light shade of purple, the blood circulation was about to be cut off if he didn't let go. Even if the pain was immense, I managed to look back at Alpha Grayson, whose eyes were now golden, meaning his wolf was peeking out and that meant Crescent was coming out of hiding too.

I had insulted him as a man and a wolf, wanting to take the harder life meant that I had no respect for him and indirectly said that I would rather die than be with him, it meant that I didn't want him and I said it in the cruelest way possible.

I looked at his swirling eyes as he tried to control his wolf, mine was just almost to the surface wanting to give to this male a good beating. I was terrified, to say the least, my new found confidence might kill me and I may never be with the Moon Goddess by indirectly being with my mate, I path which I did not want to take. I didn't realize at that time that my shoulder and neck were bare from his arm trying slide down the material off my shoulder, and I tensed. My clean left shoulder was bare to him and I watched as his wolf and he eyed the spot with lust and anger. I knew what was coming next.

I tried to pull away, my heart rate accelerating quickly as his head dipped slowly down to my shoulder and I wanted to cry there and then. My body tried to move away from his in a desperate attempt to not get marked here in front of everyone. I wasn't going to get marked today, I wouldn't.

"Stop!" I screamed, grabbing his arm that grabbed mine and tried to shove his arm off it as his canines descended, his face mere inches away from my shoulder. "Stop please!" I cried out, as tears started to spill out of my eyes. I didn't want to be marked; I didn't want to at all. Everyone was now watching the events unfold, no one stopping this Alpha from getting what he wanted, letting him take his prey as she struggled to fight. I tried and tried to wiggle out of his grip, my wolf howling to move as we struggled together. I tried to kick him, but it hurt my leg in the process and I felt immense pain in my arm and legs as I tried to pry him off me.

"Dad, help me!" I pleaded as I looked over to my dad in panic, he was in a state of shock, his feet rooted to the ground as he shook his head. This was all my fault. I felt betrayed, Alpha Grayson's face mere centimeters now from my shoulder as I felt him inhale my scent, his canines on full display. I was forcefully being marked, not being helped by anyone, I was alone and I was struggling to break free. No one was listening to my pleas, my cries and my anger and hurt were raging through my pores, even my own Alpha was not looking to help me. He watched with angry eyes but made no attempt to help.

Everyone has betrayed me.

I cried helplessly, using all my strength to move out of the way and trying to dodge his canines, but I failed and I felt his teeth plunge where my shoulder met my neck. I wailed and gasped, there was no pleasure like they said, only pain, pain took place where there should have been the pleasure, but there was none. The tears were streaming down fast as I felt his stay there, my wolf trying to surge out of me as he marked me. I was in pain, my body shook with it, the pain on my arm was still there, my neck was in pain and my head was spinning.

I had little strength left to fight as I saw stars, the blackness was consuming me. The hurt, the betrayal, the mark, it was all swimming in my head before I blacked out, only to see pale blue eyes stare at me with the little emotion they had.