Chapter 4

ALINA

“What are you doing here?” Jezebel hissed, rushing towards me and grabbing my arm. Her eyebrows were drawn into a frown, and she looked pissed. Have I just managed to make an enemy only a few minutes since I came here?

“I wanted to get food for myself. I am sorry.” I muttered as I tried to scurry away but the people that were in the room came out, the man— my mate with a towel hung dangerously below his waist and the other woman had worn a shirt.

The man was the most beautiful man I have ever seen. With his long black hair and grey mesmerising eyes, he looked like he came straight out of heaven. He might be an angel for all I could tell. He had a strong muscular build, and his skin glistened, probably because of the activity he was just partaking in. Strangely, I felt my chest tighten from that but it was fleeting as the lady beside him yelled at me.

“What the hell are you doing here?” She hissed, looking down at my body with contempt. “And who the hell are you? Who allowed you to come into the sacred palace?”

“I…I-” I got cut off by Jezebel who squeezed the arm that she was holding, and I managed to suppress the wince that almost burst out of me.

“I am sorry, Miss Lydia. This is Alina. She is a new addition to the harem and had just arrived in the pack today. I am sorry if she had interrupted both of you.” Jezebel apologised profusely, her head bowed down. “I am going to make sure she doesn’t disturb the both of you again.” She added before she turned to look at me sharply. “Apologise to them, now,”

“I am so sorry.” I muttered. I couldn’t look up to see the both of them standing by each other again. If this man was in fact the alpha that I had been offered to and was my mate, then this was a recipe for disaster. He had a whole harem to himself. I raised my head to look at him, and I flinched when I realised that he was looking at me.

He did not look real. His jaw was sharp and strong, and his entire face looked like it had been perfectly sculptured by an artist. Could he feel the mate bond between us? I swallowed hard as I imagined him taking me back to his room and claiming me as his mate. Would he even want to mate with me? I was no one. Even Alex did not want me, so why did I think that the lycan king would want me?

“What the fuck are you staring at?” The lady beside him hissed. I turned to look at her and jealousy nearly overtook me when I saw how perfect she looked. She was so pretty, and her curvaceous body was obviously what Alpha Kai wanted. He wouldn’t want me because I was very slim and frail, due to the starvation that I was subjected to by my step mother and her daughter.

“It is okay, Lydia. Why don’t we call it a night.” Alpha Kai sighed as he turned to look at her.

She turned to look at him and she pouted, making me cringe, “But we are not done. It’s only been thirty minutes.” Her voice had completely changed.

“When I say we are done, then we are.” Alpha Kai’s tone was cold and stern.

Lydia’s face dropped, and she glared at me again before she left the hallway leaving only the three of us there.

“I am going to make sure she does not disturb you again, my alpha.” Jezebel said to him as she clutched my arm again and dragged me until I was out of the hallway.

We found Lydia fiddling with the keys to her room as she sniffed. When she saw us coming around, she turned to look at me with lasers in her eyes. I was not a stranger to people looking at me like that, but it still made me flinch. She put away the keys and came towards me. When she was close enough, she smacked me in the face and I nearly fell to the ground if not for the bannister that I held on to behind me.

“This is for interrupting me with the alpha and this,” she smacked me again, and Jezebel leaned away from me so she wouldn't get hit too. “This is a welcome to the hell you are going to face being in the harem. Kai belongs to me, and if you try to get in the way of that then you are going to get more of these slaps. Do you hear me?” She yelled, nose flaring and her eyes ablaze with ire.

“Yes.” I muttered, feeling the stinging pain travel through me. I wanted to cry, but I held it back because I did not want her to think I was weak. I was not going to stay here forever anyway.

“Now go back to your room.” She spat before she turned back to open her door.

I turned to Jezebel and she was looking down at me with a soft look on her face but once she noticed me staring at her, her face hardened.

“I hope you learnt your lesson. Now get up and go back to your room before I slap you too.” She gestured at me to leave.

I scrambled up to my feet and headed to my room, my chest tightening. When I got to my room, my roommate was already asleep. I threaded to my bed and once I was laid there comfortably, I could not stop the tears that started to pour out of my eyes. Maybe I was never destined to be loved and cared for by anyone. My life might be about to be worse than it was back in my pack, and I could feel it.