4

AMAIRA 

I could feel my heart pound like crazy as I shuffled my feet towards the area where the Alpha sat, hearing Audrey and her friends chuckle ridiculously to themselves. 

As I walked close, I prayed. This was probably the last time I was going to be breathing again, because the Alpha would probably think of me as a joke and rip me into pieces, but again I couldn't go against the Alpha's daughter's orders and just had to go along with this. 

I spotted several women pausing on the dance floor to turn to me as I got close to where the Alpha sat. My heart pulse quickened and my throat ran dry hearing their hushed whispers as I walked past them. 

'Where does she think she's going?' 

'I'm not sure. But she's seeking death if she thinks she can seduce the Alpha.' 

'Seduce the Alpha. Haha. She's just a common, lowly Omega. She's stupid if she thinks the Alpha will be interested in her kind.' 

To worsen the situation, Alpha Damien had long paused his discussion with his Beta, Raiden, to stare at me. I couldn't tell if it was amusement I saw in his eyes, but those midnight blue shades didn't leave mine as I approached him, and I don't know why I felt a boiling sensation burbling in my heart I got close. 

My knees felt weak, and staring him right in the eyes was all it took for me not to faint across the floor because even the elders were looking at me now with bewirlded expressions. 

The sound of my footstep stop as I glanced up at him. 

"A- Alpha D-D- Damien" I began stuttering and the women burst out laughing behind me. I swear I could hear Audrey laughing the loudest. Tears welled up in my eyes and I tried to force my feet out of the place, but I had to complete the dare or I would be punished. "Would you care to dance?" 

There was silence as everyone waited, probably waiting for the Alpha to tear me into shreds or laugh in my face, but it didn't happen. 

Actually he just kept staring at me, and my eyes dropped to the ground as I waited for his reply or reaction, my palms sweating.

"Okay." His reply came and I snapped my head up to look at him. 

Okay? 

Was he serious?

Maybe he was waiting for the right time to tell me he's joking and probably laugh in my face like I expected, but that didn't happen. 

Instead, in the presence of several eyes and dropped jaws, he alighted from his chair and stretched his hand in my direction. 

I was torn between what to do now as I felt angry gazes boring holes into my back. 

How come the only woman who dared to ask the Alpha for a dance was an Omega slave and he readily accepted!

I was sure I was going to earn enemies after today, but then again the Alpha's hand was still on the air as he waited for me, an intense look in his eyes as if daring me to reject him and bear the consequences. 

Shyly, I put my hands in his, and the music which stopped few minutes ago is turned back on and he leads me to the dance floor, women quickly making way for us on feeling his aura spread across his body. 

I knew he was exerting his aura, but i wondered why I felt no effect from it. 

"I- I don't know how to dance." I said, my breath hitching up in my throat on feeling his arms slip around my waist, pulling me close. 

My heart beat quickened and I felt hot as emotions began swirling in my eyes pushing me to fall into his arms and be his, but I retrained myself, aware that Audrey and her friends were shooting daggers at me with their eyes from the corner. 

He chuckled darkly 

"You asked me to dance and now you're saying you can't dance? Were you forced to do this?" 

"N- No." I whisper and follow his lead as he glides across the dance floor In graceful movements with me in his arms, not paying heed to the eyes boring holes at our backs but to me. 

He was quite tall, so I almost strained on my toes to place my hands on his shoulders. 

I remember Laura asking me to flirt with the Alpha after asking him to dance but I didn't know what else to say as we danced to the music, and I got intoxicated with the scent of him.

 He smelled like forest and dark caramel apples. 

"You seem to have something to say." He said and I'm shocked that he noticed. When I glanced up, I gasped on seeing his blue eyes in mine and quickly glanced down. His eyes close up were so blue, it was like different shades of blue swirling around in them. 

"Your party is nice." I say and almost face palm myself. 

Your party is nice? 

What kind of crap is that?

He smirked and my heart swells up for no reason on seeing the glint in his eyes. 

"Is that all you want to say?" 

I didn't say anything else, wishing the floor could swallow me up. 

"I think the women around us aren't given enough privacy to talk. Why don't we head someone private" He suggested, and before I could protest, he was pulling me away from the hall room and I reluctantly followed him without a choice because his grip around my wrist was like an immovable vice. 

The hallway was luxurious and decorated lavishly, but I didn't have the luxury of time to admire them because he was pulling me into a luxurious furnished room. 

Before I could comport myself, he had already shut the door, leaving us alone In the room. 

He took a step close to me and I stepped back. 

Amused, he kept moving and I kept stepping back until I suddenly lost my footing and fell against the bed. 

Oh no. 

I was trapped in a room with the ruthless Alpha.