CHAPTER FOUR

Tears built in my eyes and I took a shaky breath in. This can't be true. It couldn't be. They were just friends. Sure Shelia had a crush on him but he didn't return her feelings . He couldn't. He was my mate. He was mine and I was his. Why would they go through with knowing they had not yet met their mated. Why would Elias agree to this?

I lifted my gaze from the box and to Shelia's expectant smile. I trailed my gaze from her face to Elias's ,he avoided looking back to me. His jaw clenched so tight, he could have cracked his teeth as he looked to the side. 

Why?

He couldn't really be going through with this. He couldn't be doing this to me. My wolf howled painfully within me showing her rage and heartache at the way things were unfolding.

My parents oblivious to what was going on, got up from their seats to look at what my sister had gifted me. Once they saw the words inscribed on the envelope, they smiled at each other and joyfully hugged my sister. They bombarded her with words I couldn't register over the pain of my breaking heart but I could manage a few bits and pieces congratulating her on being the next Luna.

How proud they were to have a daughter who would merge their names into the Alpha Bloodline.

I didn't even care for the position. The Luna position never once crossed my mind. I just wanted him, I just wanted my mate.

I could only focus on the one person in the room whose opinion mattered to me.

I wish I could say he looked remorseful. I wished, just for the sake of my pride, i could say he looked torn. But I couldn't and he didn't. There was no hint of regret or sorrow on his handsome face. He looked completely calm and content. He didn't look like he was bothered that he was breaking me apart from inside out. He just didn't care.

"I wanted to ask you face to face. Will you be my maid of honor?".

The glow on her face made me nauseous. In true bride shyness, she fiddled with her pink manicured nails in nervousness. I’m going to throw up.

I tried so hard to hold in my tears and when they  finally broke through the barriers and I could only manage a wretched sob.

"I-i" I answered stuttering.

 I had no idea  what I was going to say. How do I tell her that the man she was about to marry was in my room last night? How do I tell her she was planning to marry my mate?,

An immediate frown settled Shelia's face at what she presumed to be my hesitation. Disappointment and confusion settled on her expression. She was expecting  a different reaction.

She was probably expecting me to jump at the news and shower her with kisses and words of affection. The same thing  our parents were currently doing. My Wolf growled at that.

“Velma, darling? Can you and your mother please get your sister some water? It seems the excitement  and shock of the wedding stunned her."

Velma and my mother promptly shot out of their seats making a beeline for the kitchen.  I could only look at Elias and my father who stared at us in confusion. His suspicion grew very quickly.

"Elias, you can't-"

"Beta David, Please  come with me. I need to talk to you" Elias spoke interrupting me.

Father looked between us nodding solemnly and pursing his lips in confusion. With a curt dip of his head, he turned to look at me one more time before leaving after Elias. On their way out, they met Velma and my mother and gestured for them to follow them. My father shot a glare at me.

"What did you do, Aegis?"

I didn't answer the question he asked through our mind link. I knew my father assumed I had done some horrid things that Elias to be upset with me.

But I couldn't bring myself to look at him right now.

As if sensing my gaze, Elias looked in my direction and locked eyes with me. His hard, steely gaze gave nothing away about what he thought and felt. As his mate, I should be able to feel his emotions the way he did mine, but he mentally blocked me out. He could feel me but I couldn't feel him. 

Sheila tried to talk to him: to ask him what was wrong I presume. She traced his gaze back to me and instead narrowed her eyes at me. Not being able to stand how perfect they looked together, I turned away and focused my eyes on the ground.

"We apologize for her in advance,Alpha"

Alpha.

Why was my Father calling him Alpha when he wasn't yet the Alpha?

His birthright has not been passed down to him yet. We didn't even have an Alpha ceremony yet. Landon wouldn't be able to take over the Alpha Position without his Luna being marked, mated and sworn into oath. It was the conditions set by the first ever Alpha of the pack.

The only reason why my father would call him Alpha was because his wolf no longer recognized his father  as an Alpha.

But Elias hasn't found his mate, or at least has not as far as my Father knew. There had been rumors in the pack concerning Elias's missing mate and whether or not, the reason he hadn't found her was because she was human. His parents had also being quite worried about it, his father a hardened traditionalist would not accept Elias as his successor without his mate- his true mate.

Seeing as Elias wasn't planning on accepting me_ his true mate as his mate. His father would never allow it. If Elias claimed Shelia  as his mate, he could never be an Alpha.  There was only one way that he could be alpha and that would be by challenging his father for the Alpha Position.  Alpha challenges were a fight till death affair. The survivor claims the head of their competition. 

But  if my father called him Alpha it could only mean one thing.

Elias was planning to kill his father for the position.