CHAPTER 4: THE MYSTERIOUS GIRL IS MY MATE

Tristan 

Things had been going smoothly in the past few days with no bothering news to come, except Raven of course, still sitting on my neck to find the mysterious girl. I sparred with Darius in the war room, with each of his strikes getting better and better. The incident from the night before wouldn't leave memory, a big black wolf twice my size, who could it be? 

The next in line walked in on us, a delta—Rhys. “My lord, Beta Darius,” he bowed. “I am here to inform you that your attention has been sought at the court. The omega who killed her alpha has been apprehended.”

“Awesome,” I gave a fake move and distracted Darius, making me win the sparring. I laughed. “I'm your boss, you need to acknowledge that.”

“You cheated.”

“Now now, stop whining like a little child,” I said. “Come on, we need to get to the court.”

Darius was my best friend, we grew up as brothers right from childhood. He came from a long line of devoted Beta, so it was his rightful position. Just like my family. He always feared that my legacy would end if I didn't have a Luna. No Luna, no heir. But no matter how tempting the she-wolves in my pack were, none of them caught my attention. I always believed in the one the moon goddess had prepared for me. What is the point of getting into a relationship and then finding she isn't your mate? Pretty stupid, right? But then Darius believed that the moon goddess had abandoned me and left me all by myself.

We stepped into the court and everyone stood to welcome us. Alpha Damien's seat was empty, his beta stood behind his chair while his daughter sat in her seat. Alpha Cassius of the Silverstone pack stood up to greet me. I was the youngest of them all but the respect each old man had for me was beyond anything.

Something else was different, there was a familiar smell. The smell that Raven wanted to kill me for; that was the person I was looking for.

I looked around the court and found a young lady, with her hands tied behind her back in the center of the room. Her face was covered with her bright cherry red hair, she moped on the floor.

A faint line started to appear from where I sat to where she was. Her smell was becoming stronger and intoxicating. I started to feel the sexual tension arouse in my body, no wolf had ever made me feel that way. 

My wolf, Magnus, started pacing about in my head, screaming the word mate. “THAT'S OUR MATE TRISTAN, LOOK WE HAVE A MATE.”

“Okay, that's enough,” I said.

“No it's not, the moon goddess didn't abandon us afterall.” 

“Do something else, you are disturbing me with your whining,” I threw him to the back of my head, shutting him out.

She looked up at that moment and our eyes met, more like she understood what was going on too.

Darius lowered himself to my ear. “The entire court is waiting for you to say something.”

“There's a fucking problem here Darius,” I whispered back. “She is someone that can't be touched.”

He looked at me like I had suddenly developed 2 heads in the past few minutes. “Why? She murdered Alpha Damien, remember?”

I took an excuse from the court and went outside to speak with him privately.

“She saved me from that night, she can't be killed. Raven would never take it lightly with me, she asked me to bring her to the pack.”

“You need to tell Raven of her crime. Killing an Alpha is a heinous crime, one that cannot be forgiven.”

I didn't know how to tell Darius the latest situation. He knew me well, so he kept peering into me.

“Is there something else?”

I resigned to my fate, there was no better time to say this. “She's my fucking mate man. Magnus wouldn't let me breathe, I had to lock him away.”

“Okay, that's huge. A very good reason to not get her killed,” he said, becoming erratic too. “Do you believe she killed Alpha Damien?”

“I don't know what I believe right now but we can't let them go through with the execution.”

With full composure, we walked back into the courtroom and asked what they had decided on.

“She should be executed as soon as possible,” Alpha Cassius said. “I say tomorrow.”

There was cheering in the court, signifying that they agreed with what he was saying.

I faced the Blackshade pack. “Eliza, what say you?”

“If she could be executed now, I would be the happiest,” she spat out so much hate. 

I held the power to her life at that moment, my vote was the thing standing between her and death.

“This meeting is adjourned for the next 2 hours. I need time to think,” I said, standing up.

“What do you need to think about? My father was murdered by this wretched thing in cold blood and you want to think?”

Before she could understand what was going on, I had her pinned against the wall. “Careful with what you say Eliza, I might be approachable but that doesn't mean you run your mouth at me. Your life means nothing to me right now.”

“Forgive me Alpha Tristan. I apologize for my irrational behavior.”

“That's more like it,” I patted her cheeks and walked away, smiling.

Darius ran after me. “What are you going to do now T?”

“Trust me, I'm as empty as you are. What do you think I should do?”

“I have no idea as well.”

I walked back into the court and stood right in front of her. I needed alone time with her. “I need everyone out of this room NOW.”

They scampered out, leaving just me, her and Darius.

“Have you come to gloat me? Please make my death swift, that's all I ask,” she said, reminding me of that sweet voice from the night before.

“Why did you save my life? There's no point lying, I know it's you. Your smell is etched forever in my memory.”

She sighed, knowing that she had been caught. “I only did the right thing. Watching you die was going to be tormenting and traumatizing for me. I couldn't live with that when I knew there was something I could do.”

I squatted in front of her, raising her head up. “How did you do it?”

“I don't know, it's just something I've always had in me.”

My next question surprised her. “Tell me, did you kill Alpha Damien?”

“No I didn't,” her head went back down and I could tell she was tired of repeating the same thing. “I swear on the moon goddess, I didn't kill him. I might have hated him and wanted him dead at some point but I do not have the ability to kill someone. Besides a weak omega like me to a ruthless Alpha.”

“Hmmmmm,” I said, walking away with Darius. “I'm going with the pardon plea, it should work.”

“You are going to have more enemies at your side that way.”

I halted suddenly, letting him run into me. “I can't let her die. A strange wolf attacked me recently and Raven said, if I had come to her instead, I would have died. Someone somewhere that I have no idea about, saved my life and you think she's not worth the enemies I'll be having? Besides, she's my fucking mate, think about it.”

I stormed back in without letting him say anything. I went straight to her. “I'll help you on one condition and that way, you will forever be in my debt.”

“What's that?”

“You will be my mate and we will be bound by a contract. You shall have all the privileges that come with being a Luna but deep down you will be nothing but my maid. You do whatever I want, whenever I want it. Do we have a deal?”

I watched another set of fear reside in her eyes. She must have been through a hard life, she had nothing to fear. She was my mate, she knew that too. Resigning to her fate, she said. “Deal.”