SAVED BY ATLAS

There seemed to be a thin line between protection and captivity.

Though, No Man’s Land was no joke. I wasn’t naïve enough to think I could survive that cesspool on my own, and I’d yet to make any friends I could rely on that would watch my back when I finally fled this prison because I am sure I will get the hell out of here with my magic..

With a heavy sigh, I sit my but back in the prison.

If I were being honest with myself, I’d admit that the soldiers hadn’t treated me badly. I was fed .

Maybe being sold to Atlas was just one good thing, because he seems to care about me..

I guess I am not a normal witch. If I was a normal witch, I could simply teleport back to my house, but of course, I couldn’t even conquer the most menial of magic abilities.

I heard footsteps and I thought it was one of the soldiers I heard someone called out my name.

It was a familiar voice, a voice I never forgot when we had sex. Atlas.

My heart pounded hard, I wanted to open the gate of the prison and jump at him, plead for his forgiveness but then I knew I hurt him already, he will never forgive me for leaving.

“ Elena? He calls out my name. I swallow hard, I shiver hard, I want to see him again but I feel scared.

Elena?He called again. I stood up slowly with my head bow in shame. I stood in front of him, I never wanted to look to his face.

“ I am sorry” I said softly.

“ For? I kept silent.

“ I will be back at night” I said and took my leave.

He came at night and sneak me out of the cell, he took me through the back door. I could see passion in his eyes but was cold to me. He took me into his SUV, he made love to me in the car. He took me to the border town of his pack.

He gave me some money. “ What? I asked.

“ Go! Atlas says.

“ Why? I asked.” Are you doing this because I ran away from you?I asked.

He look at me with so much disgust then he open the door of the SUV.

“ Go” he said.

“ Why, I want to stay with you please” I pleaded.

“ Go” He said. I got down of the car with so much surprise written on my face. He shuts the car door and drove off in anger.

Tears dripped own my face,I regret leaving Atlas. I walked away. I was glad he gave me some money, I was able to get myself an apartment and still thinking of what I could do when I found out I was pregnant.

I stare at the two red lines on the strip , I sit on the toilet seat with thoughts.

My heart beat hard but I decided to keep the pregnancy, few months later, I put to bed, I had two kids a boy and a girl.

My life was perfect for years until I met with Atlas agan who told me he needed me to save the packs from the dark witches.

ATLAS.

On that very day that I went to drop Elena at the border, it’s not like I wish to let go of her but I had to because that was the only way to save her.

I reeturned to the pack but before I returned to our pack , we had been attacked by a man named Jacob and his team who wants to become the supreme Alpha.

I called my soldier , I and my twin joined the battle but we got defeated and they took over our land.

I and my twins and few of my men flew to another pack but on our way we met with a wizard who told me to go and find the supreme Alpha.

“ Supreme Alpha? I don’t know about her.

“ She was right under your nose but you let her go? The wizard says.

“ Who?… I try to recollect then I remember I had just send Elena away.

“ Are you saying Ele….. I paused.

“ yes , that is her name, there will only be peace with all packs only if she is found.

“ What? I exclaimed.

I rush into my car, my twin was asking me about her but I didn’t istento anyone, I drove straight to the norder, I tried searching for her but I never found her.

Five years later.

I found her again and this time , I am not letting her go because she must save the packs from Jacob.

He stepped out of the shadows from the forest, and I sucked in a breath when my eyes took in his dark glare.

My heart momentarily stopped before it began racing again, and I felt myself being drawn toward the rigid stranger.

Mate.

This man… He was…Mine.

Feelings erupted inside me that I’d never experienced. My skin heated and my mouth ran dry while my heart felt like it was going to beat right out of my chest.

Was he going to take me away from this lowly existence I’d been living? Was this the answer I’d been searching for all these years while standing under the night’s moon?

“I’m going to kill—” His words cut off as I assumed he’d finally realized the same thing I had.

We were mates. A bond created by the fates that could tie us together for life.

Yet, I hadn’t missed the malice in his previous words or the way the moonlight showcased dark, menacing eyes directed right at me.

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” he snarled. Then he quickly added, “I reject you, Elena.”

I once wanted her but now I reject her.

Five words. That was all it took to cut me down.

To smother the softer emotions I’d so easily clung to for those brief seconds.

To shred any hope that I’d had for a life more than what I’d always known.

Still, my head shook. “No.”

His head reared back, and I tried yet failed not to be enamored by his roguish features. He had thick, ebony hair that naturally seemed to swoop up by a couple of inches on the top and was just slightly shorter on the sides.

His arms were covered in black and grey tattoos starting above his short, black sleeves and ending at his fingertips. Hell, I could even see more of them peeking out from above the V in his T-shirt.

His lips begged to be nipped at, and his dark brows furrowed so tightly that I wouldn’t have been surprised if there was a permanent wrinkle between them.

“No?” He growled. “What do you meanno?”

I took a step back and held my hand out. If he wasn’t outright attacking me, I’d at least pretend like I had magic to maybe scare him with.

“I meannoto your rejection,” I retorted with rising bravado. “You were about to say that you were going to kill someone, and I can only assume by your twisted, snarling face that you meant me. Well, I’m not in the mood to die. So let me repeat myself more clearly. No, I don’t accept your rejection. Whoever you are.”

A rumble built in his chest, and he shook his head as if he still didn’t understand. “Quit playing your magic tricks on me, Witch.”

Well, this guy might have known my name, but he obviously didn’tknowme.

Just as I was about to refute his statement, the sexy brute came charging at me. Acting on instinct, thanks to all those nights spent in the gym, my foot lifted and connected with his gut. His shoulders pushed forward from the impact, and I took the opportunity to allow my fist to meet his jaw.

The echoing crack made my lips curl upward, and again when I grabbed his neck and slammed my knee into his handsome face.

Such a pity.

Just when I was starting to think I had the upper hand, he recovered from whatever shock he’d been in and wrapped his arms around my waist, attempting to take me down.

His heated skin burned mine, and sorrow filled me at the realization that this man—supposedly the one meant just for me in this world—could be trying to kill me, but I shoved those feelings down and focused on not allowing my face to be pummeled.

When he began pushing me toward the ground, I wrapped an arm around his neck and used my body weight to press down on his head. His six-and-a-half-foot frame started to timber forward, but he reached for my thigh and flipped me up and over him.

I landed on the ground hard, the impact rattling my bones and sending stabbing sensations through me from head to toe.