...About to Reject The Alpha

Chapter 5

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*Crystal*

After the close of work on that day, I decide to take the ice cream route again.

Well, not because I want to see him or so I think.

I really hate this mate pull.

When I get to the front of the building, I stop for a moment and look inside.

The fiery part of me decides to go in for clout.

As soon as I enter, I receive the same reaction as last time.

Talk about a feeling of Deja Vu I mutter to myself as I head to the counter.

The lady at the counter is the same as last time. Good thing I overheard her name.

"Hi Thelma. I couldn't have my ice cream the other day so I came for it again."

"Good afternoon." She answered me while bowing

"Why will you bow to me?" I ask her confused and looking around, everyone has become silent and was watching us

The air became really weird and I became uncomfortable.

"You are a property of the Alpha so I have to bow." Thelma explains, this time looking at me but not straight to the eyes

"I am NOBODY'S property" I clarify for her while extending the Nobody. 

At that point, my appetite has gone and even the strawberry flavored ice cream has lost its pink appeal.

Angrily, I stomp out of there.

Just as I step out, I collide into someone.

What's with me and colliding into people these days? I mentally facepalm.

I look up and it's a woman.

She's pretty, really beautiful but she is obviously a werewolf.

She apologizes first but to my surprise not sincerely.

"Sorry I wasn't looking. Hope you didn't get hurt because I'm obviously stronger than an average human."

"What?" My mood kind of improved after hearing her sorry at first but hearing the last part of her apology gave me a rethink.

I was already in a bad mood.

"I said human? Are you hurt? I'm a werewolf so you could have died even from a push from me." She continues with a demeaning smile

My anger from before is refueled

"Who the fuck are you to talk to me like that?...” I ask her while taking a step towards her

"I don't even know who a twerp like you is. Do you want to know something?" I ask her, my anger slowly reaching boiling point

"I don't want to know anything a human tells me." She replies

"I'll still tell you anyway. Me not knowing who you are means you're a nobody in this community. At least everybody knows me as a human in a werewolf community. Who the fuck might you be?" I ask her finally not so politely

And shoulder bumped her as I walk away.

She speaks up behind me but I don't stop walking anyway.

"I don't know how a weakling like you can be our Alpha's Mate." She yells at me from behind..

So that was what it is about. That I'm his mate?

It's not even like I chose to be his mate.

This is so fucking frustrating.

I sigh and continue the walk home.

*Damien*

That shithead refused to follow me home? To my quarters?

 What damn audacity.

"You should stop pacing and think rationally." Adam speaks from behind me while he is reclining in a chair

"No. She refused to follow me even after knowing she is my mate."

"Would you follow just anybody who calls herself your mate?" Adam asks me

"Of course not. I can smell may mate for a mile." Like he is asking me a stupid question

"Exactly. But she is human. She can not smell you like you can do her." Adam clarifies

But rather than understanding the fact, another thing in his sentence riles me up.

"HUMAN. FUCKING, DAMNING, WEAK HUMAN!" I yell and smash my hand on a table causing the furniture to shatter into irreparable pieces.

"..." Adam simply sighs and says nothing more.

He knows me well. Anything he says now might be the factor of destruction.

The reason why I will angrily destroy more things.

*Crystal*

Still dangerously angry, I stomp into my apartment.

"What's got you angry again now?" Ariel asks me without even looking up.

"A lot of things." I manage to say before I totally burst.

Good thing I left there earlier before my anger clouds my judgement and get into a fight with a werewolf.

Because obviously the werewolves will take sides with their kind against a human.

And worse, a female werewolf. They fight the dirtiest.

I learnt from experience. I'll never do that again. 

The Moon Goddess help me.

"Wanna share?" Ariel finally asks

"First..."

"First?" 

"Yes. And don't interrupt."

"Fine...Luna." Ariel teases

"Don't." I simply say deflated. I fall on the lounger in the room and lean my back, tired.

For about ten minutes we don't say anything to each other.

Suddenly, I speak up.

"I'm going to Reject Damien."

"Damien... WHAT?!" Ariel exclaims

"And I'm doing it now."

I can't stand being teased or insulted for something I didn't ask for. It all ends tonight.

"You can come along...Or not." I say to Ariel before standing up and heading out.

I guess her curiosity got the better of her because she decided to come along. Just not right beside me. She was definitely hesitatant about it and as soon as we reached the house pack, the guards there stop us.

"Who are you and your business?" One of the burly ones ask me directly.

Just then Ariel reaches my side and speaks up.

"We're here to see Alpha..."

"Your business?" He asks again, looking between both of us now

"My friend here is his mate and probably the future Luna" Ariel told them.

She definitely knows how to make a human angry. Did she have to say it that way? I glare at her for using the M word like it was necessary.

The guard pause for few minutes and kept looking back and forth between us like he wants to smell our deceit. Finally, he lets us in.

Word must have spread around because we didn't encounter any other obstacle but only got directions to the Alpha's quarters.

I stop at the door to take a deep breath.

"Go in." Ariel nudges me

"Aren't you coming along?" I ask her apprehensively.

"Of course not. It's like your personal time." She clarifies and smiles at me with an encouraging face.

I raise my hand to knowck but then he spoke from inside.

"Just open the door." He spoke rudely from inside. I scrunch up my face in disgust and go into the room.

I have to admit, he has a nice room and ready to be laid on bed.

Jeez.

What the fuck am I thinking of?!

"What do you want?" He asked me in a beat up voice

I get my confidence and voice back after noting a thousand and one reasons why can't I live with this man. Or wolf literally.

"I'm here for one reason."

"I won't ask you why unless you say it yourself so continue." He interrpus me

Jeez. I detest being interrupted.

"I will talk if you don't interrupt me."

I can feel my anger begin to flare again.

He doesn't say anything but I can feel those eyes on me.

"Before you interrupt, I am here to reject you." 

After saying the word reject. It felt like something was shaking in me. Like I was standing on thin frozen ice.

Alpha Damien's eyes turn into slits at my words but he stays there on the edge of the bed, still looking at me without saying a word.

And the fact that he is not even talking is more infuriating. Fine then. I'll just do what I have to do and make my leave after successfully severing our bond.

"I Crystal-" I started to say when I was interrupted not in a nice manner.

Damien suddenly gets up from the bed and in a second, I was pinned to the wall with his right hand holding both my hands hostage above my head.

"And you think I will let you? Without a fight?" He growls out his words with his warm breath fanning my face.

Alpha Damien lowers his face till his face is wandering too close for comfort on mine.

"I won't let you." He mutters and let's his lips fall on mine.

I froze.