Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Celene's POV

I shuddered slightly, suddenly checking the urge to buckle but I wasn't ready to give him the satisfaction that he so much sought after.

"So what? You think I will be scared?"

His suddenly lowerd his head and I trembled slightly as he cupped the back of my neck, tightening his grip.

"Hmm, nice!" He whispered huskily.

His voice distracted me greatly and I felt the fear disappear as my gaze flit down to his lips and return, startled to his eyes.

The fingers at the back of my neck stroked some wild nerve to life, careening them through me as my pulse bumped to light speed.

"There," he said quietly. "Scared now?"

I could all but feel his mouth on mine and I couldn't tell if I imagined it but his scent wafted into my nostrils for a split second, tantalizing my senses beyond control and it was difficult, trying to concentrate.

His mocking laughter snapped me out of my reverie. "You felt it too, yesterday, didn't you? don't you? Why are you pretending not to? That's all I want to know."

I had no idea what he was on about? What did he feel yesterday? The only thing I felt towards him yesterday was anger.

His eyes peered into mine relentlessly, not wavering even for a moment. How did this crazy nutjob ever become the Lycan king?

"I'm still waiting for your reply. Why are you ignoring it?"

Oh! Moon goddess help me! He was taking gibberish with such seriousness. But wait a minute, he said he felt my wolf. No one knew I had a wolf in the entire pack, not even Dad and I wasn't about to let anyone find out.

I feigned distress. "Look, I'm sick. I can't smell or feel anything. I'm just a spineless wolf. If you felt my wolf, then I guess, I have a wolf or something."

He didn't look too convinced but his grip on my neck lossened and instinct guided immediately. I dealt a powerful punch to his solar plexus, swiped past him and made for the door.

But the moon goddess help me, he was standing fight in front of me. How he did that, I couldn't even explain. He moved too fast and too silent to be real.

"I wasn't joking when I said you were mine, little wolf." His breath was hot against my skin, sending shivers down my spine.

"Why can't you feel the matebond!" His voice cut across the room as he grabbed my wrist.

"I have no idea what you're taking about!" I hissed in a breath, trued to jerk free and failed. "Let go of me!"

"You want to play hard to get?" To my shock, and---moon goddess help me---excitement, he backed me up against the door, with something close to murder in his eyes.

"I've spent a thousand years finding you, little mate and now that I've found you, I'm never letting you go! Even if I have to imprint it on your body, you belong to me! You're my fated mate!"

I didn't need anyone to tell me I had to get away from his very unsettling presence this instant but the problem was I couldn't even think of a way to do so under his intense gaze.

Where I got that massive strength from, I couldn't explain but I found myself pushing against his sturdy chest and bolting out the door. I didn't stop running until I had left a reasonable distance behind me.

I reduced my pace now, slowly catching my breath. Suddenly a hand grabbed my forearm from behind and slammed me into an ever so familiar wall of hard muscled chest.

"Chris!" I exclaimed. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing?" He answered.

"Let go!" I yelled

"I just wanted to be sure there were no hard feelings last night. Went to your room but you weren't there. Look, Celene, I'm really sorry. I had no choice. Valerie threatened me."

That was understandable, given the type of person Valerie was. It was most likely she had done that but I wasn't about to consider that and just forgive him. I was too hurt to feel sorry for anyone.

"And I guess Ella also threatened you to fuck her too?" I hollered. "You know what, there's really no need for this. I should be thanking you for doing this. I was sick of the relationship too!"

A slow growl erupted from his throat and for some seconds, it scared the shit out of me but I managed to remain placid.

"Listen Celene. You're my mate and I don't care what tricks the moon goddess is trying to be play with me. I don't care about Ella. I only wanted to satisfy her so she would let me go. She asked for it. She promised to accept my rejection if I slept with her. That's why I did it."

"I'm not stupid, Chris!" My voice had risen an octave. "Do you know what sucks about this the most? It's the fact that you seem to think it's something trivial that can be fixed! No, it can't!"

Shock reflected in his eyes. "For the goddess's sake, Celene! Why are you acting weird? Wait, don't tell me you're going to push through with Valerie's plans and marryy the Lycan king?"

I was about saying something but his voice drowned mine.

"How could you be so cheap? Did she offer you some compensation?" His voice rose, making me cringe.

"Can't you see it? The Lycan king is a monster and he's going to chew you up!"

Did he just call me cheap? All rationality left me. "You've gone crazy, Chris. You can't even see that you're the cheap one here!"

His grip tightened around my wrist and I flinched as his fingers dug into my skin. "You're hurting me, Chris!"

He didn't loosen his grip and hot balls of panic were beginning to roll into my guts. "What are you doing, Chris? Let me---"

I couldn't complete my statement as he let out a bloodcurdling scream as his pupils constricted and he fell to his knees, only to reveal Alpha Modrian's face.

He had a murderous glint in his eyes as he stopped at Christoph's level on the ground. "I made myself clear last night. This woman belongs to me now!"

Christoph grunted. "This is out of your business, Alpha Mondrian. You have no right to interfere!"

Alpha Mondrian let out a humorless laughter. "I haven't even begun to interfere but I'd be happy to. If you ever try to lay your filthy hands on her again, I won't let you live to see the light of tomorrow!" He snarled, his voice reverberating through the whole place.