Page 14 of Wolf Traded
“You’re the most brutal and ruthless alpha in the region and you’re asking me to calm down when that scoundrel made a laughing stock and a disgrace out of my only child.”
Predictably she bursts into tears and I quickly pass her off to her mate. He nods his acceptance leading her away from the alpha. The exact opposite direction I’m moving in. Grayson stands in the exact same spot he was meant to mate with Jara with one arm around the red head and the other around the brunette I fucked brutally last night at the party. The start of his sick fucking harem.
“We need to talk,” I growl looking pointedly at the pack whores who will never be anything more than Grayson’s playthings no matter how much they wish to be more.
Grayson smirks and snaps his fingers pointing them to the food that Jara’s family prepared to save her mating celebration. It’s disgusting that he is using it this way but it’s not my place to say.
“I want her. I want to take her to my pack lands to be my mate. What do you want in return?” I ask and for a brief second I almost see something akin to relief in his eyes. Maybe the alpha isn’t complete scum. He may not have wanted to be mated to her but he doesn’t like the fact that he dishonored her either.
He nods for me to follow him into the pack house and I trudge along after him. No other alpha in the region would dare to take someone who’d been rejected as their mate, but I’m not the same as them. Honor means everything and I refuse to let that strong female suffer dishonor or become a lone wolf at the hand of a spoiled child who isn’t getting his way. She should have challenged him where he stood to prove which wolf is the strongest. She would win I have no doubt about it.
“I just have one question,” I say as he closes the door behind us.
“Go ahead.”
“Why the territorial bullshit if you were going to reject her? Why not make an agreement and cancel the ceremony and save her the humiliation you just dished out.”
“That’s not your place Archer. I did what I had to do to prove my loyalty to my pack. She doesn’t belong here. She isn’t worthy of being an alpha female.”
“That’s bullshit and you know it. She is stronger than you and you know it. Mot of the shifters here love her and you just humiliated her.” I growl out. I hate that he thinks this was necessary.
“I think it’s better if she runs away never to be seen by the packs again.” Grayson says thoughtfully and my hands clench so hard into fists that I know my knuckles are turning white without even looking. The pain in my palms from the indentations of my finger nails brings some sense of calm.
“No, you would dishonor her entire family and leave her to be a lone wolf just so you can fuck any pack whore you want? You Grayson have no honor if you don’t agree to my proposal.” I argue staring into his eyes. He tries really hard to hold my stare but he can’t and after long minutes looks away. Huh, he’s stronger than I thought.
“You overstep your place, alpha.” He growls taking a threatening step forward.
“There’s a way to bring the honor of being the family of an alpha female back to them and to get her out of your pack, Grayson. I want her as my mate.”
He laughs hysterically even going as far as to bend at the waist in his hysteria. “You want a rejected female? I knew you were desperate for a mate, but I never guessed you would take my castoffs.”
“You and I both know she is stronger than you’ll ever be. To label her your castoff is to name one of your weak whores as the alpha female. Give her to me and it will solve all your problems.”
“I can’t just give her to you, Archer. She has to agree to it.” He looks at me warily. Does he just want her to be alone and miserable her entire life? I don’t really understand this wolf.
“I’ll convince her it’s for the best.”
“If you can even find her. She took off into the woods, she’s fast. She’s probably long gone by now.” He shrugs. He doesn’t realize that my wolf can track her scent anywhere. The vanilla is my drug and I would know it if it was her.
“If I find her we give her a choice. She can come be my mate or live out her days as a lone wolf and cause dishonor to her family.” I shrug like the deal means nothing more to me than wanting a pretty toy. The outward persona is everything. Grayson looks wary and I wonder if he’s remembering how I savagely fucked the girl he had on his arm not long ago.
“Fine. She has a choice to make. Only one way to bring honor to her family. If she chooses to go with you then it’s fine but if not she has to leave the packs and never come back.”
“You realize what a selfish asshole you are, right?” I ask with a hint of amusement to throw him off.
“I just want my own life. I don’t want fate deciding the one woman I’m supposed to be with for eternity. She won’t want to stay here anyway. Plus, I’m positive you will never find her.” Shaking my head, I turn my back on the alpha showing him exactly what I think of him and his scoffing at the perfect mate the fates blessed him with. Grayson growls a warning and I smirk looking back over my shoulder at the arrogant fuckwit.
“I’ll find her and convince her to be mine and then with the most powerful alpha female I have ever seen at my side you will regret the decision you made today.” I smirk and leave his office to the sound of him cursing behind me.
That’s right, Grayson. I have your number and soon I will have your rejected mate and then nothing will stand in my way.
I saunter out onto the lawn with a smirk and Angela looks at me with a furrowed brow as she rushes to keep up. “Go back to pack lands and prepare my rooms. I’ll be bringing my future mate home tonight.”
“A little presumptuous, don’t you think?” She eyes me warily before looking in the direction Jara ran off to earlier.
“I only got whiffs of her scent a couple times but I would know it anywhere. I’ll bring her back here and as soon as I convince her to be mine, I will make sure to bring her straight home. I have no plans to let her change her mind. She will be mine or she will suffer a fate worse than death for a wolf.”
“No. That bastard would exile her? Force her to be a lone wolf and live with the humans?” She gasps.
