Once Rejected Now Desired By The Lycan King by Beauticent

4. Second chance mate

BETH

“You’re such an ingrate!” Darren suddenly accused me and my mouth tried to form words but no sounds came out.

“You dare to lay hands on my woman? My woman and my child after everything I have ever done for you. After I’ve given you a life you now clearly didn’t deserve,” he spat some more.

“I picked you up, I cleaned you up and made you and this is how you repay me!” he thundered and my body shook with fright as he stretched a finger pointedly at my face.

“I… I didn’t,” I tried to say but his hands stretched in front of my face to shut me up.

“Shut the fuck up. If there’s anything I detest, it’s lies and you are a bloody liar. Are you now accusing Cara of lies?” He asked me.

“She’s not telling the truth, I never said any of that, I never dragged her hai—”

“Enough!” He shouted, his voice raised at me and I flinched.

“When I picked you up and made you stand, I didn’t know you learned how to bite and cause problems. You are a pathetic low life with nothing to her name, you are the scum of the earth and a thorn in my flesh. You disgust me, you evil wench. To think you can plan to murder something so precious, you are nothing but the spawn of the devil himself and I regret treating you kindly.” He spat and my body went limp, sapped of whatever life I had, of whatever energy I used to possess.

“Aren’t you tired of pretending to be weak? To gain my attention and many others? Aren’t you tired of trying to be what you’re not? You disgust me. Trailing me to the hospital just to seek my audience, it’s sick and you need to see someone about that,” He said, walking away and my body went rigid.

Cara followed him. Behind but when she got to the door, she eyed me and gave me the widest smirk in history.

Disgust rose and crashed within me, hitting me like a tornado as the urge to puke out my guys rendered me stiff on the hospital bed.

While tears dried from my eyes, leaving me a quiet mess, I noticed someone had walked into my room and I carefully brought my focus to the figure.

My eyes remained as it was even though I was screaming inwardly

“Didn’t I tell you?” She began and my body shook

“I told you that you won’t marry him, that no wedding that involved you or him would ever take place, now you’re stuck in a hospital piece, a cast stuck to your leg, hanging as useless as you are lying here,” she said and moved closer to me.

“I should have slapped some reality into you, I guess I’ll be doing that more,” she said and raised her hand to deliver the blow my eyes closed for impact but the slap never came.

I opened my eyes, wide and clear as my eyes gradually widened at the scene that played before me.

Laura’s hand hung in the air, enclosed in another hand that was big enough to crush hers.

A familiar scent graced my nostrils and my body responded to him, wanting more despite my legs being in a cast.

“Do you have any idea who she is?” He asked Laura, his eyes turning red.

I gasped as she gasped in turn.

“She’s my woman and do you know what happens when someone else touches what belongs to me?” He asked her slowly and Laura began to cry as he snapped at her ears with his teeth.

He let Laura go and she massaged her hand a bit before looking at him with eyes that I had never seen before.

She suddenly tucked a strand of hair behind her ears, a mile creeping on her lips and I was instantly rebuffed.

He had just threatened her life but she was trying to seduce him.

“I didn’t want to hit her, just wanted to see if her pillows were okay and how long she would be staying with us at the clinic,” she said and my mouth hung open.

She lies too? I asked myself.

Just when I was getting used to the idea that a repeat of Darren and Cara was going to happen, men in red rushed into the room and quickly gave a salute.

“Take her,” he ordered slowly and confusion sufficed.

Before I could grasp the situation, the men in green held both sides of Laura’s arm and began to walk away with her.

Soon, it was just us alone in the room and I caught myself sniffing the air, at the same time he was.

I stopped sniffing and watched his facial features, his hair pulled back in a ponytail and his body filling his clothes nicely.

How come he smelled familiar and he looked at the lady as well?

Something about the way he protected me felt familiar, like he had done something like that before but where?

The scent was so intoxicating and my wolf became restless as I managed to sit up, my body gaining strength from his presence. He didn’t look like an ordinary person. I could tell. Was he the one whose shadow I saw in the first? Was he the one who saved and brought me here?

I arched my body forward to take in more scent as the urge to touch him filled my every sense. Just who was he and why do I feel so drawn to him?

I was about to ask the handsome gentleman who he was and if we had met before when I suddenly arched my head back and moaned in pleasure, my wolf came out unintentionally and breathed the words loud and clear “Mate.”

It was only when my eyes snapped back to reality that I knew that the handsome stranger had just said matching words to me.