SWNOVELS Chapter 41
Chapter 41
As the silence around
progresses while everyone is kneeling and looking surprised, I shift.
Colt and Ezra shift too when
I do. They pant and are both looking hurt.
My attention is now on Ezra.
“You…you were going to
forcibly mark me? That was your bright plan?”
He looks up at me and starts to get up along with
everyone else.
“If I mark you, you will feel
the mate bond much
stronger. It was my only
shot! You are my mate! Not his! This is bullshit and you know it! You are supposed to
be with me!”
“You don’t deserve her!” Colt
shouts. “Not after what you
have done!”
“You shut the f**k up! You are my brother! You are not supposed to try and take my woman! You had your own mate and she left you! So Shut the f**k up!”
Colt does not quiet down just
because Ezra tells him to.
“And you didn’t want her
until she was not yours anymore! What kind of logic is that?! If you wanted her so badly, then you should have
taken care of her and treated
her right! She deserves better than you!”
“She is mine!” Ezra growls
and walks towards Colt with
his fist clenched. Colt starts
to walk towards him too with
the same intention.
“Enough of this!” Warrick shouts.
They stop but it seems to me
that it won’t be for long.
I really just want to slap Ezra
until he understands.
I point at him.
“Get this through your damn skull! I. DON’T. WANT.
YOU!” I scream. “I REJECT
YOU, EZRA BEAUFORT! I, REJECT YOU!”
His face scrunches in pain
and his hands hold his chest.
He falls to his knees and now
looks like a wounded animal.
Every time I reject him, it causes him pain.
“I…I will never get through
you…will I?” he asks.
“No, Ezra. You need to
understand this already and
move on.”
“Under…stand? Understand
that you are f**king my brother. That you choose him over your mate?” He looks up at me now with so much anger in his eyes. “I hate you both for this. And I will be damned if I see you
two happy.” That now sounds
like a threat.
He gets up looking tired but not beat. “I accept your
rejection, Casseopea. If this
is what you want, then I accept your rejection.”
Suddenly, a pain stronger
than I have ever felt before surges through my heart. I clutch my chest and give a
scream. Ezra does the same.
He looks up at me holding his chest. “This is what you wanted and now you have it! But you will never be happy.
I’ll make sure of that. I am
going to live just to cause
you pain.”
I look into his eyes and for a moment there, I believe
every single word he says.
“Alpha!” A warrior pants as
he reaches us from the
reforming camp. “They are escaping!”
“What?! Who?!” Warrick
shouts.
“All of them! The
commotion here distracted
everyone! They are
running!”
“GO YOU SONS OF
BITCHES! CATCH THEM!”
Warrick shouts.
All the warriors start running past us like a stampede, even
Warrick runs into the forest
but not before he tells my
brothers to watch me.
My attention goes back to
the guys but Ezra is nowhere
to be seen now.
I walk over to Colt. “Where is
he?”
“I don’t know. When
everyone started running, he
was suddenly gone.”
I stop searching for Ezra and look up at Colt. “How are you?”
He smiles. “I am okay.
I look at him with concern.
“You…you should make a run
for it too.”
“What? What the hell, Cass. No. What are you saying?”
He sounds a bit frantic.
“Warrick is going to be pissed. And he just might take it out on you to punish me. They are watching me
but not you.
He caresses my face. “I am not going anywhere, Angel.”
“He could…kill you, Colt.”
“Not if we are mates.” He puts
a hand on my chin and
traces my l*p with his
thumb.
“Mates?”
“You…are officially free to be
my mate, Cass. Your mate
bond with Ezra was broken.”
He says.
Realizing this, I take his hand, pull him with me, and
run naked back to the house.
I start running through the halls like a young school kid avoiding Victor and Garret
who now search for us
around the house.
“In here?” Colt asks.
“Yeah. I am sure they won’t
think that we are in my
father’s office.”
I pull him as I sit on the edge
of the desk and k*ss him.
He moans as I pull away and whisper to him. “Can I.”
He looks at me with
confusion but then asks. “You
want to mark me first?”
I giggle “Yes.”
With a big smile, he moves the hair from my face, k*sses
me, and then he tilts his
head, giving me way.
“Are you sure?” I ask.
“Yes. Now stop making it
awkward.”
I laugh but immediately
move close to his n*ck and
start sliding my nose
through it, taking in his scent. My fangs intuitively
come out and I start grazing his skin with them. I start
nibbling until finally I sink my teeth into his skin. He gives a small groan and suddenly his hands pull me closer, holding on tightly at the back of my n*ck. I hug
him as I continue to bite
pushing my intent.
I suddenly feel this swelling of emotions inside my chest. A mate bond is being created
between us.
When I am done, I pull back
and stare at him. I can feel
the trickle of blood on my
l*ps which I immediately lick
off.
His eyes look at me with
intensity.
“Are you okay?” I ask him.
“Did I hurt you?”
He doesn’t speak but instead
k*sses me. It feels as if it’s the
first time ever that he
touched me. As if it was our
first k*ss.
“That feels amazing,” I
whisper, my warm breath tickling his l*ps.
“My turn.” He says.
The mate bond is not
officially complete until we
both mark each other but a
mate bond was created the
moment I marked him. Just
like the one I had with Ezra.
But this is different because
Colt is different.
The door suddenly swings
open and Warrick dashes in
looking the angriest that I
have ever seen him with
Victor and Garret behind
him.
“Enough you two! Enough! You are acting like…” He pauses as if he is searching
for the words in his head.
“…f**king teenagers!”
He pulls Colt away and with
a slam, he sits him on a chair
away from me.
“Don’t you f**king move.” He tells Colt as he snaps his fingers at Victor.
Victor–understanding the queue- takes his jacket off
and throws it at me. I cover
myself with it while still sitting at the desk.
Warrick points at me now. “And you! You are f**king
chaos incarnate!”
I start to laugh but I
immediately put a hand over my mouth and hold it in.
I don’t know why but…I like
- it. I am chaos to him. I
should be afraid of this man
but somehow… I am not
anymore.
The corner of his eyes
crinkle. “That’s funny to
you?”
His eyebrows knit and I
swear I can see a vein pop on
his forehead.
“Never have I had to deal
with this kind of shit!” He
points to Victor and Garret.
“Your brothers never dared to do this kind of crap.”
“That’s because they are afraid of you. Everyone is. I
am not. Not anymore.” I bluntly say.
“Oh, I can see that. But do
you know what makes me the angriest?”
I don’t say anything and wait for his answer.
“It is that I am not even upset
about it. Do you know…how
amazing you are? What you
did out there?”
I am confused now because
he is right, he doesn’t look as angry as he was a minute
ago.
“I can’t do that.” He says. “I can’t do what you just did.”
“What do you mean?”
“What your wolf did out
there.”
“You…you can’t?”
“No! Not in my wolf form. Your wolf just made
everyone kneel to you and you think this is all a joke?”
“No. I don’t think it’s a joke. I
know how serious this is.” I
say.
“Do you? We are descendants of royalty, Casseopea. We are
meant to rule! Our bloodline
is meant to rule all other
packs!”
“Rule? I can understand that
but what I don’t understand
is why do you have to rule
with Tirany. Why be cruel?”
“This is who I am. This is
how I rule. What I have been
through…you have no
f**king idea. I will never change. I am the bad guy. I
am the villain. I know this. I
was born with…a sadistic
side. A side that enjoys
bringing others pain. I can’t shut it down and I don’t want
- to. You don’t have that side
of me in you but you are capable of it. You have a deep–rooted anger inside of
you that wants to come out,
and f**k do I want it to come
out!” He takes a deep breath,
calming himself. He goes
around and sits on his desk.
There is stillness for what
seems like minutes.
I get up and face him.
“So…did anyone escape?”
He puts a hand on his face. “Yes. Many.”
“…Good.” I mumble.
He takes in a deep breath
and huffs but doesn’t
respond.
“And Ezra?” I ask.
He looks up at me and gives a small laugh as if he can’t
believe what I am saying.
“He’s not here?”
“No. He ran too.”
He laughs again but it is a sarcastic one. “Just great!”
He looks at Colt. “Guess you are my only leverage now.”
“He’s my mate! You can’t kill
him.”
“I am talking about having leverage over his family pack. And you are not fully mated until he marks you
too. However, there is a small
chance that Killing him now might kill you too. As small
as that chance is, I can’t take
that risk. So, he’ll live.” He
looks down, thinking. “Tell you what…if you take this seriously and do what I tell you, you can keep him
around. I won’t lock him up, keep him away from you, or torture him which I can do
at any given moment.”
Putting a hand under my chin, I ponder this. “That is… an enticing proposition.”
“This also means not
interfering with my
methods.” He ads.
“I can’t promise that but tell
YOU what. I’ll still stick around even with your damn methods if you allow us to be together. This
means not taking it out on
Colt when I…act out. And I
promise not to run.”
“Run?”
“Yeah. It’s been my goal since I got here.” I admit.
He stares at me and I know
exactly what he is thinking.
He is shocked that I have the
balls to confess this.
I have a feeling that he
enjoys this. He enjoys the way I am. I challenge him
and he almost admires it.
He puts a hand up. “I’ll think about this proposition. In the meantime for today, stay in your room.” He looks at
Victor. “Serge is hurt. Watch
her for now.”
“Do I really need a babysitter at this point?”
Now I am just trying to vex him on purpose. I am going to be challenging him on
everything. I guess I am
being like a teenager in a
way. Rebelling.
“Yes, you do!” He shouts
sounding like he is done
with all of this.
“Okay. Fine but I am taking him with me.” I say pointing
at Colt.
“No! You are not! WE have a
business to attend to now
that Ezra is not here.” He
says.
“I want to be marked by him.” I say with authority.
“Oh, that is not going to happen.”
“What?! Why?! There is no
reason to keep us apart like that?”
“Casseopea, I am telling you this once and only once. You
finish this mate bond, and I
will make it my mission so that you never see him
again. Do I make myself
clear?!”
“But why?!”
“Because…you need to look
available.”
“What?!”
“I need to make alliances
now. And what better way
for an alliance than having the next–in–line Alpha to one of the strongest packs look as
if she is available as a
potential mate?”
“NO! I will n—”
He interrupts me before I can finish. “I didn’t say you
were going to be mated to someone else! You really need to learn how to play the game, daughter.”
I take in a breath, calming myself.
“So, you don’t want us to
finish our mate bond
because I am more useful if I
am not mated?”
“Yes. It’s politics my dear.” He
leans in. “You ruin this for
me, and he will be gone.” He
looks at Colt. “You mark her, and I will make sure that you will never see her again…” He pauses for a moment as if he was thinking and then leans in close to Colt. “In fact, you are not allowed to mark her until I tell you to. Do you understand?”
“Yes, Alpha,” Colt says looking like a mindless
zombie.
I gasp. “Did you just use your power?!”
“I did and I mean it, Cass. No
games with this. Now leave.”
I huff feeling irritated.
“Fine!” I spit out with anger.
I cover myself properly with the jacket and slowly walk over to Colt. I bend over and k*ss him. Our l*ps feel magnetic and I don’t want to pull away but I do.
I look at Warrick giving him a warning stare. “Don’t hurt
him.”
“Goddamit woman! Go!” He
shouts at me as he massages his temples.
“Fine.”
I walk out with Victor
following me. We walk in
silence for the first few
seconds until he mutters
something.
“That was ballsy.”
I look back at him. “Was it?”
“You know it. And we all also
know that you just got away with it all.”
I laugh and he smiles.
“I’ve never seen him like that
before. Not in control. He
doesn’t know what to do with
you.” He says.
“But he needs me and that is
why he doesn’t know what to
do.”
“Yes and…I might be wrong but he seems to have…a
softer spot for you.”
I get to my room thinking of
this.
Does Warrick really have a soft spot for me? Not that it changes anything because he is a monster but…does he?