Chapter 43
Chapter 43
No one has ever managed to catch me off-guard, but Sadie has been doing it since I got here. The blows just kept coming one after another, and it was getting hard to keep up with all of them.
“Y-you’re the Alpha?” Jason mumbles the words in disbelief.
Even Micah looks as shocked as we were. I guess this is just another thing that he was also left in the dark about, despite whatever he had going on with Sadie.
Sadie levels Jason with an irritated and condescending look. “Did I stutter? I don’t like repeating myself.”
I am not a weak fucker, but at this very moment I needed to sit my ass down before all the surprises I’ve gotten since I came here send me into a cardiac arrest.
Her cold and dead eyes turn to me as she speaks. “You wanted to speak to me, so speak.”
How can I? I thought that I had her where I wanted her. That all I had to do was threaten the Alpha, forcing her to agree to our mating. Now, though, the rug has been pulled from right under me, and I have no fucking idea what to do.
She’s the Alpha. How am I now supposed to make her submit?
“Don’t forget she’s also the first female Alpha ever known,” Knox adds unhelpfully.
That little bit of information makes me groan in frustration. No wonder no one has ever seen the Alpha of the Hope Pack. She remains hidden, sending her officials out on her behalf. We all assumed that the Alpha was a male because we’ve never heard otherwise. What a fucking mistake!
“And you realize what this means, right?” Knox asks, pacing in my head in agitation.
“Not really,” I answered tiredly.
My brain wasn’t functioning at the moment. It’s like it had an overload and shut it down for a moment to prevent me from going crazy.
“It means that once word gets out that the Alpha is female, all the other males will be drawn to her like bees to a beehive.”
“Fuck,” I curse, feeling like my lungs were going to collapse at any moment.
He was fucking right. Sadie will be intriguing to them simply because she’s a woman in power. Not only that, but they’ll want her. Alphas like strong and powerful women. Sadie is all that combined. In fact, she’s unlike any woman the supernatural world has seen before.
They’ll want her even more once they find out that not only is she an Alpha to a big pack, but also because she wields powers I’ve never seen before.
I lift my head to look at her. Her eyes seem unfocused. She was probably talking to her wolf. I don’t know if she always had all these powers, but something tells me that she didn’t. Whatever powers she has right now are new.
“This is going to be hard,” Knox grumbles, staring at her through my eyes.
When I learned that my mate was going to be our salvation, her having powers wasn’t something I thought about. I don’t know what I thought it would be like, but this wasn’t it.
Now things are fucking messed up. My mate is a woman I hate to the core, and she hates me back. She has rejected me, she’s fucking powerful, an Alpha, and she’s going to be a beacon to other Alphas who will vie for her attention and compete to
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claim her. They will go to war just for the chance to have her as a mate.
“We can’t let that happen,” Knox growls. “We fucking need her.”
“We won’t,” I reply with determination.
I wasn’t going to let anyone take her from me. My pack needed her help. I am not going to let her go. Not until I got what I wanted from her.
“Are you going to speak, or are you just going to sit there and glare at me?” Her voice cuts through the silence, her eyes piercing mine.
The room had been quiet the entire time. Everyone was probably still shocked and was trying to take everything in.
“Seriously, if you’re not going to speak, then I’ll have to ask King to escort you out of my office. In fact, I’d appreciate it if you could accept the rejection and get out of my pack.”
So that was the douche’s name. What kind of name is King? And why the fuck does he seem close to Sadie? There are so many fucking questions with no definite answer. I hated that.
“Not going to happen,” I growl before leaning back on the sofa. “In fact, I reject your fucking rejection.”
A smirk creeps to my lips when shock is plastered on her face… Well, that’s before anger soon replaces it.
“Why the fuck would you do that?” she fumes and her frown deepens. “You know what? It doesn’t even matter. Get the fuck out of my office before I kill you.”
Standing up, I signal for Micah and Jason to follow me. We leave her office, but that doesn’t mean that I am going to leave her pack. Not until I get what I want. Not until she helped my dying pack. If I had to tolerate her for that to happen, then so be it.
Aside from the fact that I need her, I am not going to give her the satisfaction of rejecting me. I’m not going to give her that kind of power. She is soon going to learn to submit to me.
