Chapter 15 – Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel

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The wolf caught her and tackled her to the ground. I could smell the sharp scent of blood and her scent intensified. I knew instantly that she had been injured in some way. She can’t die dammit, she’s my mate, I need to complete the circle. I roared to myself as I raced toward them.

He had her pinned to the ground, but she still brought a knee up to his tender underbelly. I heard him growl in pain and frustration before he bared his teeth and set them against her throat. Not on my watch. I roared.

I tackled the rogue wolf off of her and wrestled him to the ground. It was exactly as I had expected, he has lost all sense of himself. He was rampaging. I was able to knock him unconscious, eliminating him as a threat for the time being. That was when I saw that my mate was attempting to run away again.

She had turned and was on her feet, but before she had taken more than two or three steps I had shifted back, standing there human again. I didn’t growl at her, she was plenty scared of me already, but I did issue a command.

“Don’t you dare run again. Stay right where you are.” She knelt on the ground and sat on her heels, bowing her head in deference.

She was already a handful, that was for sure. Like when we were in the meeting with the Elders and she was too busy staring at me to pay attention to the room around her. She thought I wasn’t watching her, but she needed to learn to watch a room indirectly.

She had probably never been in the same room with me for so long, and therefore never seen me so up close, besides the brief glimpse the other day. The same could be said of me. I had never seen her this close before. At least not when her head wasn’t bowed or blocked by her hair.

She was pretty, that was true. But being pretty alone wasn’t all it took to be Luna. If that were the case, then any of the girls in the group from the other night could be Luna. But her looks were different from theirs somehow. Her hair was a deep, rich, dark brown that was just a few shades lighter than my black hair.

And where most of the women in the pack were either naturally tanned like myself, or went tanning in the summer, she was like porcelain. I’m sure her skin would look like milk and mine honey if the two were laid side by side.

And another intriguing feature was her eyes. With such dark brown hair, I would not expect to see bright crystal blue eyes that seemed to shine in the light. The eyes were unusual to say the least.

But no matter how interesting, intriguing, or beautiful I found her. No matter how intoxicating or irresistible my wolf found her scent. I simply could not accept her as my mate. Not fully. It wasn’t safe for her. She would get herself killed. And she would bring my pack down with her.

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Joaquin

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But she was a handful, that was for sure. That was why I had to sneak out of my own house to catch her when she was trying to run away. If Vincent had not been on night watch as he was walking the halls, he would never have come to notify me that my new mate and our soon to be Luna was trying to escape.

Oh, she thought she was clever. Telling Peter that she was getting juice, telling me she was going for her missed run. She thought she was going to get away. I still didn’t know why she would want to run away. She was going to have everything she ever wanted right. This is what all the girls in the pack seemed to want, to be mated to me and ascend the ladder. Oh well, she would come around. Until then, I had to threaten her.

“Let me make one thing abundantly clear to you right now. If you try to run away again, I will make it so you can’t leave the house ever again. As it is, you’re under house arrest until the marking is done. After that, I can use the mark to track you down and bring you back no matter where you run off to.” I told her, causing her eyes to open wide in shock and fear. That was mostly true. I would be able to track her, but it wasn’t that easy.

“Do you understand what I’m telling you.” She made such an unusual face at this that I couldn’t help my response. “You look like a scared little bunny rabbit.” I laughed at her.

“I do not look like a rabbit.” She growled at me.

I laughed again, she squealed as I threw her over my shoulder and marched her to her room. I worked hard to ignore the feeling of her soft supple body pressing against my shoulder. When I set her down, I warned her yet again.

“Get in your room, little bunny. And if I catch you outside again, I might just get myself a new lucky rabbit’s foot.” I assigned a guard to her room and gave one last bit of advice. “Don’t even think about going through the window, little bunny, you don’t have a balcony, and there is nothing for you to climb down. And if you tried to make a jump from this high, it’d probably kill you.”

After all my threats and warnings, I left her alone. I stalked down the hallway to the southern wing where my room was. That’s why I am in this predicament that I am in now.

I was currently tonsils deep in a bottle of whiskey, trying to take my mind off the last two days. I had just about drunk myself into a stupor and was attempting to make my wolf forget about the way our body felt when that girl was around. Things weren’t going so well.

“I’m going to have to assign guards to her.” I told myself. “But who should I choose?” There were several among the pack that were strong enough and capable enough, but not many that I would trust with being inside my home or around my mate constantly. I was really going to have to bite the bullet and branch out here a little.

Things were going to get complicated here for a while. A long while.

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Riviana

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“UURRGH!” I screamed in frustration. “What an ASSHOLE!” I heard a laugh coming from beyond the door, apparently my guard had heard me. I didn’t care, let him hear. I was too angry not to vent to myself.

“Who does that overgrown dog think he is, anyway? Throwing me over his shoulder and carrying me back to my room. Doesn’t he know I’m more than capable of walking?” I continued to vent as I tore through my bags and found some clothes to sleep in. I didn’t care about making a mess at the moment, I just needed to change my clothes.

“I swear if he tries something like that again I am going to give him more than just a piece of my mind. I’m going to give him my hand across his face or my boot up his ass.” The laughter was continuing almost steadily at my tirade. Glad you’re enjoying yourself pal.

I finished changing and flopped onto the bed, though I was certain I wouldn’t fall asleep anytime soon. But, before I knew it, my eyes were closed, and I was sleeping soundly.

I woke up early again the next morning. Thankfully I had a dreamless sleep for once, so I didn’t have to worry about any nightmares waking me up this time. But I was really getting tired of waking up before the sun rose.

I knew they wouldn’t let me go for a run. Not after last night. So, I decided to take a shower. I really wanted to soak in the tub, but that would have to wait until I had more time. I had class soon and didn’t have the time for a really long soak.

The shower was amazing. The powerful jets of hot water that I could concentrate to specific muscle groups on my back helped to ease some of the tension I was feeling. I had a feeling I would be stressing out and would be full of tension a lot during my time here.

“What am I thinking?” I asked myself. “It’s not like I’m ever going to live anywhere else. I am the Luna, I am his mate, this is my life now.” I stated, realization hitting me hard.

I had just finished dressing and tidying up my mess from the night before when there was a knock on my door.

“Riviana, are you awake?” Noah asked me.

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