Chapter 37 – Kidnapped by My Mate Novel (Belle & Grayson) Online Free by Annie Whipple

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Kyle nodded slowly, but I could tell he still wasn’t buying it. “Okay,” he sighed. “Let’s go get some food.”

He walked back to where Elijah was, and I followed behind eagerly.

At the thought of food, my stomach let out the loudest growl, turning my face bright red. Both men looked at me.

“Luna, when was the last time you ate?” Kyle asked.

My eyes widened. “Last night,” I said quickly. “I ate dinner with Grayson.”

Elijah and Kyle exchanged worried glances and then looked at me.

“I know that’s not true, Luna,” Kyle said. “We ate with the alpha last night, and you weren’t there. He said you were asleep.”

My eyes widened further as I realized I’d been caught in a lie. “Oh, um…well…” I didn’t know what else to say.

“Luna, I’m going to ask you again, and don’t you dare lie to me. When was the last time you ate?” Kyle asked.

I looked down at my hands once more, knowing I could no longer hide the truth.

“The night I first got here,” I whispered.

“What?” Elijah snapped.

“What the fuck do you mean, ‘the night you first got here’? That was two days ago!”

Kyle yelled. “You haven’t eaten in two days?”

Tears were starting to form in my eyes. I looked around the kitchen and saw that people were watching us. We were starting to make a scene.

“It’s just that every time I came to one of the kitchens, they would always be so full of people and everyone would snap at me when I tried to grab some food. I didn’t know what to do.”

Kyle growled and ran a hand through his hair.

“Stupid territorial wolves.” He sighed. “You can’t take it personally, Luna.

Werewolves get territorial around their food and don’t like sharing. It’s just the way we are as hunters.”

I nodded in understanding. That made sense.

“And the alpha didn’t feed you? He didn’t know that you were starving yourself?”

Elijah asked.

I shook my head frantically. “No, he’s been super busy. It’s not his fault. I don’t want to bother him,” I said.

“What the fuck do you mean?” Kyle snapped. “This isn’t making any sense. An alpha takes extreme pride in providing for his mate. There’s no way he wouldn’t want to feed you, no matter how busy he is. You’ll always be his number one priority.”

The panic in my chest grew. I was really making a mess of things.

Grayson would be so mad if he knew about any of this. “I’ve been telling him that I’ve been finding my own food,” I lied. “I feel like I’ve been too clingy. I need to be less dependent on him while I’m here. I can’t be distracting him all day with my stupid problems. Too many people are counting on him.”

“That’s it,” Kyle snapped. He grabbed my hand and began to pull me away.

“Elijah, you stay here and make some more food. I want there to be enough here for her to be on the verge of sickness. I’m going to put an end to this nonsense.”

Kyle continued to drag me out of the kitchen and toward Grayson’s office, despite my objections. My mind replayed the conversation with Grayson from the last time I had been in his office—when he’d told me to stay away. I could only imagine how upset he would be if I went back there.

“Kyle, stop!” I yelled. “Really, I’m okay! We don’t need to bother Grayson!” I tried prying his hand loose from my wrist, but he was too strong for me. “Kyle, please!

Please stop!”

It had occurred to me last night that if I didn’t start to get back on Grayson’s good side, then I was going to lose him forever. He already seemed to not want me, and I didn’t know what I would do if he never came back to me.

What I did know was that I’d have to stay out of his way if I wanted to remain in his life—even if that just meant getting a glance of him every once in a while. I decided that would be enough for me.

I loved Grayson. I knew I did. I would do whatever I had to do to stay in his life.

Seeing him right now after he had specifically asked me to stay out of his office would only make him upset. I couldn’t afford to have him hate me any more than he already did.

“Kyle, please stop! I can’t go in there!” I tried saying more forcefully, digging my heels into the ground.

It was getting hard to talk with all the sobs coming out of my mouth. Through my tears I could see people stopping and watching us. They probably thought I was insane.

Suddenly Kyle lifted me up and threw me over his shoulder. I gasped.

“I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with you, but we are fixing it right now. You will not go on thinking like this,” Kyle said as he continued to march toward Grayson’s office.

I pounded on his back and yelled, demanding that he put me down, but he just ignored me. I knew that it was no use anyway.

Damn werewolves and their stupid strength.

When we finally made it to the door of Grayson’s office, Kyle knocked twice and then threw it open without waiting for a response. He set me down on the ground in front of him and placed his hands on both my shoulders so that I couldn’t run away.

Grayson was sitting behind his desk with a phone held up to his ear, obviously in the middle of a conversation. His eyes snapped up when we entered, and they immediately narrowed at me.

“I’m sorry to disrupt, Alpha, but this is an emergency,” Kyle stated.

“I’m going to have to call you back,” Grayson said, and quickly hung up the phone.

He was in front of me within seconds, causing me to flinch.

“What the hell is going on? Belle, baby, why are you crying?”

He cupped my face in his two large hands and began to wipe away my tears, careful of the bruising. It confused me that he was acting so kind when all I had done was bother him since I’d gotten here.

“I’m so sorry,” I said to him. “I tried to tell Kyle that I didn’t want to bother you, but he dragged me here.”

“What are you talking about, Belle?” Grayson asked. He turned to Kyle. “What the fuck is she talking about?”

“The luna hasn’t eaten in two days,” Kyle said.

“She told me that she didn’t want to bother you with it, and instead chose to starve herself as she couldn’t seem to get food from the kitchens with the other wolves around. I thought you would like to know.”

“What?” Grayson snapped. He looked down at me. “You haven’t been eating?”

“I—” I tried to explain, but I wasn’t sure what to say. So instead I just nodded and looked down in shame.

Without any warning, I was thrown over Grayson’s shoulder and marched out of his office. My head spun from all of the sudden movement and no food in my system.

I tried not to move while he carried me, not wanting to upset him any more than I already had. Grayson brought me to the kitchen, where he placed me down on the ground in front of everyone and pulled me in so that one arm was snuggly wrapped around my waist.

“Listen up, everybody!” Grayson yelled.

Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and turned to look at him.

“You will all stay out of Belle’s way when she is in here and allow her to take whatever she wants. “If I hear about anybody keeping her from the food inside any of the kitchens, there will be extreme consequences! Am I clear?”

A chorus of “Yes, Alpha!” rang out through the room.

“I want everybody out of here! Now!” Grayson said.

Everyone immediately filed out of the room, keeping their heads down. It amazed me how much power Grayson seemed to have over his pack. They did exactly what he said the minute he said it. I hadn’t been expecting him to defend me or to put on the show of possessiveness that he just had. I watched in shock as the last person left the room.

Before I could say anything, I was lifted up and placed roughly on the kitchen counter.

A moment later, my head was sent flying backward as Grayson’s hand forcefully connected with my cheek. My eyesight went for a few seconds as complete pain overtook the upper half of my body and I cried out in shock.

“Can you not do anything right, you fucking bitch?” Grayson yelled. “Can’t I just get one day without you messing something up and bringing more conflict into my life?

You can’t even feed yourself!”

I cried some more, completely unable to think through the pain. My whole body was shaking, and I was having a hard time sitting up straight.

“I’m sorry!” I managed to get out, my voice breaking from my sobs. “I’m so sorry!”

“Yeah, whatever,” Grayson growled. “What did I do in my past life to get stuck with you as a mate? I didn’t even realize how pathetic a human could be until I met you.

And you never fucking stop crying!”

More sobs shook my chest at his words.

“You will stay away from Kyle from now on, am I clear? You will avoid him and his mate at all costs, as you seem to only cause problems when you’re near them,” he said.

I sobered up a bit. “What? Kyle and Elijah are my only friends here! Everyone else hates me!”

Grayson grabbed my face with both hands, and I whimpered as he made contact with my very tender skin.

“I don’t give a fuck,” he said. “You will do as I say or face the consequences, got it?”

I nodded quickly, looking deep into his eyes that only seemed to get blacker and blacker with every second. It was hard to remember their true color; I hadn’t seen them as anything but black since the morning after we’d gotten here.

His grip on me tightened. “I want words, Belle. Tell me you understand.”

“I understand,” I said quickly. “I’ll stay away from them.”

“Good,” Grayson said. “I don’t need you messing everything up. Now, you’re going to get yourself cleaned up and cover those ugly bruises on your face.

“I can’t believe that you even came out here with that on display.” He pressed a thumb into the bruise on my cheek.

I whimpered as excruciating pain spread through my system.

“You will not leave your room until you stop crying. Then you will come back here and make sure that everyone sees you eating. And I don’t want to see your face in my office ever again.”

I nodded again. “Okay,” I said quietly.

Grayson looked me up and down with disgust in his eyes. “Who knew having a mate could cause me so many problems?”

Then he left me alone.

BELLE POV

The next few weeks were like my own personal hell.

I spent all of my time in the tiny bedroom at the bottom of the packhouse that Grayson had told me to sleep in, only leaving to use the bathroom and quickly grab food from one of the kitchens.

I didn’t see Grayson. I didn’t see anyone.

I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t eat.

And to make it worse, there was a terrible pain spreading throughout my body that I knew was because I was away from Grayson.

I thought many times of just leaving, coming up with plans that consisted of sneaking out in the middle of the night and getting as far away from this place as possible.

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