Chapter 6
The door creaked open, and my head spun around, but I rolled my eyes when I saw the cold man who had entered my room for days without saying a word.
“Do you know who I am?” the man asked, his eyes glimmering.
“Does that mean anything to me? I don’t think you’re someone I need to know,” I replied rudely. I would have had a nicer attitude if it were Jess talking to me; I would have responded better to anyone else if they weren’t this man.
He closed the door behind him and walked to the chair behind the desk. I couldn’t help but think how disrespectful it was for him to sit in the Alpha’s chair.
“I am Alpha Jake Drakos,” he said simply.
His stare burrowed into my soul, and I refused to believe that the cold man who had entered my room for days on end, watching me eat, was in fact the Alpha.
I felt a mixture of fear and anger. The enemy had already appeared before me. He should pay for his father’s mistakes!
“Don’t try to do anything stupid; after all, I’ve saved you,” he warned, as if he had read my mind.
As he stood and walked toward me, uneasiness crept over me. I had to hide my hatred. I didn’t want to seem ungrateful, but this pack wasn’t known for its warmth and kindness.
“I heard Jenkins has a bounty on you, so initiating you into the pack is a way to mask you from him. Right now, your stench is that of a rogue,” he said with such venom that I couldn’t help but flinch away.
“You have to want to join, though, Liberty; it isn’t something I can force you into,” he said as he stood in front of me.
His hand cupped my face, tilting it up to look him straight in the eye. The interaction felt so intimate. I could feel sparks where his hands touched, and that shocked me.
“No, I will never join your pack. Your sins are too numerous to mention! I hate all of you; you are the devil!” I swept his hand away and looked him firmly in the eye.
He didn’t expect this from me. His aura was so powerful that it seemed the air froze around him, making it hard for me to breathe. Suddenly, he clasped my chin with a death grip, and I felt pain radiating from my cheek.
“Do you think you are still Beta’s daughter? You still think everyone wants to spoil you and love you, huh? You’re nothing but a wanted rogue now; you’re worthless, you’re nothing! Look at your situation, Liberty. You can refuse my offer, you can just walk back and then die there, but what about your father and grandmother? You have no power or strength to save any of them. Your father will be laughed at by your pack for the rest of his life for having such a stupid daughter like you.”
Tears rolled down silently, and the cold floor sent chills throughout my body. He was right… I could do nothing for my father and grandmother. I struggled inwardly. Was I really going to surrender to this evil pack and this cold guy? I didn’t want this to happen. But did I have another choice right now?
I nodded without saying a word, hoping to escape this room quickly. His cold exterior made me feel suffocated, or maybe it was the aura that emanated from him. It blew through me, sending shivers and sparks coursing through my body. I saw a flicker of emotion graze his face, but it left so quickly that I couldn’t tell what it was.
Could he feel uncomfortable too? No, that was ridiculous; he was the Alpha, and from what I had heard in my pack, he cared for nothing and no one.
With a sudden movement, he pulled me from the chair. “You need to want this,” he said calmly.
I bared my canines and sank them into his arm, sucking his blood into my mouth. I struggled to hold back the bile rising in my stomach. I stepped back and offered my arm to him. He stepped closer, and shivers ran up my spine as sparks flashed through me.
He ran his canines down my arm, and the sensation sent goosebumps over my body. My body shuddered from his touch, and I could feel the heat radiating from him. My cheeks flushed crimson from his closeness, and a groan escaped my mouth. As he sank his teeth into my arm, I felt electricity surge through me, and the snap of the pack fell into place in my mind.
A new roadmap of people filled my brain, and the sensation was so overwhelming that I could feel darkness closing in and my legs weakening as they crumbled beneath me, but I didn’t fall.
Knowing I had to say the words, I called out, “Alpha Jake Drakos, I belong to you and your pack.” I saw his satisfaction, and he finally let me go.
I was not expecting such emotion and clarity to swirl around in my body, crashing into me like a wave. I couldn’t even tell how I managed to get from that room to a bed after the initiation, but I did.
I joined the pack that killed my mother. Why is fate so cruel to me?
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