Rejected You Alpha, for A Beast
Chapter 46

JESSICA’S POV

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Falling asleep in my mate’s arms has never been this soothing, the warmth of our naked bodies pressed together makes me feel calm and immediately sleepy. I yawn multiple times as I lay with my head on his chest, my arm draped over his torso and my leg hiked up over his thighs. His hand rests on my knee, his fingers lightly brushing up and down my skin, making my heart beat steadily. Our breathing is uneven, his chest rising when mine falls.

His other hand strokes up and down my spine, the feel of his light fingertips gliding against my skin makes a calming shiver run up my spine.

“I love you.” I mutter sleepily before I fall unconscious without hearing a reply from him.

Waking up in the middle of the night with my hands bound behind me, my feet tied together, and a blindfold over my eyes, while someone tries to stuff something inside of my mouth, is not what I thought would ever happen to me, not here, not the night before I would become luna to a pack full of Lycans.

I try to scream and shake away from the person who’s trying to take me, my mind spiraling about where Nathaniel is and why he didn’t do anything to stop me, but my most curious thought was how did I sleep through being bounded by someone?

I try to kick and pull on the restrain, hissing when the metal nips at my skin. “Calm down.” a woman hisses, I recognise her voice, it’s someone I’ve met before, but I can’t pinpoint the face…

I calm down, laying still as I pray for Nathaniel to just rescue me, but he doesn’t as I’m pulled off the bed by a cold groping hand, it’s like ice sticking to my body, forming a slight sting. I stumble, hoping the blindfold would fall and I can see who I’m taken by, but it doesn’t. It’s tightly wrapped around my head, leaving me blind in the dark. I begin to panic as I’m lead out of my own room through the house, I try to speak, I try to beg for them to let me go, but it just comes out muffled.

“Hush.” someone hisses and a arm snakes around my waist before a gush of wind blows against my warm sweaty skin.

The wind stops, the different smells disappear and we stop, my bare feet standing on cold tile, my body shivering because of the cold surroundings.

The material in my mouth is pulled out, “Please let me go! I didn’t do anything!” the words fall from my mouth as the smell of death surrounds me. I’ve been here before…

“Calm down.” someone scoffs as if it weren’t a big deal and my blindfold is removed along with the bounds on my feet.

My eyes flick open as the material is removed and I stare around at the old church we’re in.

I glance at the faces around me, all of them are the elders of this pack. “What the hell?” I mutter under my breath as the women just stare back at me. “Oh dear Jessica, don’t worry.” Elder Marie’s cold knuckles lightly drags down my cheek, her eyes boring into me like I’m some sort of meal. Her smile is vile, there’s no emotion in her dark blue eyes.

“Why did you kidnap me?” I seethe, pulling my face away from her hand. She slowly lowers her arm to her side, “My dear, we didn’t kidnap you. We borrowed you.” she shrugs and my eyes narrow as I stare at the psychopath. “Without permission is kidnapping.” I snap and she snorts, shaking her head as she glances at the rest whose names I don’t know.

“Where’s Nathaniel?” I glance around, did he know that they would do this?

“Asleep.” Marie shrugs, “What did you do to him? He wouldn’t let you just take me!” I snap and she begins to laugh, “We didn’t do anything, we’re very quiet.” she shrugs and my heart sinks into my stomach. “And we’ve taken you because there are things you need to know before your Luna ceremony dear.” she shrugs and the bounds on my hands just pop off without anyone doing anything.

I bring my hands to the front, massaging the spot where the metal nipped at me, rolling my wrists.

“Like?” I c**k my head at the head elder. “Come and you will have all the answers.” the devilish smile on her face makes my heart race.

I glance over my shoulder at the door behind me and then back at the elders who are walking in a straight line down the old wooden furniture. I could run, I could go to Nathaniel and ask him, but will he tell me the truth?

My brows furrow together as I stare at the back of their black gowns, stepping forward with shaky legs and I follow them down those creepy stairs. “Wait.” I call out to them as they all disappear one by one.

I run, my hands gliding down the wall as I struggle to focus on the steps.

I slip and my a*s hits the crusty stairs and I slide to the bottom, each hit on my a*s feeling sore until it just stops as I come to the bottom.

The elders stand in a horizontal line, staring at me with narrowed eyes, “Is she really suppose to be this pack’s Luna?” one asks and my cheeks heat in embarrassment, “Well you wouldn’t be asking that if your stairs weren’t so shit.” I snap as I stand up and elder Marie stares at me with wide eyes, tutting as she shakes her head and turns, walking into the room behind her. All of them follow suit without a word and I glare at them as I follow them, rolling my eyes as I hug myself. It’s cold down here, like walking around in a fridge.

‘More like a freezer.’ Zola growls. She doesn’t like being here, I could feel the tension inside of my chest, but then again, that could be my anxiety acting up. This place is strange, it feels and smells like death, like a trillion people died and stayed in here for years.

“So are you going to tell me anything?” I ask as I hug myself, rubbing my arms to form heat. “We’re going to show you.” Marie deadpans and I watch as one of them reaches for a card box on the shelves and she puts it down on the table in front of elder Marie.

The way she slowly opens the box has my heart pounding in my ears, my pulse beating rapidly…

I inch closer, slowly and calmly making my way closer to the box elder Marie is looking into. As I stand across from her on the other side of the island table, she puts her hands in, pulling out a big stack of papers and photo’s.

“Here.” she pushes them across the table and I sigh as I pick up the old newspaper, my eyes widening at the photo of Nathaniel.

“And do check the dates.” she beams as she steps back and slides the box over to me. My eyes immediately flick to the date of the paper and it’s like the wind is knocked straight out of my chest. “What the hell?” I mutter under my breath, staring at the date.

1902

“This doesn’t make sense.” I shake my head and begin to rummage through all the papers and photo’s with dates on them.

1912

1914

1930

1889

1799

1950

1987

The papers and photo’s fall out of my grasp, my eyes widening, my heart thundering, my pulse annoyingly high and I can’t breathe.

“This..” I step back, “It has to be fake.” I shake my head.

No wolf has ever aged like this…”He’s just a lycan, he can’t live this long.” my voice is shaky and the room starts to spin.

“I can’t…” my fingers drag into my hair as I grope two fists full of my dark locks, “He’s no ordinary Lycan my dear.” elder Marie starts to speak, but she seems so far away, like she isn’t standing in front of me, more like a room away and she’s yelling.

“What is he?” I stare up at her and I glance down when a photo catches my eye.

It’s Nathaniel, wearing only trousers, he’s shirtless while he’s sucking on some girl’s neck, b***d pooling down her body and his chin.

“Is he crazy? Did he mark her?” the need to crumble the photo in front of me makes my hands shake as I try not to do it.

“No, but he did this one.” she slides a photo of Nathaniel with another girl, standing elegantly next to her, his arm around her, his mark in the crook of her neck and they’re smiling.

“Who is that?” I glare up at them, “His former mate, my dear.” they sound so nice, but they aren’t.

I don’t understand what’s going on, I don’t know why they are showing me this.

“What is he?” I yell, my brain feeling like it’s going to break.

“A Lycan Hybrid.” elder Marie deadpans as if she doesn’t even care anymore.

“And what are you?” I grit out and her eyes sparkle as her mouth forms a devilish smile. “You are smart.” she giggles and so does the rest, “What are you?” I grit out, slamming my hands on the surface of the table. “Relax, we’re nothing as bad as he is. We are vampires with magic.” she grins and my mind finally explodes, because there’s nothing in it.

There’s no thought, there’s no idea, there’s nothing.

“What do they call you?” I manage to ask and she glances at the rest before looking back at me, “We are the legends they speak of, the Ancient Lamitrix.”

I could feel the b***d draining from my stunned face as I stare at her, I always thought that was a myth, that they never actually existed or were at least extinct.

“You…” my eyes flick to the rest and they smile at me, showing me their teeth, “This can’t be real…” I mutter, “Tell me this is a dream.” I sigh as my eyes feel like they just keep on widening, like they’re about to pop out any second.

“What is going on here?” Nathaniel’s voice booms, his voice echoing off the walls and the elders group together as I turn to look at him with a horrid look.

“You…” I breathe out, unable to finish the sentence, “What did they tell you?” his eyes are focused on me, “What you couldn’t Nate.” elder Marie mutters, but I notice the fear in her voice.

“You had no right!” he bellows, his eyes blazing red, his chest heaving. I stand frozen, looking at the elders who told me the truth, but that doesn’t mean that I trust them, or him.

“You couldn’t make her luna without the truth!” Marie yells at him, “I was going to tell her, to show her everything!” , “When ?” she yells back, “I am going to f*****g kill you.” he seethes, strutting past me and I watch as he marches to them, but he bounces back off an invisible barrier, “You know you can’t.” Marie tuts and I don’t hang around to replace out more as I dart up the stairs and out of the pack.