Violet POV
Dane got up and walked to the bar to pour wine for himself. “Please don’t make it difficult for me, Violet. You will stay here in this lodge and you are going to get every benefit. I will surround you with every luxury.”
“What if I refuse?”
“Why would you?” he growled. “If I remember, you were a rogue who had no family. I have rescued you and will provide you with everything you lacked in all your otherwise shabby life. Besides, it is common amongst Alphas to have more than one woman beside their Luna,” he shrugged.
That was a bolt to my self-respect. My mate will be fucking another woman, have her children while I will watch them? Something inside me snapped. He made me feel… used.
All at once, a shrill voice boomed. “Dane!”
Dane snapped his head. “Shit! Mother is here! How did she know of this place?” He strode out, ordering me, “Stay here!”
“Where is she?” his mother shouted at him.
“Stop it, mother!” Dane growled.
“Reject her!” she growled. “Now!”
I came out and his mother’s eyes snapped at me, filled with loath. “Get out of his life, else I will kill you!”
“Mother, Enough!” Dane grumbled. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of the lodge as I stood there, dazed, stupefied, deadended. “You have to leave now!” Dane growled at his mother.
“Are you fucking insane?” his mother shouted. “You can’t have that woman in this pack. She is a bloody rogue. What will the pack members say when they hear that your mate is a rogue?”
“No one will come to know,” Dane replied in a low but menacing voice. “I intend to keep Violet in this place forever.”
“No!” she yelled. “Get her out of here. You can’t mark her!”
“Who said I will mark her?” he growled back. “I will mark Emily because she is going to be my Luna, but I am also going to keep Violet. You can’t expect me to throw away my mate?”
Tears brimmed in my eyes. He was going to mark his fiancée. What a pathetic form of rejection and punishment he had planned for me. It was worse than what my father did. With a wobbly chin, I watched the mother and son arguing about my status.
His mother charged in my direction and glowered. “You are a fucking whore. Just leave my son and whore elsewhere. Get out of here and don’t come back. If you are dreaming of becoming the Luna of the White Fur pack, then you are delusional. Every girl in this pack and other packs dreams to be the Luna of the strongest pack in America. You are in the queue!”
“Mother!” Dane rushed to her as he glanced at me. “This is getting out of control. Don’t cross your boundary!” he roared.
His mother winced a little, but she recovered. “Don’t tell me about my boundaries, Dane!” she shot back. “You can’t have your mate in this pack. Do you even realize the repercussions? You will mark Emily, who will be your mate. What if this whore comes out and tells everyone out of spite that she is your true mate?”
“Stop calling her a whore!” Dane growled. “She is my mate.”
“Throw her out of here instead of using her to warm your bed. You can get better girls than her. She is nothing but trouble. If the Elders will find out that she is your mate—” His mother pinned me with a glare. “They are going to create havoc! And I can’t afford a scandal right now.” She turned her gaze back at Dane. “Our pack has just forged an alliance with the second most powerful pack in America. George Thorpe is going to attack us. I don’t want a war when we can be just the strongest and mightiest with you marrying Emily.”
“Mother, I won’t do anything that would jeopardize this alliance. All I am saying is that give me time to figure it out. I need my mate with me, but I will marry Emily. Just give me time.”
“I am giving you a week, Dane. That’s all. After that, don’t blame me for the consequences. So you better reject her or else—!” Her chest rose and fell in rage. “I don’t want rogue whores in my pack. They don’t have a place in my society.” She looked at me and then sized me up. “She is nothing compared to Emily. Emily is a famous model in the human world. She is a sought-after girl. She is so beautiful that men have been wooing her ever since she stepped into that world. And what is she?” she scorned. “She looks like a half-dead corpse.”
“Mother, I need you to leave!” Dane shouted. “Now!”
She shot a dirty glare at me and then stomped out of the lodge, closing the door with a bang.
I dropped to the floor as my knees buckled. Dane sprinted upstairs. “Violet!” He picked me up, took me into the bedroom and sat me on a chair.
I was dumbstruck. There were no words I could think of. My mate was not going to reject me, but use me as his mistress. What did I do that the Moon Goddess plunged me into a never-ending abyss of misery and pain? I gave him my virginity, which was my most precious possession as a rogue.
“Violet, you have to understand,” he said, looking down at me.
“Understand what? You will kill me every day by having sex with the girl you would marry and mark, and then come to me.” What punishment could be worse? He wouldn’t let me die or live. And he was hoping that I understood his predicament? “I want to go.”
His eyes flashed golden as he growled, “You will continue to stay with me, you understand? I am going to increase the security around this area. And don’t you fucking dare to leave!
I got and stomped out of the room, but he caught me and roughly dragged me in. He pressed me against the wall. “Where are you going?” he growled, pressing his body against me. My whole body hummed in his grasp. He started kissing me and I couldn’t help giving in to him. I was so pathetic. He fucked me again and I couldn’t even resist. I was dangerously attracted to him. This was toxic.
That night, I lay in his arms, disgraced and degraded. Dane had managed to not only trample my soul, but he made it look like it was a necessity.
I closed my eyes, hoping for the earth to crack up and eat me up. I needed to get out of here.
Violet POV Next morning, the bed was empty and cold when I woke up. No doubt Dane had gone to be with Emily. The thought left me wounded and depressed. A heavy weight rested on my shoulders that he would never accept me fully. I saw a little note on the bedside table. It was from Dane and read: “I will be back by night. Eat food. Don’t think of leaving. — Dane.” I dragged myself out of the bed and went to the bathroom. When I looked in the mirror, it reflected back a very despondent girl. My eyes were puffy with crying and my lips were swollen. There were strains of tears on my face. Everything hurt, but my heart hurt the most. The whole day went like a whirlwind as I charted my escape. I had lost my appetite, but I still ate. I found a satchel in the lodge and started stashing important things in it like a pair of clothes, food and a torch. I was going to escape during the night. Dane had sent more warriors to guard the lodge as a warning that I could never run away from hi
Dane’s POV For the whole day, they bogged me down with meetings. I wanted to go back to Violet as soon as possible but my Beta Jackson came up with a relentless schedule of meetings. I remembered that after drinking my blood, Violet recovered pretty fast. An Alpha’s blood was like an elixir to his mate. All her curves filled in the right places. The black and blue marks faded and her skin glowed. I gritted my teeth, recalling that mother had done something too nasty yesterday. She had announced my engagement to the pack without consulting me. She had invited all the guests. I wanted to wriggle out of it by calling it off, but when Alphas from other packs started pouring in, it was impossible. Emily was extremely happy. She had called many of her human friends from the fashion world. She also invited the paparazzi which I hated. I had a long fight with my mother and she ended up crying, so I agreed to the ceremony. Even though I wanted this to be a simple affair, my mother and
Dane POVShe was sitting right in front of me. It had been five years since I had been finding her. I had spent thousands of dollars on spies and private agencies, but no one could trace her. She haunted my dreams every night.It was me who had rejected the mating bond between us, ever since my heart felt like a shrapnel in my chest because it knew what it wanted. And it wanted its mate. My wolf wanted his mate. I realized that I couldn’t stay without her, but it was too late by then. Regret swamped me all these years.And here she was — looking beautiful as sin. Gorgeous as sunshine. She had dyed her sandy brown hair to blond that cascaded till her shoulders. But why were they appearing like they were natural? She had no makeup except pink gloss on her lips and white kohl in her eyes.I couldn’t help notice that her hips and breasts had swelled even more. She was a thin girl and now she exuded womanly grace. Suddenly, every feeling that I had fought to keep inside surged like a tsuna
Violet POV I had never been this flustered and frightened in the last five years, ever since I escaped the White Fur pack’s Alpha. Seeing Dane brought back every memory that haunted me over the years. His sharp green eyes, his midnight blue hair… His had tousled hair and bags beneath his eyes, but that didn’t do a thing to minimize his Alpha aura. Even now, he looked like a God, commanding and sucking up all the air of the room, his tall and muscular presence looming over everyone else. His rejection twisted like a dagger deep inside my soul at that time. Even now, it carried the same acrid feeling, though I had come so far ahead in my life. Dangerous attraction and bitterness warred inside me. I hate to admit that seeing Emily with him brought forth hot and ugly, rage-filled jealousy that I struggled to suppress. But that was least of all the problems. My two major problems were: First, my wolf that had slept inside me for so many years inside me and who I was sure would never w
Violet POVJayden got up. “I am not taking a ‘no’ for an answer. If you don’t want the new assignment, you are coming on a date with me.”What kind of deal was that and how did it solve my problem? But I knew Jayden. He would surely force me to go to Emily if I didn’t agree. I took a ragged breath and nodded reluctantly. “Okay, but you shouldn’t put your hopes high. I don’t want any man…”“Finally!” He grinned, his blue eyes beaming with a twinkle. “I will book us a reservation at the Ginger Hotel’s rooftop and will pick you up at 8PM sharp.”I sighed, nodding at him. Jayden got up with that hopeful look and exited my room while I plunged into a bit of researching about Emily so that I could feed Martha, reasons not to take her. An hour later, I had enough material about Emily, but everything was good. I wanted one bad news desperately. It was as if those around carefully crafted her career. She was truly a successful model. So why was she changing her modeling agency? At the same tim
Violet POV I clenched her teeth to stop them from chattering and focused on Jayden, even though Dane’s presence in the room sucked all the air out of me. I think the goddess allocated the entire shitty luck quota of my entire life today. “Is anything the matter?” Jayden asked when me. Surely, I was looking lost. “Nothing,” I smiled, unable to stop the blush on my cheeks. I could feel Dane’s heated gaze on me, but I kept my eyes on Jayden. Jayden smiled back. “Thank you for coming for a date with me,” he said, taking the napkin and spreading it on his lap. “I wonder what it would be to have you by my side forever.” I picked up the glass of water and sipped it to wet my dry throat. “I wouldn’t keep my hopes high,” I explained to him for the hundredth time. “Please don’t push me away, Violet. Give us a chance.” I shook my head. “You are a good catch, Jayden, but—” “Violet,” he said, placing his hand over mine. “Don’t reject me. You are a beautiful woman who is very talented and an
Dane’s POV After I had met Violet in the morning, my wolf was restless. He wanted to chase his mate, and he chased. Out of anger, on my way to her office, I ended up buying ropes and other bondage material to tie her to my bed once I got her.When I parked the car in the basement parking area, I clenched my jaws, wondering if I should make my presence known right now or later. After the way Violet reacted upon seeing me was, I wasn’t sure if she would flee again. She might cause more chaos at the office. So I waited. To get a glimpse of her.Emily’s modeling career was nosediving. She was blaming me for it and not because she was getting old. She put me on a guilt trip, saying that she almost gave up her career to marry me, but I didn’t marry her. So it was difficult for her to get good modeling assignments any longer. Load of crap. But anything to keep her off my back would do. Since Emily’s career was going down, she wanted to take one last chance with a modeling firm in Miami wi
Violet POV Last night was like a tornado that passed over me, leaving me confused and anxious. It was 5 AM, and I was sitting on the beanbag in my living room, sipping coffee because I couldn’t sleep at all. I had tossed and turned in my bed thinking about Dane. Jayden had dropped me back home after the disastrous date with him. I was sure that he had lost a bone or two of his spine because of the offer that irresistible Dane had made. Throughout the journey, we were both sitting in uncomfortable silence. He knew that if he breached the subject of me taking up Emily, I would burst. But the fact was that none of us was addressing the elephant in the room. My mind was in havoc, so I texted Jayden that I won’t be coming to the office today. I was taking a day’s leave to calm myself and, more importantly, to spend my day with Dave since I had promised him I would go to Disneyland with him. Mimzy had never been to Disneyland and when I was making a promise to Dave, I could see hope in