Chapter 3

Rose’s POV

The sound of my father’s voice calling the Alpha’s name causes him to tear his gaze from mine and turn slightly around. I looked to the side and saw my father coming to a stop, his men protectively standing behind him.

My father doesn’t even spare me a look.

“Alpha Kanen,” my father calls again, “it’s nice to have you here today. I want you to dismiss your attack on my territory immediately.”

I scoffed mentally. His nerve just because I was his plan B to win this war against Alpha Kanen.

“Now tell me why I should even be listening to you,” Alpha Kanen replied. For that moment all I thought about was his voice. The stamina in it, the fear it instilled and how it caused me to shudder fearfully.

I have only ever heard about this man in stories since I was a little girl. I have never seen him in person and has never actually fantasized seeing him. And I should have expected our meeting wouldn’t have been any more pleasant than this.

“I warned you, Alpha,” Alpha Kanen said between gritted teeth, like the word ‘Alpha’ burned his tongue.

“I am an Alpha to my own clan, Kanen, and it is my duty to take care of my people as it is your to yours,” my father replied boldly. “It would be a shame that my people see me go down on my knees to you or anybody else here.”

Alpha Kanen shook his head and closed the distance between him and my father. What happened next was him punching my father square in the face, causing him to fall to the floor.

“No!!” my mother’s voice intervenes as she rushed over to shield my father from Alpha Kanen. But instead Kanen throws her off him and picked my father by the next. All this unfolded right in front of my eyes and I couldn’t do anything about it.

“Please…” my father’s voice was barely audible. “I have an offer for you…take her…take my daughter…”

Alpha Kanen’s eyes followed my father’s to me. Once again his angry eyes causes me to look down in fear.

Kanen watches me for a while, disgust in his eyes as they swept my entire before he looked back at my father and groaned in his ear, “Now what would I possibly do with your daughter?”

“She…she would do anything for you…you can have her…” my father stammered uncomfortably.

I scoffed in disbelief.

“Are you offering your daughter to me in return to keep your territory?” Alpha Kanen asks before letting go of my father.

He nodded and said, “And maybe we can work together…”

“No!” I cut him off before something else could be said about me while I was actually still there. “I will not go anywhere with this man! Father, how could you do this?!” Tears stung my eyes like fire flames.

“Rose…” my father called but I cut him off again.

“No!! I will not allow this man to lay a finger on me!” my voice is louder now. I begged to be heard, to be relieved of this ridiculous arrangement.

Alpha Kanen turns around to face me. He started towards me, his steps small and intentional.

He stops right in front of me, his wide body completely covering mine, his huge stature towering over mine and causing me to look up at him. Even with the tears blurring my vision I could still see his face pretty well. His eyebrows are knitted together in a hard frown. His eyes are narrow and deep, his nose long and pointed.

His eyes watched me, like there was something written on my face which he was trying to find. Everything seemed to stop around us. The chaos, everything.

Slowly he lifted a hand, which causes me to cower in fear. He chuckles as his hand stopped just before my face. Then his strong, warm fingers reached my chin and he held onto it, lifting my face up so I was looking into his eyes.

I felt my skin crawl with the touch of his hand and all I wanted was to be away from him. But I knew better than flinching away from him. He was a heartless monster who would kill me right here and now without a second thought.

“On your knees,” he said fiercely.

There’s venom in his voice and it shook me beyond depth.

Gulping hard, my eyes holding his, I replied shakily, “No.”

I noticed the calmness in his eyes disappear as the word left my mouth. without warning he pushed me down to the floor. He did that so effortlessly, forcing me on my knees.

“Nobody says no to me,” he spat down at me. Tears rolled down my face. “Take her,” he said to his men.

“What? No, no…” I tried to stand up before his bodyguard reaches me but I was too slow and he was dragging me in one second. “No!! I’m not going with you, no!”

I tried to fight him off but he easily by far bigger and stronger than me. Even with all the screams and kicking, the bundled me up and carried me away. I watched the faces of my parents disappear out of sight.

“No! Let me down!” I continued to scream until the man carrying me couldn’t take it anymore and set me down just before we reached a carriage.

He moves back and swings a hand back, slapping me hard across the face.

“You bitch!” was the last thing I heard before losing consciousness to the impact of his slap on my face.

And in that small moment, I marked his face and swore to make him pay.

It must have been forever before I gained consciousness because when I peeled my eyes open, the room was pitch black, leaving the littlest of details, my head was throbbing harshly, the back of my throat felt soar and the cloth on my body felt different.