Chapter Ten

—Nathan Gregg—

As I saw them going out of the house and back to our house, I rushed downstairs to the living room ready to scold at them. I don't know what the hell happened on their house but it seemed rough. The chimney gets on high fire and I wonder what's going on.

'I told you not to go back until I haven't talked to her!'

'Dude, this chick is so hot...' Terence breathed.

'Also weird...' added Yves.

'What are you two stupid talking about?!' I furrowed irritated.

'She's a witch...' –Yves

'Keynes said that she's an Enchantress. But she's drunk when we got there. Setting the chimney on fire.' Terence explains.

I gape on what they said. She's an Enchantress?

'Yeah, she got drunk on the pie that you sent to them. He said not to give her any sweets too much.' I rolled my eyes.

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In the morning, I run to the woods hoping that she will run too. But there I found my sister and Keynes grappling each other.

'You're stronger than I thought.' Keynes whispered to her ear. I have to roll my eyes on how gross they look.

'Hey, it's not that I ruin your romantic time but, really, in front of me?' I stopped walking when I hear her. 'Or should I say: go find a room!' then she ran away.

'Maybe, let's go find a room.' Keynes told her. Geez, my sister looks flirty and it disgusts me.

I ran after Zoë ignore the two of them. She's only wearing a jogging bra and jogging shorts. I used my supernatural speed to stop in front of her. She gasped and ready to punch.

'Hey! I just wanted to talk.' I told her. I stare at her chest, no hickeys mark also my bite mark is gone too but the crescent moon is there. I raise my hand to touch it.

'No touching!' She punched me but I caught it. Damn, she's strong.

'Don't hurt your mate.' I told her. She suddenly looked confused.

'I am not your mate! Why do you keep telling that?!' she pulls her fist.

'I don't know.' I told her just to keep her calm. 'Yes, maybe I'm not your mate.'

'Good, because I don't have one.' she said and run again leaving me. I suddenly feel broken inside.

I just stay home doing push-ups in my room and glancing in her room. It was already six in the evening and my sister is with Keynes. So, she's alone in the house. But I stopped when I saw her running from the back door with arrows with her. I automatically rushed outside and run after her.

I found her on the boundary of our territory where two Lycan's with red eyes are there. They are circling her and she's just standing there smirking.

'Long time no see.' She told them. 'Miss me?'

Before the Black Lycan attacks her she had lifted her hand and three arrows from her back flies to the Lycan. The other one is ready to attack so I growl and shifted to my wolf jumping to the Lycan. I bit his neck and I growl snapping his neck completely.

I faced her and she's pointing her crossbow at me. Why is my mate pointing it to her mate? She pulls the string and releasing the arrow and it hit the Lycan that I kill. Then she pointed another one to me. I felt pain on my ribs and I just realize that I had a cut.

'Shift!' she orders. I don't why I take orders, I am the next Alpha but on the way she orders me, I seemed just an Alpha. I shifted. Her eyes didn't leave my eyes.

'Zoë, if you don't want to accept me as your mate. Kill me.' I told her. It hurt me much that she was that emotionless. My wolf was hurt and broken too.

'I am not your mate.' She said with a low voice.

'Is that the way you rejecting me as your mate?' I asked her.

'I don't do rejections. And gosh please!' she turned her back from me. I looked down at myself and grinned. 'Good thing that I am a little blind in the dark.' She murmurs.

'Don't want to see your Alpha naked?' I asked her.

'I am here to kill those bastards, and then you appear and I am feeling to kill you too.' She didn't even look at me.

'Then why won't you just kill me?' she didn't answer. 'Why are you here killing those? The Patrollers will be here anytime soon. How do you know that the rogues are here?'

I looked at her hands. It's shaking like she's controlling her anger. I duck down when she pointed the arrow at my side. She released it with a fire on the arrow. She was fast releasing each of the arrows. I looked around us. There are lots of black Lycan's with a pair of red eyes around. I called a back up through mind link.

I shifted to my wolf and growls at them. I was covering her in front while she's stepping back to our boundary. I suddenly feel weak and adrenaline rushed on my stomach. The scratched on my ribs is burning.

'Hey, dude!' she doesn't know my name. My wolf whimpers then an army of werewolves from my pack are around covering us. I had shifted to my human form and someone put a blanket on me. 'You are damn stupid!' she scolds at me. Yves is there too and everything gets blurry. I screamed as the scratch burns.

'Help him!' Yves panics.

'Poison of those demons.' She murmurs.

She pulls a silver dagger and cuts her palm. She covers it on my mouth as her blood runs inside my mouth. I swallowed hard. Then she pressed her forehead on mine whispering something and something blue glowing blows from her mouth to mine. It might be better if she kissed me.

'Nathan!' my sister shouts.

I stare into my mate's glowing blue eyes. I lifted my hand when I felt no pain. I caressed her face and current flows from her to my hands and all over my body. But she does not react and felt nothing.

'Zoë...' Keynes' voice. I hold her hand.

'Don't leave.' I begged her. She just looked around everyone and I did too. The human-eater werewolves are gone.

'Let's go Zoë.' Keynes orders. I sat up holding her hand to stop her. I felt dizzy and then everything went black.

I wake up in my room and my mom is sitting beside my bed smiling. I sat up looking around. Where's Zoë? Did she leave me?

'C'mon, you are going to be late.' she said. I looked for the scratch on my ribs but there's nothing. 'Come on big boy.' She is heading to the door. I slipped off from the bed and open my curtains. Her curtains are open and I searched for her but she's not there.

After I had gone to the bath and put my clothes getting ready for school, my father is waiting for me on the breakfast stool. He gazes at me with sighed.

'I had talked to her last night.' he said. 'It's not good to hunt outside our boundary with those human-eater werewolves.'

'You punished her?' I furrow.

'She apologizes saying that it won't happen again. It's better to be good because I don't want anyone to put themself in danger. But if she didn't go hunting, we are probably toasted by those monsters.'

'And her brother?'

'He's fine.' I narrowed my eyes. I am asking about what happened to her brother. If he had scolded him or what. 'You will be the next Alpha in this coming new moon.' He announced. 'Every weekend you will train with Keynes. Though I know you are strong and skillful you still need to let go of those power you have.' He said glancing at me.

'And what happened last night?' I pick the bread putting spread on it.

'Zoë is an Enchantress also a Huntress. She heals you before you become like those rogues.' I only nod.

I went to the fridge and pick the orange flavor B'lue. I hang my bag on my shoulder and went to the garage while eating my bread. When I got to school everyone is looking at me and the girls keep waving and smiling at me as always happened. Then I saw Zoë in front of her locker pulling some books. I grinned and leaned on the lockers at her side.

'Hi, there gorgeous.' I greet her with a grin. She didn't speak or say something. She just glanced at me. 'Cat got your tongue?' I teased her. She blinks and faced me.

'No, dog.' She said sardonically slamming her locker and leaves. Did she just call me a dog?

'I'm not a dog!' I followed her. She raised her middle finger in front of me that makes me blinks.

'Speak to the finger!' I snatched her middle finger and grins.

'You saw me naked last night.' that makes her grimace hating it. 'Don't you want to touch my abs?' I asked her. She pulls her hand, stopped walking, and faced me with that annoyed yet adorable face.

'No, because I am not interested in your body.' She said bluntly. I stepped forward.

'Why not?' I can see that she shivers and she rubbed the crook of her neck. Maybe it is because of my lust that I felt for her. I hold her hand bringing it to my cheek. She was about to grab it but I just gripped it. I kiss her palm not leaving her eyes, seducing her. 'Too bad, I wanted you to touch me.' I said in a low sexy voice.

I love staring at those crystal blue eyes of her. I love kissing those full lips of her. I love smelling her scent. I love her hair. I love her slender pointed nose. I love all of her. I pull her into my chest wrapping my arms around her waist.

'Why did you say that you are mate-less?' I asked. She lifted her face to me while I am looking down at her. 'Don't you know that your mate found you?' she's not paying attention to me and her head snapped on Chase and Grace. They seemed that sparks are on them. The bell buzzes and everyone cleared the corridor except us.

'No...' she murmurs. I adjust my hearing to hear them.

'Now, I am going to reject you.' Grace said to Chase.

'No! Don't do that!' Chase held her arms pushing her to the wall.

'I Grace H—'

I looked at her where she collapsed. On my arms, Chase speeds up to us leaving Grace from the wall. I carried her in bridal style and runs to the clinic with Chase. He didn't even bother asking about what happened. He was worried and his eyes are dark. The doctor, Mr. Greene checked her pulse and her eyes with a small flashlight.

'I am going to kill her.' Chase murmurs.

'Chase, calm down.' Now, I get it. He's going to kill Grace on rejecting him but why he has to kill her.

'This is her fault! If she didn't attempt on rejecting me as her mate this won't happen to her.'

'What are you talking about? And what's the connection?' he just shook his head and rushed out of the clinic.

She's hardly breathing so the doctor had put oxygen masked on her. I told him that she just collapsed. He told me that she got a heart confliction that causes her to collapse. But he didn't tell about her illness.

'It was weird about it. Something might cause it.' Mr. Greene said. I told him that I will leave for a while to find Chase. He is the one who can only answer my questions. I saw him and Grace in the corridor.

'Don't ever do that again! Do you understand me?!' Chase scowls at her. 'Are you not content that you found your mate and the one who is destined to you? You are hurting someone. And I am not going to let you make her suffer again.'

'I don't like you!' she said bluntly. Chase scoffs and smirks.

'So do I. But if you reject me, and before saying those words I might kill you.' Grace suddenly gets tense up and afraid. 'But Grace, just so you know. I can't do that because you are my mate. Do you know that the Princess of the Blue Moon kingdom is suffering from every rejection of mates? She was mate-less that's what she knows. And for you, you are lucky to have a mate.' He caressed her face.

He was calm now and gentle to her. Grace is breathing heavily and I can see the sparks and currents flowing into their body through their reactions of every touch.

'I'm sorry...' she whispered. He smiled bitterly putting his hands down and breathes.

I went back to the clinic and still, she is unconscious. Chase enters the clinic and seemed calm now. He pulls a chair and sat on the side of the hospital bed that she is laying. He held her hand with sighed.

'What happened to her?' I asked him. He just shook his head. 'Why are you holding my mates hand?' I asked him again now, frowning. He chuckled and kissed the back of her hand. 'Stop it!'

'She's my cousin.' He explained. 'Don't worry. I am just too concerned about her. She suffers a lot, and I am glad that her mate is beside her.'

'I wanted to be clear with things about her.' I said sounds more like a command.