BEG FOR LOVE

CHAPTER 8

(VASTY'S P.O.V)

I sat on the bed of my guest room and waited for Erah. I couldn't believe that shithole, she had to live in these last ten years. A shoe closet under the stairs. It didn't even look habitable. I couldn't wait to take Erah out of here, she deserves so much better. Not just because she was an Alpha's daughter or my mate, but because she was a living and breathing person. The conditions that room was in made me want to vomit and at the time, kill every single pack member of the Bluemoon Pack. After about ten minutes, I felt that Erah was taking too long, I got up to go get her, but then I picked up the faint scent of chamomile tea outside my door. She was right outside, I was about to open the door for her when I heard someone's voice.

"Erah, What are you doing here?"

"Ugh, What do you want Max?" goddess, why won't this damn pack leave my mate alone. Are they deaf or just plain stupid?

"That's Alpha Max to you,"

"You are not my Alpha," my mate has a lot of spunk, and she definitely had that Alpha aura.

"I'm still an Alpha!"

"Leave me alone Max, I'm sick with you and your family f******g up my life,"

"Erah! Why are you doing this to me?" he whined. What kind of Alpha whines?

"I'm not doing anything! I'm trying to move on with my life!"

"You belong to me Erah!" I had just enough of this shit. I opened the door and stared Max right in the eyes.

"Get.Away.From. My. Mate," I expressed each word with great detail. "My love, go inside," I told Erah.

"Erah is my mate! The moon goddess gave her to me first!"

"Alpha Max, from what I have gathered, you rejected her, and she accepted that rejection, which means, she is no longer yours," I greet my teeth. King wants to rip this guy to shreds, and I'm about five seconds away from letting him. "And I also understand that she had to reveal her true identity to you in order to make the acceptance,so, either you actually have feelings for her, which are no longer relevant now that I'm in the picture, or you only want her for her Alpha blood.

"How do you know that she's..."

"She told me her name, her full name. Her father and my father were friends before your's slaughtered her pack,"

"Vasty," Erah said my name softly and gently grabbed my wrist. "Please, just come inside. He's not worth it,"

"Erah, please, come back to me," Max begged her.

"F**k you Max," she spat. "Let's get one thing straight, even if you hadn't rejected me, I would have rejected you anyway. I want nothing to do with you or this pack. I told you that from the moment I accepted your rejection. I never want to be tied to you or this pack in any way, shape or form. You can lie to yourself and me all you want, but nothing will change the fact that I despise you. I always have and I always will.

"Well, there you have it, Alpha Max, Erah has made her decision. Now, if you will excuse us, I need to have some bonding time with my Luna," I shoved him back, and quickly slammed the door in his face, locking it. I let out a short and irritated sigh and turned around to face Erah.

"I'm sorry about that," she said.

"Why are you apologizing? You did nothing wrong,"

"I should have been quicker about coming up here,"

"Hey, you have nothing to apologize for," I said and held her shoulders. I finally had a chance to look at her in detail and see the height difference.

"What?"

"Damn, I just realize you're really small. What are you, 5'2? 5'3?"

"I don't know to be quite honest; I've never had a height checked,"

"Ok, well, I'm 6'4 and you barely come up to the middle of my chest," I said standing up and putting my hand at the top of her head and lining it up. "That at least a foot difference,"

"So the tallest I could be is 5'4?"

"Yeah," I look down at her, and just so nothing but perfection. Her hair was as sleek and shiny red hair, dark green eyes, her face was the size of my fist, her body was near perfection, although a little too skinny, probably from neglect, overall, ERah was damn near perfect to me.

"You're staring again'" she said to me.

"Sorry, I was talking you all in. I'm trying to commit you to memory,"

"Um..." Shit, that sounded creepier than it should have.

"Are you hungry?" I asked quickly changing the subject. She chuckled and smiled. Damn, she had a beautiful smile.

"Yes, but I can wait until dinner. I'm used o not eating,"

"What?" she gasped and covered her mouth and slammed and her eyes shut."My love, what do you mean you are used to not eating?"

"I...Uh.."

"Erah, have you been starved? Is that why you are so thin and malnourished?!" she made a face of regret and let out a short sigh.

"Yes," I could feel anger in my body rising. Not only did they force her into labor as a child, they mistreated her, abused her, made her sleep in a shoe closet, but they starved her on top of all that. This pack was sick and twisted. I couldn't believe the Elders have allowed such heinous activity to take place. I took a deep breath and let out another deep and heavy sigh. I pinched the bridge of my nose and grunted. "Vasty, don't be mad at me. I just wanted to be honest with you,"

"I'm not mad at you, my love, I'm mad at this pack. I don't understand how this shit went on for ten years, and it was never reported. What would have happened had I not been here last night? I"m certain that Nefali and Nicole would have killed you,"

"No, they wouldn't have. That would mean Nefali and the other Omegas would have to do actual housework, like cleaning and cooking. The packhouse would be in shambles if that ever happened."

"Well, it's happening, because they can't make you do any labor in this house anymore,"

"And to answer your question, if you weren't here, I would have left my own anyway," I looked at her confused."I know the laws Vasty, I know that now that I'm 18, BlueMoon can no longer hold me against my will. Slave or not. I have no ties to this pack by blood or by law. I was planning on leaving right at first night this morning, but with everything that happened last night, that plan kind of flew away out of the window,"

"You're still going to be leaving, but with me and Alfred. I still have a business to take care of while I'm here, but I don't want you to worry about anything,"

"I'm not worried, I'm just annoyed. It's like no matter where I go, I'm either going to run into Maximiano, Nefali, Max, Nicole or some other pack member that hates me,"

"Well, you don't seem to lack the self-confidence to stand up for yourself when they do,"

"I just have a big mouth, I have no filter,"

"I like that about you, Erah,"

"You do?"

"Yes, it's quite a turn-on actually," her face when I said that was more than a bit of shock.

"Um... I'm not sure how to respond to that," she said shyly.

"I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be so assertive, I just can't help it,"

"No, it's ok. It's just that, no one has ever said that about me, so, I'm just a little taken aback by it," she touched cupped her cheeks and I could tell she was getting flustered. Seeing her get flustered made my heart flutter. I put my hands over hers, and she looked up at me with her beautiful green colored eyes.

"Damn, you are so beautiful," her eyes widened a little bit. I slowly leaned in, and I could feel her getting on tippy toes. She closed her eyes first and I leaned in further. Just a few more centimeters and her lips would be mine. Closer, and I can feel her warm breaths, just as my lips brushed hers, there was a knock on the door, completely ruining the moment. Erah quickly pulled away and turned her back to me. I let out a frustrated grunt.

*knock*knock*knock