The lost scent

(AZTEC'S POV)

I watched her seated before me with a blank stare. She seemed to have her mind buried in thoughts even though I was seated right in front of her.

It gave me a moment to observe her very well. The first thing, her scent was very exhilarating and it confused me when I focused on it. She looked unreal. Like some kind of higher being. There was something about her that was glowing. I could see that it had nothing to do with her clothes.

Her clothes were not worn out and or but they were dull and still had no effect on her flawless beauty.

There was something different about her today.

Yesterday, she had seemed to be braver and more outspoken, today she seemed to be more withdrawn.

I wondered if it had anything to do with her mother and sisters. I remember that Steele had told me the first time that they made her do all the work. He had said he sensed it.

Could she be getting maltreated?

One of her sister had irritated me today. I could see right through them from the moment I met them. They had tried to throw themselves towards me revealing cleavages and desperate eyes.

Also, I wondered why it had taken Rhea long to be called. Why had she not even come down with them in the first place?

To be honest, I had a lot of questions for her. I seemed to want to know more about her and it made me feel strange and unsettled.

"You can let me know when you are ready to begin." I said to her.

Her beautiful large eyes snapped back to focus and reclaimed her surrounding. Her gaze settled on me.

"I'm sorry." She said in a soft but blunt tone. Then she seemed to straighten herself as she looked directly at me now,

"I'm ready to begin…. What we are here for." She said to me.

"You know what we are here for." I began to her.

"I gave my reply." She said to me boldly.

Oh wow! Well I guess she is still the same from yesterday after all. From what it looks like, her boldness is a natural streak in her. It annoyed me but I knew that it also amused me.

"He was relaying a command to you." I said to her with a snarl in my voice.

That did not even make her flinch.

"I'm sorry, does that mean that I don't have a choice on who becomes my husband?" She asked me.

I looked her straight in the eyes and I wished that I could find out everything I wanted about her. What the hell would make her reject being with me?

This is damned hilarious! I should never have to deal with begging a female to be with me. It did not matter if she was a human being. No one saw me and said NO to me.

"What exactly are you afraid of?" I asked her.

"I'm not afraid of anything. I just don't want to be married to you." She said to me.

"And why is that if I may ask?" I said with my gaze holding on to hers.

"Because you have a reputation." She simply answered.

My ego was bruised but I still smirked.

"You can't blame me. I'm perfect, look at me." I said to her.

She did look at me and for a split second, I would have thought that I saw a deep look as she took me in. In that moment, excitement pumped through my veins but then her stare was blank again.

"Well, I don't want to get married to you." She said to me.

I raised an eyebrow at her. "You seem to forget that you are in the presence of your Alpha." I said in my usual cold and stern look.

Her eyes looked a little sharper then.

"I apologize, your majesty." She said to me with a bow.

I did not care for that. I did not even fancy her bowing her head to me. I liked the way she was bold, the way she spoke clearly and softly but I disliked the fact that she was saying No to me.

I stood up and smoothened my clothes and i walked to her. She stood up too looking a little Alarmed or uncomfortable.

I looked in to her eyes now standing a few inches away from her, I hated how much effect she had on me. Her scent was arousing.

I could see that She was not scared, but I could also see that I made her uncomfortable. I loved to know that I had an effect on her. And I wonder why I cared. I was not used to giving a shit about what what any female thought of me.

Because there was absolutely no need for me to care or wonder what they thought about me because I knew that they wanted me. But with Rhea, I found myself wondering and thinking.

"Listen to me." I said to her. "All my life I have been waiting for this time, to save my pack and to avenge my father. I don't need to beg any woman or she-wolf to be with me. I can have whoever I want. But I am being told that for me to do anything, I have to have a Luna first. And I am being told it's you in the prophecy. The darkness is coming and I won't let you let it get to us."

She looked a little scared now but I did not withdraw.

She took a few steps back and just looked at me.

"We shall get married." I said to her with a firm tone.

Rhea held my eyes.

"And what if I don't want to?" She asked .

I smirked and came foward.

"Then you shall be blamed for whatever happens to the pack." I said and then i added. "Also, you can not say No to your Alpha."

She looked in to my eyes for some time and again I wondered what she was thinking.

"So what does this mean?" She said to me.

This woman had guts! I had to give that to her.

"It means that this is not an option. It's an order from your Alpha." I said to her more sternly. "The best thing I can do is to give you some time to think of it and then come back when you are ready to talk. But I give you one night."

She looked like she wanted to say something but she didn't.

"Your majesty." She said to me with a bow and after one last glance, she left me in the room.

Immediately she left, her absence became very evident. And I realized why. I longed for her scent.

I closed my eyes to track it but I could I not find it.