Klaus
“You want me, now, huh?” I mumbled in a low voice, ogling at her breathless face. She nodded promptly with a pained expression on her face. I remembered vaguely how she disregarded me in the hall and dismissed me as her Alpha, I had to remind my ferocious mate that I was her Alpha.
“Then, learn to obey me. Tell me that I’m your Alpha and you might get what you want, baby,” moving my lips to her ear, I muttered slowly.
“You’re my Alpha,” she wailed in a breathless voice that seemed more like a moan. A smirk slanted on my face when I smelled the strong scent of her arousal. Dragging her body closer to me, I spanked her ass roughly which caused her to scream out in pain.
“You’re doing wrong, Klaus. It’s a full moon night, you shouldn’t behave like an asshole,” Todd stated as soon as I raised my hand to spank her again which made me halt in my action.
During all this wedding and ceremony stress, I forgot that I had found my mate and it was a full moon night. I should have been making love with her, not taming her. It should have been a romantic, lovely, and charming-making love night but my ego had tricked me again.
As I was concealed deeply in my thought, I heeded a muffled sob and realized that Scarlett had pulled herself a bit away from me. Twirling her to my side, I lifted her face to meet my eyes and noticed her beautiful blue eyes sparkling.
I tried to read her thoughts but she had put a barrier so I couldn’t know anything at all but Todd was in pain which meant my mate was in pain and I was feeling my mate’s pain. The regret replenished my heart with so much burden that I was speechless for a moment.
“That’s not fair. You’re allowed to slap me whenever you get mad and when I do the same, you get hurt. Then, I get hurt, too, when you hit me,” I bombarded, I had lost my temper. I knew that what I did was wrong but what about the wrong that happened to me?!
Scarlett wiped her tears with the back of her hand and took a few steps backward. “I can’t tolerate this,” she shook her head and turned her face to leave.
“Look, I’m here for you besides having a wife whom I should persuade after making someone else my Luna,” I yelled out, forgetting everything else as I lost my patience. I was also feeling annoyed and frustrated by others taking control of my life and my mate wasn’t helping either. At least, she should share with me whatever thing was hurting her. “That must count for something-”
“You know what, you didn’t have to do that huge favor on me by coming here. You can go back to your wife, make her your Luna, fuck her, I couldn’t care less,” she shouted back and I felt relieved that at least, she responded. Her silence was bothering me more than her sarcasm.
I immediately trotted to her and yanked her wrist. “What’s running in your head, Letty? What is bothering you?”
“Don’t call me Letty. You’re not allowed to call me Letty,” she barked at me, jerking her hand away from me.
I kissed her against her will when she asked me to stop, that must be the case behind her annoyance with my touch.
Hoisting my hands in the air, I surrendered to her. “I won’t touch you if that’s what bothered you when I kept kissing you, um, though you asked me to stop.”
She released the air through her mouth, making the sound of a cute snort. “Go back to your wife,” she put more weight on ‘your wife’ as she recited.
I kept guessing what I did to piss her off to that level, maybe because I chuckled when she was expressing her anger, or maybe due to I called her complaints whatever. She was confusing me a lot and wasn’t helping me at all even telling me the reason.
“Look, I’m sorry for all my mistakes but don’t take it as I don’t care about you,” I said genuinely, not being able to find the exact reason. “But please, let me know my mistake so I won’t repeat it. Please, talk to me.”
Her eyes softened and the pained expression retreated to the furious burning orbs. “Who am I to you?”
I sighed heavily before placing my hands on my hips, remembering not to touch her which was the toughest task. “You’re my mate, my love, you know that you’re the only one for whom my heart beats and my lips twitch into a smile. You taught me how to smile, you’re the reason for my existence, now.”
Her lips trembled and she suppressed them hard to stop herself from crying. “But I’m not your wife. You can’t call me your wife and you don’t hesitate for a second before calling someone else your wife. It seems like you have accepted this marriage and your wife and now, I don’t know who I’m anymore to you. Everyone is hating me because I didn’t reject you and attended your ceremony. I had already told you that I won't be your Luna before coming then, why did you embarrass me and hurt me in front of everyone? Why do you keep making my decisions? Just because of your Alpha attitude, I've become a joke.”
She finally uttered the things and I was too dumbfounded to react. I couldn’t even hold her into my arms when she was breaking down. It was so painful to see my mate crying in front of me but not being able to console her. I wished I could pull her in my embrace and kiss her forehead.
“I…I’m sorry, Scarlett. I…” I found myself lacking words to describe my feelings. It was never my intention to hurt my mate. “I didn’t think before saying that, everyone was calling her my wife. I was too engrossed in making you stop from leaving anyhow that I couldn’t think of anything else. You're right, I shouldn't have made your decision and respected your choice of not being Luna.”
Taking a few steps closer to her, I dared to grab her hands and for the very first time, my hands were shivering. “See, how nervous you can make me feel. This is your impact on me, I can’t help but feel scared of losing you each time you try to leave. My brain stops thinking about anything else when I’m around you. All I want is you, just you,” I added.
She didn’t draw her hands back so I took her face into my hands and cupped her cheeks, making her look into my brown eyes. “I haven’t put a barrier, you can check everything. It’s you about whom I always think. If I would have been caring about my wi…, sorry, Amber-” my tongue again slipped and Scarlett worried her bottom lip.
“I can’t help but feel dejected and hurt when someone else’s name adjoins with you. It’s tough for me, too. How can I see my mate with someone else?” She helplessly cut me off before exhaling loudly.
“That’s why I wanted you to be my Luna so the pack members would respect you and you’ll be my-”
“You can’t force them to respect me. They hate me, call me whore and I can’t even hate them back because it’s your pack. You love them and you sacrificed your mate for them,” her voice cracked as she enunciated.
Reaching her arms, I pulled her in for a hug and rubbed her back gently. “I know it must be hard for you to tolerate their hate and all the taunts and I’m sorry for that. I won’t call Amber my wife, I don’t care about her, you’re my mate, I care about you only. I love you only so you shouldn’t feel insecure from anyone. It’s always you, I’ll always love you.”
“Unfortunately, love isn’t enough to be with someone. Perhaps you love my body, not me. Maybe you’re using my body to get the mating powers and will leave me as soon as I give birth to your pups and you might like to keep me as a whore and I don’t have any choice because the mating bond snatches all my resistance and I keep aching for you,” She said without even bothering about how it would affect me.
My lips parted to say something but I pressed them hard and my hands turned into tight fist balls. I pulled her away from me, taking two steps backward, maintaining the distance between us.
“I’m sorry for everything, for all my mistakes. Never in my worst dreams did I think that you would say that to me. I always wanted my mate to live with dignity and the way you carry yourself with such stunning pride made me fall for you more but the moment you called yourself a wh…," I paused before continuing, "no, I can’t even mention such filthy word for you. How could you be so reckless and hurt me by insulting yourself? How could you? I won’t touch you, I promise. Unless you want me to…”