FATED TO ALPHA HUNTER BY VENNEH LISAH

𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩

I growled loudly because of the throbbing pain in my foot. My entire being vibrated with a huge urge to track down my mate though I knew very well that she was on the same floor with me in the pack house. This was the reason I had the foot ache.

Four days had elapsed from the time I laid my eyes on her, causing our mate bond to start weakening.

I had ordered that she be transfered back to one of the rooms in the pack house and be put under strict surveillance. I would be fine with any room she would be transfered to as long as it wouldn't be mine. Despite my strict order, she had been transfered to a room on my floor albeit a different wing by either Lemmy, Mylar or Jeff.

"My Alpha" Lemmy called out the moment I walked out of my room. I ignored him.

"HUNTER" He bellowed again. l still ignored him.

I knew for sure that the urgency of his calling me out had something to do with Ania. I did not want to hear what he was saying.

He was adamant and continued calling me as I descended the stairs before turning to the opposite direction of the parking lot.

"For four days now, Ania has not left her room. No one is getting into her room or near her, not even Rina. She hasn't had any food, her fretting is worsening. She has not been attending classes too." Lemmy hurriedly spoke when he saw that I wasn't responding.

"Not my problem. I have already allowed her back into the pack house, ask Joe or Mylar to take care of her and by the way, why don't you deal with that issue since you seem to worry too much about that traitor?" I snapped, annoyed at their worry for her.

"My Alpha, she is our Luna." Lemmy answered weakly.

"She is not your Luna she never will be," I snarled back.

Lemmy turned and walked away growling.

My shoulders sagged as he left, I was in pain as my foot still ached especially when Lemmy talked about Ania.

"Prepare the car. You are my chauffuer today," I told one of the omegas.

"My Alpha you usually drive yourself..."

"I insist on being chauffeured by you" I cut him short as I walked past him.

"Yes, my Alpha" he conceded. I chucked my jacket to him which he caught and placed over his arm.

The sun was already risen, Ania hadn't shifted when she ought to have at the night of the full moon, four days had passed yet she still hadn't shifted. I understood that this was because of our strained mate bond but I still did not want to see her. Her delay in shifting was none of my business.

My current concerns were my foot ache being felt through the mate bond and the serious case of five of our students who had gone missing in a span of one week.

I wanted to get to school before anyone else. Eager to get to the gym and have a thorough workout or better still maybe go to the wrestling club and wrestle my anger away.

Joe was silently following me; I could feel his anger brewing behind me which alleviated the throbbing pain in my foot.

Mylar caught up with me carrying a duffle bag which contained my gym and wrestling wear as I had requested her to pack them for me. The pain in my foot surged, it was intense, I could no longer ignore it.

"For f**k's sake, can someone send a doctor to look at Ania's f*****g foot?" I roared before twisting and punching a stone pillar .

Pain flared up my arm, and Mylar dropped the bag in her hands.

My anger diffused, the burning hatred dissolved as my Lycan side settled the pain instantly healing.

Joe's mood also changed, and Rina stood quivering beside Mylar, and I sighed, dropping my aura. Unsure of what came over me.

"No one can get close to her. We have tried, my Alpha. She has gone feral." Rina mumbled. Her voice trembled, her face was pale from the fright I had just given her through my aura.

The throbbing pain in my foot was driving me crazy. The fact that she wasn't allowing anybody near her pissed me off. She was attacking everyone who dared to enter her room. Was she unaware that I was f*****g feeling the pain too?

For days I had been complaining and asking them to tend to her.

With a snarl, I turned and strode back into the pack house towards her room.

Joe put his hand on my shoulder. I stopped, turned my head, and glared at him warning him: "Mind your place, Beta."

"Where are you heading to my Alpha?" he said, clenching his jaw. The man was tempting my rage again. They all were pushing me to my limits with their constant worries about Ania.

Joe jogged to keep up with my long strides as I hunted Ania down before approaching the double doors leading to the room she had been transfered to. As I shoved them open, Joe tried to grab me. I turned and growled, my aura slamming into him and shocking him. Jake was in rage wanting to come forward, I was doing everything possible to restrain myself from shifting as anger surged through me. I knew they only wanted to protect their Luna but I was the Alpha. I could tell that the urge to protect Ania was overriding all their other senses.

"Out!" I ordered. The command gripped him instantly.

They might have had a pact to uphold, but they couldn't fight a direct command. I slammed the doors as he stood stunned, unable to cross the threshold.

Turning around to face the room, it was dark. curtains were closed. I pressed on the wall switch turning on the lights. The state of the room shocked me as the mattress was torn to shreds; linens shredded; plates with stale food lay haphazardly at the door, a horrendous stench from the rotting food filled the room. One could tell that food had been pushed to the room through the gap below the door. I gagged picking up the trays and opening the door. I thrust them toward Joe, who gripped them.

"Get rid of them," I snapped, shutting the door.

Wandering through the room, I checked the bathroom, but there was no sign of her.

Her scent was everywhere, stuffing from the mattress scattered all over the floor.

I faintly heard her muffled growl. I then focussed my search to the closet whose door was closed, I could feel her now profound scent in a corner of the closet. Crouching down, I gripped the door handle, my mate was sitting in the corner in disarray. She had gone completely savage. Her canines had elongated and claws fully slipped with her eyes dilated .

Ania growled, she thought I was a trespasser since she couldn't recognize me at first. Her instincts were feral as guilt tried to strangle me because of what I had let her become.

She moved from beneath the linens, her hand falling on the carpet in front of me. Clawed nails sliced through it as she calculated her attack. My mate may not have shifted or been able to, but She-wolves were just as dangerous when they felt threatened.

Wild gleaming eyes peered back at me before a feral snarl was cut off as she sniffed the air. She honestly looked more animal than the the person I was used to. I did this to her, I made her this way. The guilt flooding through, ate me.

I had destroyed her. Yet I pushed it aside, remembering why I went there.

I crawled a little into her space, and she growled, my body's reflex action to deal with her reaction without talking was to purr, I purred, calling her out of her den which worked as a tranquilizer.

Her whimper told me the bond wasn't completely lost as she launched forward before halting at my command and she placed her hands on me touching me. She fell forward onto the carpet, belly down, submissive. I looked away; it was essentially the reason for my purring, to make her submissive. It pained me seeing her that submissive as I had forced it against her freewill.

My heart jolted seeing her completely submissive through the mate bond, a slave to. Moving closer, I reached for her foot. Though there was a spark, it was weak, regardless, I lifted her foot to my mouth. In just a few days, I had managed to wipe out everything I loved about her through denial of the mate bond.

Her heartbeat hitched, and her other hand reaching to me gripped my knee as I licked her foot and toes, healing each one before setting the foot down as I tried to ignore her hand on my knee, her nails slicing my pants and skin. I pried her claws from my leg and dropped the calling thereby allowing her to stand up. I looked away from her.

"I need to leave," I told her. My voice emotionless though my urge to bundle her in my arms and soothe was hard to hold back. Reaching my hand over my head, I gripped my shirt, tugging it off before pulling it over her head.

"Eat, you will not stay in here. You need to go to school and continue with your life as usual. I want you in class today" I told her before walking out.

𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩

As days dragged on, I could feel my bond to Hunter nearly broken, suffering severely in Hunter's absence. It took less time to build the bond but weakening it felt like it was taking eternity considering I was the only person suffering because of it.

I watched as my mate used purring against me, making me to submit to him, I watched as he healed my foot, which I understood he only did because he was also suffering from the pain and not because he willingly wanted to help me out.

Once Hunter's scent was gone, and only my scent remained in the room, I realized that my den no longer fulfilled its original purpose, and the mate bond was now only a distant memory, or so I hoped.

Hunter had requested me to go back to school, he even sent principal Mylar to ask me to go back school or I would be expelled. I couldn't risk being expelled, all I ever wanted to be was an engineer and I had to see that come through.

I called myself to a serious meeting, present in the meeting were ME, MYSELF and I. The meeting resolved that life had to go on with or without Hunter.

Though our mate bond was almost broken, it lingered on a thin line. Even though I was greatful to Hunter for helping me heal, I did not want to see him again. It was an impossible wishful thinking. I cleaned up and took my backpack ready for school.

I was mentally prepared to be mocked and humiliated by fellow students and teachers. This was mortifying, but seriously it couldn't be any worse than Alpha rejecting our mate bond, so I shrugged off and stepped out. If I had survived the agony of dungeon, fretting and foot ache, then I could survive the little embarrassment. I took a cab to school and sat at the backseat, going through the school work that had been sent to me.

I rushed into the school building, walking straight across Alpha's office, it was silent. I wanted to go into Hunter's office in search of him, I needed a closure but quickly thought otherwise. I was afraid of my nose picking up his mouth-watering scent since I would easily be plunged back into the darkness that the mate bond had held me for days.

I walked through the corridors no one was in there. Where was everybody? I couldn't figure it out. Classes were also empty, as I made my way to the lockers to retrieve my books. It was eerily quiet, maybe because it was still morning. I found it a little strange. The situation was the same when I climbed stairs, there was absolutely no one anywhere.

The sound of people clapping in the distance made me move to a wide window as I buttoned up my blazer only to see everyone down in the assembly hall straight below me.

It appeared the entire school was down there. Grabbing my backpack more firmly, I descended the stairs, wanting to know what was going on. I wanted to appear incognito. It was odd that there was an assembly mid week.

All teachers sat in front row, students sat in their designated area as subordinate staff lined up behind the assembly back wall. Unable to see what was going on, I walked to where subordinate staff were standing, stopping behind one of the them. I tried to peep through only to draw the attention of one staff who looked behind at me, I gazed back at him in confusion when I saw his eyes glazing over me. It was only moments later that Joe who was standing beside me, led me down the hall bringing me to where Rina sat at the front row with other students .

My stomach dropped, and I looked at Rina who seemed shocked to see me, but remained quiet. She reached over and gripped my fingers with hers. Alpha Hunter sat at the front row where teachers were sitting staring off vacantly towards the podium. I could only see the side of him, but he must have sensed my stare because he turned his head and looked at me. His eyes met mine, and my heart sputtered in my chest; he then turned his gaze away like I was merely another student and not his mate.

Time seemed to stop, and I sucked in a breath when I saw Mylar step forward. She walked up to the podium and announced that five of our students were missing and they didn't know where they were. Apparently they had disappeared on their way to school and nobody had information on their whereabouts.

Mylar snapped her eyes to me while she spoke and I could feel everyone's eyes on me. Did she think I had a hand in their disappearance? She spoke and asked anyone with information about where the learners could be to report to the administration or the police, she further asked everyone to be vigilant, to help with the investigation when called upon. She then called off the assembly dismissing us then everyone left the assembly hall.

"You're back?" Rina gushed while squeezing me tight when we stepped into the corridor, she cupped my face in her hands, her eyes teary, she breathed a great sigh of relief. I felt like asking her about what happened when suddenly Alpha walked up to us. His scent hit me like a brick in my face stunning me.

"Get to class now!" Hunter roared at us before oozing past us without a backward glance, I swallowed hard and stared at him as he went through the corridor, Joe, Mylar and Lemmy closely following him. He passed without acknowledging my existence. I bit my inner lip hard making me feel pain in my mouth which helped the pang of hurt that coursed through my chest as the metallic taste of my blood washed over my tongue.

"He will come back," Rina told me, gripping my shoulder, but I was sick of hearing it. Sick of losing days to a bond he broke, I wasn't going to wait around and hide in my room for him to come around, I tried that with zero results. I was going to keep myself busy so that things would go back to how they were before.

The day passed by quickly, it felt nice moving around, occupying my mind with something else other than Hunter! Lemmy had been following me around for most part of the day; I didn't know whether it was his choice to follow me or Hunters order. I wasn't sure, and I never bothered to ask.

If Alpha was going to pretend I never existed, that was fine, but I wasn't ready to continue waiting for him to change his mind any longer. I wanted to go back to my hostel but was restrained and ordered go back to the pack house. It seemed like I was under house arrest.

On reaching the pack house late in the afternoon, I freshened up before going into the garden to play with toddlers who were running around playing some games.

Mylar's scent hit my nostrils and I instinctively turned around to meet her walking up to where I was with a frown on her face .

"You should head to your room, Ania. I will send someone up with your dinner" Mylar told me and my brows furrowed, I turned to look at Lemmy for help, I only wanted to be there with all the noise and activity to occupy my mind but it seemed like they had other plans for me. They wanted me to wallow in loneliness and shutter the mate bond completely. Lemmy was glaring at the wall above our heads. Mylar cleared her throat, which appeared to snap him out of the homicidal stare he was having.

"Right, I will escort her to her room" Lemmy said, but I waved him off. He insisted on following me. When I reached the top of the staircase, I noticed Joe coming out of Alpha's room with a tray. He started walking toward us, but I quickly rushed to my room before locking myself in with a sigh.

The silence in the room made me gloomy as I sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace. Although it had been cleaned and restored to order, the room was too big to just sit in by myself.

The silence surrounding me was deafening as I planned my way out of the pack house and away from the pack after thinking everything through.

I had to leave before the bond drove me insane knowing my mate was in the same pack house with me but out of my reach. It was time to go and only one person could help me: Principal Mylar. I knew from the word go that she didn't want me there and she would be more than willing and happy to help me out without getting her hands dirty. she was my only way out.