THE SCENT OF BETRAYAL

Guarded

ALYSSA’S POV

I couldn’t believe what was happening right now. This douchebag was threatening me right after meeting me. Maybe I wouldnhave understood his behaviour towards me if he had known who I was but he didn’t.this jjst proved to me that he was a natural born douche bag and there was nothing that coild ever be done to help jom with that. He was threatening me even before I laid any claim to me, he was threatening me because he thought I would try to lay claim to him but j had no intention of dojng that. I didn’t wF him at all

It was like he had no shame at all, I wondered if he would still be acting this way if he knew that I knew what he had done. But then again, if he knew I wouldn’t be alive. Knowing that I knew that he qas a murder but here he qas parading himself as the goddess gift ro this world. I wished I could sout at the top of my voice and let everyone know who exactly he was.

Judging by the way he was acting right now, he would probably kill me as soon as he found out. He wouldn’t have kept me around knowing that thete was a possibility that I would speak up and expose him. All I wanted to do was to expose him, I wajted to stand on topnof a build8ng and shout out loud so that everyone woold know what he had done to my father and what he woild have probably done to me if he had seen me that day. I wajtdd him to pay so badly that my heart hurt.

Fortunately and unfortunately for him tjis wasn’t a part of my plans. I didnt plan to expose him because he was the prince and soon to be king. I figured that he would find a way to use the law to his advantage and I would end up paying for exposing and humiliating ikm as the king. I was smart enough to know that I needed a solid plan to jot only expose him hut to also make him pay for everything that he jad done to me and my father.

I hadnt even considered meeting my mate tonight, the only thing I had been expecting was to meet and look those who killed my father in the eye. Unfortunately for me the moon goddess had a cruel plan in store for me. She set me up for failure and it wae wxhaust7ng.8sy. I had been through sonmuch already and thus was the last tijng I wNted to deal with. The last thing I tho7ght woild happen was for me to end up meeting my mate and for that mate to turn out to be the wolf that had put me in this very bad situation.

And to think that I was kind of expecting him to be nicer to me after realizing that he was my mate; I felt so silly for expecting that from a wolf that had just killed my father a few days ago. My father was the one who had made me have some sort of expectation for the day I finally met my match. This wasn’t only through the things he taught me but also through the way he treated my mother. My mother had literally been the luckiest female wolf I knew and I was cursed with a murderer.

This life that I was about to live was nothing likebwhatni would have ever dreamed about. I wiild have never thought thatni would end up living every female wolves nightmare. Maybe Damon wasn’t everyone’s nightmare because he was the prince vut je was to me and the fact that he was the prince meant nothing to me.i wished I coild trade iim for s9meone else and I wished I had a choice but I didt gave a choice.

He let go of me and slightly pushed me away from him as a female wolf came to us and clung to him as if to stop me from stealing him from her. The fact that he let me go because she had arrived didn’t blow past me, I noticed the way he looked at her. It wasn’t a way that a mate looked at her partner, but it was a way that two adults who had seen each other naked. They had obviously been seeing each other and I coold see that seeing me here feltnlile a threat to her. She felt like I was now here to steal something or someone thag she felt rightfully belonged to her. If only she knew the truth.

“Who is she?” She asked him and he looked me up and down and then he smkled. I coild see that he qas already eno7jng her reactions, she aas probably about ro start somensort of dram and he qas looking forward to it. It qas probably going to make him feel a little more bigger that he already thought ge was .

“she is the one.” Her smirk shifted and faltered a little bit after he said that. I guess she knew what he meant; I did too, and I guess it was at that moment that the girl realized that I was the replacement. Or rather the one who rightfully belonged in his arms, not that I wanted to be in his arms.

“SHE... is the one who was picked for you,” she asked with a scoffed, and he nodded. There was a hint of pride in his voice and posture, I couldn’t quiet figure out what he was proud of. Was he proud that I was heals mate? Or he was just proud of the fact that I was rattling the feathers of his little missus?

“come now, I will deal with her later. It’s time for us to make our announcement” he said, and she gave me a sinister smile as he pulled her jn and kissed her. I almost threw upnjn my mouth at the sight of his donng that. Jow jn the hell had I eneded up with a mate as disgusting as him? How did I end up stuck with a guy who cared about no jne hut himself? I was sure that he didn’t evecare about this stupid girl that was claiming Jim, he aas probably looking forward to me throwing myself at him while she tried to keep me away from hkm.

“Noah, take care of her and make sure she doesn’t do anything stupid” he said, staring me down once more before walking away.

The obly stupid this thatbi guess I could have done was shout that he was my mate and yet her had rejected me. That was the stupidest tujng that I coild thunk of and I had no intention of dojng ghay. I didng want to fight for him neither did I want to make a fool of myseld tobight.

“what does he think I will do, leave the ball?” I whispered to myself and unfortunately Noah heard me.

“You are not to leave this place, you belong to the king”he aaid and I scoffed.

“I belong to jo kne”I said annoyed and he pretended as if he didng just hear me say that. I watched as the prince and his litrle girlfriend disappeared into the crowd snd after they were gone I went back to tryjng to figure out what my next step qas.

I hated the way watching him with the other woman made me feel. It made me feel like i cared and that was gross. I felt like someone was taking something that was rightfully mine, and I hated it so much. I had barely been here for an hour, and so much drama had happened already. The Noah guy that had been tasked with keeping his eye on me was keeping his eye on me alright. There was no hint of kindness in his face. Even if I had tried to beg him to spare my life, he was probably not even going to listen to me.

I was thinking of begging for my life now because I couldn’t see how else this would end for me. This guy had already killed my father, and I guess I was the only thing standing in the way of whatever it was he was trying to do.

“Ally… I have been searching for you all over. What are you-“ she stopped before finishing her sentence as she realized I was literally being under guard.

“what is going on?” she whispered, eyeing the guy who was meant to be keeping an eye on me.

“I cang really tell you right now, I mean to be finest indontjnnowbwhatbis going on myself”I sajd

“Why are you just standing there? We were supposed to be finding your mate remember?” she asked me and I sighed.

“that i***t-“ Noah cleared his throat before I could finish what I was saying, and I knew he didn’t Iike the fact that I was calling his boss an i***t.

“is he not the prince?” she asked me, eyes widening.

“He is not the prince, I think he is just the wolf that but kisses uim” I said with everybjhtention of offending this Noah guy and that seemed to work becauee he threw me a hateful glance.

“oh so is he your mate?” she asked me and I shook my head “so the prince is your mate?” she asked me not realizing that her questions were annoying the s**t out of me.

“unfortunately he is” I said

“which one is he? Is he your mate or-“ I cut Her off before she blew my cover. The prince clearly didn’t know I was the daughter of the wolf he had killed, and I wanted to keep it like that for now.

“he is my-:

“you are in no position to make any announcement” Noah cut me off

“it’s not an announcement, I am just telling my friend-“

“stop talking, your king is about to address you”he said pointing at the stage that was set.

He wasn’t y kjng, he wasn’t even the king yet. He was just a prince and I had hopes that he wouldn’t end up being crowned the kjng at all. He didn’t deserve to lead the wolves as far as I was concerned. He didnf deserve tk be the king of anything andni coukdnt even the of one thing that he cokld ever bring to this kingdim. He was jjst a greedy murderous bustard.

On the stage my nemesis with the girl who had looked at me like I was something filthy. I couldn’t believe the way this night was turning out. I was now forced to listen to whatever stupidity they had to say and Noah wouldn’t let me storm out.