Already off to a bad start with making sure this story gets updated on Wednesdays... Anyway, here's the next chapter!

-M12

3

Emma

"So, when are you going to reject him?" Linda asked the second I sat down at the lunch table.

"Soon," I responded. "I have forty-five minutes to reject his ass, then he and his buddies can leave and never return."

"Just be careful with him," Gaven warned. I met his eyes as I took a bite of my pasta. "He's no good. I don't want you getting hurt."

"He's awful!" Emily cried as she clung to Gaven. "I have him in my forth hour and he wouldn't leave me alone!"

Gaven pulled her close to him. "Don't worry. I won't let him touch you." He gave her a soft kiss on her cheek and I rolled my eyes. Love is so overrated.

"Emma," We all looked up and the girls slowly leaned away from him. Except me. I straightened my spine and narrowed my eyes at him. "I need to speak with you."

"I'll come with," Kester began to get up.

Soran growled and clenched his fists. "Alone."

I stood and ruffled both Kester's and Gaven's hair, making them protest. "I'll be fine. I know how to handle myself." I turned to face Soran and gestured for him to lead the way. I followed behind him, staring right at his back.

We stopped in a deserted hall. No one was around. He rounded on me. I moved so I was away from any walls and out in the open, just in case I need to run.

"What?" I said as I crossed my arms.

"Don't reject me." He didn't ask or plead. He gave me a command.

I gave him an icy glare. "You don't control me. I am my own person. I want to be treated as an equal, not some toy to you! How many women have you lured away just today?" He was silent as he stared. "That's what I thought. So, I, Emma Kutcher, reject you, So-" I was suddenly pinned up against the wall, my head clunking against the brick.

Soran had trapped me against the wall, his hand firmly over my mouth. "You are not rejecting me!" He snapped. "You will be my mate! You will be the Luna of my pack! You are not leaving my side, ever! Fuck!" He pulled his hand away, a steady stream of blood running down his finger.

I wiped at my mouth and spat his blood out of my mouth.

A deep chuckle made me freeze, a sudden chill tingling up my spine. "I like that... bite me again." I looked up to see his eyes shifting black and their natural color, which is a deep forest green, fading.

I think biting him was a bad idea... I looked over him quickly, noticing his predatory stance, as well as the bulge in his pants. Yup, definitely a bad idea to bite him.

"Bite me, Emma." I met his eyes again, which are now pitch black. "Bite me! Bite me everywhere! I want to feel your teeth in me!" Okay, I'm gone. I raced down the hall, not once looking back. A growl sounded behind me, but it was far back, since I am running pretty fast.

I skidded to a stop at the table, grabbed my bag, then took off once more. Chairs screeched on the hard floor and more feet sounded behind me.

I didn't stop until I got to the front part of the school. I took a deep breath to calm my racing heart before flopping in a chair, calling my dad once more.

"Emma, what's wrong now?" He asked when he answered the phone again.

I made my voice sound shaky and a bit scared. "A-a guy at school wants to hurt me!"

"You're a wolf." I heard him move on the other end. "You can take him. Just don't throw the first punch. OW! Reece!" I heard mom reprimanding him on the other end.

"But it's an Alpha from another land!" It went silent on the other end. "Daddy, he wants to hurt me..." Please let him buy it this time...

"I'll be right there." He hung up. I took a deep breath and wiped the fake tears from my eyes. I get out of class early today!

"Emma!" I turned my head and saw the group finally catch up with me. "What happened? What did he do?!" Gaven demanded as he searched for Soran.

I shrugged and put my phone back in my pocket. "We talked. He gave me the command to not reject him. I said I was going to, started to, then he pinned me against the wall. I bit him and drew blood, then he suddenly got very turned on and wanted me to bite him all over. I just called my dad and now I'm waiting for him to pick me up. And there he is now." I quickly messed my hair up a bit before standing and going to meet him at the front doors.

He drew me into a tight embrace before walking me into the area with the receptionist. "I have to pull Emma from school early. Something came up in the family and I have to take her out."

The receptionist nodded and typed on her computer. "Okay, you're good now. But since this is the first day, you will need to grab anything your teachers might give you. Could you do that before you leave?"

I nodded slowly. "Yeah, I can..." She gave dad a visitor's pass and together we went to my last couple classes to grab anything the teachers might give me. Once it was all gathered and put in my bag, we left the school and got in the car.

"Alright, what's really going on?" Dad asked the second he started it up. "You've never acted like this before around any of the other visiting Alphas."

I sighed and dropped my act. "I had a feeling you wouldn't buy that. You see, a soon to be Alpha came down from one of the northern packs and tried taking some of the mated girls, which didn't sit well with the males. He and his buddies enjoyed the fear and anger they caused."

"And that's why you wanted to leave?" He asked as he pulled up beside our home.

I narrowed my eyes. "I was getting there. God, can't I lead into something?"

He rolled his eyes. "Alright, then what?"

"Kester brought Gaven and I to where the commotion was and we got through. I shoved him back away from them and our eyes met. Dad, the Alpha Jerk is my mate and just today he must've gotten with, like, five girls since finding out that I'm his mate!"

He looked away, no longer meeting my gaze. "Let's continue this inside." And he was out of the car in less than two seconds and at the door to the house. I raised an eyebrow at that before getting out, grabbing my things, then heading up after him.

"So, you're mate is a player?" He asked as he opened the door for me.

I snorted and stepped in. "He's much worse than that, dad. He's a man whore! I want nothing to do with him! I tried to reject him, but he slammed me into a wall and kept me from talking. I bit his hand and made him bleed, which only turned him on! He wanted me to bite him everywhere!"

There's the protective father attitude I was looking for. "He will touch no part of your body like that so long as I'm alive. Alpha or not, I will end him!" I've always been excited to hear his rant about how he's going to hurt my mate if he ever does something to me. I sat in silence on the couch as I listened to him swear and go on about how he can't wait to put his hands around my mate's neck if he ever does anything to hurt me.

Mom came down after a while a deep scowl on her face. "Asher, stop yelling! I think Lana can hear you from the pack house!"

"Emma found her mate." Asher stated as he tried to calm down.

Mom beamed. "That's-"

"But he's not touching our daughter." She raised an eyebrow at that. "Emma, tell your mom what you told me about him." So, I quickly gave her the condensed version, being sure to apologize for swearing in front of her.

She slowly shook her head. "He sounds like trouble."

"Exactly!" I threw my hands up and stood. "He's no good and only wants to use me!"

"But there's always the chance that he could change."

"He's already been with so many women and wait whoa, what did you say?" My hands fell limp at my sides.

"He could change." She repeated. "Guys do that after they've found their mate." She glanced over to dad when she said that. "Maybe... talk with him?"

I snorted at that, then doubled over with uncontrollable laughter. "M-mom! You're hilarious! There is no way in hell that he's going to change his ways! Just today, he got with about five girls since he found out I was his mate. There's no hope for him! I'm rejecting him the second I get the chance."

She sighed. "Just keep what I said in mind." She took dad's hand and took him into the kitchen. I groaned softly and collapsed onto the couch.

Give Soran a chance? As if. He doesn't deserve one. I know what he does deserve, though.

A solid punch to the face.