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LEANDER PROWLED HIS FOREST LIKE THE BEAST THAT HE IS.

His colossal grey paws left daunting footprints into the ground like concrete and his vicious growl cut through the oak trees. There was a man in the woods that he was hunting down and Leander felt that he should have some fun with it. So whilst his prisoner stumbled through the woods, gold rushing through his veins, Leander strode through like the Alpha he was; mighty and unimaginably powerful.

Abruptly, he paused. His ear's shot up like darts as he heard the frantic beat of a heart and so he set off in a sprint, uncaring whether the worthless man could hear him. As his paws pounded this ground, he could hear the heavy breathing of Kevin Tajia, a man who had raped and killed his mother 3 years ago and he had been on the hunt for him ever since.

He leapt through the cascading vines to see a frantic Kevin on the floor, the majority of his clothes torn off and blood spewing from his body. Leander stalked his prey. Furiously, Kevin attempted to push himself back up, scratching his hands against the dead leaves that littered the forest floor.

In a frenzy of cracking bones, Leander partially transformed to his normal human body yet he decided to keep his claws that acted like steel poking out of his hand.

"You shouldn't have ran away, Kevin." Leander stated whilst poison dripped from every syllable.

Fear pierced Kevin's eyes like lightning bolts and Leander enjoyed that the root of that fear with himself. He attempted to scurry away like a child but as Leander stalked closer, he stomped on his ankle, snapping it instantly. A shrill of pain rang out and the ferocious Alpha felt like he was on Cloud Nine.

"Please, no!" Kevin screamed, his voice withered down to pure pain and as he begged, Leander snarled even louder.

"Is that what my mother said to you?" Leander demanded, as he looked down at the scum that was sprawled out across the dirt. "Did she beg for her life before you stole it away from her?" His voice transformed into a roar as his vision blurred.

"No," Kevin bit out as his body convulsed in pain. "She took it like the whore she was."

And Leander's self-control vanished.

His body transformed into a midnight beast that he was oh so familiar with. With a blood-lust gaze, the Alpha lunged forward his front paws sinking into Kevin's abdomen. His cries of pain flowed like music into Leander's ears as he viciously began to dig his abdomen, relishing in the torture. When he realised that Kevin was quickly dying from blood loss, he lunged for his throat, snapping it in two as Kevin choked on his own blood. It was enough to sate his beast.

For now.

Turning back around, Leander left Kevin's body out in the freezing conditions and allowed other animals in the forest to feast upon his flesh. As usual, snow began to fall after the temperature plunged but Leander did not mind as he despised any other weather other than the cold. After a few minutes of sprinting, he arrived back at his modest home.

It was small, rectangular and modern with a dark grey exterior and small windows at the front. At the back of the house, it was almost identical although the only difference was that it had floor to ceiling windows splayed across it. Leander strode into his home confidently and unaffected by the bitter wind - he had changed back into his human form a few moments after killing Kevin. Blood smothered the front of his body and it's vibrant red colour dripped down onto his dark oak floor but he did not care.

As he walked upstairs, he noticed his bare walls contrasted his early childhood memories of when his mother covered the walls in frames of him and his father. Leander turned the shower on and stepped in - he had no patience to wait for the water to heat up. Freezing water washed over him as the fresh blood poured down the drain. Overcome with a sense of frustration, Leander remembered that he was 37 years of age, arguably the most powerful Alpha in the world and yet he had no mate.

It seemed like everyone that surrounded him had a mate and although he didn't care for their mates, mostly due to their showing of skin and challenging attitudes, he wanted someone that he could ravish. Someone that would submit to him unconditionally. He remembered the conversations he had with his parents when he was younger when he told them what kind of mate he desired. His mother believed he was being ridiculous and she laughed but his father gave him a nod of approval, something that shut his mother up. That's why his mother is dead. She didn't listen to her mate, she didn't submit to him like she was supposed to but rather she defied him and left, which resulted in her rape and eventual death.

His father was in agony for days and Leander was conflicted; was he angry at his his mother for her defiance and the pain she caused or was he upset because of her death? He still has not come to terms with it, but his possessive and controlling nature was amplified after her death as he was determined to never let anyone touch his mate. Now, he only had one problem.

He had to find her first.

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