Mated to A Rival Alpha-Chapter 115: Bleed Me A River, Will You?

[JIHOON]

"The alpha will see you now," the warrior said to Jihoon who could feel the heat burning through his head. He had come from Calindra a little too early and now, he had been burning in the sun like he was some dried meat. But at least his patience had paid, right?

’Finally,’ Jihoon said to himself as he walked his horse through the gates. He felt bad for the poor animal and maybe that was why he looked at the warriors, before looking at his animal, as if to ask them silently if they could care for it.

"Could you—"

"The alpha is waiting for you," the warrior said to Jihoon who just sighed. He knew that Dalrae wanted him so much she would offer to kill him any time of the day, and even then, he had managed to walk himself into a death trap.

The woman who ran the strongest pack could easily tell her people to ruin his pretty face and they would shamelessly do it without any regrets and that was the sudden beauty of Incayon.

As Jihoon walked through the pack to the pack house, he had noticed how lonely it felt in here. There was a different air, one so strange and unusual that he could have sworn that the pack was missing Rania.

But then again, weren’t they the ones who had been against her all this time?

Weren’t they the ones who had pushed her to the cliff without a care in the world? They could have chosen to trust her to believe in her and even then, they had done the opposite. If they were lonely then that shit was on them.

’Why the fuck did I just think that?’ Jihon asked when he reached the entrance to the alpha’s office. He wasn’t sure how this would go, but he wouldn’t put it past a few broken bones, most which would be his and never hers.

She was a fighter and Rania’s best warrior, something that gave her an obvious advantage over Jihoon. Oh but he was worried that she would snap his neck before he wouldn’t even let out a word.

For a moment, he contemplated going back, but then he had waited for seven hours, who knew if there was ever a chance that he would ever be able to see her again.

"Please wait here," the warrior who had brought Jihoon said to him, as he pointed to the empty seats at the door of the alpha’s office.

Getting to Dalrae was really proving harder than seeing the werewolf king himself, but he had to be patient. He had come a long way and endured harsh conditions, so he would be patient with her, not that she cared anyway.

"I’m busy. You have five minutes," Alpha Dalrae said to Jihoon, an hour later after he had waited outside her office for him. He knew she was torturing him and daring him to leave, but he had come too far to give up now.

Then again, sometimes, giving up was the easiest option.

"How have you been, Dalrae," Jihoon asked and the woman before him just raised her head to check whether the man before her was insane or had grown stupid in the past two months. Surely Jihoon couldn’t be that dense, right?

"I have a pack to run and your presence here is making my pack unstable. You have four minutes left. If you want to use that to ask me how I’m doing, then be my guest. Until then, I’ll go back to work, sit tight,’’ Alpha Dalrae said to Jihoon who was staring at her with an open mouth.

She had changed a lot, but then pain did do that to people.

Betrayal did make life a tad bit harder especially if she was always going to see the damned alpha this close to her. She hated him, she despised him, she wanted him dead and she would do it, if anything ever happened to Rania. She would take his life in the worst possible ways.

"It’s about Rani—" Jihoon began and Dalrae threw her knife at him, intentionally slicing a part of Jihoon’s ear, before the knife landed on the wall.

It had taken Jihon by shock, given he hadn’t even seen the woman with a knife in the first place, but then she was always prepared.

Jihoon stared at Dalrae, the anger in her eyes, the rage that was running in her eyes like she was going to make him pay for even calling out her sister’s name. She had promised to make sure this man never mentioned the name Rania, and as Jihoon clutched his bleeding ear, he knew.

He knew how hard it had to have been for Dalrae to be alone here without Rani. He knew that he had caused her a lot of pain, but then wasn’t Rania the first one to take someone away from him?

Why was he suddenly the villain for getting justice for the woman he had been mated to?

"Keep her name out of your mouth. The next knife will go through your head, trust me. I’m not in the mood to smile at you after all the shit she fucking went through because of you," Dalrae warned and Jihoon gulped loudly, clearly not sure if coming here was a good idea.

He should have just stayed in Calindra, because he had never felt so cornered like he was right now, and it wasn’t a good feeling, really. It was making him feel like he had walked right into a trap that was set for him.

"She’s in danger, Dalrae," Jihoon said, careful not to mention Rania’s name. He didn’t want to start a pack war, given he was the one who had come to see Dalrae and that too, in her territory. This was on him, and not on anyone else.

"Don’t you think I know that? Your very existence is a danger to her. You are the danger my sister has had to deal with from the very beginning, so don’t come here feeling like a saint just because you finally realize the pain you caused her.

"If you came here to state the obvious, you have done your part. Now leave. Some of us have actual packs to run to, keep us from burning other packs because of the stupid decision the realm made. I wouldn’t mind making an example of you though," Dalrae warned darkly.

Lim Dalrae was playing with one blade before her, like she was already thinking of where she was going to throw it again. Maybe his heart would be the easiest spot, but then that would definitely be her stealing Rania’s vengeance.

She couldn’t do that to Rani. Maybe she could bind him, and lock him up, then get Han Seong to erase his memory off everyone in Incayon and stop them from even thinking that Jihoon ever walked into their home.

Oh but the temptation was so dire, but she had to be the alpha of this dumb thankless pack that cared only about their lives more than that of the woman who had sacrificed everything for them.

Someday, Dalrae would avenge Rania and she would enjoy breaking their traitorous necks.

"She’s trapped in a hunter’s trap, Dalrae," Jihoon said and Dalrae felt her heart break once again.

"Then it must really be a good day for you. I have no time for you. Leave. Your four minutes are done and never come back here. I won’t be as kind, if you ever do."