Chapter 2

I wake up still tied to the back of the pure white wolf. I then realize that sent things are most likely going to kill me. In remembering that. I start to struggle and try to get off the werewolf's back. I then notice 2 other werewolves one is in human form the other is still in wolf form just watching me. I then remember my knife in my shoe. I go to reach for it. But I'm having to stretch to reach it. Right before I reach it. Its grabbed from my boot by the wolf. Scaring me by his teeth. The wolf I'm on notices me flinch and I hear him whine. Then I look to the other wolf who's now looking at me with my knife still in his mouth. Then I look towards the other werewolf in human form.

"I'm sorry about your predicament. But I assure you that we mean no harm."

"Pssh whatever that's what they all say right before they plan to kill me. This time you've caught me tho. So just get it over with already!"

"We're not going to kill you. Calm down, human!"

When he raised his voice at me. The wolf I'm tied to growls and the one who yelled at me visibly shakes and says sorry alpha

"Oh god so I'm on the alphas back? Is he the one going to kill me?"

The alpha wolf I'm tied to whimpers. And shifts on the bed a bit causing me to fall face first on the bed. And I'm still tied to I can't breathe.

The wolf suddenly whines and stands up and hops off the bed with me on his back. He then looks at the other wolf in human form and probably told him something.

Suddenly he nods and grabs my knife from the wolf's mouth. And starts towards me.

"No! Please don't" I scream and he winces at my scream. But continues and next thing I know is my ropes are being cut off."

I try to get up and try to run. But the white wolf puts his paw that's almost larger than my whole back. Causing me to stay down.

"Like I said, Layla. I'm sorry about your predicament. And I wish we had time to tell you what's going on. But this is our last chance."

"Last chance at what? What's going on!"

"You my lady. Are the alphas mate."

"There's no way. I have been running from your kind. Plus vampires. And none of them had shown me mercy and I couldn't either. I've killed 4 werewolves and 2 vampires. I can't be his mate. Not when your kind wants me dead as well. Where's the proof? How will I know this isn't some trap to make me happy. Then when I'm vulnerable you'll rip my throat out."

"Look our alpha has gone too long without a mate and without a mate he'll eventually die. He's stuck in his wolf form that's the 1st sign of him losing the human part of him. We need to try this."

The pure white wolf whines then nudges me with his snout.

"You guys can't expect me to believe this can you?"

"Layla to tell if he's your mate you can pet his head and you'll feel shocks. If you feel the shocks I need you to say I Layla May Wolf accept Bentley Alexander Carter as my mate."

The white wolf in question I now know as Bentley growls the man. But seems to think better and stops.

I do as told, still thinking this is a hoax of some sort. But as I touch his head I feel such intense sparks that it could be mistaken as being electrocuted.

I imminently take my hand away. But the white wolf pushes his head into my hand again.

I decide to play their game.

I Layla May Wolf accept Bentley Alexander Carter as my mate.

As soon as I finish my sentence. The alphas bones start cracking. I turn around knowing what that sound means and I'd rather not meet him for the 1st time in his birthday suit.

After awhile of silence and clothes being put on just feet from me. He speaks.

"Layla you know my name but turn around so you know the face to my name."

Hearing him speak sends shivers of excitement throughout my whole body.

I turn around and almost choke at how hot he is.

He's got the nicest jawline I've ever seen with just the right amount of stubble and his hair is dark brown almost black but seeing it makes me want to run my fingers through it. Then his eyes. His eyes are deep ocean blue with gold pigment around the pupil. I'm so lost in his handsomeness that I totally don't hear him talking until he touches my hand taking me out of my daze.

"H-ey w-hat did you say?"

"I said it's nice to meet you Layla. I'm sorry my beta made you accept me like that. But he was right I almost was a goner."

"I-I'm sorry. That m-must have been terrifying."

"I'm happy now that I have you. But if you need your space I'll gladly give it to you."

"I-I don't know what's going on. Why me?" I say starting to hyperventilate.

"Layla" he says grabbing my shoulders.

"Layla the mate bond is going to be very strong and confusing with you especially since you're human. But take your time. Take all this at your pace. Do not let me do anything you don't want. My wolf Raphael agrees that we'll take this at your pace and your pace only."

"Your parents would want me to treat you the best way possible."

"You knew my parents?"

"You don't remember?"

"Remember what?"

"We used to be friends a long time ago."

I'm now so confused. And I know he sees it because he wipes his hands across his face and whisper-yells "shit".

"Your parent's never wanted you to find this part out about your family. But they never anticipated you being My mate. My dad was a friend of your parents. We actually knew each other as kids but my father made me start training to be an Alpha. But when we heard of your parents death 2 years ago. We sent every wolf after you to ensure your safety And especially to bring you here. But some wolves wanted other things with you we don't know what. But the vampires killed your parents due to a rare gift they had. They could ignore any supernatural charm. And being born what is now called a charm denyer is very rare and dangerous. Any supernatural being who feasts on your flesh will gain the powers you have if you have any, not all of your kind which is still human so you know. But not all will gain powers. Your kind could also watch a supernatural being do something and they could mimic it. It's something you all have in common. Your father watched my dad turn into a wolf before he even knew my dad was a werewolf. But your dad turned into a wolf shortly after my dad saw him watching him. It's law to kill or somehow make a human forget they saw a werewolf. My dad was going to do it. But then he saw your father turning into a wolf. The only issue though is that it is a mimic ability so his wolf looked just like my dad's wolf."

"So why was my family murdered for their ability to be like you guys?"

"There is a legion that says something about humans gaining supernatural abilities. They don't stop at werewolf abilities. They can have vampire abilities; they can have witch abilities. They can have any supernatural ability upon seeing a supernatural."

"Umm okay why haven't I been able to change into a wolf then? I know they exist and have basically seen one form from a human. I'm not like my parents are I?"

"Layla. The Legend isn't a legend anymore it's now a prophecy. You are the last part of this prophecy. You are the way to either eliminate one race or the other or you can unite them all. If the vampires get you they want to use your powers to kill us and anything in their way. We want to protect you and teach you about your abilities since we know most about them. But now that we found out that you are my mate. You are in more danger. I am the strongest alpha out there with the biggest wolf. And with you I am even stronger."

"Look Bentley this wolf man thing isn't new to me. I've been living in fear of being caught for 2 years now. But now that I'm caught I'm told that I'm basically one of you. Just better? No i can't do this i just want a normal-- " i didn't get to finish my sentence in front of him but as my heart was racing with adrenaline from back talking an alpha werewolf who could kill me in 2 seconds if he wanted.

"Life" I say then look around to find myself outside of a giant mansion in the middle of the woods. This must be where I just was but I'm now outside?

The door to the house suddenly bursts open scaring the shit out of me and out of habit I find myself looking towards the next tree as his eyes land on me. But instead of walking I find myself suddenly in the tree. But I didn't have any balance so I fell. I started screaming like a little girl. But I am suddenly surrounded by fur as a white wolf jumped catching me about 20 feet in the air. We both land with a thud. He instantly starts to turn back so I look towards the mansion. But as I do I suddenly find myself on the roof.

"Ugh What the fuck! Make it stop!"

I suddenly hear Bentley's voice and a few others tell me to close my eyes so I did as told.

"Okay now what I'm on the roof of a mansion and I have no sight and not the best footing." As soon as I finish my sentence a shingle from the roof gives way causing me to fall off the ledge I'm on. I hear screams to not open my eyes. So I don't; hoping that I'll somehow be okay.

I suddenly feel myself surrounded by fur again and the thud of us hitting the ground. And a panicked voice telling me not to open my eyes until told it's okay.

I feel like I am being stared at by 100s of people.

"God I feel like such a freak I say out loud."

I have an idea. Is a dreaded sentence I hear from one of the were-things that helped capture me.

"Oh god the werewolf has an idea. Someone kill me now to get it over with." I hear him gasp and I can imagine him putting his hand over his heart as if he's hurt by that pfft, Yeah he'll get over it. He's probably only had a small scratch his whole life and it probably healed in 3 seconds.

I suddenly feel something go around my neck and someone holding the other end of some rope.

Then it hits me. This wolf, a dog just put a leash on me. A human.

"Ohh hell no!" I start to freak out but he tells me to trust him unless I want to teleport some random place I look again. I then feel a cloth wrapped around my eyes and him again telling me to trust him.

"Ugh how I wish I could teleport inside an active volcano right now." I say through a grunt only to feel Bentley's hands tighten on me... wait when did he change back into a human?

I suddenly came to realize something.

"Bentley?" I ask with an annoyed voice.

"Yes Layla?"

"You do have clothes on right?"

"Umm lets just say I do to make things easier." He says with a nervous voice.

I then lifted my foot and slightly kicked that area only to find no clothing and a long something that seemed a bit too long but knowing what it was made me blush.

He howls in pain, literally.

"I told you it'd be easier not knowing darling." He says with love and still some pain laced in his voice.

"Now you're going to walk up 4 steps to the front porch. Then I'll guide you to my room which is the best place to open your eyes. I have a black curtain blocking out all light. I'll shut my door so you don't start teleporting all over the house."

I walk up the steps with no trouble and find myself inside his house once again. I then am led to another room that is colder than the rest of the house. Probably his room due to him acting like a typical human teenager and blocking out all sun from his life.

I'm told I can open my eyes. So I do.

Once I open them I find myself across the room and smack face first into the wall. Then I look at his bed and find myself sitting on it. I start to say hey I'm getting the hang of it but I look towards the ceiling and find myself falling once again.

I find myself being caught by two very strong arms. I look at them and am amazed at how big and rock hard they are. I then look at his face for the 2nd time since meeting him. And I am awestruck at how perfect he is. And werewolves are all perfect. But this man is more perfect than perfect. He is a god.

As I think that I see him have amusement on his face.

"What?"

"Oh nothing. It's just umm when werewolf meets their mate they can both hear each other's thoughts. But since you are human you can't hear my thoughts. I hear everything you are thinking of me right now."

"Oh, okay. Umm. Well then that's awkward. Umm. What are you thinking of me."

"I'm thinking how unfair it is that I've got my clothes off and you don't."

To not be awkward I give him a snared remark as he puts me down and goes a few feet away.

"Umm. I'm not the one who ripped out of their clothes. And I'm not ready to umm. Go there yet with a relationship if that's what you're saying. I've been running from the supernatural for so long now with so many close calls and I'm not sure you're not gonna change your mind and kill me."

He suddenly looks very upset by my words. Then he gets this mischievous grin on his face and starts stalking towards me.

I can't help the fear he gives me. I think he's trying to look sexy or something. But I've had wolves look at me the same way then turn around and try to kill me. I've killed 3 wolves each with me barely escaping with my life.

His face makes a horrified expression as I forget he can hear my thoughts.

I then feel like I've done something wrong. And if I know anything about wolves or werewolves you be very submissive towards an angry wolf, especially an alpha, so the chances of them killing you are lower.

I lean against the wall and slide down and curl up into a ball on the floor. Trying to get myself to stop an anxiety attack from occurring. I don't usually get anxiety attacks unless I kill something to defend myself.

Then he speaks

"Layla don't submit to me."

"Why?" I squeak out.

"Because you are the same rank as I am. And I will not have you being afraid of me. I want to make you feel love. And I want to make you feel loved by all 200 pack members here. Which by the way are dying to meet you."

"Two hundred?! And why me? I'm no one. I'm a mistake in evolution. And now I'm being hunted for it. I have nothing. They slaughtered my family, not just my parents. Anyone related to me disappeared. And now I know where. I didn't try to help them. I just ran and didn't look back." I sob.

"My anxiety attack is on the verge of happening." I whisper to him

I suddenly hear his bones cracking and reforming into his wolf.

I go to look up but he lays his head on mine causing me to look back down under the weight. I am sitting on the floor on the verge of an anxiety attack and he's not going to let me even look at him.

My breathing suddenly becomes ragged and I can't catch my breath.

He suddenly grabs me by biting down on my skinny waist a little bit. But not enough to even start to pierce my skin. He's so careful with me. Like I am some beautiful fragile thing he doesn't want to break. He hops up on his huge as fuck bed. And puts me in the middle while he goes and lays down at the headboard. He then looks at me and then to his side. Like he wants me to lay down on him and use him as a pillow.

"No, I uhh. I'm fine thank you though Bentley."

He suddenly got a pouting look on his face. And I hear his voice in my head for the first time due to him opening some link or something.

"Either you lay on me or I'll lay on you!" He says with a half serious half daring tone.

"Umm. Why? I'm fine right here I'll just pull the blanket up and wish myself away."

As soon as I say that he is up in a flash blocking me from getting the blanket.

"Ugh I'm cold let me get the blanket you stupid furry wolf-man!"

I hear his voice in my head again.

"That's right I'm furry. Meaning I'm warm. And I'm a werewolf so I'm naturally warm. Humans are average 98° while we are average 105°."

"Damn that's hot... wait not like that. Well yes like that. Well.. Ugh." I say and plop on the bed right before him on purpose so I don't lay on him.

I then feel his teeth on my wrist. And suddenly he's pulling me by my wrist with his wolfie mouth. And a stupid wolfie grin.

"Ugh your face reminds me of a toddler getting his way from his mom and he now has that special toy that every little boy wants."

I suddenly hear his bones start to crack.

"Umm hello. Wolfie you are not going back into your human form. I told you I didn't want to lay on you. Because it's my weakness. My friend used to have a german shepherd that let me sleep on him and it was so comfortable and I would sleep so well that her parents had to pry me off of him. Please don't take my wolfie from me."

"Wait, did I say that? Sorry Bentley I'm so tired. I've slept about 1 to 2 hours every night for the past 5 months. If i sleep now you won't be able to get up and do whatever you werewolves do" I say this and start to get up.

He suddenly growls at me and scoots me closer to him and snuggles his head to my collarbone area.

"Did you just growl at me?" I say and try to get up to look at him but his giant wolf paw goes to my back and pushes me down causing me to make a hmph sound.

He then speaks to me again. Which is getting really creepy.

"If I can't take your wolfie away. You can't take my human away." He all but growls in my mind.

"Ugh fine. You'll regret it though. I snore in my sleep."

"You think that's bad. I find things to eat in my sleep." He says in my mind and looks at me with a shit eating grin.

"Welp. Well I'm off the menu. And remember. I can teleport. And get to the top of a tall tree within 10 seconds. So try to eat me and you'll have a human to convince to come back."

He growls and shifts me so I'm laying on his belly and all his paws are on my back. He then licks my collarbone.

"I want to mark you so bad." He says in my mind.

"What's that mean? And will it hurt?"

"Umm we can talk about it tomorrow. I'm so comfortable with my mate snuggling with me. That I could be a werebear and hibernate."

"Those are real too? Oh god are mermaids and unicorns real too!?"

"I'll tell you everything tomorrow. Now go to sleep before I decide to change back into my human form and make you sleep with me like that."

"Umm. This is fine. I'll sleep now. But what happens if I have to pee in the middle of the night. What if I teleport into a tree again and you aren't there to save me?"

He then moves his head up with his snout right in my face and stares in my eyes and speaks through my mind.

"Layla. The minute you move out of my grasps I'll be awake. I'll be on guard for every possible threat to you. As long as you are with me. You are no longer in danger. It's my job to keep you safe and if anyone or thing puts you in harm's way. They'll meet my chompers." He says with a big wolf yawn showing off his needle sharp teeth.

"Okay big tough cujo. I believe you. But you better live up to that promise. I want to go back to school."

"Yes Layla. I forgot to tell you. You'll be going back to school tomorrow. Although you missed the 1st day. But I know the principle due to me going there and being a senior also. He's human but knows of our kind due to him seeing me. But he's sworn to not tell anyone so he's left alive and well. Now goodnight Layla."

"Goodnight Bentley." Only response I get is him holding me tighter and growling in a happy tired tune."

The next morning

I wake up not entirely remembering where I am. But the first thing I notice when I wake up. Is the giant fur coat I have on top of me. Yes the giant werewolf is bigger than a horse. Is on top of me sleeping. Weirdly I'm not being crushed by his weight but I can't move an inch out from underneath him.

I start to wiggle out from underneath the beast. But I stopped when he started to wake up.

"Can you get your huge self off of me? I need to pee."

Bentley just lifts his head in his wolf form and just looks at me. Then he shakes his head at me and snorts.

"What's so funny? You ass? Let me up!"

Bentley then just looks at me and does this weird wolf grin/smile and lays his giant wolf head on my chest which ends with his snout on my chin.

"Ugh you're so lucky you're an alpha and somehow my mate. But if you'd done this to me before everything happened. I would grab your balls and rip them off."

He gets up so fast in his wolf form and goes out through a door that has a smaller door cut in it allowing someone in wolf form access outside and inside.

I am about to get up but then Bentley comes rushing through the door still putting his pants on telling me to wait. That he doesn't want me to teleport and get hurt.

"If you didn't want me hurt, why the hell did you sleep with your whole wolfie body on me last night. I could have been hurt then?"

"Because you would have gotten cold. And I had no blankets so best thing to use as a blanket was your big cuddly bad wolf."

"Big cuddly bad wolf? That's a new one? How could you be cuddly and bad?"

"Don't tempt me kitty cat?"

"You've already started on the pet names?"

"Ooh this big bad cuddly wolf has so many other names he could call you. Like-"

I'm about to reply when one of the Werewolves who helped capture me runs in.

"Alpha vampires at the south border. They are demanding Layla's presence and yours. They claim to be on our side."

"Well looks like we're going pee and seeing some vampires." He says turning to me.

"We're going?"

He suddenly shifts into his wolf and rips through his clothes. And without warning he leans down on the ground asking me to jump on.

I get on and he starts running towards. A house a good acre and a half away he then runs so fast that I cant even see because everything is a blur. Then we are suddenly su the bathroom door.

He then slants his body down causing me to slide off.

I turn around to see him turn around and lay down like a puppy.

"Good wolfie, now keep guard while I use the bathroom."

He then jumps up and is next to me in an instant. Then he speaks in my mind. And stalks me walking around me in circles nipping at the loose parts of my clothes.

"Tease me and I'll mark you and mate you right here right now. With your 100% approval of course. But you cross the line first and continue teasing me. I'll take that as an approval to mark and mate you and make you fully mine." He says and gets on his wolf haunches and puts his paws on my shoulders.

"Be careful my little mate. And don't take to long in the bathroom. We have vampires to meet. And don't be afraid of therm. Or I'll have to kill them for scaring my mate."

I turn and run to the bathroom. Slamming the door shut. His words send exciting shivers all over my body. This stupid mate bond thing is going to be the end of me. I then hear his wolfie chuckle.