THE ALPHA CHOICE 3

Hazel's POV 

By the time I got home, it seemed the news of my selection had already reached my family before I did. My mother jumped on me and grabbed me into a big hug as soon I walked through the entrance door of our house. She was all smiles and grinning from ear to ear.

It had been years since she had hugged me and I cringed to see her act this way towards me only because I had won the Selection. My father was also grinning and smiling widely behind her as though he had just hit the jackpot.

Well, literally, he had.

"Hazel! I knew you could do it?" Harriet pulled me in a hug after my mother, her eyes bright and beaming with joy. "You do look exactly like me. He definitely wouldn't be able to resist your beauty."

"What else did he tell you?" My mother asked, taking my hand into hers and waiting eagerly for the news.

"Nothing much." I shrugged. "Only that he would like to see me in his chamber at the castle tomorrow."

"Oh, the merciful gods!" My mother shrieked in joy. "It's happening! It's happening! The Alpha wants you to take in immediately!"

I frowned, not able to comprehend a word she was saying.

"The Alpha is going to bed you tomorrow, my dearest." My mother added for clarity as if she could sense my confusion.

My eyes flew open and I stood, frozen and shocked. The Alpha would be making love to me tomorrow at his chamber? How could I not know that this was the reason he invited me to his chamber tomorrow?

"B…but, mother." I stuttered. "I am not ready for this." I was freaking out inside. I had never had sex before nor allowed any man to touch me in my entire life. Talk more of imagining the Alpha lay me.

"Hazel is right, mother." Harriet mirrored my panicked state, her tone sharp and harsh. "She cannot be the one whom the Alpha should bed. It has to be me. Me!"

"Don't worry, girls. Surely, you didn't think your father and I hadn't planned this properly, did you?" Mother chuckled lightly and in a deceptive manner as she shook her head at us. She dipped her hand into the pocket of her dress and produced a small potion bottle. She raised it up so we could have a proper view of it.

"This is a sleeping potion, Hazel. You are going to put it in his drink tomorrow night so that he wouldn't be able to bed you. When Harriet recovers in a few days time, she will take her place again and the Alpha would never notice any foul play."

"Woah! Mother! You are a genius!" Harriet's eyes danced and she applauded my mother while I stood still, my eyes locked to the potion bottle as fear gripped me.

"What if I get caught?" I couldn't hold back the question. My mother reached for my hair and smoothened it gently. Even with her show of affection, I did not feel any energy of motherly love from her. It was all a fake.

"You will not get caught, my dearest. Do this for your family, okay? You already know about the case of our bankruptcy. We need this badly. Do you understand?"

I sighed and nodded, my head downcast. I did not have a choice but to agree. I had never had a choice before.

"Yes, mother."

"Good." She held me by the hand again. "I made chicken parmesan and veggies for dinner. Your favorite."

When was the last time my mother ever prepared my favorite dish for me?

Nevertheless, I smiled sheepishly and let my mother lead me to the room. I wished that this moment was genuine and not because I did something that favored Harriet once again.

......

It was the night I was to meet up with Alpha Kain at the castle and more than ever, I was very nervous and wished to run away if I could. But I could never. If I jeopardized this, my family would never forgive me. Most especially Harriet.

At exactly 9pm, the guards came to pick me from our house and to the castle. I was dressed in a simple ankle length, floral gown with my hair curled and hanging over my shoulders. I was taken to his chamber and left alone to wait for the Alpha. It was a big, massive bedroom with tall closets, expensive furniture and a large king sized bed. As I stood and waited for him, my hands shook nervously and turned sweaty. There was an unopened bottle of fine burgundy wine on the table and I felt for the small potion bottle that was hidden inside the cleavage of my dress. I had never been more scared in my entire life and for that moment, my fear of getting caught surpassed my fear of getting laid by the Alpha.

Cautiously, I tiptoed to the bottle of wine and quickly opened it. I poured the wine into two wine glasses on the same tray and quickly diluted the potion into one. In a jiffy, I dumped the small bottle into my purse, just in time for the door to be gently pushed open and the frame of Alpha Kain walking into the room. I was startled and almost jumped out of my skin.

My heart did a flip as my eyes met with his. It felt undeserving for me to get laid by someone as high and mighty, plus devilishly good looking as Alpha Kain.

"Did I startle you?" His voice was deep and rich and his gaze was stern as he looked at me, making me feel like a prey about to be devoured by a predator.

"N…no." I stammered and looked down at my feet. His footsteps advanced towards me and my heart raced faster the closer he came. He stopped in front of me, barely an inch away, such that I could smell his expensive earthy, sandalwood cologne. I had never felt this inferior before anyone in my entire life.

He reached for my chin with his hand and gently raised my head to look at him. My eyes met with his violet eyes that seemed to search through mine.

"You are probably wondering why I chose you out of the other girls."

I gulped, waiting. Curious and nervous. His thumb stroked my chin slowly and I felt an electrifying feeling spark through my body.

"It was because you looked more…innocent. More naive. Soft. Like a delicate, unplucked flower." His other hand pushed a loose strand of hair behind my ear.

"Are you afraid?" He asked me and I shook my head, lying.

"Good." He leaned his head closer and brought his lips nearer to mine. My heart thumped so fast, I was afraid it would jump out of my mouth. He was about to kiss me. I could feel it. The realization made my heart flutter and caused a kind of unfamiliar heat in-between my thighs.

"You look afraid." He stopped when his lips were barely an inch away from mine. "Have you never done this before?"

I gulped, embarrassed and red in the face. "No."

"Really?" He asked me, his fingers trailing slowly and intentionally down to my waist. He was making me feel…things. The kind of feeling I had never felt before.

What was I doing? I should be handing the glass of wine to him now. Not letting him touch me this way. Why was I even enjoying this instead of obeying my family?

"Tell me a secret. Have you ever touched yourself before?" He whispered into my ear, his breath warm and mesmerizing.

I did not understand his question.

"H…how?" I asked, whispering back.

"Like this." His hand traveled slowly down my waist, stopping directly at the tight space in-between my legs. My legs screamed fire as he touched me there and my body yearned for more of him. For all of him.

"I…" I stuttered again and he hushed me quiet as soon as I opened my mouth to speak.

"Shhh. Don't talk. Just feel."

I nodded and followed his lead as he slowly led me to the bed, laying me down with his large frame towering over me. He planted a kiss on my lips and I felt my breath almost leave me as he did that. It was my first kiss and I loved the feeling.

Slowly, he undressed me, leaving me only to my undies. I bit my lips subconsciously, admiring his muscular and fit body as he took off his own shirt. He slid in-between my legs and kissed me again, his eyes looking steadily into mine, hungry and aflame with passion.

"Let me take you to heaven." He whispered to me and continued to kiss me as he touched my body in all of the places I had never felt before. Down the curves of my body, the molds of my breasts and the valley in-between my legs. And as he thrusted and surged his hardness into me, I felt my head in the skies at the painful, yet orgasmic feeling.

He had kept to his words. I was in heaven.

But little did I know that this heaven was the beginning of my hell.