The Alpha's Fated Mate Is an Outcast-Chapter 19

Hesitantly, Alexis stood up from the floor and moved over to him to stand in front of him. Should she apologize for stepping out of line? Before she could even come to a decision, her wrist was grasped, and she was pulled down to sit on his lap.

Keelion leaned in close, discreetly inhaling her intoxicating scent that only he could pick up. It drove him unhealthily out of his mind, in a way he couldn’t control.

A growl burned the back of his throat, and his fingers itched to find their way into her soft, light brown, golden curls, much softer than they looked. And he didn’t deprive himself, grasping and forcing her face closer to his, his lips hovering over hers, while he tried controlling himself from claiming every puff of short hot breaths fleeing from her.

Her throat dipped in a swallow, and her tongue flicked out to lick across her slightly wounded bottom lip, the place he’d seen Augustus touch—something he had no right to put his hands on, not even if it was a brief touch.

"Keelion—"

"Let’s see just how much I enjoy it."

"Wha—"

He took her mouth with his, and it was a demanding kiss. Alexis’s hands clenched tightly onto his shoulders, almost as if she was afraid she would fall off him if she didn’t hold tightly onto him.

His free hand grasped her hip and he parted her lips with his while his fingers ran deeper into her hair. Tongue tasted her mouth—the sweetness of the food she just ate and he deepened the kiss, hand gripping tighter on her hip firmly to prevent her from any escape.

Their breaths mingled, and Alexis’ eyes squeezed shut. The scent of her heat choked him, grip on her hair growing tighter as he tilted her head back, giving him access to her neck.

"K-keelion...wait..."

She breathed out hot breaths, her face burning red. It had been easier to control her heat when she wasn’t around him, but the second he got his hand on her or even came a tad close to her, it was always as if every sense of control she had was stolen.

Keelion’s lips moved down her neck, her body shuddering in his hold. His teeth grazed the mating mark, a growl sounding at the back of his throat, and he bit into her shoulder, controlling himself from re-marking her.

The taste of her blood spread on his tongue and she let out a gasp, whimpering at the release that tightened at her lower belly, like nothing she’d ever felt before.

Her forehead dropped against his shoulder, and she kept inhaling a good amount of air into her lungs.

"Why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?" he questioned.

"You can’t just touch me," she said firmly, proceeding to get off him, but he held her down by the hip right where he wanted her.

He narrowed his eyes. "Care you to elaborate?"

"You have a substitute mate."

"And?" He tilted his head at her. "What does that have to do with you?"

"It doesn’t feel great!" She snapped before she could think and quickly slapped a hand over her mouth. But that didn’t stop her from boldly saying the words that had been bothering her since she first laid eyes on Althea. "Don’t touch me if you’re going to keep her stil. It’s temporary right...?"

He gaped at her. "You little—"

"Then don’t since it is. You probably kiss her too, so don’t do that to me. My heat will stop in a little while, I-I can handle it."

A puff of dry chuckle.

"You sure are bold."

Black pooled over the blue of his eyes.

"What? You’ll go with any other man since it’s temporary? Augustus? is it?"

"What are you talking about?" She blinked at him, confused. "Sir Augustus—"

"Temporary, yes, but you’re my mate, mine."

"I don’t belong to you if you belong to someone else."

For fucking sake. The man pulled a look of shock on his face. She made him feel like a monster.

Keelion’s black eyes turned deadly, and he licked the taint of blood off his lips. "Keep your body to yourself, keep your hands to yourself, because the next person that touches you, Alexis, I’ll make you watch while I chop their fingers off."

She shot her head up to stare at him with horror. So close, he could glimpse the emerald flecks in her light brown eyes.

His fingers grasped her chin, gaze questioning. "Do you understand me, Alexis?"

She nodded slowly at first.

"You better do." He leaned in closer, breath tickling the side of her ear. "Because I really will make you watch."

She rapidly nodded and quickly got off him as soon as his hands came off her.

"If you’re done eating, you may go, but if not, you—"

"I’ll go now! I want to sleep." She turned before he could speak, shutting the door and pressing her back against it.

Her chest rose and fell in heavy breathing, and her fingers slowly reached to touch her bottom lip.

He’s crazy! He’s insane!!

A sharp breath fled her nose, and she hurried off to the room next door, stepping in and shutting the door behind her. Alexis breathed in softly and puttered towards the bed, getting under the covers and pulling it all the way over herself as if she were shivering from a cold.

Sereia appeared out of nowhere, sitting on the bed next to her to stare at her with curiosity.

"Kid, you okay?"

Alexis glanced at her. "I am. It’s just... he’s insane."

"Our mate? Keelion Fane."

"He’s frightening. I-I thought I was going to suffocate to death!" she mumbled.

Sereia blinked and breathed out softly. "No wonder your heart was racing like that. What happened? What did you do?’

"Nothing! He’s just a crazy man. He said he would chop someone’s hand off and he would make me watch."

Reia furrowed her face. "Is this about Augustus?"

Alexis curled on the bed. "I knew that look was... You abandoned me!"

"No, I just left for a while to sleep. Recuperate." Reia added, "Kid, we have to tread carefully. Keelion Fane is a complicated man, but we are safest with him. I don’t know how we are going to cope if we end up out there. Not even your father wants you. I don’t want us to die, so let’s tread wisely for now and first of all find a way to make sure Keelion doesn’t eventually get rid of us. And that bitch, we need to be careful about her—something about her ticks me off in the wrong way. She’s going to be a problem."

Alexis’s teeth dug into her bottom lip, and curled up around her, her fur warm and soft.

Sereia purred. "If Keelion Fane is going to use us, we’ll make use of him as well."