Reborn As Cursed Alpha's Mate-Chapter 21: We Will Meet Again

The lightning cracked in the background, hitting a distant tree. The loud rumble followed, waking Cassandra up with a shudder.

Something was off, something was wrong.

She crawled towards the window and tried to stare outside but found only darkness. The horses were neighing as if in panic and thunder was rolling in the sky.

Her heart picked up its pace as the door of her carriage creaked open inch by inch. Cassandra’s frightened eyes wandered towards the creaking door as a claw with bony fingers and pointed nails appeared. Before she could shriek she heard Siroos’s voice.

"Don’t dare enter, she is MINE."

The most sinister laugh Cassandra had ever heard rang out as she saw a glowing red-eye before the door was slammed shut by Siroos, wedging himself between the furies and his mate. He had shifted from the stones at lightning pace and arrived near his mate’s carriage.

"What a pretty little thing. We wonder how you will keep that oath, Alpha."

"That’s my problem. Leave. I don’t like being threatened, and I don’t tolerate threateners."

Siroos knew this would get bloody and the way his men had been hypnotised, he wouldn’t be able to save everyone. There were three of them and from what he had seen and heard of them beforehand, they were lightning fast.

Their leader batted her eyes at Siroos. Disgust coiled in his guts as she stepped closer. Her foul breath made his nose wrinkle up. Her sharp nails traced the bare skin of his torso and stopped right above his heart.

Poking the skin there with her index finger she tantalisingly spoke. Her voice rang like hundreds of tiny bells, the weak of hearts would fall into her feet.

"What a fine specimen you are, it will be a shame to chew out that heart of yours. Its beats are so enticing."

His hardened skin pierced from the pressure she applied. Retracting her hand, she licked the blood of her claw with her long forked tongue.

"Keep your claws off me or you might lose them," he threatened, his voice dripping with poison of revulsion.

"Delicious, just like you and your attitude." She found it thrilling how unaffected he was by their presence. While the mortals trembled and froze in their presence, this unique alpha seemed unfazed.

"Be gone," Siroos thundered again and just as the furies had appeared, they disappeared, opening their dark wings. Melting away into the darkened night, their ringing laughter was left behind as their last words rang through the air.

"We will meet again."

The clouds shifted away from the moon, revealing its obscured beauty. The men whose hearts had been frozen from fear regained their senses.

Some breathed out heavily. Ranon hurried to Siroos’s side, and so did Faris. He was standing tall in all his majestic glory with his hands at his hips, protecting the carriage.

"Did they harm you? Or.." Faris’s voice trailed off as his worried eyes flickered towards the closed door.

"No!" Siroos heaved out; his chest tightened from the rage that was surfacing within him. His nostrils enlarged and fists clenched, whitening his knuckles.

"We apologise, Alpha but as soon as I woke up, I was immobilised. I tried to move but failed, the fear had settled in my heart and bones." Ranon apologetically explained, others nodded behind him.

"I know, no explanation needed. They cut through my barrier." Siroos could see how they had invaded through his protective shield, the one he had set up earlier so no creature would attack them.

"Erinyes can’t be held back, they are gods’ executioners," Faris provided his input on them.

"I don’t understand why they intercepted us, they only appear when oaths are not fulfilled," Ranon asked, panic apparent in his voice.

"It’s a warning, I have to uphold my oath. Or everyone will be punished," Siroos had this forlorn look in his eyes, and the swirling thoughts of the woman inside; he one who had been chosen to be his mate.

"Keep guard, I need to see her and tell her the truth. She must prepare for this and accept her fate," he declared with finality while turning around to open the door.

"Wait! Brother, this is not the right time. Let’s get back to the pack and then talk to her. Calm down first," Faris advised, seeing how on the edge his brother seemed. He didn’t want him to take a wrong step and regret it.

"Calm down? How should I do that when my whole life is screwed. You know what’s at stake here. Keep guard and let me make this decision," he seethed out, his golden eyes blazed like fiery pits of melted gold as his overwhelming aura shot out and hit them. Instantly everyone bent their knees and lowered their heads in submission.

Siroos yanked open the carriage door and entered. He needed to speak with her.

Cassandra was sitting up straight, slightly shaken from seeing that clawed hand and someone trying to sneak in. She knew Siroos had prevented the creature from entering the carriage.

"What was that? What’s happening?" Cassandra asked in agitation, the frantic beats of her heart were heard loud and clear by Siroos.

He wished to comfort her, but her earlier comments resurfaced in his mind, and he kept his distance as much as possible in this small space.

The rage consuming him slightly lessened being in her proximity. Although she ignited a different kind of rage in him, the kind which threatened to burn his existence.

Seeing her innocent face and the courage he had gathered to tell her the truth vanished like a wisp of smoke in thin air. She was already scared, the past two days had been nothing but traumatising for her. He couldn’t go on and burden her with the truth that her future had already been dictated, and he had brought her along for selfish reasons.

Even though she had expressed no desire to be his mate, she didn’t deserve the life he was going to thrust her into.

"Nothing you should worry about, sleep now," he ordered in his Alpha tone, forgetting it didn’t work on her.

She narrowed her eyes at him, a scowl overtaking her beautiful features but she held her tongue. He was concerned enough to check up on her and protect her but he surely didn’t know how to talk to a lady.

"I saw something trying to climb in, it..."

She was rudely cut off by his curt tone.

"It didn’t. Sleep, we leave before dawn."

They stared at each other and her scowl deepened at his rudeness.

She opened the carriage window a notch, letting the fresh air in as she turned away from him. Giving him her back, Cassandra closed her eyes and tried to sleep.

Her breathing soon evened out and he knew she had gone to sleep.

The moonlight bathed her back in its glow, the light garment clung to her body. Siroos couldn’t help but greedily stare at what he couldn’t have until the dawn would break and it would be time to head towards their pack territory.

He hoped to spend the rest of the night in peace, without any more surprises.

"Good night, princess," he slowly whispered, sliding down a bit and struggling with the craving to not touch her.

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