*SELENE's PoV*

My mind had drifted into a deep slumber that I did not want to wake up from. There was a huge burn that I felt at the bottom of my neck, like someone had pressed a hot iron rod against my skin. But I had not felt the effect that much with the pleasure that Fang had brought to me. My eyes slowly adjusted as my eyelids fluttered open.

The sound of night calling insects had filled the environment with a faint glow of night lamp filling the insides of the tent.

I moved to sit up, but the bite of cold metal on my wrists brought me back to the reality that had happened a while back. The faint words of Fang saying 'Sweet dreams, wife' resounded in my memory and it evaporated the colour of my skin. Fang had actually seduced me, not just seduced, but had me at his mercy making me want him. It would be false if I said my body still did not remember his touch, and I hated the fact that my resistance had gone so low.

It was probably my cursed wolf who gave in to her cravings. I tried to sit back up, but my hands were tied back to the chain. It was night now, so it had been hours since I was asleep, and the last time Fang had me in chains, he marked me.

Fang marked me!

How could he and how dizzy was I in his touches that I actually let him mark me!

I pulled onto the chains with force as rage filled my body. Was Fang planning to complete the bond by mating against my wishes? Then how different was he to that Liam who Fang had killed out of his fit of rage.

"You are awake. Took you long enough," I heard Fang's voice, and I turned to see him now dressed in baggy clothes as compared to the morning when he looked like some tribal king showing off his fit muscles.

"How dare you do that to me!" I growled as I tugged forcefully on the chains. If I could set free right now, I would tear this man to pieces.

Fang let out a throaty chuckle, "I knew you would be like this when you wake up." He had a glass of water in his hand and he waved it with a finger, pointing out to both the chains that bound me right now, "So the chains are back. Here, have some water, you must be parched with all the panting and those breathy moans." How shameless was he to actually say it out loud like that. It immediately made the colour rise on my face.

I turned my face to the other side, "I don't need that, I am perfectly fine"

Fang leaned closer to speak near my ear that was facing him as I looked at the other side of the bed, "Don't be so shy, my wife"

My head immediately turned around, and I clashed my forehead against his forehead, "I am not your wife. You stay away from me." He rubbed his temple as if it was a mosquito bite. I pulled the chains with all my might and it drew blood from my wrists. "Free me this instance, Fang Warchild" I glared at him.

Fang shrugged innocently, "But you asked me to stay away from you. How can I free you like that?" He held his chin childishly, tapping with his index as if trying to figure out some other way.

"Come here and free the chains!" I shouted at him. "Didn't you have enough already, let me go now."

He had already marked me as his. This was a massive shock for me, and I had to see how to get rid of the mark. If a couple wanted to break the bond and erase the mark in a pack, Alpha performed the ritual. But the ritual can't be done on self, so even if one of them was an Alpha, the couple had to break their bond by the feet of Goddess Luna's tree. Here both of us were Alphas, and I doubted Fang would come there voluntarily.

I was still lucky that fang only placed the mark and did not force the bond onto me. So now I just had to figure out a way to erase the mark, as it wasn't complete yet.

"Enough of what?" Fang questioned me back, "Enough of you? No, I just got you in my life," He took a seat next to me on the bed and I lashed at him with my futile efforts of pulling on the chains. Fang held my hand that was on his side, "Shh, don't hurt yourself too much. How about you try to heal these wounds of yours while I get your paperwork done? If you could do that, I will let you go."

My eyes stared at him in disbelief. He was toying with me. One thing I had come to know about Fang was that he read minds, and he knew how my abilities worked. For my healing to work, I had to be in my werewolf form.

"You promised me you won't put any price," It was wrong to trust him and it was wrong for me to come here in the first place. I could have opted out of the Beta competition and chosen the hard way, but I had to get myself involved in it like a stupid idiot and test my broken luck. My eyes averted from him and my voice came out low, "It is because I only meet people like you in my life that I want to leave this place. People who want to put me in shackles."

There was a heavy silence that followed my words. I turned to see Fang, thinking my words had affected him, but this man was shamelessly drinking the water that he had got for me.

I glared at him, my knuckles almost turning white as my fist clenched. "Have you no heart?" I sneered.

Fang gulped the entire glass and kept it aside. His hand innocently went over his chest, "Me? I do have a heart. Did you not feel it against your chest when I was holding you close to me?" My eyes narrowed at him. He was just another cold-hearted monster who had forcibly marked me. On top of it, he was shamelessly mentioning such vile thoughts. He tilted his head and continued, "Don't tell me you did not feel my heart because I sure felt yours thumping loudly against my chest."

"You are putting up a price again. One which I cannot pay," I hissed at him. He was unabashedly taking me as if he owned me. Just because we were destined to be soulmates did not mean there would be feelings. "You forced me into it, Fang. Do you think I will be your this way? Then you are wrong," I grunted at his face.

Although things would have been worse if Liam had got to me, he would have forcibly bonded, but that did not mean that what Fang did was fine. I needed to evoke this mark.

The smile on Fang's face fell as he looked stone cold in my eyes, gripping my cheeks in his finger, "You will not be mine, Selene, you 'ARE' mine. And this is what you pulled on yourself. Did I not warn you last time," Fang's eyes turned golden as pulled my face closer, "Don't trigger the beast inside me, especially when you won't be able to control it. Don't take my compromising behaviours for granted, Selene. So listen to me when I say things because I say it for your own good."