Voices. I woke up to hushed voices. I blinked sleepily and opened my eyes. William snuggled closer into my chest as I lay on my side with my hand around him.

"She's awake now." A voice said urgently and I turned to see Violet wearing a short blue silk robe. Her blonde hair left to fall around her shoulders.

"She's still tired." Demetri said trying to shoo Violet. "So go and let her go back to sleep."

I sat up slowly trying not to wake William.

"Good morning." I said softly rubbing sleep from my eyes.

"Morning," Violet chirped happily running over to the bed, "So the twins and I are going swimming in the pool, wanna come?" She asked.

"Right now?" I asked and she nodded.

"Well Yea, we'll be in all day. We're using the inside pool because its so cold outside." She said.

"I'll come. Just not right now. After William wakes up." I Said "Can I take him with me?"

"course you can." She replied "I'll just leave you guys now." She said getting up.

"No, don't leave me," I said not wanting to be alone with Demetri. Violet looked at me strangely so I rushed an explanation. "I don't want to get lost."

"Demetri will take you silly." She said laughing oblivious to my reason.

"Yes Jessabell. I will take you." Demetri said and I frowned.

"Later laters." Violet said leaving the room and closing the door behind her. Demetri strolled over to me and sat by my hip.

"So you don't want to be alone with me huh?" He asked smirking at me. I didn't respond, I just kept staring at him with a blank face. I hate him.

"You won't Always hate me darling." He said and I remembered something.

"You have to take me home on Thursday." I said abruptly. Tomorrow's Wednesday so I just have to survive today and tomorrow with him.

"Why?"

"I have football practice on Friday"

"I can just take you from here." He offered and I frowned.

"I have to get my stuff for practice." I told him "plus the ball is at my house."

"You don't have to go to football practice. I think you're just trying to avoid me." Demetri said and I laughed without humour.

"If I wanted to avoid you, I would have just said I have practice today and not come back here." He glared at me but didn't say anything. I got up and walked into the bathroom, i brushed my teeth and took care of some lady business. I walked back into the room and over to my bags. I picked up my backpack to get my tablet. Just as I pulled it out, my earphones and pack of cigarettes which were tangled together fell out. Oh shit. I bent to retrieve them but Demetri beat me to it. He grabbed the box but left my earphones.

"So you lied to me that night." He said looking at the half empty box.

"I didn't lie. That box really was Derek's." I Defended

"You told your mother you stopped."

"I did stop," I replied "for a while."

He sighed and shook his head he began walking away.

"Where are you going?" I asked running behind him and latching on to his sweatpants since he was shirtless. "What are you doing with my stuff?"

"I'm throwing it away." He said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"You can't do that." I hissed "I need them."

He narrowed his eyes at me. He grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the bathroom, he opened the box and threw the cigarettes into the sink. I reached to grab them but he grabbed my wrist and turned the pipe on. I glared at him and his grip on my wrist tightened painfully.

"You are going to stop smoking. If I find you with anymore of those,you won't like what I will do to you. Understand?" He hissed staring into my eyes, I didn't respond and his grip tightened to the point where I could feel the bones in my wrist pulling apart. If I don't answer, he'll break my wrist. Tears clouded my vision and I nodded.

"Tell me you understand."

"I understand." I choked out as my throat tightened. He released my wrist and turned off the pipe.

I turned my back to him as tears flowed down my cheeks. I examined my wrist,his fingers were imprinted into my flesh.

I felt his hands on my shoulders and I tensed as my tears flowed uncontrollably.

"Don't cry." He mumbled pulling me into him. I tried to pull away but he held me tighter. My back was to his front.

"Let go of me." I growled lowly mindful of the baby sleeping in the bedroom.

"Jessabell just beh-"

"Shut up and let me go." I spat without thinking. In a swift move, he spun me around and held my upper arms in a vice grip. Oh great, he's gonna leave another bruise on me. I thought bitterly but my thoughts had no effect on him.

"If you weren't so stubborn and rude and aggressive, I wouldn't have to leave marks on you." He spat as he started at me with his purple eyes.

"Just reject me then." I hissed praying that he would finally do it.

"Stop asking me to do that because I will not reject you." He said "Ever."

"I don't want to be with you. I don't like you."

"You will Get used to me." He growled pressing our bodies together.

"I don't have to." I challenged "I can simply run away, and make sure you never find me."

"Good luck with that." He sneered "I'm an alpha, you can never run from me. I will find you."

"I hate you." I spat feeling helpless.

"You'll learn to love me." He said and I frowned, "let me see your hand."

"Why so you can break it?" I asked bitterly moving my injured hand away from him.

"Stop being stubborn and just let me see it." He said grabbing my elbow. I relented and gave him my wrist. He proded my wrist for a little while before an icy sensation spread through my hand making me jump.

"Keep still." Demetri said with an expression of concentration.

"What are you doing?" I asked confused and he released my wrist.

"How does that feel?" He asked as I wiggled it. It actually feels normal. It's fine.

"Good." He answered my thoughts. He stared at me expectantly.

"What?" I asked

"Aren't you going to say thank you?"

"No. It's your fault I even got hurt in the first place." I said rolling my eyes. He smirked stepping closer to me I backed up as he advanced. My luck ran out as he backed me into a wall and pressed his body up against mine.

"You know what I was thinking about last night?" He purred staring into my eyes with his smoldering gray eyes. My breath hitched and he smirked more.

"About how much of an asshole you are." I said looking into his gray eyes as he chuckled.

"No I was thinking about your lips." He said running his index finger over my bottom lip, I said nothing. "And how good they would feel wrapped around my cock." He finished and I paled as my eyes widened in shock. He chuckled.

"Get away from me." I said pushing at his chest. He buried his face in my neck and kissed my mark I moaned softly. The mark had healed completely and the full pleasure of his lips shot through my body in a tidal wave of pleasure. He wrapped His arms around my waist and pulled my body flush against his as he continued to kiss my neck. I sighed softly and he took my hand and placed it on his rock hard erection.

"I want you." He mumbled huskily tugging my earlobe between his teeth.

I was ripped from my pleasurable haze by the sound of William crying. I tried to push Demetri off me but he kept up his assault on my neck. Kissing and biting my skin.

"Demetri, the baby." I said urgently and he sighed pulling away from me. I rushed from the room and picked William up from the bed. He stopped crying as soon as I picked him up.

"Good morning gorgeous." I cooed rubbing my nose against his. He giggled. I played with him for a while. Demetri sitting on the couch on his laptop. He had finally put on a sweater then turned the air-conditioning up.

There was a soft knock at the door and Demetri went to open it. His mother walked in wearing an elegant green dress. Its not dressy or over the top but she looks lovely in it. Her blonde hair was pulled to one side and lay neatly over her shoulder. She flashed me a smile and I blushed in embarrassment at my less than flattering attire.

"Jessabell, good morning dear." She addressed me as she came over and kissed my cheeks.

"Good morning." I said softly adjusting William on my lap.

"I'm terribly sorry if little Will kept you up last night. I had a terrible headache last night and Demetri was the only one awake so I asked if he would just babysit for the night." She explained as Demetri went back to his seat.

"It was no problem at all." I said as she took William and Demetri gave her the baby stuff.

"Well, thank you, Jessabell. You're such a sweetheart, I'll see you later dear." She said leaving the room and closing the door behind her.

"Well,apparently my baby brother has stolen your heart through the course of the night." Demetri mused settling beside me. I turned and smiled at him.

"Yes he has. He's absolutely charming." I said sweetly. "Unlike you."

"Don't worry my darling, I will steal the rest of your heart before you even notice." Demetri said brushing my cheek.

Sure you will, I thought sarcastically recalling all the times he's hurt me since we met. I will beat my self If I ever fall in love with this monster.

"I would have never hurt you if it wasn't necessary." He said and I turned to glare at him, "I want you to be my mate in every way Jessabell, I can't handle it when you to disrespect me, it upsets my wolf and I don't want to hurt you, it hurts me when you cry, especially when I know it's my fault why you cry." Demetri said and I stared at him speechless. We continued to stare at each other, he held my hands in his.

"Say something Jessabell." He pleaded and I frowned.

"I have nothing to say." I replied softly.

"We need to talk, I need for us to be in a better place by January." He said and I gave a bitter laugh.

"All you care about is the mating ceremony," I said bitterly shaking my head as I tried to pull my hand away from him but he held tight. "Just let me go and leave me alone."

"Jessabell, listen to me." He said in a commanding tone, his alpha tone and I froze. My body naturally obeying it's alpha's wish. "It's not about the ceremony, it's about us. About me and you. I want you to be mine in everyway, when we do the ceremony with the council's blessings you will be mine completly. As an alpha, I have to do the ceremony and so do you. You will be recognized as Luna, it will be especially good for us, we'll have a stronger bond because I will be your first and only." He pulled me onto his lap. My eyes were locked on his smoldering gray ones. "I want us to be a family, with lots of pups. I want us to be happy, I want us to love our kids and love each other." He said sincerely and I sighed and lay my head on his shoulder as he wrapped his arms around me and lay down on his back.

"We can wait, you know." I said rolling over so I was laying on my belly on his chest so I could look at him, "I want to finish school before we have pups."

"I would be cruel to rob you of finishing high school. I want you to be happy with me Jessabell." He said and I frowned.

"I meant college, I want to finish college and get a job before we have kids." I said and he frowned.

"I can't wait that long." He said "you don't need a job anyway. Royalty doesn't work and my mate sure as hell won't be working."

"I already told you I don't want to be your mate and if being your mate means that I won't be able to do the things that I want with my life then I will move heaven and earth to find a way to be free of you." I said glaring at him mutinously.

"Good luck with that." He said sarcastically and I glared at him.

"You are an asshole." I said and he chuckled humorlessly, "And arrogant and controlling." I finished.

"I'm born of alpha blood little mate, I'll always be controlling and possessive." He said running his hands up and down my back. I glared at him and he stared at my lips. "Kiss me." He said in his alpha tone and I leant down and gently pressed my lips to his unable to fight my alpha's command. Our lips fit perfectly together as they moved in sync. I parted my lips and he plunged his tongue into my mouth, I let out a small moan and he tangled his fingers in my hair and held my head in place as we kissed. He pulled away and I gasped for breath as he placed kisses all over my neck. He pulled my mark between his teeth and I let out a loud moan, he flicked his tongue over the flesh.

"Demetri." I moaned softly, and he shoved me off him. I blinked at him in shock as I lay panting.

"You make it so hard for me not to want to fuck you senseless." He said huskily looking at me with lust filled gray eyes. "You look so innocent when you look at me like that. I need a shower." He said walking into the bathroom. I continued to lie on my back until my eyes closed and I dosed off.

"Jessabell, wake up." Demetri said shaking my shoulders, I batted his hands away.

"Jess, baby." He said rubbing my back hard enough to shake me. I jumped up and my eyes snapped open to glare at him.

"What?!" I growled at him and he smiled at me.

"Violet and Freya came for you." He said and I frowned.

"I'm sleeping." I mumbled laying down on my belly and burying my face in the pillow. I heard Demetri chuckle. The bed beside me sunk as he sat down. I felt his fingers playing with my hair and I sighed pushing his hand away.

"Are you angry with me?" He asked touching my arm. I immediately got up and moved away from him.

"I'm not angry, I just loathe you very very much." I hissed walking into the bathroom and taking a shower, I dried off with a fluffy green towel then pulled on a light blue panty and bra. I wrapped the towel around my body and walked back into the room to see Demetri dressed in a pair of blue jeans, a gray T-shirt and light gray Nike sneakers. He turned to look at me when I stepped into the room. I walked over to my suitcase and carefully secured the towel around me before bending to open my suitcase. As I searched through the clothes I failed to see Demetri come up behind me.

Demetri grabbed the towel and pulled it from my body. I gasped and spun around standing up.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" I hissed trying to snatch the towel from his hand but he moved the towel out of my reach and grabbed my troath with his free hand pushing me into the wall. I gasped and tried to push his hand away.

"You do not speak to me like that Jessabell." He growled as his gray eyes began turning purple "You need to learn to respect me or you're going to get hurt." He hissed and my eyes filled with tears as he applied more pressure to my troath cutting off my air supply. I started squirming and fighting to breathe as tears flowed down my face.

"Every time you disrespect me, I will punish you." He said roughly throwing me to the ground. I landed on my hands and knees as I cried and gasped for breath. Demetri grabbed my upper arm and pulled me to my feet and I cringed anticipating him hitting me

Instead of hitting me, he stared at my half naked body with purple eyes clouded in lust and intrest.

"You have a tatoo." He stated reaching to brush my hip with the index finger of his left hand. He then ran his finger up to my belly button and began fingering the small sparkling blue belly ring.

He released me abruptly, "put some clothes on." He said and I grabbed the first suit of clothes I saw and hurriedly pulled them on. It happened to be a pair of short blue jeans shorts and a black sweatshirt which said 'normal people scare me'.

"I'm going out with my brother for the day." Demetri said pulling on a black leather jacked, his silver wristwatch and dark RayBan glasses. "Let me take you to my sisters before I leave."

I pushed my feet in a pair of white flip flops and grabbed my iPhone. I walked past Demetri who held the door open for me.

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