Alpha's Cursed Mate novel Chapter 8

Estelle's POV

I took advantage of the gap in the man's shower to sneak out the door, and he wouldn't let me run away? Brandon's face flashed before my eyes, and a few buttons of my shirt were ripped off by him. After what I had just gone through, there was no way I could stay in the same room with a strange man. Tension and anxiety fried my heart, even if the man didn't do anything out of the ordinary.

But I underestimated the Alpha's hearing, and the man caught me before I even made it to the door. My elbow striking backward could only hit his firm pecs.

"Let me go!" The man covered my mouth with his hand just as I opened it. Without saying a word he dragged me into his room again.

I was thrown on the couch, "How far do you think you can run? This is my wolf pack." The man's black hair slipped a few strands on his forehead and his alpha aura left me breathless.

My hands couldn't stop trembling and the man could clearly see it. He withdrew his aura. "I told you I wouldn't do anything to you."

"It's not because of you."

"What?"

"It's not because of you. Don't you want to know why I ran out?" I didn't know where I got the courage to look the man in the eye and say to him. "I stabbed our future Alpha."

Lance's expression finally changed a little, and I continued, "I'm trying to protect myself."

"Why?"

I kept my mouth shut and silent, and the man understood what I meant.

"I can smell blood all the time, are you hurt?"

I showed him my left hand, which I had just been sticking in my pocket. I didn't expect him to find it long ago. The man took out a medical kit from the cabinet.

"I'll bandage it for you, or do you want to do it yourself?"

I took the medical kit. "Okay." He said, "I didn't think you... But you'd better not go out, it's dangerous for people to find you. I won't touch you."

I wiped the wound on my hand with alcohol and a searing pain almost made me scream. I sprinkled powder on the wound and then wrapped the bandage with one hand with difficulty. But the bandage kept slipping off my hand, and Lance finally couldn't stand by anymore.

"Is it okay if I help you? If you don't trust me, I can close my eyes." He revealed a confidence that he could wrap better than me even with his eyes closed.

I offered my hand to him, "OK. Please."

The man wrapped a bandage around my hand carefully, his dark blue pupils still could not reflect any light even in the light of the room. I could not stare into the eyes of this man, or his eyes would suck my soul away. Still a little close, I could smell the smell of silver sage on the man, like the taste of metal solid and cold.

"Okay." The man hesitated for a moment, as if to gain my trust, and said to me, "My name is Lance, and I am the Alpha of Eclipse wolf pack. I guess you've heard of the Legion."

"I thought the Legion was a nickname made by someone else."

"That's right, but it's a name everyone is used to and our people are okay with it."

"So you've heard all those rumors about your wolf pack, too?"

"I've heard some of it." Lance said this with an expression like any other, and I suspected he had little emotion.

It made me wonder, he didn't seem like the kind of person who would put up with rumors. And some of the rumors were really outrageous. I once heard that the Alpha of the Legion was a scarred monster weighing hundreds of pounds, and that they eat people. But except for the first time he tried to kill me, he seemed like a very normal person.

To make sure his last attack wasn't a dream I had, I still asked Lance about the night we first met.

"Have we met before?"