Arranged To The Alpha
Chapter 64

Blake:

I fought to get to my wife who was now unconscious.

The men had injected her with something to calm her down, ensuring that she didn’t end up burning the car that we were in, and I was held in a cage that I couldn’t break out of.

“You need to relax, Blake. What you are doing is literally not going to get you anywhere.” Drake said coldly. He looked at me through the rear mirror and it took everything in me not to try and break the bars again, not that it would have worked anyway.

“What the f**k do you want from us?” I asked my brother who laughed.

“You already got the invitation for the game. I am wondering why you’re so surprised that you’re being taken to them?” Drake asked, his tone sarcastic. He looked at Natalia who was asleep, her chest rose and fell with each breath that she took, and glaring at him, I shook my head.

“Let my wife go, Drake. Kill me and end this madness, but she has nothing to do with this.” I said, shaking my head at him, trying to touch a spec of his humanity. I knew that it no longer existed, but I had to try, if Natalia was here, I had to do this for her. If the man wanted me dead, then he could have me, but she had nothing to do with the anger that he was inflicting right now.

“You, and every other person who took your side against me would be facing the same fate at the games. As for your wife, her dying would be the grand prize of this. But killing her right now would be a loss since this game potentially has me showing her off as the first element manipulator that we’ve found in centuries. As for killing YOU, well, that would be a very easy punishment,” he said coldly. “and that is not something that I want happening. Correct me if I’m wrong, but you would be free of everything that has happened, and the one person who would be suffering is your poor wife here. We can’t have that, right? And though I am actually sad to see such a beauty go, she could have made better use and would have been luckier if she had someone else in her life.”

My heart dropped to my stomach when I saw his eyes on her, a look of l**t and desire masked his expression, I growled in distaste, and turning to look at me, he smirked as his driver drove. He shook his head and winked as he nodded at her. “I don’t think that she would really notice you being gone if I took your place. You know, a beauty like her, and a man like you, it just never fits.”

“You’re f*****g sick.”

“I am a f*****g maniac, and to your luck, I am your worst f*****g nightmare, Blake Knight.” He said, his tone darkening, and his eyes hardening. My heart raced, and shaking his head, he turned back around. “You are in luck, I have a woman to love. Natalia would have done well, I have to be honest, her beauty seems ‘catching’, but I have a woman for my own, and I do believe that you are aware that is where everything started.”

“Yes, everything started because YOU chose to look differently at Myla years ago, wanting to claim her as yours despite knowing that she was my mate and having your own mate. I wonder how your ‘woman’ would feel when she finds out about you wanting to claim my wife, you know, a second time’s threat.” I said, wanting to taunt him. I knew that it wasn’t the best idea, but if he believed that he could tick my buttons simply because he wanted to, then he was wrong at so many different levels that I didn’t know which one to start with. Nevertheless, I wanted to play this game my way.

“You are playing with fire.”

“You started it, brother.” I said, glaring at him, challenging him. I was an Alpha for a reason, and it was not to step back when a bastard like him chose to think he was smart. The man was nothing, not to me, and not to anyone who believed that he was, but that was something that I would be proving to him my way. He was going to have to be a little patient for it though. “And I will be sure that I am the one to burn you out…”

“Blake…?” Natalia said, sitting up as she woke up on the bed, or mattress, to be more specific that she was laying on.

Drake had us dropped off at a ‘campus’, and it seemed like we were not the only ones here.

Men and women, all between the ages of eighteen and thirty were here. Some were asleep, others, like Natalia, were brought in unconscious, and some have been awake for a while. I was sitting by my mate’s side, waiting for her to wake up from the drug that they put in her.

My wife tried sitting up only to frown when her head throbbed. I knew that the drug’s effect was strong. My brother was bastard enough to know the exact dose that was needed to knock her out, and the exact dose needed to keep her knocked out without killing her for a long while. Her heart raced, and massaging her temple, she shook her head as she tried to calm herself from what was happening.

“Drake managed to trick us, baby girl, and you’ve been drugged on the way here. You need to get some rest to ensure that you don’t end up getting sick.” I said, my tone softening as I ran my finger over her forehead, gently massaging it as she lay back on the small pillow that was there. Everyone who was around us was of a magic family, though why they were the ones chosen in specific, I didn’t know, but I had a feeling that we were going to find out soon.

“He’s making us go through the games.” Natalia said, pinching the bridge of her nose. “I know he’s your brother, but I regret not killing him when I could have the first time I saw him.”

I chuckled at her words, and leaning in, I kissed her forehead gently, letting my lips linger there for a few seconds.

“So, it is true, the prick’s brother is here with us.” A vampire, Elijah, said, stepping out of the shadow. He looked at me, and crossing his arms over his chest, he raised a questioning eyebrow.

“I take it that you’re listening to everyone?” I asked, raising an eyebrow at him, mimicking his expression.

“What does he want from us?” Elijah asked, shaking his head in question. “Hasn’t he caused enough damage as it was with him dealing with the bitches?”

“Now, now, Elijah, we don’t even know why he’s put his own brother in here.” A woman said, putting a hand on her chest as she stepped forward. She was also a vampire, though who she was, I didn’t know. I only knew the vampire’s name as I heard them saying his name, fearing his anger as he woke up. “The bastard must be dealing with a good bunch of witches if you’re also sharing the same fate.”

“You can say that. The one difference here is that he’s got a personal feud with me, why he’s got you here, I personally don’t know. It seems like he’s chosen a few dozen vampires as well.”

“Some of us are hybrids, but you’re right, it seems like he’s gathered those that he’s got feuds with. The last of our conflicts was a year back, he promised to make us regret it. I must admit though, I never expected this…” Elijah said, looking around the room that we were in. “It seems like we’re in for hell though.”

“Seems so, unless we try to manage getting out of this somehow.” Natalia said, making the vampire frown in confusion.

“And how do you plan on doing this, Miss manipulator? If you could have, I believe the man wouldn’t have brought you here to begin with.” The woman said, raising an eyebrow at Nat, challenging her. Crystal was nowhere to be found, and though I could catch her scent somewhere close, I didn’t know of her whereabouts.

“I am pretty sure that he didn’t put us in these death games because he can easily ‘challenge us’. The man can’t face us on his own, but if we can manage…”

“You need to stop living in a dreamland, sweetheart. He put us here to watch us kill one another, but he could easily take us down if he wants to.” A wolf, a blonde, said, walking toward us. I frowned in confusion at her sight, her eyes met mine, and raising an eyebrow, she looked at Natalia for a second then at me. Natalia, who was tired, sat up, her heart racing, and it seemed like my whole world had stopped completely as I looked at the woman.

“Myla?”

“Hello to you too, Blake…”