Arranged To The Alpha
Chapter 67

Natalia:

I stood, ready, as fireballs formed on my hand, glaring at my mate’s twin who entered the room with a bunch of witches.

Two witches who tried to attack me were shot by my fireballs, making them scream out in pain as their bodies burned. I stared at them, watching as the agonizing pain hit them with each second as their bodies burnt, and catching the burning smell of their flesh, Drake froze before looking at me.

Crystal, who was somewhere near, flapped her wings, and I smiled feeling her presence around me. Blake’s eyes met mine as he snapped a witches neck before he shifted. His body landed on top of another witch whose eyes widened in surprise before he went to bite her neck. But before his canines could touch her neck, my mate was pushed off her body, his twin brother, who was frozen at first, shifted, challenging him.

I had to fight back burning the Alpha alive, not wanting to affect Blake more than he already might have been. I knew not to interfere by getting in his head for such information, but I couldn’t help but wonder how he felt or what he thought about this. If anything, I knew that it hurt him more than he would ever let out.

“So, you are the famous manipulator?” A woman, a redhead, and more specifically, a witch asked, approaching me. Her eyes met mine and I smiled, my smile not reaching my eyes, my smile threatening, giving her the silent warning to simply back off. The last thing I needed or wanted right now was to mess with such a person.

“And I believe that you are the witch that does not want to mess with me.” I said, wanting to shoot her with a fireball only for her to block and shoot it back at me. She winked, and took a step toward me, the ground beneath her feet broke, making my heart race as she grabbed me by my neck.

“Welcome to level one, little manipulator.” She said, throwing me at the wall behind me. My body nearly collided with it only to be surprised when Elijah sped, and wrapped his arm around me, stopping me from hitting the wall.

“Did she just say level one?”

“We are literally being fooled into the game and we don’t even realize it.” I said, shaking my head as I looked at Blake who was now on top of Drake. The two wolves fought, seeming to want to end one another, a battle of Alphas. “I don’t understand, what kind of game is this? Weren’t we supposed to be AGAINST one another?”

“It seems like they are having different plans.” Riya said, her body shifting to one that had my heart dropping to my stomach. Her body turned black, the human form completely disappearing as she stood right before my eyes. Her body grew bigger, expanding until she covered the whole room which was now filled with laughter. Spiders came out of the walls, crawling over the witches who started screaming in fear, and rats started dropping out of the ventilations, making me close my eyes. My husband, whose wolf growled as he took a step back from his brother to stand beside me as a rat walked toward his twin, biting his ankle before he could be stopped.

“What is she doing?” I asked, shaking my head in question. Blake, not caring about the fact that he would be naked in front of the others, shifted back to human before a pair of shorts appeared on him.

“You’re welcome.” A woman said, crossing her arms over her chest. “Riya, enough.”

She looked at me and smiled before nodding at Blake. “You need to be more concerned about the fact that only your wife should see you naked. Anyhow, I have managed to help you with a pair of shorts, and for now, I do suggest that we not kill your brother or the witches, yeah?”

Drake got up from the ground as the rat let go of his leg, not that the rat actually wanted to. The creature literally exploded as well as the spiders. One big spider formed in the middle of the room, and shooting a massive web, it caught the witches, and Drake, forcing him to shift back to human.

“I believe that you do realize that the diversity here would only lead to your death, Alpha Drake.” The woman who stood beside me said, crossing her arms over her chest. “Now, considering the fact that you took time in organizing the games, funding, and all. Why not choose to play them yourself?”

“You are f*****g sick.”

“Not as sick as you are, at least I would be able to stand on my feet long enough for all of us to get out while I don’t think that you would be able to get past the last level. I believe that we have already passed level one, and considering the fact that you were lucky enough not to die right now, I do suggest that you save yourself the time and efforts as you would need them.” She said, looking at his foot as it started swelling. I was actually surprised that it swelled as fast as it did, but it didn’t take me long to realize that it was due to the rat being summoned by a demon. Riya crossed her arms over her chest, clearly feeling proud.”

“You are very wrong here, Ariana.”

“I believe that I am not. A man like yourself who has associated with the witches against his own kind, family, and other creatures who have been at peace with you is a sick man with no cure. Nevertheless, I will not bother myself with such conversations right now.” She said, looking at him. He shook his head and let out a low growl that she returned. “I have rejected you for the same reason that I would be turning my back on you today, Alpha.”

They went to speak only for her to nod at the spider who just dragged them out of the room in his web. The woman looked at us and smiled, her eyes somewhat more genuine than I thought that they would be considering what we just saw her do.

“My apologies, I did not introduce myself. I am Ariana, the unwanted hybrid.” She said, extending her hand to me.

“Natalia.” I said, shaking her hand.

“I am aware, I have heard a lot about you with Myla. The woman who has been my ‘main challenge’ before I chose to reject Drake. Thankfully, I do not regret it now after seeing how sick he is.” She said, and Blake frowned.

“Wait, Drake’s mate is not…”

“That witch wouldn’t give him a second glance. The two of us are aware of it, Alpha. She is merely using him for power, and when I did tell him about it, he shunned me back, calling me mad and a maniac. I believe that the two of us know who the maniac is in this room, and thankfully, it is not me.” She said, smiling at Blake who shook his head.

“Why did he choose Myla if he had a mate? I’m sorry for asking, but…”

“Anything that you had, Blake, whatever it was, he wanted. Even if it didn’t make sense to him. I don’t know, maybe it was jealousy, anger, I really never tried understanding after a while. But I was well aware that he was jealous of you, jealous to the bone actually. It was what drew the two of us apart even, and at a certain point, the two of us just stopped wanting to look at one another. I am not sure if you understand how I felt, I don’t expect you to actually, but it was hard choosing to reject the man you were fated to. I chose to do so because it was a lot better for me.” She said, and I couldn’t help but frown as I felt my chest ache for the woman. “If you are wondering why I am here, it is because he found out that I married someone I fell in love with. Regardless of the fact that he didn’t want me, he didn’t want me with someone else. I am not sure what to call that, but the man is just a sick bastard that needs treatment.”

“But you are a witch, right? Shouldn’t…?”

“I am the ‘unwanted hybrid’ for a reason.” She said, smiling at me, stopping me from finishing what I had to say. “My parents were killed when I was a child, and my grandmother hid me before the witches were able to find and kill me. Witches and wolves did not get along, at least, were not ALLOWED to get along to ensure that the stories that the witches told to their kids about the wolves remained as tainted as they were. I was proof that they could, and that wasn’t something that they wanted.”

“If you could stop them, why not help us out of here?” Elijah asked, frowning in confusion. “Surely you may know a way…?”

“To get out of here, we literally must pass through all the levels. There are five levels, and this was level one, at least the beginning of it. I am not sure if we managed to really pass, but…” the floor beneath our feet crackled, and I frowned, looking down to find the floor under us opening as if it were some kind of door.

We landed on a mat, and needless to say, it was not a smooth one, but it, at least, blocked the clash. I frowned and sat up, rubbing my shoulder, gently massaging it as I looked at Blake whose eyes hardened at the sight of where we were.

Spotlights were pointed at us and screams filled the room as we stood, rising to our feet. I looked up to find Drake on a podium, smirking at me as he saw us standing in the middle of what looked like a cage, locking us, showing us off as if we were wild animals.

“This man is sick.” I said, shaking my head as I looked at my husband who wrapped his arm around my shoulder, pulling me to his chest, frowning as he looked at his twin who looked like he had lost his mind completely.

“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to an event like no other. Games of lives where the magical creatures of the world were challenged.” He said as cheers rose amongst the crowd who I knew didn’t know what we were getting into. I was sure if they were that they wouldn’t be cheering as much. Hell, if they knew who stood in front of them, or even who guarded them, each one of them would be scramming out of the room.

“You don’t need to tell me twice.” Blake said, shaking his head. “What are you doing, Drake?”

“They would be games of fire, war, and b***d. They would be games that would challenge the very existence of us all. They would be games that would remind us of the legends that we have forgotten.” He said, looking around the room at the people whose roars filled our ears as they grew more and more excited for this. “WELCOME TO THE SURVIVAL GAMES!”