Arranged To The Alpha
Chapter 82

Blake:

I knew that Natalia fought every single instinct that she probably had to respond to Myla as she nodded.

She gave her a cold smile before the two of us walked past her, heading toward the podium where everyone cheered on.

The fact that they were still seeing that this was a game amazed me. But I blamed it on books, video games, and more specifically, movies.

To them, this was a live theater show, and they didn’t seem to understand that this was our real lives that were on the line.

“You need to relax, baby girl.” I said, looking at my mate who raised an eyebrow at me before kissing my cheek as the camera turned to us. I smirked and turned to look at her before connecting my lips with hers, knowing that everyone was watching.

The two of us pulled away from one another and I couldn’t help but frown as I took sight of her mum, looking at the two of us with wide eyes. She shook her head and ran her fingers through her hair as if trying to find some one to stop this; however, mum caught sight of her and wrapped an arm around her, stopping her from worrying.

“We are going to have to deal with one hell of a big mess,” Natalia said, following my gaze. She looked at her mother and shook her head before looking down at the podium which started moving under our feet, leading us to the second level. I took a deep breath, and it took me everything not to want to fight off anyone who thought of approaching us as I recalled the level from the map.

The level’s name; The Glorious Blade, appeared in the air in front of us, glowing golden before it disappeared. pulled Natalia to my side as the ground beneath our feet froze, revealing what looked like the sea.

Except the sea was frozen, and the words, The Sea of Ice, appeared on the ground beneath our feet, frozen, and craved on ice.

Natalia took a deep breath and cold air blew out of her mouth for a second before she took my hand in hers, warming it using her own body’s temperature. I was a wolf, and didn’t need it, but I didn’t dare open my mouth to tell her otherwise. If anything, she was saving me the energy that my wolf would be losing to maintain my body’s heat, and the last thing that I needed was to make her feel insecure after the nightmare that she had earlier.

I looked at her for a second before kissing her temple, letting my lips linger there for a few seconds before pulling away to rest my forehead against her temple. “I never want you to forget what I told you earlier today, do you understand me? Not Myla, and not anyone in this globe would be taking your place. That is one thing that I want you to start keeping in mind.”

My voice was above a whisper as I spoke, but I knew that she heard me as she nodded. She pulled away to look me in the eye, and smiled. Her smile reached her eyes and I nodded before the two of us turned to look at the frozen waters that were ahead of us.

Crossing them should be easy considering the fact that the water was solid ice. We just needed to find the right path to go through to ensure that we didn’t end up getting lost.

The other contestants stood close to us, looking at the water before one of the elves got down on his knee. He put his hand on the ice and it showed him a line to follow before other lines drew themselves on the ground underneath our feet.

Some seemed steeper than others, and I couldn’t help but wonder whether they were truly leading us somewhere or they were thin levels of ice.

I went to step forward only for Natalia to tighten her grip around my wrist, stopping me from doing so. I frowned in confusion and shook my head in question only to find that her eyes were glowing. I frowned and shook my head in question before she got down on one foot and put a finger on one of the cracks.

The ice melted and cracked in a second before forming glazer’s of ice. Everyone gasped at the depth of the cracked ice, and Natalia straightened as she went to take a step forward; however, this time, it was me who pulled her back as three men, icemen, jumped down from the glazers with ice swords.

The three men stood in front of us for a second before more of them started jumping toward us, surrounding the area, shielding the glazer’s.

“We shouldn’t have expected it to be too easy, should we?” Natalia asked, and I smirked before my canines made themselves known. She formed a stick in her hand and handed it to me before touching the tip, forming what looked like a fire sword. “You won’t be able to fight them as a wolf, but I believe that we can find our own way around this, don’t you think?”

I smirked and nodded before two fireballs formed in her hand. Riya lit her whole body up, making my eyes widen in surprise before I pulled my wife back, not wanting the demon to touch her. She rushed toward the men, melting them before she even touched any of them, and two of the vampires took the chance to get past her using their vampire speed.

She roared in annoyance, and I had to admit, this was the first time that I have heard her growing as angry as she was. If anything, I never did hear a demon oaring before.

Her voice pierced my ears, and it took everything from me not to flinch how loud it was. Natalia frowned at how loud she was but I could tell that she was sure to contain herself as she kept her eyes on the men that jumped from the glazer’s again. This time, they stood with bows and spheres.

“F**k,” I said, and Natalia smiled.

She formed a firewall in front of us, and those who watched gasped in surprise at the sight of it. The men tried approaching only to melt before they were even able to touch us. Natalia looked around us for a second, her heart raced before she looked at me.

“I don’t know whether what we will be doing is going to be good or bad.” She said, and I frowned in confusion. One of the men almost crossed the barrier as she got distracted and the wall died down; however, I slayed his head with the fire knife that she gave me, watching as his body melted before turning to the third who had his ice bow pointed at my wife. I threw the fire knife at him, watching as it landed in his chest before Natalia focused on the wall.

“We are going to have to use alternatives, but we might end up risking a lot.” She said, looking around at the others. I understood what she meant, and I couldn’t help but frown, but I wasn’t stupid,. they would be giving us up if they could. Hell, Riya was already proving that she would, Ariana was by her side, and the vampires have escaped. The elves were finding their way as they climbed the ice, sacrificing one another to ensure that they survived.

My heart ached at the sight, and it was now that I understood how strong the instinct of survival was. Even those who were family could end up turning against one another, regardless of the pain that followed, to simply survive.

“What do you have in mind?” I asked, looking at my wife. I frowned in confusion as a clock appeared, timing three minutes. And catching sight of it as a bell rang, Natalia frowned. But that wasn’t the worst part of it.

Anyone, and I mean, anyone, who was trying to find their way out of the sea now panicked and rather than trying to escape, it was as if they literally turned against one another. Natalia looked around before intertwining our fingers. I frowned that followed, to simply survive.

“What do you have in mind?” I asked, looking at my wife. I frowned in confusion as a clock appeared, timing three minutes. And catching sight of it as a bell rang, Natalia frowned. But that wasn’t the worst part of it.

Anyone, and I mean, anyone, who was trying to find their way out of the sea now panicked and rather than trying to escape, it was as if they literally turned against one another. Natalia looked around before intertwining our fingers. I frowned at that, but that didn’t last for long as the wall of fire surrounded us, melting everything that it touched, and the two of us rose in the air as she controlled the wind.

“Wind,” she said, looking ahead as the wind had us flying high to see the exit. The vampires below frowned as they took sight of us, clearly still roaming the area as they tried finding the right way. Natalia guided the way, and they followed, ensuring that they went at a speed to ensure that they avoided the melting ice. Riya and Ariana were a few meters behind, and a few others who managed to somehow escape seemed to follow.

Ice melted as we flew in the air, and the men, or should I call them, fighters, kept rising from the ice under us, wanting to fight those who stepped on the ice. Some melted under the heat that we provided with our fire trail, others killed. And the red light just kept its sirens as we lost three of them.

Natalia looked at me as we reached the door of the first part of the level, crossing through first before we looked at those who didn’t pass or those who were still rushing toward us.

“It is us against the world, right?” She asked, looking at me as she tried distracting herself from what I knew was a painful vision for her to see.

Hell, it was painful for everyone to see, but I knew that there was no other way around it right now.

We had to deal with things the way that they were, and the only way to do so was to avoid looking at them.

“Always and forever,” I said, wrapping an arm around her as others started passing. There was less than a minute left. I turned my wife around, not wanting her to see the vulgarity that would be happening as screams of fear and pain filled the air behind us as the clock hit zero. “They would have done the same thing. If anything, they just tried to.”