My Arrogant Mate
Chapter 17

With a sharp pain in my foot, I held it cursing and fell onto the bed, tossing and turning from side to side in agony.

Something like that could only happen to me again!

Not enough that that arrogant goat was my brother's mate, no! Even if I were given the chance to flee now, I probably wouldn't get five meters. What the hell did I do to get such a fate?!

The pain also stopped blowing and didn't rub at all. On the contrary. I even got sick of it and with the last of my strength and effort, I hopped on my one healthy foot to the door to open it, taking a deep breath.

"Viola!" I yelled down the narrow hallway towards the stairs, which I then looked at briefly. A long white carpet lay on the dark wooden floor, while pictures of the sun, moon and stars hung on the walls...

Did the alpha live here, or a spoiled kid stuck on the Lalelu song?

When, even after minutes of agony, no viola came hurrying up the stairs, I decided to take the path down alone. I had to see a doctor because I felt the broken bone deep in my chest, under which my heart was only pumping excitedly. Leaning against the door frame, I looked around the room again, but unfortunately I didn't find anything that would make it easier for me to walk on one foot.

"I'll kill them all!" I exclaimed through clenched teeth in anger, then carefully hopped along the wall, being careful not to touch the ground with my injured foot, which I did actually worked quite well.

Proud of my independence, I then paused at the top railing of the stairs to take a deep breath and collect myself. I briefly thought of sliding down the stairs with the carpet under my a*s behind me, but unfortunately it was too wide for that. Then, when I heard the front door downstairs, I widened my eyes in relief and hoped for Viola's help, but it was Silvan who appeared at the bottom of the stairs and stopped to look me up and down.

His eyes darted over my body and to my frustration, butterflies suddenly appeared in my stomach that I wished I had killed with bug spray. He straightened his dark blue jacket, under which he wore a white t-shirt and then ran his hands through his black hair, while a small smile appeared on his otherwise so cold face. That stupid grin and the fact that it gave goosebumps to my arms made me incredibly angry.

"How funny! Can you stop grinning that stupid and just walk away?!" I snapped at him, nervously tugging at my teddy bear suit with one hand while standing unsteadily on one leg and my other hand on the railing lest I fall forward down the stairs.

"Do you need help?" he then asked in his dark voice, taking the first few steps up, which made my heart pound faster. I figured it was fear of him, but had to grudgingly admit that there was something about him that drew me in, just like in the woods. Then it occurred to me that tonight at 12:00 am I would be coming of age. If who really was my mate, those feelings would surely intensify, which I had to avoid at all costs.

"No, I can do it," I said snotty and looked into his empty, dark eyes. "It would be nice if you would drive me to a doctor."

So that I can get away from there you damn guy!!!

"Okay, then I'll wait outside," he said, looking at my foot and then provocatively raised one of his eyebrows, which I only now noticed that went through this one small scar that was hardly recognizable. "It can only be a matter of hours," he then added amusedly and if I had had anything in my hands, now would be the time where I would have thrown it at him.

He turned and stalked out of my sight, and when I couldn't hear his footsteps anymore either, I gritted my teeth and clutched the dark brown banister with both hands to hop down the stairs, step by step.

It was so exhausting that I started sweating slightly under my thick pajamas and when I reached the middle of the stairs I got so dizzy that I closed my eyes for a moment and collected myself.

When was the last time you drank or ate something?

I suddenly felt so bad from the pain and excitement that I had a hard time holding on, so I made up my mind to sit down, but lost my balance and threatened to fall forward.

I held my breath, widened my eyes and then immediately saw Silvan, who was standing right in front of me and whose arms prevented my fall at the last second.

I reluctantly stayed in his arms for a short while to calm myself and also because his scent triggered something in me that was too good to stop immediately. With my head against his chest, I felt his even breathing, heard his heartbeat, and then casually noticed that he gently lowered his hands to my trembling back...

Why was I shaking at all?

I quickly broke away from him and looked straight into his eyes, which were staring back at me just as intensely. I had to tear myself away from his gaze, not wanting to be caught up in his spell like I was in the woods, and then I thought of my brother, which made it easy for me to push all the good feelings away quickly.

"Let go of me right now!" I then commanded him looking at his arms clinging to my body left and right and luckily for me he did too and raised his hands apologetically like I was about to hit him with one threaten weapon. Too bad I didn't have one!

"Please let me help you," he said and I looked at him confused, only to shake my head laughing hysterically.

"Now you say please and want to help me? Yesterday you wanted to shoot my brother and you just kidnapped me!"

He rolled his eyes, making me feel like I was overreacting, making me want to smack him, but who knew if he wasn't going to hit back.

"You're overreacting," he actually said, and when I saw the dirty grin spread across his face, I didn't care if he hit back.

I pulled out with full force and smacked him. The slap of my hand on his cheek echoed throughout the first floor and I watched with bated breath as his gaze turned angry and he fixed me with a snarl. F**k...