CHAPTER 5: THE REJECTION

MARIANA'S POV

“What do you think you're doing, Alexander?” I heard someone tell but I was too weak to check who it was. Blood dripped from all over my body as my mate continued beating me without listening to whoever was in there with us.

“I said what the hell do you think you're doing, Alexander?” The person yelled again but this time, I could barely hear because it felt like I would pass out.

“I'm punishing her for hitting Fiona.” He finally responded but did not stop beating me. I'd lost my voice screaming earlier and I guess the tears in my eyes was finished as well. All I did was dangle almost lifelessly, waiting for the last hit that would send me off.

“You don't get to decide who gets what punishment, okay? She belongs to me and you have no right to touch her.” The person yelled at him but that did not stop him from beating me. At the point, if I was asked to choose between jumping into a burning furnace or this, I would choose the furnace a hundred times over because my body wasn't the only thing in pain, my heart bled knowing it was my mate torturing me. I've felt pain but nothing hurts more than this.

“Get her down from that place right now.” I heard again and for the first time since this torture session began, my mate stopped beating me.

“What did you say?” He spoke slowly or perhaps, it was just my head making everything seem slower than normal.

“I said get her down from that place now.” The second person yelled but I was starting to lose control of myself.

“You don't get to tell me what to do or not when it comes to Fiona.” Tension filled the room after he said that and I began to pray to the moon goddess to let death take me away in that moment.

“You will do as I say, Alexander. I don't care who the hell is involved. Get her down now!” I finally made out the voice to be Alpha Marion's. Shouldn't he be pleased that a measly person like me was getting tortured? Why does he have to come and make things worse?

The room became silent for a minute and a part of me dreaded whatever was to come after because I knew whatever was coming next would be terrible.

“Fine, I'll do it.” He finally agreed.

“But I have to do something with her in private.” He added. Oh, hell no, please don't agree to this, please don't agree to this, I begged profusely in my mind.

“Whatever, I don't care, just bring her down and have one of the maids treat her as soon as possible.” Alpha Marion instructed and soon after, I heard his receding footsteps.

“P…please…I'm sorry…” I begged again in a faint voice. Half of me was dead inside and I couldn't let the other half die as well. I could see him smirking before going to drop the whip.

“I know you feel that stupid mate bond and I hate it. No, I'm going to do something beneficial for the two of us.” He started loosening the dangly rope I was tied to.

“I Alexander Marion reject you as my mate.” He suddenly let out and I fell to the ground with a loud thud but the pain in my body was nothing compared to the heavy ache that settled on my heart. It suddenly felt like I was running out of breath, everything around me was turning in circle but the only thing I could see through the thin ray of light was his receding footsteps.

“If she's dead before you get to you, dispose her corpse without his knowledge. If she's not, hand over to one of the maids. But it'll be better if she's dead before you get to her.” I heard him say before leaving the room.

Immediately after, I caught sight of someone walking towards me with a drilling machine in his hand. I glanced up with the last of my strength, drained to the core, I put up the last fight I could.

“Please don't kill me.” I muttered and everything went blank.