MAX'S POV.

The only reason I had left her to herself was because I wanted to act tad but cocky, she acted like she didn't miss me and was not happy to see me which was why I had left.

I planned on visiting her the very next day and here I am, I was restless all through the night, scared that I had not spoken to her and she might take it wrong, If an odd feeling etched at the back of my mind.

I was restless and I felt uneasy all through, that being the main reason I had lied about resting in.

I made it known to my personal omega that no one was allowed to come in and visit, no one, not even Shayna, not my mother or my father but if anything important were to come up he should mindlink me.

Unknown to me this would happen, I had come to the storage room which served her house for a long time but here I am once again,deep kneed in trouble and unable to speak out loud.

I feel my blood run dry as I scan through the house in search of her, the room Is empty and so is the bathroom and the toilet.

No trace or sign of her which could make me trace the direction into where she had run off, but could she have gone? Who does she know? Where does she know? How will she cope.

Can she survive on her own? Her scent is almost faded, which means she had left the previous day.

Which meant she traveled all through the night, what made her leave? Perhaps it was all because I had not spoken with her but then where on earth had she gone to?.

I'm crippled by worries as I stay rooted to the spot, knowing well this is the time slave hunters roam around the woods hunting for their prey.

She would not lady a day with the slave hunters, she's weak, feeble and faint minded.

How on earth is she to cope out there in the wild? Although part of me really is worried about her, the other part of me keeps hissing at me.

My wolf ranting in and on about how I could udo ga prevented this current situation if I had just kept my pride aside and spoken with her.

I draw a long exhausting sigh knowing well she would be in need of my help, perhaps any restlessness, my anxiousness and eagerness to meet her Is all because of the mate bond.

I must have sensed her trouble while she tried escaping,I was restless all through the night which meant she must have been on the run all through the night.

Now, it's far more worse than I had anticipated.here I am standing like a fool void of ideas on what to fo and how to handle the current situation.

I have to bring her back notwithstanding anything, no matter what happens I must return home with her.

"Do you think she wants to come back here?" My wolf asks out if the blue is causing me to snort a little.

"I mean if she wanted to remain here she would not have gone through the whole stress of running out into the woods without food,shelter or protection" my wolf nags once more but I have to admit he makes sense.

"You bring her back and then what?You lock her up once again? Restrict her from having a life while you get to run the pack and remain married to Shayna?" He asks, his questions bothering Me the most as I sniff hard.

I get it now, she's hated the way I've been treating her but she had not said anything about it all through.

She acted tough but deep down u had broken her, I have to get married to Shayna because I can't make a person the Luna to a pack, it would only make the pack weak and vulnerable.

These little things are why I had given her space and acted out, I held up a facade making her think I disliked her but it was all a lie, I had done it in order not to get attached to her and neither did I want her to have any form of clingy emotions to me.

My father would terribly against any form of intimacy with Sammie, everyone in this pack had dotted on her in a negative manner which is why I want to keep her safely tucked away from their reach but I guess I had taken the wrong approach to the whole thing

I need to find her and make things right but first off I need to speak with my father about the whole thing,he will be dissatisfied and disappointed.

Hell be sure to throw fits but then again she is my mate I just can't ignore her.

"You ignored her the first time and made her feel less of a mate the very first day you obeyed your father by getting closer to Shayna" my wolf reminds me again.

It's just like I keep spinning round the same block of confusion, my wolf is right and my conscience begins to disturb me.

I should have done the right thing at the right time, I should have stood my ground from the very beginning, maybe then all these would not have happened.

Maybe I was ashamed of her at first, she was the slave of the pack,she ran errands for everyone and was always looking unkempt and shabby.

I am the son to an alpha of a pack, next in line to be alpha. I could not be seen with such a lady, especially for the fact that I am handsome and always had my ways around women.

I could not end up getting Stuck with Sammie of all people, but as time went by I found myself staring long and hard at her.

I began to see her beauty, her relevance, her importance in my life and the love I had for her grew each day.

But it suddenly dawned on me that she wanted nothing at all to do with me, I was a first rate criminal on her list, she despised me a lot and would never pay attention to me.

I knew there was no point in acting all nice and cozy with her afterall she already sees me as a monster which is why I ended up bullying her.

The first time it happened I had laughed louder and lo at her amidst the whole crowd which made fun of her that very day and she had taken a look at me for the very first time.

Time went by and I found her paying much more attention to me than anyone else would, although she felt I was a potential top rated enemy but I could go with that as well, it's not like it bothered me,I knew she hadn't noticed the bond between us yet.

I had hoped the very day she would learn of me being her mate maybe then something would change but I was wrong.

Just as usual my father had come in again to remind me of my responsibilities and that I could but take such a weakling ad mate which left me no choice but to act in that manner.

I wanted her to be mine and no one else but I could not hold her as my soul mate, my lover or my Luna which was what made me obsessed about having in my possession.

I saw the look on her face the day she had discovered I was her mate, they had plain hatred , pain and disgust on them.

She wanted nothing to do with me I could tell and I felt pained about it, she must have wished for a mate who would take her away from all her suffering and embarrassment which this pack had given to her.

Instead she ended up with me, the alpha's son who had bullied her for a really long time. She was stuck in this pack, stuck with me and she hated that fact.

I knew she wanted to be free from me and all my hopes about things changed when she found out we're all dashed down as she hated everything about being mated to me.

And just like karma shayana had to begin with all her dramas of being an overly unnecessary wife to be wife mounted muchore pressure on me.

I have never had any day in any affair or matter, my father calls all the shots while I act based on those orders but i think it's high time I cut off that crap and begin making decisions for myself

I am a man after all and sooner or later the pack will be mine to rule.