Conditions

I sighed and thought yes she wants to see me. It must be quite tiring to be the one with less power so she might want to enjoy it thoroughly unfortunately for me that's sad news because I was at the receiving end. But I can't hate her even if she makes me crawl towards her. I would do it voluntarily if that makes her smile. Only if she had at least a per cent of affection towards me and my people would life be different for us? I didn't know for sure.  But right now it doesn't feel so. I better get prepared for dealing with her conditions. We were all grinding our brains to realise what she was going to ask. That's when I realised the audience. I have forgotten about them. It seems to happen to me a lot.

"Hey, she might want money", said Li. " Nah maybe she wants sex", said Tony winking at me." As if she has to ask?", I shot back. "Man you joke, what a surprise", he said lightly amused. I shrugged my shoulders since I didn't want to dwell on the thought of having sex with her. * I would grant her permission on whatever she asks except her going home", I said with an ultimatum. I was prepared to accept her conditions as long as they are not insane or deadly.

We were soon joined by our spy aka my secretary. " Hi, Alpha I tried and I was successful to an extent but there is a problem", she said. "We know dear. Thanks for helping us. You did great", I congratulated her. She was very relieved to hear that.

" So you are going to meet her now?", she asked. "I will go when I feel it's right", I said. " Then she would think you aren't going to show up", she said. "That's exactly what I want. I want her to doubt herself. Catch her when she is not on her guard", I told her. " That's where you are wrong. She changed a day in prison to do that to a person. You will never find her without her guard", with those cryptic words she left us.

"Why did she speak as though I made some mistake in letting her go to the prison?", I said carelessly. " I didn't think she meant that", said Li. "I changed her mind, maybe I should go to her right now or she wouldn't agree", I said to them. " We are with you Alpha whatever you decide", said them unanimously. "Seb would too if he gets his head out of his ass", said Tony. " I know I'm not angry at him. I respect his decision to not be here", I said absently.

The meeting was soon over then. I decided to go and see the prisoner hoping that I won't sense that deep feeling every time she comes before me. I'm in love with her and she knew about it a little bit. According to her she only remembered bits and pieces. I wasn't going to feed her huge chunks of information about us. If I stayed with her I was in danger and a fate worse than death.

I walked out after bidding adieu to my people. I wasn't deranged. I knew that she might want something personally from me and it would cost me everything. She was spiteful and angry at me. Nothing short of my destruction would give her peace. When I reached the office everyone was surprised to see me. It's not every day their Alpha visits them. I hated this place since it represented misery and gloom for me. The reminiscences of my brutal wars many had died here. My mate is here but in the woman's section which was vacant except for a few. They all knew and acknowledged my presence, some even flirted with me in the hopes of getting out of there. I cringed at it and hopefully, I won't get the same reaction from my mate.

She was looking at a particular point on the cell when I occasionally did some spying on her. I would catch her doing that. I never understood why she did that. I didn't care enough to ask.

"Hey I greeted", her with false cheer. She didn't look my way. Her hair was a bit dishevelled her legs and arms were chained. I didn't want that but I could hardly change the rules for her in the prison without getting noticed. I'm a fucked up son of a bitch I waited for some horrific reaction from my wolf but he was silent as ever. It surprised me a great deal but I was relieved beyond measure.

" I expected you to be late but here you are early and confident as always", she said, still not looking at me. "Yes, I'm here like you asked what now"?I asked, cutting all the bullshit. " You are not going to ask how am I?", she asked me. "I don't think the formality is what you are expecting from me", I told her. " I'm not appalled by your manners but your lack of shame is ridiculous", she said. "I haven't done anything to be ashamed of yet", I told her. I could ask you the same thing I thought.

" There was a time I thought you were in love with me except you didn't want to admit it to the world", she laughed while saying this. I stayed silent, not sure knowing what to say. I was and still am in love with her but I'm taking responsibility for my actions now without letting the chips fall anyway. I would rather like it to be less damaging. I had to compromise my love for the life and safety of my people.

"What are your conditions"? I asked her. " You are a very impatient man. One thing prison has taught me is to be patient and wait for the right time," she said. "You haven't been here long enough for the prison to teach you anything", I provoked her. I saw coal blazing in her eyes through her unkempt bangs. Good, I want her to be angry and lose control of her mind that's how she will spill her words. " You claim to love your tribe so much but your mate is in the worst conditions and mainly because of you. Yet you have the gall to talk to me like that", she spewed her words disdainfully. I took a huge breath and said, "im your lord, Alpha and your mate yet you have no loyalty for me. How can I ask my people for their subservience when my mate is blatantly disregarding me?", I asked her.

" I don't know about my previous selves but this life has given me enough to hate you", she said. But she sobered realising her mistake of talking about her pain and quelled with me a venomous look. I looked back at her with conviction so she doesn't see any holes in my armour of disregard.

"Alright, I will tell you my conditions. The first one is to propose to me here now. The second one is I want a big wedding so I could complete your humiliation among your people by marrying the same person who is accused of killing your fiance. The third and final condition is that at no cost should anyone know why you are marrying me. You will act as though you are in love with me", she sighed after this.

" Anything else", I asked her arching my eyebrows. "You want more im sure I could bring out more like organising our wedding in the place where your fiance is buried", she smirked at me. " No I think it's better not to cross the limits of the patience of my people for your safety", I told spite fully.  "I don't care about me not anymore today onwards I will live only to cause you misery", she told me. " Carefully sweetheart you don't know what you are asking for?", I told her. She narrowed her eyes at me looking at me with hatred and confusion.

"The marriage is going to be a big mistake something we would both regret. You thought of our bond as a mere love but it's different and far more powerful than your credit for. There is a reason people hardly survive the death of their mates. I'm an Alpha and you are a luna that would make it more difficult for us to hurt each other. When you are at war with your wolf it would make you insane", I told her truthfully. There is more much more but I didn't want to tell her all worried it would change her mind. Once we are married and the moon time comes sort of like our mating period once a year nothing would stop us from doing something that would make us regret our whole life. The pull would be strong to procreate nothing but death would stop us.

There was always a six months mark in our relationship. Before our mating period, she would die always. So we never got to have any kids. But we have made love before many times but the child would come out only in the moon period. I didn't know if it applied to her anymore since she was a human but it applied to me and that was enough.