Chapter 4 Luna's Order

• CHAPTER FOUR
• "You know I am not spewing nonsense Karen. Yes, your wolf might not be there to witness within you that I am yours but you can't deny the fact that you are drawn towards me, somehow, somewhere within, you know!"
• Karen was breathing hard, she could not believe what she just heard. What Ralph said was the truth and that was why she had been trying to push him far from her. My mate???
• "But there is no way to prove it" Karen said with her chest heaving up and down.
• "There is" Ralph said and his eyes were fixed on hers intently. "How?" Karen asked and her voice came out as a whisper. She was paralyzed by the scorching blazes of Ralph's eyes and the sincerity she could feel from his words. Ralph leaned into her without his body touching hers and took her lips in his. She wanted to push him off but the strength of his hands held her in place and he deepened the kiss.
• She surrendered and her lips soon followed the pace that his, had set. It was gentle, promising and sent fiery messages all over her skin. Ralph soon let go of her hands and placed his body by hers on the bed as the kiss continued and grew into something ferocious. Their tongues began to play tag and their lips sought dominance over the other. Her hands held unto his shirt and his hand lifted the hospital shirt she had on and began to caress the side of her belly.
• Karen pulled away from the kiss as she sought air.
• "Now, do you know how?" Ralph asked as he looked at her flushed face that blushed all over and it brought joy to his heart that she no longer looked pale. His ears were also bright red and he wanted more as his 'south man' had gotten bigger but this would do for now.
• "I…" began Karen
• 'Knock!knock!'
• Ralph became peeved that at this crucial moment, someone had the intrepidity to knock but he calmed because he was with his mate and he knew the person knocking was Stephan, as he had smelt him.
• Ralph stood up from the bed and Karen turned to lay straight as she looked everywhere in the room but his face.
• "You may enter," Ralph said.
• Stephan entered into the room and saluted the both of them, "Alpha", he acknowledged with a bow, "Luna" he also acknowledged with a bow.
• "My name is Karen, drop the title and just address me as Karen please" said Karen.
• Stephan looked from Karen to Ralph, just like Taurus did, to get Ralph's response and Karen rolled her eyes at him. Ralph saw her and he shook his head.
• "Address her however she desires but pay her the respect she merits, now and forever. Now why are you here?" said Ralph with a straight face and authority lacing every word he said.
• Stephan was about to state his mission when with a wicked giggle, Karen attracted the attention of the Alpha and his Beta.
• "Can I have a quick word with you Ralph…I meant, Alpha Ralph?" Karen asked rhetorically, poison threading through the title she addressed him. Stephan stepped out of the room, sensing fanning flames about to burn big.
• Ralph sat on the couch and Karen sat up on the bed.
• "You speak as if I have plans on going anywhere with you"
• "I don't know whether or not you have plans but you are going anywhere I am going"
• "I Am Not Your Pack Member" emphasised Karen in staccato.
• "You can never be too sure pequeño!"
• "Don't you call me 'pequeño', what does that even mean? You make it look like we are friends or something" said Karen as she poked a finger at his chest.
• "What's your deal man, because I don't understand. You claim to be my mate which I am not sure of or even accepted and now you want to take me to your home… I don't know if you are aware that the only reason why we met is because of that unfortunate accident…" narrated Karen.
• "And that unfortunate accident would keep us"
• "There is no us" screamed Karen and her eyes were wide open.
• Ralph took a shallow breath, gnashed his teeth and looked at her like she was some small child that didn't know that the path she was taking was dangerous.
• He stood up from the bed and took a step towards her, "if I have to drag you…" (takes one step)
• "Pull you" (another step)
• "Hang you over my shoulder" (another step)
• "Or make you unconscious" (another step before stopping at the bed)
• "I would, as long as it would guarantee you with me" he said staring directly and unwaveringly into her eyes.
• Challenged, Karen stared back at him, "so you are going to harm me and kidnap me, if I disagree with you?" asked Karen.
• "You would make it so pequeño"
• "I hate the fact that my legs are like this now" she said, anger bubbling within her.
• "Or what? You did run away?" Anywhere you think of running to, I would find you and bring you back Karen, because you are mine" said Ralph in a low voice but it conveyed how he meant every word.
• "Don't you ever think of running away Karen, besides, you can't even run because wherever you go, I would find you and bring you back here" Karen began to remember the words her cousin Luke always taunted her with, and a tear left her right eye as she looked into the angry eyes of Ralph.
• "He is just the same. How dare I think I was safe with him? How dare I entertain the thought of him being my chosen mate? Even if he is, I would run away far and from him, once I get my bearings" Karen thought to herself.
• Ralph saw the tear as it left her eye and something softened within him. He only threatened her because he didn't understand any other way by which he could bring her with him. He just got an information yesterday that the news of him coming to visit a particular sick lady in Brooks Hospital has circulated and he knows that there could be reactions soon from a lot of his enemies. Someone of his status is bound to have enemies but his are more than enemies, it seems they are obsessed with seeing him broken.
• "I'm sorry Karen. I didn't… I didn't mean to mak…" he started but she calmly cut him off.
• "I think I need to start getting ready so I can go with you. What do I do?" said Karen, facing the tiles.
• "I didn't mean it that way Kay, can you just look at me?"
• She raised her head to face him.
• "Not with those eyes," he said.
• "I don't understand what you mean" she replied and began to fiddle with her fingers.
• She was speaking to him so calmly, almost like she was afraid of him, obeying everything he was saying without a firm objection, made no statement when he called her Kay and looking at him with no emotion whatsoever in his eyes. He preferred it when she was looking at him with those wrathful eyes of hers than now.
• Ralph automatically knew he had messed up!
• He was not brought up in the best of ways and has never been used to treating people with absolute love. He only had a little thing close to love for those that obeyed and revered him and it was because there was a reason to.
• He hated himself at that moment and didn't know what to do to rectify the situation.
• "I'm…I'm sorry if I made you sad, it wasn't my true intention" Ralph said and wanted to tuck her hair behind her ear but she dodged his fingers.
• "I guess you need to be on your own for a while. Someone would bring you clothes you can change into now and we would leave in twenty minutes"
• "Alright Sir" Karen said.
• Sir? She had never called him that and though it was something his position demanded, he would do anything not to hear her call him that. He wanted to speak against it but he decided not to.
• "Would you be needing any other thing?"
• "Yes"
• "What is it? Anything just ask"
• "Can the 'someone' bringing my change of clothes be Taurus?"
• Now Taurus! Oh this was not going to do but he has already told her to ask anything.
• "Sure!"
• He left the room as he began to feel his wolf possessing more of the emotions he was feeling.
• "Alpha said you should give this to Luna and that if you do anything unnecessary you did lose an arm" Stephan said as he passed Taurus a bag containing Karen's new clothes.
• "Why me?" Taurus asked, scared as he knew Ralph wasn't joking.
• "Luna's orders" Stephan said and trotted away.
• Note: Pequeño means little one