"Alpha!"

He snapped his head back to see his Beta waving a red piece of cloth at him behind thick fumes of smoke.

Fuck!

His eyes darted around in time to catch a snipper stationed at the far end of a building.

Double fuck!

He hissed, bending forward as he clutched his groin. This human the moon goddess had cursed him with might actually be the end of him.

Before he could say Jack, she already had the cold muzzle of her gun pinned to the side of his head.

[Their reinforcements have arrived and we are outnumbered. We need to get out of here quick!] His Beta's voice boomed in his head through the mind link but he kept his eyes trained on the human in front of him.

"This is for invading my space." She snarled before hitting his head with the butt of the gun, earning a slight groan from him.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He countered as he straightened, forcing her to look up at him.

Barking out a wry laugh, she glared hard at him. "I would be begging on my knees if I were you."

He let out a dry chuckle before calmly looking into her eyes.

"Is that what you want, human?"

She held her gun tighter at the change in his voice, her fingers suddenly trembling at the trigger.

"Do you desperately want to see me begging on my knees?" He asked, walking closer to the muzzle of her gun.

Her throat bobbed and her neck burned red without her permission.

Why did she suddenly have a feeling that they were talking about two different things all together?

Extending his hand towards her, he tilted his head to the side. "Come with me and you'll be the only person I kneel to."

"Wh...what?" She spluttered at the rate her heart beat quickened.

Her palms suddenly grew sweaty.

What was all the nonsense she was feeling?

[Alpha! Duck!]

At that, he dived into her, rolling them to the side and under the protection of a rock as rain of bullets tore through the ground he was standing on seconds ago.

"What are..."

"Shhh!" He hissed, cupping her lips.

When he felt the familiar coldness of a muzzle pressed against his stomach, a wry smile tugged at his lips as his hand slid off her face.

"What? Even after saving your life, you aren't grateful?"

"You should be grateful you got a few extra minutes to breathe." She hissed in return, her heart pounding hard against her ribcage from being extra close to him even as the bullets continued to rain down around them.

"You still want to be loyal to the people who won't waste a breath in finishing you off to get me?" He had a brow raised as he asked.

She let her lip pull up in a semblance of a smirk, "as long as they get you."

A muscle feathered in his jaw as his green eyes turned cold.

Her eyes turned equally cold as they glared at themselves.

Without wasting a single breath, he grabbed her chin.

She pushed the muzzle deeper into his taut belly without hesitation, ignoring whatever tingles she felt and daring him to do anything out of the ordinary.

"You belong to me!" He pronounced, his eyes looking into hers one at a time.

She spat into his face, making him flinch from the impact before smiling.

"I'd rather get my throat slit than belong to the enemy of my people." She fired back at him, the hand holding the gun shaky from tension.

"Is that so?" He let off a smirk as he leaned in dangerously closer to her lips.

"You are already cornered by my comrades." She commented with a tinge of pride.

"Or not?" He tilted his head to the side, his smirk turning into a crazed smile on seeing the look of pride slowly die off her face.

"What do you m..."

He leaned in at that moment and sealed her lips shut with a kiss, his hand still holding her jaw as his lips moved against hers.

Ignoring the metallic tang of blood from him, she let out a moan, her body tightening even as she melted against him.

This shouldn't be happening!

She could feel her brain mushing up.

The sounds of bullets continued raining into the ground and already dead bodies blurred out of her view, leaving a loud ringing in her ears.

This shouldn't be happening!

Her closing eyes snapped open and she did the only thing her brain could think of at that moment.

She pulled the trigger right into his belly.

She felt the air as her body fell forward only to open her eyes to a strange environment and a pair of legs few feet away.

Lifting her eyes up the body in front of her, she jerked at the sight of the clam ones staring down at her.

Blinking down at the gun still in her hand, her lids widened and she immediately looked around, her heart thumping in her chest.

How did they get here from the...

"Wait..." She said in a strangled voice as she rapidly blinked up at him.

"Aren't you supposed to be..."

"Dead?" He finished off for her with a raise of his brow, a dark chuckle escaping his lips.

With a flick of his hand towards her, the gun in her hand disappeared into thin air, startling the hell out of her.

Scooting back in shock, she bit back a scream.

What in the name of juju was that!?

Trying to be brave, she struggled to glare up at him only to find his back to her.

"Gag her." He ordered in a cold voice she could only associate with his person.

In a blink of an eye, a sexy looking terrorist with piercings jumped into her line of sight, almost startling her out of her skin.

"What do you think you are doing?" She hissed at the enemy's back.

"Gagging you." The sexy terrorist responded with a lopsided mockery of a smile, his gold tooth glinting while she sneered at him.

"You can't do that to me! Get out of my way!" She shot out her hand and pushed at him before jumping to her feet and stomping her way towards him.

Her angry steps faltered when she saw a raise of his hand in the air and a swoosh of a flying fist at the base of her neck.

She would have been knocked down just now if he hadn't stopped it. Where did all her intense training go? How could she not feel the attack coming?

She felt goosebumps line her skin but she hardened her facial features before speaking with the courage she currently didn't feel.

"I don't know what magical powers you have but you will get me back to my people this instant!"

He whirled on her, all forms of amusement gone from his eyes.

"Really?" He snapped, clearly irritated by her stubbornness.

Gritting her teeth at him, she responded. "Yes. I am a high ranking member of the special force and you have no rights to kidnap me against..."

"I have every right!" He barked, suddenly right in front of her, forcing a hiccup to escape her lips as she looked up at him, her wide eyes rapidly blinking.

She wasn't sure she could get used to this strange show of magic.

"You are my mate!"

"I am nobody's mate...you psychopath!" She jabbed at his chest, her eyes wide with growing anger.

Someone hiccuped in the background but she was too busy getting angry to notice the silent commotion behind her.

"Are you some sort of animal going on about mating? And what the hell did you do to me with your occultic magic!?" She hissed, her eyes almost spitting fire at him.

"You lost the privilege to question me after pulling the trigger on me." He said calmly with a deadly undertone, his nose flaring.

"And you have no right to claim me."

"Oh I do!" He grabbed her hand and pressed it onto his chest.

Her throat ran dry as her startled heart started thumping loudly with the flow of weird tingles spreading through her body.

Her eyes brimmed with tears at how much she hated the way she felt about this enemy the moment he touched her.

She suddenly couldn't find the energy to hate on him as she whispered. "Why me?"

"You have lost the privilege to question me." He responded coldly with his eyes running through the contours of her face.

"Do you feel it?" He asked instead, his hand snaking around her waist as he pulled her closer to him.

Someone coughed in the background this time but she felt trapped in his intense green gaze that she couldn't even turn her head to see who was behind her.

"The moon goddess must surely hate me." He snickered, before leaning his head in to press his nose against the side of her head.

She found herself leaning in to him and hating herself for doing so.

"How on earth could she give me a human mate after all these years of waiting for my other half?"

After a few seconds, he withdrew, a conflicting emotion on his face.

"I... I don't know whatever gibberish you are spewing...all...all I want is for you to end this! End it!" She wished to scream but it came out a choked whisper instead with her eyes wide and looking into his.

He shook his head. "I can't."

Then he let go of her gently.

Gently; a gesture she would never expect from a brutal terrorist.

"I have waited my entire life for you." He said, his eyes pinned on hers before looking at the rocky ground.

"I don't care what you are anymore. All you have to do is to accept the mate bond and love me."

She opened my mouth to protest but her words got stuck to her throat.

"You cannot leave." His eyes snapped up to meet hers and this time they were a black pair and no longer green causing a chill to run down her spine.

"You are mine now and will accept me as yours."

"Your...your eyes...what happened to your eyes?" She stuttered, feeling the air being knocked out of her lungs.

It was then the panic she was trained half of her life not to feel suddenly knocked into her, almost crippling her as she looked around for an escape route.

For the first time since she opened her eyes in the new environment did she observe the surroundings around them.

They were somewhere on the border of her country and the endless forest.

How did they get here? What did he do?

She didn't have the time to ponder on the questions as she suddenly turned on her heels to run in search of a way out only to pause at the ten dozens of eyes staring back at her with conflicting emotions.

"Where do you think you are going, mate?" His voice made her heart quiver.

She needed to find a way to go back to base... a way to talk of her new findings about the popular terrorist...a way to make them believe he wasn't just any human.

"You can't leave us." He barked and at that, she suddenly tumbled, her knees meeting the stony ground.

"Stop this madness I beg of you!" Her throat was getting hoarse and her voice rougher as she kept screaming her way down the forest.

"You can't do this to me! You simply can't!" Her wide eyes were raw red as she glared at his side profile.

Sighing, he turned back to face her and for a moment, she felt they would bump into the bark of a gigantic tree and die off.

"The track! Road! Focus on the road!" Her eyes grew wider.

Chuckling, he gave her a wink and turned back to face the road. "Do you care about me now?"

Barking out a laughter of disbelief at her situation, she hissed a curse at him beneath her breath before easing into the chair, with her hands now cuffed right in front of her.

Where the fuck was he taking her?

"We are going to my pack." He said and a new wave of terror hit her.

"Were you listening to my...my thoughts?" She whispered with shaky breaths.

"Your thoughts? Pffft." He turned to face her again, his now green eyes glinting with mischief.

"Were you thinking about me?"

"You are a crazy bastard! Let me go!" She yelled, frantically waving her hands about in the air.

With an irritated sigh from him, she felt herself jerk forward as he pressed the brakes of the gigantic monstrosity of a vehicle he was riding on.

Breathing heavily, she turned to face him with anger and hatred in her eyes.

"I should have gagged you."

"Fuck you!" She screeched, her throat going raw as her voice ceased.

"Gladly, but with your consent, mate." He snickered.

Was this really the terrorist she and her team have been hunting down?

Why did he look...feel so...so boyish and free and EVIL!

Yes, he is evil! Hence the reason for her kidnap.

"My people will come for me." She threatened and turned away from him towards the window, not wanting to hear what else he had to say.

"Your name. What is your name?"

Snapping her head back to face him, she spat out the name she has been used to being called almost all her life.

"Number 389."

"Ho..." He opened his mouth to speak but a knock on his side of the window paused all words in his throat.

It was the sexy guy from earlier.

"Is there a problem, Alpha?" He asked, poking his head in and letting his eyes scan all over her body and chair like she would suddenly produce a weapon to attack his leader.

She gladly would though, if she wasn't bound.

"No."

There was a moment of silent communication that she could not understand and suddenly the sexy guy started nodding before backing off.

"You can keep me against my will all you want, but you will never force me into doing your biddings."

"Is that so?" He asked with a crooked grin and the infuriation in her chest grew even higher, bubbling like a venom at the back of her throat.

She was ready to spew it at him at any moment when he suddenly leaned closer, their breath mingling in the gradually hot air between them.

"Stay back, stay back! What do you think you are doing?" She asked, her eyes wide and searching his now black ones.

"Claiming you as mine."

His voice was deeper now and the aura was far different from when he was green eyed.

"You..." She pushed out her cuffed hands at him as her eyes grew even wider from the shock of the realization hitting her.

"Are you real? You are real! What souls have you eaten up you wizard?" She asked, fighting so hard to merge into the car seat.

How did his eyes go back to being black?

"Please stop! Stop this witchery!"

He paused midair and blinked, his eyes now back to being green with a fleeting emotion of hurt.

"I am not a witch, mate." His head tilted to the side but she just turned her head away and faced the window.

"Mate?"

She flinched when she felt his cold fingertips brush against her skin.

"Get. away. from. me." She hissed and pressed her forehead against the window.

***

"We are here."

She blinked her eyes open at the entirely new city before her, surrounded by the thick forest trees.

"Where are we?" She asked, turning back to look at him, an action she regretted instantly.

She tasted fear at the back of her tongue when she met his half green and half black eyes. His emotion was unreadable as he looked straight ahead.

"My pack." Was his casual response.

"Your...your what?" She stuttered, swallowing almost immediately.

Dragging his eyes to meet hers, the corner of his lips kicked up. "Welcome to my pack, mate."

"Come..." He extended his hand towards her but she only glared at it before glaring back up at him.

"Do you have some kind of animal spirit possessing you or something?"

Shrugging, he pushed the car's door open and stepped out. Almost immediately a pack of wolves rushed out of the surrounding trees towards him.

"WATCH OUUUTTT!" She yelled out of panic before snapping her mouth shut and chiding herself for caring about his wellbeing.

"You can fucking get torn apart for all I care." She hissed only for her jaw to drop when all ten wolves skidded to a stop and bowed to him in submission.

"Wha..." The question died off in her tongue as the wolves turned towards her direction all at once, their piercing eyes staring directly into her soul.

An urgent tap at the window made her jump in her seat, her heart thumping against her ribcage.

"It's high time you step out, human." The sexy guy said, a hint of a smile on his lips.

"Are you out of your mind?" She asked in her hoarse voice, squeezing her eyes shut at the pain in her throat.

"No. You need to meet the council members."

Oh heavens! What in the name of madness was this?

She gaped at him, exasperated.

"What the hell are you talking about?" She pushed out only for her side of the door to get opened.

"No. No." She began to struggle but the tight cuffs on her hands wouldn't let her move freely.

"Uncuff her." The terrorist ordered from where he stood, now looking at her.

With a nod, the lady who opened the door gave way and the sexy guy walked over to her side and uncuffed her.

Thinking really fast for a way out of this madness, the only thing she could think to do was infuriate the mad terrorist.

Grabbing the sides of the sexy guy's face, she muttered an apology before slamming her lips into his.