The Alpha’s Arranged Bride

ALPHA CARAMEL’S POV

I drove to the airport where my private jet awaited our arrival. The closer we got to it, the larger it became. It stood majestically at the centre, and I turned to Lavender, who stared at it in awe. I’m sure she was not expecting that we would leave so soon and, even better, with a private jet.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

I got down from the car and was about to turn around to open the door for her, but she did that on her own. I sighed as she rolled her eyes at me, already aware of what I wanted to do. She really did not want to get close to me. I let her be though, and led her to the airplane.

I stood at the side of the stairs, waiting for her to get in. The moment she walked past me, I joined her in, then locked the door. “Follow me,” I told her, which she did without question as her eyes feasted on what was around her.

“Sit,” I instructed, and once she was seated, I helped her with her seatbelt.

Usually, there wouldn’t be a seat here, but I made the modifications specifically for her. I wanted to have her by my side as I rode without having to go to the back to check on her. I took my position as she asked, “You are the one going to control this thing?”

“Yes, I will be the pilot for today. Do you have a problem with that?” I threw the question at her, then she looked away while folding her arms.

I strapped myself with my seatbelt, ready to start the journey, but not before warning her. “Do not think of doing anything funny because the outcome would be disastrous.”

She snorted at my words, her eyes still on the other side of the window. “I am not a kid who throws tantrums. If I didn’t want to follow you, I would have refused from home,” she informed me, and I nodded, “That’s good to know.”

I effortlessly piloted the aircraft towards the Shadow Pack, relishing one of my greatest loves: flying a plane. It was not a long trip, so we arrived the next morning. I landed the plane softly in its private hangar before helping myself off the seat and repeating the same with Lavender.

She wanted to do it herself, but I stopped her from doing so. Hurriedly, she got out of the plane that was opened up for her by one of my guards. As she walked to the car, I could not help but admire her beauty. Just from looking at her from behind, someone could already tell how beautiful she was.

Her red hair spiked with blue was one in a million; the air around did justice to it as it moved in an angelic manner. Her curves were so coherent that even with the not so fitted clothes she had on, it was evident. I stopped and admired the beauty in front of me, who was so stubborn it was cute to watch.

The side of my lips curved up as she got into the car with the door wide open for her to step in. I had been unlucky all these years not to have been blessed with a mate. I was unhappy and down about it for so long. “Don’t be gloomy about that, son. The Moon goddess is giving you that choice to find one for yourself,” my mother had told me.

I believed in her words and now I have found Lavender and chosen her to be the one for me forever. She was everything and more than I have always wanted and now, she is here. She was feisty, and I loved it. Her frown was something that made my heart flutter. When she looked at me, even though upset, I still cared about her.

I wanted her to love me as much as I did her. I wanted her to come close to me as much as I have always wanted to. I was not going to rest until that had been accomplished. She was mine now, and I was going to do everything possible to get her to love me.

A brief smile appeared on my face before I approached the car.

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LAVENDER’S POV

I waited for him to get into the car. However, I wondered what he was looking at that made him pause. Was he not the one who said we were in a hurry, so why stand there and look at me like I was something he did not know? I wish I could confront him and tell him I was the same girl he forced into marriage, so he should not look at me strangely.

He eventually came into the car and sat beside me. His aura immediately filled the atmosphere. At this point, I was yet to know if I liked it or not because I had mixed feelings about it. The moment the guard shut his door and got into the car, the car sped up and left the premises. Obviously, to his community, I believed.

It did not take long before he announced in my ears with a whisper, “We are here.”

I turned to him with a confused expression before looking out the window. There was a board there that read ‘Shadow Pack.’ I did not know what to expect when we drove in this direction, but as the car kept rolling through the road, it was far from what I had imagined. The way it was leaning towards the wild was something I had not expected.

I would not have believed him if I had not seen the houses that were scattered around as we drove past them slowly. Many of his people stepped out of their houses with smiles waving at the cars. The man who sat beside me also waved at them with a wide smile.

There was only one thing that would make a leader be greeted this way once he was back and that was if he was a good leader. I had not expected this from him even in the slightest. We got to an open space and the people there were ten times more than the people we had seen while arriving at the border.

I heard the door open by my side, and I snapped my head at him. I was so engrossed in what was going on that I did not realize that we stopped. Caramel stepped out of the car, and they swamped him. “Good morning, Alpha,” they all chorused, smiles on their faces as they did so.

The only ones that were able to get really close to him were the children. “No, no, don’t get too close while being so dirty.” One of the mothers yelled at her son, but Caramel stopped her, “It’s fine. Let them come,” he told them, and the children’s faces were as bright as the sun as they approached him.

They greeted just like their parents did with a bow, and Caramel lowered his height to meet theirs. “How are you all today?” he inquired, and they all chorused, “Fine, Alpha Caramel.”

“You all didn’t go to school?” he questioned, and one of the mothers answered him instead, “They didn’t because of your arrival, Alpha. We all wanted to see you come.”

Caramel nodded with a smile. “Thank you. Did you receive the things I sent?”

“Oh, we did, Alpha. The pack is very happy with the improvements,” the woman responded to him.

Then he turned to the children who still surrounded him. “Okay, children, help your mothers, okay, and learn well,” he said before turning around and getting back into the car.

I was amazed at how close he was to his people. I did not sense any form of fear or anxiousness around them as they spoke to him. All I could see was admiration and respect in their eyes as they looked at him. I never expected something like this to happen.

With how he behaved, I thought he would be one of these leaders whom his people feared and did not want to get close to. I stared at him and unknowingly, the side of my lips curved up. It seemed he was not what I thought he was.

However, their words played at the back of my head again. They called him Alpha, but why? Was that their way of saying he was their leader instead of using King? It fascinated me but also surprised me. I wanted to ask what that meant, but I chose against it.

The only association I could think of was a wolf, and there was no way he could be one. He looked human to me and so did his people. I shook my head to remove those thoughts. I would be doomed if that were the case.