SOPHIA
"Where did she come from? Has she been hiding there all these while? And how is it even possible that she's our mate?"
"You felt the mating pull didn't you?" I heard a one ask. "That's enough proof that she's our mate."
"She's not our mate. Wake her up or i will kill her myself."
"Chill Jayden. You can't hurt her, at least not yet until we figure out what's happening right now."
I heard their persistent voices as it slowly started to become clearer. I felt my nose twitch at an unfamiliar yet intoxicating scent. It felt strange but yet it felt so good too.
The wave of flutter rose up from my insides and settled in my lower abdomen. A tiny moan escaped my throat even though i tried so hard to suppress it. Although my eyes were shut, my whole body not in motion, i felt myself moving.
With furrowed eyebrows, i shut my eyes even tighter in a failed attempt to understand what was going on. It felt like i was still moving, drifting me to the last bit of my memory before i lost consciousness.
I remember standing on a bridge then i slipped and fell into the river. I opened my eyes later to see three men staring at me. Holy shit! One threatened me and even went as far as changing into a big scary wolf causing me to go unconscious.
Immediately, i eyes tore open to realize that my whole body was pressed against a man's bare chest, his protruding muscles bulging. I suddenly felt terrified and tried to get myself down only for him to tighten his grip around my body firmly.
I hit him on his chest continuously. "W-Who are you? Let me go. Put me down right now!" I struggled but he wouldn't budge. How is he so strong and able to hold me firmly despite all my efforts to get away from him.
I felt myself stop moving as he paused in his tracks. With an irritated sigh, He tilted his head to look at my face and i am met with the most beautiful pair of blue eyes that i have ever seen in my entire.
As though they compelled me, I swallowed, unable to stop myself from shamelessly staring at him. He was attractive. Very attractive and i couldn't deny that. He was the type of guy that made you question your sexuality and if you were even worth existing as a woman at all.
His curly auburn hair fell down to his face while the rest were tied up in a manly bun. His chiseled jawline was defined like those ones i used to see men request for at the hospital when they came for plastic surgery.
Is this even real? He stared at me with cold eyes that lacked emotion yet looked stunning at the same time. How does a man look both handsome and beautiful at the same time? I felt robbed as a woman.
Pulling me closer to him, he flexed off his well built arm and manly features, then groaned at me in a condescending tone that almost increased my heart rate to a maximum.
"You're my mate."
"What?" I blurted out, obviously confused and terrified by that statement. "I'm sorry but what does that even mean? Y-Your mate?"
He looked at me as if I've grown a second pair of head. How does he expect me to know what he's talking about when he's speaking in a complete different language that i don't even understand?
"And what about the rest of us?" I heard the deep voice of another man from behind us and that's when i realized that we had company. "She's not just your mate Liam. She's our mate. Ours." He drawled in emphasis.
A light chuckle escaped my lips. I must be crazy. I'm going mad and utterly insane. Maybe this is the afterlife.
I might've died and was brought down here to paradise. Since i wasn't given a good chance at love when i was alive, maybe this was my compensation. How else can you explain me draped in the arms of three hot men who are basically claiming me to be theirs?
Maybe this could be a dream. I might've been dreaming after all. Maybe Jason really didn't cheat on me. Maybe i was dreaming that he did and now, it's time wake up because everything makes absolutely no sense. They were making no sense. It's just a dream. Another utterly ridiculous and stupid dream. Or could this be my fantasy coming to life? What is happening to me?
"Put me down right this instant!" I ordered but it felt like my words were basically falling on deaf ears. He wasn't paying attention to me. None of them were. "Let me go!"
"She's so loud!" One of them grumbled from behind us. "I feel like shoving her into a loose tree branch and watching her bleed to death." He added with an irritated scoff. With a yelp, I instantly shut my mouth. I don't know why but something deep inside me told me that he could actually do what he had just said.
Without uttering a single word, i quietly watched them as they carried me deeper into the woods. My heart was thumping loudly inside my chest because i couldn't tell what they were planning to do to me by bringing me here.
I know that i had actually planned my death by commiting suicide but i don't want to die by their hands. We arrived at a secured cabin and they tied me up so that i couldn't escape even if i wanted to.
"What do we do with her?" The one who had carried me asked the other two who looked somewhat uninterested. One of them sat on the wooden couch in the cabin while the other one rested his back on the door with his hands folded neatly across his bare chest.
"I say we kill her and dump her body somewhere no one would find it." One of them suggested. "She committed treason. She walked into our bathing house uninvited and hid there to watch and see us naked so her actions are punishable by death." He deadpanned.
"But she's our mate and this is the first time in twenty five years that something like this is happening to us so how can you suggest that we just kill her off Jayden." The one who tied me up attacked him but he only rolled his eyes at them in disdain. Why on earth is he grouchy? I'm supposed to be the one grumbling because I'm stuck in a place that i don't even know.
"She disgusts me. She's a pervert." He spat angrily with glaring eyes. I have come to know that the one who loathes me for some reason was named Jayden while the other one who carried me here was Liam. I was yet to figure out the name of the last one. That is if i would be alive long enough to do so.
"That's not enough reason to kill her." They bantered on like I was invisible. Like a priced calf put on for auction. "The prophecy declared that we would find our mate and until we figure out why each of us share the mating pull with her, no one should attempt to kill her. That's an order!"
"You're not the boss of me." Jayden countered. "Last time i checked, we are of the same age so you have no right to tell me what to do, Liam. I'll kill her right here and now if i want to and no one would stop me, not even you."
"Our father and mothers would not be thrilled to hear about this recent development." The nameless one said with a light chuckle. Wait, they're brothers? Oh Lord just take me now. I've lived and seen quite enough. I will never attempt to commit suicide ever again in my life no matter what. Just wake me up from this dream.
"Please let me go." I begged, tears falling from my eyes and trailing down my cheeks like twin rivers. "I have no idea where i am and i need to go back home to my parents."
"I promise that I won't cause any more trouble, I just want to go back home—"
"Will you shut up already!" The same guy who had threatened to kill me shouted at me at the top of his voice and i clamped my mouth shut. "Gosh! I'm sick and tired of her endless tantrums."
"Stop it Jayden, can't you see that you're scaring her?" The first one shunned him by coming to my rescue and he looked away angrily. Taking slow and steady steps towards me, he approached me and crouched down next to me. I shivered slightly at the result of the water that I was drenched in.
"Hello, I'm Liam. What is your name?" He inquired softly with a soothing voice that made me forget that i was currently tied up with no where to escape to. Why am i being attracted to this man? What force of nature is behind this? What if they were kidnappers or worse?
"S-Sophia." I whispered in a stutter and he reached out to touch my damp face. I flinched and he stopped halfway, retracting his hands back in the process.
"Where are you from?" He went further to ask but i didn't respond. "Are you from around here or from a different neighbouring pack?"
Pack? What pack? What is he talking about? What's a pack?
"Listen, we won't hurt you Sophia, i promise." He went on. "We just want to help you." He said and i sniveled, bringing my face to look at them. "You see that one over there? The one standing by the door, that's Noah. I'm guessing that you already know the other one who's mean." He introduced them to me. "They are my brothers and you my dear, you are our mate. Our woman to claim as ours."