JPOV
Keeping my eyes on everyone in the room, I slowly straightened out of my crouch and turned to face Maria.
'maria' I said. Bowing my head like I actually respected her.
'well major. What of our new soldier?' so she expected me to have an update so soon. Stupid bitch.
'I was going to take her hunting, then see if I could detect if she was powerful or not'
'have you not yet talked to her? She seems to like you. From the minute I walked in the door, she's been cowering behind your back' confused, I looked behind me and there she was, almost like she was hiding. She shouldn't be able to stand so close to me so soon after waking up from the change. The fact that she's a newborn should have her quivering in fear and activating her fight or flight response. Especially once she had seen my scars, but she continues to look at me, not like a monster, but like a person.
'Major!' I jumped and turned to face the bitch again. 'take my new soldier hunting, tell her the basics and then bring her back here and train her. Five trained females against her to begin with, shall we' then she left, hissing at those who blocked her path. Five? Against an untrained newborn? She'd never survive it. That brought the pain in my chest back again. The thought of her not existing made me wish I was dead. I looked back to the female and realised that I didn't know her name.
'you' I pointed at her 'what's your name girl?' her eyes narrowed at the term girl.
'Isabella. But I get called Bella' Bella. It suited such a beauty as her.
'bella, come with me. The rest of you, get back to watching the training sessions. I will return in a few hours' with that I walked out of the tent, sure that bella would follow me like I had told her to. But when I looked round again I saw that she was trying but the males in the tent were trying to pin her to the bed and I knew what they would do then. Forcibly mate with her. It was the only thing to keep her real mate from claiming her, because he would smell the others on her, in her and reject her. She would eventually come crawling back to them and let them take her how they liked. I couldn't let that happen to her. She didn't even belong here, you could see it from looking at her that she didn't have any fight in her as a human so that left only one reason for the son of a bitch to turn her. He had wanted to claim her as his own. In a second I had the males neck pinned to the floor.
'did I not say that you were to go and watch the training while I took her hunting? Why are you touching what's mine soldier? Do you want to unleash the God of War on you? Huh?' he was shaking in fear and I knew what had happened. He'd been drawn by her beauty. Then I realised what I had said. I had openly claimed that she was mine. Shit. How could I have been so careless. When this gets to maria she will assume that the female is my mate and try and use her as bribery to get me to do what she wants me to. And that cant be good. I growled at him once more before grabbing Bella round the waist and hiking her onto my shoulder before running off. I didn't trust the males in this camp any more with what I had openly claimed as mine, so, as the major, I would be expected to be territorial. I was a male vampire at war after all. We were the most possessive, dominant males out there and these were our women. We had to protect them, it was our right. Why did I keep insinuating that the female on my shoulder was my mate. I had vowed years ago to never take a mate. What was I going to do?