Marie's POV
I put myself quickly into faded jeans and a black tank top, packed my full black hair into a ponytail and went outside. I had made sure not to wet my hair in the shower, keeping in mind the eternity of getting it dry.
"Marie?" I heard the voice I knew too well, Eric.
I looked at him. . . My mouth was wide open in shock, my legs pinned on the ground, unable to move any more steps.
"Eric" I whispered right back, Eric was my mate after all and he was just as shocked as I was. 'He looks so fine, I am sure he is going to be able to handle you in bed'
'Shut up, Lily. Please let me concentrate' I cautioned my wolf, this moment is important to me more than anything. Here and now, my fate would be determined
"Hi, Eric, you are here," I said, finally coming out of my shock. But trying to drag it as much as possible.
"Marie, I have known for a while now that you are my mate" He started, his voice was chilled, colder than I had ever known his voice to be and it was beginning to scare me. If anyone would reject me, I never thought it would be Eric, and funny as it could be, I had hoped for that fact.
"Maybe for about a few months now, and I have been practising ways to reject you and break the bond as painlessly as I possibly can," he continued.
I chuckled, from a place of hurt.
"You are rejecting me?" I asked in disbelief. Or maybe I already knew it could happen, but I had given him the benefit of the doubt. "You could not even give me at least a day to enjoy knowing that you would free me from the shackles that bind me to the pack and the stigma that keeps following me around. You could not wait!"
"Yes, I am rejecting you and you know why. . . "
"Don't give me that crap about you not wanting to mate with an Omega or someone lower to your status. It will just jerk me. You know I am not weak" I cut through his sentence. His excuses will only add to my annoyance and sadness
"I guess, you don't like that I want to try to be soft with you" He moved a step back as if bracing himself, "I, ERIC RULPHUS, THE FUTURE ALPHA TO THE SAFEMOON PACK, REJECTS YOU MARIE ANDERSON AS MY MATE AND FUTURE LUNA. Now accept my rejection,"
Lily screamed from the pain, and I gripped my chest as I felt the bone snap, the pain was out of this world. But I needed to accept this and get this done.
"I, MARIE ANDERSON ACCEPT YOUR REJECTION FUTURE ALPHA ERIC OF THE SAFEMOON PACK" That did it, it knocked me out, throwing me out on the hard floor but I managed to look up. Eric was leaving me there to fend for myself.
I knew from there on out, I didn't have anybody but myself.
I pushed myself up after a long moment of staying on the floor 'Lily, let go to St Fent's'
It was better than Eric rejecting me tonight and he didn't wait till morning when every girl and boy, old and young would take the opportunity to torture me with it, I told myself as I entered into St Fents, it was busy as usual and I thought to myself that I was going to be as bad as I can possibly get, levelling up my confidence.
No one should know what just happened to me. And I will drown myself to a point where my rejection will not creep into my mind throughout this night.
"What should I prepare for you, miss?" The bartender asked me.
"Your strongest drink please," I replied. I knew it was silly of me but the craziest thing was that I didn't care.
Nobody really cared about you here, it's for the locals around and far. It's not some fancy bar with some valet parking or some heavy bouncers who would ask for your ID before you entered, but I would still rate the place five stars.
In fact, I was not some slim girl with no curves, I would have been permitted to enter into the bar even if there were rules like that. My curves complemented my body, my long legs and my full lips were to die for, I have been told by the hungry devil may-use boys in the pack who cared for nothing but to get under my skirt. And I have seen myself in the mirror countless times, I know what a great body I have been given. But I had not been ready for any of them, I was not ready to have sex. I was waiting for my mate. Maybe my mate would at least stay with me even if it was solely because of my body.
And this was more reason why it was still very unbelievable to me that Eric would reject me without trying to get down with me. Maybe I am not supposed to worry at the end of the day. Maybe he was being kind to me. Maybe he had a reason.
Not too long after, my reasoning started to become really blurry and the alcohol in my system was beginning to take its effects. I never thought I would last long since it was my first time, but I liked it.
I turned for the first time that night and looked into the almost empty bar. I was not sure what the time was. I searched for my phone but realized I hadn't even taken it out of my shed so I tried to move around, first to look for the time and then to the ladies' room.
"I am sorry," I said, as I hit something hard, I stepped back to look, and there he was, the most enchanting man I have ever set my eyes on. Standing tall and looking down at me was the hardest face I have ever seen. He was not smiling, he just looked at me. He was probably coming from the gents' room himself.
"I like your hard body," and to emphasize on what I said, I touched him, his hard rock body was touchable through the thin black shirt he was wearing. He smiled, he seemed to like what I said.
He was a stranger, probably not from these lands and I just could not take my mind off the fact that I wanted him to have sex with me. Was that my thought or Lily's?
It does not matter, I wanted him. And I would get him.