Kate sat in her room, not believing what she was seeing on her X account, her husband getting wedded to her niece who has served them for many years. He had told her he was going for an Alpha's conference abroad only to see him doing this.
One week ago, their Omega niece had left them for her hometown. She was going to meet her parents after a long time of not seeing them. Little did she know that it was a tactic by her husband to fly her abroad for their luxury wedding. A lot had been going on behind her but she wasn't aware. The latest secret was that Lina was Gary's fated mate.
Alpha Gary told his wife he was heading for an International Alphas' Conference, held in Lincoln. It was an annual event and spanned across a week but the final event was always the most important. His wedding was set before this final day.
Kate lay on the bed, stretching her arms and legs, gazing at her husband's picture. She missed him so much and couldn't wait to have him back.
Alpha Gary who was the Alpha of the Delta Pack was her best friend right from childhood. She had always dreamt of marrying him one day and that dream came true. Even though they weren't fated mates, the love that bonded both of them was so strong that nothing could break it.
Not until Lina came into their lives.
She was Kate's niece, whom she brought to live with them. Life was pretty hard where she lived, as a considerate aunt, she couldn't watch seeing her suffer while she was here in the city enjoying luxury with her husband.
Little did she know she was selling away her position as her husband's favorite and the Luna of Delta Pack, her two greatest dreams-come-true.
After glancing through her husband's pictures, she moved directly to checking messages on her X account. It was where she received official messages.
The first message that hit her was a video.
She narrowed her eyes in horror as she looked deeply into the cover picture of the video, there was a man who looked so much like her husband kissing another girl who wasn't her. At this moment, nothing mattered other than getting to confirm this. She quickly tapped on the video.
"Oh my goodness!" Tears fell from her eyes, her heart was beating so hard. Her hands were raised to her head as she became so confused.
"What's going on here?" It was here she thought of looking at the name of the person who sent her the video.
"I must confirm if this is true or a photoshopped video." She tapped on the sender's username, it was her husband's assistant. Charles was always with her husband, he was the Alpha's assistant.
"Then this must be true!"
It was truly her husband getting married to Lina, her niece who said she was going to see her parents.
"I've been tricked!"
She let out a scream which attracted a lot of people, who came running towards her room.
Her husband of three years was tying the knot with her niece in a live wedding ceremony. Without Charles sending her the link to the video, she wouldn't be able to see it.
"Imagine, he even made it private!" Kate gasped. Her head was turning, she felt so dizzy that she dropped her phone on the bed, rolling on the floor. Tears flooded her eyes, blinding her. She could be heard groaning from outside, the knocks were getting the door banging so hard but despite this, she refused to open.
She picked up her phone again to check if this was true, but it hit her deeply.
"The real love of my life, my fated mate!" Alpha Gary tagged Lina in a recent comment on his wedding.
Kate flinched the phone hard against the wall, it came crashing on the floor. She didn't mind if it was damaged or not. She was in too much pain to be concerned about this. Nothing mattered to her again, not even her life.
"How could these two have a deep relationship I didn't just know, they could have been having sex a lot of times." She shut her eyes tight. Alpha Gary always loved spending time with Lina, taking her out. To her, she thought it was a reward of diligence. Lina was the most hardworking girl they had in the estate. She wasn't initially brought in to work as a maid, but after seeing the care and luxury her aunt gave to her, she voluntarily decided to serve her in gratitude.
Kate didn't see anything wrong here as it was her self-will.
"Now I've seen I was a fool!" She cried.
As soon as the wedding was finished and everyone was heading for the reception, she called Gary immediately. Seeing her call, he thought it was her calling to check up on him as usual, so he picked up, not knowing what she was up to.
"Hello," She called out with a cracked voice immediately the caller timer came up. Gary was listening, hearing her voice, he arched his brows, he suspected something was wrong.
"Who's that?" Lina asked as she was standing with her new husband. Kate gasped.
"So this is true?" Kate yelled. "You lied to me about going to an Alpha's conference only to fly abroad with that little, crazy bastard to wed each other."
"I should have blamed myself first of all for letting her into my home."
"Are you insane, what are you talking about?" Kate felt like pulling over a rod and hitting him so hard in the head for pretending as though he didn't get what she was saying.
"Are you calling me crazy now?" She asked.
"Yes, because I don't know what's wrong with you. I'm getting married to my fated mate, the love of my life. So that's not your fucking business. Remain the wife which you are," he sneered.
"What wife?" Lina scolded.
"I'm sorry baby," Gary pleaded. Kate gnashed her teeth, folding her fingers into a ball. She was vibrating inside of her. She even heard both of them kissing, they were doing this to hurt her, she knew well.
"I'll make sure both of you pay for this crime you've committed!"
"Wait, madam mistress….." Lina said with a chuckle. "I hope you know I'm in control now. I'm his Luna. Stop living in illusion!" She barked.
"You can do nothing! He's mind!" With this, she hung up, leaving Kate gazing into space in horror as she slowly lowered the phone from her ears.
"I can't believe this is happening!"
"I can't believe this is happening!!"
She was drained of tears and sweat, still sitting on the floor. Slowly she stood up from the floor and walked to the bed, sitting on the side. All the knocks on the door seemed like a trance, a mere imagination to her.
She couldn't still buy the fact that she had lost her husband, her chosen mate who was more than a fated mate to another girl. Worst was, it was a girl she knew and loved, a girl who always called her 'ma' am.'
She quickly resorted to messaging.
"Gary," She replied. The message popped up on Gary's screen. He was still online.
"We have been together for three years and during these three years, I abandoned my work to be a full-time housewife so I can cater for your needs when you're back from work as the Alpha."
"Aren't you satisfied, what did you want again from me? If anything, why didn't you tell me? Wouldn't I do it for you?" She was almost moved to tears again. She dropped a teary emoji.
"Can you tell me exactly what you want that I haven't given you, is it sex, food, attention, respect? I even get to kneel willingly for you without you compelling me, I'm pretty sure not all wives do that for their husbands."
She paused to swallow some saliva as she was choking. Gary was reading all this but he gave no single answer.
"Why would you still go secretly to take that petit, little brat as your wife?" She attached yelling stickers, as she was fuming up seeing him read through her messages but not saying anything.
"She's my mate and I love her more than you. I had to go for my heart, she gives me calm and makes my wolf strong!" Gary replied, at last, hurting Kate so much.
This response wounded her more.
Kate froze. It was as though someone slit her throat.
"But….. Mmm," she was confused and didn't know what to say.
"You're my chosen mate! She's my fated mate." Alpha Gary typed.
"I'm sorry, I know how you would be feeling now but there's nothing you can do. I had to do this!" His message seemed sympathetic, but in actual sense, he was grinning hard with Lina.
"Leave that fool! She's nothing more than a fool." They both burst out laughing.
"Sometimes, the truth is the hardest to hear." She told herself that Kate was getting to believe this reality. She smirked.
"They will surely pay for it!"
Alpha Gary spent a two-week honeymoon with Lina, his new mate before returning to the Delta Pack.
His wife met him with a deadly gaze.
Without saying a word, Alpha Gary knew what was in his wife's mind.
"My little mate, I promise won't stop you from the position which you are, as the Luna."
"I'm not after that, but you. Why would you dare do such a thing after you stood before the moon goddess high up and everyone here to promise you will never get a second wife?"
"Why did you give me hope that you would never look for another girl, no matter if she was your fated mate?"
All these, Alpha Gary did only to end up going against his promise. This is what hurt Kate the most. She had great hope for him.
"No woman wants to share her husband with any other woman, and no responsible man would get into an affair with a young adult behind his wife's back!" She barked at him in the face.
"So you call me a fool now for choosing to be with my mate?" He gave her a hard slap before everyone who was gathered on the estate's ground floor to welcome him back.
"What?" Kate yelled in horror. "How dare you do this to me?"
"Because you've forgotten how to talk to your Alpha with respect!"
"Let's go in!" He uttered to Lina as he grabbed her by the wrist.
Kate was still standing there, without motion. Everyone had a look of horror, they never thought their Alpha could act this way. Alpha Gary was always the gentle, loving, and caring husband to Luna Kate. Even other married women and single girls were jealous of her and wished they had such a man.
"Hey baby," Bella, Kate's best friend, emerged from the crowd running to meet with her best friend. She didn't mind the crowd, she called her Luna by the fond name she gave her.
"Don't worry about him, we will sort things out soon. We will do everything possible to make sure Lina doesn't stay in this estate." Bella was fusing with anger inside of her, her eyes were bloodshot.
"Bella, I can't believe this is happening to me!" She sank to her knees.
Bella tried her best to raise Kate. She led her into the house, to her apartment.
"We can't believe this is happening!" People started to comment. The Alpha didn't even give them a hint that he was going to take another Luna after Kate had already been installed as their Luna.
Kate was their most beloved Luna, she was cordial and merciful, and there was no reason for anyone to hate her with the type of life she lived.
Of all those disturbed, there was no one whom this worried more than Kate herself. These recent days, she had spent her life inside her room, depressed and worn out.
She couldn't cope with Gary's aggressive attitude with her whenever they met.