"Nova..." he trailed my name.
"Y-Yes Alpha." I murmured in response.
"My mother told me of her proposal. What's your answer?" he stated taking my hands in his.
My wolf shivered to his touch. He seemed nice, complete opposite to what I was told.
"I accept, Alpha." I said bracing myself.
"Very well. We will mate at the next full moon."
"As you wish."
He nodded at me in approval. From his reaction, he liked what he saw. Me. Standing in front of him.
"Can you come to dinner tonight?" he whispered, taking a loose strand of my hair behind my ear. He had these blue eyes that mesmerized me.
"Okay." I let out. I wondered why he was kind to me. I was just a low rank guardian wolf. Yet he spoke to me so kindly. From the way he spoke to me he made me feel safe.
It made me remember Claire. How she smiled when she made a point, her gossips on the pack men after her. Why did she have to leave me?
It gave me more reasons to want to find out what murdered her. It had something to do with the Alpha. I just knew it.
This is why I took this offer in the first place. The Alpha's mum fulfilled her promise. In a fortnight, she paraded me as her son's mate.
She made me a ceremony. I was treated like a bride. And while the pack wondered, she made it known only a guardian wolf was suitable.
"The full moon is today. Hence you should mate my son." she told me.
"As you wish," I said with a slight bow.
She sent some servants to dress me up in a night gown. They waxed my skin prior to it, including my privates. Standing in front of the mirror I stared at myself and how beautiful I looked.
They took me to the Alpha that instant. "For Claire," I muttered entering his room.
I was just 19 and still a virgin. I hoped he was gentle with me. I heard first times were painful.
My wolf liked the way he scented when he walked in.
"Mine." he murmured.
He took me in his arms kissing me intimately. I wasn't sure how to do these so he guided me. Laying me on the bed, he made his way to my breasts taking my nipples in his mouth. Jared took his hands towards my bum, taunting them, also making his way to my earlobes nibbling.
His dark gaze crept towards my neck, which he growled to inhaling and expressing his total love for what he saw before marking me. I cried out feeling closer to him as he did, not dismissing the fact that I felt more connected to him.
My wolf liked every minute of it. He treated us like his, making it seem like he cherished us. Sooner, his wolf surfaced. He ripped my cloth claiming me as his. I screamed in pain.
He was not gentle as he promised. He was forceful and tore through me. I wanted this yet he made me feel like he was a different person.
As I thought of the previous night the next morning, tears slid down my eyes. The bed sheet stained red.
"Dress yourself." he spat coldly.
As I walked to the bathroom to bath, he took the sheet walking out. In a few minutes, there were cries of happiness from the pack. His mum was among them.
There were congratulatory gifts from the pack. They gave me gold necklaces and earrings. I should feel on top of the pack, yet, I wanted Jared to give me attention.
He only appeared beside me on days we were required to be seen together. Apart from that, he stayed away. His mum entrusted me on protecting the pack. She believed I was a guardian wolf who was there for my mate. His mum gave me access to their history, she told me things I needed to know about their pack with hopes that I got my guardian wolf powers soon.
When my classmates saw me being paraded as the alpha's luna, they were surprised a nobody like me, became Luna, with untrue smiles I noticed they weren't interested in what I had to say. They only took interest in the status as me being the new Luna.
Apart from Jared's coldness to me, I tried to maintain a clear head.
Finding who murdered Claire was challenging. I got no clues no matter how much I looked.
Jared spoke to me only when necessary, he took me to a separate room, one day and stayed far
from me. It made me realize… He never cared about me and just used me for his selfish interests. He didn't have a luna and most alphas liked the strongest person, the one that could be of use to them. This was what he did. I was so stupid to believe him.
"Jared, I'm unwell. I feel tired and dizzy." I said one day, not exactly knowing why I felt weak and dizzy.
The sooner I said those words he put me in his car and rushed me to the hospital.
"Make sure she's okay. She's our pack's gem, doctor." Jared instructed.
My wolf felt happy when he acted that way. It made me feel like he still cared about me.
The doctor came in only for Jared to suddenly go outside the door. It seemed like he was tracing a scent from the sniffles he made.
"Mate." I heard him whisper. With the thoughts that he was calling me I summoned strength walking to the door.
"Yes??" only for him to reach out to a petite female wolf. She was blonde, in a hospital gown and from the nurses whisper, she just woke up from coma.
"All this while, I thought the moon goddess gave me no mate but you were in coma. I promise to love and cherish you." he told her.
"Don't you have a mate already?" she asked him.
"Forget about her. She is a nobody, a low rank wolf." he said.
"What if she tries to come between us?"
"She won't dare. I will have her kicked out the moment she inconveniences you."
"I know alpha and I appreciate it so much but I got in coma by this same situation, a love triangle. Please do not make it repeat itself again, for my sake… please." she said in tears.
"Is that so? Then I'll reject her right now. Nova, come here." he said. I tried to stand up but I couldn't from the tremors and shock.. "I, Jared Blaze, the Alpha of the Moonstone pack hereby reject you, Nova Willow as my mate."
My wolf howled in pain.
"Accept the rejection."
"No." I said trembling even more. Tears covered my eyes as I wondered what I did wrong.
"She'll eventually reject me." he said kissing his mate on her forehead. "Let's go, my love."
"Jared!!!" I screamed in fury knowing what this was. He just ruined my life. He just ruined the plans his mother had for us. His mother! Why didn't I think of it? Quickly, I took his keys which he left right on the table running out..
"Luna? Luna, stop! You're not supposed to be running." The doctors and nurses ran after me. What I cared about right now was Jared. I got in his car driving off.
As soon as I got back to the pack house I went to his mum's room. I narrated everything he did to me only for her to order me to sit down.
"I'm sorry but there is little I can do, my child." she said patting my head.
"You gave me your word. You told me I would be the Luna for eternity. A Luna for years!" I cried out. "Where am I supposed to start from?" Tears covered my eyes this time.
"Go back to your parents." she suddenly said.
"Is that even… an option?"
"There is nothing for you here, anymore."
"What of everything you wanted me to do for this pack?" I muttered.
"He has a mate already, my child. This was when I thought she'd never come. I thought she'll not turn up… don't think this is easy for me too. How will I even explain to the pack?" she cried out.
That instant, I began to feel pain in my belly. My wolf howled in hurt knowing it was the alpha mating his real mate. I screamed dropping to the floor. They didn't even wait for me to reject him.
"Nova! Nova!!" she called.
"It hurt… it hurts so badly." I let out in tears holding her hands. "Save me, please save me."
She called the pack doctor to attend to me. They sedated and it made me feel nothing at all, thus, they stopped the drugs. The Alpha's mum abandoned me in the hospital a few days later.
I realized she was just like her son, a user of people and since I hadn't unlocked my powers, I was of no use to either of them.
Very soon, I will be reborn.