As she took the flight home, a strange kind of elation filled her.
She felt like a lost queen returning to take her kingdom back after being away for so long, and her hurting heart felt something beyond the pain of being a rejected bride, and an unwanted Luna. It felt peaceful, and she knew that the moment she walked past the doors of her house, she would be fine, and not need to worry about Alpha Tony, Cheyenne, or their baby anymore. What mattered was that she was at home. She soon got off the plane and went into the taxi sent over for her. It took her home, and there her mother stood, watching with smiles on their wrinkled faces. Jenny had made a promise to herself to not cry or do anything to let them know how much pain she had gone through since the rejection at the wedding, but as soon as she fell into her mother's arms, the tears came falling. Nothing could have stopped them then, especially when she was aware that she was in a place of comfort. “He left me, mother. Alpha Tony left me —” Only, she did not say what she truly wanted to say, which was something along the lines of: “Alpha Tony left me for Cheyenne, mother.” That part of her heartbreaking tale had gone unspoken, and her mother shushed her, holding her head close to her chest. “We know what happened, Jenny, but you should forget it. You don't have to think about him anymore.” Her nostrils took in the scent of her mother's clothes, and they felt nostalgic to her, reminding her of the days in her childhood when that scent had meant protection and safety to her. In the distance, someone was being pushed in a wheelchair, and Jenny did not wait for him to come to her, but rushed to her father, an old, weakening Alpha who had lost the ability to walk. He sat in the wheelchair, his eyes stone-cold, so that he looked to have the same power as any young, strong Alpha. “Father.” She stopped before him. He looked her straight in the eyes, before beckoning her to come with his arms. At this, Jenny did all but jump on him, planting kisses on his face and faking her laughter until he stopped her by holding her chin, forcing her to look deep into his eyes. “You think I am a fool, Jenny. I am your father, who sat by your infant bed every time you cried and held your hand when you took your first step. Do not think you can hide your pain from me.” “You know everything, Father.” She smiled, though a teardrop made its way down her cheek. He kissed her forehead as she shut her eyes, feeling the warmth of his lips. “You will forget all about him, Jenny. You are the daughter of the Alpha of the Senith pack, the most powerful wolf family. Other alphas will fight each other to have you, and one more deserving of you will have you, not that fool Tony.” His eyes glazed over as he spoke, and Jenny knew that her wedding's drama had hurt them just as much as it did her. They had never been at the wedding because of an emergency that forced her father into a hospital, and when she had planned to call off the wedding for them, they both vehemently refused, insisting that it had to happen. If they had known, then they would never have insisted on having it continue. Together, they went into the mighty palace that was her home, and her luggage was moved to her room while she sat to eat dinner with her parents. Together, they shared the time as a family, saying nothing about the disastrous wedding and everything to put smiles on their faces. Soon, her father had to attend to visitors, and he left the meal early. As the Alpha of the Senith pack, he was visited by other alphas paying their respects all the time, who counted his friendship as important to them. In fact, only Alpha Tony had dared to do something to break their friendship. As she continued to eat with her mother, her mind was first haunted by the image of Cheyenne's baby, whose father was the man she would have married, before something else dawned on her. Barely anything happened without her father knowing. He was so well connected and in control that from his wheelchair, could influence anything with a simple snap of his fingers, and destroying Alpha Tony would have been no issue for him. It would even have been a favourable course of action for him. Yet, her ex-fiance roamed free and happy. It could only mean that her father was aware of the relationship between Alpha Tony and Cheyenne, and her mother was possibly in the know as well, and they were both hard pressed to act in a situation that ruined one daughter and favoured another. Cheyenne was only a year older than Jenny's twenty-four, the former's father marrying their mother before dying of an illness. Jenny had come from her own father and their mother, a love that blossomed from a second chance mate union. Despite all that, her father had loved Cheyenne as his own daughter and treated them the same. He would be between a rock and a hard place on what to do, if he knew about it. Still, she could never be sure, not unless she asked her father if he knew, and it was what she was going to do, to brave it and ask him. Jenny took her mother's permission to leave the table and went to her father's waiting room, a large room with gold painted walls and bright lights. However, something else had caught her attention. It was a scent hovering in the air, and she could not have gone wrong with it or mistaken it for anything, not after all the nights she spent with it teasing her brain. “The Stranger.” She gasped to herself. The very werewolf who had saved her from dying when she attempted suicide in the chasm and given her reason to live. She could catch his scent in the air of her father's waiting room.Her curiosity led her to the waiting room, where her father sat with another visitor.The man sat close to him and with his back to her, so that she could not see who he was at first glance. They were both so engrossed in what they were speaking of in their low voices that neither noticed her from where she stood for about a minute.It took her father raising his head before he caught her standing near the door, watching the both of them.“Jenny,” he called out to her, baring his teeth in a broad smile. “For how long have you been standing there?”“Quite a while,” Jenny replied, moving from where she had been standing as she moved closer to him. Her mind was occupied with a feeling of melancholy for her father, with her remembering that in his younger Alpha days, when he was much more powerful, he would have known she was watching her from the moment she started coming into the waiting room. His werewolf instincts had been that sharp and acute.Her thoughts were interrupted by the man
Even as Jenny lay in bed that night, she had her mind set on what the next day would bring.Her eyes were on the ceiling, but she saw nothing of the shadows that lay there whenever the lights were turned off. All she had her mind on was seeing if this Lycan was the one who saved her, the Stranger.She knew she didn't have to be thinking about him. Tony had done enough damage to her, but she also liked to think that she was driven by curiousity, to see the man who left her with that piece of cloth. Even then, she went to take it from where she left it, only remembering that she had thrown it outside her window, trying not to think of him again.The regret that filled her insides was matched with few things in her life. How could she have known that what she was running away from wood be waiting for her where she found shelter?The next day, she hovered around her father's waiting room, finding an excuse to be there. She wanted to know when he came in, and see his face before he rememb
She stopped breathing as soon as she saw him.He was perfect, his jaw covered by a neatly cut beard that accentuated his masculinity. His long hair was tied behind his head, with a free lock shorter than the rest falling just above his left eye, and his green eyes so fixed on hers that she was caught in a trance.It was you, she whispered to herself.“What did you say, Alpha?” He asked, a slight smile spreading on one side of his face, giving her a glimpse into the array of his white teeth.His question threw her off balance, both because she was surprised that he heard, and because he called her Alpha.“I'm not the Alpha.” She corrected him.“But you sit where he sat, which means he's put you in charge.”“Yes he has. Welcome.”“Thank you.” He finished, his face returning to the countenance of one serious, all traces of the charming smile he'd just beamed at her disappearing. “I was here the day before yesterday, and we were speaking on a collaboration he wanted between us, where the
Jenny took in a deep breath and looked into the eyes of the man standing opposite her. He gazed back into hers, and she felt her blood pulse in her veins.To their side stood the priestess officiating their wedding, and she raised her hand in blessing for the couple.“United by the will of the Moon Goddess, the both of you have come to declare your love for one another before her, as a confirmation that you respect her wish to unite your two hearts into one. Do you, Alpha Anthony, take Jennifer to be your Luna and mate from now until the end of time, or do you wish to stray on a different path from the will of the Moon Goddess. State your wish.”Jenny's head dropped and she shut her eyes tight, feeling her inner wolf radiate with joy while wishing there was a way for her to not have to go through these questions, only jumping into a life of forever with Anthony, her mate. They had felt themselves fated to one another from childhood, and she could not think of him rejecting her for any
So did Alpha Anthony Martin's exit from Jenny's life take out all the light with it.How she had been taken from the wedding venue and brought back home, she could barely remember, as she cried the entire time, her mind too focused on the heartbreaking, embarrassing, scarring affair that her wedding day was turned into.It was as though he had bitten into her chest and cut her heart out, because she felt pain there that hurt so much it was ruining her. She could not bring herself to do anything except hate Alpha Tony for leaving her, and love him even more because she could not stop.She wanted to know what his new lover was like, the one who had taken her Alpha away from her. Was she prettier, or more attractive?The three days that followed after the called off wedding were a misery for her, a burden to live through in her lonely, private apartment specially designed to keep intruders away. The only one who had ever come here with her to this place was her Alpha, the only man she lo
After that, Alpha Tony's desertion did not hurt as much.Her attempted suicide had now come off as a stupid decision to her, a thing she should never have done. It was as though a blindfold was taken off her eyes, and she could now see that he would not have cared much if she had killed herself.He had left her on their wedding day for his new lover, whom he said was pregnant. What would it matter to him if she threw herself off a chasm?All her crying and reliving scenes she should have been trying to forget stopped after that night, and she felt the pain in her chest lessen. Slowly, she regained her confidence, and even wanted to do things that would make her laugh.All this time, one thing gnawed at her.Who was the mysterious stranger that saved her life?She would have died after throwing herself off, without any doubt, and in his attempt to save her, he fell into danger himself. She got him out, and he offered her his shoulder to cry on, only to dare to leave without as much as
Jenny had to leave for her own peace, hoping they did not notice her.She left the restaurant after asking her friends to send the bill, rushed into her car, sat behind the steering wheel, and began to cry, her inner wolf whining with her. Just when everything was coming together for her and she thought she was stable once again — then everything had come crashing down for her again, and this time, she was broken to find out about her step-sister's betrayal.How could all of it have happened under her nose without her knowing?She clearly remembered how she introduced them to each other at a family event Alpha Tony followed her to, and she had basked in the respect and attention everyone showered on him as he was among the most powerful Alphas around, only a little below her father. It must have been the moment she orchestrated her own downfall, because the mood got to her head, and she had gone around with her arm in his, introducing her lover to everyone as Alpha Anthony Martin, o
She stopped breathing as soon as she saw him.He was perfect, his jaw covered by a neatly cut beard that accentuated his masculinity. His long hair was tied behind his head, with a free lock shorter than the rest falling just above his left eye, and his green eyes so fixed on hers that she was caught in a trance.It was you, she whispered to herself.“What did you say, Alpha?” He asked, a slight smile spreading on one side of his face, giving her a glimpse into the array of his white teeth.His question threw her off balance, both because she was surprised that he heard, and because he called her Alpha.“I'm not the Alpha.” She corrected him.“But you sit where he sat, which means he's put you in charge.”“Yes he has. Welcome.”“Thank you.” He finished, his face returning to the countenance of one serious, all traces of the charming smile he'd just beamed at her disappearing. “I was here the day before yesterday, and we were speaking on a collaboration he wanted between us, where the
Even as Jenny lay in bed that night, she had her mind set on what the next day would bring.Her eyes were on the ceiling, but she saw nothing of the shadows that lay there whenever the lights were turned off. All she had her mind on was seeing if this Lycan was the one who saved her, the Stranger.She knew she didn't have to be thinking about him. Tony had done enough damage to her, but she also liked to think that she was driven by curiousity, to see the man who left her with that piece of cloth. Even then, she went to take it from where she left it, only remembering that she had thrown it outside her window, trying not to think of him again.The regret that filled her insides was matched with few things in her life. How could she have known that what she was running away from wood be waiting for her where she found shelter?The next day, she hovered around her father's waiting room, finding an excuse to be there. She wanted to know when he came in, and see his face before he rememb
Her curiosity led her to the waiting room, where her father sat with another visitor.The man sat close to him and with his back to her, so that she could not see who he was at first glance. They were both so engrossed in what they were speaking of in their low voices that neither noticed her from where she stood for about a minute.It took her father raising his head before he caught her standing near the door, watching the both of them.“Jenny,” he called out to her, baring his teeth in a broad smile. “For how long have you been standing there?”“Quite a while,” Jenny replied, moving from where she had been standing as she moved closer to him. Her mind was occupied with a feeling of melancholy for her father, with her remembering that in his younger Alpha days, when he was much more powerful, he would have known she was watching her from the moment she started coming into the waiting room. His werewolf instincts had been that sharp and acute.Her thoughts were interrupted by the man
As she took the flight home, a strange kind of elation filled her.She felt like a lost queen returning to take her kingdom back after being away for so long, and her hurting heart felt something beyond the pain of being a rejected bride, and an unwanted Luna. It felt peaceful, and she knew that the moment she walked past the doors of her house, she would be fine, and not need to worry about Alpha Tony, Cheyenne, or their baby anymore. What mattered was that she was at home.She soon got off the plane and went into the taxi sent over for her. It took her home, and there her mother stood, watching with smiles on their wrinkled faces.Jenny had made a promise to herself to not cry or do anything to let them know how much pain she had gone through since the rejection at the wedding, but as soon as she fell into her mother's arms, the tears came falling. Nothing could have stopped them then, especially when she was aware that she was in a place of comfort.“He left me, mother. Alpha T
Jenny had to leave for her own peace, hoping they did not notice her.She left the restaurant after asking her friends to send the bill, rushed into her car, sat behind the steering wheel, and began to cry, her inner wolf whining with her. Just when everything was coming together for her and she thought she was stable once again — then everything had come crashing down for her again, and this time, she was broken to find out about her step-sister's betrayal.How could all of it have happened under her nose without her knowing?She clearly remembered how she introduced them to each other at a family event Alpha Tony followed her to, and she had basked in the respect and attention everyone showered on him as he was among the most powerful Alphas around, only a little below her father. It must have been the moment she orchestrated her own downfall, because the mood got to her head, and she had gone around with her arm in his, introducing her lover to everyone as Alpha Anthony Martin, o
After that, Alpha Tony's desertion did not hurt as much.Her attempted suicide had now come off as a stupid decision to her, a thing she should never have done. It was as though a blindfold was taken off her eyes, and she could now see that he would not have cared much if she had killed herself.He had left her on their wedding day for his new lover, whom he said was pregnant. What would it matter to him if she threw herself off a chasm?All her crying and reliving scenes she should have been trying to forget stopped after that night, and she felt the pain in her chest lessen. Slowly, she regained her confidence, and even wanted to do things that would make her laugh.All this time, one thing gnawed at her.Who was the mysterious stranger that saved her life?She would have died after throwing herself off, without any doubt, and in his attempt to save her, he fell into danger himself. She got him out, and he offered her his shoulder to cry on, only to dare to leave without as much as
So did Alpha Anthony Martin's exit from Jenny's life take out all the light with it.How she had been taken from the wedding venue and brought back home, she could barely remember, as she cried the entire time, her mind too focused on the heartbreaking, embarrassing, scarring affair that her wedding day was turned into.It was as though he had bitten into her chest and cut her heart out, because she felt pain there that hurt so much it was ruining her. She could not bring herself to do anything except hate Alpha Tony for leaving her, and love him even more because she could not stop.She wanted to know what his new lover was like, the one who had taken her Alpha away from her. Was she prettier, or more attractive?The three days that followed after the called off wedding were a misery for her, a burden to live through in her lonely, private apartment specially designed to keep intruders away. The only one who had ever come here with her to this place was her Alpha, the only man she lo
Jenny took in a deep breath and looked into the eyes of the man standing opposite her. He gazed back into hers, and she felt her blood pulse in her veins.To their side stood the priestess officiating their wedding, and she raised her hand in blessing for the couple.“United by the will of the Moon Goddess, the both of you have come to declare your love for one another before her, as a confirmation that you respect her wish to unite your two hearts into one. Do you, Alpha Anthony, take Jennifer to be your Luna and mate from now until the end of time, or do you wish to stray on a different path from the will of the Moon Goddess. State your wish.”Jenny's head dropped and she shut her eyes tight, feeling her inner wolf radiate with joy while wishing there was a way for her to not have to go through these questions, only jumping into a life of forever with Anthony, her mate. They had felt themselves fated to one another from childhood, and she could not think of him rejecting her for any