Chapter 2 : Rejection

Once I had taken care of the guest room, sweeping the floors, dusting and tidying up everywhere, I was finally able to think and cry. I locked myself up in the bathroom and let the tears flow freely.

Just as I thought I now had a reason to smile, just as I believed there would be a splash of colour in my otherwise gloomy life, the opportunity had been snatched away from me. Someone else had been faster. Now Damian would have no reason to even notice me anymore.

I eventually pulled myself together and rinsed my face at the sink, staring at my sad puffy-eyed face for a moment in the mirror just overhead before venturing out.

When I stepped out of the bathroom at last, it was quiet in the house. The rest of the household must have retired to bed. I made my way to my own room which was just a small space with bare walls and the only few belongings I owned on this earth.

I stepped into the space and reached for the socket. I switched it on and let out a loud yelp. Alpha Damian was on my bed, shirtless, sitting up and smirking like all was well. His wavy dark hair was wet and stuck to his head, signs that he must have just showered.

This was his special look for me when he wanted us to have sex. I had never rejected his advances, not once, but I wasn't in for it tonight.

“You've been crying.” He said immediately, his face becoming serious.

I bowed slightly, ignoring the comment. “I thought you would be with your bride, Alpha.”

He waved his hand dismissively. “She's sleeping. A pregnant lady would need all the rest she can get after all, even more when she's carrying the Alpha's baby.” His eyes twinkled at that.

My heart thumped a bit harder once I heard that. What would he think if he knew I carried his child also?

“Now come here.” Alpha Damian said to me, tapping on the spot beside him. “Come and give this Alpha a kiss.”

I didn't hide my shock as I stared at him open mouthed. “What? Are we going to continue like this now that you're going to make her your Luna.”

“Why should that stop?” He almost growled. “There are no rules when it comes to me and myself. I'm the Alpha and I can do whatever I fucking want.”

Suddenly two things hit me at once. The first was that this was not the live I wanted for myself. Slaving away and being his little secret mistress till the day I died? I didn't want that. Now that my last chance of ever being wanted by him had being seized from me, there was nothing left to hold unto.

“What if I say I can't continue like this?” I told him bravely even when my heart was threatening to burst with fear.

“What did you just say? You dare to refuse your Alpha!” He snarled and then froze, his eyes widening.

The second thing I had noticed was his scent. Strong, powerful and manly, unwarping like a piece of thread from around him and spreading out towards me.

Alpha Damian…was my mate. And Damian had just realised it too. Of all timing and it was this one that the moon goddess chose to reveal this? I couldn't believe it.

Damian's eyes narrowed at me and his uncaring gaze made me fear for what was to come next, it completely killed the hope that had almost begun rising again.

“Alpha Damian…” I began, my voice trailing to a stop. I was completely at a loss for words, still just trying to fully comprehend the enormity of what was happening.

“This cannot be.” He said coldly. “You cannot be my mate.”

He got up from the bed and began advancing towards me. For every step he took, I took another one backward, till I bumped hard into the wall.

He stood very close, hovering over me, his eyes rimmed red and blazing with anger. Why was he so angry? I hadn't done anything.

“You cannot be my mate.” He repeated. “The daughter of a traitor can never be mated to the Alpha!” He punched his fist at the wall.

The tears came pouring down and hard at this. I was always so unlucky.

“Please.” My voice was thick with tears, but what I was asking for, I didn't know. Did I want him to have mercy on me and keep on sparing me? Or did I want him to not cut the mating bond as he was clearly about to do now? “Please.”

He stepped away from me and uttered the words that shattered my heart in pieces without any hesitation. “I, Alpha Damian of Moon City pack, reject you, Omega.”

Then he walked out of my room, leaving me to crumple to the ground in pain. The tears poured even harder, almost blinding me as I crawled to my mattress and dragged the pillow, shoving my face in it to muffle my wails.

When I wrapped up crying for the second time in a day, my head throbbed in pain as I sat with my head in my hands. He had rejected me, he had actually done it.

But what had I expected? I was only a weak omega, almost wolf-less at the age of twenty one, being a she-wolf that had managed to shift only once. If he did accept me, did I expect the rest of the pack to accept me as Luna? They would be at my throat the moment he announced such.

I was pregnant with his child but even that was no good as I just realised. He clearly detested me and could even choose to finally have me killed if I told him of such. That way, I won't be able to taint his name and his bloodline.

I placed one hand on my stomach, imagining that I could feel the beating heart of the growing pup in it. The joy I felt at the thought of a little being growing in me was so much, I knew that harming it could never ever be an option.

Bringing him to a world of pain and slavery was also a very bad deal. It hit me what must be done to escape it all.

I needed to leave.