3.

FEYRE CAMPBELL.

“WHAT?!” Mara and Daniel thundered. I stood there blank, confused and more shaken than usual as I only stared, my tongue tied and my mind conflicted as I looked at Rhys and looked behind me at his brothers.

“You must be joking, there’s no way you’re mated to this freak!” Mara was quick to condemn me, an action that didn’t surprise me but it angered me even more than usual.

My knees felt weak, flames of anger licked through me and I had no idea where to direct that anger because right now I’m not just mad at everyone in this room, I’m mad at the moon goddess too.

I thought the same thing too, I thought that there’s no way the moon goddess would intentionally want me to be mated to the four people that made my life miserable.

I’d thought that this was just some sick joke from the moon goddess but I knew it wasn’t.

My wolf danced around in happiness, rejoicing that she had finally found her mate or mates. Their scents were also growing stronger by the minutes, so strong that I felt like I was going to barf but at the same time, I wanted to sniff it all in.

I felt a ripple of excitement and I couldn’t help but drink in the comfort of having them as my mates. It felt nice to finally meet my mate but it was utterly devastating to see that I’m mated to these four.

I can’t accept this, all of the feelings I’ve felt towards them surged through me all over again, anger, irritation, annoyance, fury, all of them flooded me.

Not one of those feelings was of admiration or gratitude, I waited eighteen years of my life to finally get a hold of my own freedom and this is what I get in return?

I waited eighteen years to finally meet my mate, someone that’s said to put an end to all of my misery and all I’m going to get are these four men, the cause of my misery?

A war of emotion raged me and I got sick with the struggle within me as strange and disquieting thoughts began to race through my mind.

“Goddess forbid I accept them as my mate.” I yelled out in anger, spitting the words out with my fury coating them and I felt the quadruplets blue eyes clawing at me like talons.

Breathing heavily, my chest heaved as anger overwhelmed me. My eyes burned with tears that I couldn’t hold back as I clutched my chest before looking up at Rhys with burning, reproachful eyes.

I glared at him, making sure that he could see the anger in my eyes, hot tears trickled down my cheeks and it wasn’t because I was sad, it was because I was annoyed and partly satisfied that I was going to have the opportunity to reject these egotistical pricks.

“I, Feyre Campbell, reject you, Reid, Ronan, Rafael, R—"

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” Ronan thundered as his palm covered my mouth, the terror was obvious in his voice and I couldn’t shake off the laughter that racked at my insides.

I tried to go on with the rejection but not only was Ronan covering my mouth to stop me from talking, he was also holding my nose to drain the air right out of my lungs.

I saw the look in their eyes and there was nothing more satisfying than that. I wanted to cause them just as much pain as they’ve caused me even though I knew my rejection would have little to no effect on them.

My eyes rolled as I hit Ronan’s hand multiple times so that he was going to let go of me but he didn’t and resorting to my last form of defense, I bit him so hard that I could feel the metallic taste of his blood on my tongue but Ronan didn’t budge.

“Think about what you’re about to do, Feyre,” Rafael’s voice sounded as he stood in front of me, “don’t do anything stupid.” He added and the flames of anger burned even hotter as Ronan finally let go of me.

I took in deep breaths to restore my air to my lungs as I looked up at Rafael, he had just told me not to do anything stupid, how dare he?!

Fighting against Ronan with every ounce of strength I had in me, I didn’t want to give up but Ronan hit my knee, causing it to buckle forward as I fell to the ground and he pinned me down.

“What do you think you’re about to do? Reject us?! Doing that would kill you!” Ronan said, even in a situation like this, a situation where they all desperately want me to accept them, he’s still so arrogant.

His arrogance was irritating and everything about the situation right now was making me feel like a volcano on the verge of erupting.

“I DON’T CARE!” I barked, “I would rather die than be mated to all of you!” I retorted in anger, not caring about being disrespectful to them at all and damning all the consequences.

“You can’t do that,” Reid countered and I looked up at him with burning, reproachful eyes, “you have to stay!” He finished and I couldn’t believe they’re all trying to get me to stay when they’ve done nothing but cause me pain.

“Let me go right now!” I bellowed, standing my ground and making sure they could feel my anger, “because if you don’t, not only am I not going to accept you as my mates but I swear that I’ll never stop trying to run away!” I gritted.

“I don’t care what punishment that would incur, I will stop at nothing to get away from you monsters!” I gritted, the words grounded between my teeth and my breathing paced as my chest heaved.

“I shouldn’t do anything stupid? You want me to stay?” I scoffed as I forced down the bile in my throat, “you’ve all done nothing but make me despondent and yet you want me to stay?!” I barked out in anger.

The hall fell silent but it didn’t take long for it to be filled back up with the sound of their parents mocking laughter.

“You tried to run away, really?” Mara asked amidst laughter as she got closer to me, “we had no intention of keeping your wretched self here but they asked us to let you stay.” She added, referring to the quadruplets.

“We would have tossed you out after your eighteenth birthday but they begged us to let you stay and you want to take that for granted?!” Daniel roared and I shuddered in fear.

“You’re nothing but a useless, wretched, worthless piece of crap and you’re trying to be stubborn just because they want you to STAY?!” He bellowed, his eyes glistening with red hot anger.

“I’ll have the guards whip y—”

“Mother! Father! We want her to remain in the pack, no, in this house until we’ve decided what to do with her and until then no one can do anything to her.” Ronan interrupted as he said assertively.

I still couldn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe they had begged their parents to not let me go just when I was starting to fantasize about my freedom.

Why would they do that? So that they can keep making my life hell?

“I don’t—”

“GUARDS!” My words were cut short by Ronan’s yell as two guards came rushing in, ready to do whatever he asked them to.

“Lock her up, we’re trying to make an important decision here.” He added and despite my protest, the guards dragged me out of the council room and to the dungeon, locking me up in there like Ronan had ordered while the brothers decide what to do with me.

But, whatever conclusion they reach, I AM NEVER GOING TO ACCEPT THEM AS MY MATE. EVER!