03~ Cruel

Sheila

My world had turned upside down. I had never felt so much pain before. It felt like several thousand needles where pricking my heart. As if a huge hand was squeezing it hard. If I could turn back time, I would turn it back to the moment I prayed to meet my destined mate. Perhaps if I wasn't so excited and expectant, this wouldn't have happened. 

“Aahhhh!” I let out a loud frustrated cry. “My sobs and wails echoed through the forest. I got up and looked back at the ground in anger as I clenched my fists, nails digging deep into my skin, drawing blood. The spot where I had just been violated by my mate was an eyesore, looking at the blood on the ground I sniffled. How can he be so cruel?

Pain ripped through me like strong sea waves. What he had done was worse than rejecting me. He broke my heart into several tiny pieces I wondered if I would be whole again. I had lost half of my soul... If he rejected me then perhaps I could find a second chance mate but he robbed me of that when he refused to reject me, just like he took my innocence in vain.  

When I followed that scent to find my mate, I thought it will turn out to be the best night of my life like the stories I heard from mated wolves. However, not everything goes according to plan.

I walked out of the hall and followed the scent of sandalwood and cedarwood mixed with grapefruit to the parking lot and I froze when I saw who the scent belonged too.

Oh. My. God. Mark. Mark is my mate. To say I was shocked would be an understatement, I was perplexed. I did not expect this outcome. Of course I once had a crush on him but moved on when I saw him show interest in my kid sister.

My heart started racing as the mate bond snapped into place. 'Mate!' My wolf growled in my head. She was already in love with her mate and was urging me to go foward and ask him to mark me. But being the reasonable one, I knew it wasn't that simple. He was dating my sister right now which made things complicated.....

I was frozen on spot when I saw him come to me with a vicious expression on his face. My heart beat faster than normal. He grabbed my hand and I could feel sparks sending delicious tingles through my body. I did not expect him to drag me towards the woods in a rough manner.

Alarm bells rang in my head.. is he going to kill me so that he can be with Rosa? I shivered at the thought.. Mark’s not that kind of person.

“Let me go!” I struggled against his hold. He paid no attention to me so I continued to struggle and scream. Then he slapped me so hard I saw stars.

“Shut your tramp bitch,” he said coldly. "How dare you be my mate? I'm going to teach you a lesson so that you give up on your silly ambition. You will never be my Luna.” A she-wolf mated to an Alpha becomes his Luna or wife in human language, it also means moon. She becomes the Alpha's moon bringing light into his life. 

He lifted me and slammed me hard on the ground. Then he tore my pants off with his claws. No…. I struggled so hard when I realized what he was about to do but he pinned my legs to the ground as he positioned himself in between my legs. 

“Please… Please Mark.. don’t do this..we can just reject the bond and I wont tell anyone please,” I pleaded as streams of tears fell down my cheek.. my voice hoarse from shouting. 

“Shut up!” My pleas fell on deaf ears. I thought my first time would be something I cherished but it turned out to be a nightmare.

He was brutal and rough, he plunged into me without any foreplay. I screamed out at the pain, he didn’t even wait for me to adjust .. he started moving, rocking his pelvis forward, roughly, fast and brutal. The only thing I felt was pain and a burning sensation. After a short while he released his load in me and got off me.

“Wow.. that was awesome,” he said with a smug look on his face. “Now listen to me. If anyone knows what happened today, I will have your parents demoted and kill you. From today onwards Rosa is my mate.” He stormed off after saying his piece.. what a jerk!!

I was now back in my room, I had managed to move quietly without alarming my parents. I did not want them to notice what had happened to me. My main concern is Rosa, I hope she doesn’t give in to Mark.. it would really be disgusting if he were to have sex with the both of us on the same day. Rosaria deserved better and I will make sure she leaves that monster. I felt painful tugs in my heart at the thought of my mate being with someone else. 

'We don't need a jerk like him, we will be fine sooner or later,' I said to my wolf who had been whimpering in pain since we came back. She didn't even want to talk to me now. As a wolf spirit, she was more connected to Mark's wolf, the pain from rejection could kill her but since we hadn't been rejected yet, she was slowly coming back around.  

I waited untill 4 am when I heard slow footsteps, I got up and rushed to Rosaria's room. She let out a startled scream when I suddenly barged in. 

“Aah….. Geez Sheila I thought you were a ghost,” she laughed. I did not want to beat around the bush so I went straight to the point.

“So what happened?” She looked at me and narrated how Mark and her are mates and how he took her to his cabin in the forest and had set up a romantic dinner. I felt a pang of pain in my heart but I was not jealous. Just hurt..I wanted to know the important part so I continued to prob.

“Then.. what happened next.. did you give yourself to him?" I asked hoping she did not hear the slight shake in my voice..

“No…” She said. “I couldn’t go through with it.”