Chapter 5:

Later in the day, I compiled the little bit of courage I had left in me and strolled down the corridors of my college with my head hanging low because of the dreadful faces the students gave out while gazing at me. I could hear indistinct chatter around me and that sent an eerie feeling in my guts.

What's going on? Did Crystal tell everyone about Alpha Zach and me? I peered out of the corner of my eyes to try to evade everyone's gaze towards me while I squeezed my books against my chest reckoning maybe that would dismiss my anxiety levels but it did not do any justice to my fear because the next thing I recollected is tripping on a leg tipped over my legs and slide across the slippery floors in the corridors then everyone flared out in laughter.

"She can't even keep her balance, and she wishes she was a Luna."

"Luna my ass."

"Bella the weak omega,"

"Stinky Bella tripped."

"Rejected bitch."

The crowd of people mocked me loudly.

I glanced at them with tears in my eyes as I heaved a sigh and caught a glimpse of Crystal with her friends giggling the loudest.

"Oops, I'm sorry rejected bitch. I didn't see you there." She let out a mischievous smirk on her face. Her friends found everything that she said humorously hence they all burst into mocking laughter.

Where is Ryan when I needed him to pick me up from the floor and say something stupid or silly to Crystal's remarks? He was the only one who answered her spoiled brutish manners because of his Beta status in the pack. My eyelids plunged and tears immediately trickled down my pink cheeks as my body shuddered, then unexpectedly a robust firm hand snatched me and tugged me on my arm, and helped me to my feet.

"Oh thank you, Ryan." I quickly slanted my head on his chest without glancing at his face with my eyes shut in embarrassment.

Then everyone in the corridors became tight-lipped for a few seconds before Crystal yanked me away from my savior.

"Let go of my man." She snarled as her eyes gleamed to a yellowish glow. "Hey babe, what are you doing here?" She skimmed her fingers seductively on his firm muscular chest and licked his cheek while peeking at me as if she was sending me a message to stay away from her Alpha or else...

"Hey sexy, I came to see you." He let out a naughty smirk on his face.

Alpha Zach had already concluded his studies earlier than us but he voluntarily wandered into our academy to chat with the school chancellor about the school's day-to-day operations and goddess knows what else.

"What?" I sniffed up the tiny boogers trying to drip out of my nose then perked up and low and behold, Alpha Zach was standing next to me with a smirk on his face. I staggered a few steps back before Ryan stopped me.

"Hey, Bella, what going on?" He snapped with his jaws clenched in an attacking mood to defend me from wolves.

Crystal rumbled her eyes to Ryan's sentimental attachment to me and lovingly inclined her head on Alpha Zach's shoulder.

"Nothing is happening here." I noticed one of the rigorous lecturers sauntered towards us. I bowed my head in a submissive pose.

"Yes, little pup. Now get out of my sight." Crystal ordered with a pale face while she clasped Zach tightly as though he would run away from her side.

"Smh, let's go, Bella." Ryan tugged me straight to my arts and defense class, then everyone else in the hallway cleared up as soon as the bell went off.

I sat quietly on my desk and rubbed off the last teardrop on my face as I waited for the lecture to arrive in class.

"Psst, are you okay?" Ryan whispered in the back of my head as his desk was behind mine.

I peeked back at him with a tight-lipped smile and bobbed my head in response, then I glanced back to the front of the class as I tried to avoid everyone's gaze upon me. My desk was the first one in my roll hence this gave me an advantage not to face my mockers.

"Good afternoon class, today we are going to look at the three most dangerous things that weaken us. Miss wood do you care to remind us what we talked about in our last class." The arts and defense teacher, Miss Kathy pointed out to me because I was the top most brilliant student in my class.

Her human fork was a cheerful bubbly woman compared to her fierce wolf. She was once a rogue in the dark forests but she redeemed herself by saving Zach there when he wandered out at the young age of ten.

That's how Alpha Harrison awarded her the job at the institute.

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An hour later, the bell rang signaling the end of the class and all the students immediately jerked up from their seats and rushed out leaving me and Ryan seated at our desks.

"You seriously need to learn to fight back when Crystal and her friends mock you…you know that I will not always be there to rescue the damsel in distress." He chuckled with a wink.

"And where are you going to." I rolled my eyes with a slight smile. "I still need you my knight in shining armor." I flickered my eyes mischievously, and suddenly, the door to our classroom furled.

"Hey, you get out of here!" Alpha Zach's deep authoritative voice emitted into the four walls of the room causing me to quiver in Surprise.

Why is he still here? I furrowed my brows at his rude interruption, but he was the leader of the pack and he had the right to step into any place he desired and give out his command.

Ryan gritted his teeth so loudly, I could hear them from my seat as he unhurriedly got up from his seat and sauntered out of the room leaving me and Zach alone.

"I will wait for you outside."

Ryan openly hated Alpha Zach for his arrogant and shallow behavior and now he rejected me as his mate, it was like putting more fuel on a burning flame though deep down somewhere within himself I assumed he was glad I was rejected because that meant that he still had a chance with me.

"Hey, beautiful." He said while sauntering confidently straight to me with a smoldering look on his face.

I swallowed hard to his salacious charm with my eyes wide open and completely ignored the fact that he called me beautiful when he mated with my sister.

Damn! This man is too fine, I slowly unfurled my lips slightly then licked them both in a trance as I was smitten by his well-built hot body.

"I'm sorry about everything I have put you through, but you know I can't accept you as a Luna of the pack because you are an omega and the pack deserves strong-blooded pups for the next generation, that's why I chose crystal as my Luna." His voice echoed at a distance in my ears then I stuttered out of my trance after giving attention to his deep voice speaking out.

"But you did not reject me." I gazed at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, I did not reject you because my wolf is crazy about you. You are an attractive woman Bella." He stretched his hand towards mine and gently clasped them.

"Alpha Zach, what are you doing? You can't have two Lunas in the pack."

"Yes, I know that. This is why I want you to be my lassie." He winked at me seductively. I gasped at his desirous suggestion, then a pang of pain shoot through me at his suggestion as I felt him yank me into his arms and his hands ran up my thigh...

Tingles rush through me but I remembered what he's just asked from me so I pushed him away with strength I didn't know I had.

"No, that's not possible. In as much as I want you to, you mated with my sister and I'm just a defenseless bitch you want to keep as a side piece." I spoke rapidly with the minor boldness I gained.

This was absurd. How dare he think I would lower my standards to be his side bitch and let my sister take my title as the Luna. No, I will not allow him to walk over me like that because of my status in the pack.

"Please Bella, I love you too much to reject you."

Looking up at him with burning anger in my eyes, I summed up more courage to answer him back. "No Alpha Zach, I Bella wood reject you Alpha Zach Carter as my mate in the moonstone pack and my Alpha." I jerked up from the chair to walk out, but he clasped my wrist firmly with veins popping out of his neck.

"What the fuck have you done? How dare you reject me? You're mine! You're my omega!"

I watched with a sneer as he clutched his chest in pain. Strangely I don't feel the same pain as him... is it because he marked someone else?

"I'm not your Omega. Be happy with your bitchy Luna."

How dare he ask me to be his side chick of all things… no I would rather die than be a call girl to him. I sneered and then sauntered out of the room and slammed the door behind me.

I will not live the life of my mother. I deserved better than this. I exhaled merrily. For the first time, it felt good to be free from the egotist muscular handsome Alpha Zach Carter as I happily strolled back home.