Chapter Two

it was late at night when I finally decided to look for James. I wanted us to run away together. I had no purpose staying in a pack where even my own family was capable of betraying me. I knew it wouldn't be hard convincing him to run away with me, since he loved me, but I would feel bad that he'd have to leave everything behind, including his position as head of the pack warriors. 

The moment I approached his room at the quarters, I couldn't explain why I had this tight feeling in my chest, like I was about to witness something that would shatter me. I could feel something wrong with our mate bond, and my heart raced. I hope nothing had happened to James. 

Worried, scared, I pushed the door to his room, only to be greeted by James, my mate, the love of my life, fucking another girl in his bed. The bed creaked and their moans synced as he thrust hard and fast into her, a thin film of sweat covering his naked back. 

And that girl was no other than my step sister, Jedidiah. 

I staggered back, almost falling before reaching out to hold the wall behind me, placing my back against it and trying to catch my breath. It felt like I couldn't breath, and as I forced myself to, the tears in my eyes rained down my cheeks. 

My hand reached for my chest, holding it like I could subdue the crumpling pain in my heart but it only made it worse. 

“James what the hell is going here.” I thundered in the room with all the strength left in me, disrupting them. 

“What the fuck are you doing here?” He snapped as he got off the bed while Jedidiah shamelessly threw the sheets over her body a lucid smirk on her face as she watched James approach me. 

He tried to grab my arm but I threw his hand off me, hurt by the look of anger and annoyance in his eyes. He didn't even look remorseful or shocked at being caught. Not at all. Was this the same man that loved me? That promised to be with me even in the afternoon life- he promised that not even death could separate us. 

“Tell me I'm seeing things and this is some kind of a joke. Tell me I didn't just walk in on my mate fucking my step sister! Tell me this is all a lie and…” I shook at the effort of the tears leaving my eyes, feeling my heart ache even worse. I slid down to the floor, holding my face in my hands, feeling the urge to scream, to break anything within eyes sight, including Jedidiah's stupid smirking face, but every energy in me had been drained.

“I’m sorry you had to find out this way, but we're not mates Abigail. Jedidiah is my true mate. Stop with the pretense that we ever had a chance together and just accept the fact that without your wolf, you'll be mateless till you die.” 

His words were like shards of glass, piercing me with each one that left his lips till I couldn't breath and I had told hold onto the door behind me to support weight as I stood. Why was he saying all these. We had both felt the mate bond. Why was he denying me all of a sudden?

“This couldn't have had anything to do with what happened today, does it? James you can't be serious about this. You know I love you. James this could still work out between us. Please, I can't bear to see you leave me. We've already gone through so much to end this now.“ I reached and held his face fondly, trying to see those familiar, genuine look of love and care in his eyes, but all i saw waa pure livid disgust and hate as he pushed me away from him. 

Dread filled my eyes upon realizing that I couldn't even recognize the man standing before me anymore. 

“I can't keep pretending to love you when I love someone else. This is over.” 

Knowing what was coming, I felt shattered. My lips trembled as I begged one last time, tears rolling down my cheeks. My hands curled into fist as I tried to stop them coming but they kept flowing freely like they had been stored in my eyes for years. “James please… don't. James I'm begging you. I still love you. With everything in me I love you and I want to make this work please. ” 

“Ugh! Just reject her already before she floods the room with her tears. I'm sick of it.” Jedidiah voice cut in, an irritated look on her face. 

“I, James Dahl of Lion heart's pack, reject you, Abigail Aaro as my mate

Abigail's pov 

My heart was crushed. The tears picked at the edge of my eyes, and I felt my legs weaken, almost sending me to the ground if I hadn't grabbed the door in time. 

I wished it was all a dream. That he didn't mean what he said. That I was hallucinating and none of this was true, but sadly enough it was. 

Without a word to me, he climbed into bed with my sister, kissing her deeply before plunging into her, already thrusting without a care in the world. She wrapped her arms around him, a satisfied smile on her face directed at me as she moaned his name. The name of my man, the one I loved. 

Unable to just there and feel the soul crushing feeling of my heart, I walked away. I didn't care If I would run away alone. I didn't care anymore. I had no one, not a single person here who could stand up for me, who supported me or loved me genuinely. I couldn't trust anyone anymore. 

While packing the last of my things, an Omega came knocking and informed me that my father requested my presence. 

Confused, I wished within I could ignore him, but curious to know what he had to say, I answered to him. 

Upon entering his study room, I met him seated there talking in hushed whispers with my step mother and the council of elders all seated down as well. 

The moment they saw, they all kept mute, all of them just staring at me like I was an intruder. Well, isn't it who I've always been I only realized it today however. 20 years of my life had been wasted trying to prove to be something I could never be to my father.