Chapter 4: Unwanted Luna

The whole packground was silent. 

Everyone stared at their Alpha wide-eyed not sure if they had heard him right. Did he really just acknowledged Raven, a nobody as the future Luna of the Moonvalley Pack?

Raven’s heart pounded inside her chest when she heard the pack members present, gasp in surprise. She saw how they all shared glances at one another as her eyes roamed among them. 

She could see and she could feel how they all don’t like Alpha Axel’s announcement. They all do not want to accept Raven as their Luna. 

Raven bit the inside of her cheek in embarrassment. She just want to run away and disappear, but she is afraid that the Alpha and Luna would get angry at her if she did that.

After all, just running away from the Alpha and Luna’s presence is very disrespectful, especially in front of the many eyes that were watching them. 

Why does the Alpha just had to announce to everyone that she is going to be their future Luna and put her under everyone’s judgement? 

Couldn’t he see that she is just an average werewolf? Isn’t he aware that his son has been dating Celia for so many years and he is there right now in front of them crying after she just found out that Lorcan is not her mate?

Did he really need to add salt to the wound by announcing to everybody that she would be their future Luna?

Raven’s soul almost jumped out of her skin when she felt a warm touch squeeze her hand in comfort. She looked down to see whose hand it was, and it turns out to be no other than freaking Luna Savina!!!

Luna Savina is holding her hand right now comforting her. 

Who would have wonder that in just a single day she will find out that Lorcan is her mate, be proclaimed as the future Luna of the Pack and receive the Luna’s comfort and support?

Until now she doesn’t know whether she is lucky just like how her wolf, Ember thinks of.

 “No!” Lorcan shouted in disagreement, making everyone’s attention turn towards him. “Raven is not going to become the Luna of this pack. She is not my mate!”

Raven’s heart shattered at his words, even her wolf whimpered inside of her at his sharp and blatant rejection. 

‘What is wrong with me? What is this feeling? Why does it hurt so much?’ she thought to herself, feeling the unfamiliar pain knowing too well that it’s the pain of heartbreak caused by the mate bond.

Raven has no feelings for Lorcan or whatsoever, so the mate bond is the only reason for her to feel so broken at his rejection.

Lorcan is her best friend’s boyfriend. So obviously, Raven had no feelings for Lorcan. It would be betrayal and also dangerous for her to fall in love with her best friend’s boyfriend, so she made sure to build bounderies between them to protect her heart.

 Obviously, all of that did not matter because Lorcan is her mate. 

“Lorcan Russell Miles!” Alpha Axel shouted at his son angrily. Anger reverberated off him after his son had pissed him off. “Take back the words you said,” he growled at his son, not using his Alpha command.

Lorcan did not back down against his father, instead he stood his ground and even matched his father’s stance. “Never!” he yells louder than his father.

“Raven will never be my mate and she will never be our future Luna. I will never accept anyone else as my mate and Luna except for Celia.

Celia is the person I’ll ever love and the woman I will forever be faithful for. 

It doesn’t matter if Celia is not my mate. To me, Celia is my mate. No one else deserves to be the Luna of this pack except for her.” Lorcan announced to everybody, but his words is more directed to Celia. 

Celia’s tears stopped and her heart warmed upon hearing Lorcan’s words.

Lorcan stared deep into Celia’s eyes showing her how much he loved her. Celia couldn’t keep it anymore, she ran towards her boyfriends arms and they hugged each other so tight like they haven’t seen each other for years. 

They weren’t even apart for half an hour, just a simple misunderstanding between them is enough to make them yearn for each other so much.

Raven watched how her mate couldn’t even bear to be apart from another she wolf. 

While Celia smiled in Lorcan’s arms, tears uncontrollably spilled out of Raven’s eyes making her pull her eyes away from them. 

Raven wiped her tears away from her face, not wanting anyone to catch her pathetically crying over her best friend’s boyfriend. However, no matter how much she wipes her tears away, the tears just continues flowing out of her eyes that she couldn’t control them.

‘Stupid mate bond,’ she curses inside her. 

Since Raven couldn’t hide her tears away, everyone saw her crying over Lorcan.

“Is she really crying over her best friend’s boyfriend?”

“Oh goddess, look at her tears go. She’s playing victim.”

“How dare she pull off the waterworks.”

Raven heard their mean whispers. Of course, they are all stupid not to think that she is only crying because of the mate bond and not because she really had feelings for Lorcan.

Lorcan places a kiss on top of Celia’s head before whispering to her, “I love you. I’m going to choose you no matter what.”

The whole crowd saw this and they all think how sweet the two to each other are. They all looked at Celia and Lorcan with happy smiles on their faces while they glanced at Raven in disdain.

“Do you not have any respect for the moon goddess at all?!” Someone shouted behind the crowd.

Everyone turned around to see who had just yelled disrespectfully in front of the Alpha and Luna’s presence, but they all bowed down their heads when it turned out to be Beta Colton, Celia’s father.

“D-dad?” Celia stutters out with a confuse expression on her face. She separates from Lorcan’s hug and faces her father who walks towards them.

Alpha Axel, Luna Savina, Lorcan, and Celia did not have to bow down to Beta Colton when he arrived. However, Raven bowed to him when he has come face to face with them, making her look small at the high werewolves around her.

 Beta Colton held a raging expression on his face. He looked down at his daughter with scorching hatred. Feeling the anger that his father had showed her, Celia lowered her head before her father.

“Do you not have any respect for the moon goddess at all? How can you steal someone else’s mate?!” Beta Colton yelled at his own daughter. 

Celia bit her lower lip and lowered her head before her father in shame. Raven felt bad for Celia, after all the two were like sisters and they shared lots of memories together.

Beta Colton is a righteous person just like Alpha Axel and Luna Savina. The Moonvalley Pack is blessed to have righteous people as them as leaders who do not abuse their power or use their position for their own benefit.

Lorcan clenched his jaw in anger when he saw how a Beta humiliated the woman that he loves in front of everybody. Lorcan gripped Celia’s hand to comfort her.

Even though it was Lorcan who spoke and made the announcement, Beta Colton pointed his anger towards his daughter, instead.

He couldn’t be angry at Lorcan. Not only because he is the future Alpha and his parents are there with them, but because only parents have right to discipline their own children.

“Beta Colton, don’t be angry at your daughter she did not do anything wrong. It’s I who decided to accept her as my mate and Luna.” Lorcan spoke, stepping forward to defend Celia. “It’s not her fault that I fell in love with her.” Lorcan glanced at Celia lovingly. 

“How can we accept a fake Luna to this pack?” Alpha Axel spoke once again as he walks beside Beta Colton, his best friend whom he is glad that he had taken their side instead of his own daughter. 

It goes to show how much Colton deserves his title as Beta of the pack. Even if it his daughter who is on the line, he still chose to do what is right and to discipline his daughter. 

“Father—“ Lorcan was about to fight for his love against his own father and Celia’s father, but he was stopped short when Celia fell unto her knees and bowed her head before Alpha Axel and her own father. 

“I’m begging you. Lorcan loves me, and I love him too with all my heart that I will reject my mate to be with him. Please allow us to be together.” Celia begged with tears in her eyes showing how much Lorcan also meant to her.