Chapter 002 Wolf struggle

AMELIA

I could hear voices from afar but I couldn't make out who they belonged to. My head throbbed and my throat was dry from thirst.

Summoning the little energy within me, I flickered my eyelashes softly, each attempt a struggle, desperately trying to get out of the darkness that was haunting me.

“ M-Mom?” My voice came out as a whisper, I even doubted if she would hear me.

“ Goddess! She's awake! She's awake!” My mother rushed to the side of my tiny bed, pulling me into a suffocating embrace that squeezed the air out of my lungs. Olivia joined the hug, grumbling how worried she was about me and how I scared the shit out of her.

I was stiff for a moment, trying to wrap my head around what was going on. With creased eyebrows, I hugged them back.

“ Wha-what happened?” I asked hesitantly after pulling off from the hug.

“ I think you should be the one answering that question, Amelia.” I knitted my eyebrows when I heard Olivia's words, confusion taking over my features.

“We don't know what happened to you. Aunt found you passed out in the hallway back in the alpha's house Saturday afternoon. You have been unconscious for two days.” Olivia explained and I could feel worry in her voice.I turned to look at my mother and she nodded.

“ That's true my love. You have no idea how scared I was when I found you lying on the cold floor,your body numb and your eyes shut. For a second, I thought I had lost you. Please tell me what happened to you.” My mother asked in a pleading voice

I took a deep breath, trying to calm down. I closed my eyes and tried to remember what happened to me. How I ended up at the Alpha's house and what happened there after. I recalled bumping into alpha Edward, having a little conversation with him then we parted ways since he seemed to be in a hurry. I headed to the kitchen direction but my journey was cut short when I bumped into the alpha twins…

“ There's no way we're going to accept you as our mate! You're too weak and you don't fit to be the future Luna of Mystic pack! This pack deserves someone better! Someone stronger than you.”

My head spinned when the memories of what happened started to flood in my mind, each memory more painful than the other. The image of how the alpha twins glared at me, their eyes cold and their face emotionless.

I could feel the hollow inside me, the residue of a broken bond which left a big hole deep in my soul. I remembered how they rejected me without giving it a thought, one after the other, leaving me gasping for air and helpless. I watched them through my blurry eyes as they walked away without a care in the world, never looking back to check on me.

They didn't care if I survived the rejection or not…

A sharp, twisting pain clenched in my heart and tears streamed down my cheeks. The rejection still hurts. I wish I hadn't recalled what happened. If only I knew it would hurt this much. I would have left things the way they were.

It was a memory better forgotten…

“ What's wrong?What happened?” Olivia and my mother asked in panick and a sob escaped my lips.

“ They rejected me.” I choked out, tears flowing down my cheeks like a waterfall as the memories of the rejection played in my head over and over again.

“ Who rejected you?” My mother asked, brushing hair strands from my face. She tried to wipe away tears from my eyes but it kept on flowing.

“ Alpha twins. They said they can't accept me as their fated mate because I’m too weak.” My voice broke, each word a struggle for me to utter. My mother and Olivia seemed surprised when they heard what I had just said, trying to make sense out of it.

My mother wrapped her hands around me so tightly and pulled me into her warm arms as though she was protecting me from the tormenting pain. Olivia joined the hug, understanding what had happened and what I was going through at the moment.

I clung on them desparately, as if I could physically pull their warmth into my cold, hollow aching heart. Tears streamed down my cheeks, each drop carrying the pain that I was feeling deep inside me.

Despite the tight comforting hug and encouraging words from my mother and Olivia. I still felt the void in my heart…

“Why mother? Is it my fault that I was mated to them?” I asked,desperately demanding for answers from my mother as though she knew the reason why. Perhaps if she explained it to me, I would understand where I had gone wrong.

“Don’t blame yourself because it’s not your fault, Amelia. You didn’t do anything wrong.” My mother said, brushing hair strands from my face.

“You might be an omega but…deep down I know you're strong. The alpha twins are too blind to see it. They don’t know the power that is hidden deep inside you.” My mother said, her lips curving into a smile. Olivia, nodded to my mother's words in support.

I know she was only saying those words to help me feel better but we both knew the truth…

“You’re beautiful and kind.” She said,holding my face between her palms.

“ I believe that,one day you’ll find someone who will see your worth and inner strength. Someone who will love you for who you are despite the status and everything.” She said with a glimmer of hope in her eyes.

To be sincere, I didn't know how to respond to her because…I didn't believe in mates anymore. She pulled me into a tight hug, patting my back gently…

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ALPHA TWINS

~ FINN~

“ So, the two of you are yet to find fated mates?” Dad asked, darting his eyes from me and Liam. We were having a little chat between father and sons after dinner. We were talking about the pack's affair and the future plans.

I swallowed the lump down my throat when I heard my dad's question. We have been avoiding this question for the past week, the question a cruel reminder of the moon goddess’s sick joke.

“ Yes, but we're trying our best to search.” I responded, not going into details. I turned to look at Liam and he nodded in support, “ That's right, we won't stop searching until we find her. We know how important fated mates are.” I nodded to support Liam's statement to make it more convincing.

We continued to talk about random things involving the pack, trying our best to avoid anything related to fated mates.

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I stood by the window inside my room, blankly staring at the darkness. My wolf fila was quiet, mad that I rejected our fated mate. I tried to explain the reasons to him. Telling him that we needed a stronger mate. A strong Luna who will be capable of leading the pack and give birth to strong heirs.However, Fila couldn't understand no matter how many times I tried to explain to him.

The door to my room clicked open and I felt footsteps walk towards me. I didn't need to check the intruder because I already knew it was my twin brother. There was this invisible string between us that no one could see. I know his steps, his scent and sometimes I could sense his discomfort and feel his pain since we're identical in every way. The only thing that sets us apart is the colour of our eyes, I have blue eyes which I inherited from our father while Liam has green eyes.

Our dad told us that Liam inherited the green eyes from our mother. We don't know if it was true because…we have never seen her. She died while giving birth to us…

Liam stood beside me, joining me in staring blankly at the darkness and it was silence for a while, just a comfortable silence that we both enjoyed.

“ I guess we're never going to tell Dad about finding our fated mate.” Liam asked. I was quiet for a while then heaved a deep sigh.

“ Would you like him to know we were fated to an omega? What about the pack members and our friends back in college? Would you like them to know about it?” I asked Liam, indirectly answering his questions.

He was silent for a while, as though contemplating what I had just asked him.

“ No!” He heaved a deep sigh, as though he was carrying the world on his shoulders.

“ Our friends in college will make fun of us if they find out that we are mated to an omega. And for the pack members, they would be worried about the future of the pack. This pack needs a strong Luna.” I nodded in support because that was my thoughts too.

It wasn't easy to reject the Omega. Our wolves wanted her, to claim her and make her ours. It took us a lot of courage to say “ No” when the beta asked us if the omega was our fated mate. The past week has been hell for my brother and I, each time we walked past Amelia, our wolves craved for her, to be next to her and mark her. Her lavender scent was sickly sweet that made our wolves go crazy…

“ I think we made the right decision for the greater good of the pack. I wouldn't want us to end up like Dad…” Liam's voice brought me back to the real world. I nodded, silently agreeing to his words. My wolf growled in my head, disagreeing with me...