Chapter two

I couldn’t believe this; how was this even possible? I saw the frown on his face the moment our wolves muttered "mate," and he immediately put his pants back on as he got off the bed.

"Where are you going?" I asked him, and this time he grabbed me fiercely by the neck when he turned to me.

"You’re a filthy omega, one who deserves no respect, so you have no right, absolutely no right, to ask me questions. Got it?" He asked me, and tears streamed down my cheeks.

I didn’t need anyone to tell me where this was headed, as I knew it already. "But we’re mates." I tried to tell him, but before I could even say that, he held on tightly to my chin, and I swallowed as I stared at him.

"To hell with that; there is no way I am accepting you as my mate." He said that, and with that, he pushed me back to the bed before storming out.

I fell to the ground the moment he left as tears streamed down my cheeks. It seemed the moon goddess couldn’t hate me more than she already did. What had I done to her to make her hate me this much? This was rejection; he hadn’t said it yet, but I knew it was what I was to expect.

I swallowed. For the second time, my mate would be rejecting me!.

I couldn’t pull myself together, that was certain and every moment I spent in this hotel room was making me feel even more suffocated than I was already. I swallowed as I hurriedly got dressed before rushing out of the room.

All through the ride back to the pack house, I couldn’t think of anything order than the fact that another rejection was coming my way and the moment I got to the pack, I didn’t even go to the alpha as I immediately rushed to my own room.

I wonder who’d told him I had returned because it didn’t take so long before he called for me to the dining hall. This wasn’t going to be good, I was sure of it, and the thoughts of what he was going to do to me scared the hell out of me.

I cried as I fell to the floor in front of Alpha Conrad and the other members of the pack who were having dinner, and I could see how they were mocking me openly.

“I swear, myself and alpha Leonardo are mates.” I told him as tears streamed down my cheeks but then, it seemed that with each word I spoke, came more laughter.

I shut my eyes. What was this? Why the humiliation? What stopped him from just calling me personally to his chambers?

"You’re filthy, and here I was, thinking that even if your creation wasn’t perfect, your bed skills at least were. You couldn’t even get him to bed when he wanted to, and now you claim he is your mate? Shame on you!" He said this as he spat at me, and I shut my eyes tightly as I swallowed hard.

He held on to my hair as he pulled it. "This pack could have gotten a lot from that night between you and Alpha Leonardo, but no, as usual, you had to be useless, and now, what do we have? .." he chuckled as he pushed my head away hardly and in anger, "nothing!"

I closed my eyes as I let the tears stream down even more freely. When would it end? The pain and suffering were too much for me, and I didn’t think I could take it any more.

"I..." Before I could even speak, Luna Amber, Alpha Conrad’s wife, slapped me across the face.

"When non-hybrid omegas speak, keep quiet." She told me before clapping, and just then, two hefty guards came and picked me up.

I stared at them, shocked, as they held me up, and I swallowed. What were they trying to do to me?

"Take her away, lock her in the dungeon; such useless people shouldn’t be found here." She said that, and I cried as the guards turned me toward the door.

"No, please, Luna Amber, don’t do this to me. I..." Before they could even open the door, the door came open, and just then he walked in.

Like a knight in shining armor, there he was, Alpha Leonardo, and he looked more charming than ever. "Let go of her." He ordered in that domineering voice of his, and they let me go as I fell to the floor.

He stretched his hand to me, and I stared at him, shocked. Was I daydreaming, or was this man actually lending a helping hand to me? Without even letting me get a proper hold of those firm hands, he dragged me up, and I stared at him.

Damn, he looked even more charming than I originally thought he did.

"You should not treat her like that; she is my mate." He said this, and my jaw dropped. Did he really say this?

My wolf was already leaping for joy; finally, someone would accept me. Finally, there was someone in my life who didn’t judge me for who I was. Tears streamed down my cheeks. Did the moon goddess really hear my prayers and answer them?.This was the happiest I’d been my entire life; finally, I would get a mate. Everything in my life had been miserable, and it had been so miserable to the extent that even at 18, I didn’t get my wolf till I was 20 but then it seemed it was all going to change now, for the best at least.

I thought I was still daydreaming when he decided to take me to his own pack but then I wasn’t. He actually did so.

As we took the chariot to his pack, I couldn’t help but look around. My dreams were finally coming true, I had finally left that pack, the one that was responsible for most of the pains I was going through in my life from the time I even knew I existed.

When we finally arrived at the pack house, we got down and I started to follow Leonardo around, more like I was a bodyguard and it wasn’t because I wanted to, it was because I didn’t know my way around.

"Who are you?" A woman at Leonardo’s castle asked when she saw that I’d been following him around for a while.

"I’m Alpha Leonardo’s mate." I said it with joy, and she turned to him.

"Call a meeting for all the people in the pack; I want to meet them." He said, and I smiled, that he was going to announce me as his mate to all of them.

Could this day get any better?

He turned to me slightly before going away. I didn’t know why he did that, but that action alone told me I was in for it. Something just didn’t feel right at this moment..He had his hands wrapped around my waist as we stood in front of all the members of the pack.

"People of the Shadow Lake Pack!" He started by calling out, and I swallowed. I was feeling so shy, but then, with his hands wrapped around me, I felt rather soothed. "Today, you’ve all been gathered here for one reason only, and that is to show that as your alpha, I, Leonardo Rodriguez, will never settle for trash." He said that, and with that, he took his hands off me.

I stared at him, confused. What was he trying to do?

He stared at me, and this time, I could see disgust in his eyes, and it was making me scared.

"Did you really think a mighty alpha such as myself would accept you?" He scoffed, "You lie, Cora, you lie." He said that, and with that, he dragged me by the hair. "This woman here is a gold-digging whore, and she thought that just by being my mate, she would achieve everything easily, but no, I know people like her way too well." He said, in anger as he let go of my hair.

I walked to him as tears started to well up in my eyes. "What are you saying, Leonardo? You’d accepted me at the pack, didn’t you? Why are you saying this now? Please don’t do this to me." I told him, and he chuckled.

"You're a hybrid; there's no way I'll accept you. Get out!'" He yelled as he pushed me away.

I held on to my injured arm as I got up. "I won't let you go so easily, Alpha. You're mine, and I'll make sure I get you." I told him and I was determined.

It was high time I stood up for myself!

I had being ridiculed for way too long, rejection at first wasn’t something new for most wolves, but for the second time? No way.

He was my mate, we had being destined for each other for a reason and I wouldn’t accept rejection for the second time, he was mine, I would make sure he remained so.