LOGINVIOLET
There was no single remorse on his face as he said those words. I wondered how someone could reject you without even looking like he cared at all.
My mouth remained open as no words would come out. This couldn’t possibly be happening. Why was he doing this to me? It felt like my heart was being shattered into thousands of pieces and there was nothing I could do about it.
“W-What?” The words left my mouth in a stutter.
“You heard me. I don’t want you as my mate. The sooner you get that into your head, the better.” He looked at me with disgust, written all over his face.
If looks could kill, I’d probably underneath the earth. I wondered why he was looking at me with such hatred in his eyes. Like I was some vermin that had crawled from hell. I felt like collapsing into a puddle. This couldn’t be happening.
“You heard what he said.” A voice said from the crowd.
I watched as the slut of the pack, Sienna, gingerly walked up to meet us. Tristan’s eyes were set on her, watching her every move as she stopped before him. I watched as she snaked her arms around him.
Her long black hair fell to the small of her back. Her lashes seemed to flutter the more she stared at Tristan. She was looking at him with what looked like hearts in her eyes. I felt like throwing up. It was all so disgusting.
He wrapped his hands around her face. I couldn’t help but watch in remorse as she crashed her lips against his. He let out a hum as he fervently kissed her back, both of them oblivious to the stares of the crowd around there.
With each second I stood and watched them, it was another second that my heart seemed to shatter into pieces even more and more. They didn’t care that I was standing right there before them or that my whole world was crumbling right before my very eyes.
They finally stopped after what seemed like forever. Tristan turned to regard me, his face twisting in disgust.
“I could never accept the reject as my mate.”
He pulled away from Sienna and turned back to me, disgust creeping back on his face. I could tell whatever he was going to say again would shatter me completely. My heart thrummed violently against my chest. I didn’t think I could take another onslaught of it. Unfortunately, he didn’t look like he cared much.
“I don’t like you. I have never liked you. I will never like you. As a matter of fact, we don’t need a retch like you in this pack.” He closed the distance between us.
He was so close; I swore I could feel his breath on me. The whole place erupted into murmurs of agreement. I looked around, wondering if there was anybody, anyone at all that would come to my aid.
What I saw was something I expected…it didn’t make it hurt any less though. They were all looking at me with disgust written all over their faces. They didn’t care one bit. I bit my lip, my body trembling with both heartbreak and anger.
All this while, I had suffered through nothing but pain. Yet, they had decided to pay me back this way. After everything I had endured from them. Tristan had noticed my trembling and was staring at me.
“I won’t take it.” My voice was low, I barely even heard myself.
“What?” Tristan asked.
“I said I won’t take this.” I whipped my head up to glare at him. “You think you can just do this to me? After everything I’ve been through?”
I pointed at every single one of them present, the rage welling up in me the more I looked at their pathetic faces. I refused to accept their mistreatment any longer. They thought it was okay to treat me however they liked. Like hell, I’d accept that.
“You call yourself an Alpha. Yet you remained silent and watched them all treat me this way. You let them do this to me. You let them bully and punish me. You let them treat me like a maid and all for what, huh? Because my parents aren’t here anymore? Is that it?”
My rage would not be caged or controlled anymore. Something in me wanted to stop and just cower into a corner but I was done doing that. I would not remain silent in the face of this injustice any longer. I turned back to Tristan, my eyes burning with hate and anger
“You might call yourself an Alpha but you’re nothing but a fucking coward.”
For a split moment, I was happy that I had let out all the things I wanted to say. Immediately, I started to wish I hadn’t said that. The hard look on his face let me know that I had definitely stepped on the wolf’s tail.
Before I even had any time to react, my face whipped to the side and I collapsed on the ground. Tristan had just slapped me. I looked up to see him glaring down at me like I was some ant beneath his shoe.
“You really had fun running your mouth like the bitch you are, huh?”
He spat on me before proceeding to kick me in the stomach. I let out a pained yelp, my eyes fluttering close as the pain seemed too much to bear.
“Morris! Jay! Grab her.” Tristan ordered.
Just as I opened my eyes, two male pack members grabbed me and hefted me up to my feet. I was now staring Tristan straight in the eye.
“Since you’ve proven that you’re not worthy of all the kindness we’ve shown you in this pack, I thought of doing you a favor.”
My eyes widened as my heart rate sped up. I had a feeling I already knew what was coming.
“From this day onward, you are no longer a member of West Creak Pack.”
It was then, I felt my world crashing down. I didn’t bother fighting the darkness that consumed me.
VIOLET“Anon?”It had been so low that I doubt anyone at the table caught on. They were too busy placing their orders to notice my panic.“What’s wrong?” Lucian asked, breaking through the haze in my head.Of course, he’d noticed. Even if the others hadn’t been paying attention, he always noticed these things.“What?” I blinked away the surprise. “Nothing’s wrong. Why do you ask?”He followed the path my gaze had been on, then turned back to me. “You sure?”Shit. He really had noticed. Curse him and his attentiveness. And here I’d thought I was so slick. The smile was easy to force on my face.“I’m fine. Honestly.”He let out a grunt, not sounding like he believed me. “I was asking what you wanted for dessert.”I turned back to the menu, running my eyes over the dessert section. Every bit of excitement I’d had initially had been replaced with anxiousness. I couldn’t check the man out again. Not when Lucian was paying increasing attention to me.“How about the lemon meringue?” I turned
VIOLETThe next few days that followed after the big reveal were pretty strange. Reese was the most stunned when she got to know. And dejected. No matter how grouchy or tough she liked to act, she could be pretty sensitive deep down.And the whole thing had hit her pretty hard. She refused to let me out of her sight most of the time after that.Thank God for Zayn forcing her away from me whenever it was necessary. At the moment, we were in the living room, with my head on her lap and her fingers stringing through her head.“Remember what you said about people mistaking us for a couple because of how we’re always together?” I broke the silence.She immediately shushed me. “Let them think what they want. You can’t always control the public’s opinion.”“Oh, really?” I stared at her in amusement. “I’d like you to keep up that same energy for as long as possible.”She stuck out her tongue. “I plan to.”I stared at her for a while longer before shaking my head. The reason behind all this fr
VIOLET“Are you serious?” I stepped forward.The guard turned to me, a disturbed look in his eyes as he nodded. “Yes, Luna.”Another growl left Lucian’s lips. “Well, who is it? Who’s the person behind this?”There was a small pause. It seemed the man was at a loss for what to say. Or rather he seemed too disturbed to speak. I knew if he didn’t get to talking anytime soon, Lucian would lose his cool and end up lashing out on him.I put a hand on Lucian’s shoulder, noting as the look of irritation in his eyes slowly softened. Turning back to the man, I steeled my expression once again.“Speak.”The man let out a deep breath. “We did a thorough investigation of their individual rooms hoping to find something. It ended up leaving us at a dead end. We considered coming to just report it to you but something pushed me to suggest searching her room.”I blinked. “You went through her belongings?”“Forgive me!” The man nearly slammed his head into the ground with how fast he bowed. “I know how
LUCIANViolet blinked at me, a dumbfounded look on her face. “Huh?”“I said, I’m sorry.” I said, irritation bleeding into my tone.The pointed glare in her eyes made me let out a breath. Now was not the time to start getting irritated all over again. I’d made up my mind to apologize to her before the day ended. And lucky enough, I’d found her in my room.It still didn’t explain why she had my phone in her hand, but of course, the apology would come first.“My words and reasoning during the interrogation weren’t fair on you.” I continued. “You’re my Luna, and by default, that gives you as much right to be present there and the right to question them as you so please. I’m sorry, Violet.”For a while, she said nothing. It was to the point that the silence was almost deafening. Then she made a sound of surprise.“What’s with the sudden apology?” she scoffed. “Your rotten heart slowly starting to heal up? Or are you just a doppleganger masquerading as the real Lucian?”I ignored her obviou
VIOLET“For the hundredth time, I am not avoiding him.”This conversation was starting to feel repetitive. And the longer I exchanged words with Reese, the more intense the feeling of déjà vu that was hitting me.I’d definitely had that conversation before. Reese was the closest thing to a best friend, someone I’d never had before. Which meant I told her every single thing that happened in my life (the fake bits of course), right down to what color of panties I was wearing.That was how much I trusted and cared about her. I wasn’t exactly lying to her. I only told her the bits and pieces of my relationship with Lucian.And I’d told her about the kiss. Well, tweaked it a little. She’d seemed puzzled as to why Lucian would go as far as avoiding me over something as simple as a kiss but eventually she let it go.Now though, it was a different case entirely. “Girl, be serious. You literally came all the way to my room to avoid staying in the same room with him.”“For a valid reason.” I ar
LUCIANSomeone tried to kill Violet.Someone thought they were ballsy enough to try and hurt my Luna. And worse of all, they’d done it knowing fully well that I was still very much in the pack.My wolf was howling, demanding blood as he continued to pace in the crevice of my mind. It took a lot of patience to still sit where I already sat, composed and watching as they maids were pushed into the interrogation room.There were about four of them, asides Rosa who worked the kitchen as well as other cleaning and maintenance duties of the main house.They’d answer to my questions and find me the culprit. Failure to do that and all their head would go flying.“Shut the door.” I growled to one of the guards.He nodded, shutting the door when the last of them went in. I remained silent, watching as they trickled in and assembled themselves before me.Minutes of silence trickled by with me making no exact move. My eyes flickered from one to the other, watching the fearful hunch in their shoul







