5: I HATE YOU, CONROY GRACELAND

"No!" Jessica gasped. Maybe she didn't hear him right. How could the alpha even consider making her his second wife? He must be mad. Luna Magda would probably kill them both before she would be able to even make it to the aisle. Plus, what about Cory? There's no way he would just stand back and let his father marry his mate.

"Yes, little one," Alpha Conroy chuckled. "Don’t look so surprised. You heard me right. I want you to be my wife."

"But you already have a wife and the pack already have a Luna," Jessica tried to reason her way out of this.

"I know all of that, little one and certain things won't change," he explained. "Magda will continue to be Luna of the pack. You will simply be my wife. The one I bring to balls, functions, holidays and such. Magda's place is to stay here and solve various pack problems and make sure the schools and hospitals have supplies."

"So I'll just be eye candy?" Jessica scoffed.

"I wouldn't put it like that," he laughed. "But Magda is twenty years older than me. My only reason for marrying her was to inherit her father's pack. She isn't my true mate."

"And neither am I," Jessica spat.

"I know that, little one," he kissed her cheek, and Jessica recoiled. "But you are beautiful, young, and I believe fertile," he explained, and Jessica's eyes widened when she figured out what the alpha's true intentions were. "I always wanted more pups, but Magda's days of breeding are over. Plus I've never been attracted to her in that way and now that she's older, I can't bear to even look at her saggy, wrinkly skin."

"But I want to marry my true mate and have his pups," Jessica sniffled.

"Aww, sweetheart," he cooed. "Even I wanted to marry my true mate, but I had to reject her because she was an omega and I wouldn't be an alpha today if I didn't."

"You're sick," Jessica spat, trying to get out of his clutches.

"I may be sick, young Jessica, but I'm also your alpha and what I command you to do you will do or else my wolf will have to eat you," his voice got heavy as he spoke in his alpha's tone. He circled his hands around her waist and pressed his nose to the back of her head. He took an enormous breath, filling his lungs with the scent of her hair. "You know, you not only look like her, but you also smell like her."

"Who?" Jessica wondered.

"My mate, silly girl. You look and smell just like her," he hummed, pressing her body firmer on his lap. Jessica could feel his massive hard-on.

Before Jessica could utter a word, the door burst open.

"Conroy, I need to have a word with yo ..." Luna Magda choked on her words and halted. Jessica didn't need her wolf to sense the Luna's fury. With eyes darker than the hour of midnight, Magda displayed canines that sharpened to fierce points. "What the fuck is going on in here?" Magda yelled. She marched over to the couple and grabbed the omega by her neck, pulling her off the alpha's lap. "Get your filthy ass off my husband, you little bitch!" With all her strength, Magda hurled Jessica into the wall, cracking the wooden panels.

Jessica's screams could be heard by everyone with a wolf residing in the pack-house. She fell to the ground, her mouth and nose covered in blood. Magda stalked up to her, her talons out. She raised her palm ready to slice into the little omega's neck, when the alpha held her hand and stopped her.

"That's enough, Magda!"

"Let me go, Conroy!" Magda cried. "I won't be disrespected like this. Not again."

Jessica curled up on the floor, sobbing silently with her hands protecting her head. She wondered what the Luna meant by she won't be disrespected again.

"Pull yourself together, Magda," Alpha Conroy pushed her away from Jessica. "This woman-scorned-thing of yours was cute when you were younger, but now it's getting old, like you."

"I'm sorry the day I agreed to marry you," she spat.

"Just be grateful that you gave me a son and two daughters or else your head would be on a spike outside."

"I hate you, Conroy Graceland. I hate you so much."

"No you don't. You love me," he mocked her. "You love me so much that you changed your family pack's name to Graceland Pack. You love me so much that you orchestrated to have my true mate and her second chance mate killed because you feared I was gonna leave you for her."