“Are you going now?” Lynn asks Natalie and watches her prepare her things. Natalie glances at her and nods before smiling at her; she then puts the ring that Norwan gave her after their mateship one year ago in a small box.
“Yes.” She answered and watched the ring in the box for a minute. She never expected in her life that she would have to return this ring to Norwan. For Natalie, this ring signifies his love for her, and this is the special gift she received from him.
“What are you going to do? What gift do you say you will give to Norwan?” Lynn asks and sits in front of her friend. Natalie looked at her with a fake smile.
“I will give the gift that I never wanted to give,” Natalie said, suddenly remembering how she was happy with Norwan even though it was the opposite of his feelings for her.
“I always wanted to be a perfect wife for him and a good wife simultaneously. But knowing these things will happen because of the wrong accusation, I will live alone again, away from him.” Natalie said and swallowed as she stopped herself to cry in front of her friend.
“Are you really dedicated to your decision now?” Lynn asked. Natalie nods at her and smiles bitterly.
“Letting him go doesn’t mean that I will fall into silence after what they did to me,” Natalie said as she remembered how Dixie, Cora, and Norwan treated her. Dixie constantly criticizes her and even insults her in front of so many visitors on their wedding day, but Natalie ignores that as she wants to do at that time is to love Norwan. Even though his mom and his sister dislike Natalie, now Natalie is done and can’t take anymore. She has already awakened herself from Norwan, never giving her the love she wanted. She knew to herself that Norwan married her for the sake of the protection of his clan.
Natalie knew from the first place that Norwan didn’t love her, and her hopes were just high, and her expectations ate her away from reality.
“Oh, Natalie, I didn’t want to see you like this. This is not what I wanted to see.” Lynn said and held Natalie’s left hand.
“I am now ready to terminate my mateship with him as I know this won’t go far good anymore,” Natalie said and sighed.
“I already made up my mind to end this. Besides, I will be the next Alpha of our clan, so I don’t need to worry about his clan anymore.” Natalie added and looked at the big picture hanging on her room wall. This picture was taken after the ceremony of their mateship. Looking at the photo makes her remember how the tradition goes by and how they both pray in front of the altar of the Moon Goddess.
“I will see Norwan today and ask him to see me in front of the Altar of Moon Goddess, where our mateship ceremony was held, so that we can start to do the termination of the mateship ceremony, and after that, the bond between the two of us will vanish in the air,” Natalie said and stood up from her chair.
Lynn follows her with her eyes and smiles bitterly to her friend.
“If that’s what you want, then I will support you. Just take care, okay?” Lynn said and stood up from her seat. Natalie smiles at her and nods before she walks away from her friend.
After a few minutes, Natalie arrived at the Northan Pack place and saw how those eyes from the werewolves under Norwan’s power looked at her with disgust and full of criticism. But then she ignores their stares and whispers as she walks towards Norwan’s place, where he is also looking and watching her approach him.
“She’s the one who pushed Ms. Cora off the cliff, right?”
“She really has a thick face; she still goes here after what she’s done.”
“KILLER!”
Natalie stopped walking as she was already in front of Norwan, who was looking at her with cold eyes.
“Why are you here?” Teodor, beta of Norwan ask. Natalie didn’t turn to look at him; instead, her gaze was fixed on Norwan.
“Let’s see each other at the place where our mateship was held,” Natalie says to Norwan. Everyone looks to Norwan, who is emotionless while looking at Natalie.
“We will start the ceremony for the termination of our mateship.” She said with her cold voice. “I will wait for you there.” She added before turning her back to him and starting to walk away. Norwan, on the other hand, watched her walk away from him and smirk.
“You can’t live without me, Natalie.” He said, which caused everyone to laugh at Natalie and criticize her again. Natalie didn’t stop walking until she reached her car and entered it. Her heart is aching after she hears what Norwan says. Norwan knows how much Natalie loves him, but he doesn’t know how much Natalie is hurt by his actions.
The night came, and the light from the moon reflected to the Alter of the Moon Goddess. Natalie arrives in front of the Altar of Moon Goddess, where their mateship ceremony was held one year ago. Seeing this place right now hurts Natalie again because she saw her old self marrying the wrong person. She never wanted to do this, terminating her mateship with him, but this is the right thing for her as she wants to seek revenge for what they did to her, especially to Norwan, who always hurts her, not physically but mentally and emotionally.
A black-tinted car stopped nearby, and Natalie saw it was Norwan’s car; she turned her back from the car and ready herself for what would happen next, knowing their mateship would be successfully terminated any minute now.
“I didn’t know you were really dedicated to these things,” Norwan says. Natalie didn’t turn to look at him. Instead, she grabbed a little blade from her pocket and started to cut her arms, which caused blood to come out from her arms; she then looked to Norwan, who was watching her, and gave the blade she used to cut her arm. Norwan smirks as he accepts the knife and starts to cut himself, too. After that, she throws the sword away and looks at Natalie, who is watching him.
“Just so you know, this is what I really wanted to do for a long time,” Norwan said. Natalie ignores him, closes her eyes, and starts to pray to the Moon Goddess, who gives bounds to them. Norwan laughed a little before he began praying to the moon goddess; after a minute, Natalie opened her eyes and looked at Norwan. Her heart was tearing apart while looking at him, but she kept herself calm as she didn’t want to cry in front of him. Norwan finishes his prayers, and with that, the bond that connects the both of them vanishes, and a little mark on their neck is erased automatically, which means that the termination of their mateship is successful.
Natalie took a deep breath and looked at Norwan.
“Thanks for everything.” She said in her cold voice. Norwan suddenly looked at Natalie’s neck and saw that the mark on her neck was already gone; he didn’t know why, but seeing the mark not on her neck made him feel something strange.
“I knew you couldn’t live without me,” Norwan says. Natalie just laughed at him and smiled bitterly.
“If that’s what you believe, go, but I have words for you, Norwan,” Natalie said, looking into his eyes.
“After this, you’re no longer welcome to my life again, and I swear in front of the Moon Goddess Altar that you will chase me one day… and if that happens, I will just laugh at you like you did to me back then,” Natalie said and turn her back to him.
Norwan watched Natalie walk away from him, a smirk formed on his lips while watching her walk away from him. He couldn't believe that Natalie really broke their relationship; for Norwan, this is all stupidity as Natalie chooses to terminate their mateship to say sorry to Cora when in the first place, Norwan was the one who gave that choice to her."If that's really what you want, then go; marrying you was a big mistake in my life… now that our mateship is already terminated, I will pursue Cora now and marry her," Norwan said in his mind and sighed as he no longer saw Natalie."Am I going to pack all her things in your house?" Norwan looks to hiss Beta as it asks the question."Yes, and send it to her place. Don't leave anything from her in her room; do inform the maids to clean it up and move all Cora's things there; that will be Cora's new room." Norwan said as he start to walk away from the Moon Goddess altar.Meanwhile, as Natalie walks away from Norwan, her chest hurts like her he
Natalie is now sipping her tea while her dad is watching her; she then puts down the cup of tea on the table and looks at her dad. After their last conversation about not marrying Norwan, Natalie finally has a chance to talk to her dad and tell him everything that happened to her in Norwan's hand."What are you doing there, Dad?" Natalie suddenly asks as she remembers why her dad showering in the rain. Grego sighed, crossed his arms and legs, and leaned into his chair."Your friend told me your plan, and I followed you; I saw it all and heard it all," Grego said, looking earnestly at his daughter. "I have told you not to marry him. He had no interest in you initially, yet you're the one who wanted this, and now look what happened to you." He said to Natalie, who was now looking down to the floor. If she thinks of it, her dad is correct; if she just listens to her dad, this won't happen to her now."I just… love him, dad. I'm sorry," Natalie said, not even looking into her dad's eye.
Natalie looks at the luggage beside Trever, smiles, and signals him to stand."You don't need to bow down to me," Natalie said. Trever looked into her eyes and shook his head. "I am no longer your Luna." She added. Trever sighs, and he knows what Natalie wants to say."For me, you're still our Luna… Madame." He said; Natalie smiled at his words. Trever is Norwan's Beta. His loyalty was only for Norwan, not until Natalie came and saved him from his problem months ago. He views it as his enormous debt to Natalie; he is very grateful that she helped him when Norwan couldn't do so, and with that, Trever swears to Natalie that even though he's Norwan's Beta, his loyalty will split into two and give his half loyalty to Natalie.Trever heard the news about what happened between Natalie and Cora, and he knows already that Natalie couldn't do such a thing as he knows how kind she is. He has this intuition that someone just spread the wrong information to their clan, which leads to gathering in
Because of Trever’s worlds, Norwan suddenly drive his car to terminal where Trever said Natalie departed, he’s hoping that he could saw her at least for the very last time before she left this town. As Norwan arrived at the terminal, he quickly search for Natalie yet as he checked the flight details he saw that the plain that Trver told to him earlier had already departed 30 minutes ago.Norwan suddenly lose all his strength as he look at the flight details, he sat in front of the board and look around. The thing is he couldn’t understand what Trever mean by his word ‘depart’ he thought that Natalie depart from their house to this terminal.Norwan close his eyes and put his hand in his face to cover it up. “What am I doing?” He ask himself as he look around and still search for Natalie’s presence even though he knows that Natalie is no longer here in their city.“Norwan what the fuck are you doing? You fucking want this right? Now what are you doing to yourself? Get up man!” Norwan s
"Don't do that again, Natalie. You're just fooling yourself because of what you did earlier." Natalie sighed because of her friend's words. Lynn also joined Natalie on her city travel, staying with Natalie until she made sure that Natalie was doing well and had already moved on from Norwan.Natalie sits from her designated seat and looks at Lynn, who is frowning at her, while Chad is behind Lynn, who is smiling awkwardly. Chad told Lynn what had happened earlier, and Lynn was so mad because of what Chad had told her."You and he are no longer bound to each other; you are supposed to accept that, Natalie; look what he said to you earlier," Lynn said and sat beside Natalie."I know that. I'm just hoping a little that his heart will soften." Natalie said and sighed. "But I guess his heart will never be softened anymore as he is no longer interested in me." She added. Lynn sighed as she watched her best friend's reaction. While Chad sits in his designated chair, which is in front of Natal
Norwan arrives at his mansion late at night; Cora is waiting at him in front of the main door and immediately stands from her place as soon as she sees Norwan walking in her direction.“Norwan, thank goodness you’re here already; I’ve been waiting for you for an hour; where did you go?” She asked and immediately smelled the scent of alcohol from him.“Did you drink tonight?” She asked and immediately assisted Norwan, who was not in his right mind then; he was already drunk and couldn’t think straight. “Gosh, what are you doing to yourself, Norwan? This is not normal anymore. You drank too much tonight.” Cora said. “Maids! Help me get Norwan to his room!” Cora shouted, which caused all the maids from Norwan’s mansion to get up from their bed and assist Cora and Norwan. Cora puts Norwan down to the floor as she can’t carry him anymore because of his weight; she rolls her eyes and watches the maid put Norwan in his room upstairs.“Make sure he can’t have any wounds,” Cora said as she fo
ONE YEAR LATER.Cora smiles as soon as she sees herself in the mirror; after checking herself, she goes to the dining table and sees Norwan drinking his coffee alone in the dining area. She walks towards him with a broad smile on her lips.“Good morning, handsome.” Cora greets him; Norwan doesn’t look at her; instead, he focuses on the newspaper he’s holding. Cora sighed and went closer to him. “Have you eaten your breakfast already?” She asked.“Yes,” Norwan answers without even looking at Cora. Because of that, Cora frowned and looked at the newspaper he was holding.“What are you reading?” She asked as soon as she read the title of the headline. “Don’t tell me you’re still concerned with your ex-luna; she’s not worth it to think of, Norwan.” She said and sat down beside him. Norwan didn’t look at her; instead, he sat and put down his coffee nug.“Hey, where are you going? Are you not going to join me to eat the breakfast?” She asked and watched Norwan turn his back from her.“I al
“Are you gonna eat here later?” Cora asked while watching Norwan arrange his suit while looking at himself in the mirror. Norwan didn’t look at her as he had already gotten his case.“No.” He said coldly and walked away to Cora. Cora followed him while her brows frowning; she didn’t understand why Norwan acted like this. “Norwan, can we talk for a second?” She asked while following him, but Norwan didn’t even look at her as he continued walking down the stairs.“We can talk later, Cora. There is something I need to do today. I can’t be late.” He said and walked directly to the kitchen to get his drink.“But Norwan, just for a second, please.” She said Norwan was about to walk away with her when Cora blocked his way. Norwan looks at her with his frowning forehead.“About what?” He asked. Cora sighed and crossed her arms.“I don’t get why you’re acting like that, Norwan.” She said, so Norwan chuckled.“What do you mean, Cora?” He asked and took a look at his watch. “I really need to go