SIENNA
I had found my mate in the most unexpected of places, and now I had to do something about it. The scent that was still in my nose kept reminding me of that but I was still rooted to one spot like a statue.I was still lost in my mind thinking of the next step to take when I felt a tap on my shoulder, making me to come out of my mind and focus on my surroundings.I looked in front of me and I saw Hailey staring at me with concern evident in her features. I blinked and blinked while trying to find something to say to her in order to assuage her concern so that she wouldn't worry too much, but she beat me to it as she spoke first."Are you okay? I called your name about three times and you didn't respond so I decided to tap you on your shoulder since it seemed like you were lost in thought. Talk to me. What is it?""I… I… I…" I was undecided about how I wanted to tell her what I just found out, so I ended up just stuttering as I tried to get my words together."You know you can talk to me, right?" Her gaze on me was firm as she held my eyes."Yes." I looked her in the eye, determined not to let her see the conflict in them."Then talk to me. I'm listening."I nodded my head as I decided to just tell her and get it over with. The sooner the better."I just found my mate," I started, then added, "I mean, I just caught his scent but you get the gist.""Yes, I understand, and I am really happy for you!" she exclaimed with pure delight.Her joy was infectious and that got me smiling almost immediately. "I never thought I would find him so soon and even in your birthday party of all places," I admitted."You still found him and that's all that matters.""I don't know what to do about it, though. Do you think I should go and find him or just wait here until he comes for me?""Well, he is yours so you should go and claim him. After all, you have Alpha blood in you so you certainly aren't lacking in the confidence department," she said, hyping me up."Okay, okay. I will do as you say. I will go and find him and he will know that I'm his, as he is mine.""Great! That's the spirit," she exclaimed, winking at me as I stood up from my chair.I turned around, but not before waving at her. She waved back at me and I started my walk through the hall looking for the special someone whom that Moon Goddess had designed specially for me.I was really happy that I had found my mate and my wolf, Bia too was not doing a good job of hiding her own happiness as she kept squealing and jumping inside my mind. Bia was normally a very quiet wolf and she didn't say much but I guess this case was an exception for her. She had just found her soulmate, after all so she had the right to do as she wished.I walked down the length of the whole hall but I couldn't seem to find my mate. The scent was still there but it seemed faraway now. I was debating what next to do when I suddenly felt a pull. Immediately, I knew it was the mate pull, so I followed it, relying on my instincts as I walked outside the hall, hoping that I would find my mate there.And I did. I knew he was the one as soon as I saw him, though he was standing with his back to me. I walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. As soon as he turned around and we locked eyes, realization dawned on him and he seemed to feel the pull too.But he was someone I knew. I had known him since we were children and we were friends for quite some time before we just stopped talking.The bond was pulling me in, making me to almost step closer to him and hold his hands or just establish some kind of skin contact with him.But as I looked closer at him, I realized that even though he knew me from when we were kids, and he had also realized that he was my mate as I was his, he didn't seem to be reacting to the mate bond that much. Or at least, he wasn't reacting to it as much as I was. Maybe it was because of the Alpha blood in my veins but he just looked merely aloof to the whole situation.So I decided to take the plunger and start up a conversation between us."Hi," I greeted, smiling."Hi," he said, returning the greeting and the smile even though his own smile was barely there."It's nice to see you, Jasper," I said.Yeah, his name was Jasper. He was handsome, with brown eyes, sandy blonde hair and was a little over six feet tall. He was eye-catching but not in the obvious sort of way, but just in a laid back type of way.After some moments of silence with awkwardness already setting in, Jasper said, "Yeah, good to see you too."He didn't even accord me the privilege of using my name, but I knew he remembered it. There was no way he would ever forget it, since he had had a crush on me back when we were younger.So I decided to cut straight to the chase. He was acting lukewarm about the whole thing and I wanted to know what his deal was."You know we are mates, right?" I told him."Yes, I know," he simply said."Then why are you not doing anything about it? It's like you are not pleased with the situation, if I am reading you correctly.""Well, that's because I…" he started but before he could go any further, his phone rang, cutting him off, so he added, "I have to take this." He pulled the phone from his pocket and swiped the screen before putting it to his ear."Hello, babe," he said into the phone and my ears pricked at that.Who was so important to him that he had to call her babe?"Okay, baby. I will be home soon." Then he paused, listening to the person at the other end of the line. "I love you, baby," he finished and the shock that overtook me was out of this world, but I waited for him to speak because I didn't just want to jump into conclusions.This time, Jasper didn't waste any more time before he spoke. "Look, Sienna," he started and I seethed internally since he was now bothering to use my name now when he hadn't bothered to do so before. "I can't be with you because I already have a girlfriend. Her name is Sandra. You might know her because we all attended the same middle school. That was her on the phone."His words shook something inside of me and it was my heart. It was already cracking and it would soon break. That I was sure of. So he already had someone? No wonder he had been acting all distant since. He didn't care about me and he didn't care about the mate bond either."I… I… I…" I tried to speak but I couldn't because of the pain swirling around in my heart."I have to reject you," Jasper said."No, you can't do that!" I protested. "Second chance mates don't exist in our society and if I accept the rejection, it means I will be left without a mate forever. That's too callous!""I don't care," Jasper said coldly. "I, Jasper Manuel reject you, Sienna Coleman as my fated mate. And the sooner you accept the rejection, the better for you."And with that, he turned around and walked out on me without so much as a backward glance.SIENNAMy heart fell to the floor and shattered, and as that happened, tears sprang to my eyes. My heart had just been broken right in the middle of a parking lot during my friend's birthday party and there was nothing I could do about it.But I couldn't be weak. I was the daughter of an Alpha and even if I wanted to be weak, it wasn't in front of the people here. I was too strong for that. The despair in my heart was threatening to overtake me but I was still determined to be strong. At least, for the moment.So I decided to go home. I didn't even bother to inform Hailey about it because I wasn't stable at the moment. Maybe when or if I was finally okay, I would call her to inform her and also apologize to her for leaving her party so abruptly. Then I walked to my car, clicked the remote to open it and got inside, pulling out of the parking lot with nothing but negative emotions in me. HAILEY Sienna had been gone for far too long and she wasn't back yet. What was wrong? I really h
SIENNAI woke up suddenly with a sharp pain. My mind was alert immediately as I tried to pin point what exactly was wrong with me and why I was suddenly feeling pain all over. I wondered about it, trying to come up with a possible reason but nothing seemed to be coming to me. Then suddenly, the pain hit me again and that was when I knew what was happening. My fated mate, Jasper was having intimate relations with someone or more precisely, he was having sex with his girlfriend, Sandra and that was what was causing me such severe pain as this. A wave of pain came over me again as I doubled up, clutching my stomach because the pain was threatening to overwhelm me. I was trying not to scream but I doubted if I could hold it in any longer.I was sweating profusely now and I was almost close to passing out so I began to scream. I screamed and screamed until my throat was sore and I could scream no more. My voice was now hoarse and my eyes were red. When the pain stopped almost an hour l
SIENNAIt had been a few days since the rejection, and it still hurts just the same. Anytime I thought about it, my heart squeezed against my chest painfully like someone had shoved their hands in it and was pressing onto the organ. But I guess that’s what he did, just not literally. Even without getting to know my heart, he ripped it out and stomped all over it. I thought that as the days went by, I’d feel a lot better but I didn’t. Not even in the slightest. I still felt terrible and I bet that even my looks were just it – terrible. Eating became a problem too, and I found myself gradually emaciating as the days went by. I could say that whatever connection it was that we had, had started to die out, but I hated that the feeling of hurt didn’t die with it. There were things I wanted to do, the usual I did. But what can you do when you lack the motivation to move a fraction. The mind should be the first thing to move before the body did. I heard a knock on the door to the room I w
SIENNAMy trainer once told me that if I wanted to be the best, I was going to not only beat the odds but also be ready to get beat and broken. So I did just that. I let myself get beaten, just so that I could tell what if felt like to be in such intense physical pain. I broke a few bones and even got to experience what being shot with a silver felt like and let me say that it wasn’t something I was looking forward to ever experiencing ever again. To beat the odds, I had to train harder than everyone else. That too was painful, my mind screamed at me to take a break but I didn’t. I told myself that I couldn’t afford to, not until I became the best. And that’s what I had been doing for the past two years. My life revolved solely on office work, training grounds, pack meetings alongside my father and a few occasional visits to my bed like a normal person should. And did my body break down? From time to time it did. And each time I got the chance to get back up again, I pushed myself e
SIENNA’S POV Having made my father and everyone else proud, I felt a huge weight being lifted off my shoulder. There were still a lot of pressure I was going to have to face but the level I needed to handle and cross over I had done it. “When I get to that bridge, I’ll cross it.” I mumbled to myself as I took a stroll around the garden. After the fight, I headed to my room and took a long nap. When I woke up realising I was not going to be as busy with training as before, my body craved another form of exercise. The type that would feed my eyes and relax my mind for a while. I opted for a stroll of course, another thing I didn’t have the luxury of doing because then my existence was spent traveling for pack meetings, dealing with pack business and training, the one thing I looked forward to was my good night right only to repeat the circle again. I took off my shoes and let my feet touch the grass carpet that was laid everywhere in the garden and walked over it. The spiky ends tic
SIENNA’S POVIt has been two weeks since I got news that Hailey got married and there was a rogue attack that left each and every one of us devastated. We didn’t know where they came from or even how they got into pack grounds. Their attacks were not only unexpected but while fighting them off, they were too unstable and unpredictable which didn’t give us room to fight them off at their erratic movements.And this has caused many lives to be lost and a lot of people injured including my father. He had been trying to help a pregnant woman get to safety when one of the rogues got to him. The woman did get to escape but he was left injured and pretty badly.I stayed with most of the warriors fighting as much as I could making as much damage to them as I could. This was my pack and if I was going to lead them someday, I needed to show them once again that I could. I couldn’t lead a pack without pack members now could I?It was hard though, seeing as the more I killed, the more of them see
SIENNA’S POV After the little back and forth with the pregnancy case, I had to make them all leave to come back the next day, which was today. I told them it was best to cool off for some time and the we could reconvene at the office again. This was an opportunity for me to ask my father for help and I did. Making decisions has always been a hard thing for me to do but I was willing to learn to do the right thing at all times. When I got to my father, the case was the first I spoke to him about. “What do I do Dad?” I asked him my mind whirling with questions.“You know what to do Sienna. You don’t need to ask me these things. You’re smarter than this.” He said sounding disappointed at me. He didn’t understand my dilemma. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what to do but how to go about it without sounding unjust. “Dad, I get what you’re saying. What I’m trying to say is that the boy didn’t force the girl to have sex with him even though he knew she could get pregnant. She on the other
SIENNA’S POVI was jittery most of the ride to the Claw Moon Pack. They weren’t just dangerous and I knew it. I wanted my father to come with me but he thought that since I was able to handle SilverMoon by myself, there was no need for the world to see him in his injured state. That would further only announce the state of things in our pack and that was the last thing we needed.It was his best idea to have me go alone but I was too afraid to do so. I opted for Benjamin to come with me, at least together we had a chance of surviving should something happen that would require us to defend ourselves.“Do us proud Sienna, this is our chance.” I could hear my father’s words to me before I left. Benjamin looked chill it annoyed me. On reaching the pack borders, my heart raced more than it already was in the car. The security alone was enough to scare me away. And did I mention that they were dangerous? Because they were. They had primal eyes, ready to shed blood at any time. And my goodn