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Chapter 3

Happiness POV

I woke up early the next morning with a full and satisfied stomach. It was the first time in a long time that I woke up without hearing my stomach growl hungrily, I considered that a small win for me. I laid on my bed and glanced up at the ceiling, savoring this feeling.

"Good morning Happiness!" my wolf, Mandel said in an extra chipper voice, I could almost see her prancing happily around my head.

"Morning Mandel! Is there a reason why you are so happy this early in the morning?" I questioned her, puzzled by her current mood. There was a brief moment of silence before she answered.

"Uh hello? Mandel? You there?" I asked her, awkwardly. It was unusual for my wolf not to answer me immediately.

"Are you being serious Happiness? You do not even remember that it is your sixteenth birthday? It is also the day that we will finally find our mate! What is wrong with you human?" She exclaimed, making me jump and hold the side of my head.

"Oh yeah…oops, I guess I forgot. Sorry Mandel, you know that my brain is not functional in the mornings and that I rarely celebrate my birthday. This is the only birthday worth celebrating. I can't wait to find our mate. I just hope that he will treat us right." I answered back.

"I know that mate will love us, Happiness , we are a pretty loveable pair after all." Mandel reassured me.

I decided to get up and get ready to get breakfast going. I did not want to get a beating for being late. I did not need any more scars and wounds on my body, not the day that I was going to finally get to meet my mate. I wanted to look my best today since it was my birthday as well as hopefully appeal and impress my mate. I wanted him to want me and accept me. I did not have many nice outfits, but I did have a floral dress that my mom bought for me a while ago. I hid it carefully under the sink, afraid that someone will take one of the only gifts I had left from my mother. It looked like it would still fit and that was unsurprising as I am underweight and had a smaller body frame compared to the norms. I slipped on the dress easily and slipped on my sandals before heading downstairs.

For breakfast, I choose to make bacon, sunny side eggs, pancakes, and fresh orange juice and since it was my birthday, I decided that a little treat for myself won't hurt. I placed one pancake and one strip of bacon for myself on a plate and set that aside, hiding it behind the toaster to eat later. Afterward, I set the table, laying out all of the food, and waited for the pack members to wake up.

"Happiness, eat your breakfast now so that no one will see. It is still early so I doubt that anyone would wake up anytime soon." Mandel advised wisely. I agreed with her and picked up the hidden plate of food and ate quickly. As I ate my breakfast, I fantasized about my mate. What will he look like? Will I finally be free? When will I meet him? I wondered, all these questions running through my head.

When a werewolf turns sixteen, the werewolf will gain his or her's scent, a scent that only their mate can smell.

"Happiness, we are finally going to be able to smell mate too…I wonder what he is going to smell like?" wondered Mandel with a smile in her voice.

"I don't know Mandel, we will just have to wait and see but, I bet he will smell divine," I replied, I could not help also letting out a dreamy sigh.

After I finished eating, I quickly washed my plate and utensils, getting rid of any traces that I ate at all. I glanced at the clock on the wall and it read seven-thirty. The pack should be awake by now and heading down any second. I waited inside the dining room, ready to serve the member that entered first. It was just my luck that the first person that appeared just had to be my older brother, Alexander. He took a seat and then glanced at me,

"It's a special day today, am I right dear little Happiness?" he asked me, smirking mockingly. I nodded my head but said nothing, I just continued to serve him his orange juice.

"How would you feel if I gave you the perfect present? A special birthday beating later on. Doesn't that sound nice Happiness?" He sneered. I gulped, feeling absolutely petrified but I knew I had no say in the matter. I saw it coming though, Alexander always gave me the worse beatings on my birthday as it was also the day we became orphans. I think this is why I did not celebrate my birthday all of these years. It became a date that I both wanted to remember but also forget.

After breakfast, I was cleaning the dishes in the kitchen when suddenly, in a flash, I felt someone roughly grab me by the shoulders and shove me against the wall, pinning my hands to the side of my head. In the process, I dropped the cup that I was washing, causing a huge mess of broken glass on the recently cleaned floor. I winced at the impact as the pain spread throughout my back and squeezed my eyes shut. As my sense of sight disappeared my sense of smell picked up a delicious and irresistible smell. I concentrated on the smell, it was a strange mix but weirdly, it works. The person in front of me smelt of green apple and chocolate. It was intoxicating.

"Is this what mate smells like? Have we finally found our mate? Happiness open your eyes so we can finally meet our mate." Mandel said, howling with joy, rejoicing that we had finally found our mate. I could barely contain my excitement as I opened my eyes.

However, the small smile that was slowly spreading uncontrollably on my face disappeared in an instant as I was astonished to meet the captivating blue eyes of Alpha Benson. His eyes were like an overcast sky. It seemed that when I looked into those eyes, time stood still. I could not believe that Alpha Benson was my mate. Everything stopped moving around me and the only thing I could focus on was my accelerating heartbeat and him. I whispered the word "mate". A part of me hoping that he will accept me as his mate and love me, but then another part of me knew very well that he would reject me.

He harshly glared at me with his piercing sky blue eyes and my hope of any forms of acceptance gradually faded as he spoke,

"I can not believe that you are my mate. What did I ever do to the Moon Goddess for her to give me such an ugly, worthless, and weak mate? I don't want a mate who killed her own parents. Mark my words, you will never ever be Luna of this pack nor my mate. You are nothing but the pack's slave. I hate you omega." I felt my heart clench as tears filled my eyes.

Each word was like a blow to my stomach. It felt like my heart is shattering into a million pieces. This could not be happening. My mate was supposed to love me no matter what. He was supposed to save me.

"You're supposed to love me and save me. Please don't do this. I am your mate. I didn't kill my parents, I'm innocent. Please believe me. It was rogues that killed them! Please believe me." I tried to plead with him, desperation filled my voice.

Benson sneered and slapped me hard, "You are so pathetic to even think for a second that I would ever consider accepting you as my mate. Stop lying about your parents, you filthy mutt. You are nothing but a monster that does not deserve to live a good life. I have zero tolerance or pity for murderers." Tears streamed down my face ,

"Mandel! What am I going to do? No one will ever love us now, not even our own mate loves us. I don't think I can handle the pain of our mate rejecting us." My voice shook as I spoke frantically to my wolf.

"Mate…why?" Mandel whispered brokenly, her voice filled with hurt.

"Stop talking to your pathetic wolf, omega, I want you to pay close attention to what I'm going to say next," said Benson as he tightened his grip on my hands. I looked at him straight in the eyes, tears streaming down my face, already knowing and fearing what he was going to say next.

"I, Benson Black, Alpha of the Moonlight Pack, reject you, Happiness Merry Westlife, Omega of the Moonlight Pack, as my mate and future Luna."

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