2: Thinking ahead
My palms sweat profusely and my inner thighs tingled. I didn’t know this was how it felt.
My mate finally turned and my heart pound faster in my chest. His face held disgust instead of amusement and excitement. He wasn’t shocked.
My hand curled into fists by my side as I brace myself for his rejection. He had told me at least twice, that I would never have a mate. How can the moon goddess mate me to my bully? I’d prayed to her for years to mate me to someone outside of my pack but no, she did what she knows how to do best. Ruining people’s lives!
I felt eyes biting my skin. Their murmurs didn’t go unheard by me. The ugly cursed omega is mated to the pack’s alpha. Who wouldn’t gossip?
I fixed my gaze to the ground, awaiting his rejection so that I can escape from this judging eyes and he finally said the words.
" You are not fit to be a Luna,” His words, raw and unmerciful, sliced my heart and I felt copper in my throat. Of course not. No pack would want an ugly Luna. For the past five years, the pack has already considered Elena their Luna. She is friends with the young Alpha Kaden and she has all the qualities of a Luna.
" But you can be a breeder,” he added and my heart sank to my stomach.
My wolf howled in my head and my eyes brimmed with unshed tears. I expected his rejection but I didn’t expect him to turn me into a baby making vessel.
I banged on the door for the hundredth time and I was starting to feel my strength wearing off. My face hurts from the punch I’d received from Elena hours ago for humiliating her. I was the one who was humiliated in front of the whole pack but she insisted I humiliated for being mated to Kaden instead of her.
I am the one who was rejected and locked up in a damn room with just a mattress. He rejected me for her – the perfect Luna but she still wasn’t satisfied.
" Mom please help me! ' I mind-linked my mom for the hundredth time but there was no response from her.
I stopped my fruitless effort in trying to open the door and crouched down, pulling my knees up to my chest and wrapping my arms around them as I leaned my back and head against the wall. My world has spiraled into something I had no idea of in just hours. I am not just a cursed omega but the alpha’s captive breeder. His slave. I have so many titles than one could imagine.
I let the tears flow freely down my cheeks. There was no use holding them in. My wolf kept howling in my head, not wanting to accept the rejection but I knew there was no hope. Right after he rejected me, he announced Elena as his chosen mate. They all cheered, clapped and danced around excitedly. Hypocrites.
" Stop it Rena!” I snapped at my wolf.
" Why do you act like you care now? You were not always there when I need you but here you are, wining because of a man who doesn’t want us. What is it that you don’t understand, bitch!” I unleashed my anger on her. She is a coward and a cunt. Lusting over a man who made my life hell by not stopping his subjects from bullying and maltreating me. A man who don’t want anything to do with us except for my womb.
" He is our mate. I love his wolf. I want to cuddle with him!” She yelled back and I hit my head against the wall, an agonizing pain, surging round my head but that didn’t stop her from talking and confessing our bond with alpha Kaden.
The door opened, as much as my heart raced, my eyes lit up with hopes. Perhaps my wish to be exiled has been granted but the hope in my heart was replaced by anger when Elena stepped into the room.
She spat on the floor, next to my feet and covered her nose with an handkerchief.
She looked at me, irritated like she was about to puke her intestines out.
" How did it happen? How are you mated to him? " She asked, anger lacing her high pitched voice and I raised my banging heavy head to look her in the eyes. Her green eyes shone with anger and her pretty face red from fury. I love how miserable she looked.
" Are you so unsatisfied that despite being engaged to the alpha, you still worry about me? " I asked, a hint of mockery in my tone and a sting run through my face as her tiny soft hand but yet strong collided with my cheeks.
My ears rang and I blinked rapidly as the hot sensation travels through every part of my face, making me deaf for minutes.
She gripped my chin aggressively, her teeth gritting as she tilts my face up to look at her.
" I am your Luna!” She screeched, her voice laced with power but I just stared at her through the strands of hair that covered my face as she pressed harder on my chin as if she wants to rip my teeth away.
" You will not talk to me in that manner. You are filthy. Unwanted. Ugly and nothing but a baby making machine. Do not think making you his breeder gives you the right to talk back at me motherf*cker! He rejected you! " She pushed my face away, probably irritated by me and quickly wiped her hand with the handkerchief before tossing it to the floor and spitting on it.
Days turned into weeks, my mother didn’t come. Nobody came. Not even my father. It was obvious they have deserted me and I am forced to start believing the rumor that my mom fakes her love for me. I rolled over on the bed, eyes swollen, stomach empty as I lay on my back and stare blankly at he wooden ceilings.
The door opened but I didn’t flinch. I wasn’t interested to know who it was. I don’t have to get up and greet anybody. The worst they could do was kill me which I would gladly accept.
Five nights ago, Kaden and Elena tied the knot traditionally. I refuse to call them both alpha and Luna.
" Alpha Kaden asked us to prepare you for him. According to the doctors prediction, you are expected to be most fertile this week, starting today.”
I turned to see a middle-aged woman. I remember her, she has been my only visitor for the past weeks.
I scoffed at her words. Prepare me? Am I a meal? I rolled my eyes and looked away. I bet that explains the pheromones and the sexual urge that has been driving me nuts for hours. My wolf howl excitedly and I cursed silently.
Shouldn’t he be with his mate? They should have pups together since they are so powerful.
Melissa clapped her hands and two other servants came in, all omegas like me but they are not ugly.
I reluctantly got out of bed and followed them into the bath. After a long time of scrubbing, they finally let me go and drenched me in a scented oil that I believe belongs to Elena.
The thin layered lingerie that fell above my knees exposed every hidden part of me. I’ve had lingerie but I never knew ones like this ever existed.
" Perfect,” Melissa remarked and hurried out with the other girls, leaving me alone as I await my captor.
The door opened and I flinched, my heart pounding in my chest but finally let out a breath when I saw Elena.
She doesn’t look happy. She looked miserable exactly like my mother whenever she works overtime. For someone who just married the love of her life and attained the highest position a female could ever attained in the pack, I expected something different.
She eyed me from head to toe as if she wanted to devour me.
I looked her in the eyes, my lips twitching at her predicament before bowing my head barely which I am sure infuriated her to the core.
" Don’t be too excited, Athena. I am the Luna while you are just his breeder. He will only fuck you but will never mate with you. I bear his mark,” she said, showing me her wrist which bears their mate mark.
" That should be you, Athena,,” Rena said but I shoved her back where she belongs. She has no say in this.
" Why isn’t the mark on your neck?” I asked her, not knowing where I got the courage from and she flashed an angry look at me.
" It’s none of your business!” She lashed at me and without wasting time, she reached for her sleeves and brought out a white little envelope. I furrowed my brows, wondering what was inside and she brought out a pill, holding it between her fingers.
Is she trying to poison me?
" I want you to take this, after you meet with Kaden tonight.” She says and it dawned on me. Isn’t she smart and thinking ahead?