CHAPTER FIVE

“You? Y.. how could the moon goddess make such a mistake? I'm very sure you spoke to a witch. There's no other explanation. Confess the truth now so I can undo it this minute!” Her supposed mate, who was dressed in the finest and kingly outfit spat at her.

It took her foggy brain a second before what he was saying registered in her brain. Before he was registered in her brain.

It was Collins. The Alpha's brother. Megan's boyfriend. Dread filled her stomach like lead.

“I'm talking to you, you have to tell me how you did this so I can undo it. You cannot be my mate!” He shouted at her. Everyone began slowing down in their mate frenzy due to how loud he was screaming.

The music stopped.

Taylor looked into his eyes and saw absolute revulsion in his eyes.

You see, the mate bond wasn't as absolute as one may think. It was that way for those who put their absolute trust in the goddess to find their soul mates for them.

For the rest, if they didn't like who they ended up with, the emotional connection turned into hatred.

This was happening to Collins in such a huge way because he had already gone ahead and promised someone else his heart.

He had been waiting for a few years for his mate and when the beautiful Megan threw herself at him, he chose her.

Now, he finally meets his mate and it's the pack slave.

“I don't know what you are talking about. This Mating Ball is sacred because only Wolf powers can work here so please stop accusing me recklessly. If you don't want me, you reject me and stop disrupting other people's magical moments” she spat back at him fearlessly.

It was her first time allowing her wolf to show her true emotions and she was beyond pissed at such an accusation.

This was supposed to be the best night of her life, Taylor thought.

According to the prophecy, she's supposed to meet her mate and protector, her mate. But the reality was completely different.

This made her pour out her anger and her powers leaked a little bit.

The music continued.

The two of them stood watching each other in anger. Meanwhile, all around them, mates were kissing and hugging with all the excitement in the air.

Taylor waited with bated breath for him to do it. She will nearly die from the pain but she believed in her own strength.

“I won't reject you. No, it's not because I don't want you in pain. In fact, it will be a pleasure to watch you scream your hair out.” He said with an evil Twinkle in his eyes. He drew closer to her and grabbed her jaw

“I hear mates have the best intercourse and you see, Megan has been putting out but I bet yours will make hers feel like a tickle. So I'll keep you. Yea, I will. “He says, nodding to himself. “Now, you will only come out when I say so and if anyone gets wind of this, I'll kill you. You hear me?” He whispers in her ear.

“What? No, you have to reject me. I don't want to belong to you, you are a heartless wolf. I'll report you to the Alpha!” She shouted at him and when she was about to start screaming, he kissed her.

Her brain almost shouted down from the assault of tingles and climatic emotions.

One moment, she was in the ballroom, the next, he deposited her on his giant bed and began pulling his clothes off.

Her foggy brain cleared up immediately

“No, no, please I don't want this” She scampered out of the bed and attempted to run to the door.

He held her back and pushed her to the wall.

“Now, I won't force you because I don't want to be struck dead by the goddess but you better get that yourself ready for me when I get back or I'll find other ways for you to be useful. And you won't like it” he growled.

Then he turned back and left. She heard a clanging of keys on the other side as he locked her in.

Taylor started panicking. Celia was crying at the disappointment of the night. She had such high expectations but instead, she got handed this horrid person.

“Celia, snap out of your reverie. If he doesn't reject us, we will reject him. I refuse to endure this maltreatment.” Taylor called to her grieving wolf

“I'm sorry Taylor. I just feel like giving up. I mean, what are we going to do when we reject him? We won't be welcome here.”

“Well, I would rather die in the wild than become a sex toy for him. “She rasped

And as if to relay the message of how painful their mating life will be, Taylor began feeling a blinding pain. One that could only mean one thing.

He was cheating on her.

“That asshole! He couldn't even wait for a day?! We are not taking this crap!” Celia roared in their mindlink in pain and anger.

Unable to hold her back, she turned into her fiery brown wolf and began trashing the room in uncontrollable pain.

It went that way for the over thirty minutes they were having sex.

The moment the pain stopped, Taylor and her wolf were already very weak and they just slept off.

For two days, she was locked in Collin's room. No one looked for her and nobody came to see if she was still alive.

When she woke up on the first day, she was naked.

She found some clothes in his wardrobe that belonged to one of the women he slept with and wore them. She tried to arrange the room her wolf had trashed to avoid her mate seeing it and she sat down.

Then she began to wait. She could tear the door off its hinges but that will ruin all her years of pretending she was a weak wolf.

Every night, they went through the ordeal of their mate cheating on them and this made her very weak.

On the third night, the pain was about to begin again and she could feel the signs of her heat creeping in. But she decided she had taken enough of everything and was about to start screaming down the pack through his window when Collins walked in.

He looked worse for wear and was drunk.

“How could you do this to your own mate? Why are you so heartless? At least let me go so I can heal. This torture is unnecessary Colline” she said to him in anger and frustration.

He chuckled at her before answering her pleas

“You are still talking about rejection? Nonsense! You are my mate and we will have beautiful pups that have your eyes” he slurred.

“Over my dead body will allow you to touch me after you have slept with half of the pack” Taylor replied in irritation.

He didn't reply to her anymore and he slumped on the bed and began snoring.

Taylor began making plans. She couldn't imagine how terrible life would be if she stayed here.

“I think we should leave, Taylor. We are stronger than we look. The next pack is about a hundred miles from here. If we run fast enough, in less than 2 days, we should get there.” Celia told her human

“What if they don't accept us? What if we get bitten by a feral wolf? We can die in 5 days, alone in the forest, Celia.”

“Well, what are our options? The pack will watch us get hurt and maltreated for the rest of our life by this horrid man. The Alpha's powers are wide but only when his pack is in agreement with him. We don't want to be the reason they rebel against him, Taylor. He saved us.”

“Fine. We need to run away but we need supplies. We will hunt in the forest but we will not look homeless in the new pack or else, they may reject us.”

“Well, there's one major issue Celia. He hasn't rejected us. If we reject him and he doesn't accept us, we will never move on. Can you beg his wolf to let us go? It's not our fault his human is acting that way” Taylor told her.

“I have been begging him to convince his human to stop the pain he's been putting us through. He's convinced his human is just confused and that he will change.”

“But till when? This pairing is obviously a mistake and we need to be free.”

“Let me talk to him again,” Celia replied.

While she did that, Taylor rummaged around the room and found a duffel bag.

“He agreed, Taylor. But he's so sad. I don't know if we should give him more time. Maybe ..”

“No, Celia. I know you wish for things to be different but this is our only chance of escape. If we don't leave now, we may never leave again.” Taylor insisted.

“Alright, I'll convince him to partially take change”

They watched as Axel, Collins’ wolf took over his body and a golden ring was in his pupils to show his Wolf's presence.

“I, Taylor Red Thorne, Reject you Collins Bluemoon as my destined mate.” Taylor and Celia spoke unanimously.

“I, Axel Bluemoon, accept your rejection.” He whispered sadly.

The bond snapped and both of them roared in pain.

Taylor knew she couldn't wait for him to realize what was happening and she ran out of the room.

By the time they made it to the other side of the pack house, it was already pitch black.

She went to her room at the back of the kitchen and got her clothes and put them in the duffel bag.

Whatever pain she was feeling, she ignored it.

Patrols were supposed to be sparse on that end and she was sure she wouldn't be caught.

“Hey! Where are you running to?”