(After half an hour - in the engagement party)
My mouth was opened ajar in shock while staring at the man standing in front of me. I had a boyfriend whom I was supposed to marry when I got the betrayal of my life. He was like a supermodel but this man……
Holy moly…..
He was like a mountain with a height of more than six feet, with striking features, and a well-built body. I gulped hard, trying hard not to drool over his body while checking him out from head to toe shamelessly. “What are you doing, Emma?” Emma’s mother scolded me in a hushed tone.
If… if I was going to marry this man, on whom I wanted to jump at any time…. I swore to god… I didn’t mind myself trapped in this fictional world. Why don’t we have these kinds of pieces of men in our world? This is not fair to us…. The humans…
Almost all the men present in the hall were super handsome….. more handsome than Calvin Klein models….. to hell with them…. They were nothing in front of the man standing in front of me.
“Emma.” I looked at Emma’s father with the same shocked expression on my face and looked back at the man in front of me. “Come here, honey,” Emma’s father, William Harper, Alpha of The Blood Moon Pack, called me sweetly this time.
I felt a slight push on my back, making me stumble forward, but I steadied myself immediately. I looked behind and glared at Emma’s mother, Wilma Harper, Luna of the Blood Moon Pack. She glared at me back, and I cringed. I looked in front of me again and cleared my throat.
I wasn’t a cold businesswoman. In fact, I was known for my cheerful and carefree attitude. Like a normal girl, I also had crushes, and I also fantasized about so many other things, including men, but this piece of mountain was not something I had ever imagined, not even in my wildest dreams.
I slowly walked towards the stage and stopped beside William, facing that man. He still had a light frown, but now there was a hint of amusement in his eyes. William put his hand at the back of my waist. “Close your mouth, you i***t,” I heard a female voice in my head, making me jump in fright. William tightened his grip on my waist, keeping me at my place.
What the hell was that??????
I closed my mouth and looked at Wilma for any clue. She once again glared hard at me. “Prince Xavier,” I heard William calling someone in a very formal and respectful tone. I looked in front of me once again and saw the man raising his brows this time.
“This is my younger daughter, Emma Harper, the one who is going to engage with you today,” William said to the man in the same tone. I snapped my head towards William once again in shock and then slowly moved my head towards the man, Prince Xavier, with the same expression.
Emma was about to engage him????? O My God….. Emma hit the jackpot… too bad that she was dead to see who her fiancée was. I really pity that girl.
“She has no wolf,” Prince Xavier murmured, and I frowned this time. All my admiration for him went down the drain as soon as he opened his mouth. “Not having a wolf doesn’t mean, I am weak, Prince Xavier,” I retorted in a prideful, and commanding tone while holding my chin high. His brows immediately touched his hairline with a cold face.
I looked straight into his eyes, holding my ground in front of him. I might be a human, but I was a trained martial arts fighter. I had been training since I was five. I didn’t know why my father trained me with wild animals after I was 15, but now I am glad that he did. I was sure that with my skills, I could put down any wolf, no matter what his size was.
“Emma.” I heard my father’s stern voice. “What did I say wrong……. Father? As you said… I am going to engage with him today, and it means that we will marry in the coming future. I must know what I am going to handle with the name of my fiancée, and,” I paused and tilted my head slightly, still having my gaze locked with Prince Xavier.
He chuckled before I could finish my whole sentence, making me raise my brows in amusement. “A feisty one,” he commented to me, and I scoffed once again. “You should be grateful to him, Emma, that he is ready to marry you, or else who would like to marry a wolfless piece of s**t,” Sandra spat, and a loud and angry growl boomed throughout the whole area, making me almost jump on my feet in fright. Everyone around me had the same reaction as they were looking at Xavier fearfully.
What was that?????
“If you love your life, mutt…. You will keep your mouth shut,” Prince Xavier roared at her angrily, and my admiration for him immediately filled my heart once again. Sandra was Emma’s biggest bully, despite of the fact that she was her elder sister.
So….. I was happy that he stood up for me….. well…… technically for Emma…. Not me….
“I… I am sorry, m… my prince,” Sandra immediately stuttered an apology. She was looking death pale right now, and I felt the urge to giggle that I controlled so hard. Prince Xavier looked back at me and closed his eyes. He was trying to suppress his anger.
I didn’t know why, but I felt an urge to go and comfort him. I was about to take a step forward towards him when someone yelled. “She can’t marry you, my prince.” I huffed and looked in the direction of the voice angrily. I jerked my head backward in surprise when I saw Jacob standing next to Sandra while glaring at me.
I narrowed my eyes when I remembered that he was Emma’s mate. “Jacob.” I heard William’s stern voice but raised my hand to shut him up, still having my eyes on Jacob and Sandra. Sandra has a smug smile on her lips right now.
“And why can’t I marry him, Jacob?” I asked him in a sarcastic tone. His eyes widened in shock because this was the first time that Emma (for them) fought back. “Because you are his mate,” Sandra answered me in a tone filled with disdain. I chuckled this time and looked at Prince Xavier, who now had a cold face.
So much drama for a day……
“If my memories serve me right… then we…. Werewolves…. Recognize our mate at any time as soon as we hit the mark of 18, right?” I asked Sandra while putting a finger on my chin with a fake serious gaze. Her smile immediately vanished, and she blinked blankly.
“The whole pack, including me, attended his eighteenth birthday, where he announced that he hadn’t found his mate. I was,” I paused and looked at Jacob with the same fake expression of seriousness on my face.
“What…. 16?” I continued, and their expression changed rapidly. “You can say that I was underage at that time, and that’s why you didn’t recognize me as your mate… but,” I paused again and straightened my neck while looking at me with a taunting smile.
“I am 21 now. I don’t have my wolf to recognize my mate, but you, Jacob… the future beta of this pack… have a wolf, right?” I asked with a taunt and heard a chuckle beside me once again. “For three years you kept your mouth tightly shut, but you chose to claim to be my mate tonight. Will you tell me what your real intentions were,” I asked in the same tone.
“I… I… I don’t have any ulterior motive behind this, Emma… a… and yeah… I was a jerk before… I… I was ashamed to tell anyone about you being my mate.”
“Still you tell Sandra, and your friends that I am your mate, and let them taunt me, bully me, abuse me all these years…. In fact…. You joined them on so many occasions. You didn’t leave even a single opportunity to humiliate me…. To make me feel useless, and a burden on this pack… just because I am wolfless…. And yet,” I cut him off and retorted in an aggressive tone while taking a step forward every few seconds while trembling hard in fury.
I felt a hand on my wrist that made me stop in my tracks. I was still glaring at the duo standing in front of my eyes who now had paled faces. “Yet…. You decided to declare me as your mate tonight…. Now tell me your reasons ….. honestly, Jacob….. tell me …. What did you expect from me now… should I jump excitedly that finally (I pressed on this word sarcastically)…. My mate recognized me after f**king my elder sister (once again sarcasm dripped from my voice)… for more than three years?”
My thunderous voice boomed over the whole area, and the grip on my wrist tightened. I was now breathing heavily in fury while there were so many gasping around me.
“Don’t f**king say that none of you noticed Jacob’s scent mixed with Sandra’s scent all these years…. Almost half of the pack know about this, and yet…. Yet no one objected to it.” I screamed this time while looking around, and I stopped my gaze at Wilma, who was now standing stunned while looking at me blankly.
I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths before opening my eyes once again. I went through Emma’s memories to learn more about this mate bond and how to get rid of it. I was sure that I could do this….
“I, Emma Harper, the youngest daughter of Alpha William Harper, reject you, Jacob Bennett, as my mate and the future beta of the Blood Moon Pack. I would rather choose to die or go rogue instead of accepting you as my mate,” I announced in the coldest tone that I could muster while looking straight into Jacob’s eyes coldly.