Escaping My Cursed Fate

CHAPTER 5

After Alpha Lennox left, I began thinking of what to do next, recounting all the things that had happened to me within the past twenty-four hours.

I caught my ex-mate cheating on me. I killed his lover. I was imprisoned and to be executed. I got a new mate who was an Alpha. And said new mate kissed me and apologized to me.

Now that I was here in the Crescent Moon Pack, what was I supposed to do? How was I supposed to behave?

Just as those thoughts crossed my head, someone walked through the destroyed door and entered the room I was in. It was a boy that looked maybe a year or two younger than me.

“Hey, you!” He pointed at me as he marched forward.

Only after hearing his voice did I realize that it was the same voice as the guy from the dungeon, back at the Red Moon Pack. He was the one who Alpha Lennox and a woman came to save.

“M-Me?” I pointed at myself.

“Who else?” he asked with a snappy tone.

“What’s your name? I’m Owen,” he said with a strange look on his face.

“Nina,” I managed to say.

As he got closer to me, I saw that his eyes were filled with disgust. I didn’t blame him. I could bet that I looked and smelled like a mess right now.

“Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? How dare you sully the Alpha’s room like this? Who do you think you are!?” Owen brought out a napkin from nowhere and began wiping my face and neck.

I tried to shove him away but he was surprisingly stronger than me, despite obviously being younger.

“Stay still. I can’t believe someone like you is going to be my Luna one day,” he muttered with a bitter tone as he advanced to wipe my hands with a new napkin.

I doubted that Alpha Lennox would make me—a wolfless werewolf—his Luna. Kevin only put up with me because he was going to be Uncle Derick’s successor and take on the title of Alpha one day.

Alpha Lennox was already an Alpha. I doubted his pack was lacking women who could fill the Luna’s position and satisfy his desires. What would he need me for?

“I’m not here to be a Luna. I’m sure the only reason why I’m here is to repay him for helping me escape,” I said with a low voice.

“You’re so stu-”

“What’s going on here?” A familiar deep voice spoke up.

Owen jumped apart from me immediately and said, “Nothing! Absolutely nothing!”

He then looked at me, dashing out an eye signal and forcing me to say, “Nothing.”

The newcomer, who was unsurprisingly Alpha Lennox, regarded the two of us with a suspicious look.

“You two are acting awfully suspicious about nothing,” Alpha Lennox said as he began taking slow steps towards us.

“Impossible! I would never! It was nothing. And I’m leaving now.” Owen said with a hurried tone, then rushed out of the room.

In his absence, Alpha Lennox focused his full attention on me as he sat down beside me. His eyes swept across my figure and landed on my hands.

An alarming look settled on his face as he asked, “Who did this to you!?”

I flinched at his tone. My shoulders began trembling unconsciously. As I opened my mouth to answer, I saw his hand reaching for my face, and I flinched again, squinting my eyes shut.

The slap that I was expecting to receive didn’t come. I slowly pried my eyes open to see Alpha Lennox staring at me with pity marred on his features.

“I’m sorry for yelling at you,” he inched away from me.

He was apologizing to me once again!? Why!?

“I didn’t even notice that you were injured all this while-”

“It’s not my blood,” I quickly interrupted him.

He raised a brow in question. I used the napkin Owen left behind to wipe the remaining blood on my hands and say, “It’s not my blood. It’s the blood of the person I…”

I couldn’t bring myself to complete my sentence, but it seemed like Alpha Lennox understood me clearly.

“Oh,” he said with an enlightened tone.

Alpha Lennox sat upright after that while I shrunk into myself, discomfort choking me as I remembered that this man had kissed me passionately less than twenty minutes ago.

“Okay, then. What’s your name?” he suddenly asked.

You kissed me despite not even knowing my name, what use is my name going to be now?

“Nina Claude,” I responded obediently, despite the bitter voice inside my head.

“Nina…” Alpha Lennox drawled, as though testing the sound of my name on his tongue. “I’m Hayden Lennox. But you already know this, don’t you?”

Of course, I do.

This was the same Alpha who Uncle Derick was always complaining that he was a headache to the Magic Realm. The same man who was known to kill indiscriminately and wage war on those who upset him in the slightest manner.

“I do,” I paused for a second before continuing. “So what are you going to do with me now? I can work as a maid here or something. You don’t need to worry about the bond, you can reject me. Being rejected twice won’t kill me… I think.”

I began ranting out of fear and discomfort. At the end of my words, Alpha Lennox’s expression had turned incredibly sour.

“You’ve been rejected before?” he questioned.

I facepalmed myself mentally, but decided to lay myself bare.

“Yes, I’ve had a mate for the past year. I was rejected yesterday after the… incident. I’m not sure why I was granted another mate. I’m sorry for being this way.” I said with a solemn tone, then immediately felt the warmth of a palm on my cheek.

Alpha Lennox caressed my cheek affectionately as he said, “Don’t apologize to me for anything. It doesn’t really matter to me that you had a mate before me.”

I doubted the sincerity of those words, seeming that I had grown up with Kevin who had assured me that he didn’t care about the fact that I didn’t have a wolf, but still rejected me partly because of that reason.

I knew Alpha Lennox was the same as Kevin; telling me sweet words to gain something from me. But what did he want from me? I had nothing to offer.

“If you don’t care about me having a mate before you, then you’re sure to care about the fact that I don’t have a wolf.” I said with a low voice.

“You don’t have a wolf!?”