Chosen to Fated

Retribution

The Alpha is the first to speak. "Wells, are you planning to challenge me?" Wells' eyes widen and he shakes his head no. This time I interject "Then what did you mean by you'll be Alpha soon?" He shakes his head and says "I'm not saying s**t to you, you're a good for nothing w***e who can't even keep her mouth shut, at least if you're going to open it you could do something f*****g useful like suck my c*ck." He retorts, becoming visibly more angry. "ANSWER YOUR MATE'S F*UCKING QUESTION!" The alpha booms once again. I can see Wells trying to fight the alpha command, and failing miserably. "I'm already the Beta, I don't need to challenge you. You have no heirs, so you just need to die." He tells them.

The Alpha slams his fists on the desk and in the blink of an eye has Wells by the throat "YOU WERE GOING TO KILL ME?!" He roars. The question goes unanswered as four guards come in to take Wells to the dungeon, I'm assuming at the Luna's request. As he's being dragged out, he starts screaming at me, "YOU'RE A GOOD FOR NOTHING WH*RE! NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU! NO ONE WILL EVER WANT YOU OR YOUR BASTARD PUP! YOU RUINED EVERYTH-" The door slams shut and we all stand in the room in silence, until the baby starts quietly whining. I go to pick him up as tears are streaming down my face.

"Moral, you can go wherever you want. You're welcome to stay in this pack or leave. Do what's best for you." The Luna tells me in a sincere voice. I give her a small smile. Leave. Celeste tells me, and for once, I take her advice. "Rain, I love you, you are an amazing Luna to everyone.. but I think it's time for me to go. I can't .." I try to finish my sentence but my voice doesn't cooperate. "Okay dear. Be safe." She gives me a nod and a small smile before leading me to the door. I clear my throat the best I can but can only manage a whisper. "Thank you Luna, my friend Sheera will be here to get me soon." I tell her. She nods and whispers "thank you too, I'll let the Alpha know." As she shuts the door she turns back to comfort her mate who just lost his lifelong friend.

I turn toward the kitchen, still holding my pup in my arms, halfway there I change directions and decide to leave the bags in the pantry for now and go to the apartment, maybe I can grab a few more things now that the threat of Wells isn't hanging over me. The apartment is a reminder of everything that's happened, I realised I don't want anything more from it. I put my sleeping baby down in the crib and run my hands along the edge.

The crib is a reminder of the first time he slapped me, we couldn't decide on the colour of the crib and that resulted in a big public scene and later that evening, he slapped me for embarassing him. The monogrammed towels that hung in the bathroom, I monogrammed them myself in green, but he ripped them apart and threw them at me because he wanted them gold. The heart shaped pendant necklace he bought the day after my first chest pain, I now know why he bought it for me.. the first time he cheated.

"I want none of this" I say to no one in particular. You should want the money in that safe. Celeste tells me pointing me in the direction of Wells safe, tucked neatly behind a bullsh*t family photo of us. He kept telling me I was making him look bad, that I was ugly and stupid.. fake smiles, dead eyes. I grab the big frame and throw it to the ground, smashing it. Celeste howls in my head and gives me a big wolfish grin. I look at the safe, I don't know the combination. Just try. She eggs me on. I try his birthday, nope. His parents, mine, my son's.. nothing. I start to feel disheartened. Try his position? Still nothing, getting frustrated, I say F*CK it.

Destroy everything! Celeste chants. I laugh a little at her excitement. I open my jewelry box and take out the few sentimental items I have from it and shove them into my pants pocket. Then I pick up the entire box, throw it across the room and watch as it smashes into a hundred little pieces. THE WATCHES! DO THE WATCHES!!! Celeste nearly screams, the watches were Wells favourite things, he always expected a new watch for every holiday, birthday, anniversary, etc and every time, without fail, he would find something 'wrong' with it and blame me. He kept them all neatly tucked into a wooden watch box with a nice glass top. I pick it up and hold it over my head, but stop short when I hear footsteps approaching.

Luna Rain opens the door and looks at me, holding the watch box and raises a brow at me. "I heard a smashing sound and figured I should check on you.." She says as she looks around the room at the few broken things sprinkled around the room. "but I see you're doing perfectly fine in here, sometimes it's best to work out that aggression instead of bottling it. Just don't destroy the furniture, if you don't mind." I look down, mildly ashamed, "Of course Luna, I don't want to destroy your property." I tell her and she smiles. "Moral, I'm not upset with you. You smash every damned thing in this apartment until you laugh again." She tells me. "Oh, but one more thing" She says as she remembers something, walking over to me and gesturing to the watch box. I hand it to her and she opens the top and looks through the watches until her eyes land on the one second from the top, an antique polished gold pocket watch. She picks it up and clicks it open to show me a beautiful watch face and a elegant engraving of the words "Bloodmoon Beta". She winks at me and hands the watch case back, placing the pocket watch securely into her pocket. "Have at it dear, and make sure you come say goodbye before you leave." She says as she closes the apartment door and walks down the hall.

She is quite a wonderful Luna. Celeste comments as her footsteps become silent. She is, I think as I look at the watch case one more time. Do it. Without hesitation this time, I throw the box into a wall and pieces of wood, glass and watches fly everywhere. a small piece of paper also flutters from the broken remains of the box. I walk over the paper and read it. 1-9-8-4.

The safe, it's the combination to the safe! Celeste cries. I walk over to the safe and give it a try. *click* it opens for me. I open the door wide and see a thick wad of cash and a stack of paperwork. I grab the cash and put it in my purse sitting on the side of the dresser, then I grab the paperwork and start to scan through it. There's identification for 6 different people, all with the same picture, his picture. Under those were my IDs and my son's birth certificate, so I out those into my purse as well. I also saw his journal, and a small vile of black liquid sitting in the safe. Deciding it was not my concern anymore, I grab a small bag from a kitchen drawer and load everything else into it, along with the small piece of paper that has the safe combination on it.

Feeling confident, I decide to write a letter to my ex-mate. I grab my stationary and a pen off the desk and begin to write him about how much pain he put me through and how terrible he was to me, signed 'I hope you rot in hell'. Looking at the clock on the wall, I realise it's almost time to expect Sheera, so I gather the things I found, my purse and my baby, I head downstairs to give the Luna and Alpha my best and say goodbye.