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The Alpha and the Luna

Amelia's POV

I paced to and fro in front of Johnson's room, awaiting his meeting with the elders of the pack to be over.

I had been standing there for the past few hours since I left the mating grounds, and despite every reason I had given his guards, none of them allowed me to come close to his room.

It wasn’t as if they had let me do so before when I was known as his fated mate and Luna-in-waiting.

What had I been thinking? That they would suddenly let me in to wait for him when he was absent, now that he had taken another woman as his Luna?

What a joke.

“Amelia?” Johnson called the second he saw me, casually, as if he was surprised that I would be standing in his presence at all.

“What do you want? Did my father not explain things to you?” he rasped, his tone sharp as he stared at me quizzically.

“We need to talk, Johnson,” I replied, calling him by his name.

He was shocked that I would—this was my first time—but I didn’t care. All I had in mind at that moment was to know why he had done what he did.

He had confessed how he fell in love with me many times. I wanted to hear from him once more, whether he still did and why he had done what he did today.

“If this is about another problem the pack is facing, then please save it. I am not in the mood for it. When you have it solved, then you can report back to me on what to announce to the people,” he said casually as he approached his door, walking past me as if I were invisible, with Jennifer beside him.

The dismissal stung deeper than I expected.

I began to follow him behind, but a guard stopped me.

“The Alpha is in an important meeting now and will not be meeting any person,” he said firmly.

I stared at him, rage burning through me.

How dare he try to stop me?

Worse with the same line he had always used on me in the past.

I couldn’t help but wonder, all those times he had told me he was in an important meeting, had he been with Jennifer then?

Because I could count almost every day as being part of those days.

And I had only met Johnson whenever he willed it and in my own room. Those rare, controlled moments once in a while, like I was nothing more than an obligation he fulfilled when it suited him.

“I need to speak with the Alpha. Did you not hear that?” I snapped at the guard, my patience wearing dangerously thin.

I didn’t know how much longer I would be able to control and bottle my rage, but I could feel it slipping through the surface.

He tried to stop me once more, but I pushed the chamber door open and stepped in myself.

Johnson turned towards me angrily the moment he saw me walking in. He was shirtless, and Jennifer was almost undone as she lay back on the bed, waiting for him.

The sight hit me like a blow, but I refused to look away.

“Don’t you think you owe me an explanation, Johnson?” I asked, as calmly as I could manage.

But he looked at me with disdain, as if I were an inconvenience.

“I am an Alpha, Amelia. Why would a man of my class owe someone like you an explanation?” he retorted coldly.

For a moment, I was at a loss for words.

“You’re wasting our precious time, Amelia,” Jennifer chirped in, her voice mocking.

Clearly trying to tell me that I was standing in their way of something.

“You told me that you sent her away, three years ago, Johnson,” I managed to rasp again, my voice breaking slightly as my gaze shifted toward Jennifer.

She burst into mocking laughter, the sound sharp and piercing, echoing against the walls like a cruel reminder of my place.

“And who do you think you are to have given him orders and expect him to follow them? Amelia, stop overestimating yourself,” she scoffed mockingly. “Did you honestly think there was something for you here? An omega Luna? What an insult that would be to Moonstone pack.”

“Jennifer is the beta’s daughter and I couldn’t send her away then, Amelia. And she’s already pregnant with my heirs, which has already solved the issue of your barrenness too,” Johnson said casually, his gaze drifting to Jennifer’s belly with something that resembled pride.

The same gaze he had never once given me.

“Besides, I didn’t reject you. You’ve contributed to the well-being of the pack so greatly, and I can’t deny your key influence in our growth. That is why I didn’t reject you and still allowed you to retain your title as my fated mate. That should be enough for you. After all, I’ve clothed and fed you for years, you should be happy with whatever I give to you in addition to that,” he added.

I was speechless, completely at a loss for what to say. The way he had said it, as if being his fated mate was something I was meant to worship him for. As if my existence revolved around his mercy.

“You told me you loved me…” I began, my voice trembling, but I was cut off before I could finish.

“Johnson and I were supposed to be together. We were best friends since childhood, but you came from nowhere and stole him from me,” Jennifer snapped, her eyes blazing with something dark and possessive. “Did you really think the mate bond could separate us? We’ve been together since three years ago—”

She stopped abruptly, then smirked, as if the unfinished truth was enough to haunt me.

She began to approach the door, and I couldn’t tell her reason for it, until she reached me.

“Get out, Amelia. You are interrupting our intimate celebration as the newly coronated Alpha and Luna,” she added coldly.

I hadn’t even moved when she pushed me toward the door.

I was still in a trance, my mind struggling to catch up with everything unfolding before me. I didn’t know what to do or how to accept that all of this was actually happening to me.

“Should I tell you a secret, Amelia?” Jennifer whispered in my ear.

Her breath was warm against my skin, her voice dripping with malicious delight.

Before I could even react, she continued—

“I made Johnson feed you contraceptive herbs every single day, just so you’d never be able to conceive. He even had me increase the dosage because he wanted to cut all chances of that happening. That shows how much a weakling like you disgusts him,” she added mockingly, a smug glint of victory etched across her lips.

As my gaze darted from her to Johnson, the one man I had sacrificed everything for. My dreams. My freedom. Even my identity. All because I wanted to be the worthy mate he would one day claim as his Luna.

But now, I knew something was gone. Something deep within me had finally snapped and there was no fixing it.

For three years, I had been his mate.

And for three years, I had been nothing.

“You’re still here?” Johnson asked when he turned toward the door, only to find me standing there.

“What are you still doing there, Amelia? Are there no crises that need your attention in the pack?” he added impatiently.

This time I didn’t respond immediately.

I stepped forward.

Not as the broken girl who had walked in.

But as someone reclaiming what was left of herself.

“I have remained here…” I began, my voice steady despite the storm raging within me, “…so that I can reject you, Alpha Johnson White.”