claimed by destiny twice

“Ben?” Mary’s voice cracked through the silence of the trees and the one terrible minute nothing answer her at all. The wind clawed at her hair as she stepped onto the porch. Her pulse hammered against her throat, each beat whispering his name. She scanned the dark path ahead, the silence too thick, too wrong. Without thinking, she broke into a run, the fear in her chest pushing her forward. “Ben are you out here?” She screamed at the top of her voice pushing through the thick wet bushes, rain soaking through her raincoat “I felt something wrong through our mate bond. Are you hurt? Are you okay?” A gasp answered her desperate plea, Not his but that of a woman. Mary breathe hooked while she rested on an old tree . “Oh my goodness Mary” Bellina stumbled back first, hair scattered around her face, shirt half buttoned and her trousers and pant all over the floor, “Mary, I can explain this isn’t what you think believe me, it isn’t what it looks like” “How do you explain this then” Mary’s voice came out calm and cold for even her to recognize. Her eyes slowly went to Ben, it had betrayal look in them and he hadn’t moved and didn’t even have the decency to look ashamed of being caught “ I am still waiting for your explanation Bellina” Mary said with so much venom from her mouth. “Remember I am your best friend” “and so what is that supposed to give you a pass” and then silence, thunder rolled overhead, so close it rattled her teeth together. “Ben” Mary said his name with so much hatred and more like a question and beneath pleading that it wasn’t what she thought and he would magically explain it ”say something “ she yelled Ben finally straightened up, wiping his mouth with his palm , so casual, bored like she was interrupting something and she was an inconvenience to him, he looked her dead in the eyes “what do you want me to say, Mary should I beg and tell you what I did was wrong, I didn’t mean to do it” . “It is exactly what it looks like, I am tired of pretending okay that you are the mate I wanted, when I found out you were my mate I was so angry at the moon goddess for paring me up with someone like you, but then I may Bellina and realized she is my second half and the rightful Luna of this park, I am tired of pretending “ The words hit Mary harder than anything physically could have ever hurt her. Mary felt her wolf howl inside of her one long ragged note of grief that no one could hear and then her wolf folded and went silent “But you are my mate” she whispered “The bond ---” “It doesn’t hide who you truly are, it doesn’t make you stronger enough to be my Luna” Bens eyes were flat and empty not like the boy who had showered her before with affection and care. “ you wolf is weak and worthless, everyone in yen pack says it, no wonder your father beats you up because he knows how useless you are and worthless, I was too scared of saying it before but not I am brave to admit it out loud” Bellina flinched at what he said even she felt bad for what he said. Mary’s hands curled into fists, her nails she had done the previous day bitting into her crescents palms and she made herself a promise whole her blood flowed from her hands in the rain, she wouldn’t cry for anyone not for him or anyone, not ever again. “ Fine” she said with a firm voice, that surprised her more than anything “ have her, have all of this, but hear me loud and clear fate doesn’t forget cruelty, karma is a b***h one day you will come to regret what you just did and you will come crawling to me begging that you were wrong and shouldn’t have thrown what we had away and you will finally understand how it feels like but the difference between me and you now is that you would be begging and I didn’t beg you when it was my turn” Ben let out a mocking short laugh “is that a threat?” “No it’s a promise, a promise made under rain before the moon goddess and before my blood dripping “ She turned before he could answer, walking away calmly and slowly walking back into the storm with her head held high hiding whatever her face couldn’t hide on it’s own. Behind her she heard Bellina hiss at him and Ben muttering something her ears couldn’t care less to pick up. “We are not broken, we are something that the world won’t see coming, we are just the beginning and the end of everything “ her wolf whispered low and in a strange voice that didn’t sound entirely like her own. Mary couldn’t understand what she meant but she felt that kind of satisfaction and peace come over her all of a sudden Main while three miles away, in a palace she had never seen but had heard stories about and would soon call home, an old bell that hadn’t rang in thousands of years shifted once it’s tower and went silent again, waiting for the time to come again.