claimed by destiny twice

Chapter 2 Rejection and arrivalp

“Everyone is staring why is everyone staring at me like they say a ghost” she whispered under her breathe nearly audible.

She got her answer the second she turned towards her locker and saw Ben blocking her locker while Bellina hanging her hands off him like a trophy she had won, the whole packs golden pair on full humiliating display.

“There she is “ Ben said in a loud enough voice for the whole hallway to turn “Good I wanted witnesses for this”

Mary’s stomach dropped “witness for what?” Mary’s voice was calm despite the deep void in her stomach.

“For this” Ben squared his shoulders and something in his voice shifted, he sounded formal , final and cruel in a way that made her skin crawl “I Ben reject you Mary as my mate and Luna of this pack”

Gasps rippled the hallway, Mary felt the words each like a blade slicing her body with each words, she felt something inside her loose and become cold instantly, it scared her for a second

“You wolf is week and you are worthless and you would have made a pathetic Luna, I release you from having to bear that burden, try not to embarrass yourself”

“Ben” someone hissed his name with anger not Mary, A boy near the locker wincing like he felt it too but Ben didn’t stop.

Mary opened her mouth then closed it every eye in the hallway waited for her to break, to cry, to beg him to take her back.

There was total silence even Ben waited for her to beg him so he could break her heart the more but she didn’t.

“Thank you, I Mary accept the rejection as your mate and Luna” she said instead and something flicker across his face, confusion, worry maybe because she didn’t shattered before his eyes like the way he wanted her to

“oh before I forget thank you Ben for showing everyone exactly who you are and what kind of Alpha you would be and my dearest ex best friend thanks for picking up my trash”

She walked slowly out of their presence, she didn’t run, didn’t flinch, made every single step count until the doors s**t behind her and cold air hit her body and she could finally allow her hands to shiver.

“Rough morning?”

Mary spun so fast that she nearly lost her footing. A boy stood two feets away, leaning against a brick like he’d always been there- dark haired, tall, eyes like that of a winter lake, she hadn’t heared him approach not had she caught his scent until he spoke. That alone made her whole body instinct to give him attention.

“Who are you?” she demanded

“Ethan” he said it like a fact of nature, unbotherd by the time she had used. “You handled that better than most people would have “

“you saw that ?”

“Everyone saw that” his gaze didn’t move from hers that were steady and searching his eyes “But not everyone would have stayed standing “

“what do you want?”

“Nothing Nothing” he titled his head, studying her the way you would study something you weren’t sure was real yet “I just don’t think you are broken nor weak nor worthless like he told you in there “

Mary’s wolf still howling and hurt from the rejection, went suddenly still and then surged forward inside her, stranding towards this stranger like an iron would go towards a magnet.

“Mate” it breathed “mate finally”

Mary staggered back a step “No are you crazy, we just got rejected and it can’t be possible we just met” she whispered but Ethan could pick it up.

But Ethan had gone rigid too, his jaw tight, his eyes wide with something that looked strange like grief and fear.

“That’s not possible” he said quiet mostly to himself but Mary could pick it up too

"What's not possible?"

Ethan didn’t answer right away but when he looked at her again, his voice had dropped to something low and unsteady laced with fear and grief.

“I already had a mate too … but she died about two years ago”

The word hung in the air between them, sharp and unfinished then Mary felt like the ground shifted beneath a life she had thought she had understood.

“ Then why does my wolf think you are her mate?”

Ethan didn’t answer that either he just stared at her like a man who was watching a door he had sealed shut start to open again all by itself.