Plus-Size Luna For The Lycan King

Chapter 2: Dear Sister

My legs wobbled as I sat amongst them in the living room. I kept looking at him, but Cedar expertly avoided my gaze. I wondered if he already forgot the night we just spent together.

“A baby is of great importance,” my father pointed out and my mother agreed with a smile, “Lara, is a beautiful woman and a strong wolf. Although this mating is arranged, she’ll do well as your Luna, Alpha Cedar.”

“There’s no doubt that she will,” Cedar said, sparing my sister a loving gaze.

They continued laughing amongst themselves while I was forgotten in a corner of the room. I touched the hem of my dress, playing with it and trying not to feel hurt that he didn’t even glance at me once.

I rose up suddenly and all eyes turned to me. I quickly said, “Excuse me, mother—“

“Flora, no one cares about what you do, yet you can see how important what we are discussing is!” She scolded me.

I bent my head. “I’m sorry for interrupting.”

“Maybe she can show me to the bathroom,” Cedar suddenly said.

My mother cast a bewildered expression on her mate. They didn’t like the idea of leaving him in my hands. I could never do anything right in their eyes. I brought shame to our family while Lara was their golden daughter.

Which was why Elder Christian, my father, did everything he could to set the Alpha’s eyes on Lara when the throne announced that Cedar Crist was in need of a mate and a Luna. The family business would also be twice favoured if we became one with the Crists.

Cedar stood, standing so close to me on purpose and when I inhaled his heavenly scent, I forgot how to speak or do anything else. My wolf purred strongly inside me.

“I…I…”

My gaze collided with my mother’s at once. A snarl was on her face. She had just seen through me like glass.

Mothers could establish mind links with their pups in the Silvermist pack. It was a special gift from the moon goddess.

“Do not dare thirst for what will never be yours!” Her harsh whisper sounded in my head and I flinched. “Flora! Am I understood?”

“Yes, mother. I understand that Alpha Cedar belongs to Lara,” I responded through the mindlink, just as my father ordered me out loud, “Lead the Alpha and be quick about it, daughter.”

When I was a child, my father always warned my mother to keep me away from him. Lara was all he wanted to know about and love. Not the plus-size Omega wolf the moon goddess cursed him with for a child.

I exited the living area with the Alpha walking behind me, but as soon as the coast was clear, he slammed me against a wall, face inches apart from mine. I gasped.

“What are you doing?!”

“Did you know I was the one arranged to mate your sister when you saw me at the club?” His hot breath fanned over my lips and I wet my bottom one, hungry. “Is that why you wanted a taste first?”

My eyes flashed silver despite the need that was curling my toes. “If I knew who you were, I would have never even looked twice at you.”

“Liar,” he whispered and my treacherous gaze fell to his mouth.

“Stop. Alpha Cedar, this is highly inappropriate—“

“That wasn’t what you were screaming last night while I f****d you.” He brushed his lips over mine and I shuddered from its warmth I craved. “Your words were different, my omega mate.”

Suddenly, I pushed him back with the manicured hand on his hard chest. It was like he just slapped me in the face. The change he left on the hotel room’s bed table hadn’t been a mistake.

“You knew?” I asked in a withering voice.

Cedar just kept his intense blue gaze on me, his silence the reply I needed.

“Bastard,” I gritted, looking away to hide my teary eyes.

To my shock, he put his head in the bend of my neck and took a drag of my scent before shutting himself inside the bathroom. I couldn’t wait here for him to return. My wolf would betray my logic soon.

I summoned a maid to complete my task and rushed to my bedroom to hide away from Cedar and my family. He probably saw me as they did—a worthless embarrassment—I was certain it was why he didn’t request a change of bride.

How could the Alpha of the Silvermist pack mate a fat, lowly Omega? It could never be.

After Cedar left that evening, a full moon graced the sky. I packed a new set of clothes in my bag and went out into the woods. Everytime, I would practice turning when the moon was full. But fruitless it was, everytime.

Although my fated mate hadn’t marked my wolf last night, I hoped us being together would make a difference. I had a feeling that Tilly’s strength would blossom tonight and I could finally turn.

“Tilly, we can do this,” I said to her.

And her low whisper came from inside me. “But, Flora, Omegas can’t turn on their own.”

“There’s a full moon to help us. You’re not dormant or weak and we must prove that.”

I set my bag down by a large tree root. The moon’s glow was on my face through the parting of the wide tree leaves around us. I was under the moonlight for hours, devastated as time began to pass. Maybe I was never meant to be more than the dormant Omega that I was now.

Tilly whispered harshly, “Flora! Why do you keep trying? You must get Alpha Cedar to mark us and then it would work.”

I grabbed my bag on the fourth hour and stormed out of the woods. I hated myself. The wolves of the Silvermist pack who mocked and bullied me because I was different, weak and fat, were not wrong. I was worthless, even to Cedar.

I didn’t go home just yet, I needed time alone, and the palace hotel was the first place that came to mind. A part of me hoped I could return the shoes a certain grey-eyed gentleman lent me.

But when I eventually got home the evening of the next day, chaos paid us a visit.

“What happened?! What’s going on?” I asked and my mother stopped pacing the living room.

“Your sister is missing.”

My heart stopped almost permanently. “Wha—What? Does Alpha Cedar know?”

“That’s not important, Flora!” She grabbed my shoulders and shook it. “Tomorrow is the mating ceremony. Everyone will be there, including the Lycan King. We cannot mess this up with a scandal.”

“Okay, mother, but we must inform the Alpha. He will know what to do—“

My father’s cane struck the tiled ground and I flinched. Silence reigned as he rose from the living room couch, approaching with his gaze fixed wholly on me for the first time since I had ever known him.

“You will take your sister’s place tomorrow and mate the Alpha of the Silvermist pack, or you will cease being my daughter.”