A Beta's lost Luna

chapter 4

Bloom's POV

FLASHBACK

Is that a wedding ring on his finger?! I feel the anger start bubbling up inside my chest "you're married?" I whisper-growl accusingly at him. How could he? Don't werewolves cherish the sacred bond of the soulmate principle? Why would he marry so young and abandon the idea of us, before even meeting me!

"I can explain! Please don't cry my beautiful angel" cry? I lift my fingers to my cheeks, oh I hadn't realised! I quickly wipe away my angry tears. Then get up and head to the fireplace and place my hands over the wood "incendio" I whisper, and the logs start crackling as the flames guzzle them.

"Bloom?" My mate tentatively calls out my name...oh my Goddess "I don't even know your name" I ask aloud realising. "I'm Ben… Benjamin Ulfur of the Scarlet Moon Pack. I was made Beta a few years ago when I married my alpha's daughter...I…" "do you love her?" Did he only marry her to get a promotion? Oh Goddess why would you pair me with him? "I love her, but I'm not in love with her...we grew up together, she needed my help so I married her... please my angel, let me explain!" I simply nodded my head "she was arranged to be married to the future Alpha of the Blackfur Pack, as the price for a peace treaty...but on her way to meet with him, her entourage was ambushed by a group of filthy rogues. By the time we found them, all the guards had been brutally killed and all the she-wolves r***d and beaten. We realized she was already pregnant. We couldn't proceed with the arrangement to Blackfur, and she would have been disgraced had she returned home in her condition. I was already training to take my father's position once he retired, my Alpha, Esme's father begged me to help him, and as I said we'd grown up together, she was like a little sister... I was young, and naive. I hadn't realised what I was actually giving up at the time! Please my love, you must forgive me...please" he was on his knees, literally begging me, eyes glazed over with tears threatening to spill. My heart couldn't bear the sight! I jumped towards his arms and clung to him with all of my mighty. "It's alright... I not mad! Sad for what happened to her, but not mad!" How could I! What an amazing man...to give up his future to help a woman in need, and raise a child not his own! "How old is your child now?" I asked after what felt like hours simply sitting there in each other's arms. I slowly let go and sat back instantly feeling the loss of his presence "Arthur is almost 4 years old now." "And you're treaty with the other pack?" "We explained it all and Angus accepted to marry my little sister instead…" and so we spent the rest of the night talking and getting to know each other. After a time I noticed he was really tired and kept nodding off so we lay down on my makeshift bed. We were to only lay down and rest till morning but the mate bond was so strong and we just couldn't keep our hands from each other...and I gave myself to my mate abandoning myself to the bond.

I wake up at dawn startled by a nightmare. My first premonition. I look over at Ben and silently cry to myself. Why would the Goddess do this to me? Give him to me only to take him away? But I must make sure my vision never comes to pass... I must leave him now! I get up, pack my gathered hanging herbs and with one last look at my love leave the cave.