CHAPTER 1 :THE REJECTION
Amaris POV
"I, Alpha Ragnar Leon, reject you, Amaris Zander, as my mate…and I sever this bond!" I heard Ragnar say as I felt my heart rip into pieces.
I felt my wolf whimper in pain, and my eyes glistened with tears. ‘That can't be possible. How can my mate reject me? Aren’t mates be supposed to love each other?’
I slumped on the floor in pain but instead of the man to show me concern he just hissed. How could I accept this?
Why am I so unlucky? Every wolf's happiness was to stand in front of their mate, and be embraced by them. But the opposite just happened to me.
After enduring the years of pain by surviving my step mother, and my stepsister's ruthlessness, I was finally able to meet my mate, and he was the most handsome man I have ever set my eyes on.
But my happiness was cut short.
But how did I get here? How did the man that was supposed to love me, and protect me spew those words to me.
THIRTY MINUTES AGO
Ragnar Leon was a powerful Alpha of the neighboring pack, and he was to get engaged to my sister but I found out that he was my mate instead, and I was currently outside the balcony with him looking at his handsome face which held anger but I was excited.
"Nice meeting you, my name is Amaris Franklin, the Alpha is my father," I introduced myself shyly knowing that is what we should be doing if we want to get to know each other but his next words made me sad.
"Weak!" He mumbled and I held my clothes tighter hearing his words but I knew he might just be shocked by the new revelation so I tried to ease his worries.
"I know that you are not happy with the way things are right? I mean…" I began to say but Ragnar cut me off immediately.
"Don't be delusional! Why do you think a man of my status is going to accept you as my mate?" He asked and my chest tightened in shock wondering what he was saying.
"What are you saying? The moon goddess mated us together. Are you trying to say that her decision was wrong and.." I was saying but he interrupted me again and his next words sent my world crashing.
“You are not fit to be my Luna…I am here to get engaged with your sister, and that's going to hold,” he spat angrily, and my heart shook hearing his words, and before I could blink he rejected me in the most cruel way.
"What just happened? Did I just get abandoned?" I wondered and my wolf cried in agony as I lay lifelessly on the floor.
I never knew rejection could hurt this bad…I never even thought that I could get rejected but looks like this was it but was this going to be the end?
I was still wailing in agony when a voice broke into my thoughts from behind, and I stiffened hearing that.
“Oh my dear sister, looks like you got your tiny heart broken,” I heard someone say behind me, and I turned around to see my stepsister, Aveline standing with a smirk plastered on her face.
“What are you doing?” I asked, but she just chuckled hearing my words. “Don't be dumb dear sister, I never thought that you were going to get yourself disgraced when you hurried at your father's guest out like that claiming that he is your mate, are you that desperate?,” she asked.
“But I didn't lie…I just..” I was saying but she cut me off. “Stop being pathetic! You already know you couldn't be loved. Who is going to love a miserable girl like you?” she asked, grabbing my chin, and I winced in pain.
Aveline has always found joy in bullying me after my father married her mother, but I have always swallowed all her excesses towards me but today…she has gone too far.
“Let go of me! And do you think I am pathetic? I think you are more pathetic…even after many balls you have attended you are still mate-less, so I don't think you have the right to point fingers,” I said as I jerked her hands off me, and a gasp escaped her mouth.
“What did you just do! Have you lost your mind!” she screamed but I just scoffed as I dusted myself from the floor but Aveline's next words halted my steps.
“You are going to regret doing this ...I am going to snatch what you care the most away from you!” she roared, and she showed her claws, and I stepped back seeing her reaction.
What is she saying? Is she going to hit me?
“Wh.. what do you mean Aveline? I stuttered.
“Don't get too curious, Amaris. I am going to make your life hell just watch out,” she said and walked out on me, and a gasp escaped my mouth.
What was that? I was still hurting after my rejection. Who was she to threaten me? I decided to leave the balcony, and go to the room, as I cried about my loss.
Evening came but I wasn't keen on getting up from my room but my stepmother's order to serve our guests, which I knew Ragnar was also going to be among, got me up from my bed.
I was suddenly hopeful when an idea slipped into my mind. Maybe I could ask my father to ask Ragnar to rethink his decision, and not reject me as his mate.
I walked down the hallway but my steps ceased, when a strong smell wafted into my nose. I could smell his sweet familiar scent, and I strolled towards the room that the smell was the strongest but I was surprised to see the people in there.
It was my mate, Ragnar, and my stepsister, Aveline.
“What are they doing together?” I asked, but I gasped in shock when I saw my stepsister, Aveline crashed her lips on my mate's lips, and my heart ached seeing the scene.
I took a step forward to confront her but I halted realizing that I was just going to disgrace myself.
The two disengaged from the kiss, and Aveline's eyes trailed towards the door, and she passed me a condescending smirk.
She knew I was standing at the door alone, and she put on that show so that I could see. She was trying to get to me. And she won.
“Are you going to stand over there?” I heard Ragnar's voice, and my broken heart shattered into many pieces.
I rushed out of the hallway with tears in my eyes, and I knew Aveline had just won. But was that going to be the end of my misery? No, it just started.
