Chosen, just to be Rejected

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Belladonna

She was handed her new phone after all the paperwork was signed, and the items photographed as proof that she’d returned everything. She watched Kane pull out a large stamp and ink pad from the desk's top draw, open that ink pad and then put the stamp on it. Then he looked right at her for a long moment.

“Bella, do you have a plan? Somewhere to go after this?” he asked her, giving her his full and undivided attention.

“Mm,” she nodded, “I’ve always had a plan in place. I keep track of the need for pack doctors in our world. There’s a wolfen employment page on the hospital’s intranet, for medical staff. There are currently four other packs in need of a pack doctor. I can go to or apply for trial work inside their packs to see if I like it there.”

“You’ve always kept track?” he queried, sounded a bit confused to her as to why she would do that.

“Yes, Kane. It would be stupid of me not to. Parker only needed to be mated to me until he found his Goddess-Gifted, and that could well have been the full moon after I came here for all I knew. Any full moon that followed after the mating alliance was done.” She shrugged. “So, I kept my eyes and ears open all the time. Knowing this day would come.”

“When was the last time you checked that?” Kane asked.

Bella took the time, while he was directing what she could only think of as concern for her where abouts in the future, to unwrap her new phone, set it up and sort out a new bank account for herself. There was still that final part of their separation agreement to be completed.

“Hmm, that would have been the day you all left to go to that mating ball.” she answered him “Between delivering pups.” She chuckled a little. It had been a busy night that night.

Finally, that bank account was all set up. She made sure it was not the bank this pack used, wasn’t in anyway affiliated with Parker and his pack.

She looked at Kane, “Just one last thing to be attended to,” she stated.

They’d ticked everything off that separation agreement one by one as they’d sorted it all out. All that was left was for her to be transferred that monetary some, she calculated it inside her mind eight years of her life at $12,000 a year. A total of $96,000. Humans earn more than that in a year sometimes. Her own father had sold her off for a measly sum of $1000 a month.

She was worth nothing to that man. Not even the use of her body was worth anything $250 a week. She’d never earned an actual income here inside the pack. Because Parker owned her, so he didn’t have to pay her wages for her being a doctor, that was all part and parcel of his ownership, she knew.

Bella stopped that train of thought, before she did the math in her head, that put a value on the use of her body by him. She was cheap, that much she knew. Less than a $100 a f**k that was a given. She shook it off and forced herself not to think about it.

She watched Kane put in the monetary some to be transferred to her, damned near yelled at him to stop. Reached out and halted his hands when she saw the sum of a million dollars punched in. “Don’t do that.” She stated and pushed his hands out of the way.

She typed in the minimum she was entitled to herself, $96,000. “That is the minimum.” She stated and hit the send button before he could do anything about it. “Do not waste pack funds on me. I also don’t want it. Don’t even really want that money, Kane. But seeing as I never earned a single cent while here,”

She held up a hand to stop him from speaking, when he opened his mouth to say something, “Not entitled to, I know, sold to him.” She stated flatly “I need something to get my life set up once I leave. That is the only reason I’m accepting this at all,” she told him.

He was really frowning at her now. She then hit the delete transaction button on the pack account, before he could stop her, so her details couldn’t be seen for him to make another transfer. She waved her hand at the Mating Alliances “Void away.” and she watched him stamp both copies on every page, pressed that stamp to the very words Mating Alliance on the front page.

Then they both signed the final place on the separation agreement, and it was all done. She was no longer Parkers. She was free for the first time in eight long years. She took a breath in and stood up. “I’ll move the rest of my things into my car,” she stated as she picked up the second set of keys on the desk.

“Kane, please tell Alpha Parker, I’ll sever myself from the pack after I leave and have found a place to stay for the night. If he is unhappy about it... well, I guess he can sever me from the pack anytime he sees fit prior to me doing that. I would, however, like him to give me the courtesy of waiting until I’ve found somewhere to stay. I hear it hurts, and I don’t relish having a car accident while leaving the pack.”

“He isn’t that cruel, Bella, you know that. Parker will not sever you from his pack, it’s unsafe for you out there as a rogue. So, it will be on your terms. He’ll likely just let you be a pack member forever if you never do it. A pack scent will give you some protection out there.”

Bella nodded, “That is decent of you to say so.” she looked at her watch. It had been five hours since their rejection had been stated and accepted.

It hadn’t taken all that long after all, and most of it was her packing her things. It probably would have taken much longer if she’d not had the help of Merideth or Kane here in her Dr’s office either. Just five hours was all it had taken to close out her life here, the sun was only just starting to go down.

She looked at Kane, he’d always been nice to her, the entire unit had and smiled at him. “I’ll head off shortly, just need to bring the things from the Luna Suite down, and put them in the car. She looked at the keys in her hand, and still didn’t understand why he had bought her one. That was a mystery. Why give someone a car that wasn’t allowed outside the pack?

“If you have any trouble out there Bella, you can come right back here for help.” He stated and walked her from the office. “Or call us for assistance.”

“I don’t think there will be any trouble, and I won’t be coming back, Kane. I’m not his Mate anymore, I’m not the Luna and I don’t think the new Luna would appreciate my coming back, or even calling this pack for assistance. Kind of got the impression she didn’t like me.” She stated simply, and she wasn’t going to be coming back.

No, she was going to make a new life for herself. Somewhere out there, she didn’t know where yet, but tonight was her first night of freedom, and she was going to stay in a nice hotel, out in the human world for a few days, until she found herself a job to go to.

She headed up to the Luna Suite to start moving those boxes down to her car, found Kane sitting in the foyer watching her as she did so and questioned him why? He smiled at her, part of the mating alliance. The new Luna is not allowed to harm you we’re to see you safely out of the pack.