Chosen, just to be Rejected

14

Belladonna

She took her time to put everything in the car and walked them down the stairs. This had been her home for eight years and was her way of saying goodbye, she thought absently as she closed the Luna Suite door for the final time.

Bella had felt Parker leave the pack territory about 10 minutes ago. She thought that was a very odd thing for him to do, and she could see that his car was still there over in the parking lot. So, he must have stalked out of the pack on foot. His whole unit was still here she realised, he’d gone off on his own she knew, because she could feel all the boys and they were there inside the packhouse from what she could tell. Well, she knew where Kane was.

Bella shook her head, she’d never understood him, and why, when she’d given him permission, he didn’t just go and claim his new Mate. Surely he had to be itching to, but no, he’d gone off out of the pack. She strolled down the stairs and wondered if that new mate had gone with him. They could probably go out and Mark and Mate outside the pack. That wouldn’t breach the mating alliance.

Though that was now also null and voided, so it didn’t really matter, if she was him he’d be off marking and mating, getting rid of memories of the mate he’d chosen, just to be rejected.

She nodded to Kane as she walked past him and headed outside the packhouse for the last time, and she saw Becky out there, standing watching her, looking at her worriedly. She wasn’t the only one watching her, either there were several pack members standing out here looking at her.

Though none of them approached her. She sighed a little and walked over to them, smiled at them gently and then looked at Becky. “I’m certain everything will be just fine.” Bella tried to reassure her.

“I’m due tomorrow, and your leaving today. You’re supposed to deliver my pup.” Becky murmured.

“I am.” Bella nodded “Annette will do that now. If you’re really worried about it, I’ll contact Shannon, and he can come and be in the delivery suite with you. I’m sure he won’t mind if I ask him for one last request.”

“But you’ve never lost a pup, or one of us,” Becky half whispered.

Bella sighed a little and hugged her, knew that Becky had lost two pups prior to Bella being brought here, and that her last pup had been a difficult birth as well. It had gotten a little on the hairy side for all those in the delivery room.

“Everything will be fine, just breathe and stay calm, like you did when having Hope,” she told her. “Have a little faith that this little girl will be all good as well…” she looked at the woman, she was more than anxious “you know… I don’t have to leave right away. What say we go for a walk before I go, hey?”

Becky nodded “Do you know anything about the new Luna we’re getting?” she asked.

“No.” Bella shook her head, and she honestly wasn’t really interested in knowing either. “I’m sure she’ll be lovely though.”

“I heard she yelled at the Alpha already.” Becky huffed.

Bella snorted and shook her head. “He’ll yell back, he’s got a temper. I’ve seen it once.” And directed at her just once, had been enough for her to decide she wouldn’t incur his wrath again. “They’ll settle once they’re marked and mated, and things will be all good once I’m actually gone from the pack. Likely, his Goddess-Gifted is unhappy about him already having a mate is all. It’s a completely normal reaction, I would think.”

“I don’t want you to go.” Becky told her. “None of us do.”

“Hmm, that is lovely to hear, but that is not up to any of you. Up to Parker himself, he has found and brought his Goddess-Gifted here, so it’s only right that I step aside and leave. I was always going to be rejected by Parker, it was just a matter of time.

“I knew that coming here, and you all knew that I wasn’t his Goddess-Gifted as well, he did tell all of you I was his Chosen Luna.” she reminded her.

She had always known, as had the pack. It was why her leaving wasn’t all that hard for her to do. She still had that ache inside of her chest, from the severing of their bond. But she had seen many rejections over the years, and spent time comforting those that needed it, using her Luna’s Calm to help them through it as much as Shannon had his Gamma Charm.

She understood that she was going to feel that ache there inside of her chest for a long while, likely a few months. It would eventually settle into just a dull ache always there to be felt, because one was now alone. It too would pass with time, and eventually she’d let it go and forget all about her time here. Likely even how she had come to be here. Let it go and move on completely.

Bella strolled along with Becky. There was no real rush. She technically had until lunchtime tomorrow to leave, so they walked down into the town, and she got coffee for herself and iced tea for Becky, used her own money for it, paid for her first cup of coffee in her new free life. That felt really nice, she smiled and sipped it, sighed a little. She could have sworn it tasted better than the last time she’d had it.

She strolled back towards her car, to say her final goodbyes to those there waiting for her and snorted just a little right as Becky’s hand gripped onto her arm, and she gasped in pain, as a contraction hit her, and then her water broke right there next to Bella’s car. She shook her head a little and smiled at Becky. “That desperate to have me deliver your little girl.” She teased her playfully. “Come on, to the pack hospital with you, I’ll stay and deliver your little girl, cheeky woman, tricking me into staying until you went into labour, by going and getting coffee I see.”

“I really didn’t mean to.” Becky sighed “But, thank you.”

She heard Freya snort inside her mind ‘She needs you, or she and that pup will not make it.’

‘You don’t know that,’ Bella muttered. She didn’t like the thought of that at all, losing both of them, a mother and a pup. Hell no, not her bloody watch.

‘Yes, I do.’ Freya stated matter-of-factly.

‘Well, let's not see that happen then. Get ready to use that Luna’s Calm’

Freya snorted ‘I’m always ready, drink that coffee and get a shot of espresso. You’re the one on two hours' sleep.’

That she was, but Freya had slept most of the day, and Bella somehow wasn’t feeling all that tired right this minute, knowing she had a baby to deliver, she’d always been able to pull herself together, no matter how tired she was to deliver a baby and keep its mother safe at the same time.

One last pup she would deliver here, inside this pack, the Lustrous Moon; her last duty here as a pack doctor. That was nice for her, not just pack and go, deliver a cute baby and then go. She liked that ‘me to.’ Freya told her ‘it’s what we’re Destined for.’