Rejected by Fated Mate

Chapter 4

A life of Ridicule

EMERY

I was pregnant. I didn’t know where I was going to go from here , as my life was already going down the wrong path.

Who was going to take care of me now, now that I jad gotten pregnant? I didn’t have a mate and I was pregnant. I was despised in this pack and what was left of it, I had completely demolished everything that was left.

Where would I go from here ? What was I going to do about this whole thing?

No one would care, I was sure. I had come to realise that nobody was interested in me anywhere. I was a laughing stock, wishing I was the Maiden that was mated so I wouldn’t be here,and nobody wanted to even work with or talk to, me that even in my dying state I was sure they wouldn’t care.

The only thing that could go far about me would be my news. This talk would be on everybody and nobody’s lips, as that was the only way they remembered I existed. When I produced more gossip and bad news for them to carry about.

I felt like everything was coming to an end. Carrying a baby without a father ? I wasn’t sure I was that strong. I knew it was the man who I had slept with at the bar. And I didn’t have anyway to trace him, or locate him.

He didn't leave any piece of information with me, and he could be from a very far away land for all I knew. I wasn’t even thinking of locating him. I was thinking about how I was going to take care of this child without resources and in this place full of hate for me.

I would have to leave, although I already felt like they were going to send me away. I started recalling all the times I was wrong, and the events leading to this pregnancy. Considering all the times I had been wronged, I was pretty sure the pregnancy wouldn’t make them pity me. Even for trivial things like food, I remembered vividly how the chief diner had slapped me because I had asked her for a second serving of my meal. I couldn’t even retailate because whether I was right or wrong no one would have had my back.

Even when I was very sick, I clearly recalled that the Royal physician did not even get to run serious tests on me. It struck me that the period must have been when I first got pregnant. I was thinking I was just sick , and all she did was come and just administer normal drugs to me, and I had to go to the bay first after I started feeling I was getting weaker by the day.

I was having fainting spells at intervals. No one cared. The sickness soon got to the top of it and I couldn’t even stand.

I laid down on my bed, not being able to get a meal to eat or even walk at allm I was there for a full day before someone realised that I hadn’t moved at all. Out of fear, they rushed me to the medical quarters, where they immediately started stabilizing everything, and then started conducting tests to know exactly what was wrong with me.

They were so focused on finding the treatment so they would derive the best treatment possible, and I could go back to my duties.

After a full day of running tests on me, they ran every possible tests for every illness that was achieveble in their standards within the quarters , and nothing was showing that could give them a clue because it was a complicated illness.

The Royal physician decided to run a pregnancy test on me, as that was the only thing that was Left.

He didn’t consider it necessary beforehand because in our pack, it was known that women didn’t really get pregnant outside of wedlock, as it rarely happened.

However when they ran the pregnancy test on me, it came out positive I was pregnant. They told the Alpha before I was even aware .

As I stood there, he asked me “ Do you realize you have failed this pack and your family?”

I didn’t know what to answer. I didn’t know what I had done again this time, and I just stared back at him.

“You are pregnant, Emery”. He had said. At that moment, everything seemed bleak.

He went on.” You would stay in here, and give birth to this child. You wouldn’t be assigned to any place outside the walls of the Palace. You would contain this shame you have brought to our pack!! He raged on.

“We would inform your guardians about this. They would come here to see you. The essence of girls coming here to serve gives them experience, and helps them to be paired with a good fated mate! You have ruined everything” he said to me, and I burst in tears.

“There’s no limit to the goodness this palace would have brought to you, and that’s why your guardian brought you here. Why have you brought shame upon me… People would say under my nose a young girl got pregnant. You have embarrassed me totally, Emery!! Nothing is left. I would see what your people have to say about this!”

“ Alpha , I’m sorry I disappointed you” I start admist tears. “ My mate rejected me , and I felt down casted. I went to take a drink and accidentally drank too much. That was how it happened, I didn’t mean to “ I add, tears streaming down my cheek heavily.

“You don’t know the father of the chikd you’re carrying??!!” The Alpha growled as he stood. I realize that since this whole mess started no one had asked in that direction. I had supplied information that the child didn’t have a father, making everything a whole lot worse.

I cowered in fright, afraid of what he was going to do next. I was sure my guardians may not even want to come and see me as it was a case of carrying a child who had no father, whose ancestry was always going to be in question.

“Hello, yes. We’ll see tomorrow. Okay” the Alpha said, and I realize he was on his phone.

“I am seeing your guardians tomorrow. I would know what direct actions to take. Till then, leave my sight” he ordered.

I walked out, my head bowed. It was amazing how fats information moved because as I moved I could see the fingers pointing and the giggles and the laughter.

Some behind my back, some directly in front of me, they did not care. I was powerless and couldn’t do anything. I was the girl who has gotten pregnant and didn’t know the man that impregnated her. I was a shame, an embrassment totally, and an outcast.

In a lot of time, no one had gotten pregnant before mating. I had carried the trophy. I was more than worried about how the conversation with my guardians would go, as that would determine a lot of things.

I didn’t know if I would be present in the meeting, and my body was still feeling physical pain. I go back to my bed to lay down, but our head maiden still calls me and assigns a duty Post to me.

Everything becomes overwhelming as I burst into tears. The pain and the abuse was too much. This was what lead me to where I am now. Trying to seek solace in a drink. No one I could talk to. No one that actually cared. Everything I did was always wrong to them, I felt so stupid and unloved. These thoughts turned to anger and I left the duty Post. I wouldn’t die out of hate and abuse.

When the head maiden came to look for me , I was sleeping peacefully on my bed. I am sure she would have made a move to rouse me from sleep, but had a second thought about it. She left me alone.

The next day, the Alpha called for me. When I am taken to see him, my aunt and uncle , Alpha Jim and Athena, are sitting there, they’re head bowed..

As I Walk in, they raise their heads up and their expressions have told me everything I needed to know.

“Emery. Your parents would roll in their grace hearing this shame and embarrassment you have brought to their name” my uncle growled.

My eyes watered immediately. Even as it was a normal occurrence for one to keep his daughter with the alpha to learn Royal manners and find good mates, I was sure that my parents would have loved to train me on their own. Buy their early deaths had made it impossible, and my Aunt and uncle decided bringing me to the royal home would be better.

“Who is the father of your child” my aunt asked, and I knew she asked just to taunt me . I was sure she was fully aware of the fact that I didn’t know who the father of my child was.

“It was ju..just a one time thing.. I was drunk” I said admist tears.

“ I would leave you now, discuss this as a family. I wouldn’t want a bad example for other maidens in the pack so we have to think of something” Alpha Sebastian said and stood to leave.

“Do you sell your body for money, Emery?!, What do you mean drunk? Do you go about drinking and forgetting who you slept with? Because that’s the only way you won’t know the father of your child!!!” My aunt thundered.

“Why would you ask me that? It was a one time thing!”,I said, tears leaving my eyes as she accused me of sleeping around.

She stood up and came in front of me , slapping me repeatedly while saying the words” You are foolish, very foolish” .

I tried covering my eyes and my face from her slaps, but she had gotten intensely angry that her claws were out. She was slashing me now, and I pushed her heavily before she caused me serious injuries. She fell down badly on the table, the meal that was initially given to them as refreshments smearing all her clothes.

I didn’t mean for that to happen, but my face showed no remorse.

“You are disowned” my uncle growled. “You have no family as from today” My aunt added, making for me as I move quickly. I ran down to my room, and changed into a long sleeved dress to hide my injuries.

It was just evening, but I was going to leave this evil place. Everything bad had happened to me in this place and I was going to leave it all behind. I looked around and realized I didn’t have much I could even take. I snatched the frame that contained my parents picture, taking the picture from inside it.

I moved quickly to the front of the palace. “ Where are you going?” A guard asked. I knew he wouldn’t shoot or kill me . I run forward with so much speed and they run after me . As I go past the gate, I cut into some bushes and remain still, watching them look for me . As they go back to Inform the alpha, I picked up my speed.

I ran for a very long time, exhaustion weakening me. As it got dark , I began to hear footsteps, and looking back I realize that I’m being followed. Three huge figures are chasing me!!