Where's my Luna

Chapter 2

KAILA POV

I raced out of the palace, my heart ablaze. I have heard of the pain one faces when rejected by his or her mate. I never bothered to inquire about rejection because I felt no one could reject me. I'm beautiful, lovely, kind and have a whole lot of beautiful qualities, and to top it all, I'm the most beloved daughter of Alpha Jacob. Whoever gets to marry me gets the chance to rule the park. I am the ultimate prize, the crown jewel of the pack.

But now, I realized that none of that mattered. Lucas had rejected me, and it felt like the end of the world. I felt like I was nothing, like I was worthless, like I didn't deserve to exist. More tears dropped.

The pain was unlike anything I had ever experienced before, it was as if my soul was being ripped apart, my heart shattered into a million pieces.

I thought of the plans I had for both of us. The imaginations I had created for us. We were supposed to live forever after. We were meant to be the perfect fairy tale of the pack, the most enviable couple of the pack.

I had always loved Lucas, right from when we were pubs. He was and is my only love.

"Why?" I whimpered.

The words he had spoken echoed in my mind, taunting me, haunting me. "I don't love you, and I never had,"

He was supposed to love me. I knew he loved me. If not, then why the extra care, the show of love ever since when we were pubs, was that false too. Was it a facade, if it is, for what?

Why?

He once called me his special friend. I was his special friend. I could remember his words that day on our way back from the park school for the elites years ago.

He had said holding my hand passionately looking into my eyes, "Kaila, you are my special friend and you will always be my special friend,"

I looked him in the eyes with the same fire and asked "forever?"

"Forever," he responded, squeezing my hand.

I had smiled all through that day and even the next. It was like a love confession to me. I had told Stella about it.

Where did I go wrong? A sharp pain hit me.

His words came rushing through my head like a broken record. "I, Lucas Ambrose Junior, reject you, Princess Kaila Jacob, as my mate." Each word was a fresh blow, a new wound, a deeper cut.

I felt like I was drowning in my tears, suffocating under the weight of my own heartbreak. I couldn't breathe, couldn't feel anything except the agony of rejection, the torture of Lucas's rejection.

I kept racing through the woods, pushing and destroying whatever seemed to be blocking my way. Blood gushed out my palm, but I've got no time to stop and let it heal.

Each cut and pain from the run reminds of the man I had just lost. The only man I had ever loved and cared for all my life. The only man who made me feel various emotions at once.

May the moon goddess help the prey that crosses my path?

What would have made him do this to me?

Mates are meant to love each other for life, be each other best friends, best allies. I had imagined how beautiful my love story would be.

"You deserve better," Mom's faint voice flowed through my mind.

I realize my mind is open and the last thing I need right now is some sort of consolation from my family. I blocked it instantly.

I ran until my legs ached, until my lungs burned, until my heart felt like it was going to burst. And still, I couldn't escape the pain. It followed me, haunted me, and consumed me.

My eyes blurred, my feet burned, my entire body on fire. I realized I had stepped on something. I turned to check. A thin silver line caught my eyes; ‘Wolfsbane’. I'm treading on a dangerous path and yet, I care less. I kept running.

Dad had shown me what a wolfsbane looked like. It's very dangerous to werewolves.

If this is how I die, then, it's fine. Besides, there's nothing worth living for anymore.

I tried to keep running but my strength seems to fail.

Like a magnate, I slump to the ground. As I slip out of consciousness, I notice a figure, before I could make the whole picture, I blanked out.