THE LYCAN KING'S REJECT

REJECTION - lily’s pov

I felt myself being dragged to the woods and by the sparks I was feeling where his arm was wrapped around me. I knew it was our mate. Lani and I were both calm because we knew our mate would never hurt us. He smelled of pine and peppermint, and I loved it. 

We stopped at a clearing a little ways away from the pack house where we usually had our bonfires and a few other pack events. My mysterious mate stood behind me with his hands on my shoulder and again I felt the sparks. I was so excited to see who my mate was. I wanted to touch him and to just be with him. I didn't think that I would actually find my mate today because not everyone does. I couldn't be happier that I was one of the few that found their mate right when they turned 18. 

He gently squeezed my shoulders and slowly turned me  around,and all I could think was this was it. I'm finally gonna see my mate. I’ll finally have someone who will love me unconditionally no matter what. Someone who will be by my side forever and who will grow old with me and we can watch our kids grow up and love them too. But that whole dream came crashing down the moment I was turned around. 

NO! There was absolutely no way the moon goddess would be so cruel as to do this to me, to pair me with this person forever. 

“Jackson ?” I whispered so low I could barely even hear it myself. To say I was shocked would be the understatement of the year. I was mated to the one person I hated most. One of the people who made my life growing up a living hell. 

“ Hello love ” he said grinning at me like he had just won a medal. God I hated his beautiful face.`` I got a surprise for you. Something I think you are really going to like.`` I knew from the way he spoke,the amount of sarcasm and hate that came out of his mouth,that I was not going to like this at all. “ You can come out now” his voice came one slightly louder as I heard the crunch of leaves and the snapping of twigs. 

Out from the trees came…….Mary? She came out of the tree line with her head hung low

I lightly chuckled to myself “ Mary what are you doing here ?” I took a few steps towards her but stopped when she brought her head up and had this facial expression I had never seen on her before. She looked different, not like the girl I had grown up with and been best friends with for years. Almost crazy? She looked like she kind of wanted to kill me. And it scared me because I had never seen her like this.

“ What's going on you guys ?” i tried to keep my voice strong but it ended up cracking at the end. 

“ You see, Jackson and I have been seeing each other for a while. On his 18th birthday he realized he was mated to you and he was furious. I mean who would ever want to be with a freak like you ?”I sucked in a sharp breath at Mary’s last words and reached my hand up to touch the necklace my parents had gotten me when I was 3 years old. It always brought me comfort, but right now it wasn't really working. “ Anyway at my 18th birthday party we got drunk and ended up together. We’ve been together ever since, and we talked about making me Luna of the pack.`` When Mary said those words my heart shattered. And I looked up to see Jackson with his arms crossed and smirking down at me.

I had so many questions running through my head at that moment I didn't know what to say. You knew we were mated together and did nothing? Why her, what did she have that your mate didn't? What did I ever do to make you hate me so much? I just didn't understand how my best friend could do this to me. This meant she's known we were mates for 6 months! How could she keep something like that from me? But the only thing that came out of my mouth was,” what does that mean for us?”and a few tears came down my cheeks. 

Both Mary and Jackson threw their heads back as the ugliest laughter tore through them. Then Jackson,still smirking, started to speak, `` I, future Alpha of the whitefang pack , Jackson  White reject you,-`` NO this could not be happening. Was I about to get rejected? Even more tears started to come out of my eyes. ``Lily-Jane Lockwood, as my mate and future luna of the whitefang pack.`` I think I could literally feel my heart break into pieces as my knees gave out from under me and I let out the most heart wrenching scream. 

I was mateless. I was going to be alone forever. Nobody really loved me. And the one person who was supposed to love me the most just rejected me. Because I was a freak. Mary’s words rang through my head and I sobbed even harder, watering the ground with my tears as I did . A few minutes later I could feel heavy steps coming towards me and I did the only thing I could in this situation. I stopped crying, got off the floor, dusted off my dress, and looked Jackass Jackson dead in his eyes,” I, Lily-Jane Lockwood accept your rejection.” and I spun around on my heels, rolled my shoulders back, and held my head up and walked back home. I needed to speak with my parents. Oh goddess, please don't let them be disappointed that I couldn't keep my mate. 

I walked through the front door of my parents house and found my parents snuggled up on the living room couch watching a movie. As the door closed they both sprung up to see who came in and jumped up when they realized it was me. Once they made it to my side my mother spoke first, “ oh baby we didn't see you most of the party. What happened? Omg did you find your mate is that why you were gone all night? Ugh you have to tell me wh-”

“ Beautiful, how about you breathe for a second and let her speak.” my father cut her off from her rambling that could have gone on way longer. It was quiet in the house now and both my parents were looking at me waiting for a response, and so I gave them one. I told them everything. From me being dragged to the woods, finding out my best friend was screwing my mate, and to being rejected. I only left out my mates name-well ex mates now. Once I finished explaining what happened it went quiet again which was really starting to make me nervous. 

“ Look, I know you guys are upset that i wasn't able to keep my mate but please, say something” my voice cracked again and i was on the verge of tears. That was until my parents pulled me into a bone crushing embrace

“ Oh darling , we could never be upset with you, it wasn't your fault. And You will find someone again.” my mom said as they both pulled back and wiped away my tears. 

I sighed in relief that they were not upset. “I love you both so much, you guys are the only people who love me and don't keep secrets from me” i smiled up at them to see them frowning at me which then caused me to frown. My eyebrows scrunched together in confusion as they looked at me, then each other, and back at me. “ what is it you’re scaring me“ i said softly starting to get a little scared with the way they were acting. 

“ Beautiful you have to understand that we only ever meant to protect you. You were always our main priority, you still are,But we had to keep this from you for your safety, and the safety of the people around you.” my father stated as he sat up straight and my mother just looked down at her hands folded in her lap. 

“Keep what from me.” I said sternly, starting to get a little agitated that they would keep something from me. We were always so close we told each other everything. And we made a promise to each other that we would never keep secrets from each other.

You already know that your mother is a white wolf which is very rare to see these days, which is why we always told you to never shift around anybody. What you didn't know was that she was not only a white wolf but she was the queen.” 

“WHAT!” I screamed very upset at this point. How could they keep something like this from me? I was their daughter and we told each other everything.

“ You always used to ask me why my eyes were red and why you had just the one.” he took a deep breath and continued,” I am the king of the fire fairies, i'm also the last fairy alive beside you since our whole species was wiped out with some disease that we cured far too late.” my dad paused to look at me. I was still fuming but knew there was more so I kept quiet till he was done. “Since your mother is a white wolf queen, and i'm the fire fairy king that makes you the first ever fire wolf princess. Beautiful you have to believe us when we say we are only trying to protect you. So we gave you the spelled necklace you have on now to keep your other abilities hidden but you're 18 now and that necklace wont work the way it used to, they’ll be weak.`` 

Today was just full of surprises, wasn't it. Mateless. Princess. Hybrid. SPELLED NECKLACES. There was no way they would do that to me. 

“ I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU GUY WOULD DO THIS TO ME. KEEP WHO I REALLY WAS A SECRET FROM ME!!! I DESERVED TO KNOW WHO I WAS, WHO MY PARENT ARE. I UNDERSTAND WANTING TO PROTECT ME BUT I HAD THE RIGHT TO KNOW!” I shouted at my parents and ran upstairs to my room. I was so done with the lies, the betrayal,  and the heartache. I just wanted this all to go away from things to be like they used to. Mary and I together, talking about Jackson, telling my parents I needed some alone time with them, then taking a walk to get some ice cream with them. I jumped in the shower and washed myself clean of all the crap that happened today. Once I was done and dressed for bed, in shorts and a crop top, there was a knock at my door. It was my mom, but I wasn't going to open the doors for someone who has been lying to me for 18 years. So I got in bed and ignored her. 

“ Baby, we never meant to hurt you. We only wanted to protect you.” was the last thing I heard before I tried to fall asleep. 

I looked over to my nightstand where my clock reads 3:17am but I couldn't sleep. I needed to get away. From everyone here, all the lies ,and all the hurt. So I did what all hurt and irrational teens do. I got out of bed, packed a duffle bag, jumped out my window, and ran as far away as my body would let me. I just knew I couldn't be in that house anymore. Hopefully wherever I'm going won't be as bad as it was at home. Well there was only one way to find out.