Dear Ex-Mate, I Want You Back

Lyra's POV: " I reject you as my mate and my future Luna. You are nothing to me, and you don't deserve the title of Luna." Those cold words left his lips, with his dark eyes cutting coldly across mine, causing my heart to hammer against my chest walls. Stories of how people turned into mush in the hands of their mates had filled my ears, more times than I could count. Since I was a child, I had dreamed of this, and hoped for this event. For a love that would be so blinding that my mate would just see me alone. But now, as I stared at the mate that had been chosen for me by the moon goddess, no iota of care in his eyes as he looked at me, I knew immediately that I had been wrong. "Please Lucian. If I did something, anything that makes you feel this way now, I'm sorry. Please...." I was begging, trailing off as I tried to get the words out in one breath. But his eyes were cold and unrelenting, as though he had made up his mind from the very time our mate bond snapped into place. "Get away from him, you lowly creature. You really think that you can be with someone like him? Just how delusional are you?" A woman yelled. It was then I remembered the people surrounding me. He had rejected me publicly, in front of the whole crowd that had come out to attend his mating ceremony. I stared into his eyes for something, anything that I could cling onto desperately, to prove that the man I had kissed and moaned underneath last night was still him. But every shade of happiness and want he had in his eyes was gone, replaced now with the cold glare that he meted out to me. I did not realize I had been crying until the teardrop got into my mouth, the salty taste awakening me as I took one step away from him. And with that one step, I turned, bursting through the crowds and their jeers and mockeries, running straight towards the forest, the only place that I got some sort of reprieve from when the whole pack hated me. Like today. " Omega! Weak, slut, b***h, good for nothing" the words trailed me in my mind as I ran, trying to forget their harsh expressions and their glares of death the more I ran. Finally, when my legs could no longer take the pressure I put on them, I collapsed on the ground, falling to my feet on the dew-filled grass. Lucian. Son of the most powerful alpha. When he showed interest in me yesterday, I wanted to scream, squeal to the wind that a lowly wolf like me could actually catch the eyes of someone so powerful. And the night we shared together last night.... Magical. Even though he had just embarrassed me in front of the whole pack, I could still not bring myself to hate him for last night. It made me feel like a woman, like something more, and I was not ashamed of that. As the wind lulled, dragging through the trees to produce a soft lullaby, I fell asleep, allowing the darkness to take away the loneliness and pain I felt in my heart. By the time I snapped my eyes open, the day had been far spent, and I knew I would be in big trouble. I got up, clothes covered in grass and perhaps insects, as I ran back to the packed house, bursting into the doors to make it to the kitchen and start my chores, praying to whatever god there was that my stepmother had not noticed my absence, but as usual, the moon goddess sneered at me because standing there in the kitchen, was my stepmother, a glare in her eyes as she looked at me. " Where are you coming from?" She asked, her voice cold like ice as she stared at me with little remorse for my state. I felt my throat dry up immediately as I tried to make out words. " I asked you a question, you filthy omega!" She yelled at me and I willed myself to speak quickly. I knew what happened when I delayed my speech, I still had the marks on my body as evidence. " I...I went for a run", I said, and that only made her sneer. " With that pathetic wolf of yours?" She asked, more of a statement than a question. I gulped, trying to fight the tears back. I could not let her see me cry. That would only make her insult me more. " After the incident with Lucian I...." I was beginning to say, but she cut me off with a deafening slap that sent my head whopping backwards with surprise. " How dare you refer to him by his name you filthy thing! He is alpha Lucian to you and the next time I see you around him, I will cut off your stupid tongue you w***e!" She yelled. The tears stung my eyes now, refusing to go back to where they came from. She was not finished, because she continued. " And why would he even want to be with a thing like you? Do you know how powerful he is? Do you think he would waste his time by crowning mere trash like you as his Luna? He is more suited for Bethany" she said, a small smile on her face as she said this. Bethany was her daughter, and just like her mother, Bethany enjoyed making my life miserable for me. I shuddered in horror as I remembered the number of times she had hit me or insulted me at the slightest excuse. All of them succeeded in making my life hell. I nodded my head, the tears still falling freely as I moved towards the sink to wash the dishes. My stepmother refused to hire any servants, leaving me to do all the chores. " Leave those dishes. You will come back to them later. Your father requests to see you now in the throne room" she said, a small smile on her face. Whatever reason my father wanted to see me, I already knew it would not be good.