The Luna's awakening (Bounded by Destiny).

CHAPTER2

***Liam***

My life, my love, was Hazel. I would do everything for her, no matter what. I had the utmost affection for her. My vow to mate with her was sincere. Though I never loathed her, I knew that many did. I grew to love her even more.

For me, she was ideal. She was strong and possessed the beauty that only Luna could have. I was unable to simply let her go.

I was very much in love with her, and we had been married for seven years.

Because of how much I loved her, I made her a promise that if and when I had the chance to reject my mate, I would do that and she also agreed to that.

I never imagined that I would be such a coward and violate our shared pledge.

Although Hazel never wanted us to have a big celebration for my birthday, I thought it would be okay since we had been celebrating it subtly without realizing, it would be the start of my downfall.

I was drawn to her like a magnet by her perfume, which took me by surprise.

She mesmerized me just as much as I did. She was all that was there as I turned to face her.

For that moment, I felt my love for Hazel vanish; I wanted to gather my courage to give her my whole attention, but I was unable to do so.

She associated me with "Mate," and I replied. Her name was Red, and she would be my undoing.

She had requested that we meet in my garden, and that is when I went to see her. Her body was smooth and her voice was so pleasant that I wanted to touch her badly—we wanted the whole of her. She had me imprisoned, and though I wanted to turn away from her, I was unable to speak the words.

I heard myself utter, "Mate," with ease, and everything else vanished.

Red introduced herself to me as a smart and intelligent lawyer. Though, given that Hazel and I were already together, she could never be my Luna. She doesn't exactly look like a Luna material.

"I have to reject you, Red," I said to her as she came to me again, her eyes streaming with sorrow.

She begged, "Alpha Liam, please," and then we started kissing furiously. I could taste the sweetness on her lips and wanted to give her more, but I had to battle my wolf and wants.

I looked into her eyes and replied, "I do not want to hurt my wife."

"Alpha, please. You don't have to turn me down. You already know that we are mates and that we can't be apart. I need you too, please; you need me." She sobbed.

"I would have waited for my mate if I had known this was what was going to happen," I said to myself.

This was both a wonderful and a bad thing; how will I handle it? How would Hazel feel if I made Red my mistress?

I truly don't want to inflict any harm to poor, defenseless Hazel. We've been married for a very long time.

Without saying anything, I let Red down at the garden and went back inside. Though I was aware that someone was staring at me, at the moment I was too confused to care.

When I returned to my table, Hazel was nowhere to be seen. She must have figured it out, I realized.

My make-out session with Red would have confirmed whatever misgivings she may have had at first.

I detested fate for what it had done to me and detested myself for it. Had I known that I would still be able to meet my partner, it would have arrived sooner rather than later. I was unsure of whom to inform about this. I'm aware that my parents would have preferred for me to wed Red and make her my Luna in order to deepen our relationship and increase my abilities.

However, I can't harm Hazel; I genuinely meant every word I said to her, and I will honor it; I only need more time to consider it.

By the time the party was done and the maids were cleaning the entire place, I was sitting on the couch in my dimly lit living room. I had a drink in my hand as I considered the situation. Where could Hazel have gone, I wondered?

She entered the house broken, wondering about her.

She let me feel her fury, so I chose to just give her some space even though I really wanted to hug her.

"How could you, Liam? You vowed to reject her if it ever came to that,” she said. “You said you would love me.”

I just stared at her in silence. I have nothing to say about it.

I don't know whether she will ever be able to trust me again because I know I have broken her. Later, when I went back to the room, Hazel was still awake. "How on earth could she sleep? I didn't even think she would." I am aware of her extreme anguish.

She makes me whole, therefore I can't possibly reject her. My wolf would become weaker if I did that, and no pack would even take her.

Red would boost my abilities as my mate and the pack as a whole, thus if the pack finds out, they would want me to take her as my Luna and set Hazel aside.

Hazel was too hurt to listen to me when I tried to talk to her about it in bed, but I understood her suffering and didn't know what else to do.

Harry was waiting for me when I got up in the morning, and I felt as though he wanted to discuss the events of the day before, but I wasn't in the mood for that at all.

"Alpha, is it true Red is your fated mate?" With great anxiety, he asked, and I understood where he was heading with it. "Please I really don't know how you found out and I don't want anyone to know about this except the both of us," I said him. He was quiet for some while.

"You were almost about to f**k her in the garden because you were so into her and enjoying her, “do you think no one saw you,” he asked me.

I was now more troubled by it since I knew how it would end, and I didn't want that to occur.

I planned to ignore the tie and live my life with Hazel until I could muster the courage to reject Red since I didn't want any of these to get out of control.