The Summoned Lycan King's Werewolf Princess

Chapter 3

Grace

The room suddenly became as quiet as a graveyard.

I knew he heard me the first time but I didn't mind repeating.

"Julius, just reject me. I don't want to get in the way of your love for Cassandra." I said.

I dropped the plate containing the cake Kiki said Cassandra requested on the desk at the corner.

Cassandra had happiness and shock in her eyes.

It seemed like I surprised her.

Maybe she thought I would beg Julius to be with me even if he was in a relationship with her.

I had my own property de, even if it is barely there.

I felt like an i***t for even imagining myself standing by Julius' side as his Luna.

"I heard you the first time. What are you saying?" He growled.

I faced his rage calmly.

"I am saying exactly what you years. Reject me, Julius." My hands was clenched by sides as I spoke.

"You are crazy!" Julius said, "I am not rejecting you. You are mine."

Cassandra didn't say anything. She was just watching us like a spectator.

I knew she would be secretly happy with how things were going.

She was about to get rid of her biggest and trickiest competitor after all.

I shook my head, "I am not yours and I would never be."

I wasn't going to back down now.

I was going against all my rules to lay low.

"You don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you should go get a nap. It seemed the work you have been doing had caused something in your body." Julius said.

His eyes would flash gold from time to time.

When he mentioned my work, I almost laughed in irony.

I had always thought that Julius was powerless to get me away from my predicament.

I had forgotten one important thing.

If he truly loved me, the bullying I went through would have reduced because he would do all that is within his power to help me.

I was thoroughly blind.

I didn't notice the red flags in his hands even though he was practically waving it in my face.

I didn't want to continue going back and forth.

I had to take matters into my own hands.

"I, Grace Ryder reject you, Alpha Julius Parker as my ma—" I began but I wasn't able to finish.

Julius had rushed to me with his supernatural reflexes.

He held my jaw in a tight grip as he glowered at me.

I stared at him defiantly.

"You either reject me or I do. Except you want to opt for the choice of cutting my tongue and monitoring me 24/7." I said through clenched teeth.

His features softened a little.

"Grace, you should be content with what you have. Cassandra can be my Luna while you stay by my side." He proposed and I cringed.

This was the man I loved.

He wanted me to be a mistress.

Cassandra would walk in the light while I hide in the shadows.

I blinked the heartache away from my eyes.

"Julius, you can't eat your cake and have it. You have to choose. Do you want me or do you prefer having Cassandra as your Luna?" I asked.

I felt like my words was a crazy way to snuff out the tiny and useless hope that sprouted in my heart at his words.

Maybe he felt something for me after our interactions these past few months.

Maybe, he would choose me.

He kept quiet.

His silence was louder than his words. I had already gotten his answer.

"I, Grace Ryder reject you, Alpha Julius Parker as—" I began the rejection incantation once again.

His hands clenched around my jaw.

My words stopped and I let out a groan of pain.

Julius' green eyes was dark with fury.

He flung me away like I was some kind of dirt.

"Since you want a rejection so bad, I would happily oblige. Besides, I am the one to reject you. You don't do the rejecting." Julius said, "I, Alpha Julius Parker reject you, Grace Ryder as my mate and Luna. Any connection between us is therefore broken."

Immediately he finished his words, a nerve-wracking pain assaulted me.

"I, Grace Ryder, accept your rejection." I managed to said through gritted teeth.

My lips bit down on my lips and it didn't take a second blood to flow from the punctured skin.

Julius let out a pained filled groan.

I could not notice anything after that.

I felt the mate bond snap into pieces.

I don't know how I knew it was the mate bond, the knowledge just came to me.

I hadn't been able to feel the presence of the mate bond because of my wolfless state.

Now that I was getting rejected, I felt it break into little bits.

There wasn't any connection between I and Julius from this moment on.

A tiny scream flew out of my throat.

There was agony everywhere.

My skin, my flesh and my bones was in intense pain.

I didn't know a rejection can hurt this much.

I even entertained a selfish thought that I would have not rejected Julius if I knew I would hurt this much.

I was used to pain but this agony was braking every threshold I had.

I.thought I would be rejected by Julius' and then go back to my shack to cry silently.

I didn't know that I was underestimating the pain that came with rejection.

Soon, the pain ebbed a little.

I could feel the hair on my body growing inch by inch.

My bones was shifting into another position and my jaws was elongating.

My eyes that was closed due to the crippling pain flew open in joy.

No wonder the pain I felt after rejection was too intense. It was because I was having my first shift.

After I clocked 18 two years ago, I remained in my wolfless state.

I was the human in this pack of werewolves.

I was happy.

Maybe I wasn't letting my bloodline and ancestors down after all.

I wasn't even given a minute to enjoy my happiness before the open door was pushed.

A glance from the corner of my eyes revealed a smirking Kiki and Alpha Caleb.

There was guards behind Alpha Caleb.

Julius and Cassandra was in presentable clothes.

Still, Julius' face was pasty and pale.

He was leaning on Cassandra.

It seemed the rejection took a toll on him and his wolf.

I could not believed that Kiki followed me here.

She would have heard all that transpired in this room.

I looked at her closely.

Happiness and anger swirled in her pupils. There was a hint of another emotion when she looked at Julius.

That emotion was love.

I was shocked.

I did not know why I didn't really notice what her heart held for Julius. I didn't really study her eyes.

So, Kiki loved Julius.

No wonder her bullying reached a new high when I was discovered to be Julius' mate.

She would have hated my guts.

She was not still satisfied with Julius rejecting me, she still went to report to Alpha Caleb, my nightmare.

Some of the pack members was mixed with the guards, their curious eyes switched between me, the pale Julius and Cassandra.

"Take Grace to the dungeon. She had injured her future alpha just because of a misunderstanding." Alpha Caleb passed my verdict.

I could see the anticipation in his eyes for what it to come.

I had been avoiding his punishments for days now, it seemed he could not wait to lay his hand on me.

My heart tightened with fear.

Julius didn't speak up against the lies that was my verdict.

He just looked at me coldly.

It seemed like my rejection bruised his alpha ego.

I lifted a corner of my lips.

I should not have expected anything less.

When he was still my mate, he did not defend me, not to talk of now that there was no connection between us anymore.

I was still in the middle if shifting. I don't know why it was so slow.

Fur was growing out of my body and my nails was lengthening.

The pain and agony in my body was still there.

The guards grabbed me carelessly before dragging me to where the dungeon was.

I could hear the murmurs of the pack members that was present.

"Why did she hurt Julius? Is she crazy? Is he not her mate?" One female voice said.

My eyes was opened now and I had ceased to wear rose-colored glasses the moment I rejected Julius.

"Who knows the mysterious heart of a mortal being? She should have been harboring evil intentions since." Another male voice replied.

If I wasn't feeling intense pain, I wanted to laugh.

I was like an upgraded version of a human without a wolf. I wouldn't have been able yo hurt Julius at all.

Now, I was being labeled something I was not because I chose my mental sanity.

"It seemed she used Julius' mate bond with her to sneak on him." A sweet and feminine voice commented.

"It seemed she is shifting for the first time. This girl is cursed. She got her wolf the moment she attacked Julius." A different male voice analyzed.

I stopped trying to listen to them now.

I only focused on preparing myself for what is to come.

The distance to the dungeon was not close but we got there in record time.

Alpha Caleb waved for the guards to leave.

The guards and other pack members that was in the distance left.

I was greeted with the black and familiar cell that had been my nightmare for as long as I can remember.

Alpha Caleb took a whip from the torture devices that was hanging on the left wall connected to the entrance.

The whip had barbs and it divided into two separate whips at the end like a snake's tongue.

"Since you have gotten your wolf, you should be stronger now." Alpha Caleb said with a smile.

He didn't give me any time to react before the first lash touched my skin.

Blood spilled from my clenched lips.

The pain increased tenfold.

I couldn't notice anything anymore, I could just feel only the pain.

I was flitting in and out of consciousness.

"Take her away." I heard a voice but it felt like I was hearing it from under a body of water.

I felt hands carry me before dropping me after a distance.

I wanted for the pain to reduce before I opened my eyes.

I was back at my shack.

All the things the Moonbloom Pack had given my family in the previous generation had been taken away using one means or the other.

I am left to live in this rundown shack.

I didn't bother to stand up.

I waited for the transformation to complete.

I didn't have to wait long.

Soon, the agony ebbed away and only the pain from the rejection remained.

I had a broken mirror that I picked up when Annie, Julius' sister threw away broken stiff.

I didn't let them see me take it. It would have been a troublesome issue to resolve.

My wolf was white as snow.

Her eyes was pink like mine.

Black markings that looked like tattoos covered her forehead and it wrapped around her paws too.

She was pretty. We are beautiful.

Something caught my eyes. I saw a glint of it from the broken and foggy mirror.

I changed back into my human form and checked the strange thing out.

It was a metallic box. It couldn't close properly.

It was from my grandmother. She told me to open it when I get my wolf.

I didn't touch it all these years.

It was finally time to open it.

I opened the box.

Nothing laid but a worn out book laid inside.

I opened the first page.

'Dear Grace,

We moon wolves don't get our mate normally. Any mate we would get would end up in rejection.

We have to summon our mates. The summoning spell is at the end of the book.'

I don't continue reading.

I flipped to the back of the diary book.

A spell was written there.

I began to set it up.

I don't know why I was in a hurry.

Maybe the pain of rejection was messing with my mind.

I wanted a mate that belonged to me alone.

Someone that would love and pamper me for the rest of my life.

The spell just needed me to draw a complicated circle before dropping a bit of my blood at the center.

I looked for charcoal and drew the circle.

I put a drop of my blood at the center before I began reciting the incantation to activate the spell.

The circle I drew glowed and my blood sank into the floor.

I waited patiently.

Disappointment was creeping in.

Although I knew my grandmother wouldn't lie to me, I don't know if she made a mistake with the spell.

My worries was proved to be wrong when the spell circle went up in pink flames.

A man was standing at the exact center of the circle.

His body was muscular but it didn't make him look saturated.

He had silver hair that could be compared to the fur of my wolf.

His silvery grey eyes screamed danger and cruelty.

Right there and then, I felt a new mate bond locking in place.

I haven't seen him before but I have heard of his descriptions.

My heart dropped to the bottom.

I was mated to the King of the Lycans.