The Unloved Rogue

Chapter 5

Daliah POV

I park my jeep a few miles up the road from the Half Moon pack border. My goal is to get into his office undetected, which from what I know of this pack shouldn’t be too hard. I pull the map back up in my mind to see where the name was written, it looks like he wrote it in his office.

I quickly climb a nearby tree and make my way through the forest hoping from tree to tree. I only pass by two wolves on patrol who didn’t even notice my presence.

*some guard dogs around here.* I chuckle to Rhea but she is too busy pacing in my mind to acknowledge me *Rhea chill what is going on with you?* I get nothing back she is just pacing like something is bothering her. I shut her out and continue trekking through the trees.

I finally make it to a tree at the back of the pack house. I notice a window on the third floor is open so I leap up to it and carefully peek inside. When I notice the coast it clear I pull myself in through the window.

That’s when it hits me, the scent of fresh pine and cinnamon. My ears perk up and that’s when I hear it *MATE!* Rhea yells in my head. Before I have a chance to think the door bursts open and the scent hits me like a ton of bricks.

“Mine.” The man before me says, he is tall probably close to seven feet tall with stormy gray eyes, a slight stubble on his chin from what I only assume is a stressful night sleep wondering if I would show up. You can tell he is in incredible shape, you can see the bulge of his muscles through his shirt.

I don’t even have a moment to analyze what is happening before im slammed against the wall and his lips are pressed against mine.

Sparks fly as we deepen our kiss, I cant think straight I cant comprehend what is happening. I wrap my arms and legs around him pressing my body into his. He kisses me deeper pulling me incredibly close. I moan into his mouth and sparks fly through my body from his touch.

“Daddy?”

We both pull back startled at the interruption. I look over and see the most adorable little girl standing in the door looking at my mate next to me, she can be no more than 2 or 3. Eyes that are the same gray as the man next to me.

He looks over at me completely embarrassed before swooping down to pick up the little girl.

“Hey Emmy, its okay im here. What do you need sweetie?” he nuzzles the little girl and she giggles loudly before wraping her little arms around my mate. I cant help but smile at the sweet moment in front of me.

“mommy told me to tell you lunch is ready.” Emmy looks over at me. “whos she daddy? She looks scary.” She shrinks into my mates arms.

“Baby girl she is daddys friend, go tell mommy ill be down soon.” He kisses the top of her head before setting her down, “I love you baby.”

The little girl runs off leaving me alone with my mate once again. I take a deep breath as he shuts the door and looks back at me.

“im sorry.” We both say in unison.

I hold my hand up, “me first please.” He nods and I continue. “I am so sorry, I have a meeting with Elliot Reed, my sources told me to meet him in this office.”

His eyes light up and he nods. “I’m Elliot, Alpha of the Half Moon Pack, and you must be The Huntress.” He holds his hand out to me to shake it but I shake my head.

I cant touch him the sparks will pull me back in.

He nods in understanding. “Im sorry miss…” he trails off

“Daliah, Daliah Simms.” I give him my name, normally I don’t give out my name but he will need to know it to accept my rejection.

“Daliah.” He smiles as my name rolls off his tongue, my name has never sounded so incredible before.

“I have to reject you.” I say before I lose the nerve. Being around him has my brain running a mile a minute. Rhea whimpers in my head *Daliah no hes our mate we need him!* she protests. I shake her off and look back at my mate whos demenour has turned sour.

“it hurts to hear but if you hadn’t said It I would have. Had you come tomorrow this wouldn’t have happened, you see…” he runs a hand through his hair before taking a seat behing his desk and gesturing for me to sit across from him. I sit down and he continues. “four years ago I met a she wolf whos mate died from a rogue attack. I took her in as a friend and it just became something more.” He looks up at me with hurt in his eyes. “I fell in love with her. We have two pups together. I am almost 35 years old, I assumed I would never find my fated mate so I let myself fall with her completely.” He looks at me with a mix of love and hurt in his eyes. “tomorrow is our mating ceremony where I will officially accept her as my Luna and mark her in front of the pack. Had you come tomorrow our mate bond would have broken before we even met.”

The thought of my mate having a life and a family hurt. I can feel Rhea mourning the loss of our mate and she shuts herself away. I wipe a stray tear from my eye and it pissed me off that I was crying over a man I didn’t even know.

I blow out a deep breath and then look up into my mates own sad eyes. “I Daliah Simms, daughter of Alpha Geoff Simms of the Silver Stream Pack, reject you, Alpha Elliot Reed of the Half Moon Pack.”

We both drop to our knees in pain as the first part of our mate bond is severed. After a few moments Elliot helps me up and kisses the back of my hand. “I Elliot Reed, Alpha of the Half Moon pack, accept your rejection.”

And like that the mate bond severed and we both screamed in pain and grabbed our chests. I never in a million years could have predicted that this would be the paid I would feel from breaking the mate bond. It felt like I lost a huge part of myself.

We gave each other a few moments to compose ourselves in silence when a small knock came on the door.

A beautiful woman poked her head in. she has kind brown eyes and a soft smile. She looks from me to Elliot when realization dawns on her and she quickly runs to his side and wraps her arms around him, “im so so sorry my love.” She kisses his temple before looking over to me. “I am so sorry to the both of you.”

I give her a small sad smile and look towards Elliot who is looking up at her with all the love in the world in his eyes.

Elliot wraps the woman in a tight hug before standing back up and reaching over to help me up. This time the sparks were gone. It was as if I was looking at a stranger, which honestly I was. He may have been my mate for a moment but I didn’t know him, he was just that, a stranger.

I reach my hand out towards the woman, “Hi, im Daliah.”

I smile at her and she takes my hand and shakes it timidly. “I’m Caroline, it’s a pleasure to meet you, I just wish it had been under better circumstances.” She looks up at Elliot and shrugs.”

Elliot wraps his arms tightly around her shoulders, “Its all okay my love, we both agreed that this was for the best.”

She looks at me for confirmation and I nod in agreement. “neither one of us wanted this arrangement. It is truly for the best.” They really are a beautiful couple it warms my nonexistent heart to know I didn’t break up this loving family.

I quickly compose myself and look back at Elliot. He notices my shift and quickly puts on his own no nonsense stance. “I think its time we get down to the main reason I am here today. Lets get down to business.”