A Broken Luna

Chapter 11: Should I Let Him Mark Me?

Roxanne

It has been a couple days since that night, and I still haven’t heard from her. She doesn’t respond to any of my text messages nor does she call me back after leaving dozens of voicemails. I even took the liberty of stopping by her place to make sure she was alright, but whenever I drop by one of their servants would give me different excuses on why Jess hasn’t responded. One day she’s super busy, another she fell ill. At this point I was ready to sneak into her place and confront her myself to see what’s up, but Daniel and oddly enough Rose and Lucy doesn’t agree with me either.

“How come she never calls me back anymore or even text me bright and early like she use too?” I said to Daniel while pacing back and forth in his room. Yes, it has come to this. I am now hanging out with my older brother. “It’s like she’s purposely trying to avoid me. Did I do something to her that night?” I stopped and looked at him while he sits on his bed and play his video games.

“Honestly Rox you need to chill out. I think you are thinking way too much into this. Have you spoken to Jonathan?” He says without even looking at me.

Ugh, Jonathan. That man freaks me out on a whole different level. Ever since that incident with his ex-wife, he has been a cold heartless mean person. A complete 360 on how he previously was. After that day, he treats Jess and her two brothers as if they are nothing, but objects and it really pisses me off. “Yea I spoke to that man and he had the nerve to tell me that she does not want to see me for a while. The nerve of him! Clearly something is going on and I am going to figure out why my best friend has been avoiding me.” Damn it, thinking about all of this is stressing me out, I flopped on his bed, laying on my back and grabbing his pillow for comfort.

“Do you think she knows about what happened between me and him?” I asked him. That seem to catch his attention because he stopped the game and faced me, smiling.  

“Rox, everyone knows what happened between the two of you. First of all, you two were gone for a really long time. Second, when you both finally came out to breathe, you both had each other scent. Anyone with an eye and nose can tell what happened between the two of you.” He wiggled his eyes and smiled even harder at my embarrassed blush.

“Please don’t talk about it. I was totally out of character that night.” I said while smother the pillow on my face.

“Are you going to let him Mark you anytime soon?” He asks me. “I mean you both are fated mates so why didn’t you let him do it on your birthday night?”

My body ran cold. The thought of that fine man biting me and claiming me excited me, but also scared me. What if he gets infected? What if my darkness consumes him and haunts him everyday and night for the rest of his life? He is already rumored to have lived a long life, but just thinking that I will be the reason of him being tormented because of my curse scared me. Would I really let him mark me?

Not to mention, I suspect he has a dark secret of his own. During our heated session, I remembered seeing his eyes change color. I have never seen it glow the way it did and for a second there it freaked me out. Is he hiding something from me? Well I am actually hiding something from everyone but there are so much going on right now that I just don’t know. I do know that soon he will want to claim me and hopefully I can find a way to get rid of this curse once and for all.

“So, is he going to take you to the ball? I mean the immediate family knows you both are mates, so it would only be fair.” He asks, while moving on his bed. The sound of buttons being mashed could be heard meaning he was back to playing his game.

“Well not really, I still made a promise to Jess that we were going to go together. We had matching outfits too, but now I don’t know. I really hope whatever is going on with Jess passes by tonight because the ball is tomorrow, and I really don’t want to do this without her.”

The game stopped again, and it was silent. There were no sound of any button mashing.

“You know, once he announces that you are his mate you have to leave home, right?” He asks, sounding a little sad. I removed the pillow off my face and saw that he wasn’t looking at me.

I really did not want to think about that but Daniel’s right. After he makes the announcement at the ball, I will no longer live here anymore. There will be no more annoying morning wake up calls from Daniel, or the constant bullying. It will only just be him and our baby brother Brandon. Nudging his shoulder playful I said, “Awe, come on now. Someone sounds a little sad that I won’t be here anymore.”

Even though I tried to change the mood, he still did not look at me.

“Daniel, talk to me.” I said while placing a hand on his shoulder.

He sighs. “I know we joke around, and I tease you a lot, but you are my little sister and I love you. It just sucks that you are about to live this life away from home and I will stay here and live mines without you.” He quickly turns around and slaps both hand to his cheeks in mock horror. “Who will train the guys!?”

We starred at each other and burst out laugh. “You’re such a goofball Daniel.” I said while punching his shoulder. Just when he was about to respond, we hear loud footsteps approach the door and my mother bust through.

“Roxy! Why aren’t you getting dress?” She says with annoyance.

Me and Daniel looked at each other with confused faces and then faced mom. “Is there a reason that I should be dressed?” I ask her while trying to think of any plans that I made today. So far, without Jessica, my day was open.

“You have a date with the Supreme Alpha!” She says while shaking her head. Well excuse me this is the first time I have heard of this.

‘Girls, do you recall me planning a date with Alexander?’ I ask them, making sure I haven’t gone completely senile.

‘Um, not really.’ Lucy responded

‘Oh, I would have remembered if we made plans with that hunk of a man.’ Rose says.

“I don’t remember making plans with Alexander mom.” I tell her while still maintaining my confused face. She shakes her head and hands me a letter that was already opened. When I grabbed the piece of paper inside, it had the most beautiful handwriting that I have ever seen. It reads:

Hello Darling,

I’m sorry I haven’t hung out with you since your birthday night. I have been working nonstop with your father to perfect this night and making it special. I can’t wait to announce to the world that you are my Luna. Thinking about it now, brings me so much joy. Before the ball, I do want to have a nice dinner together so that we can get to know each other better. Your mom has told me that you were available on Friday at 8:30 pm, so I will be there to pick you up around that time. I look forward to seeing you tonight and at the ball in all your glory.

-Alexander

Reading this letter made my heart skip a beat. He wasn’t like all those other guys that I use to fool around or seduce with. Alexander really wants to get to know me as a partner before making a huge step. I was almost about to jump for joy until I remember what he said about my mother playing a part in this.

“Mom, what did I say about meddling in my stuff?” I said to her while giving her a stern look. She raised both her hands and shook her head.

“If I leave things to you, you won’t get anything done. Now stop talking and lets get you ready. It’s already 7 and we are behind and beautifying you.” She says while grabbing my arm and pulling me out Daniel’s room. I look back at him, but he just gave me a smirk and focused back on his game. Damn him.

After plucking my eyebrow, playing in makeup, and dressing me up like a doll, I was finally done getting ready. I have to say, my mom really knows how to deceive people. She did my face up by giving me a smoky eye shadow, arching my eyebrows, and highlighting my face with illumination face lotion. My long red hair was curled and pinned up, with some strands hanging lose. My dress, was a royal blue silky V-neck body-con dress that had a slit the right the top of my thigh. The back was completely out, but my mother sprayed shimmering spray and because my chest was all open my mom added some hanging necklace and dangling earrings.

Rose whistles, ‘Damn, babe. I can just eat you up.’ She says in a purr.

‘You luck stunning darling.’ Lucy says also.

“Mom, where did you learn to dress like this?” I ask her while observing myself in the mirror. This dress was doing wonders for my curves.

“There’s a reason why I snatched an Alpha and made 2 kids.” She says with a wink.

EW.

I threw on my silver stiletto heels and walk observe myself one more time before I head out the bathroom.

Ding Dong.

My heart started to flutter uncontrollably, and my hands start shake. How come whenever I think about this man or even sense his presence my body acts this way? I am Roxanne damn it. A skilled fighter and a master of seducing. I will not let him get to me this easily.

‘Too late.’ Both Rose and Lucy said in unison.

‘Shut up, not helping.’ I fuss at them.

“Roxy, you have a guess at the door waiting for you.” My mother calls from down the steps.

Taking a few deep breathes, I made my way down.

When he caught sight of me, his breathe stopped immediately and his eyes starts to dilate. This only bring back the nervousness.

“You need help babe?’ Rose says in excitement.

‘Yes, but I need Lucy. If anything, you will try to have this man and I in a hotel bedroom.’ I tell Rose and she groans.

‘And that’s a bad thing?’ She asks in disbelief.

‘Leave it to me, darling.’ Lucy says and Rose groans louder. Letting Lucy take the wheel, I sit back and watch her handle things.

“Hello Alexander, it’s been a while.” Lucy says in a calm voice, while gracefully walking down. She had our head held high and are back perfectly straight. Gosh, she was a natural at elegance.

“Hello, darling. You look amazing.” He says while handing us beautiful flowers and kissing my cheek. The contact made our whole-body tingle.

“As do you.” Lucy replies while eyeing him up and down. He had his signature man bun slick back wit two strands hanging in front of his face. His face was polished, with no hint of a beard growing in. The gorgeous emerald eyes that I love to stare at sparkled, as if sparkling was a thing, and when he smiled his teeth was white as snow. He wore a dark suit that had a vest and a jacket, a white button shirt and a red tie. On one of his pockets lies a red rose clipped securely on it. This man was perfect, and oddly enough, I wish I could rip all that off him and do him right now. Damn, maybe I should have had Rose take over.

“Are you ready my dear?” He asks Lucy with his hand extended. Lucy gave him our signature heart stopping smile and grabbed it.

“Yes, I am. Let’s go.”

With that he guides me out the house, helps me into his car and drives off.

What I thought would be a wonderful night of getting to know my mate, would soon be a night filled with dread and anger.