SHE'S HIS TO CLAIM; A taste of heaven with the Alpha's pet

~~Lindsey~~

My neat black shoes shone under the moonlight. I'm not one that much enjoyed dancing and partying, but I had no choice but to attend this event at the pack house.

There's no year in Crystal Moon Pack that the Alpha doesn't throw a party. It has become a tradition since the day Alpha Asher found his mate on a day like this many years back.

Alpha Asher is the son of the founder of this great pack, so yes! The history of this annual event goes all the way back. Unlike the past few years, today was supposed to feel special, but for unknown reasons, it felt like every other day to me.

"Hey! What are you doing? You should enjoy yourself," my best friend Mirabel said. Mirabel is from a prestigious family in this pack. We have a few things in common, but none of our interests came between our friendship.

"I'm enjoying myself, what more can I ask for than this peaceful ground I stand?" I gave a sarcastic reply, causing Mirabel to burst into laughter. She shook her head disagreeing with me, "No, today is your birthday Lindsey and it's not just like every other f**king birthday." She paused and dragged me towards the floor where people stood, chatting and drinking.

"You're turning eighteen, you *ssh*l*. Just have fun for once," Mirabel said as she took a bottle of wine from the table next to us. As always, they held the event outside the pack house with not a cloud in the sky. Today, the moon tends to shine the brightest.

She poured wine into two glasses and gave one to me. I shook my head, refusing to take the wine from her. "Hey! Don't be a loser and have some." I narrowed my eyes at her words before taking the drink from her.

As I brought the drink up to my mouth, a strong scent of coconut and mint hit my nose. Before I could make out what the scent was, I heard the crowd chanting, "Alpha Liam! Alpha Liam!" I turned to gaze in the direction where they all faced. The small crowd of people in front of me made it difficult for me to see the Alpha.

"Mate!" my wolf muttered. Her voice was so loud in my head and it began to ache badly and suddenly I started feeling dizzy. The scent of coconut and mint became strong. It almost seemed as if the person with the sweet scent was walking towards me.

"Mate! Mate!" my wolf kept chanting. My body couldn't take it anymore, my eyes were spinning and I couldn't see clearly, "Mirabel...." I whispered and fell

Wait! I didn't fall. I felt a muscular arm around my back, holding me and stopping me from falling. I slowly opened my eyes. My vision was blurry at first, but slowly I started to see clearly and my heart jumped into my stomach the moment I saw the Alpha standing right in front of me.

"Oh, pardon me!" I exclaimed in shock and stood up straight as I tried to straighten my dress.

"Mate!" my wolf said again, but this time, she didn't yell like she did before. She whispered and I could feel that his wolf was calling out to my wolf, too.

"Mate!" The Alpha whispered but the sharp ears of the wolves around heard him clearly. They all started murmuring to themselves. I was dumbfounded. "How on earth can I be the Alpha's mate? My family is just a low-class family in the pack! Oh, my Goodness!" So many thoughts flooded my mind as the Alpha took me by the hand and made me follow him to the center of the annual event.

Everyone had their eyes on me. Men, women, boys, and the jealous eyes of she-wolves in town were all fixed on me. I felt a sick feeling in my stomach as I remembered that even my best friend, Mirabel, had always dreamt of being the Alpha's mate.

Alpha Liam cleared his throat and turned to face me with his ice-blue eyes. His chiseled nose sniffed my scent again as if he was addicted to it. Still gazing into my eyes, he raised my right hand before turning to face the eager crowd, who couldn't wait to hear the news from the Alpha's lips.

"I have found my mate!" His words came as a shock to the crowd. This was not because he found his mate on this day, but because his mate was a commoner.

My heart throbbed against my chest, making it hard for me to breathe. Alpha Liam noticed that I was feeling uncomfortable, so he caressed my hand softly before leaning closer to me, "Hey, look at me" He said. His hot breath on my skin made me feel butterflies in my stomach.

"It's fine." His words were like a big bed of comfort.

The next day.

I woke up with a smile on my face. I've never imagined that being the mate of the Alpha would bring me such joy.

Ever since my parents died, I have been going through hell at the hands of my aunt and her husband. I always wake up to a soaked pillow but today was different, and I looked forward to what the rest of the day held.

Last night, the Alpha declared that our wedding would take place in the next month. Without being told, I knew that it was going to be the talk of the town. I climbed down from my bed and hurried into my bathroom to wash my face. Some of my clothes were littered on the floor, but that was the last thing to be concerned about right now

After washing my face, I opened the door of my room and was heading towards the kitchen to do some chores when I heard my aunty murmuring from the sitting room.

"She's just an orphan," I heard my aunty say. The conversation caught my attention that I just couldn't walk past the sitting-room door without waiting to hear what they were talking about

"Yes! And look at where she lives. I can't have my son marry from this kind of family," I gasped as the words fell into my ear.

"Take this money! This is enough for you and your family to start a new life elsewhere. No one has to know about this"

"Yes, my Luna," my aunt said in respect, I imagined that she was bowing her head right now.

"You know what to do!" The Luna said and left the house. My heart immediately sank. I wasn't here when the conversation started, but I could tell that my mate's mother didn't want me to marry her son.

I heard footsteps approaching the door where I stood. I was too sad to even move an inch and behave like everything was fine. The door opened and my aunty jolted back in shock after seeing me

"Why did you take money from her? I'm not going to leave with you guys. I'm getting married to the Alpha because the moon goddess didn't make a mistake in making us mate." I wanted to yell these words, but instead, they came out as a whisper.

"Shut up your mouth and pack your things, Lindsey! The moon goddess made a mistake." My aunty's words sting me right in my chest.

"I'm not going anywhere." I refused to listen to her. This was my only way of getting happiness, but just like before, the universe has chosen to take it away from me. I was going to try my best not to let it happen

"Lindsey, don't be a fool! The Alpha won't regard you as anything but a piece of cheap furniture. You will reject him as your mate and leave this town with us," she said sternly.

"Reject my mate?" I asked in shock. My wolf wasn't okay with the idea either.

"Yes, it's the best thing to do," she said in a calm tone before moving closer to me. The scent of her wet, dirty blonde hair hit my nose, causing my stomach to twist a little. I was sure that the Luna arrived at our house when she just got out of the bathroom so she didn't have the time to dry her hair. My head began to ache badly as if someone hit me from behind with a brick.

I leaned on the wall and slowly fell to the ground, sitting with my hands around my knees. "Stop being delusional Lindsey. That was something I liked about you. You always accepted reality." She paused. My wolf snarled. We desperately wanted to punch her, but we were too scared of her to even mutter a single word right now.

"Don't let the mate bond fool you! Get your bags ready quickly so that we can leave!" She added and walked away from me. Tears started falling down my eyes like a fountain and I tried stopping myself from crying, but the pain was so immense that the tears fell out even more.

"Look at you! Did you really think that you'd get married to the Alpha?" Veronica, my aunt's only child, said. Her father has no say in any of this. He always listens to whatever my aunty tells him because when my parents died, they left a few things behind, including money, so my aunty ran the house with the money.

"Get lost" I snarled.

"Just shut up. I'll do you a favor to pack your rags into a bag." She hissed before leaving me alone to swim in my tears.

The night came so quickly, unlike last night when the moon shone brightly, tonight was different. I sighed and got into my uncle's truck.

"We aren't forgetting anything, right?" My aunty ask. If that question was directly for me then I think my answer would be yes, but unfortunately, I wasn't forgetting anything, I was deliberately leaving it, and that was my emotions. I was leaving my old and sweet self behind.