"I, Alpha Ryan, of the Blue Howl pack, reject you as my mate Luna. And, you're not even meant to be in this kingdom...! The Alpha's words reechoed in my ears, ticking them and my entire wolf into discomfort. "I regret ever even thinking of adopting you..."
Regret?
There was silence all through the entire space-the elders didn't even say a word.
Rejection?
My heart sank.
Everyone had been gathered at the pack ground very early that morning, hoping to celebrate with me. I hoped so too. "Alpha..." I tried to pull words out of my mouth, but all was to no avail.
I began to pant, unsure of what to do. I was just a she-wolf willing to meet her fated mate, unite and change her life for better. Everything spoke of it-the truth, that I would meet him, my Alpha, the other part of me who would be revealed to me.
But, rejection soiled the entire journey I had embarked on. The cycle changed.
A flash quickly rushed into my memory again, making me flinch.
The Moon Goddess never left that part when her message came to me, "It is up to you to turn this situation into your good and your mate, your other half, is one of those wolves..."
Suddenly, Jonathan, the Alpha's Beta shouted at me. "You heard what he said, right? What are you still doing here?"
"What... do yo...u... even mean...?" I retorted, my words falling aside.
My breath was heavy. It was as if I was already being chased out of the pack kingdom.
Maybe fate would lead me to a good side, or whatever they said happened to rejected wolves would happen to me...
"Get out of this..." Jonathan continued, his voice louder and even more commanding.
Alpha Ryan interrupted him shortly, causing a commotion in my heart, nearly making me faint. "Since the wolf luna I have shown you, my pack members..." He stopped, and whispered some words into Jonathan's ears.
The Blue Howl pack.
Alpha Ryan had been really hungry for power after the death of his father-all my mother told me about him remained just that. He was a huge, blue-eyed, wicked commander who fought by all means into assuming the post of the new Alpha King of the Blue Howl pack.
Reigning was something else to him. He rejected me publicly in front of my own pack members.
I flinched.
Before I knew it, his voice came again, resounding like gravel, hitting my ears loudly and uncomfortably. "Like I was saying... I, the Alpha King of the Blue Howl pack, commands Lara to be banished from this kingdom! No one must save her. No wolf must run after her for any reason. Let the Alpha King's words... do what...?"
"Guide everything that will be done!" Every one of the pack members echoed, although the majority of them, I felt, were compelled.
The bell was rung against the drum and it became a timely law. I was to be tied, thrown away and cast aside. I hadn't even thought farther than that when Beta Jonathan was already behind me. "On your knees!"
"Torture her in the dark room!" Alpha Ryan commanded, a frown on his face as he walked into his room slowly and majestically. "And, afterwards, she must be disposed of into the darkest side of the woods, where the strange beings are..."