Chapter 1 Rejected

"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..."

"Understood!" Jonathan hailed the Alpha King, yielding to his orders. He dragged me instantly with a disgusting force, his arms heavy on my waist as I struggled down with him towards the dark room.

It didn't take up to twenty minutes. The torture room was a bit far from the pack ground. I was trying to control my breath, sighing repeatedly since I had no choice but to follow him.

"Please..." I pleaded, my face already wet with fresh tears welling down. "I did nothing wrong to the Alpha King."

"Will you just keep mute?!" Jonathan snapped, turning down my request.

Beta Jonathan was so inconsiderate and strict. Definitely not the Jonathan I knew from the start, who welcomed me always whenever I was called to serve the Alpha. Maybe he had even personally planned to destroy me.

I had no idea of what the torture was. Alpha Ryan, the one I so much trusted, had ordered his Beta the way he was to torture me.

The whisper.

It meant something. But, my fate was drawing closer than I expected. When those words were hurled at me, the rejection, I thought the Alpha King was only using it to make a fun fair before he announced me, the new Luna..

What a pain. My heart couldn't hold everything inside, and I was dying little by little. "I... I was rejected..." I didn't know when I spoke, until Jonathan jabbed me in the arms.

"Keep shut!" He warned me. "Do you know what will become of you before you are banished tomorrow?"

"What?" I asked, my eyes clearly fixed on Jonathan perhaps he wanted to pity me. "I don't know. Alpha Ryan is my first friend here ever. The rebirth of this pack brought us together, I guess."

Suddenly, almost from nowhere, Alpha Ryan, the just-mentioned Alpha King, appeared. "I heard all you have said, Lara. I never planned to celebrate you as my Luna."

"Ryan..." I muttered, crying as I looked deeply into his face with sad coldness. "Remember those nights!"

"And so?" He retorted shortly, laughing out very loudly. "I reformed you and kept you from strange beings. I brought you to the new Blue Howl pack as my maid since I needed an opposite gender to have sex with."

"Ryan, you used me?" I grunted, still crying and lamenting my pain. "You fucked this same pussy of mine... Ryan..."

Alpha Ryan smiled.

"Stop calling my name." He hinted, reducing his smile instantly. "By the way, I am the new Alpha King of your so-called pack. If you want to reach me at all, add the title and stop behaving like the fool you are!"

I cried more. I was weak. Maybe I just had to submit all of myself to fate.

"So is that my..." I slurred my words.

"Nothing!" He snapped, blinking and posing proudly as an Alpha King that he was-a wicked being. "Jonathan, I guess it's enough. How long have you been here? Don't even bother. Just throw her out very early tomorrow."

"If I may ask, am I to feed her half of what she ate before now or quarter...?" Jonathan asked Alpha Ryan, staring at me with his bad, cold eyes. "I can order the chef to schedule that immediately..."

Very fast, I shut my ears to any response.

Nevertheless, the Alpha King's cold decree still echoed in my ears.