Alpha Caleb And His Veiled Luna

***KAYLA***

"I hear Derek will be announcing his mate and our next Luna today at the party, he's planning on marking her in front of everyone," Sheila, my sister said excitedly, her voice filled with anxiety as we rode in the car to the party.

I shyly smiled, knowing fully well I was the one she was anticipating to know. It had been a few months now since I found out Derek, our Pack's alpha was my mate, and of course, Derek himself knew and so did my best friend, Kylie.

I touched my stomach, recounting how I met Derek, and how we made the baby that was now growing inside of me, I could vividly remember the day he walked up to me in the gardens, the beginning of our love story.

***FLASHBACK***

I had just clocked 21 when I began to feel so drawn to Derek, even now, as I stood in a crowd of werewolves celebrating the festival of the moon goddess, I could easily pick up his alluring scent that was beginning to drive me crazy and different times, I had seen him steal glances at me, I guess he knew, he must have known for years that we were mates, yes, for years, Derek was 25 years old, a whooping 4 years older than I was.

My eyes caught Derek's amid the crowd, but as soon as they did, I averted my gaze, shy and embarrassed that I had been caught staring, I began to make my way out of the hall where the party was being held.

In no time, I found my way out and began to walk towards the garden behind the hotel we were at, the full moon lit my path as I walked in the night's darkness.

The garden had a nice view to it, the planted roses were in full bloom, reminding me of how I had just bloomed. Sighting a bench in the middle of the garden, I walked towards it and sat on it, then allowed the events of the last few days to replay in my mind.

I now had a mate, and by the looks of things, he must like me, since he couldn't seem to get his eyes off me, I smiled. I was lost in my thoughts, but the sound of a twig snapping brought me back to reality, I looked around sharply, there was no one, but I knew someone was there, he was here, I could smell him.

"You are as smart, just as I thought," he said revealing himself from behind a tree.

"Kayla, is it?" He asked as he sat beside me.

I nodded affirmatively as I couldn't seem to be able to form words, the devastating handsome alpha beside me had that kind of effect on everyone.

"One would have thought an omega wouldn't be so sharp?" He commented, I could feel the disgust in his tone when he mentioned the word 'omega' but maybe I just decided to blind myself to the fact.

So instead of saying anything I blushed hard, the thought of the alpha being mine was one that made me feel above the moon. I shyly bowed my head unable to directly look him I'm the eye.

"Are you always this shy?" He asked.

"N-no" I croaked.

"It's fine, you're young, it's okay to be shy," he said giving me a reassuring smile that made my heart jump more rather than putting it at ease, which was what Alpha Derek intended.

He placed a hand on my fingers, making me realize I had been trembling, his touch sent shivers, as though my body had been struck by lightning, I felt something so good in me, something deeper than just catching his scent, my weak wolf wanted to jump into his arms, but I had to behave, I wasn't his yet, for all I know, he could reject me, rumor had it that, he had a mate who he'd rejected in the past, so I decided not to get ahead of myself.

"It seems, we are mates," I said, shyly, not meeting his gaze.

"Yes, yes we are," he said in the calmest tone, then pulled me in for a kiss, my first kiss.

Alpha Derek gently kissed me, before allowing his tongue to find its way into my mouth, the kiss slowly ended, and he hugged me tightly like his life depended on it.

"I want you Kayla," he said, then groaned.

And I wanted him too.

"Come with me," He said, although it sounded more like an order, and without thinking twice, I followed him.

We made our way back to the hotel, but this time around, not to the hall where the moon goddess' festival was being held, alpha Derek led the way to a hotel room, and while the whole of my morals screamed not to follow, my wolf kept saying to follow and so I did.

The hotel room was large and beautiful, but I didn't take in many details, as Alpha Derek surprisingly pounced on me and we began to kiss, soon after, clothes began to fly up and down, and he was inside of me, the first thrust was painful as it was my first time, but the subsequent thrust was a mixture of bittersweet pleasure, I could not get enough of him, and neither could he get enough of me.

Alpha Derek fucked me in different styles that night, we didn't stop till it was around 5 am.

"When will you mark me?" I had asked after the long night.

"After I am crowned king in 2 months, at my coronation party, but we should keep this a secret, I fear you might be harmed before then" he replied amidst dozing off.

And just like that, I believed him, the happiness I felt that night was everything I needed to wait for 2 months, and within those 2 months, I had met alpha Derek on different occasions and we had been intimate each time.

***END OF FLASHBACK***

And today, I was going to be announced as his mate, and Luna of Ravenclaw Pack.

Our car came to a halt in front of the palace of Ravenclaw. Sheila and I came down, and then started making our way inside. we're side by side when we heard loud cheering coming from the crowd, a waiter passed by with drinks when Sheila stopped her and asked, "What's happening?"

"Alpha Derek marked Lady Kylie as his mate," the waitress replied.

There and then, my world came crashing down, I was pregnant, obviously now rejected for no reason by my mate who didn't only reject me, but marked my best friend Kylie.

***DEREK***

I announced Kylie as my mate, everyone seemed to be happy, apart from one person who stood in the doorway with a very moody and sad expression, Kayla.

She didn't expect me to name her as my mate and Luna, at least, not after what her mother did to me 22 years ago.

Layla, Kayla's mother had been my mate, but she had rejected me in the most humiliating way by getting pregnant for my best friend, Pete. They had gotten married and ended up having a daughter, Kayla and now, 22 years later, the daughter of those who had caused me the greatest heartache was my mate.

Over my dead body would I be with her, Layla and Pete might have died early, thereby missing my chance to get my revenge on them, but their daughter was going to bear their sins.

"Derek?" Kylie called, I turned my face back to her.

"My father wants to have a word," she added, her voice laced with excitement and fulfillment, it was a great thing to be my mate.

As I walked to my soon-to-be father-in-law, In the corner of my eyes, I could see Kayla running out of the room, with teary eyes, and her friend, Sheila ran after her.

"So, since when have you known our daughter is your mate?" Sonia, Kylie's mother asked grinning ear to ear.

Instead of replying, I just smiled.

The rest went on and on as the whole pack celebrated, congratulations flew left and right to Kylie and me.

***

"I haven't seen Kylie, do you have an idea where she's at?" I asked her Sonia, her mother.

"I was about to ask you the same thing, we were supposed to have a dance together, but I can't seem to find her anywhere," Sonia explained, looking sideways to check if she could catch a glimpse of her daughter, but she didn't.

I walked around the room in an attempt to find her, but I still couldn't find Kylie.

"Alpha Derek?" Someone called out from behind me, tapping my shoulders, I turned to be met with a not-so-familiar face, I looked confused, giving the man a questioning look.

"Oh, I'm Randy, an omega, there's something outside you need to see sir," the man who I now knew to be Randy said, I couldn't help but notice the sadness and urgency in his tone as he spoke, at once, I followed him.

Randy led the way, he led me outside and to the corner of the palace, and there it was.

A very gory image of a lady lying lifeless on the cold floor, her face was ripped out, but I knew who it was, I knew that dress, that nail polish, that shoe, that necklace, it was Kylie.

My new mate and Luna had been murdered on the night I marked her, who would dare, my wolf growled in anger.

"Call me Kent,' I backed those orders out of my throat to Randy, he hurriedly scurried away and in no time appeared with Kent, my right-hand beta.

Kent stopped in his tracks as he saw the image before him, "is that...is that Kylie?" He said, visibly horrified by the image before him.

"We need to find who did this, we need to hunt them down, we need to show them, no one messes with Luna of Ravenclaw and goes with him," I growled to Kent who just nodded in affirmation, I might not have loved Sheila as much, but I sure as hell wouldn't allow anyone make away with a direct attack to my wolf. An attack on my mate was as well an attack on me.

Soon after, the news reached the whole party making everyone fretful for their lives, people began to leave one after the other, Sonia rushed to the scene and began to scream and cry, and her husband, Zane tried his best to hold onto his wife so, but it was proving difficult, the tone of the party went from a happy one to a sad one.

"You found anything?" I asked as Kent came back.

"Yes, but I'm not sure if you're going to like the results of this," he said looking worried

"Spill it," I ordered, but he was still hesitant, "that is an order from your alpha," I backed at him.

"Kayla," Kent mentioned.

"And what Is with her?" I asked.

"She was sent talking to Kylie a few minutes before Randy found her body," he dropped the bomb.

Kayla?

Kayla has done this to Kylie out of revenge?

How dare Kayla stand against me, how dare she?

"Find me Kayla right now, and bring her to me, search the premises, she must still be around, I will also join you in the search" I ordered and began to walk away.

The search for Kayla went on, but it was beginning to prove unfruitful

"Derek, Kayla has been spotted running away from the Pack's territory, what should we do?" Kent asked.

"She's running away? She must be real guilty, and there's only one thing to do, we hunt her down!" I backed as Kent.

"Listen up everyone, your Luna and my mate have been murdered by a young woman whom we all have one way or the other cared for after she lost her parents, and this is how she repays us? And, now, I want everyone to spread out and find her, bring her back to me alive, and let us show her Ravenclaw always repays what we owe," I ordered and every werewolf growled in agreement at once, and soon.

"I don't think we should hunt her like this, she is the last person to be with Sheila, but she is only an omega and Sheila is a beta, do you think she could kill her? She is just a suspect, for now," Kent said, trying to reason with me.

"If she wasn't guilty, why is she running?" I asked, but he couldn't reply.

"Now I want you to hunt her down, and bring her to me alive, I am going to teach that bitch a lesson, for the rest of her life, she will live in bondage" I spat in anger and walked out on Kent who followed behind.

***Kayla***

I ran out of the room in shame and embarrassment, I was pregnant and had given my virginity to a man who didn't want me.

I could hear Sheila running after me as I left.

I ran outside, gasping for breath.

"Hey, Kayla, what's wrong," Sheila asked.

"Derek, Derek chose Kylie as his mate," I answered her.

"Are you that surprised sister? Well, I guess I am too, but why would you be this shaken over that? Kayla is our friend and that means one thing, we'd enjoy from her luxury as luna" She chimed excitedly, obviously clueless as to what I was going through.

"Derek is my mate Sheila, and...." I broke down into a hysterical sobinable to finish my sentence.

"No Kayla, Derek is Kylie's mate," she replied, confused as to whatever it was I meant "And please don't cry," she added patting my back.

"No Sheila, Derek is my mate, and he's been for 2 months now, in fact, we made a baby," I said, touching my stomach as I cried harder, then found my way to sit on a stairway at the entrance.

"But I don't understand, he told me he was going to announce me as his Luna today and mark me as his, and now he marked Kylie, it means I've been rejected," I rushed my words amidst sobs.

"What?" Sheila asked, surprised.

"Why am I just hearing of this? How did you guys meet, when did all of this happen?" She had a lot of questions and I knew it was wrong for me to have kept them from her, she was my sister, and she never kept anything from me.

"Derek, he told me to keep it a secret," I said, realizing I had been stupid, and began to break down and cry even more.

"I hate to say this to you now in your darkest moment, but Kayla, how could you be so stupid, how would you expect Alpha Derek to love you, when he'd rejected his mate who was an omega once?" She asked, she was concerned, but I knew even though Sheila was concerned, she'd always say the truth and hit the nail on the head, but what she was saying I had no idea.

"He rejected an omega?" I asked, facing her as I wiped my eyes. "What could she have done?" I probed.

"You really don't know?" Sheila asked.

"I don't, would you explain to me already?" I demanded, and then she sighed and began.

"Before you, Derek had once been mated to another, only he never marked her, his excuse for rejecting her was that she was a weak omega who he couldn't trust to rule alongside him," I couldn't seem to be able to comprehend the rest of whatever Sheila was saying, as the only thing that kept ringing in my head was.

Derek had rejected me cause I was an omega, but then, why had he been intimate with me?

Was I just a plaything in his eyes?

"Kayla, Kylie is walking towards us" Sheila snapped, waving her right hand in front of my face.

But I paid her no attention, the more I thought about the situation I found myself in, the more confused I was.

"She's here," Sheila muttered, tugging at my gown, succeeding in getting my attention, I stood from the stairway I sat, dusting my gown, trying to look presentable as Kylie approached, she was now my Luna and no matter how I felt, I was to serve her.

"Kayla dear," Kylie said in a very disgusting tone, "you must have thought Derek was going to name you as his," she said, as she began to toy with her fingers then burst into a hysterical laughter.

"But you see, you dream so high and try to reach things that can never be yours, I mean, look at you, trying to become the alpha's Luna, a mere omega dares to dream" She mockingly said.

Kylie had changed from the loving beta friend who stood by me to a bitch who dared to steal a man she knew was mated to me.

"But, I'm not surprised he rejected you, if I were you, I'd reject me too," she said with a wicked grin on her face.

"Don't you dare talk to my sister like that you bitch," Sheila growled at Kylie, but I pulled her back, Kylie was now above us, and getting on her bad side meant punishment.

"Let's go, I want to leave this place," I said to Sheila who tried to protest, but looking at me, seeing the frustration on my face, she closed her mouth, held my hand, and dragged me further away from Kylie.

***

"I need some water, could you get me some?" I asked Sheila, we were in the warehouse of the hotel and had sat in silence for over 30 minutes since we got here after fleeing Kylie, Sheila didn't say a word, she just sat there, for me.

"Sure, lemme fetch you some water," She said and made her way out of the warehouse, but soon after, she came rushing back in, panicking.

"Kayla, you have to run, right now," Sheila said, roughly tugging at me

"What's wrong?" I asked, confused and not understanding what she meant.

Sheila moved closer to me then in a low tone and a sense of urgency repeated, "You have to leave Ravenclaw right now,"

"Why?" I asked in a more serious tone.

"I can't explain much now, but Kylie is dead, no she's murdered and Derek seems to believe it's your doing, and now, the whole pack is on the hunt for you," Sheila said, pacing around in front of me as she rushed her words, but they were clear enough.

A lot of thoughts rushed through my mind, a lot of questions I knew better not to ask cause Sheila wouldn't have answers to them.

Why was I to be hunted?

Why was I suspected?

Why should I run?

And more importantly, where was I supposed to run to?

***KAYLA***

The morning dew brushed my feet as I ran with no particular direction in mind, morning was approaching already and I was still running, I had been chased like a criminal all through the night, and my body was weary already but I knew better than to stop.

I kept running in the woods all sense of direction lost as different men chased after me, men who were once my protectors, neighbors, and friends now seemed to want nothing but to catch me for a murder I didn't commit.

With the look of things, surrendering wasn't an option, I'd be killed before they heard I had nothing to do with it, I ran as fast as my wolf could carry me.

I lost count of the number of pack territories I had passed, but one thing was sure, I was still in the borders of packs friendly to Ravenclaw, and that was why they could openly chase me even though we were in other territories.

The reasonable thing to do now was to find our rival territory, Crescent Pack, that was to be my safe space, I wouldn't be killed in a rival's territory, but I also would only be a slave, but I guess that was better than dying.

I stopped running and tried to remember the direction to the Packs we were warned to never wander into.

"Was it north? Or south?" I impatiently growled in frustration, I never really paid attention in class and now my fate depended on a silly class I had missed.

"There she is," a man said, and another howled, signaling to the others I had been sighted.

"Shoot, how are they so fast," I was already getting weary, pregnant with a child, hungry and tired from all the running, but I knew I had to keep on going, I had to save myself, save my child.

I started running again, my body began to give up, then, I stepped on something sharp, a sharp metal that pierced through my feet, the pain was out of this world, with both feet stuck in a trap, I could not move, I was bleeding profusely and my eyes began to shut, but no one was catching up, as my eyes closed, I could see the men chasing me standing still, then turned their backs and began to walk back, they were retreating.

I smiled through my teeth knowing what their retreat meant, then allowed the darkness to envelop me.

***

"She's waking up," I heard a female voice say as my eyes fluttered open, I blinked once, twice, or maybe thrice, I wasn't so sure, it was in reaction to the brightness of the room.

"Who are you and why did you cross our borders" a young handsome man gruffly asked me, beside him stood a lady who was about my age, smiling at me, with no one else in the room but the two of them, i figured she must have been the owner of the female voice I had earlier heard.

"Come on, Caleb, the poor girl just woke up in 13 days," the lady said as she chastised the handsome man, then what she said sank into my brain.

Wait, what?

13 days?

I had been asleep for 13 days?

I immediately tried to get up but was drawn back by some force, I was in bondage.

"I told you this would come in handy, I knew she was going to try to run immediately she woke," the man called Caleb said smiling to himself, but the woman gave him a look that said, "Not now!".

"Help me get her out of these," the woman said.

"But why Carla" the man groaned, he was acting almost like a whiny baby.

The woman's name who I now learned was Carla gave him a sharp look and without a word, he swiftly got into undoing the chains that bound me to the bed.

I wiggled my wrist as I got relieved of the chains.

"Do you remember how you got here?" Carla asked.

"N....o," my voice croaked as I tried to talk, well no surprise there, I hadn't talked in 13 days.

"You stepped on one of my dear brother's 'protections', it hurt your feet pretty bad and you passed out, we thought you were not going to make it when we found you lying lifeless in the bush around noon, but you and your baby made it just fine," she said, smiling at me.

I didn't feel any pain around my feet, but as she mentioned it, I remembered, I looked down and saw I had completely healed, my baby was fine too and all I had to do now was get up and leave this place.

Carla handed a bowl of water to me, urging me to drink, I drank it and I felt so much better and refreshed.

"Thank you," I said more in a mutter, but she heard me, and she smiled back.

"So why did you cross our borders, your dress speaks of your origin, it clearly shows you're from the rival lands," Carla said in a gentle tone, her brother just watched as we conversed.

"Yes, I am of Ravenclaw, but I am an orphan and now, an outlaw, I've been chased out of my land," I said bitterly, fighting back the tears that threatened to spill.

Carla patted my back, rocking me up and down like a baby.

"And what are you called?" He asked.

"Kayla, my name is Kayla," I replied to her.

"Well, if you have no place to stay, you are always welcome here," she gently said as she continued to caress my back.

"And on whose order is that? Now the alpha doesn't mean much here, does he?" Caleb grunted out, scoffed and rolled his eyes.

He was the alpha of wherever it was I found myself in, only that he didn't look like one.

"If she wants to stay here, she'll have to pay, we already saved her life, and now offering her shelter? how does she intend to pay us back?" He rolled out the words as though payback was all that mattered.

But I wasn't ready to back down, I wasn't ready for defeat, I'd gone through so much than to lose it all and be chased out of here, so I boldly asked, "How do you want to be paid back."

Carla wanted to say something, but before she could, her brother beat her to it, "Marry me." He said, or had I heard wrong?

CHAPTER 5: CONTRACT WITH ALPHA CALEB

***CALEB***

I looked at the beauty before me as she and Carla, my younger sister conversed, she wasn't spilling much, but I knew some secret she wished to bury and not talk about laid buried behind those eyes of hers.

I was so taken by her that when she asked how I wanted her to pay back, I blurted out, "Marry me," I had said the word out loud before I realized what had happened.

"Come on Caleb, you don't want to take advantage of someone in this kind of situation," Carla said, trying to talk sense into me.

"Take advantage? Why will I, you know as much as I do that I am Asexual, no she-wolf out there appeals to me sexually," I said, I was asexual, I have been for as long as I could remember, I just never felt any form of pull towards any gender romantically, but looking at Kayla now, I can admit i wasn't so sure anymore.

"So why will you want to marry her," Carla argued back.

"If I do Marry her, her child will be mine automatically, that way I will secure my line without the councils being on my neck every damn time," I explained, but deep within me, I knew there was more to wanting her child to be mine, I wanted her to be mine.

Carla looked half convinced, but I knew the Miss Goody Two shoes that was my sister was definitely still against making Kayla do that.

"And it will only be for a year when the child is born, she can leave it here if she wishes, or she could stay here in the pack and raise it with me, as its mother, but we'd be separated after a year," I explained, trying to convince Carla and ultimately Kayla.

I wanted her beside me, I didn't know why, but that was what I wanted.

"I'm sorry but I can't, is there another way I could repay you?" Kayla spoke up, it was almost as though she hated me without even completely knowing me, or was it that she abhorred men in general, I would never know, since she wasn't saying much.

"Of course, you don't have to," Carla said to her in the calmest tone, "here in Crescentclaw pack, you always have to pay back what you get, but you can pay back in any other way, not necessarily marrying my brother," she said, eyeing me as she spoke to Kayla.

"I will do anything, but get married to anyone," Kayla said in a final tone, whatever it was that had happened to her, I wanted to know.

"It's fine, you can rest now and work as a slave here for the next one year, then you'll be free of whatever you owe and may choose to leave afterwards," Carla said reassuringly.

I scoffed when she acted like this, it almost seemed as though she was the alpha here and not me.

***

I stood by the window of my house, watching as different members of the pack used and maltreated Kayla, it was the law, she was not one of us and as long as she survived in our land, she could be used in any way, I wondered how long she'd survive in this place, they were more respectful to her than I'd thought they'd be, I wonder what they'll do when they found out she was from Ravenclaw pack, our number one enemy's territory.

"You keep watching her, why?" Carla said from behind me, startling me, I jumped.

"I'm just worried she might be in danger around here," I said grimly.

"I know, behind all of those hard Wolfie features of yours lay a considerate man, I knew you wanted to protect her and that's why you asked her to marry you, but why?" Carla noted.

I glanced back at the window just in time to see Kayla make her way into my place. In a matter of minutes, she entered the room I and Carla were in.

The room went silent for a while, no one saying anything, then Kayla spoke up.

"I'll do it," she announced.

"You'll do what?" I asked, Carla looked more confused.

"Oh no, you don't have to do anything you don't want to," Carla said to her realizing what she had meant.

"No, I want to do it, I am tired of being stepped on everywhere I go, I am tired of being weak, and if marrying you for a year will make everyone else beneath me then I am ready! Plus you guys saved my life, so if I can make your lives comfortable in any way I'm willing to help," she explained, she sounded so angry and determined.

"I Will have to mark you," I spoke up, Carla looked at me as though she was going to rip off my head if I didn't shut my mouth, but I ignored her and continued. "Have you ever been marked?" I asked her.

"No," she simply replied.

"Then how did the baby come about?" I nonchalantly asked, did she just sleep with men even though they weren't mated to her? I thought and somehow the thought of that made my heart churn.

"CALEB!!!," Carla screamed my name calling me to order.

Okay, maybe that wasn't the right question to ask, I concluded in my thoughts.

"It's fine," Kayla shrugged at Carla, then turned to me, "Its father never marked me, we only had fun once and it landed in this," she replied pointing to her stomach, her eyes had a glint of sadness in them as she spoke, but she still managed to keep a straight face.

Then, began to roll up the sleeves of her clothes, she stretched out her hand to me, "here, mark me," she said with so much conviction.

I gave her a questioning look, asking with my eyes if she was sure, she nodded and then stretched out her hand more as though she was impatient to get it over with.

I closed my eyes, my fangs began to grow out, breathed in hard, and then, I marked her.