The REJECTED Wolf Turn Mighty Luna (Book 2)

Third Person POV

Iris, what is the problem?' Millicent asked, when she saw tears in her daughter's eyes.. She just came to check on her daughter after having a steamy mating session with the wolf king Sylvester.

'It's nothing mum!' she replied. 'It is finally over. I am free now!' she said, the tears starting up again. She had just had a lengthy discussion with her ex husband Adrian. After months of refusing to see nor speak with him.

'Oh, my baby, come here!' Millicent said, hugging her. 'You will be alright!'

Iris nodded, smiling through her tears.

'This was what you wanted, right? Or do you regret rejecting Adrian, would you rather go back to him?'

'Yes, this final break with him is what I want and hell, no! There's no going back to him for me', she replied hastily. 'I am just sad for what might have been, the pups I would have had'.

'You will be a mother as soon as you settle down with someone, I do not doubt it!' Luna Millicent consoled her. 'The Goddess will definitely compensate you for your loss!'

Iris nodded, wanting to believe her mother - that all was going to be alright. But was it? Fate had played a cruel trick on her, dangled the joy of motherhood' before her only to snatch it back. How was she sure she was ever going to be a mother?

'Since the saga of Adrian is over, do you have anyone else in mind yet?' Millicent asked.

'Mum!' she exclaimed in shock. 'It's too early yet. It is barely six months since Adrian and I broke up. Is it that easy to fall in love?'

'I thought that you might have developed feelings for his younger brother, Andrew, the new Alpha of the Moonlight pack!' Millicent teased.

Iris recalled, the last time Andrew had come visiting.

'You look stronger now, I'm glad!' he said.

'I can never thank you enough for all you did for me while I was in that hellhole of a marriage', Iris said, smiling gratefully at Andrew.

'I ask for pardon for myself and all the members of my family, for all we have put you through', he said,his face and voice very sorrowful. 'I feel ashamed to come from a family that has caused a kind and gentle soul like you, so much pain!'

'Do not say that Andrew. You didn't do wrong being born into your family', Iris said, taking his hands and looking into his eyes. Nothing that happened between our families, in the past and now is your fault nor mine. It is just the way some of our family members chose to respond to it that is to blame'.

'Iris', there is something I have been meaning to ask you', Andrew said hesitantly.

'What is it?' she asked. 'You know you can ask me anything. You're my friend afterall!'

'That's the problem, Iris', he said earnestly to Iris' surprise. 'I do not want to be just a friend to you. I want us to be something more', he implored. 'You know how I feel about you. I tried to deny it because you chose my brother and later got married to him. But there's no reason for me to keep my feelings under wraps now. You are free and I still love you dearly. Will you consider being my Luna?'

'Oh, Andrew', Iris started, not knowing what to say so as not to hurt his feelings.

'I know it is yet too early', he said. 'With everything that has happened, you need time to get over your hurt, loss and all. I can help you get over all that very easily. But you don't have to give me an answer just yet, I am willing to wait. I have been waiting for so long, since I met you actually. I can wait a little longer if that's what it takes for us to take the toxic relationship we started in the past, much further', he smiled and she smiled back.. 'Just wanted you to bear it in mind because I know that other suitors will soon come knocking at your door. Give me the first consideration, please?'

She nodded, and smiled a little. She was not ready for any relationship right now and though Andrew was a great friend, she could not raise his hopes. Her heart was in shreds and she was confused right now, hurting, still mourning the loss of her pups. She could not give her broken self to a fine and promising young Alpha male like him. It wouldn't be fair. She also wanted to relish her freedom and cherish her time with her parents and siblings. She didn't think she would be ready to commit to anyone anytime soon. But Andrew was a young man and once he got tired of waiting, if he waited that long, with the girls already flocking round him, he would definitely choose a mate or find his true mate, Iris though smiling. She truely wished him happiness.

'Iris?' Millicent called. 'Iris!'

'Yes mum?' she answered.

'You seem to have gone to a far away land', she teased. 'and this smile on your face, is it for Andrew? You do like him, don't you?'

'Mum, will you stop?' she implored exasperatedly. 'I need time to heal before you and any other person start with your match making!'

'It is sad about your sister Roxy!' Millicent observed.

'Yes', Iris agreed.

Her father had forgiven Roxy once she gained consciousness. Her only punishment was to live with them and never act wickedly anymore.

'I am grateful to you, Alpha King.. father.. but I couldn't possibly live with you all now. I'd rather stay on here till I recover fully, if Iris does not mind it, of course!' she said turning down the offer, remorsefully.

'I have no objections whatsoever', Iris said. 'You are welcome to the pack and everyone and infact everything in it!'

'I shall not stay on here forever. Once I am well enough, I shall leave this place and try to find my kind - from my mother's side of course', she said.

'Feel free to come stay with us if they do not accept you in your mother's coven. You are family afterall but ensure you act kindly from henceforth or I shall not be so understanding next time!'

'You have nothing to fear, father', she said. 'Thank you, mother for everything. And Iris, it is insufficient but I'm sorry for everything I have caused you!'

Iris shut her eyes. She didn't want to think of all the losses she had incurred. Of course a mere apology could never suffice but neither would over stretching the issue bring back her pups who had been murdered in cold blood. Innocent children whose lives were taken even before they were fully formed. It was so painful and she wasn't going to act like it wasn't, so she just raised her hands to stall other words of apology from her half sister and walked away, into her room.

Iris' POV

'Dear Iris,

I do not know what my life would be like when you get this letter. I may have already died or become a rogue, a wanderer. But whatever I become, I know you will not make it your business because I do not deserve your concern. But once more find it in your heart to forgive me and my family.

I wish you all the best.

NB: I have accepted your rejection, you must have felt it the instant that I did. And attached here is the divorce papers I have duly signed.

Once more, I wish you the best!'

Adrian B.

I got this letter, a week after my lengthy discussion with Adrian. I shed a few tears. It was sad really. We had started well, at least so I had thought when we met. I had been so sure ours was going to be like the love my parents shared. That great love between Alpha King Sylvester Merryweather and the great Luna Queen, Millicent. A love that had stood the test of time and survived against all odds, but it was not meant to be.

I thought back to my eighteenth birthday anniversary. It felt like a century ago. I felt I had aged but it had only been about two years. but I remember how Adrian had come into the banqueting hall of my birthday party, and how we had been drawn to each other like a fly to nectar. It was obvious there was a supernatural force at work. And as soon as my eyes met with his, I knew I he was the one I had been waiting for, the one I was destined to be with and I was sure he felt the same way. But he hadn't. His intention had been to get back at me for the sins he felt my parents had committed against his own parents.

I shake my head now, trying to brush off the unwelcome thoughts but they persisted. This letter has brought on memories that were supposed to be a blissful reminder of a great love but which turned out to be a torturous period of my life - a period which was better forgotten.

I went back in time, yet again, to the day of my eighteenth birthday anniversary.

As our eyes met, the force drew him to where I was standing, each of us forgetting that there were others in the hall. Without any care in the world, he drew my face to his and we imprinted. The kiss was searing as it was delicious. More delicious than anything I had tasted in my eighteen years of existence at the time. I could not stop imagining how mating with him would feel like if a kiss could render me breathless that way, turning my legs to jelly, unleashing such flood of lust inside of me.

I recalled my parents' warning, not to get involved with him due to their past experiences with his parents but I would not heed their words. My heart was already his and my mind was made up.

'If I don't get to be his bride', I told my parents, 'then I shall remain unmated and unattached to anyone for the rest of my life!'

'Shut your mouth!' my mother exclaimed, clasping her hand over my mouth. 'Don't say such foolish things. Do you want to bring down the curse of the Moon Goddess on yourself?' she asked.

My parents spoilt me because I was the only daughter and when they saw how seriously I felt about it all, they gave in. My happiness was more important to them than any useless feud the families held against each other. I was determined, that this union which was obviously initiated by the Moon Goddess would unite the families, causing them to let bygones remain bygones and forge ahead towards new beginnings. Stupid, childish me! Thinking that such great grievance could be forgotten by a mere union. I had been so optimistic and I thought I had a partner who was ready to work together with me. He had said something to that effect too.

'I don't know what it means s with my mother', he had said. 'She seem not to be too happy about the union'.

'Mine too. I didn't know you have noticed it's, I said, hoping it would not make any difference. 'But I assured them that it was either you or no one else!' I told him, smiling.

'You are a she - wolf after my heart's, he said hugging me. 'I said the same thing to my mother and anyway, I am now the Alpha and she has no option but to obey me and it is my desire that she accepts the money I love as my Luna!'

I had been ecstatic. Such a man willing to defy his mother for me just as I was defying my parents for him must love me just as much as I did him, I thought in my joy. What I fool I was. He must have laughed himself to tears thinking how I had fallen like a pack of cards for him and his lies.

'Hmmm!' Well, not anymore. I made sure that such a mistake would never happen again. Why did it still hurt? I passed through hell in his hands. Where do I start to enumerate all he put me through. Was it the continuos sexual abuse I endured? Humph! And that too, to a naive girl who could not wait to experience a continuous earth quaking - mating session with her destined mate because of the body quaking kiss that sealed their fate as mates when they imprinted at her birthday party.

Or was it.... The tears came then and I wiped them off furiously. I had been prepared to keep enduring everything, keeping the fruits of those abuse as my compensation but even that was denied me. That had been the last straw. Now he writes. To what end? To make me feel guilty?

His negligence and cruelty and the wickedness of his mother and his mistress had caused me to become barren but it's okay. I have learnt my lesson. There is nothing like true love in this world. True love does not exist. And if f it does, it is overrated!

'What about the one your parents share?' my wolf asked.

'Oh, that?' I replied, a tiny smile breaking forth from my tear - stained face. I was always so marvelled at those two. They still behaved like teenagers in their first throes of love. 'Theirs is legendary', I said and sighed. Sometimes I envy them their love but I am also very happy for them. At least my mother wasn't going through hell in her home like I did. 'Love ended with theirs. They must have absorbed all the love from the world when they loved!' I concluded as I looked out of the window and saw the mighty Luna, my mother in the arms of the great Alpha King Sylvester. They were staring into each other's eyes and smiling, a promised paradise and of everlasting love shining forth.

'Not every one is as lucky as they!' I said, with a heavy sigh.

As I was about to look away, something attracted my attention but before I could find out what it was, my parents claimed my attention once more with their kiss. It was obvious to any onlooker that they were still very much in love. Their kiss was never perfunctory. It was always so full of love and care.They always seemed to be perpetually in heat.

They must have felt my eyes on them because as they broke off the kiss, they both looked towards my window and I had to dock. I didn't want them feeling guilty on my account. It was not their fault that my marriage didn't work out. And neither do I want theirs to suffer by allowing them think I wasn't happy. They should rather think I am happy because I really am. I mean why would I not be happy that my mate, the man I loved with the entirety of my being, preferred someone else all through the period of our union and they both put me through hell, including murdering my pups even before they were born and ensuring that I never had the chance to have other pups even If I wanted to...

Sneeze. I am happy... very happy... sneeze ...at least I am free from that hellhole of a union!

'

Luna Millicent's POV

As Alpha King Sylvester and I kissed, I suddenly felt my daughter's pain. Sylvester must have felt it too because we both drew apart as though thinking the same thing and looked towards the window of her suite. It was uncanny, the way we feel and think alike. Even twins could not know what the other was thinking or planning on doing the way Sylvester and I do. It was almost as though we were just one person or two people infused into one. I can never be grateful enough to the Moon Goddess for mating me with such an Alpha male. I had nearly lost him due to my bitterness and stubbornness but the Luna Goddess had intervened. I must have done some great things in my previous life to warrant being favoured this way by the Goddess.

'I don't know how my life would have been, if I had lost you', Alpha King Sylvester spoke into my ears as we looked simultaneously from the window of Iris' suite into each other's eyes, once more. 'My life would have been a living hell and I would have deserved it because of my stupidity!' he said, then smiling, ' Thank you for giving me a reason to live, a reason to know how it feels like to love and be loved in return!'

'I should be saying the same to you', I replied, standing on tiptoe so we could engage in another session of delicious kissing.

I feel so bad that as old as I was, I still enjoyed the attention, love, and companionship of my husband but my young daughter was single again and hurting... and lonely. Was there even a time she wasn't lonely since her torturous marriage? I thought in despair.

Over the past few months, we have organized parties and invited various young, handsome and promising young men, hoping Iris would take a fancy to any of them but she hadn't shown any interest in them. Many suitors had indicated interest in making her, their Luna or bride, but she has turned them all down. Is she ever going to recover from the ordeal she suffered in her marriage to Adrian, that jerk?

I had harboured hopes that Adrian's younger brother, Andrew would spark an interest in her but she seemed not to be interested in him either.

Sylvester and I don't want to force her into any relationship or union. We wanted her to make her choice. It is over a year now and Iris had still not fully recovered. She behaves as though she has, especially around us but I am her mother and I know she wishes things had been different. Sigh!

If her pups had lived, they would have given her another lease on life. They would have diverted her but that in itself, especially the way she lost them was disheartening and heartbreaking.

I admire her for forgiving her persecutors but left to me, I would have gauged Roxy's and Wendy's eyes out. How can a mother be so wicked as to give another helpless woman an abortion herb to destroy the babies in her womb just because she wanted her own daughter who she got through deceitful means, to wreck the woman's home and become the wife instead.

And Roxy herself, in her selfishness had put her half sister through hell and pushed her to losing one of her pups.

Anytime I think of all this, I feel really indignant and filled with frustrated fury.

'It will all work out, sweetheart, you'll see', Alpha King Sylvester said assuringly to me. 'Right now, I feel like being alone with my darling wife'.

'But.. Sylvester...' I protested halfheartedly, my body already on fire for him.

'You are not as worried about her as I am', he assured her. 'You know she is my beloved princess and I can get her married to any man of her choice if she just says the word but she is not ready and the Moon Goddess might just be preparing her for greater things', he said, stroking Luna Millicent's nose. 'At the appointed time she will definitely meet her fated mate. The mate she would be unable to resist!'

'You mean like she did with that jerk, Adrian?' I asked.

'No!' Alpha Sylvester answered. 'Of course it would be love at first sight but this time it would be different, because all her dreams about a perfect union will be fulfilled!'

I looked at my Alpha husband and smiled. He knew his to say the right things. He always says the things I want to hear. I prayed silently to the Luna Goddess that all Sylvester has said would come true.

We looked simultaneously towards Iris' window once more before my Alpha' dragged me into the mansion straight to bed.

This was another part of my relationship with the Alpha king that I wouldn't trade for anything. Being with him was always like being perpetually on heat. And our mating was always paradise. It was inexplicable. It was always like the mating and fusion of two souls into one. He was really my soul mate.

Could Alpha Christopher of blessed memory have known of this? Were all the things that happened, predestined for me to have this bliss? I shall never forget Christopher. He was my first love. He gave me everything worthwhile. My first two sons Devin and Kevin who have continued to bring me joy are gifts from him. He also gave me the gift of his brother. Even on his death bed, he kept insisting that I become his brother's Luna. He must have known that we would complement each other. The times spent with Christopher had been magical but he was my past, Sylvester is my present and future.

The Moon Goddess has really blessed me. Alot of women go through life without finding true love but I have experienced true love not once but twice and I have no regrets.

'Thank you, Moon Goddess', I said as I looked lovingly at my sweet husband who was staring at me as though I was the moon itself to him.

'Thank you, Christopher!' I thought fondly, for everything. I bent down, gave Alpha Sylvester a peck on his lips and was getting up to go find my daughter Iris when he pulled me down again on him and kissed me thoroughly and the both of us burst into joyful laughter as I felt him growing hard against my thighs, once more...