The relinquished Luna

Chapter 1: Moon Goddess

"Alpha Ralph, please. Don't do this to me, please." Emily said with tears in her eyes as she pleaded and struggled with him simultaneously.

There was no way she would let him succeed in touching her. She had to display her stubborn nature else she would not be able to save herself.

He then threw a punch to her face, causing her to scream in pain. She fell straight on her bed and stood up with force as she watched him leave. After he left, she bowed down and started crying.

At the thought of this, Emily came back to her senses.

"I can't wait to be one of your strongest she-wolf," Emily whispered, looking at the giant moon through her window as she thought through everything she was going through.

Tears slipped from her eyes as she oversaw the moon. Emily then stood up and walked towards the door; she closed it right and returned to her bed. After some time, she managed to close her eyes.

The following day, she stood up and hurried to the kitchen to start her daily chores.

While she watched the plates, she felt someone coming closer to her. Emily's heart stopped as she wondered who it was and their intentions. Pausing for some time, she turned and saw that it was Gia.

Emily's heartbeat grew as she wondered what Gia wanted from her.

"Good morning, ma'am." she greeted immediately.

"I'm glad you know your place," Gia replied disgustingly as she walked towards the fridge and grabbed a glass of chilled water.

"This glass looks messy. Why didn't you clean it up, knowing it's my favourite?" Gia asked. She could not leave the kitchen that morning without dealing with Emily.

Shocked, Emily looked at the glass and saw that it was a glass she had just cleaned.

"I am so sorry, ma'am, but this is a clean glass. I cleaned it myself just now." Emily said respectfully as she bowed to Gia.

Lifting the glass of water up, Gia splashed it on Emily's face and walked away.

In shock, Emily ran back, causing her waist to hit the freezer at the other end. The water was so cold. Emily never expected that early that morning. She then had to deal with the cold water and her waist, which was hurting.

Gia didn't leave the kitchen area. She felt dissatisfied with Emily's reaction. She only wanted to do this that would hurt Emily to the core and not just a mere punishment. Pissed that she was not satisfied, she then decided to hide in the kitchen area.

Just as expected, Emily walked out of the kitchen.

Emily felt like crying out, but who would she cry to? She then changed her clothes since it was drenched with cold water.

Immediately, Emily walked out of the kitchen. Gia walked in and brought out a bag from the back of the kitchen door.

She took it close to where Emily once stood washing the dishes and unzipped the bag.

Carefully handling it, she poured the broken plates all over the kitchen ground, held the bag and walked out of the kitchen.

Not long after, a tall, light-skinned man walked passed the kitchen with a face squeezed in disgust. He then stopped as he scrutinised the kitchen floor with one hand in his pocket.

Looking at the broken plates on the floor made him super upset. "Emily," he growled in anger.

Emily had just finished changing into dried clothes when she heard the growl. Tensed, she ran into the kitchen.

"Alpha Ralph! Here I am," she said calmly, looking down. It was at that moment that she looked down and noticed the broken plates all over.

Emily froze in shock.

"What happened?" she said loud, almost screaming in her state of mind.

"Clean it up now." Alpha Ralph shouted, making her almost jump in shock due to the tone of voice used.

Immediately, she went to the cupboard and brought out hand gloves. She then went to bring some other equipment to clear things up, but before she could take care of the floor, Alpha Ralph pushed her away and dragged the equipment from her.

"You are going to pick even the tiniest bottle with your bare hands for being so careless with my kitchen. Didn't you know that even the tiniest cup is more important than you? What makes you think you are special? Get to work now!" he commanded.

Emily never expected the sudden outburst. Her life had always been like that, and it had never been that bad.

Squatting down, she started picking the glasses on the floor. She picked it up, and soon, she started bleeding, but she couldn't stop because Alpha Ralph was there, and she dared not hiss in pain.

When Emily finally thought that it was. Over for her, and Alpha Ralph would not leave; he spat on her hair and walked out of the kitchen.

Immediately he left, tears streamed down Emily's face as she rushed to the kitchen water sink and started raising her injured fingers. She had gotten severe cuts already, but how was she going to get treated? She had no access to the mansion's first-aid treatment box, and it really weighed down on her.

That night, after the day's drama, Emily sat on her bed as she gazed outside the window. It was such a beautiful sight as she admired the moon far ahead of her room.

Soon, she heard a knock on her room door. Looking at her door, Emily shivered as she wondered what was coming for her. She remembered she had locked the door tight earlier when she entered the room.

"Open this door, Emily, else I will make you hate your guts." a mean voice sounded from outside.

Chapter 2: Strong Wolf

Emily could already feel tears rolling down her face as she thought of what to do next.

Standing up, she staggered her way to her door and slowly had it open.

Alpha Ralph noticed that Emily was already opening the door, so with force, he pushed the door.

"How dare you lock my door?" he said as he approached her, disgust on his face.

"I know it is your house, Alpha Ralph, but I occupy this space," Emily stated fearlessly. She always remained confident and stubborn at night because that was all she felt was needed to overcome her challenges.

"You think you have got guts? I intend to cut your guts off today." Alpha Ralph spat and pushed her to the bed.

Instantly, she jumped up. "I am sorry if I sounded rude, Alpha Ralph, but I simply can't let you do that to me. I have my rights," she replied.

Looking into her eyes, Alpha Ralph calmed down as he decided to change strategy.

"Okay, I accept that I was wrong. Emily, you are a beautiful lady growing into a valuable grown woman. Look, you will be eighteen soon. You are no longer a kid. Let's have fun. This will mean a lot to us, and you know it." he said to her, putting her in a state of confusion.

Emily was surprised and confused at his words. Never in her dreams had she ever thought of Alpha Ralph ever saying a single good about her. All he had ever had for her was hatred and disgust. She knew there was no way his words would be accurate. She can be deceived, at least not so easily.

"I am sorry, Alpha Ralph, but you can't lay me. You are..."

PAK!!!

Before she could complete her statement, Alpha Ralph shut her up with a hard slap straight on her face.

Emily froze.

She held her chick as hot tears streamed down her face. Her eyes widened in shock.

How come she was so shocked at this?

This was expected of him.

Blinking her eyes, Emily walked to the side of her bed, sat down, and began to cry bitterly.

"Do not ever make the mistake of thinking that you are beautiful or useful anyway. That I wanted to touch you was me trying to do you a big favour. You should be grateful, not opening your wide and disgusting lips. You will be eighteen soon, yet you don't have a wolf. You should be ashamed of your entire existence because you are not only useless to me but to my entire Pack. Go to hell with your body tonight. It's not like any Alpha in his right senses would admire you." Alpha Ralph trashed her with his words and walked out of her room, jamming the door so hard.

Emily's tears couldn't stop flowing out of her eyes. Tonight was just too much for her to bear. How could he say such to her? This was so unfair.

Outside of the room, Emily had no idea that someone was already prepared to trash her long before Alpha Ralph entered her room, and she had been watching till he walked out.

The person was no other than Gia, Alpha Ralph's girlfriend.

Gia unfolded her long black hair as she rolled her dark green eyes and entered Emily's room, licking it after her.

"Do you have anything for me? I mean, I am a visitor. I came to your disgusting room to dine with you as a favour. What do you think?" she said, looking at Emily's sorry state mockingly.

Emily could not reply to her.

"Are you deaf?" Gia asked Emily.

Emily acted like she did not see her as she focused on consoling herself.

"I don't think you are sane or even know what you are doing dear Emily, but somehow, I feel like you're trying to take my precious jewel away from me," she said to her.

"I have never thought of stealing Alpha Ralph away from you. I hope you help me talk to him to stay far away from me. I don't and will never like him." Emily replied bitterly and continued crying.

Emily's heart bled so much.

She had always known that Gia hated the thought of them being together, and she understood. She couldn't understand why Alpha Ralph kept coming close to her, knowing how beautiful Gia was.

Gia didn't know how to control her hatred towards her as she took a mug close to her and threw it toward Emily.

Luckily for Emily, she managed to dodge it.

The thought of how Alpha Ralph looks at Emily whenever he is around her sends bitterness down her spine. One of the biggest reasons she despises Emily is because she knows that Alpha Ralph loves her.

"I want this to be the last time you will dare stay close to Ralph. He is mine. Stay off, Emily!"

"I have nothing to do with him. I sincerely hope he lets me be. You are already a beautiful lady; why does he keep coming to me fully aware of that?" Emily asked with confidence, a bit pissed.

The sudden change in Emily's tone got Gia so upset that she bounced on Emily, trying to beat her up.

Emily got on guard and moved out of the place to avoid getting hit by Gia, causing Gia to fall hard, thereby hitting her head on the wall.

"Ahhhh!" Gia screamed in pain, causing other individuals in the mansion to walk into Emily's room.

When they saw that it was their Alpha Ralph's girlfriend, they quickly took her away from the room to her room as they summoned a doctor.

"What did you do to Gia?" Alpha Ralph grabbed Emily by her collar as he asked her, staring at her viciously.

Chapter 3: Incident

Fear gripped Emily so hard that she couldn't even speak up.

"Talk to me. How dare you put my Gia in this condition?" he yelled at her.

"Alpha Ralph, she was trying to harm me. It just so happens that it backfired..."

PAK! PAK!!

Alpha Ralph raised his hands and slapped her twice, which sent her flying onto her bed in pain.

"I don't blame you anyway. I believe you did that out of jealousy, but no matter how you try to look like her, you won't succeed because she is ten times better than you could ever imagine yourself. You are nothing but a Packlessorphan. I will make you pay." he then said and walked out.

Emily nursed her pains for a few minutes and decided to take heart.

"I did not cause this. I am innocent." she managed to say and sat down to concentrate on her wellbeing.

Emily got to her room door and had it locked. She then returned to her bed and gazed out the window as usual.

The following day, what greeted Emily's sight when she opened the door was the sight of Gia.

"Errm, good morning, Gia."

"It's a good morning, Luna Gia. Emily shows some respect."

"You are yet to be the Luna of this Pack," Emily answered.

"You think so? In that case, I must show who I truly am in this Pack." Gia said as she clapped her hands.

Three guards came out from their hiding and headed toward Emily.

Emily moved back in shock as she wondered what Gia wanted to do with her.

"What have I done? Let me be. Could you leave me alone? What do you want from me? I have done nothing wrong to you, so let me be." Emily pleaded as she got taken away.

Later, in Alpha Ralph's main bedroom.

"Why did you have Emily locked up in a room? Don't you think you are overdoing this? I think you are overdoing it." Alpha Ralph said as he questioned Gia. He was okay with making things complicated, but he was not okay with having her locked up. There was no way he could try to have his way with her again, and he was unhappy about it.

This alone made Gia extra worried about her relationship.

"Ralph, are you worried about Emily, or are you worried about my head injury and me taking my revenge on her?" she asked.

"I never asked you to go attacking her. Gia, you practically did this to yourself." Alpha Ralph replied, unaffected.

Sobbing, "Ralph, what did you see in her? Why do you care more about her than you do for me? This was never your promise to me. I am so disappointed."

"Do not act like you are so important to me. You know the reason I accepted you." Alpha Ralph concluded and walked out.

Gia could not believe her eyes. Was he still having those thoughts? No way!

Gia then ran after him.

"Ralph, I am willing to do everything to make us work if you can give me the chance to."

"To make us work, just do the only things you were asked to do and keep your bitterness away from Emily."

"How can you tell me that? You, of all people, know how I feel about her. She is the reason I am in this condition, so it's only proper that I make her pay." Gia said.

"Alpha Logan may be visiting on his birthday. You know he visits one Pack on his birthdays. It's our turn to get visited. How would we provide him the right service if you keep her locked in there?"

"That is not an issue, dear. I will bail her a day before that to get her ready. It will be her birthday, too, according to what I heard. So, letting her walk freely on that day to serve their guests would be like a gift for her. Until then, I prefer she remains locked to learn her lessons." Gia then said with a slight smile.

Like that, Emily was to remain in the cell until Alpha Logan was to make an appearance.

Crescent Moon Pack

On the expansive and luxurious-looking terrace stood Alpha Luke and his son, Alpha Logan, as they discussed. The environment was tense because Alpha Luke was frustrated at his son Logan.

"For goodness sake, these are strong and amazing beautiful she-wolves. What else do you need?" Alpha Luke asked Logan.

"Father, they are indeed beautiful and amazing, but I don't find any attractive enough to be my Luna."

"You can't be kidding me, Logan."

"Father, I have spec. I promise you that when I see my spec, you won't need to tell me to make her mine."

"Anyways, I organised a date between you and the Alpha Shewolf of Duke Pack. What do you think?"

"I will honour it if it's your wish, Father."

"It's my wish, dear son. I am happy you agreed to do this with me." Alpha Luke looked at his son, patted him on his back and left him alone.

Alpha Logan sat inside his room as he thought about everything his father had told him.

No one seemed to understand him, and that's the primary reason she always felt incomplete indoors. He needed a real woman by his side but couldn't seem to be able to find one for himself. Every wolf that came his way always ended up being so unattractive to him.

He didn't know what to do about the issue again, but he hoped that the date his father had planned himself should end in his favour.

His birthday was coming closer. He needed a mate.

Soon, evening came, and it was almost time for the date. Picking up his phone, he dialled a number.