Chapter 2

Edna POV

I wondered if the feeling got stronger the more I moved.

Wait. I knew this feeling. My mother had described it to me before. My fated mate was near.

I looked around, trying to figure out who it was.

My eyes locked with Darrel, who was being coronated, and I realized that he was, in fact, my mate.

I sucked in a deep breath as he stood up from his chair and began to walk towards me.

His eyes were glowing and trained on me. The crowd gave him way as he walked towards me.

I could practically hear my heart beating as he neared me.

An involuntary noise escaped my lips as Darrell stopped in front of me.

“MATE”

He growled.

The crowd gasped in shock at the sound of Darrell calling me his mate, but ignored them. I was too focused on him, and there was silence between us.

Every limb in my body wanted to be marked by him, so

I stepped closer to him as I waited for him to accept me as his mate.

His eyes bored into mine before he opened his mouth to speak.

“I reject you as my mate,”

“I accept you as…” I paused as his words sank in.

“What?”

My eyes widened in shock, and my cheeks burned in embarrassment.

“You heard him, he rejected you,” The Luna said, walking up behind me, irritation in her voice.

The look in her eyes told me she was barely restraining herself from slapping the shit out of me as usual.

“What? No. He can’t,” I shook my head, glancing back at him, my eyes pleading for him to say something, but as I looked into his eyes, all I saw was

hollowness in them.

He didn’t want me.

No, that’s impossible. What about the promises he made me before traveling, the passionate night we shared? He was the only reason I had stayed behind and endured his mother’s maltreatment.

“Darrel, say something.” I pushed as I grabbed his shoulders.

“Get your hands off my son, you slut “ The Luna growled and pushed me off him. I stumbled and almost fell, but was quickly grabbed by two pairs of hands.

“Take her away,” The Luna said to the two guards.

My heart fell to my stomach, and I struggled to get out of their hold.

“Darrell, please stop this!” I cried, but he already had his back to me.

“Darrel!” I yelled, managing to get out of the guards hold and running towards Darrell.

No, I couldn’t have him rejecting me, not after all the promises he made me.

As I ran towards him, I tripped on someone’s foot and lunged forward, hitting him from behind and sending both of us crashing to the floor.

“I’m so sorry,”

I sobbed as I quickly stood up.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” Darrel growled almost at the same time the Guards came back to grab me again.

“Why are you doing this?” I asked, as I struggled to get out of their hold once more.

“Because I hate you! That’s why.” Darrel gritted out, his eyes once hollow, now carrying a burning rage that shocked me to the core.

I blinked at him, surprised at his spiteful words. That couldn’t be true.

“But why? You told me you loved me! We even had sex!” I blurted out in frustration.

“Liar!” The Luna jumped in.

“I’m not lying. We are in love.” I begged her to listen to me, but instead she slapped me across the face.

“One more lie out of your mouth and you will be banished from the pack forever.”

“But I’m not telling a lie, tell them, Darrell, please,” I begged

“Tell them what? A lie?” Darrell finally spoke.

My eyes widened at his denial.

“But…”

“Enough!” He boomed.

“Lying against your Alpha is treason and is punishable by death, but I won’t kill you because your mother was kind to me.”

A flood of relief washed over me.

“Edna, you are hereby banished from the pack for suggesting that I thr Alpha, had any sexual relations with a common, half-blood maid.”

Half-blood. Words that I hated with a passion, words that have been used to mock me since I was a child. Words he knew I hated.

I stopped my struggling when I realized I was talking to a different man. This was not the Darrel I knew five years ago. This was not the Darrel I grew up with; it wasn’t the Darrel who was defending me in class or in training. This was someone else. Someone who had no qualms when it came to hurting me.

I let the guards drag me out of the hall without protesting. I was too numb to do anything else except surrender. Even as the crowd of people watched me in curiousity, all I could see was Darrell walking away.

“Good luck with the rogues out there,”

The guards laughed as they dropped me off outside the border.

It was dark, so it was quite possibly the worst time to be outside the pack. My Wolf wasn’t strong, but I could sense that I wasn’t alone.

I couldn’t stay here. I needed to find shelter before a wild, wild or rogue finds me, or worse, the cannibals come for me.

I was heartbroken, but I definitely didn’t want to die.

Tentatively, I stood up and took my steps one after the other as I entered the woods, careful not to make my presence known to any possible predators that might be lurking.

I found a tree in the middle of the woods in no time and climbed up.