“Kandace! How dare you force my son to reject his mate. Chloe comes from an amazing bloodline. Her mother was the strongest female before getting her mate. She even pinned me! Chloe is an amazing wolf, just like Hannah was,” Alpha declares sounding as if his crush on my mom never truly died.
“That female was weak, and so is her daughter. She couldn’t even fight off three wolves. If only I had been there with her and the pups…Logan listen to me reject her,” Luna Kandace lies, and my rage fights against her command.
I want to spew the truth so bad but her command is stopping me. I had no idea she had lied and said she wasn’t with us. I guess she thought I was too young and would forget what happened that day. She thought she could tell the adults a lie and no one would believe my version!
Logan’s eyes meet mine, and I see his defeat. He is going along with his mother’s order. He is throwing me away because of her lies. Because she has convinced him omegas are weak, when we aren’t. We are strong and compassionate. We nurture the pack when the Luna can’t. We are the backbone!
I try to plead with him using my face and body, but he closes his eyes so he can’t see me. He opens his mouth, and dread fills my stomach. I want to vomit. Fifteen minutes ago, I didn’t want to be his, but now I can’t imagine life without him.
“I, Logan Thurman, reject you, Chloe Patterson as my mate and life partner,” Logan says sadly, and the piece of myself that attached to my heart moments ago when we locked eyes, breaks right back off.
Pain fills my chest, and I open my mouth to scream, but nothing comes out. I fall to my knees, and the whole crowd gasps as they watch me twitch and battle the pain within me silently. Logan tries to rush towards me, but Kandace’s hand stops him.
After a minute of wrathing on the ground, Alpha takes pity on me and comes to my aid.
“You may speak,” Alpha commands, and my scream erupts from within me instantly.
Logan flinches hard, and the sound of my pain echoes throughout the room as my body fights against his rejection. My fingernails cut the inside of my palms, and my forehead beads with sweat as I repeatedly scream out.
The entire time I scream, my eyes don’t leave Logan and Kandace. I watch as my pain hurts him, and I watch as Kandace smiles at my agony with nothing but triumph.
She thinks she has won. She thinks she has proven me to be weak! She thinks she has finally outdone my beautiful mother. I will show her.
“You have to accept the rejection for the pain to stop…I’m sorry, Chloe. But you have to,” Alpha whispers as another blade of pain slices through my heart.
I grind my teeth together as I lock eyes with only Kandace. I force myself to my feet on pure adrenaline as pain rips my insides apart. I swallow back my screams and fight with all my might to keep the pain from showing on my face.
As I stand up, a different look crosses her face, and I wish I could manage a smile.
“I, Chloe Patterson, accept your rejection,” I barely manage to whisper before everything goes dead within me.
Logan grabs his chest with open panic, and I know exactly what he just felt.
“Yeah, that was our bond dying Logan. Congratulations,” I sarcastically say before I whip around and face the massive crowd that just witnessed my public rejection.
“I want to set something straight, that should have been set straight years ago. When my mother Hannah Patterson died, she died defending our future alpha, Logan Thurman! Luna Kandace, my mother, Logan, and I had all been at the clearing right next to the old park! We were there because Luna Kandace suggested we play outside as an early birthday celebration. Logan had cried and said no, and I had said yes. Not twenty minutes after arriving we were attacked! Luna Kandace, ran! She left my mother, A WEAK OMEGA, to defend her pup and me. Logan got knocked unconscious when the first wolf attacked, and my mother, IN HUMAN FORM, immediately sprang to action. She attacked the warrior wolf trying to kill the Alpha’s son, and Kandace ran like a coward. SHE RAN AWAY INSTEAD OF PROTECTING HER OWN PUP. MY MOTHER BRAVELY TOOK DOWN THAT WOLF AND THE NEXT TWO WHO SHOWED UP, ALL IN HUMAN FORM. She kept yelling to me, “Don’t worry, Chloe, Kandace went to get help.” But my mother was wrong. Luna Kandace ran and hid away. She had no plans to return or get help, because she was too weak and scared to even think straight! My mother died in my arms after defeating the last warrior. Her human body was basically shredded as our border patrol finally caught scent of the blood and came to her aid! OUR LUNA IS LIAR AND A COWARD. SHE IS JEALOUS OF A DEAD OMEGA’S ACTS OF HEROISM AND JUST FORCED HER SON TO REJECT HIS OWN MATE BECAUSE OF THOSE JEALOUS FEELINGS. I AM HAPPY TO SAY I WILL BE LEAVING FOR OUTCAST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ENJOY HAVING HER AS YOUR LUNA,” I scream to the shocked crowd before jumping of the stage and heading straight for the exit.
I don’t look back, and I never will. My mother should have let those warriors have him!
