Chapter 23: Feeling Dejected

Whitney

After I left Roxanne and happily entered the mating ballroom, I tried to search for my mate but was once again disappointed.

The moon goddess had denied me having a mate again this time around.

Ever since I turned eighteen seven years ago, I had hoped and prayed that the moon goddess would give me my mate, as I deserve love too. But every year at the mating ball, my heart was shattered into pieces.

Last year, after the mating ball and my failure to still find my mate, I was shattered and dejected. I went to the club and drank myself into a stupor. I later found a random male to lay with, and he took my innocence. I woke up the next morning crying and regretting the act, as I had always wanted to give my innocence to my mate.

I had never been in a real relationship; every year I became a mere shadow of myself. I had grown thinner over the years and grew sadder also. After Mia found out Damon was her mate and Roxanne got sent out of the pack, I kept to myself, cutting off relat