Shannon
"Don't force me, Shannon."
Force him? He said he would reject his fated mate for me if he ever met her! I hesitated when he asked me to marry him because I knew I wasn't his fated mate, and I knew he might meet his fated mate later, however small the chance was, I didn't want to risk it. So he promised me he would reject his fated mate. But now, from the looks of it, he didn't want to.
"Do I need to remind you what you promised me when you asked me to marry you? You said you would reject your fated mate for me on any given day. Why are you backing out now?"
I paused to look at his expression, and it seemed like he did remember what he promised me before. I decided to give him a final push.
"Well you can't have both, it's me or her. Take your pick now."
Still, he refused to choose between me and Kaia. Did he really think that he could have both? I looked at him intensely, his face was solemn, and his frown was deep. His fist was clenched tight, his nostril flared from his heavy breathing. Like how I felt before, for the first time in my life, I couldn't figure out what he was thinking, and I had been with him for 7 years now.
"Please, Luna Shannon, forgive me, I just want to be with Terry. I could be his mistress, but I won't take your place. Please." Kaia spoke to me while looking at Terry, her eyes were full of love for him, just like I did before all this.
Kaia Cremin was the daughter of Alpha Rafael from the Darkcrown Claws Pack. She became my personal assistant after she graduated from some university from overseas. Even though she was from Alpha bloodline she was not much of an Alpha material, so her father sent her to the Crescent Manes Pack to learn.
"I promote you because I saw something in you, and I want you to learn faster and become better, not to let you replace me. You know damn well that you wouldn't be here without my help. But what did you do to repay me?"
Kaia lowered her head in shame after hearing my accusation. But I wasn't finished. I wanted her gone.
"You are not my assistant from now on. And from now on, you are forbidden from stepping here..."
Just as I was using my Luna tone to forbid Kaia from entering the Crescent Manes Pack, Terry slapped me in the face.
I covered my face in shock. All three of us fell silent. No one was expecting him to raise his hand to me, well, at least I wasn't expecting it. But it seemed like he made his choice now.
"She's my fated mate, you have no right to ban her from entering my Pack!" Terry finally said angrily.
"It seemed like you have made your choice now. You have given up our 5 years of marriage for your beloved mistress." I said with all the strength I had.
"No... It's not like that. I'm sorry, Shannon. I shouldn't have done that..." He took a step forward to try to hold my hand, but I flinched back at his touch.
"Please, give me some time to settle this with Kaia, I will reject her properly." He continued.
"I won't believe you unless you do it right now. I want action, not promises you can't seem to keep." I scoffed.
"Please believe me for this once. I can't do it right now, my wolf is not stable without his fated mate. Shannon, please."
That was it, I couldn't handle this any longer. All he had was lies and excuses.
"You take care of this yourself. I had had enough tonight."
With that, I left the room. But I cried silently once I stepped into the elevator and out of their sight. I couldn't take it, it was supposed to be our fifth anniversary, and we would have spent a romantic night together. But now I am faced with the reality of my beloved husband and my trusted assistant's double betrayal.
Kaela whimpered as well. She could feel every bit of the pain I was feeling.
"Alfredo was in pain as well. He said he was under the influence of the mate bond." Kaela defended Terry's wolf, and I sneered.
"If he truly cares about us, he would have tried to break free, instead of hitting me." The slap was not that heavy, but it was his statement, he took her side over mine.
As soon as I stepped out of the hotel, I received a mind-link from Darryl, Terry's Beta.
‘Sorry to disturb you, Luna Shannon. I know it's your anniversary with Alpha Terry. But I couldn't mind-link him and I have something urgent.'
Hearing it was something urgent, I wiped my tears and asked what it was.
‘The Moonhunter breached the south border of our region, and it seemed like he was heading to the Crescent Manes right now. Alphas from other Packs are gathering in the Pack House to discuss how to deal with the Moonhunter now.'
‘I understand. I don't think Terry could make it. I will head there in his place.' I explained to Darryl.
I walked into the Pack House only to find Alpha Rafael, Kaia's father was also there. Of course, he was. But I wasn't ready to face him right now, not after witnessing his daughter have sex with my husband.
I was going to ignore him and join everyone, but as soon as he saw me, he waved at me. I had no choice but to force a smile on him.
"Shannon! We are going to be a family soon!"
What?
He must see my confused expression. So he explained to me.
"Oh, Terry just mind-linked me and said that Kaia is his fated mate, he is going to marry her soon. Thank you so much for taking care of her when she is here."
How could he say that so nonchalantly? The fact my husband was marrying another woman was just a trivial matter to me. But before I could react, everyone started to congratulate him.
"Congratulation! Don't forget to invite us to your daughter's wedding!"
Everyone was so happy like the Moonhunter was not attacking us. All the Alphas' attention was focused on Alpha Rafael and his news. It was all so ironic to me.
Like they expected me to just accept the fact that my husband was going to marry another woman, and I would be happy to share him.
"No, we won't be a family." I finally spoke.
"What... What do you mean?" Alpha Rafael asked.
"Terry would only have one wife, and there would only be one Luna for the Crescent Manes Pack." I clenched my fist as I said so.
ShannonAfter what I said about only one Luna, the air became tense. I couldn't take it anymore. And it seemed like they weren't going to discuss what they were going to do when the Moonhunter arrived.So I left when everyone was busy congratulating Alpha Rafael. As I started to make my way to my shared home with Terry.Before we got married, we both lived in the Packhouse. As our wedding day near, he made me close my eyes and led me to a brand new house he bought."Do you like it? It looks empty now, but you can decorate it however you want. I want this to be your home, our home." He held both of my hands in his. The way he looked at me, it was like I was the only woman in this world."Of course I like it! I love it! Thank you, Terry, thank you for giving me a home."I couldn't help but lean in to give him a kiss, he held the back of my head, deepening the kiss."So, lady of the house, do you want to decorate the house so we could move in faster?" He said, a little breathless from th
ShannonKaia immediately ran towards Terry, she dug her perfectly manicured nails into Terry's arm, shaking him frantically to make him snap out of his trance."What are we going to do?" She asked, her voice laced with panic.Instead of reacting to the situation we had on our hands, Terry got up and started to comfort Kaia, he told her everything was going to be alright. But I really doubt that.Anyway, I had to do something."Go call all the warriors." I quickly told the maid, and she nodded and then headed out of the room.I got up and was about to rush to the Pack House, Terry and Kaia followed suit.When we almost reached the door of the House, I saw Darryl was heading our way as well."Alpha Terry, Luna Shannon, I was about to..."I raised my hand to stop him."We already know, we need to gather the Warriors now," I instructed.and Darryl nodded to follow my order, but before he could mind-link the Warriors, Terry spoke."Darryl, take Kaia to somewhere safe." He ordered while wra
ShannonI turned around to see who was yelling from behind.They were Moonhunter's warriors. I had no way to run.And then I looked at the car again, Kaia had tried to close the door while the car was moving, and Terry was wrapping his arm around her shoulder.I stared straight at them, I would have been sad about this departure if he wasn't doing all that while looking right at me.Goodbye, Terry."Put your hand behind your back, we need to tie you up." The warrior reminded me, I finally turned back to look at them with cold eyes."There's no need, I won't run away. I am the Luna of the Crescent Manes pack."He raised his eyebrow at my confession."Okay, but don't try anything, we have surrounded this place, you can't run away."Where could I possibly run away to? Terry left me here. He didn't even look back when he drove off with his true mate."I won't."I followed them back to our Pack House, it seemed that they were gathering people there. Once I entered the hall, I saw familiar
ShannonIt was deafening silence and then a collective loud gasp. His voice was low but everyone heard him, including his men."Alpha Vernon, she was the Luna of the Crescent Manes Pack, she's a used good, why don't you pick from those unmated she-wolves?" Someone said, I think it was his Beta.Only then did Moonhunter tear his intense gaze away from my face, he cast a cold glance at his Beta. I thought he was going to answer him but he did something unexpected. He reached down to my shoulder, turned me around, from facing him to facing all the other people in the room, and he wrapped his arms around me in an almost possessive way. He bent down to my ear level, I felt his breath hitting the spot below my right ear."She's mine, and mine only." I couldn't help but tremble as he said this, partly because of his words, partly because of his breath hitting my sensitive spot.When he noticed I was trembling because of his action, he brought his lips to brush against my ear, I went from tre
Vernon"You are lucky today, our high-ranking werewolves will choose some of you to be their bed warmers."I heard Adonis say as I reached the door to their Pack House, and then it was followed by a collective loud gasp. I frowned.This was not why I came here, to enslaved women and children. Javier stole my supplier, I came here to punish him, only to find that he left his Luna and people behind. Not only that, the other two Alpha all left their Lunas behind.What a coward.It was easy to take over here, they did little fight, maybe it was because all their Alphas fled. I heard they got all the Lunas, hoping they would come back and get them. They were ignorant to hope so, Alphas that could leave their Lunas behind, wouldn't come back for them."I would take one Luna, it must be great to have a Luna as a sex slave."It was Mason's voice, was he always this disrespectful when I was not around?"You can't do this to the captives! This is against the regulation of the werewolf union!"I
Shannon"Do you know where the other Luna is?" I asked the maid as she came into the room.She didn't answer me, instead, she looked me up and down, checking me out. I was suddenly reminded of what I was wearing, and I was self-conscious now."I really thought you had more going on, but I just don't get why Alpha Vernon would choose you. You are not really pretty, and your shape is just okay. I really thought you had more underneath your clothes." She looked at me with a dissatisfied expression on her face.What? It was like I asked him to choose me, I was wondering the same thing, okay? But seeing that she was so young, she didn't look like she was even 20 years old, plus she was only just a maid.She left after that, and I peeked at the door, the two guards were still there. Come to think of it, I had never lived a day in the Alpha room, maybe some weapon would be hidden in this room?I started to go through every closet, every drawer, every desk, anywhere that could hide something.
ShannonBut his reaction was something I never expected, I thought he would at least slap me back like Terry did before. Instead, he grabbed my hand."Are you hurt?"I had fully expected he would be furious, and he might even explode. I knew he could easily hurt me, if not from the size difference then from the vicious rumors I heard about him. I had no doubt he could easily overpower me. Maybe he would hit me like Alpha Ashe hit Nora.But I had my fair training under my belt, I would definitely fight him back and try my best to kill him. Even if I couldn't kill him, I would make him suffer, make him pay for his action.But not this, not him holding my hand so gently and asking me if I was hurt by the slap. And it did hurt. Because it was a hard slap.I didn't know what to say after looking into his eyes. There was something I couldn't place, but I wouldn't be so foolish to think it was anything than possessiveness.I tugged my hand back and shook my head. I couldn't exactly say that
ShannonI was woken up by the soft sunlight, the temperature and the humility of the room were just right, just as I was about to move, the feeling of a pair of arms around my waist shocked me. What happened yesterday rushing back to me...The Moonhunter attacked us, and then he picked me, but he didn't force himself on me, I fell asleep in his arms. And as much as I hated to admit this, this was the best sleep I had since Kaia came into the picture.Before that, I used to wake up in Terry's arms as well. The warmth radiated from Vernon's body brought back so many memories, but they were just memories now. Terry left with Kaia, he wouldn't come back for me, even if he did, I couldn't forgive him, or forget what he had done.Vernon's cold cedar scent trickled to my nose, he was not up yet. I slowly and carefully turned around to face him, trying not to wake him up. I didn't know if he was a light sleeper or not, so I had to move very quietly, and one step at a time.But finally, I turn