Andrea’s POV
“You look beautiful, my dear.” My mother smiled, watching me as I twirled around in the long black dress she gifted me for my birthday.I liked it. It was easily one of the best clothes I’ve ever owned, but the trepidation and dread coursing through my veins didn’t allow me to feel happy.My chest felt empty and my hands have been shaking throughout the day. How would I contain the pain in my chest when I get rejected by my mate?On a normal basis, Omegas are usually mated to Alphas or people from a higher rank. Some of them get rejected if they are not up to their mate’s taste. It rarely happens but I know with me, it would.“Thanks, mum.” I sighed, sitting down at the edge of the bed.She noticed the tense look on my face and the erratic beating of my heart, so she leaned down and placed an assuring hand on my shoulder.“Baby, you don’t need to worry. The day would go perfectly for you.” She patted me, then leaned forward and placed a lingering kiss on my forehead.“No, mum. It is not going to. They all hate me. Don’t you know what they call me?” I stifled down the tears that were in my eyes.“Yes, but,” she started, but I cut her off.“And do you know what they would call me when they find out that I am not a full werewolf?” I yelled this time, turning my head to face her.“You need to lower your voice.” She snapped.I scoffed and shook my head, then looked away.“How do you think my mate would react when he finds out that my father was not a werewolf but a human? They already hate me enough because I’m not a lycan, how would they now treat me when they find out that I’m half human?” I let the tears slip out of my eyes this time.My mother kept shut. I knew it was not completely her fault, because she was just a young and dumb teenager that decided to go wild.That mistake is costing me my entire life. It had costed me my entire childhood, and now it was going to cost me my mate.I wished she had aborted me sometimes. It would have been better than facing all of this.Somehow, I made getting mated seem far in my life. I didn’t want to think of it as something that was happening soon just to have peace of mind.Now, I had to face it. It was my life, and I couldn’t run away from it. I wiped the tears away before I stood up and headed out of the room.I headed to the pack hall where the mating ceremony was going to happen. The entire pack was seated, and music was blaring through the speakers.I sighted a lot of people seated in the crowd that I knew were going to make my life a living hell if I got rejected. I saw my school bullies and some of the random pack members that disliked and bullied me because I was an abomination.My hands were sweaty as I locked eyes with one of the twins. I looked closer to see which one it was. It didn’t take long to recognize who it was, with the evil glint and smirk on his face.Damon Meadows.I didn’t know why he was looking at me like that and I didn’t want to know why. I tore my gaze away from him and sat down in the corner as I awaited to hear my fate. The Epsilon’s in the pack, who were basically the oldest wolves, were the ones that got the information from their dreams.Every year, the packs Beta announces it and then the mated wolves take a blood oath.Food was being served out to the pack members, and those that already knew their mates were trying to know each other more before the blood oath.I could see some with tears in their eyes and some happy like they had won a lottery. Whereas I was just sitting in the corner, watching with dread because I didn’t even know who I was mated to here.If I didn’t get a mate, then my life was going to turn worse than it already was because I would officially be the bastard girl with no mate, as if being a bastard wasn’t painful enough.“Andrea.” Someone called my name out from behind me, and I turned my neck to face him.It was Damon. I was too lost in my thoughts that I didn’t even notice that he had left his seat and was now standing beside me. He crouched down, then sat down on the ground next to me.“Sweet little Andrea.” He whispered near my ears, which made the hairs on my skin rise.Goodness, he even sounded like the devil. The way he spoke and behaved was scary. Everyone knew that he was a psychopath yet his actions still seemed to scare me. Damon was not a person. He was the damn devil.“What do you want?” I snarled.“Don’t use that tone on me. You don’t talk to your mate that way.” He whispered in my ears again.This time, not only did goosebumps rise on my skin but my heartbeat started to quicken. My hands started to visibly shake, and my throat was dry. I was speechless. This couldn’t be happening to me.I turned to face him. His features looked unperturbed. I couldn’t get mated to him. He was never going to respect me as his mate. In fact, he was going to kill me.There wasn’t an ounce of humanity in Damon. Not even a pinch of it.“No, please,” I murmured.“Exactly, Andrea. I don’t want to be mated to a disgusting werewolf Omega like you too. So I have a deal.” He offered.I was willing to do whatever it took to not get mated to him. I would do anything to save myself from being with a man that spoke about people that way.Asshole.“What is it?” I growled.“I am going to reject you, but you will be on your way out of this pack before tomorrow. Join the rogues, die in the woods alone, or join another pack. I really don’t give a damn. Just be out before tomorrow.” He said.I had that thought all my life, which was to leave the pack after I got rejected. Not even my mother could stop me. I was leaving.“Deal.” I nodded.“Good.” He said before he stood up and headed back to where his brother was seated.I let out a breath I didn’t know I was holding. My mother had to understand. This was the only way I was going to save myself from the twins that were keen on making my life hell.The event soon started, and the Beta started to speak through the microphone.“Good evening ladies and gentlemen of the pack. We are gathered today to witness the mating ceremony of this year’s pups that have developed into adults. As we all know, this year, we have the special sons of the Alpha who are getting mated today,” he spoke, his voice booming through the speakers at the four corners of the pack hall.“The pack’s Epsilon is going to announce who their mate is. Please welcome him with a round of applause. Epsilon John Knight.”The pack hall erupted into claps as they welcomed him to the stage. My hands were clammy, and I felt dizzy. But it was for the best. It was going to be the biggest embarrassment in my life but after today, it won’t matter.I tried to calm my steady heart, but I couldn’t. When the Epsilon came to the stage, he greeted the audience before he started to speak.“The Alpha’s sons are fated to have the same mate, as we all know. The future Luna of this pack is no one other than Omega Andrea.” He announced.The whole pack hall went silent, and the blood in my face drained.What did I just hear?I was mated to both of them?No way. No freaking way.My brain was frozen. I couldn’t move. Everyone’s eyes were on me. Just then, I started to hear the whispers get into my head.“Isn’t that the bastard girl?”“They’d better reject her.”“What an unfortunate choice.”“Omega Andrea?” The Epsilon called out again, making me regain my consciousness.I stepped up to the stage. My mind was not with me. My brain was acting solo. When I got to the stage and felt everyone’s eyes blazing into me, I nearly peed my pants.“Can the Alpha’s sons also come to the stage for the blood oath?” He said, turning his neck to face the twins that had a poker look on their faces.Lucas stood up. I thought he was going to come forward on stage but instead, he said the words that shattered me completely.“I, Lucas Meadow, Future Alpha of the Shadow Moon pack reject you Omega Andrea as my mate and future Luna.” He said, his powerful voice booming throughout the pack hall.My pulse stopped.“I, Damon Meadows of the Shadow Moon pack, reject you, Omega Andrea one-night stand or whatever as my mate.”I didn’t know it was possible to feel the sound of my heart breaking, or at least my brain convinced me that I felt it.If that was not enough, Damon stood up to his feet and added, “No one would want to have an abomination as their mate, Epsilon John. We would wait for our second chance mate.”I felt like I was having a panic attack. There were giggles coming from the pack members. I had thought about what it would feel like all my life to get rejected. I thought it was going to be like the rest, getting sympathy and all.But from what my ears could pick, everyone was glad that they didn’t pick me as their mate. I had never been humiliated his way. Rejected by two men on the same night was not what I expected, and there was nothing I could do.There was laughter coming from one side of the pack. I knew it was my bullies from school. It made tears well in my eyes, but I didn’t let them fall. I heard my mother trying to console me through our mind link, but I blocked her out.I was leaving this pack today anyways. I swallowed the bitterness in my throat before I headed out of the pack house, ignoring all the glances I was getting from people.I wasn’t only an abomination in their eyes now, I was also the first lady to get rejected by two of her mates in the same night. I never thought of what it would be like to get rejected by two people.It hurt so bad. Nothing has ever made me feel this way. There was nothing left for me in the pack again. I was going to pack my clothes and leave, and not even destiny was going to come in my way.Andrea’s POVThe guards at the border of the pack were scanty. I didn’t even bother going back to the pack house to collect my clothes because I knew my mother would meet me there.When I got to the border of the pack, I started to shift. I looked up at the moon. It was the full moon today, which meant that I could shift without breaking the bones in my body.I removed my clothes on the way and tied them around my neck, knowing I would need them later when I shifted back. The woods were cold and in case I needed to spend the night there, I don’t sleep naked. My wolf, Kira, started to howl unnecessarily. I could tell she was hurt by the pain of being rejected by two people at the same time. But if she continued, my mother could track me down.I didn’t want her to know where I went.“Shut up, Kira.” I hissed, as my body started to freely rush through the woods, just as I passed the pack’s border.Most of the pack guards were in the pack hall where the mating ceremony was going on. Even
Third person’s POV After the mating ceremony was over, the Alpha king was filled with rage. He had never been angry towards his sons like he was this way since their mother left. Ever since she left them to chase her career in another city, living him in the most excruciating pain he had ever felt in his life which was due to him getting separated from his mate, he put his all into raising his children the proper way.But tonight, they embarrassed him. They proved to be mannerless in front of the whole pack and disgraced a woman. That was the one of the things he frowned heavily upon. What annoyed him the most was that the lady was no one other than the daughter of the woman he loved. Alpha Damien had always had a crush on Sierra Coleman, who was Andrea’s mother. When she got pregnant and banished from the pack, he was heartbroken because he planned on divorcing his already pregnant wife for her. His wife was not a good woman. She was his mate too, but she cheated on him at every
Andrea’s POVThe twins. They were right in front of me, and were stopping me from joining another pack. For fuck’s sake, isn’t it what they wanted? Why were they now trying to stop me from joining the pack?They were so confusing.But I didn’t want to stay back to hear what they came here to say. All that I knew was that I was seconds away from joining this pack, and no one could stop me.“Let’s go ahead with it, my Alpha,” I said to him.His blood was dripping down as he watched between me and the lycan men that were standing at the threshold of his office, not knowing whose words to take.“This is an Omega from my pack,” Lucas started as he shifted back to his human form.I watched as his bones crack, forming back into his usual human shape. I wondered what it would be like if I could shift whenever I wanted.It would be so nice, and I won’t have to go through all of the pain werewolves go through before they shifted, if it wasn’t the full moon.“She came here, with the request of jo
Andrea’s POVI felt an incredible amount of rage course through my veins like lava. It felt like betrayal. My mother made them bring me back here because she wanted to get mated to the Alpha. Maybe she had forgotten all the hell I went through because of the royal family. Maybe she had forgotten how they had banished us because she made one mistake in her teenage years.They were not our people and they sure as hell didn’t love us. Or maybe she had forgotten that they were lycans and we were just the low Omega werewolves that weren’t even citizens of the pack because we were refugees.Albeit that, she still wanted to get mated to the king. My chest tightened, because of how selfish my mother was. How could she do this to me?I trotted back to the palace to face her. There were tears in my eyes from all that was happening to today. This was the birthday that was supposed to be the best in my life as it was going to introduce me to the life of adulthood, yet it is just filled with pain
Andrea’s POVIn the morning when I woke up, I looked out through the cracks of my windows that light was peeking through and sighed. I barely slept throughout the night because all I could think of was my new life.For the first time in my life, I was going to be alone and responsible for my life. I wasn’t going to do it knowing I had my mother to fall back to. I would be a full adult, making her own life decisions in this cruel world.I rolled off the bed and stood up to my feet then stretched, my bones making a satisfying crack. I had to start arranging my clothes into my bags before it was time for me to leave later.I headed towards the wardrobe and opened it up. I didn’t have many clothes, because most of them were torn and worn out. It was the courtesy of the twins who loved to tear my clothes and humiliate me for no apparent reason.Thinking of them alone brought my blood to a sizzling boil. I will finally be away from all of that. I couldn’t wait. I wished I had a way
Andrea’s POV After dinner, my mother dragged me back to our room. I expected her to be happy that I was staying back by instead, she looked worried. When we got inside, she banged the door behind us before she pulled me until we were close to the bed.“What was that?” She spoke out. “You really want to stay back, Andrea?” “Don’t you want me to?” I raised a brow in confusion about why she was even talking to me about this right now. I had a life to start as royalty here. It felt surreal. It would have been a different thing if the Alpha didn’t propose that I get the same treatment with them. But since he did, there was no way I was passing on this. Maybe sometime in the future I will leave but just not now.“Of course I did sweetheart. But you wanted a new life, and you’re staying back solely because of those boys. You are staying because you want to get revenge on them.” I didn’t even try to hide it, “Of course.” I nodded. “Baby. I don’t want you to be sucked into this bitterne
The look on Damon’s face was what I assumed death would look like when it was standing right in front of me, ready to take me with it. My limbs were shaking, knowing that he was going to hit me.He was going to hit me so hard my neck would break.“You sick little fuck. Are you crazy?” He bellowed, and I flinched.It was his fault. He shouldn’t have spoken to me about all the women he was shagging in the room that was going to be mine because I didn’t ask for that details. I certainly didn’t want to know. “I am sorry,” I apologized. I needed to get in and wash my body. The entire room was smelling of puke, which made me want to puke even more. Maybe it had to do with the fact that my body wasn’t used to eating this much in the morning.The only time I ate like this was by chance, or when I stole from them. Eating all of it now comfortably made me feel weird. Very weird.“If you puke on me again, you are going to see a very dark side of me.” He snarled, taking a step back from me. Th
Eva encircled both of her hands around me, and I nearly choked on her perfume. It was her signature perfume that could be smelt miles away when she arrived somewhere. I always seemed to wonder how she managed to walk around with that much perfume, despite being a lycan with a heightened sense of smell.“How are you?” Her lips were plastered with a fake smile.I wasn’t going to entertain her. I thought she was going to come tomorrow, because I wasn’t ready to see her after all she did to me. I could remember how she was laughing at me vividly when I got rejected. But now because my mother got mated to the Alpha she suddenly wanted to become my friend.I scoffed. I was going to get back on all she did to me. She and her little minions, and the twins. I wasn’t going to forgive a thing they did. I couldn’t wait to repay all they did for me.But for now, I needed to act like a friend. I was going to destroy her life from within so when it was about time for us to graduate, she was going