A WOLFLESS MATE FOR THE LYCAN KING

CHAPTER ONE

Serena's POV

My day of reckoning has come

"Selena Vale, you have been accused of treason against this honorable pack", Elder Walters said, his voice echoing across the pack.

"Do you swear before this council, in the presence of the moon goddess, that you will tell the truth and nothing but the truth?" He asked sternly.

I raised my head to meet his piercing gaze, and his cloudy grey eyes, filled with hatred, sent a shiver down my spine. The muscles around my mouth tightened as I struggled to resist biting my lips.

"I swear"

My reply was loud and confident, despite my insides trembling.

"Are you guilty or not guilty?"

I paused, scanning the crowd. They knew my response, they just didn't believe me.

"Not guilty"

*ONE MONTH AGO*

"He is my son," Trent said, his eyes staring at mine with a blank look as he gestured to the child, who couldn’t be more than five, clinging to his side.

My heart stuttered. My chest felt heavy as those words registered in my brain.

Tears welled up in my eyes but I refused to shed any. A strange feeling of numbness took over as the pathetic mate bond connecting his soul to mine gave a faint twitch.

He has done it again.

“Five years, Trent,” I said in a raspy whisper. “We’ve been mated for five years.”

I looked back at the child. There was no mistaking that he belonged to my mate. His familiar forest green eyes stared back at me innocently.

He let out a scoff, his lips curling up in anger.

Looking at him now, he seemed unrecognizable. Gone were those eyes that normally stared at me with indifference. I paled at the hateful gaze he sent my way.

"Don't tell me that you didn't expect this. What gave you the impression that I would settle for an anomaly like you?"

"I only used you to strengthen my Alpha position" He said as he bridged the gap between us. I was tempted to shrink back as his Alpha aura hit me with full force.

“Your father was a direct descendant of the progenitors of this pack. The pack wouldn’t give me their full support if I rejected our mate bond.”

He gripped my arms tightly, sneering in my face.

"This pack is known for producing the strongest wolves. I am the Alpha and I refuse to be the exception. You are weak, you have no wolf and no abilities and you dare dream of a happy ever after with me ." He screamed in anger.

His words tore through my chest making my heart bleed. My insecurities rose from the places I thought I buried them in.

I never thought I would hear those words from my mate, but all he said was true. I am wolfless. The weakest link in the pack despite being born to an Alpha.

Nobody could figure out why I wasn't blessed with a wolf. My parents took me to different pack doctors, performing different rituals, all to no avail. I spent all my life being bullied by my peers because of my abnormalities. I knew that no sane wolf would want me as a mate. I had already resigned myself to fate, knowing that my life would be that of loneliness, until the moon goddess blessed me with Trent.

An Alpha.

Everything had been in vain as the evidence of that was staring right back at me.

"Was that why you never marked me?"

He didn't answer. I never questioned that before. I watched for years, waiting for the moment he would sink his teeth in throat, claiming me. But the bite never came.

"And his mother?" I asked further, my heart beating rapidly against my chest in preparation for more heartbreak.

"Do I know her?"

"That is none of your business," he retorted.

I stumbled as he released me forcefully.

"You are to evacuate your room immediately as I don't want you around my son. He is to be my heir. You will stay at the Omega house from now on, seeing as that is your actual position in this pack." His voice interrupted my thoughts.

He was throwing me out to be eaten alive by his pack members without batting an eye.

For the first time, I really looked at the mate the moon goddess ‘blessed’ me with. All I could see was a spineless child scared of his own shadow.

He wants me to beg but I refuse to give him that satisfaction. I walked out with my head held up high.

"Serena," he called out. I paused, my skin tingling at the sound of his voice. "Don't come back."

I didn’t wait for him to continue. I left.

I ignored the whispers in the hallway. It was times like these that I wished I had my wolf. I went straight into the forest, to a place where I knew I could truly be alone.

I stood in front of the little cave that had been my solace before meeting my mate. Not many wolves come here because they assume that I contaminated the place. The moon shone the brightest here and the silence was raw and untainted.

I crawled into the cave, sitting on the cold floor. The sky opened as the rain started drizzling.

I stared into space as everything that just happened replayed in my head. Was I sad? Yes. My heart felt like it had been ripped out. But beneath all that, I felt indifferent.

The moon goddess was wrong. She cannot decide my fate by tying me to a man like that. The pack may have rejected me but who cares? They didn’t deserve me anyway.

One thing is for sure. I cannot remain here. I will remain an omega for now until I have a solid plan. Going rogue is the least of my worries now.

The only problem now is that I have never left this pack. Being ‘wolfless’ has left me shielded against the rest of the world. I need a way out.

I thought of my Father’s hidden chest of maps in the Alpha’s Library. I need to get in there as soon as I can.

I would play the part of the broken, rejected mate for now. When I get the perfect opportunity, I will strike.

I stood up, ignoring the pouring rain as I headed towards the Omega house with determination. I got there in less than ten minutes.

The door flung open before I had the chance to knock. I raised my eyes to see a face sneering at me.

A face I never thought I would see again after I exiled her to live the rest of her life within the walls of the Omega house.

Tyra, my arch nemesis.