“I, Alpha Adonis Maslow of Blue Moon Pack, reject you, Gemma Pristley as my fated mate.” He announced. “I, Gemma Pristley, accept your rejection, Alpha Adonis Maslow.” She said with her remaining strength before embracing darkness. Gemma Pristley, the Luna and unloved mate of Alpha Adonis Maslow was left heartbroken and shattered when he believed the lies of his best friend and chose to punish her. He accused her of betrayal and conspiring against the pack. Banished and left to die into the woods, Gemma was saved by Beta of the neighbouring pack. It was a new birth for her. Her heart grew cold for her mate whom she loved unconditionally. She lost her baby because he chose to believe others. Alpha Adonis realized what he just lost when his devoted mate disappeared from the woods. He went to search her next day as remorse gripped him but it was too late. She had vanished from his life, leaving him to try redemption.
View More( Gemma’s pov )
“How could you do this to Seline?”
The Alpha of Blue Moon Pack and, Adonis Maslow and my mate growled at me. It broke my heart how he looked ready to kill me, his dark eyes reflected hatred and menace. Beside him, stood his lover, Seline clutching tightly on his arms.
“Adonis, tell me that it’s a joke. She…she is nothing to you.” I said pointing my finger at Seline, the Beta’s daughter with a frightened expression on her face. I heard the rumours, I saw their closeness but I wasn’t ready to believe any of it.
My heart was hammering against my rib cage. My mate couldn’t be fooling me. He held another woman close to him, the place which is rightfully mine. He had been distant towards me ever since we found out that we were mates and he had to mark me. I was the pack’s luna but our relationship was cold. At least, from his side.
“Stop pretending, Gemma. Seline told me everything.” He growled at me in his alpha tone.
“Adonis, please…trust me. I didn’t push her. She is trying to frame me and why are you trusting another woman over your own mate.” I tried to speak but another low growl from him silenced me.
There was no use of telling him that it was all orchestrated by his Seline, his childhood friend, perhaps his secret lover. She sees me as a threat to her. She always wanted him. How ironical it was. I was his fated mate but he believed another woman’s lie.
“I warned you many times, Gemma. I clearly told you that I only marked you because it was necessary. A traitor’s daughter can’t be trusted. I marked you because my wolf needed its mate. I hate you, I hate you for coming in my perfect life and ruining everything.” He spat venom.
I looked at him with teary eyes but he was cold and indifferent towards me while holding her protectively in his arms. She was smirking, her tears were fake.
“I swear on my mother, Adonis. I didn’t push her. Why can’t you believe me for once!” I shouted for the first time in last two months.
Two long, agonizing years since I found out that my Alpha is my mate and I regret ever coming to the packhouse to take blessings from elder Luna on my 18th birthday and she wasted no time in introducing me to the pack as her son’s mate but her son thinks otherwise.
“It’s fine, Adonis. Leave her. I know how a fated mate feels when her mate is in love with another woman. She did it out of natural instinct.” Seline faked innocence.
I just wanted to scratch her face but I refrained myself, it’d only present me as an insecure, desperate woman.
“I am asking you for the last time, Gemma. Confess your sin and I’ll reduce your punishment. You tried to kill a pack member and there’s no way I’d let it go.” He warned me in a dangerous tone and my whole body shivered.
“I won’t confess a lie, Alpha. If you want to punish me then go ahead.” I said in a blank tone which seemed to trigger his anger even more.
He marched towards me and sunk his claws in my arms. I winced as blood trickled down but I maintained a calm composure. I am a pack warrior and trained to bear the worst.
“The maids saw you pushing her and this is enough to announce you a criminal because attacking a high rank wolf without Alpha’s permission is called treason in Blue Moon Pack.” He whispered in a dangerous tone.
The sinister glint in his black eyes proved that he needed this excuse to get rid off me. Why didn’t I see it coming? Why I hoped that one day he recognized our bond and come back to me?
His hatred was mocking back at me.
I lowered my head in surrender because there was no way that I could win an Alpha. He’d rip me in pieces.
“Apologize to Seline right now, Gemma. I am sick of your stubborn behaviour.” He ordered me and Sadie, my wolf growled in retaliation. I have a Gamma’s blood in me. There’s no way I’d rub my nose on her feet because I hadn’t done anything.
“I am sorry, Adonis but I won’t apologize to your lover because I am innocent. You have stabbed my trust. I thought you were just cold towards me but you are worse. A cheater!” I said in a low but firm voice.
In the next moment, I was thrashed against the wall, he slapped me hard and as the impact, I fell down on the floor.
A sharp pain shot through my belly and I coiled on the floor with unbearable pain. I felt a hot liquid dripping between my legs.
My body was in unbearable pain but I endured everything in silence because if I rebel again, he’d kill me but I have to live for my widow mother. Her life would become a hell if something happens to me.
“How dare you to accuse me of something you are good at doing. Guards! Throw her in the cell. She will be presented in front of the assembly tonight. I will make my judgement there. The whole pack must see how we punish a traitor.” He ordered the waiting guards and left.
My heart shook with fear even though I was on the verge of passing out. The guards started dragging me. Seline bend down to my level and removed my hairs from my bloodied face.
“I warned you many times, foolish girl but you never listened. Adonis is mine. I have loved him since we were kids and I won’t give up him for someone like you. Now, face the aftermath of your stupidity. I will make sure that you won’t see tomorrow’s sun.” She said in a low whisper.
They started dragging me out of the packhouse. The maids and everyone threw me disgusted glances, they were made to believe that I tried to kill their Beta’s only daughter. They were the same people who used to respect me for my services.
I was thrown into a dark cell. The same place where I have punished many rogues. They chained me in silver shackles. They shred my clothes and splashed icy cold water on my naked body before whipping me continuously.
My skin was peeled off, the effect of silver weakened my wolf. She tried to fight back but the long hours of hellish torture forced her to give up and I was scared if I had lost her.
I’d survive for a long time if she dies.
I was laying lifelessly on the cold, blood matted floor, praying for this torture to be over when I smelled his scent. He was coming close to me. My heart shook with fear when the doors burst open and the Beta entered, he smirked seeing me tied to the silver chains.
“Oh, you are still alive. I must say you are a stubborn one. You are indeed that bastard’s daughter but I will make sure that Adonis removes you completely from his life. My daughter is his” He said with a hint of viciousness.
“Plea..please…let..me..go. I will..apologize to..Seline..and the pack.” I said in a broken voice in a hope that he’d allow me to go and I could leave this pack with my mother.
“It’s too late for that. I have a news for you.” He knelt down to my level, my eyes were slowly closing.
“You just a miscarried baby, a baby which isn’t the Apha’s. At least, what I have made him believe.” His eyes shone with a sinister glint.
My heart skipped a beat. What was he talking about? He just said that I had lost a baby.
I was pregnant?
[ Gemma ]I tried to open my eyes and when my vision cleared, I saw white ceiling and smell of medicines invaded my senses. As I tried to move, I felt numbness and mild pain in my abdomen. I remembered passing out after unbearable labour pain and struggle to deliver my baby which went on throughout the night hours and I didn’t remember anything once he was out of me.I blinked my eyes several times to adjust my vision.My stomach was flat but my baby wasn’t around which filled me with panic and fear.I vigorously pressed the bell to call someone and in the next moment, nurses rushed inside.“Luna, please calm down or you’ll hurt yourself. You are weak after blood loss during your child’s birth.” They tried to keep me down on the bed as I tried to pull the iv strap.“Where is my baby? What have you done to him?” I shouted because I couldn’t trust Giovanni and his pack.“He is safe. He is in NICU since he was born prematurely but he is safe there’s nothing to worry about.” They told me
[ Gemma ]“That’s absurd, you know. My wolf had recognized him on my eighteenth birthday. Adonis was my fated mate. The love I felt for him wasn’t a deception, Alpha.” I said not believing a word he said.“Then ask yourself why you have no pain or regret after rejecting him. Do not lie to yourself, Gemma. You feel free after breaking your ties with him like you wanted to do it for a very long time. He never really loved you. Your relationship was just a deception, a lie both you and Adonis living.” He said.His words hit me like someone threw stones at me.“Someone wanted to use you, amore. For years, you were just a useful asset for the Blue Moon Pack. Everyone in the north knows that Adonis couldn’t have built it without you.” He added.I closed my eyes and let his words sink in.“In a week, I’ll give birth to his child. I will be a mother to another man’s child and there’s no way I will let you take my baby from me.” I gave him a blank look.“No one is going to take your baby from
[ Gemma ]“Mate!”I felt my body was either frozen or I started hallucinating impossible things.His icy-blue eyes transformed in light golden shade, it was his wolf, a powerful black wolf whom I could see in his eyes and feel a strong pull. All the noises died down for me and time seemed to stop when he brought my hand to his lips.He kissed my knuckle and the same warm sensation again coursed through my body.“Mate!”Sadie’s voice came from inside again, this time clearer and more confident.“Mate!”His deep but more affectionate voice reached into my ears. It wasn’t like before. His tone was different, it was like a magnate pulling me towards him. My heart was racing on a dangerous pace and I was almost on the verge of passing out.“You got your answer now, my sweet amore.” He said and I was finally snapped out of my shocked state.Holy shit!How was it even possible?“No, this is a trap! It can’t be true.” I shook my head in denial not caring that I might upset the cruelest alpha
[ Gemma ]I looked at my reflection in the mirror. The woman staring back at me, wasn’t me because her eyes were dead. She was just in flesh without a soul even though they had done a great job by dressing me in a silver shimmering gown and glamourous makeup.“You are the prettiest woman I have ever seen, regina. I am sure the alpha won’t be able to take his eyes off you and the pack members, they’ll go crazy when they meet their queen for the first time.” Carlotta said giving me a thorough scan from tip to toe.I cringed at her first line.“Don’t make me feel like I am a whore, Carlotta. If your alpha brought me here to adore my beauty then tell him to get done with this.” I said bitterly.Her smile dropped and other maids started whispering among themselves since they didn’t speak English much.“Miss Carlotta, Mr. Leonardo is here to take regina to the party venue.” A guard said knocking on the door which was already opened.“Leonardo? I won’t go with him.” I snorted because he was
[ Gemma ]“Sadie, please talk to me and tell me that you are here with me. I need you the most now.” I tried talking to Sadie who had abandoned me when I needed her to give me courage and strength to fight the demons around me.But no response came from her. I didn’t know how was she and how she was coping up with the rejection. Rejection is the last thing any wolf wants and when it happens, it breaks the wolves more than their human halves.“Sadie, I hope you are fine, my girl. We are on our own now, this is our fight and we need to go through it together. We have to keep our baby safe.” I said to her and hoped she was listening to me.I laid on the bed, trying to rest which my body needed but my unstable mind and restless heart kept me tossing in the bed. I didn’t touch the food that a maid brought for me.It was a jail for me as Leonardo mentioned. They hadn’t hurt me yet but it didn’t mean I could trust them.Giovanni Orsini confused me. His last words kept resonating in my ears.
[ Gemma ]“Brother, I brought the regina safely to you.”Giovanni said to the man. I had yet to see his face. The man was standing behind me. I could feel his energy. He was intimidating because everyone had their head lowered.“You never disappoint me, Leonardo.” The man said.I was more confused than being scared.His deep footsteps came closer. I dared to look at Giovanni whom the man called as ‘Leonardo’. He had a proud look on his face.“Yes, you brought the regina here. You have proved your capabilities, Leo. We’ll celebrate your victory and my regina’s homecoming tonight. The Death Shadow wolves deserve an unforgettable night.” The man said.I saw his shiny black shoes coming closer and my heartbeats raced.I gulped hard. Who was this man?“Bentornato a casa, tesoro, Gemma.” The man said my name and something in Italian.My body was cold with fear.“You don’t need to be scared of us, Regina.” He said, this time in English.I squeezed my eyes tightly.“Gemma, look up. I am your
Welcome to GoodNovel world of fiction. If you like this novel, or you are an idealist hoping to explore a perfect world, and also want to become an original novel author online to increase income, you can join our family to read or create various types of books, such as romance novel, epic reading, werewolf novel, fantasy novel, history novel and so on. If you are a reader, high quality novels can be selected here. If you are an author, you can obtain more inspiration from others to create more brilliant works, what's more, your works on our platform will catch more attention and win more admiration from readers.
Comments