Chapter 1 - Kelly

Out of all the things that had happened to me in the past few months, this would be the best news that I had received. I couldn’t contain my happiness as I rushed to find Leo and tell him the good news.

I was pregnant!

So many things happened between Leo and me. The worst was when he suddenly broke up with me a few months ago. Ever since then, I have tried all the ways to talk to him so that I would be able to understand why he did what he did. But each time I try to reach out to him, he always ignores me. 

I know that there was just a misunderstanding between us. Something that we could get cleared up the moment that we get back together. 

I was just about to go find Leo and tell him the good news when my wolf suddenly called out to me through our link.

“Our mate is near,” she whispered. 

“Are you sure?” I asked. She confirmed it by giving me the directions leading to the garden.

As I entered the entrance of the garden, my heart leaped with joy as I realized who my mate was. 

It was Leo. The only man I had ever loved.

My pace became faster as I wanted to reach him as soon as I could. Finally, we could become one big happy family.

But as I turned to the corner, I stopped in my tracks as I saw what was happening right in front of me.

Leo had his back turned in my direction, but I could clearly see that he was kissing a girl. My heart raced as my feet started moving again, slower this time, praying that this was just a dream. That it was all a bad dream.

But then I saw the familiar hair color, the familiar shape of the girl’s hand. I shook my head, denying the fact that they weren’t the same as someone I knew. But as I got closer, there was no denying it. And all of this was not a dream. As I recognized who the girl was. It was my sister, Merry–the girl that my father had adopted five years ago. 

They stopped kissing when they heard my footsteps. Merry shyly hid behind Leo. 

I could not believe what I was seeing. 

“I am your mate, Leo,” I said as my heart shattered into a million pieces. 

He looked at me coldly, This wasn’t like the looks he used to give me while I begged him to come back to me. This was worse than that. 

I couldn’t give him the good news that I was supposed to deliver. No, I couldn’t tell him that I was carrying his child. Even though I wanted nothing else but to tell him that because all the words I wanted to tell him died in my throat as he continued to look at me like I was a piece of trash and not his mate.

“I’m sorry, sister,” Merry said, breaking the silence that hung between us. “I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you that we had been seeing each other for a while now.” 

I look at Leo, waiting for him to deny what I just heard, but instead of doing that, he wrapped an arm around Merry’s waist and pulled her closer to him. Just like how he used to pull me closer to him.

“I already told you before, Kelly. I told you that it’s over between us.” The iciness in his voice was enough to slice my heart. “And just so it’s clear to you, I, Leo McAllister, the Alpha of the Mystic Moon pack, am rejecting you, Kelly Winters, as my mate.” 

“How could you do this to me, Leo?” I asked in disbelief, unsure which hurt more, Leo’s betrayal or his rejection as my mate.

But instead of giving me an answer, he turned his back on me as he guided Merry away from me.

Was she the reason why Leo broke up with me? Is this why he kept avoiding me all this time? So that he could get together with my sister?

Anguish and unspeakable pain spread all over my body. It was like I was being ripped apart. I tried to hold it together, but my knees gave in and I fell down on the ground. 

I thought I was strong enough to handle such pain, but I ended up lying on the ground, squirming as every part of me was broken into shreds. I have no control over the way my body moved as the pain swept my whole body, making sure that there are no organs, no cells left unpunished. 

Despite all of the pain I have to endure. I never screamed. 

“You will never tell anyone that I am your mate,” he said coldly, “And don’t ever appear in front of me, of us, ever again.”

How did Leo end up like this? I am his fated mate. Did they truly expect me to bend the truth for a love that isn’t even blessed by the Moon Goddess?

I tried to get out of the garden, but no matter how much I wanted to fight and hold on, just so I would not be a laughingstock, there was just so much I could do, and I felt everything becoming light and everything went black.