Chapter 3

Entering the Alpha’s office and carefully closing the door behind her, Emelia took glances around the room. suddenly feeling suffocated and jumped up, it has always been a big office.

 She was familiar with its intriguing paintings and decor having visited it on countless occasions with her late parents, but today had its specialties.

“Sit child” Alpha Camfrey urged her. Unlike Luna who had a specialty towards her two children, the alpha caredless.

 He was more interested in who would be his heir and so far Mark is the only befitting one fitting him into his standards of the next Alpha. 

Emelia pulled out a chair for herself with shaking hands. Her legs shaking tremendously from the tension scattered all over the room.

 “If she doesn't want the wedding, call it off… I dont have all day” a cold voice echoed all through the walls only increasing the nervousness within her. 

Emelia turned to a dark corner of the room, he was dressed in all black with very little light illuminating the dark corner he chose to sit. His red blazing eyes stared so hard at her that she feared he could see through her lie.

She needed not to be introduced, the voice, his domineer, did its job. The famous Dante of the Camfrey clan, a playboy and a deal breaker, with a daring charisma fit for the devil. 

Red eyes were not just something born with but a heritage passed down to crown alpha but Fredrick Camfrey was different. He was not only an ordained alpha but one born with the rarest eye color in history.

 “Stop this right now” Mark Camfrey ordered, squeezing her hand right under the table but Emilia held on to a calm look. 

She felt his claws digging deep into her flesh with fresh blood, rolling down her palms but not a squeak escaped her mouth. 

“How can I stop now Mark? I am barren and I do not want to be unfair to you and the people. This marriage can't go forward, I love you and I want to be your Luna but the circumstances are beyond my control” Emelia said like the perfect wife she was. 

The obedient and naive fiance and wife she had been for 5 years and death was her reward. 

Death was the payment she got for always doing the right thing, for trusting him and giving him her all. She sneered in her heart.

 Lying with a straight face was not the only new spec she got from dying before, she could even cry to make it more realistic. Her red eyes and painful look did not go unnoticed by Luna and Alpha. 

Mark stared at the woman next to him; he was at a loss of words. She was nothing of the woman he knew.

 Emelia was calm and loved him to death, she had always been willing to do anything for his sake even if it meant going against the laws, she was too obsessed with him to say no, but here She was, not only had she been the one to ask for rejection, but the fake tears and pain was all new to him, she was claiming to love him but her hands were tight. 

He wanted to stuff her face to the wall so badly but how could he when his parents were sitting right before him and his worst enemy in the corner? Everything was okay as long as he could always remain the best and nothing but the most desired in the eyes of their parents and the people.

 A perfect son was all he wanted to be, the most loved and cherished, he could not lose to his brother, not in this lifetime. 

“Our union is beyond the physical, she is my fated mate and the moon goddess never makes mistakes” Mark reminded his parents but Emelia was not buying his lie. 

The moon had certainly made a mistake with their pairing; if not, she wouldn't have died from the poison provided by him. She wanted to punch him across the face, he was the one with a lover and not her. 

He was the one willing to marry another while waiting for the perfect chance to bring in his mistress. Emelia did not want to be the third party in this life or stop them. She was willing and ready to cut him loose.

 Alpha Camfrey and Luna stared at each other for a while, Emelia had her hands crossed, and deep down she prayed hard for a solution. She was more than willing to be anything or do anything as far as it did not involve marrying the monster before her.

 Their word was final, it has as much power over their lives as the degree of fate. Emelia was not just some orphan but one with half the wealth of Snowfall packs in her name. 

Marrying from the ruling clan was the best way to guard the wealth and avoid possible power struggle but Emelia had done it for 3 years for a man she loved and not for the benefits or any other advantages attached to his position or crown. 

“You can't be barren and be Luna'' Alpha Camfrey announced. Emelia gulped down a huge slump. There were two possibilities. One was to say she was lying and go ahead with the wedding, the second was to accept her words and step down to the position of a lowly concubine. 

Emelia did not like any of her options for they all led to the same outcome, which was her death. Watching everyone talk all at once trying to reach a definite conclusion she made her mind up. 

“Since I can't escape marriage, I might as well use it for my benefit,” Emelia thought with a sly grin playing on the corners of her lips. No actions of hers went past the red eagle eyes seated in the dark. 

With everyone saying their minds with no conclusions reached in the conundrum of the moment she blattered out.

 “I will marry your brother,” she says loud and clear to his face. “I will marry Fredrick Camfrey” she adds.