1. Cheated

ASTRID

A soft moan escaped my lips as my eyes fluttered open gently. It took a few seconds before I became aware of my surroundings and the memories of what had happened the night before flooded my mind.

I stretched on the bed, my lips twisting upwards with a huge smile, a smile of satisfaction and affection. It was at that point that I realized there was no one laying beside me.

It would have been amazing to wake up and see his handsome face fast asleep next to me and his perfectly sculpted body within my touch but I couldn’t exactly demand for more, not after last night.

The space between my thighs ached, everytime I tried to move, I became even more sensitive to the pain inside of my body due to how sore I was but I didn’t dwell on that because all I could think about was how he had pinned me against the wall in the shower and slammed himself inside of me so hard that I felt dizzy with pleasure.

His possessiveness over me made my body react in a way I never thought possible.

Lustful sounds that I never knew existed escaped me and the sensation took over every part of me to the extent that I passed out as soon as my climax hit.

“I would do it all over again,” I whispered to myself as I forced myself to get dressed because I had a lot of chores to do and couldn’t afford to continue staying in bed.

The blood stains on the sheet took me back to last night, I had pleaded with him to wait for the Night of the Mates, when the moon goddess will shine her light down on mates and their bond would grow thicker, it had always been my dream to mate under such moon but he had responded with a very gruff tone that his wolf couldn’t wait any longer and that made me unable to resist him.

I couldn’t relate to that feeling though. I had never experienced a shift or what it felt like to have a wolf but if there was one thing I was certain of, it was, I wanted to mate with him too.

That was why I wanted to mate with him under the moon, in hopes that the moon would help strengthen our bond and seal our fate as mates since I didn’t have a wolf to do that for me but all hope was not yet lost, after last night, I was convinced that he was already mine.

“I love you Astrid and my entire body aches to be inside you.”

His words echoed at the back of my mind. I couldn’t help but smile sheepishly to myself as I made my way outside of my school dormitory. In the hallway, the clock struck 11pm and a loud sound echoed through the entire building.

It was time for the school assembly.

My heart leapt in excitement at the thought of seeing Damien again after what happened, he was the Alpha prince and the idea of him being mated to me made my toes curl. After what happened last night, he would definitely claim me sooner than I expected.

I hurried to the assembly hall and the moment I stepped in, I felt every single eye turn towards my direction. The once rowdy hall fell silent almost immediately except for the whispers coming from every corner.

“That’s her, she is the school slut.” A girl to my right whispered to her friend and they both shot me a look of disgust.

Everyone was staring at me like I was something the cat dragged in.

Their looks of disdain and hurtful words didn’t get to me though because it wasn’t the first time, my classmates and pack members had always bullied me due to the fact that I didn’t have a wolf and was at the bottom of the food chain. They seized every opportunity they got to treat me like trash but Damien had recently been the one coming to my rescue.

Even though it had barely been up to two weeks since he started giving me attention, it felt like it had been years. The way his deep blue eyes held mine, the way his broad shoulders and muscular arms wrapped around me protectively and most importantly, the way he made me feel anytime he spoke to me convinced me that we were always meant to be.

The fluttering feeling that exploded inside of me every single time I laid eyes on him, or whenever he smiled at me couldn’t be wrong,

“The nerve of the bitch showing up here,” I overheard a familiar voice behind me and my entire body froze.

There was no mistaking that voice. It was Adriana.

The thought of her alone made goosebumps pop out all over my body at an alarming rate and my heart pounded against my chest as if it was about to rip its way out of me.

Adriana, the queen bee of the school and my arch nemesis was getting closer to me with each passing second with a scowl of disapproval on her face, her cliche of friends following right behind her.

The thought of what she had done to me a week ago sent a shiver down my spine. She had locked me up in a cell with rogues knowing fully well that I couldn’t defend myself since I had still been unable to shift but she and her friends stood outside there and watched me with amusement as I scurried away from the hungry rogues to stay alive.

There was very little space to run to and one of them had eventually cut my leg with its sharp claws and was just about to devour me while she stood there and laughed with her friends like she was enjoying a show in her room, when Damien showed up.

With a growl, he sent the rogues running and whimpering back into the shadows of the cell. His Alpha aura and might was too much for them to handle.

Damien! His name rang out loud in my head.

If I could get to Damien, he would be able to save me from her. He might even claim me in front of everyone and that would mean no one would be able to bully me again.

My eyes scanned the length of the grand assembly hall as I hurried away from Adriana in search of Damien. My eyes soon rested on him, he was standing with his friends at the other end of the hall, close to the exit and had his back to me but his coffee brown hair coupled with his height, made him stand out boldly among the others.

I rushed over to him and even though I couldn’t exactly bring myself to look him straight in the eye, not after all the sounds I made last night and the things I said to him, I reached out and gently touched him.

“Fuck me Damien! Please don’t stop, fuck meee.” My own voice echoed in my mind and my face flushed at the thought of it.

He turned around and before I could open my mouth to say anything, something shoved me so hard that I didn’t just stumble backwards but I fell flat on my ass.

“How dare you lay those filthy hands on me!” A loud voice yelled and I glanced up sharply to find Damien glaring down at me with so much anger in his eyes.

I couldn’t even recognize his voice anymore.

“W-What? Damien I…” I stuttered, shocked and unable to speak.

“Did you really think that I would get mated to a slut? You’re so much dumber and naive than I thought.” His tone was cold and filled with contempt.

Everyone was now staring at us and had even gathered around. My eyes brimming with tears and my face burning with embarrassment, a feeling I had become accustomed to all too well. I tried to stand up but his next words knocked the air right out of my lungs and I collapsed back to the ground.

“It was a bet,” he continued with a wide grin on his face and a devilish glint in his eyes, just like the one Adriana always had in her eyes whenever she saw me, “fuck! It was so easy to get you to open your thighs in less than two weeks. I am sure I could have done it in a day if that was the stakes,” he chuckled as he high-fived his friends.

“I want to mate under the mate moon,” he pouted his lips at me, mimicking what I had said last night while his friends laughed behind him, “but you were so wet like the slut that you are. I won the bet anyways and you are definitely way cheaper than I expected, I am sure more guys would be coming your way now.” He winked at me before walking away with his friends.

I just sat there, the burning feeling on my face had somehow seeped inside of me and it felt like my insides were on fire. My throat ached and my chest hurt like never before. The tears blurred my vision of him as he walked away.

Dazed and still unable to process what had happened, I remained still. What was left of my fantasy world that I had built in my head with Damien in it, was now crumbling to the ground like it was nothing.

It had all happened way too fast.

The tears rolled down my cheeks and before I could even react, someone grabbed a fistful of my hair from behind me and I yelped out loud in pain as my hands shot behind me to hold onto it.

“You little slut,” Adriana's cold voice whispered close to my ear, “just sit back and enjoy this little movie we found on the school site.” She added as she shoved her phone in my face.

I briefly glanced at it and was about to look away because of the burning feeling in my scalp due to how tightly she was holding onto my hair when my eyes caught sight of my room on the screen.

My eyes widened in shock and my chest heaved heavily, the tears flowing down my face beyond control as snickers and laughter from everyone around me took a jab at me.

It was a video of last night, when Damien had taken me in the bathroom.

My heart skipped a beat, there was a video of it!