Rejected.

ROSELINE'S POV

"She is my Luna," Liam said, but he was not referring to me, who was his mate and very much deserving of that title, but not anymore because he had just openly rejected me in front of the entire pack for something that was not my fault and claimed my step sister, Isabelle to be his mate right after that.

The pain I was in right now was unbearable, watching my mate address my sister as his Luna was like having my heart stabbed with a dagger repeatedly, my nails dug into my thighs as I tried to control myself and remain calm until all of this was over, until they got married. I didn't want to be here but Liam forced me to sit and watch them, he wanted me to feel the pain he felt when I betrayed him.

He thought I betrayed him on purpose, to mock him, but that wasn't the case, and as a result of that small mistake, I had lost everything, my mate, my title, and everything else, and I can't blame anyone but myself, I caused this, and if I hadn't been so stupid enough to fall into my stepsister's trap, I would have been standing at that alter with Liam rather than her!

Seeing her smiling so innocently looking like an angel when in truth she was the devil, a cunning jealous witch! I felt like going up there and ripping that smile off her ugly face but I knew better than to do that, that would only anger Liam more which I didn't want. I wanted him to calm down so we could talk and tell him that I was tricked, my sister planned all of it and then he could accept me back as his mate and then kick my sister out.

No matter how true it seems, I still find it hard to believe that Isabelle would do this to me, we've been nothing but two loving sisters growing up despite how differently we were treated. We had the same father, who was the Alpha, my mother died when I was a little girl, and he married Isabelle's mother, my stepmother.

My stepmother made it her life mission to see that my life was anything but miserable, she despised me for reasons only she knew about, and she turned my father against me, I had never done anything wrong to him, but he hated me and made it clear that he was only letting me stay in the pack house because his blood flowed through me, and that I meant nothing else to him.

My stepmother moved me from the main house to the quarters where the servants stayed and eventually, I became one of them, doing chores and going on errands and soon everyone forgot I was the Alpha's daughter and only saw Isabelle as his only daughter. Isabelle had it all growing up, things that I was also supposed to have if I was treated like her, she was pretty, smart, and admired by everyone, whenever people saw us together, they assumed I was her helper and not her sister, but Isabelle never paid attention to them, she never let their words interfere with our relationship, we continued to be the best of sisters while leaving our separate lives.

I was envious of her, but it wasn't her fault we were treated differently, it was that witch she called a mother's fault, she hated when I hung out with Isabelle and would assign me chores to keep me away from her, and she dragged Isabelle off to go train while I mopped floors.

The thing I was most envious of about Isabelle was how she got to train, not just her, but everyone else who trained as well. Training begins when you turn fifteen, you begin training before you get your wolf, and every member of this pack had the right to train at fifteen, except for me. My stepmother forbade me from training as she said there was no need since my life was going to be spent serving others so what's the point of my training, I wasn't even allowed to shift anymore after my first shift.

It's been two years since my first shift, two years since I last felt my wolf, she's still with me but I haven't felt her in a very long time. She remained silent because I was forbidden from letting her out, it pained her, and I could feel it, but it also pained me even more as I watched others run off in their wolf form happily while I was stuck mopping the ground they would step on after they finished running off.

Aside from the pain I endured as a result of my stepmother, I endured even more pain from the moon goddess, who never blessed me with a mate. Every she wolf in our pack met their mate when they turned eighteen but I didn't, I waited for a few months but I didn't meet my mate and everyone mocked that he probably ran away after he found out I was his mate.

I didn't believe them and saw it as just another scheme to mock me, but after a year passed and another, and I still had not met my mate, I gradually came to accept their words, that my mate ran away from me. I cried every night thinking about it, I had hoped that my mate would see me differently, treat me differently, but he ran away from me, but I eventually healed and forgot about him, continuing to live in my misery until Liam, an Alpha visited our pack in search of his mate.

Every she wolf was excited about his visit except for me and if I was, I wouldn't even show it cause I was just allowing them to mock me even more so I didn't bother myself about his visit and just planned to stay in my duty post till he found his mate and then leave. The She wolves weren't the only ones excited about the Alpha's visit, my step mother was also excited but not for herself, but for Isabelle, as she hoped he would be Isabelle's second chance mate but unlike her mother, Isabelle didn't care or so I thought...

Isabelle had already found her mate when she turned eighteen, but he wasn't who her mother expected him to be, he wasn't an Alpha and was just another male servant, so her mother had her to reject him right away and end their mate bond. Isabelle didn't seem too affected by the rejection, she said she was fine with it as she didn't love him and would only be who she loved regardless of whether he was her mate or not which is why she was not excited about Liam's visit but that didn't stop her mother but all my stepmothers hope were cut short when I turned out to be Liam's mate.

It felt like a dream, I didn't believe it, I could barely feel anything but that was because I'd lost contact with my wolf for almost three years which meant why I didn't feel anything towards him but he insisted I was his mate and wouldn't leave without me.

My stepmother did all she could to convince him that I wasn't his mate but Isabelle, but all her efforts went to deaf ears as Liam's mind was already made up, I was his mate and regardless of my position and how I was treated, he was taking me home with him, I was going to be his Luna.

Those words rang in my ears repeatedly, I was going to his Luna, a freaking Luna!

No one believed it, they thought it was all a prank and Liam was doing it to humiliate me, but our relationship was nothing like that, Liam was genuinely caring towards me, and he was the only person, aside from Isabelle, who treated me so lovingly, which warmed my heart.

I healed and also did my wolf, I slowly started training because being a Luna wasn't going to be an easy task so I trained hard but now all that training is about to be a waste as my title was been given away to Isabelle, that freaking backstabber! But there's no way I'll let her be with Liam, no I won't! I just have to wait till he's calm and then I can talk to him that all that happened between me and that stranger was a setup and my sister was behind it, I would never betray him.

I loved him so much to even think of doing that to him, I have never had eyes on any other man aside from him let alone agreeing to sleep with another man, I was just too drunk to realize that it wasn't him I was with last night.

I heard my sister say "take her to him" and I thought she was referring to Liam which is why I happily went with the person after I was wasted but when I woke this morning, naked with another man that wasn't Liam, it was then I realized my sister had tricked me and also how the stranger yelled at me this morning to get out of his room that sluts aren't meant to wake up with him and was supposed to leave after he was done fucking me.

I yelled back at him that I wasn't a slut! But I regretted my decision as my yelling angered him the next I knew was, he grabbed me by my neck strangling me and just when I thought I was going to have my final breath right then, his grip on loosened and he threw me out of his room naked and flung my clothes on my body with some loose change which was meant to be my payment but I ditched the change and pick my clothes that had already been torn apart mercilessly and took my leave afterwards.

Just a few people witnessed my humiliation but I doubt they recognized me as I hadn't been around the pack that much but I was so wrong as judging eyes met me when I went to the main packhouse I stayed with Liam and their looks alone was enough to say that they knew what happened but I wasn't concerned about them, I was just concerned about Liam, he must have known what happened, he was the first to know that I was with another man last night because of our mate bond.

The eyes I met whenever I saw him weren't the eyes I met now, his soft gaze was gone and he was staring at me furiously, with hatred and disgust, his eyes flickering like he was trying to control himself, his presence sent shivers down my whole body, this was the first time I've seen Liam this way but before I could say something to explain myself, he approached me in a speed that my brain couldn't process because of how fast he was and just like how that stranger had strangled me earlier, Liam did the same but he was more painful but not as painful as the words that came out of his mouth.

"I, Liam Scott Alpha of the Red Lake pack reject you as my mate and Luna," he said before dropping me to the ground allowing me to feel even more pain from the rejection but I knew he felt the same or even worse cause he thought I betrayed him but I didn't and I'll do all in power to make him see that it was a setup, I would never betray him, I love him.