Chapter 3

Franklin

 I stared around the hall were all the high rank werewolves were sitted with a deep sigh knowing I would not be able to find my mate. I had known my mate since I first shifted which was two years ago. I'm the alpha of my pack which was once lead by my father. I wasn't able to let the pack know that my mate turns out to be her. I knew that my father would be disappointed with that and would also reprimanded me for letting the whole pack know about her. My dad would be extremely angry with me for that.

The reason why he would be angry is that if other packs get to know about my mate being her it would be distractrous and our pack would be put to shame and we would be stripped off our powers which I don't want. I don't want the councils to strip off our powers. My dad as always told me to be cautious with everything I do as long as I'm the Alpha. My dad had let me become the Alpha of the pack at an early stage because he wanted me to be used to it before I find my mate.

  Today's occasion is to celebrate my sister's eighteenth birthday and it was an elaborate one. My dad also made a feast for her and all the high rank werewolves were invited. My dad had also thrown me a grand feast when I was doing mine also with the intention of me finding my mate but it wasn't successful. My dad wasn't pleased with that and he told me that if I can't find my mate within four years then I would have to choose a mate for myslef.

  I was also told by my dad that if my mate happens to be a low rank in a pack then I should reject her without his consent. I had always been prepared for this day. I have been practicing when I noticed that her eighteenth birthday is fast approaching. I had planned on how to reject her before things escalate.

  I knew that it was time for me to reject her but I felt reluctant to leave the gathering and that alone want me to stay in the room but I had figured it out that she would come here on her own accord to announce me as her mate and I wouldn't want that. I wouldn't want to disgrace my dad and also my pack. I wouldn't want the hard sweats which was on the floor to be wiped off by my little mistake.

  All this while my wolf ‘Sammy’ was howling unsatisfied. He wasn't in support of me rejecting his mate but I had made up my mind about it. I can't choose my mate over my father and pack. I would have to loose two things which are more important to me if I was to choose my mate. I would loose my family and pack. I knew that if others were to find out about her being my mate then my sister's mate would have no choice but to reject her.

My beautiful little sister had shifted in the morning which was the perfect time to shift and it has been that she found her mate not long after what had happened. She was happy when she finds her mate and she had showed him to me happily and it happens to be that he was an Alpha of another pack. He was well respected and he was from a respectable pack. I was happy for her and I wouldn't want to be the one to ruin her life.

  I sighed heavily as I made my way out of the hall with a sad look plastered on my face. I was scared that someone would see me if I was to walk out of the hall with a sad face but I was glad that nobody saw my face. As soon as I walked out of the pack's hall I heard a loud growl which shooked the pack's ground from it's foundation that I fear that the houses built in the pack would collapse. After a few seconds the whole pack was covered with a smell and aura.

    I could feel the aura wanting me to submit but I tried hard to keep my stand but I couldn't. I fell on my knees involuntarily. I tried hard to stand up but I couldn't. My eyes were wide open with shock as I tried to comprehend what just happened. 

  I couldn't believe that something like this would happen someday. I was in total shock. Who the hell released such auras?

   I was having a misconception about all this. The person who is responsible just shifted because with the way the auras was flowing the person can't control it. I knew that there weren't many wolves who shifted today and I knew that what happened to me also happened to the others and they would be trying to find clues about what just happened.

  I sighed heavily knowing that I'll have to go check out the reason behind all that just happened. I knew that shifting the rejection time would be dangerous but I know that I have to put the oak first before anything else. 

  I made my way quickly to the forest where I smelt most of the aura even though it had cleared off. I walked around there for a while with a high alert knowing that whoever the person might be, the person might be dangerous and I'm not ready to let any harm befall the pack's members.

 I heard the rustling sound of leaves and I turned around trying to spot the person but I wasn't able to find the person. I saw a blur run past me with an incredible speed and with no doubt I knew that it was the person responsible for what just happened.

  I ran after the blur but immediately the person noticed me and the person increased the speed in which he or she was running. I couldn't keep up with the person's speed and with no time the blur vanished.

  I knew that whosoever that was running is a high ranked werewolf. I sighed heavily knowing that I have to go to Cassandra's room to reject her. I knew not to stall time, and with that I walked toward her room shrugging off the thoughts of the blur away from my mind. I knew that nobody knew what happened in the forest and that nobody knew I was in the forest either. 

  I pushed open the door and there I met Cassandra sitting on the floor with a tear stained eye. She looked up immediately and she smiled immediately she saw it was me.

  I knew that she must have known that I would be her mate, and what seems weird about her is that there is no aura surrounding her. I knew that this might be a bad omen but I ain't ready to fall for that.

  I knew that I had to reject her before anybody found out about it. I knew that her being an Omega is out of choice. I can't make her the Luna of this pack. 

 “Mate” she said with a small whimper and I felt my heart skip a bit. 

  “I’m not your mate” I said and she shut her eyes close with pain evident on her face.

  “I Franklin the Alpha of the Silver Pack rejected Cassandra as my mate and Luna of my pack” I stated and I fell on my knees immediately with pain.

  My face contorted into a look of pain and after a while I stood up, and my eyes shot toward Cassandra's face. She was like nothing happened to her. She was unmoved and I doubt if she was in pain.

  “Get out of here,” she said coldly with an authoritative look on her face. I felt my legs give way and I walked out of her room involuntarily.