Bonita's POV
The night is my anniversary. I'm preparing everything for my first year with my mate. I still cannot believe that I am the mate of the Alpha of the Black Raven Pack. I am different from other werewolves. Shadow, my wolf, is magical. People don't understand us and are afraid of my wolf's magical aspects. The pack is not very proud to have me as their Luna. They think Oscar could have done better. This is making me very sad. It hurts me. If not for me being Oscar's mate, they would have never accepted me as their Luna. Even Oscar's family does not accept me as his mate.
"We cannot let this get us down. Tonight is a joyous night that I will only share with Oscar. I am not invited whenever Oscar goes to his parents' house. Arabella, his sister, hates me. She thinks his brother could have done much better. Sharp pain goes through my stomach, hitting my heart like a knife. I don't know why I'm getting these pains and why my wolf keeps crying out. This is not supposed to happen. I do not know what is wrong with me. My father and mother do not love me as they love their other children. I was different from the start. They hardly talked to me. I got my wolf at a very young age. Usually, werewolves don't get to dare wolves until they turn eighteen. I had my wolf since I was a baby. It freaked my mother and father out. I'm the youngest of three children. John, my brother, is the oldest. He is five years older than me. Camilla, my sister, is a year older than me. My parents wanted her to become the Luna. Unfortunately, the Moon Goddess had other ideas. She made me Oscar Smith's mate.
"We have to find our mate. This cannot continue like this. I know you don't want to hear this, but you know why you are having these pains. You don't want to acknowledge it. Our mate does not respect us. When was the last time he came to bed with us? I am telling you, there is something wrong, and we need to go and find him now," Shadow says.
"Shadow, please do not fight with Oscar now. This is our anniversary, and I do not want to fight with him today. It is a special day for us, and I want us to stop fighting for one day. We will look for him if he is not back by six o'clock. I promise you, he will never do anything to hurt us. He has a lot on his mind. Do you know that he and his uncle do not see eye to eye, and he is preparing to go to war with his uncle, who is trying to take this pack and make it part of The Shadow Stalkers? Even before Oscar became the Alpha, his uncle had been trying to take our land," I say.
"You believe every word that Oscar tells you. I'm telling you, we are stronger than him, and we do not need him in our lives anymore. He is cheating on you. There, I said it. And if you don't believe me, why don't you go and have a look for yourself? Oscar and his wolf, Blitz, are cowards and useless. I have long lost my respect for both of them. You are stronger than the pack and Oscar! None of them deserve you or me," Shadow says.
"Fine, we will go look for our mate. He should be in his office at the Packhouse. I will prove to you that he is not unfaithful and that he is our fated mate. We would not have been here today if it were not for him. The back would never accept us without him being our mate. You know the pack threw his uncle out because his uncle was also different. I know it isn't easy to accept us because we are different. Oscar accepted us with everything that we are. There's a lot of planning to do, and I'm sure this pain we feel is something else," I say.
"Well, it can not be a pup because he has not slept with you for almost six months, and you keep getting these pains. I blame your parents for not telling you about the mate bond. They never showed interest in you. Now let's go," Shadow says eagerly.
I cannot shut her up if I do not prove her wrong. We run to the Packhouse. I know where my mate's office is. I run past Morris and quickly greet him. He is the only one that has ever been friendly to me. He is the Beta of the pack and the mate of Arrabella. For a moment, it looked like Morris was panicking. I don't have time for him right now, as I still have a lot of preparations to do for our anniversary. I don't knock when I walk into my mate's office. He always likes having me here when I surprise him. Besides, it is our anniversary today.
As I walk in, my whole world comes crashing down on me. My mate is naked on top of my sister! Camilla sees me first, and she screams out in joy as my mate thrusts himself into her again. I feel dead inside. This pain inside of me is unbearable. I can only look on in disbelief. I hear my mate moan as he finishes. He gets up and looks at Camilla. Then he turns around slowly. I know he must have smelt me.
"Why?" I ask.
"Because I am sick of you! Do you know how it feels to protect your mate against the pack the whole time? Do not make a drama out of this. Just take your things and leave. I never want to see you again!" Oscar says.
"You're not getting rid of me that easily," I say. I suddenly feel angry as I grab my sister by her hair.
"Let her go, Bonita! I warn you!" My mate shouts. I take my eyes off Camilla and look at him as I feel pain shooting through my shoulder. I look at the silver knife in my shoulder before I sink to the ground. The pain of his betrayal and the silver knife in my shoulder was too much. Everything goes black in front of me.
Bonita's POVI wake up inside of a cell. I know that my mate put me there. I know he wants to impress Camilla, my sister. I do not understand why he even chose me as a mate. I am hurting. My wounds are not healing because I am tied up in silver cuffs. The silver knife is also still stuck in my shoulder. Although my body is going through a lot of pain, it is my heart that paints the most because I have been betrayed by the one person I trusted with my life. I should have known that life was not supposed to be this good for me. I swear the Moon Goddess has cursed me. Why would you put me in this position? Why would she lead my mate to betray me? And why would she give me a magical wolf? I love Shadow, and I will not choose another wolf. We have to get out of here. But how am I locked in a cell with silver bars? Even if I can get out of these cuffs and remove the silver knife from my shoulder, I will not be able to escape this cell without help. "Luna, are you awake?" I hear Morris whis
Victor's POVI'm sitting in my office when I feel a stranger entering my grounds. It does not seem like my men have noticed anything happening, as they are all just standing around like there is nobody on our grounds. I will have to give them better training. I have enough going to worry about it now, as it is only one wolf I can feel. The wolf is on the Southern border of our grounds. My beta Antonio looks at me as I run past him."Alpha, where are you going? Must I come with you?" Antonio asks."No need. I'm just going for a run. Stay here and protect the pack while I'm gone. Get those wolves to training. They are slagging off," I say. I am thirty-eight years old. I never had a mate, and I'm not interested in finding one. I have a bunch of she-wolves that entertain me at night. My pack wants me to find a Luna, but I made a deal with Sandy, my primary lover. If I don't find my mate by forty, I will take her as my Luna. I do not know if that will happen, as she can be a bit bossy thes
Bonita's POVI do not know what is wrong with this guy. It looks like he is going crazy under the full moon. Perhaps the full moon affects his brain. Maybe I should run away. I know I cannot run any farther as the silver they injected into me is affecting me, and my wounds are not healing. I know I cannot run any further, but I also feel the bond between Victor Smith and me. The Moon Goddess has gone crazy. I have to agree with him. And I know he's shouting at her because he can be my dad. But I don't mind the age difference. However, I feel too weak to worry about having a second-chance mate. I need to seek help. I can not sit here watching him shout at the Moon Goddess while I am bleeding out. Everything seems so wrong. Today has been overwhelming for me. My head hurts. I can feel everything go black in front of me. I have to stay conscious. I cannot faint now."After you are done talking to whoever you are talking to, can you please help me? I agree that the Moon Goddess has gone c
Victor's POVMy pack will be very excited that I finally got my Luna. Nobody wanted Sandy to become the Luna. Antonio told me that in so many words. I can't wait to see my brother Christopher and his wife, Andrea, suffer when their precious little boy realizes he has lost his mate to another wolf. I can't wait for them to discover I am her mate. Ohh, what joy that will give me. I look at my mate sitting under the full moon, and her wounds heal fast. At first, I thought she was weak. Now I see it was because she was in pain that she looked weak. She's not weak. She is a strong she-wolf. She surprised me. I hear my nephew and his pack approaching. I know he won't dare to come close to my pack grounds. He's too much of a coward unless he is hard up to find his mate. Perhaps he thinks that I am my warriors are not near her. I mind-link my warriors to come to the border. I want to ensure he does not have the upper hand in numbers, although my magic is strong. I cannot hold all of them bac
Oscar's POVDid I make the right choice to leave my mate for her sister? I don't know if I made the correct mistake. Looking at her, standing next to Victor, makes me furious. We have hardly broken our bond, and she already has another mate. How can this be the Moon Goddess will never allow it? How can she be the mate of my uncle and me simultaneously? I do not believe a word that my uncle is saying. We might have broken our bonds, but she is still my only mate. Camilla is my lover but not my mate. I know that. I am only having an affair with Camilla to keep my pack and my parents happy. They all want me to have a normal she-wolf as a Luna. I always knew my mate was Bonita, the only one I genuinely loved. I thought if I killed her, my feelings for her would disappear. While making love to Camilla, I realized that my feelings for Bonita can never go away, not even in death, and her death might make me lose control of my wolf. My wolf is already angry because he did not want a magical w
Bonita's POVI have never acted this brave in my life. I had the guts to confront my ex-mate. Usually, I would have ignored him and never talked back to him. Perhaps it was because I was in love with him. I do not know. Now that our bond is gone, I see how about a coward Oscar is. I always thought he was brave and fierce, and he would take on his uncle if he had the chance. He was even too afraid to attack me at my full power. He is supposed to be an Alpha. Before I became his Luna, I was only an omega in the pack. I do not understand why he is afraid of me. Am I stronger than him? Is he fearful of my unique wolf?They never wanted me to fight or train because they knew I would become stronger than the Alpha if I trained my wolf. I know now for a fact that the Alpha and the members of the Black Raven Pack are afraid of me. I smile as I look at them run away. The Black Raven Pack's warriors are cowards, except for my only friend, Morris. Your pack is only as strong as its Alpha. "I wi
Bonita's POV I walk over to the bed and touch the beautiful dress. I have never had a gorgeous dress like this before and will always cherish this moment. I cannot stop thinking about what happened to me tonight. I thought I was going to die. And here I am, becoming a Luna of another pack. Everything happened so fast. One moment, my mate rejected and almost killed me, and the next moment, I was a Luna again. The Moon Goddess is busy playing tricks on me. I do not understand what I have done to deserve all this myth in my life right now. However, I am not going to worry about it. I can understand why Victor talked to the Moon Goddess earlier. She's playing tricks on us. I know he feels that he is too old to be my mate. However, I do not think so. He looks better than his nephew. Victor seems young for his age. If I was not afraid to get hurt again, and Victor wanted a young mate like me, I would have fallen in love with him. I cannot think about love right now because Victor does not w
Victor's POVWell, that takes care of Sandy. I am tired of her. She is such a crybaby. How can I even think about having Sandy as my mate when I have a young, beautiful mate like Bonita? His golden blonde hair and blue eyes beg to be loved. However, I do not believe in love, and I will never believe in love. I think that two wolves are attracted to each other because of the stupid Moon Goddess. I know I should not call her silly and that she's a goddess. But seriously, she has been messing with me my whole life. First, she didn't give me a mate. And now she gave me a child for a mate. She must think she is hilarious. Not that I am complaining about my mate. She is beautiful, and I think she will be very entertaining in bed. However, I hope that she is mature enough to be my Luna. I am already dressed for the ceremony, and we are all waiting for my Luna. I have seen my men help Sandy back and out of our grounds. Sandy screams as she walks past me, escorted by my men. I know she is des