The Broken Bond

Chapter 5

"Isn't your concubine leaving too?" Elara asked.

"Do as you're told, Luna. Don't question me in front of my peers."

Like a bolt of lightening, her dreams barrelled into her. She turned towards Morgana who was looking disappointed and angry, then to Lucan who's eyes had already moved back to Sera, and Sera who looked comfortable, enjoying the attention of the alpha.

Three of them.

Something was going on. There was a reason they were in her dreams.

Alpha Riven finished his statement with an annoying smirk, leveling Elara with a long stare, taunting her. Daring her to take the bait.

Morgana's hand came to rest on Elara's shoulder as she says "You cannot entice our Luna with your pretty words, Alpha Riven"

"Wha... What did you mean when you said they had been lying?" Elara's shrill voice asked, her own gaze locked on Alpha Riven's.

She felt Morgana's fingernails dig into her shoulders, expressing her disapproval at her question.

"I cannot tell you exactly what you want to hear, Elara dear. You must find it on your own. There is a reason you've not been let out of this pack grounds in over five years, Luna. Weren't you ever curious why? Or do you just roll over and bark like a mutt when they command you to."

Elara turned to look at Morgana as if to ask if it was true.

"Enough!! I have had enough! You will leave my pack grounds and borders in peace, before I will have you forcefully removed" Alpha Lucan said.

Even Elara knew it would be impossible to have him forcefully removed. The werewolf before her was not ordinary. Pure power rippled under his skin. He could level the entire pack grounds if he so thought it. That much was obvious.

"I can only take your hand, and point you in the right direction." Alpha Riven continued like they had not just threatened him.

Lucan then turned to her, the same brimming fury showing on his face. "Alright Luna. Thats enough excitement for today... You should retire to your quarters immediately. Weightier matters are about to be discussed."

Elara stood from her seat without even thinking about the action. She had been beaten and punished enough to know not to disobey her Alpha and mate. But then she noticed Sera still sat comfortably.

"Isn't your concubine leaving too?" Elara asked.

"Do as you're told, Luna. Don't question me in front of my peers."

Like a bolt of lightening, her dreams barrelled into her. She turned towards Morgana who was looking disappointed and angry, then to Lucan who's eyes had already moved back to Sera, and Sera who looked comfortable, enjoying the attention of the alpha.

Three of them.

Something was going on. There was a reason they were in her dreams.

Elara made her feet to walk, One step in front of the other.

She stepped down from the raised stage, and walked straight towards Alpha Riven.

"Where are we to go?" she asked him softly

She needed to find out why, and she could not find those answers in the bottom of a flower vace she would have been arranging or in the many tasteless dresses she would be wearing.

"When and where are we going?" she asked again.

"If you leave this pack grounds," Alpha Lucan bellowed, his eyes rimming red with rage. "if you step a foot outside of this pack, you will have no pack to return to when you eventually come back. I will cease to be your mate, husband and alpha. I will reject you" Lucan finished.

"Elara, remember your duties. Remember who you are. If you turn against us now, everything you have done, all the lessons you learned from me will be for nothing. Do not make a bad choice and ruin everything" Morgana said from beside Lucan.

From her point on the floor, she could see them clearly now... Funny how three of them were left on the stage.

"If you leave, Wren will take your place as Luna." Alpha Lucan said with finality.

"I have been a warrior since I could walk. My father trained and taught me everything he knew. Curse, prophesy or not, he loved and took care of me the best he could. He never hid me away from the public eye, he never told mje I was not good enough or that I had to work double for the people to accept me." Elara blinked back tears at the memories of her father came rushing back.

" I have tasted love, I have tasted power, I have tasted family, and even as your Luna, you never offered any of them to me. You said you chose me by mistake, and you were young and stupid.

Well, let me take that choice off of your hands. I, Elara Martinns, reject you, Alpha Lucan as my mate in the presence of all this witnesses and under the ever seeing eyes of the moon goddess. I am not to be afilliated with you from here on out!!! Goodbye Lucan"

Elara willed her legs to move as the blinding pain enveloped her, swallowing her whole.

She walked out of the banquet door and continued to walk, not really seeing her surroundings.

She needed to breath. She needed air, she needed the pain to stop, she needed...

Strong arms held her as her body rocked with the force of the tears and pain.

Elara let out a scream as the mating bond snapped and everything went to black.