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4: Rejected

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Selly has never been so stunned in her life before today. Her hand shook and words were stuck in her throat while her eyes just stared at the furry pup.

How is this even possible?

She didn’t wonder for long. Her moment was cut short by the man trying to snatch the baby from her.

His actions were not very appreciated as something seemed to have snapped in her and her protective instincts kicked in like never before. 

Her heart yearned for something, a deep desire to inflict harm on that stupid man.

“The audacity. How dare you!” She said to him, her voice a mere whisper but he heard her nonetheless.

The man frowned at her strange accent but ignored her.

When her claws grew one again, they had a faint glow to them and she muttered something under her breath.

The man, half worried and angered by her earlier stunt, did not notice that the young  woman’s eyes had already turned a deeper shade of amber and were burning with something unrecognizable. 

As soon as he tried to pounce on her, an undetained shriek left his lips.

“Aah!”

He held his face with trembling hands.

Four long lines ran across it. One of them missed his left eye by a few millimeters with the gashes so deep that his bones were exposed. 

Being a rogue, he was used to injuries but this felt different. The pain was excruciating, it felt as if someone had poured acid concentrate on him.

The Luna, witnessing this as she crouched on the floor, was awestruck. Then a new kind of worry filled her. 

Who was this young woman? 

Was she another enemy? 

Were they being attacked by two different groups?

“Please let my son live!” Colette pleaded with the young stranger who now held her son but her words went unheard.

Selly’s rage didn't simmer even when she watched the man writhing on the ground. She wanted him dead.

Holding her little mate with one arm, she  went at the wailing man with all her might, kicking and screaming at him.

“Die.”

The man didn't seem to feel a thing. He was in so much pain that he lost his sense of time and place. 

With a final blow, Selly clawed his left arm and watched as it fell off his shoulder.

If he didn't die due to excessive blood loss then he would surely regret being born.

She knew even if he lived, the scars and wounds would never heal, not after she had infused it with a spell so strong. He would forever be reminded of her when he took a look at the mirror.

Cries of agony filled the place, prompting all the attention to turn to the four of them.

Now, all the enemy ran towards them.

With dozens of rogue werewolves charging at them at lightning speed, the Luna swallowed hard. They were not going to make it out of there alive.

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He looked good in navy blue.

Standing behind him as he took his time to make himself presentable for the occasion that was a few hours away, Selly swallowed hard.

It was his twenty-fourth birthday.

A simple act of running his hand into his shoulder-length black hair seemed to steer some dirty thoughts in her mind.

Wiping her sweaty palms on her amber satin dress that accentuated her curves , her eyes went past his broad torso onto the mirror, hoping for her actions to be reciprocated through the medium. 

Time flew by so fast yet she looked as the same day she first appeared to him and people always wondered why.

The little pup she had held twenty four years ago was now a man. Tall and pleasant to the eyes.

Even if she had felt like she was being sandwiched between a rock and hard place after finding out her mate was a pup, she chose to stay behind for her mate. 

Her heart still ached for Erichon but she had got used to living with the guilt. 

When time came, she would go back and apologize to her people. Hopefully by then, the conflict must have been resolved. 

All she hoped for was for the Erichonians to listen and understand her reasons. 

Choosing to refrain from revealing her true identity until she had secured the bond, most people assumed she was one of the victims of the many abduction cases from the past and she, not once, tried to correct them.

With time, her strange accent morphed with theirs. 

The faint ruin on little Jordan’s back had disappeared as soon as the baby shifted back into its human form to never show up again.

“It's ok. It will be fine.” She had consoled herself with tears.

She knew that she couldn't leave her mate unprotected. Besides, there was a possibility of her being forced to marry king Veryl if she went back too soon. 

He was, after all her mate, a few years more wouldn't matter. They were supernaturals with a lifespan that was subject to eny.

While she held a special place in the hearts of Alpha and Luna Westhund, Jordan’s parents, to the rest of the pack, she was just someone unimportant. One that didn't have the ability to shift. A lesser werewolf. 

Apart from the partial shift she had when she arrived at their pack, they had never seen her shift again.

Later, she came to understand that her mate was born with a very unstable wolf. 

Born with a human form but shifted as an infant made him attract the wrong kind of  attention from both allies and enemies.

Him being an infant posed risks not only to himself but also his mother. Feeding him proved to be a challenge and so was protecting him.

Only she could tame his unstable wolf. With her around, he shifted back into a human form and led a normal life.

Apart from the scent of a mate, she had nothing to hold on to him and she had a nagging feeling that somehow he was drifting away from her.

She didn't have time and had to spill the beans.

Times have changed. 

He had changed. 

The little innocent boy who had showered her with giggles had grown into a quiet and distant young man. A little detached but perfect all the same.

Her lips stretched into a half smile, it was a good day and she was happy. At last, everything would fall into place.

“You're quite mouthful for someone who doesn't have a wolf.” Jordan said, his somber voice rarely rising.

Her lips turned sloppy, the little smile that had adorned Selly’s diamond-shaped face since she made her way into his room faltered.

Although she was used to him being occasionally mean, his words didn't hurt any less.

She had just confessed to him that they were mates and suggested a way to wake up his wolf by marking him instead but he had regarded her as being…mouthful?

She had waited for many years but Jordan’s wolf seemed to have been dormant ever since he changed back to his human form when he was younger.

It was like it took a long slumber never to wake up again.

Being an alpha’s son, the pack members had their hopes up but alas! his twin brother Dominik had shifted at seventeen while his wolf remained asleep at twenty four. 

A possible alpha heir without a wolf was laughable. He couldn't mind-link. The chance of him ever getting a mate was next to none.

As strong as he was, no wolf could respect such an inadequate son of an alpha even though no one dared to say it in his face as Jordan had a temper whose origins were unknown. A literal ticking bomb.

All that mattered was that he was her fated mate.

“This is a sacred bond. I wouldn't dare try…”

“I have no business in whatever games you're trying to play here. But if I were you, I would think twice before spouting such nonsense next time.”

Her palms closed into loose fists, her voice went a pitch higher, “You are my mate. This makes this matter of utmost importance.”

“I didn't peg you to be someone delusional, Selly.” 

He paused, briefly locked eyes with her through the mirror and went on to adjust the necktie.

“But if it makes you feel better; You are not my mate and never will be. And if by the slightest chance, which is next to impossible in this case, you happen to be one then I, Jordan Westhund, reject you, Selly as my mate and server whatever bonds exist between us.”

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  • Rejected For Another's Mate   58: Black waters

    “You don't seem to know.” She concluded after a prolonged silence.Jordan swallowed hard, “Well, I do know that your name is Selly or Ponds.”It was a half truth. He wasn't proud of himself for it but chose to test the waters first. If she really didn't remember, he would use the time to treat her better and earn a possible forgiveness. “Selly…” She tested her name aloud. “Sounds weird.” She said, “Your name is rather beautiful.”Selly smiled, “You think so.”“Not very common. It suits you perfectly.”“Well,” She said but didn't know how to proceed. The compliment had gotten to her head and she couldn't help but smile even wider.“Why not tell me more about yourself and maybe a little about me.” She changed the topic, too afraid to venture into the world of flattery.Jordan didn't hesitate to narrate their history as they continued walking to the pond. Of course he only told her basic stuff and omitted the parts about them being mates and him having rejected her.“Wow!” Selly was a

  • Rejected For Another's Mate   57: Want me to stay?

    So, her parents weren't from that desolate place, he deduced from her silence.She had asked him out whether he also couldn't remember who he was, did that mean that he was supposed to forget his past?And if that were true, what did it mean to both Selly and himself?An old realization hit him again for the umpteenth time, they were both tricked into whatever the trap was, Jordan thought, unaware of the fact that Selly was kidnapped and brought to the forest without her consent while he was simply lured into it out of desperation. She was close to teleporting back to Erichon when those people caused an accident and the van flipped.“So Ponds” Jordan called her by her new name, something he noticed made Selly more receptive and less guarded, "are you the only one who lives in these parts of the forest?” As much as he wanted not to ask, curiosity was eating him.“ Why do you ask?” He hated to admit it but he was jealous. Envious of the other man's access to his woman.“Just curious.”

  • Rejected For Another's Mate   56: Another man's scent

    Selly was suspicious of the stranger in her cottage's intentions. First he invited himself, made himself comfortable and now he was talking about food. What was he trying to do by doing all of those favors? Why was he acting to care as if they were familiar? Was all those sweet words necessary, really? Was all those sugary words just so he could stay? “Can you stay alone for a while as I go find something for you?” He asked. Deep down he didn't want to leave her behind. What if he came back to find she had disappeared again? Then there was a matter of her being sick coupled with the fact that since he arrived the day before, he could smell another person on her. The scent he knew he didn't like was all over her and from the way it repulsed him, he knew it might belong to another man. Just the thought of it wanted to drive him insane. Did she meet another person already? Was his replacement found so quickly? Was the man the person she had been staying with? Was he the

  • Rejected For Another's Mate   55: Call me Ponds

    Jordan waited for Selly to say what she thought her name was because apparently him using the same name he mentioned during when he was rejecting her, left a bitter taste.“My name?”“Yes.” He waited. In his mind, she was playing games and he was willing to wait until she was ready for the conversation. “Well, I do have a name.” She lied.Technically she had one but she just couldn't remember it. Now there was a possibility that her name was actually Selly but she couldn't just trust a stranger.The gears in her mind shifted, finding a name she could come up with but even that ended up being hard, picking a name at random.“Selly,” He bit his lower lip, not knowing what to say.“Ponds.” She blurted the first thing that came to mind.Jordan's pupil widened ever so slightly, what kind of name was that?“My parents named me Ponds.” Another lie. Keepers of the supernatural realm were never born. They never had a history or something called a lineage. They were chosen by the Goddess her

  • Rejected For Another's Mate   54: Who are you?

    Waking up in the arms of a man wasn't something that happened everyday. Well, at least not to her. She had gotten used to being the only person around, with her company being that of birds and animals that she turned to food when need arises. Nothing could have prepared her for that kind of surprise.Just the other day, she had gone to the river in hope to go past it. She remembered finding a cave or tunnel before she felt that indescribable pain that robbed her of consciousness. The next thing she knew, she was back home and a stranger was looking at her like he knew her…For goodness sake she didn't have a single detail about who that man was.Jordan, slowly sat straight.Instinctively, Selly moved back, creating a distance between them. The man was a total stranger and she didn't know what he wanted to do to her. After all, inviting oneself in someone's house was weird, she thought.In her mind, she was plotting countless ways of defending herself if he even lifted his hand to to

  • Rejected For Another's Mate   53: Stranger in her bed

    The sound of whistling wind and nocturnal birds kept Jordan awake, well in a way.The truth was he couldn't sleep even if he wanted to. What if he slept and woke up to realize that it was all but a dream. There was simply no way he was closing his eyes, not when he, at last, had her in his arms. When there was finally peace in her face.Pushing her brown hair away from her face before tucking them behind her ears, he adjusted the animal hide. His eyes were magnetically drawn to her as if he was trying to capture her features and freeze them on time, never to forget that diamond face.With morning light casting its rays through the little spaces between the window and door, he could see his mate better. The physical closeness they shared made her body temperature send signals to places he didn't wish to name. With one leg draped on his and her hand loosely resting on his stomach, she seemed peaceful, content even.Those days he hadn't been able to see her, be with her, had been unbe

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