Rejected by Duke Taken by Ace

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Minsi

“Please don’t do this, Duke.” I pleaded as he climbed downstairs with long strides, coming at me. He enjoyed torturing me just because I wasn’t a woman of his choice. Was it my fault that I was born the way I was? He acted as if I had asked to be made this way. Tears streamed down my cheeks.

"You disgust me, Minsi. I have no idea what the Moon Goddess was thinking to make you my mate! You, of all the women in this pack? What was she thinking?” He growled, stopping right before me. His eyes were glazing with hate and malice. I flinched and took a step back, “I’m sorry that I am not the woman of your dreams. But we’re bound together, whether you want it or not!” I shouted back, pain engulfing my heart.

After all, what was more painful than your mate not being satisfied with how you look? I was different from all the other women in our pack, and he never ceased to remind me of that with his painful words.

“Oh, have you looked at yourself in the mirror? You are twice my size!”

“Yes! But I didn’t beg to be like this.”

“And I didn’t beg to be tied up with you!” He glowered at my face, veins popping on his forehead. He wrapped his hand around my wrist, and I shook my head, “And that’s why I need to show you, Minsi. You need to see for yourself what kinds of women are fit to be with me. Which is definitely unlike you.”

“Let me go. Don’t do this to me, Duke.”

I fought to be released, but then who was I kidding? I had no power over the Alpha of the Maplewood pack. Duke forcefully dragged me upstairs to his bedroom and kicked the door open. He went ahead and pulled me, shoved me inside, before slamming the door shut and locking it.

Before us was his king-size bed, and three beautiful women were sprawled on it. I recognized all of them, but one of them stood out amongst them all. Lupa. My best friend. The most beautiful woman in our pack.

How could she? As I looked at her, she got to her feet with a smirk. Lupa was only in her red thong like the other two women. She slowly made her way to where my mate was. She wrapped her hands around his neck and pulled him down to her lips, and my mate wrapped his hands around her thin waist, kissing her back. More painful tears rolled down.

My heart felt like it was getting crushed with a hammer. “Duke,” I said, standing upright and pushing my hair off my face. “Keep your mouth shut and enjoy the show, Minsi.” He said, letting Lupa take off his shirt. I let out a deep breath when she unbuckled his belt and let his pants fall to the floor.

An uncontrollable possessiveness shot all over my body. I could feel my wolf kicking inside me to get out and take down Lupa. But not only was I plus-size, I also had the disadvantage of not being able to fight. My size ruined everything for me. Lupa was one of the best female fighters in the Maplewood pack. And I was nowhere near her league.

I could only stand there in tears and watch as she took my mate to the bed and dropped him down. Then all of them started to have their way with him. One dealing with his mouth, one kissing on his chest, and defined abs and Lupa… Oh, she had a better idea of making me die in pain today.

She climbed on top of Duke and sat on his erect manhood. She then began to bounce up and down, fucking my mate like a hoe that she was. On the other hand, Duke was groaning in satisfaction as all this was happening. I bet he was having the time of his life with his dream woman while I was slowly dying from watching him cheat on me right before me.

How could he be so cruel to me? I gripped my dress on the side as their moans filled and corrupted my mind. I felt like my body was getting tangled with barbed wire all over. Like my throat was getting closed together, making it hard for me to breathe. Like I was getting suffocated. They went one round, second, third, fourth… and as if it wasn’t painful enough, I had to watch my mate come over and over again. And it wasn’t because of the pleasure I gave him but of other women.

Lupa got off him, licking her lips with a stupig grin plastered on her lips. She was mocking me. She was supposed to be my friend, not the woman who made out with my mate! Or was I the only friend in our friendship?

Duke got up, looking disheveled and satisfied. He then walked over to the door, unlocked and opened it wide, the cold in his eyes returned as he looked at me, “I hereby reject you, Minsi. I will never take you as my mate and Luna! From now on, you are banished from Maplewood. Take your things and get out of my pack. Now!”

Something painful was untangled in my heart. You’d think a tight knot that bound us was finally undone at his words. Yeah. I was now not only nobody’s mate but also had nowhere to go. My feet gave way, and I sat down on the floor, tears flowing like a broken dam. “How could you be so cruel, Duke? Is it my fault that I am the way I am?” I said, looking up at him.

Duke leaned over the doorframe and crossed his hands on his chest. “I don’t give a fuck what you think of yourself. Scram, Minsi. I do not ever wish to see you again.”

I spared him a last glance before picking myself up and starting to walk out of the room with a shattered heart and only searing pain escorting me.

I only managed to take a few steps before I stumbled, fell, and rolled downstairs. I hit my head on the floor and blood started to paint my forehead and my left eye. Loud and cunning laughter of the women standing upstairs in Duke’s arms came. Why was God so cruel to me? Was what happened back there not enough?

I gathered myself up and ran to the kitchen. I was a nobody with nowhere to go. God, how worse could it get?