Aurora's POV
"No" I screamed out loud at Sebastian who had his arms wrapped around mine firmly, his nails dug into my hand making it sip out blood.
"You cannot do this to me, not now, please" I pleaded with him to have a change of mind, this cannot be happening to me, not now.
" I Sebastian Tala of the red moon pack rejects you Aurora as my mate, you are just a weak human and I need someone who would be able to fight with me in battles just like my mother did with my father,"
I shook my head, refusing to listen to what he was saying, there was no way I was going to accept what he had just said.
I was his rightful mate, his Luna. I was supposed to be by his side at all times but now, I was being discarded like a piece of trash and it hurt.
"I will learn, I am ready to learn just so I can fight by your side, please" I pleaded with him while trying to fight back the torrent of tears that threatened to slip down my cheek.
"Sebastian please, have a second thought about this and then we can talk about this, not now, not when you are soon to be Alpha, you will need me by your side," I tried cajoling him to see reasons with me.
Sebastian had pulled me away from his friends and ordered me to come along with him and I could hear them cheering at the door for him, in such a way that broke my heart.
I had thought they liked me, I did all that I was asked to do, even when I wasn't supposed to just because of the love I had for Sebastian.
"You promised me,'' I glared at him, pulling his arm away from mine when I noticed that he wasn't going to have a change of heart.
"You promised not to hurt me, Sebastian, you told me I was all you needed and no one else, you told me I was enough in my human form, why then are you having a change of heart?"
" You must have been so stupid to think that I will live the rest of my life with a weak human like you, you aren't even worth my affection and I had to do it because of my father and yours" he spat out harshly at me.
I took a step backward, as his word resonated in my ear, piercing through my heart, the very one that I had given him, shattering it into pieces.
" You never loved me?" Sebastian's lips curved into a smirk as he glanced at me.
"Have you taken a proper look at yourself in the mirror? I detest you Aurora, you do, now get out of my life," he pointed in the direction of the door to me.
"Sebastian please" the tears which I had been holding, flowed down my cheek, ceaselessly, they couldn't stop, no matter how hard I tried to make them stop.
"Go and die Aurora, that is what you deserve, Aurora," his voice was higher than the last and it made me shudder when I realized how much he hated me.
I glanced at Sebastian with regret flowing through me. I had given it all to him, my heart, my body, my soul but now I was thrown to the wolves by the same person who I had given my all.
I turned on my heel and pulled the door open, running out of it, far away from Sebastian, far away to a place where I wouldn't see him ever again.
"Aurora," Karen, one of his friends, called out my name as I ran past him but I wasn't ready to listen to whatever it was that he had to say.
I ran as fast as my legs could carry me out of the pack, the full moon will be approaching soon and it was celebrated hugely in the Red Moon Pack and I knew that no one would notice my absence.
I ran swiftly toward my parent's house. I needed to inform them of what had happened and ask them again when my wolf was going to appear.
I was past eighteen already but still, I had no wolf and I was being humiliated by everyone around me, everyone kept taunting me endlessly.
I didn't mind the glances that I was receiving as I ran with all my might on the pavement heading home, not stopping to catch my breath.
"Mother" I screamed out as I pushed the gate, but my voice came out as a whisper, my voice was hoarse already from crying.
"I cannot lie to her, you know she is a human and she has been going through so much pain because of that, why don't we tell her the truth?" I heard my mum's voice from outside as I placed my hands on the knob attempting to push it open.
"Darling you cannot do that, we made a promise not to let her know, so why this sudden change of mind?"
" I cannot do this anymore Alexis, the pain on her face when she sees her mates turn into wolves hurt me, I do not think we are being fair here, she deserves to know the truth" her voice came through again.
" But you promised not to, since the day we picked her up by the wayside, we made a promise, do not break our daughter in such a way, please" I heard my father plead.
I took a step backward, releasing my grip from the doorknob, I let the tears cascade down my face, my parents had lied to me continuously.
They had looked into my eyes and lied to me, they have hurt me in ways that I never knew was possible.
"How could they?" I wondered out loud to myself while rubbing slightly on my chest that ached, because of the truth that I had found.
My feet were clumsy as they found their way to the gate, my heart heaved fast against my chest, beating continuously.
Everyone was right, I deserved to die, my parents had lied to me, they had looked me straight in the eyes for the past twenty years and told me lies.
They kept giving me hope even when there was none and it hurt, it hurt because I would have lived better if I had known I wasn't a wolf.
"Have you taken a proper look in the mirror?" Sebastian's words came to my memory, making me chuckle. He had hurt me.
I ran a hand through my hair, frustrated, my heart seemed to be bleeding and I wished that I would be able to pull it out but I knew it wasn't possible.
I ran far into the bush, the same bush I have stood watching others change into wolves underneath the full moon and I wished to be like them.
"Mother, father, why? How could you break me in such a way?" I screamed out loud, and my voice echoed across the forest, so that anyone could hear the pain in them.
It was still and I knew the path like the back of my palm, I made my way to the cliff standing at the edges.
It was best I leave the lives of everyone who was around me, they would leave a better life without me beside them.
I pulled off the jacket I had been given for my eighteenth birthday by Sebastian and my shoe, before glancing at the full moon.
I glanced at the raving water and I clenched my fist tightly as I pushed myself forward welcoming the peace I was going to feel afterward.
Sebastian POVI paced up and down the hallway as I thought of what had just happened a while ago. "Yes, I just made the right decision, my mother was helpful to my father and I deserve someone who would be as strong as she was" I muttered to myself. I didn't want to think about the look on Aurora's face when I told her to die, she was obviously in pain but I didn't care.There was no way I was going to marry a weakling and have her as my Luna, there was no way that would have happened. Aurora couldn't even protect herself from the rogues who had attacked the pack three years ago and she had caused the lives of my pack members who had placed their lives on the line just to protect her. "I deserve someone better, someone who will fight by my side, someone who isn't a weakling"I muttered to myself. I had lost all hope when I found out my mate was the same person she was two years ago. After her eighteenth birthday, I had hoped her wolf would come but it didn't no matter how hard we
Aurora's POV I tried to flick my eyes open but I couldn't, not when I could sense the sun rays burning my skin, I wondered what exactly was happening and where I was.I finally forced my eyes open and placed a hand on my eyes, shutting out the sun rays that filtered in. If I could remember, I had jumped down the cliff after being belittled by Sebastian and finding out the truth from my parents."Good morning princess Aurora" I heard two voices greet me in unison and I removed the hands which I had placed on my eyes, sitting upright on the bed I was on."Am I in heaven?" I muttered out loud as I gazed at the two women who were standing before me and were dressed in white. Their skin was pearly white and it was nothing as I had seen before, I gazed at them with my mouth agape, in admiration. "This must be heaven" I concluded as I gazed at the decorations in the room which were white and they were beautiful. "Welcome back to Arizona kingdom, princess" one of them had a smile on thei
Aurora's POV I bit hard into my lip as I thought of the perfect answer to give, I was fidgeting and I didn't even know until my mum hugged me tightly. "I gave it all, mother," I turned my gaze from my father until it landed on my mother. I was waiting to see the disapproval on their faces but there was none. "I gave it all to one man, my body, my soul, and even my heart, I thought that he was worth it all but he turned out to be the worth mistake in my life" " He belittled me, called me names, made me hate myself just because I wasn't a wolf and I wasn't fit enough to be his mate," " Mother he humiliated me, made me wish that I was dead, and when I got home and found out the truth that I was adopted, my heart shattered" I sniffed while blinking severally. " I got home to inform my parents of what Sebastian had just but there, at that very moment, I heard that I was adopted, they loved me, mother, my adopted parents did" " They treated me well and I would have never wished for so
Sebastian POV"We have to split ourselves into groups, so we will be able to search for her quickly," Aurora's father suggested. I nodded my head, agreeing with him on what he had just said, the guards who I had brought alongside me formed three teams. "One should comb the forest, another should search the river shore and the other should search on top of the cliff" I gave out my orders to the three teams. They all bowed their heads in reverence to me, before walking away."Are you sure that Aurora didn't come to meet with you?" Her mother asked me while I was walking away with one of the team. I turned around to answer her but when I saw the way she glared at me, I was taken aback. "Does she know anything?" I wondered as I gulped in my saliva while thinking of what I was going to say to her. "I saw her from a distance but I never talked to her" I answered, with a firm voice that would leave anyone covinced. "Mother, please stop pushing this further, Sebastian isn't one to hurt
Sebastian POVThe walk back home was depressing, everyone seemed to be grieving as no one could find the right word to say, not at this moment. I held Aurora's Jacket and her shoe, clenching them tightly, her scent wafting into my nostrils reminding me of the last conversation with her and how it had turned out. I ran my gaze at the people who were walking beside me and I exhaled when I saw none of them looking back at me. I was sure that I had that guilty look on my face and if I was caught, it wasn't going to help. "You have to be strong mother, Aurora will come back soon," I heard Laden console his mother, with his hands wrapped firmly around her and I wondered how he was going to feel if he found out that she wouldn't be coming back. I wondered what thought was running through his mind at the moment and for the first time in a long while, I wished that I could find out what was going through someone else's mind. I wanted to know what he was thinking about at the moment, I nee
Sebastiana POV "How about we stay calm, father?" I asked while fidgeting, there was a belief that whatever the ancestral goddess said was real and I didn't want her to find out what I have done to Aurora. "Son, what did you say?" My mother asked me, her eyes glinting with tears, and my eyes broke at the sight of it. Different thoughts ran through my mind as I thought of what she was going to do to me if she found out what I had done to Aurora, her Aurora. I shook my head, dissuading the thought from my head, I had to do whatever I had in mind and I had to act fast. " Aurora was everything to me and I cannot stop thinking of how life would have been with her by my side" I placed a hand on my chest, caressing it gently as though I was in great pain. "She deserves justice, and that is what I am going to get for her" I glanced at the faces surrounding me, and my heart hitched when I saw those faces. Those faces that had heard me talking harshly to Aurora, glanced at me with stunne
Aurora's POV"What do you mean mother?" I questioned her, wanting to know what she meant by what she had just said."My diamond," she caressed my cheek running her hands on them gently. "It is nothing that you should worry yourself about" she assured me, but I wasn't having it. Not after I have heard what she had said. "Mother" I muttered out gently to her, not withdrawing her gaze away from those eyes, those eyes that spoke volumes and looked like mine. "You shouldn't hide things away from me," I objected when she attempted to walk away from the room, leaving me in the care of the maids who had been assigned to me. "It isn't time yet, Aurora," she fixed her eyes on mine. Her skin glistened when it came in contact with the sun."Then when will it be time, mother?" I knew that I had just gotten here but still, I wanted to be involved in everything that concerned them, I wanted to relieve them of the stress that they had gone through while searching for me and I wanted her to know th
Sebastian POV"Come along with me" my father made gestures at me as he made his way toward the part of the pack which has been assigned to the ancestral goddess.My face was devoid of emotions and I knew that anyone who saw me in the present state that I was in would be scared of even approaching me, I knew that I was supposed to be scared, scared that I would be caught but I couldn't bring myself to.My gaze traveled to the sky where the moon seemed to be fading, making way for the sun to come through and I felt faint. My toe ached badly and I frowned slightly as I struggled to meet my father who was walking at fast paces. "Is something wrong, son?" My father turned around, taking a look at me, I shook my head at him, motioning at him to continue walking but it seemed that he wasn't having it. He scrutinized my outfit before fixing his gaze on my legs. " You are limping,""I am okay, father, do not let this little injury of mine stop us from going to find out where my mate is, it i