Alba's pov

Chapter 4 

Alba's POV 

I didn’t know what had led me into accusing Dante of being impotent, but hearing him expose that Veronica was already pregnant with an heir for him wasn’t what I had expected to find out.

“Stop causing a scene here, Alba!” he suddenly shouted when he realized the extent of the damage he had caused himself.

“Who wouldn’t want to have a lady like Veronica impregnated? She is a beta’s daughter and has highborn blood in her veins. Why would I leave someone like her for you?” he snapped, leaving me shocked.

“Alpha Dante, are you defending your actions of impregnating another woman when your Luna is still alive?” the Alpha King asked him, and the crowd went silent as they listened to what excuses he had to say.

“You don’t have anywhere else to go, Alba. I’m all you have. Come to me now and I’ll put this behind us. Don’t forget you depend on me,” Dante said instead, forgetting the question he was asked.

A cry almost escaped my lips but I forced myself and held it back in. I couldn’t cry, and especially not for him. Especially not in the presence of all these people.

Unable to believe that after four years of dedicating my life towards building Dante, that this was still all I amounted to before him.

The same omega with no background that his pack raised as a servant. The same omega who was found at the border, alone and with no parents.

“You can’t survive without me, Alba. Think twice before making a choice,” he went on, as if he was scared of the idea of me rejecting him more than I was.

As if he was more worried about my welfare than I was. If it were before, I would have believed that he actually cared for me, but already realizing, I knew he didn’t but was only worried that he might lose his wolf if I were to reject him.

“You’ve kept numerous women in the past and now you impregnated your mistress. And you still don’t feel remorseful about the shameful thing you have done!” I answered.

“Shameful?” Dante scoffed, staring around his fellow Alphas, a shred of shame not even visible on his face.

“What Alpha would want a wolfless omega to be the mother of their heirs?” he snapped, and immediately he said that, there seemed to be a ripple of support from some of the Alphas who supported his actions.

I was only but a woman, had I been expecting that they would take my side instead of his?

“So you mean to tell us that impregnating your mistress wasn’t a mistake, Alpha Dante?” Alpha King Marshall asked him.

“Mistake?” he went on, noticing that many supported his actions.

“I’ve deliberately had the servants feed her contraceptives so that she is unable to get pregnant with my heir. Do you think impregnating my mistress was a mistake?” he retorted, looking at me with disdain.

Veronica seemed to take a step back as she heard him exposing his crimes by himself, as if she was wary that he was saying all these without being forced to.

I almost lost my balance but was able to hold myself, not wanting to lose my balance or fall to show any form of weakness.

Not only had Dante stayed away from me and made me insecure about myself, believing that I wasn’t up to the standards of woman he wanted, not only did he touch me whenever he so wished, not only did he behave as if I disgusted him, all this while, he had been secretly feeding me contraceptives to cut short any chances of me ever being pregnant with his pups.

Whereas I worked myself everyday trying to impress him and make him realize my worth and importance to him and his pack, hoping for even a shred of his gaze my way, he had been doing this.

“I, Alba, reject Alpha Dante Voss as my mate and Alpha. I annul this bond that binds us together!” I snapped without restraint, watching him as he began to cough up blood.

The Alpha King looked at me shocked by the decision I had taken. He couldn’t believe that I would really reject my mate especially with how Dante had threatened me.

His gaze lingered on me longer than it should have. As if he was thinking of something I couldn’t quite understand or explain.

Dante continued to cough up blood, struggling to maintain his balance which I couldn’t quite understand because I was only but a weak omega. How could me rejecting him have such an impact on him when he was an Alpha? Was my dormant wolf powerful? Was there something about my lineage that I was yet to understand?

I couldn’t think of an answer before Dante’s voice rang through the place.

“You still dared to reject an Alpha, Alba. How do you think you’d survive from now on? Don’t forget you were merely alone when you were brought back to the pack. Don’t forget that it was because of my kindness that you have everything you do. The clothes and shelter over your head. The…”

“Are you threatening her instead of accepting her rejection, Alpha Dante?” the Alpha King asked him, interrupting him before he could finish.

Dante laughed hysterically, then mockingly.

“Seems like the Alpha King’s interest in you has blinded you and made you believe that you’re now something,” he laughed once more.

“Don’t you know the kind of person he is? Is he any better than me when he is involved with every woman that comes his way? Do you believe he’d be able to provide you with shelter and even the Luna title I have let you enjoy all these while?”

“Don’t overstep your boundaries, Alpha Dante!” Alpha Marshall shouted, releasing his Alpha aura which forced Dante on his knees, held down by two guards.

“You’re banished from Moonstone pack, Alba. If you dare set foot in my lands again, my guards will execute you on the spot because you are a traitor who disrespected the Alpha!”

“Where would you go then? It’s not as if the Alpha King really cares for you! Let me see how you’d be able to survive now that you have nothing!” he snapped, laughing as if he had won.

In my bid to escape his control, I had forgotten to make plans of how to live after leaving his pack.

Dante had made sure I had no savings or allies despite being the one in charge of the pack’s finances. He had made sure I was unable to stand by myself without him. And I hadn’t thought of that beforehand.

“Let’s see which will force you to return to me first, Alba. The pain from the rejection I have refused to accept or when you’d come back begging because no other pack will be willing to take you in or help you survive.”

“Who said that no other pack was willing to take her in?” Alpha Marshall suddenly snapped.

He seemed to have been silent all these while, allowing Dante to expose the kind of man he was to the public without interrupting him.

“As the Alpha of Alphas, I decree that today onwards, Alba is now a distinguished member of my pack and my very special guest!”