Chapter Four
Ten days later
It was time, everything had been done. Today, Mack was finally going to be crowned the Alpha, words couldn't explain how happy I was, a big party was thrown. The people also seemed happy, at first I feared that I may have to face an angry mob but everyone liked the idea. I felt so proud and happy.
Everyone seemed to be having a nice time, everyone minus Miller. I noticed him sitting down in a corner sipping a glass of wine, I walked over to him and smiled.
"Looks like someone is the Grinch." I joked but he just ignored me.
I frowned. "Look Miller, I know to you this seems crazy, but it's the only way."
"You could have worked harder Azalea, but no, you chose to run away. If you had put that faith you have in him in you, Dear heavens I fear the kind of courage and power you would have. I believed in you Azalea."
I almost teared up while listening to him but I held it in.
"You can't throw away your title just like that."
"Exactly Miller, it's just a title, I'm not running away, I'm still here."
"But he is on the throne and you're not. You're nothing but a submissive Luna to him now."
"Mack is a good man, I just hope you realize that one day. "
"I have never doubted his faith and loyalty, but power changes people Azalea, you may not have everything but I watched you grow, and you know how to control power. "
I scoffed in disbelief. "I can't even control my wolf but I can control power?"
"All you needed was to have faith in yourself. But the deed has been done already. I just hope we all have a happy ending in this."
"We will, don't worry." I smiled and stole his drink.
"Little thief." He laughed.
"Thank you for everything, you are like a parent to me."
"And you are like an annoying daughter I can't wait to get rid of."
"Unfortunately for you, I'm worse than a leech."
"Agreed."
"Now where's my Luna?" Mack walked over to me and kissed my cheek. "Oh hi there Miller." He burped and waved at Miller who slightly bowed to him in return.
"Good evening Alpha."
"Oh calling me that already?" Mack laughed. "Not going to lie, it feels so unreal."
I noticed how silly Mack was acting and I sighed. "You are drunk aren't you?"
"A bit tipsy but I'm fine." He replied and hiccupped. "Alright then, imma leave you two and go have some fun! Alpha rocks!"
Miller raised a brow at me and I smiled awkwardly mouthing to him. "Well, at least he's the fun type."
"Sure, might as well ask the enemies to drink with him and avoid wars from happening, smart move." He mind-linked me.
I rolled my eyes at Miller and turned my attention to Mack who was sitting close to me slightly dozing off, I looked at him but my eyes caught something and I pulled his shirt down by the collar trying to see what it was. I noticed a red bump at the side of his neck and I was shocked. It looked like a hickey, wait what?
I tapped him and started rushing questions at him. "What's that on your neck? Why do you have hickeys on your neck? Mack? Hello?" I could feel myself becoming paranoid.
"Hm, what?" He answered with his eyes still closed.
"Your neck." My teeth gritted. "You have a hickey."
"That was you from yesterday evening, what the fuck Azalea? Have you forgotten? You sucked the shit out of my neck like it was a lollipop."
Oh, that's true.... We spent the past few days together and made out almost every time... Shit can't believe I got worked up for nothing.
"I'm sorry." I apologized. "I overreacted."
"Nah, it's fine." He grinned and tried to get up but failed. "Plus you are going to put a whole lot more later in the night."
I felt very embarrassed when he said that as Miller gasped in disgust.
"Mack, we don't talk about shits like that outside," I said through clenched teeth.
"Right right." He nodded.
Miller stood up and tapped my shoulders. "Knock yourself out, kid."
"Oh, Lord." I groaned and looked over at Mack who had already fallen deep asleep.
The Next Morning.
I woke up to Mack smiling at me, his eyes were still half closed but he was awake.
"Good morning!" I chirped happily.
"Morning." He replied, his voice very deep and tired. "Ah God, my head hurts badly!" He hissed and turned over to the side.
I chucked. "Well, you did party hard last night Alpha Mack."
He turned to look at me with a smile. "Say it again."
"Alpha Mack?"
"It sounds so foreign, to be honest." He sat up and faced me. "It feels somehow unreal."
"I know, but I'm happy because now we are getting 100% official, I can't wait for you to mark me and make me your Luna."
"Soon." He pecked my lips. "Soon don't worry."
"I'm not worried."
"Come on, let's shower and get ready, we have got a long day ahead of us today." He tried to get up but I held his hand pulling him back on the bed.
"Where the fuck are you going?"
"To get dressed Azalea, you also need to. We have things to do."
"They can wait," I said as I strangled him by sitting on top of him slowly kissing his neck.
"It's 8 am and you're horny already?" He laughed.
I smiled sheepishly and batted my lashes innocently as I raised my face. He tilted his head to the side and smiled as he checked his phone.
"What?" I asked as I noticed the smile on his face.
"Nothing, it's just I realized." He flipped us over and he was now on top. "I think we have some minutes to spare." He said as he crashed his lips on mine.
Azalea POVI ran out of the throne room and tears began to flow down my face. I tried to hold it in but I couldn't even hold it in for long as all the tears poured and I tried to cover my mouth just to silence it.I can't continue doing this, I keep lying to alpha Federico that I love him when I don't…yes, I have affection for him but that love could never be like the one I felt for Luther, Alpha Federico kept asking me if I loved him but I kept saying I loved him when I didn't.I wish I could just truly love him but I couldn't do it. Walked sluggishly to my room and closed the door as I began to think about all that Alpha Federico said, he kept mentioning my second chance mate coming back but I couldn't really agree to my mate ever coming back. What if he came back and I hate him? What if I reject him because I have become too deeply in love with Luther?But I won't want anyone to pass through the rejection. I knew how much pain I held in the day Kade rejected me and now I would hav
ALPHA Federico The priest and everyone stared at me as my beta asked the same question for the second time. I knew that I wouldn’t dare tell them that I had just stolen my own son's mate.“It’s nothing, I just remembered that I need to discuss something with Luther.” I lied before moving backward a little and then left the secret room and went back to the palace.I staggered slowly through the hallways as I was unable to believe what just happened…it began to make perfect sense to me, that was why Azalea wasn’t able to stay away from Luther even though my inner wolf was very weak.It was because of the pull which she kept feeling and that was what I had always thought was cheating.“I tried to separate them but I was just making the situation worse and their bond to keep getting close,” I muttered to myself as I staggered like a person who was drunk, I stopped again when I realized something.“How am I even sure that they haven’t slept with each other in secret already?” I asked myse
Alpha Federico povKade was soon done with his childish treat and walked away but I wasn’t as calm as I sounded, I looked at Azalea and she was happy because I backed her up…I was also happy because happiness was the only thing I wanted, all I wanted to see was a smile on her face at all times and she never deprived me of that….I smiled back at her subconsciously before looking away, “You shouldn’t mind him, If truly she was seeing things and kept having nightmares we like to have heard her shouts at least once or twice but none of that has happened.” Azalea said before looking at me with a smile.Just when I was about to reply to her my phone beeped and when I checked it was a message from my Beta letting me know that the priest I had sent on an errand had arrived.“I need to go, I have very important things to attend to,” I said to her and stood up even before she could question my reasons,As I walked down the hallway I hoped that he had found a way and that the priest had nothing
Azalea’s povWith those words, I was a bit taken aback by what she was trying to insinuate.“What do you mean?” I asked.“I won’t tell you anything, you just keep acting dumb and trying to find out why Luther cannot do without you,” Susan said and even though I was at the doorway she still walked away and left me in the garden again, while I thought about why exactly I felt this way and why she just said those words but yet I felt like what she had just said had some hidden meaning I have to find out more on.“She wouldn’t say those things if she hadn’t heard something or knew about what was going wrong in my life,” I whispered to myself before walking out of the Garden and into the palace only to see Alpha Federico waiting in front of the doorway with a frown making me wonder if I have done something wrong to him.“Why are you standing there and staring at me like I have done something wrong?” I asked Alpha Federico as then his frown turned to a cheerful look.“I was worried Susan wa
Azalea POVI couldn’t say anything and just kept quiet. Susan walked towards me with a smirk as she became so close to me I could feel the harsh breath from her nose on my skin making me very uncomfortable.“I understand what you mean,” I said but I still didn’t understand what the secret was all about.“I know you think the secret is a minor something but I called you here just to let you know that I would make your life a living hell, I liked you back then as I always thought that you would favor us when you became the Luna but now we all paved way for you to be the queen and now Alpha Federico made you the queen even without a ceremony and you threw us all away,” Susan said with bitterness oozing out of her voice but I still stood cool as I knew deep within me that she was the one who took that photo but with the way, I saw things now I knew she couldn’t do anything… she just wanted attention and to be favored by alpha Federico she was not as determined as Lucy.I walked up to her
Azalea’s povI lay beside Alpha Federico who was fast asleep, I couldn’t help but remember what he said. What good I possibly do to Isabelle that would make her regret ever being born into this world or even being in this pack?I don’t know why Alpha Federico can’t just chase them all away, at least Alpha Rozan left but why weren’t Isabelle and Kade leaving?Suddenly I remembered Kade and that made me angry with myself, I don’t know why I always remembered him. He rejected me and yet acted so emotionally with me,I stood up from the bed and wore my key favorite dress to stroll around and that’s when I searched around for my novel from the other day but couldn’t find it, “where could I have kept it?” I questioned myself and then I remembered the night of my intimacy with Luther, he had collected the book from me while he kissed me and took me to his room and that’s when I recalled seeing him drop it on the shelf in the hallways.I checked on Alpha Federico and he was still fast asleep,