Chapter 3

Marcus’s POV

"Marcus? Did... did I do something wrong?" Lila sobbed and looked up at me with her tear filled, innocent looking doe eyes as she lay weakly in my arms.

"No, my love. You didn't do anything wrong, it's all that damn woman's fault!"

I stared at Sophia coldly. This all made sense.

I had seen her hand that glass of wine back to Lila and I kicked myself for not expecting this jealous woman to try something like this.

"Guards! Detain the Luna and take her to the dungeon!”

"What? Marcus... you can't be serious?! How dare you do this to me!"

"Shut the fuck up Sophia! Guards! Restrain her if you have to."

Ignoring Sophia's shouting I gave the guards their orders as I picked Lila up as gently as I could and carried her out of the banquet hall.

"I told you long ago that Sophia was not our mate and things wouldn't end well with her!" My wolf hissed furiously at me, panic stricken about our mate's condition.

"Darius, please. I didn't think for a minute that Sophia was like this. I had only ever seen her kindness and compassion."

Sophia and I had met in high school. She was the only heir to the Ironclad Pack, and an Alpha too. As the Alpha of the Nightfall Pack, I had always felt that we were almost made for each other.

It made sense for us to pursue a relationship, even if it turned out that she was not my fated mate, I still thought that together, we would provide strong leadership for our packs. I had no intention of changing my mind.

All this time my wolf, Darius, had been trying to warn me that something like this would happen, but every time she looked at me with chocolate colored eyes, I saw nothing but deep love and affection radiating there.

She was a caring and attentive wife and an excellent Luna.

Sophia had always made it known just how deeply she loved me and she had worked for the benefit of our pack in everything that she did.

After our pack merged, I became the most powerful Alpha in our kingdom. As a rare pair of Chosen Mates, our love story had been the topic of gossip on everyone's lips. We had become the legendary couple

that everyone aspired to be like and nobody had anything bad to say about me, I was the perfect gentleman in their eyes.

All Sophia and I had to do was play our respective roles as we had been doing and everything would have been fine, but now, it turned out she had a hidden side to her that I knew nothing about.

"I'm sorry Lila, my love. I should have spoken to her about this sooner and perhaps it wouldn't have come as such a shock to her.

If I had given her time to adjust perhaps you wouldn't have gotten hurt"

I laid Lila on the bed gently and called the doctor to treat her.

My poor fated Mate had only just broken free from the torment of her pack's destruction, and now she was faced with another trauma to deal with.

"It's okay Marcus. It's not your fault, I don't blame you at all. None of us could have guessed that Sophia would do such a thing, especially because she holds the title of Luna."

"Oh yes, such a Luna behaving like this," I spat in disgust, "If she can behave like this in front of me then what else is she capable of behind my back?"

After I had left the doctor with instructions to look after Lila, I called Brock back into the banquet hall. The guards had Sophia

pinned to the ground and restrained on all sides.

I made my way through the crowd that had gathered around her to watch.

"Sophia, I had always thought that you were a kind woman, I didn't expect you to use such an underhanded and despicable method to try and get rid of my fated mate!"

"It's funny, because I also naively thought that my husband Marcus Blackthorn, was also a good husband!"

I gritted my teeth together tightly and looked at the stubborn, prideful woman before me.

Reaching forward quickly, I took hold of her chin, pinching it tightly, and forced her to hold my gaze. "If you are willing to admit your mistake Sophia, and accept Lila's presence here as my fated mate, then I will forgive this...unpleasantness and you can keep your position as Luna."

The woman in front of me suddenly smiled and her eyes began to turn a bright purple, a warning that she was ready to use her wolf Luna's abilities.

I quickly took a step back from her and without warning the guards who had held her down were thrown away from her with such brutality that tables and chairs scattered as their bodies collided with them. What should have been a perfect anniversary banquet was now nothing more than a mess.

"Sophia! Are you insane?! You actually

attacked your own guards!"

"Yes, I'm fucking insane," she growled.

Sophia stared at me with her purple eyes shining dangerously and an unhinged smile on her pretty face.

The expensive evening dress that she had chosen for the banquet was torn in several places, revealing her beautiful pale skin underneath.

As much I hated to admit it, this version of Sophia that stood before me, beautiful in her rage, was an incredible turn on.

She turned around to face the pack member assembled for the banquet and spoke loudly in a confident voice that carried the full length of the room.

"I, Sophia Evergreen of the Ironclad Pack, hereby officially reject Marcus Blackthorn of the Nightfall Pack, and from this moment forth, I am no longer your Luna."

"What the fuck are you talking about?!" I yelled in panic as I rushed over to grab hold of her arm roughly, and spun her to face me.

"Don't you understand?" She sneered, "This is the end of our relationship."

"You actually dared to reject me?!"

I hadn't even punished her and this damn woman had chosen to reject me before anything was decided.

Fuck!

"You'll regret this in the future Sophia! I am Marcus Blackthorn of the Nightfall Pack, hereby accept your refusal! You will now be arrested for murder! Guards! Take this damn woman to the dungeon!"