The preparations for the ceremony happened sooner than I could imagine. We decided that the venue was going to be towards the lake so the moon’s reflection could be even more perfect in the water. Chloe had done my makeup, and of course, she made me look like a goddess. My wedding dress was a dark wine velvet gown that was floor sweeping and had spaghetti straps with a wine corset on my waistline. I didn’t know how Choice had managed to get it on such short notice, but it was my perfect size and I loved it. It was only a few minutes till 12AM, so Dad had come to pick me up.“You look extremely beautiful. I never thought I’d see this day, but I’m glad I’m privileged to see my daughter’s wedding ceremony.” He had a proud smile on and hugged me, planting a fatherly kiss on my forehead. “I love you and I’m glad we got to see the real light before it was too late.” I was grinning from ear to ear, also glad that my parents and grandmother were present at my wedding. Dad led me to the v
~ JANE ~ (11 YEARS LATER) “HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, SWEETHEART!” Keegan said the moment I woke up, wrapping his arms around me and captured my lips into a kiss. I was startled since of course, I just woke up, but I shook it off and returned his kiss. “Happy anniversary.” I said when I pulled away, stretching. We had arrived at the beach house with our friends and family two days ago. Since it was where our love developed, it held a special place in our heart, so we decided to celebrate our Eleventh wedding anniversary here. “Guess what I found?” he asked and he had a really bright smile that made me have a good feeling about today already. “What is it?” You know how much I hate guesses.” He arched his back to pick up something from the floor then placed a box on my lap. “What is it?” I asked again. “Just open it.” He rolled his eyes at me. I chuckled and opened the box. There were two more more boxes in it and I took out the first box, it had so many swimsui
“You can’t just sit around all day. Come out now!” Mrs. Bea yelled, accompanied by the loud bang against my room door. Getting up from the pile of rotten used clothes that served as my bed, I took a few steps to the door and unlocked it. Mrs. Bea's face was crimson red with fury. “How dare you make me come to you before you start the day’s work?” “I-I'm sorry,” I sheepishly apologized, shoving past her side to escape any more trouble from her. “I didn’t ask you to leave yet, mutt.” She spat, completely ignoring the fact that I had a name. Pivoting to her, I bowed my head in apology. “Sorry ma’am. What would you like me to do?”“There is an important event in the pack house today, yet you were sleeping?”“I wasn't sleeping. I'm sorry.” I was just scared. Like everyday. I was scared to get out.“Dimwit. Ensure everything is perfect— the foods, drinks, deserts, and the entire place. Remember, this is very important to Alpha, so nothing must go wrong.”“Yes, ma’am.” I replied. “Spea
~ JANE WILLIAMS ~My uneasiness worsened when a voice in my head rang 'MATE'. Was this some sort of joke? I was startled when Alpha Keegan pulled away from everyone around then turned to me. “Mate?” He called with disgust laced in his tone then more attention was drawn to us as murmurings filled the hall. What the hell was this? His expression, his word, as well as the strong scent from him that hit my nose confirmed the voice in my head— that he was my mate. How could this be possible? This would’ve been good news if it was another Alpha, but not Alpha Keegan. “I—”“No way,” I cut him off, already quivering in fear again. Judging from his dangerous glare and gaze of irritation at me, I could tell he was going to reject me. I couldn’t let the pain of rejection be added to the numerous pain in my life already. Before he could reject me, I said, “I, Jane Williams, reject you, Alpha Keegan Gray, as my mate, forever...”His eyes bugged out at my word, and the entire room was filled
I was watching everywhere in fear, wondering what was next in line for my fate. No one had come to me yet for any punishment, increasing my fear. Why were they planning against me? Had they forgotten my presence? I hadn’t even been called to clean up the pack house, I was grateful for that, but it elevated my fear. I curled up in a ball against the wall, hoping I was going to wake up and realize the entire drama of Alpha Keegan being my mate was nothing but a nightmare.My hopes were crushed when a huge figure appeared by the door frame, walking over the broken pieces of my room door. “Take her with you.” I lifted my gaze to meet the fury burning in the chocolate eyes of Shane. He was staring at me like I was a piece of rotten junk that needed to be gotten rid of. My heart's palpitations increased when two hefty men in their regular Black and Red guard uniform walked up to me and lifted me up by my arm. “Please… please don’t harm me. I promise I never meant any harm.”“You’re a s
“Take her outside.” Bruce ordered and two of the guards walked up to me, unchained me then dragged me out of the prison. I shivered from both the aftermath of the overnight cold and the fear of what was going to happen to me. I was dragged to the center of the town and chained to a bench on a raised platform. It was tagged as the bench of shame and was for chaining up criminals or people who brought shame upon the pack, for brutal punishments.I was left there, sitting on the ground as different members of the pack passed, hurling insults at me and laughing at me, some of them even threw things at me and some of them sent little children to hit me, for no good reason. The sun had started to burn my skin and my stomach was grumbling from its lack of food. I hadn’t eaten anything proper yesterday and two days ago, and I hadn’t had anything to eat. This was too much for me to handle. “She thought she could get away with rejecting the Alpha. Such a cheat and stupid mutt with so much p
We all quickly ran to the south of the pack town, meeting up with my mother, the present Luna, Kate. She stood in front of the pack orphanage home and had a basket of food in her hands with two children beside her, clinging onto her wrists like their lives depended on it. “What’s wrong?” I asked her.She didn’t utter a word but gripped onto the hand of one of the quivering children really tight. “What happened?!” I demanded in a louder voice. “Luna Kate was here to give us sweets and home made food, then we all heard someone scream. When we ran outside, we saw that the beautiful lady who follows the Luna around as the Luna's assistant had blood around her and her head was no longer connected to her body.” The child explained on Mom’s behalf. “What?! Where is her body?” “Her body’s here, Alpha.” Scarlett said, walking out from the side of the orphanage building with a few men behind her. We all followed Scarlett’s lead and to the dead body of one of our pack members, Maddie. Her
I was unchained and Mason was called to drive me to the pack house while Alpha Keegan left for some work. “Have you had anything to eat?” Mason asked me. “No, nothing.” I didn’t look at him as I spoke. “Okay. I’ll order pizza for you. Eat up then pack your belongings.” His tone was as cold as the tone of every man in the pack. “How long will the journey be for?” I asked. He didn’t respond to me and continued driving till we got to the pack house. The first thing I did was to drink multiple glasses of water, each gulp felt divine as it hit my throat. When my stomach was filled with water, I left for my room. The door was still broken from Alpha Keegan kicking it down, and the room was still in the mess I caused when I tried to run. I picked my plastic bag from the side of the window up and added a few more things to it. When pizza arrived, I had to bring it back to my room since I had no right to eat on the dining table. I thought I was going to eat the entire box of pizza but I