CHAPTER 1: REJECTED AT HER OWN WEDDING

‘I can do this! It’s your big day. Fighting, Elowyn!’

That was the mantra she repeatedly cheered herself with an hour before she was standing in front of hundreds of people, wilting like a flower that hadn’t been watered in ages.

“Elowyn ……. I didn’t want to do this but you …. You just never listened. If only you did, wouldn’t this be happening today?” the man dragged his words as he looked at her expressionlessly.

Listening to those words, however, Elowyn couldn’t help but tearfully looked at the man, the groom she was supposed to wed on this fateful day and yet there she stood, humiliated in front of the people she had taken as family for three good years.

Mocking gazes, disdainful gazes and pitiful gazes were all she could sense being directed at her.

“Haha,” she couldn’t help but mockingly laugh at herself and the situation that she found herself in.

Rather than standing next to the man she dearly loves with all her being. Her lover, her family and the alpha of the Whitecrest pack that had taken her in as a member for three years. She stood across from him, feeling so embarrassed and ashamed in that gown that made her have sleepless nights for months.

She wanted him to see her wearing this on this day. Let him see how amazing she looked wearing that white beautiful gown, adorned with emeralds he once gifted her since they matched her beautiful eyes.

She had worked on the gown for months and yet on the day he was supposed to see it, his eyes didn’t have her. Rather, all his attention and focus were all on the woman standing next to him, being embraced in his strong arms and the only person in this whole world who would make her feel worthless.

Her man’s first fated mate, Veda.

Nonetheless, this was her big day and honestly, she didn’t want to accept defeat like that. She had been by Hilary’s side for three good years. There was possibly no way that he could throw all that out of the window for a mate who hadn’t been by his side for that long, right?

“Hilary, you …… why are you doing this? This is our big day and my birthday. You didn’t forget that, have you?” Elowyn asked in a pleading tone, her eyes glimmering with tears that were threatening to fall down her cheeks at any moment.

She grappled the gown with so much strength, making it her pillar of strength as she pleadingly continued to look at Hilary. Hoping that he would tell her that it was all a joke, and the wedding was going to resume and that he was going to wed her instead of Veda who appeared out of nowhere.

Unfortunately, it was all her wishful thinking.

Hilary scowled disdainfully as he looked at her, not bothering to hide his emotions at all.

“Elowyn, you have been part of this pack for three years and I do believe that you should understand that there are some things that can’t be escaped from. I know that I promised to marry you after three years but have you already forgotten the condition of me doing so?” he asked amusedly, his brows rising and the woman standing next to him, wearing a beautiful gown, more exquisite than the one Elowyn was wearing smirked as she showed a smug smile.

Elowyn clutched her gown, a pang of pain piercing through her heart as she recalled Hilary’s conditions three years ago.

‘I can feel your love for me but you must know, I love my fated mate and I will not stop looking for her. As long as she is not dead, I will never give up on her. However, if I fail to find her in three years, I will marry you and give you a big wedding.’

So, she was patient. She waited for three years, and there wasn’t any news until now. Just right at the perfect time. These pack members who were looking at her as if she was some kind of joke, praised her day and night. They gave her their blessings and yet behind her back, everyone cooperated and still managed to Hilary’s mate who had vanished after the annual mating gala over three years ago.

She thought that the other whether alive or dead would never return but she was just a joke. Veda, stood right there in her majestic glory, publicly in the arms of Hilary and yet no one felt that it was wrong. How could they think like that when mates were the true partners in these people’s eyes?

In their eyes, she had become the pathetic mistress who wanted to wreck a beautiful union. How laughable of her!

As a wolfless member, or rather in her case, a human. How could she fight against that kind of bond?

A bond bestowed upon them by the Moon Goddess. How could she defeat that?

But Elowyn still hoped that for the sake of the three years she was by his side, healing his rounds, he would show mercy and remember how much he loves him and can’t live without him. Unfortunately, he proved to her just how ruthless he could be. It’s just that, she had ignored that side of him and deluded herself into living a fairy tale which didn’t have the happy ending like her mother promised.

Nonetheless, she had a hidden card. As long as she used it, he would be happy right and perhaps give her another chance and pick her instead of Veda.

There was no way it would fail. That method has worked for many ages. It was foolproof.

With that thought in mind, she looked at him, and ignored the tears streaming down her cheeks, messing the makeup that now seemed to have been poorly done, considering the fact that she was shedding black tears.

“I ….. Hilary, what if I _” Elowyn mustered her courage to confess something that she wanted to surprise Hilary with on this fateful day but before she could go anywhere, Veda interjected and disdainfully said, “Elowyn. As a woman, I truly disdain how lowly you are putting yourself in front of so many people. I understand that you are human and crave some power and attention but don’t you respect our Moon Goddess?

It is our honor and blessing that she provides us with mates who will spend the rest of our lives with and yet because of your selfishness. Do you still want Hilary, an alpha of such a large pack to still marry you?

Even if I wasn’t found, thankfully, I was. By marrying you, have you ever thought of how that would weaken the pack? The pack can’t have a human Luna who can’t do anything. What’s the difference between you and a wolfless omega?

Apart from carrying pups, if you could. Which in your case is very difficult? After all, unless you are a werewolf yourself, you can’t conceive his child. It’s impossible! What is your purpose to become the pack’s Luna?”

Elowyn couldn’t hear what more Veda talked about. She just kept on hearing the conceiving part. ‘ ….. unless you are a werewolf, you can’t conceive his child. Hilary can’t impregnate a human.’

Just how impossible was it?

No, it can’t be. If that was the case, then …… she couldn’t help but place her hand on her belly and ask herself, ‘Whose child am I carrying when I only slept with Hilary?’

Could it be that Hilary drugged her and let her sleep with a human instead of him?

Could that happen in real life?

She couldn’t help but look at Hilary who was nodding to every word Veda was saying, with a doting expression on his face.

She had been by his side and yet never once had he smiled at her like that. Just how foolish was she to the extent that she could be fooled by the whole pack and found herself being humiliated completely at her own wedding?

Was the bond between mates that special that she, being human needed to be humiliated grandly like that?