LOGIN“You can reject me all you want, Destiny… but I will never let you go.” Those were the words that turned my rejection into a prison sentence. I gave my heart, my loyalty, and my life to Alpha Coren Silver. I stood by him through war, prayed for his return, and waited for the mate I loved to come home. But when he finally did, he came back with another woman on his arm… and his child in her womb. When I finally found the strength to reject him, he didn’t accept it. But Destiny, my name and my truth, does not bow easily. No matter what chains he places on me, I’ve promised myself one thing: I will reclaim my life… even if the Alpha who owns my heart and body won’t let me go until I remember exactly who I belong to.
View MoreDestiny’s POV.
I had a nightmare last night. It was too terrible that I would rather die than believe it was true. I dreamed of my married four-year fated mate betrayed me and despised me as trash. It couldn't be true, because I believed deeply that Coren loved me so much since the first day the Moon Goddess bound us, Coren never let me doubt his love.
When I wake up, Coren's warm body is on mine.
His hips are positioned firmly between my open legs, his lips planting heated kisses down my neck while a large callused palm is caressing my thigh. Coren is gradually kissing a path towards my breasts and right as that urge to give in to him totally grabs me, I snap fully awake and push him off, rolling off to the other side of the bed.
"Stop that, Coren."
I don't have to say anything else to him, only tug my night robe tighter around me and sit with my back facing him so I can hide how flushed I am.
My body wants him so bad but I can't give in to him now, not anymore.
Coren's voice is rough and gravelly, heavy with lust as he speaks, "I want you, Destiny.
It's been months since we've been intimate with each other, and I'm running mad with want for you."
My wolf growls and paces angrily in my mind at those words. The mate bond…. this cruel mate bond between us eats at us to feel our mate's touch. A touch I’ve fought so hard to resist since I learnt of his betrayal.
Coren’s betrayal is not just a nightmare, but a real event.
A year ago, my husband and mate, Alpha Coren, returned home from the war at the pack borders. As Alpha of the Silvercrest Pack, he had to be at the battlefront, and each day he was gone, I prayed for his safe return. The day he came back from war was one of the happiest days of my life, but he came back with news.
“It was a mistake, Destiny. I swear it was.”
I heard my blood rushing in my ears as his rough, gravelly voice lit up a need for him to be thrusting inside me.
“I would never willingly betray our bond like this, Destiny. It was just a one-night stand.”
A one-night stand.....
Coren and I have been married for four years, and I haven’ t been able to get pregnant for him in all that time. He was away at war for one year, and Tracy, the female warrior meant to be watching his back in battle, conceived after a one-night stand.
Since he broke the news to me… I refused to have sex with him.
I refuse to let my wolfish nature control me.
My determined attitude makes Coren let out a low, frustrated growl.
His scent retreats as he walks out of the room and the door closes behind him loudly.
I bury my face in my hands, trying to steady my breathing.
Resisting a mate’s touch is one of the most difficult things a werewolf can do, but I still did it.
I head downstairs to make breakfast the same way I always do but when I get into the living room, there's a bouquet of flowers on the dining table.
My expression falls.
He's trying to apologize. But what is he apologizing for?
I move the bouquet to the window and cast it out of my mind as I set the stage. That's what the dining table will be this morning. A stage.
With breakfast prepared and tablecloths firmly in place, I wait.
Coren comes down the stairs, his scent invading my space again and my eyes drawing in to notice every handsome feature of his face.
Coren Silvers is a handsome man.
The Alpha blood running in his veins makes him easily one of the most good looking men in the pack. Standing at an imposing six feet, he has long legs, a slim waist, and a broad back.
He sees I'm staring at him so a small smirk appears at the corner of his mouth. He's probably about to say something cocky but I beat him to it.
"I refuse to let you be my mate anymore. The bond should long be cut." The rejection should have happened one year ago, but at that time, my mother’s illness stopped me from moving forward.
I don’t speak loudly, but my words are firm and clear to let anyone in the room hear the determination in my voice.
Coren's smirk freezes and he stares blankly at me.
The satisfaction formerly glimmering in his eyes dies out as the seconds tick by, but I only plough on bravely, “You can freely be with your new family now, I don’t care anymore.
But to do that Coren, I have to reject you as my mate.”
I follow her gaze instinctively, my body tensing as I scan the forest around us.but there's nothing around us. There's no movement and no sound. There's nothing I can see, but when I look back down at her, she’s still watching, her gaze focused somewhere just beyond the edge of what I can perceive. A chill slips down my spine as I look at her. I tell myself it’s my imagination. It has to be. I’ve been through too much in too little time. My body is probably drained, my mind stretched thin, and my magic is unstable. Of course things would feel off. Of course I’d start noticing things that aren’t really there. But there's the fact that something in me tells me my baby isn't just looking at nothing. I can feel the thing she's looking at. It starts as a faint pulse beneath my skin, a soft hum of energy that doesn’t quite belong to me. My magic has always been something I feel clearly, something I can identify and control, but this pulse is different It’s… responding not to me, or
I start moving and I don’t stop even when my body threatens to force me to. The forest stretches endlessly around me, unfamiliar and unwelcoming, but I push forward anyway, one shaky step after another, with my daughter held tightly against my chest. Every muscle in my body aches. Every breath I let out from my chest burns my lungs, yet I don’t allow myself to slow down. Not yet. The memory of phantom explosions and ghostly screams still echoes too clearly in my mind. The fear that the witch hunters will be back makes a chill spread down my spine, and this time knowing that the masked stranger isn't here, it makes me feel weak and powerless for a second. I don't know when I started relying on him so much, but I have. I never believed I would be able to take on the witch hunters by myself, and while he was here, I didn't have to. Now that he's gone, there's only a crippling fear in my heart that I won't survive the next second. Still, I push it all down and continue walking. Onl
There’s no hesitation in his voice. No evasion. He just sounds honest about all this and that unsettles me more than anything else he’s said tonight. I stare at him, searching his face, trying to make sense of him, trying to understand why everything about him feels like something I should recognize. “You’re lying,” I say quietly, "You won't leave me here." “I’m not.” He says. Forcing myself to be calm, I ask the one question that might get me some insight into who I'm dealing with, "Then how do you know how to fight the witch hunters like that? How do you know where to go, how to evade them?" His gaze sharpens, just a fraction but I can tell he will respond to this question. “I know how to do all this because I’ve seen them before.” My breath catches softly in my chest and the weight of those words settles between us immediately. I ask softly, “You’ve fought the witch hunters before?” He nods, “Yes.” “And you just… didn’t think to mention that earlier?” There’s a flicker
I don’t like this.The quiet of these woods presses in too closely, wrapping around me like something alive, like something is watching. It isn’t the peaceful silence of a forest at rest.This feels too deliberate, like even the wind has been told to hold its breath.The trees don’t sway here. The leaves don’t rustle and there's no sound of life in the underbrush.Everything in me that is werewolf tells me that I don't belong here. Even the air feels heavier in my lungs, thick with something I can’t quite name.I wouldn't be so bothered about it if something else wasn't also happening at the same time.There’s him.... walking away.The masked stranger I met six months ago, who rescued me and my baby from a band of murderous witch hunters, Is turning around and walking away.My chest tightens at the sight of his back retreating into the shadows without any words. He's leaving like he was never meant to stay, like this, him saving me, carrying me, standing between me and death, was nothing more
Tracy’s pov.Five years ago, I believed victory was mine.I had given Alpha Coren of the Silvercrest pack a son, his heir, and I was so close to becoming his Luna.I was so close to replacing that silly, useless Destiny.But I had gotten it all wrong............. Council room, Silvercrest Packhous
I thought the "investigation" into Tracy's death wouldn't last more than a few months.It couldn't take so long to find out what happened to the woman who was so close to becoming Luna, right?"Luna Destiny, he's awake."The sound of young laughter carries into my ears, followed closely by the soun
The stench of the pack dungeons is suffocating, forcing itself down my throat and nose as my body hangs limply.Tears of pain are streaming down my face and the hard stone floor digs into my knees, but that's nothing compared to what is about to happen next.Crack!The sting of the whip tears acros
The second my feet cross the doors of the packhouse, I'm already running. I tear across the grounds and dash right to the rear of the packhouse property, straight towards the gathering of tall trees that lead to my freedom. The woods. The forest blurs around me as I run, but only one message
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