Chapter 1: Reject My Mate

Destiny’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.”