Chapter Five-Willow POV

Sasha screams in my head, “Rejected. He rejected us, we aren’t good enough to be an Alpha’s mate and he said so!” Trying to breath I reminded her that he hadn’t said anything, maybe she startled him? “No, I felt his anger and his rejection. He shoved us off and wanted nothing to do with us. I would rather be rogue than a rejected omega. Don’t make me face him again, it hurts. Willow please!” Hearing my wolf cry of rejection did nothing to make me feel better. I had won. I had been a welcomed warrior. But I had not been a welcomed mate. Tears streak down my face as I painfully shift back, my mother immediately gathering me into her arms. “Shhh baby. Its okay Willow. Remember, in a hurricane you adapt. You don’t break on me now. We will figure this out. Just get a shower and we can go home” I hiccup as I reply with the words no werewolf parent wants to hear, “I am not going home. I am going rogue. If he does0n’t want me, I cannot stay in his pack and watch him find a new mate. Chose one. Over me. No, I am leaving.” As the words leave my mouth, I can feel strength pouring into me. Decided, I hug my mother and I walk outside where I see Alpha Henry. I walk up to him pulling all the strength in my body together, preparing to say the words. To beg him to let me leave. When suddenly he smiles at me. Not the reaction I was expecting of the father of my mate. The current Alpha of my pack. I knew I wasn’t good enough for his son. His son knew it too. But the Alpha looked at me like I had hung the moon and stars for him.

“Willow, I know my son rejected you today. I do not know why. He won’t speak to me. I assume he thinks I will be disapproving or disappointed, but I am not. You are a strong warrior and will make a fine Luna for him. I can feel your rejection and I know you want to leave the pack but give me one month. One month or his flat-out rejection and I will allow you to leave in peace. I just want what is best for you both. And the moon goddess says that is each other.”

Gob smacked by his words I stumble over my own. “Alpha? I am not good enough to be a Luna. I am omega blood. I would weaken your family. I understand why he rejected me. I was here to fight for my place among your warriors, not my place among your family. I am prepared to leave if it displeases him that I am his mate. I do not want to watch him choose another over me. It would break my heart all over..” I ramble off and just stare at the ground but Alpha Henry pulls me into a warm embrace.

“I think my son will come around. Just give him time.” Looking around at the startled and curious faces of the rest of our pack I feel sick. “Even if he accepts me, they never will, Alpha”

“If my son is Alpha, and he accepts you, the pack has no choice. You may have omega blood, but there is something different about you. You remind me of my wife in that way, she was a glorious warrior.”

I shrug and say “Then I will stay. But one month only. I can only handle my heart breaking for so long. Sasha is still howling her sadness in my head. She has waited years for him, as have I.”

The Alpha smiles softly and hugs me again before walking off, no doubt to find his son and figure out the problem. But me? I knew there was no happy ending here. I had already shut down my hopes of happiness the moment he threw me off of him. It was only so long until he outright rejected me. I could feel it.