time, I couldn't deceive myself anymore. It was all reality playing out before me. My mate

er Luna, and the mating ritual took place while I stood like I was invisibl

ow long would I be a servant without a life in this pack? I was already twenty-one, but the moon go

tand the trembling ground beneath me and turned around, taking off the hall from the side door.

erson in this pack? Why was I

r wanted to see me smile. Why then was I conceived if they wouldn't love me? Wasn't

urned six years old. There, I broke into uncontrollable tears. The more I tried to con

yed me. He hu

ated me. But it hurt like a dagger in m

or him for two years, claiming the pack members would know about it when I would

d wouldn't even have shown up in that hall. If he didn't look at me with those

softened when he caught up with m

s mistress. Isobel will see every reason to make me hate myself the most, and I would curse myself for b

t ended, and when my parents returned to the house. But I was leaning on the wall, heaving

ssion darkened, and his palms tightened into a fist. "What are you still

ed at my father, then at me, "The maids are

w heavy the dress was until now, and I longed to take it off already. "I will...I will con

father retorted, his eyes glinting like a furnace. "You should be glad that he at least regarded the matebond and made you his mist

d, holding myself from enraging in anger. "Get

to be his mistress when I'm his mate and should be his luna. Aren't you two ashamed and tired of all these?

sted expression in shock at heari

e. How do you expect me to share a man who is mine with my sister? Would Isobel do the sam

me all these years. I needed them to feel pained

For twenty years, the pack had just known that I was thei

to their hearing, "This time, I won't be the obedient child that you all want. I won't be the alpha's mistress when h

t his expression revealed that he was fed up with my sluggish wor

I'll continue bein

s his chest. After staring at me for some time, he added, "Since you refuse such a beautiful offer from your mate despite your condition, then marrying you off to the prim

find myself speaking, but I only flinched at t

a man old enough to be my great-grandfather? A man whose first to fourth wives were dea

her always stood on his word, so I presumed that before the n

not regarded and my family's reputation was the most important, I had to fight for myself for the first time. One thing I wouldn't forget was the

ight here in this dark room. He was the first person to ever smile at me and gaze at me

ny of them any longer. I was a beta and would

on the tattered trousers I had always w

o end all these, or I wo