Rejected by the Alpha

How Can You Still Love Me?

*Nick's POV*

I held her tightly in my arms as I stroked her soft hair. She was shaking so badly, how could I have been so stupid? Why did I not talk to her while I could, I had her once. We use to be friends, we use to play together. She was fun and energetic, her black hair fell down to her waist. But we made her cut it when she was thirteen because, I dont even know why. A single tear fell down my cheek. We took away her happiness because we believed she was just trying to get attention. We use to be so close, we even talked about getting married before we found out about werewolves and mates, before she lost all hope in this world. Before she lost me, before, I let go of her. I was now crying, holding her close to me as I thought of all are happy moments together. I remember when she and I went down to the lake by my aunt's house and swim for hours, she was always smiling. I never seen her without a smile until that night. Even then, her biggest frown was when I unfriended her.

Since then, she never smiled. That was until her sixteenth birthday, she looked up at me and smiled. Deep in my heart I was grateful for that smile, that one small smilie before I ripped it all away again. Even before I knew she waws my mate, I willed her to find someone she deserves. Someone who wil love her for who she is, not try to fit in with the crowd and turn her down. For years I watched her, I kept an eye on her even when I hit her. I silently prayed that she would find something that would make her happy, something that would wipe away the past and bring a smile to her face. She did find a friend, Laklyn, but I took her away. I took away the one person who saw her for her and all because I was mad at her. I listened to her cry every night. When she started screaming was when someone would go shut her up.

Finally we got her quiet one night, well I got her quiet. I went in there and slapped her across the face. I was so mad, I dont even know why I was angry, all I knew was we needed her to stop screaming. After that, she started to not eat, she started sitting by herself at lunch. We started making her do things for us because we felt like she needed to do something, and why not do everything we were too lazy to do, why not add on to the pain. She then started getting fat, I wanted to know why, so I followed her into the kitchen one night and caught her making food. I was mad because she was eating at midnight and not just telling someone she wanted food. She stopped eating, but the weight stayed.

She slowly started loosing weight, she was still a little over but she wouldn't eat anything. The many times she was given food, she turned it down. She went six days without food, I was getting worried. I went downstairs to find sugar on the floor and her crying in a corner with a slice of bread. She threw up the tiny bit she ate, I grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to the main part of the house. My yelling dragged everyone out of bed, they came down and started laughing at her. I lashed her ten times, her screaming at each one. Then everyone started kicking her sides. When she caughed up blood waws when I told everyone enough, but as she tried to stand, Jace got in a punch to her gut that knocked her out cold. I laughed with everyone else and helped Jace drag her to her room.

The night before her birthday, after everything I did to her, she still smiled at me when she claimed to be my mate...

*Abby's POV*

I woke up to Melanie crying, Nick was passed out on the couch and I managed to find myself on the floor with a blanket. I smiled at him, he still loved me after everything that happened. I walked into the bedroom and picked up Melanie, she smiled and I took her down to the kitchen. I sat her in a chair and fed her some mashed potatoes that were in the fridge. Lance didn't come back last night, probably to give us some time alone. I need to thank him later, for everthing. Speaking of the devil, the door opened and Lance walked in with several bags in his hands. I saw baby food, pull ups and a Magic Bullet for blending foods.

"Thank you so much." I smiled at him and he hugged me.

"No problem. I will be right back, there is a highchair in the spare room from the looks of it." He said. I smiled again.

"Yeah, we all use it for the pups." He took off up the stairs and I turned my attention back to Melanie. She was giggling madly and before I could find out why, a pair of strong arms wrapped around my waist. Nick placed his head in the crook of my neck and kissed the spot where my mark would go. I shivered in pleasure, but continued to feed Melanie. Nick let go and grabbed two bowls and poured a small amount into each bowl, he placed a bowl next to me and I gave him a small smile.

"How can you still love me? After everything, you still want me?" I knew it was stupid of me to ask, but I needed to know.

"Because when we were little I made a promise to a young, beautiful girl that we would be together. And I will keep that promise until the day that I die." He kissed me softly. All those years ago, of our stupid nonsense, he still had our promise in his mind.

"Now and forever, forever and always. Your are the one I will cherish." I whispered. He nodded and I hugged him tightly.

Lance came down and put Melanie into a play pin and set up the highchair to the left of the Luna's chair, to the left of my chair.