Rockabye, Baby, Rockabye

Epilogue Part One

Nothing hurts worse than finding out that your mate has mated with someone else, loves someone else, chose someone else over you.

After I was informed about my mate remating, the world stopped. My world stopped.

"Anna... Please eat."

Ever since Jess had announced that he was giving his title as Alpha to Christopher and that he had mated with some warrior while they were held captive, people began to call me by my name and not Luna. I had once hated being called Luna. Now I hated being called Anna.

I ignored the nurse, just like I have done for the past three weeks.

"You're withering away." I didn't care.

The pack doctor had told me that the reasons I had gotten so depressed while Jess being away was most likely because of his mating someone else and losing his wolf.

But it just hit harder when he told me about it. When he told me about her and his pup that she was carrying.

He had gone to see her everyday that he could.

Apparently, they marked and mated each other while they were being held captive, just weeks before they were brought home.

He couldn't even wait for me. He didn't want to.

"Anna... it's your favorite!" LillyAnn's smile, for the first time ever, was slightly faltering.

I turned away from here and looked at the wall in front of me.

A sigh was heard. "You are going to leave those two boys without a mother and a father," LillyAnn gently told me.

I looked back at her, a frown of depression on my face.

"Those boys, they need you, Anna... Eat, for them... Please..." she begged. "Please."

I sighed and reached a bony hand up to the tray of food. I picked up a small grape and brought it to my lips.

I ate and my gaze went back to the wall.

"Anna..." LillyAnn gave up, but she didn't leave.

"I'm sorry."

I was released from the pack hospital after being holed up in their for over a month. I was still way too underweight and depressed to do much, but I was deemed fit to go on home.

Home.

I didn't have a home anymore.

She was in my home, in my room.

In my kitchen with my mate when I walked in.

"Anna..." Jess had the nerve to greet me as he slowly walked around the island in the kitchen. "This is Erica..."

I hummed, unsure of what to say. I didn't want to just be totally rude and I was too tired to fight on anything.

"We have set up a house for you..." I narrowed my eyes at Jess. He was going to kick me out of my own home? "And I have given my position to Christopher since I... lost my wolf."

I kept my eyes on the man I loved. I was really so close to crying again. This man was my mate. The love of my life. I honestly thought that he loved me. He made me feel so loved.

"I'm sorry, Anna." He had the nerve to just say 'sorry' after all that has happened to me because of him.

"You are worse than any man I have ever had the misfortune to have met," I whispered through my tears. "You are the worst." My voice was hoarse from the lack of speaking, but my words were clearly understood.

I left the room, going back the way that I came, before Jess or his new lover could even think to reply.

"Anna..." I looked up at LillyAnn as she held my sleeping sons in her arms. "I'm so sorry that this has happened to you."

I shrugged my shoulders, not saying a word.

"It's never happened before. We've never had an Alpha to lose his wolf or fall in love while mated."

LillyAnn's words didn't make me feel any better.

"I know that you love him, Anna." LillyAnn sat on the porch swing and nodded for me to sit down.

I sat, staring at the woods for a good few minutes.

"He doesn't even want to be with the boys," I hoarsely whispered. "That hurts so much... And he... he never loved me."

LillyAnn stayed silent while tears fell from my eyes. I hated crying.

"His wolf did."

His wolf is dead.

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Published on January 26, 2018.

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