The Castaways

Prologue

      "I, Dorian Hammer, reject you Tanishe Vase as my mate" I stopped breathing as my heart broke into a million pieces, my wolf howled in pain as the one destined for me broke me. I gasped at the profound void that seemed to stem from the core of my being. "Please don't do this..." I latched on to his arm as he walked away. "You make me sick, you are so clingy." He shook me off. "Please..." He turned suddenly locking gazes with me. His eyes were so beautiful and hypnotic, I could stare at them forever. "I'm not planning to spend my life with a pathetic nobody like you." His hands gripped my arms so tightly that it'd have hurt if tingles and desire didn't flood my veins. I wanted him with every fibre of my being, didn't he feel the same? I searched his eyes for love but all I found was anger and disappointment. My wolf howled in pain once more. He didn't want us. "There's just one thing you can do for me...accept this rejection. I don't need the extra baggage of a mate." My heart was in pieces, didn't he know he was hurting me? My tears were flowing steadily. "Accept it you measly thing!" He shook me. "I...I..." My voice broke off. I sniffed. "I, Tanishe Vase, accept your...your rejection." I fell to the ground shattered as a pain like no other enveloped me.
        I watched his shadow recede into the distance as my wolf thrashed  about in the pain of rejection. I barely made it out of my friend's party. I dragged myself home where I bawled my eyes out. Thankfully no-one was at   home. My parents had gone on a long vacation and my elder brother was at his mate's place. At least, He was happy. I had been waiting for my mate for six years now. My parents had comforted me saying it'd be worth the wait...only it wasn't. He didn't even want to know me. What had gone wrong? Why did he hurt me so much?
        I couldn't bear the pain that seemed to consume me inside out. I cried incessantly but it didn't ease the pain. I found the letter in the morning, the letter that changed my life.