Love, Pain, Truth

Prologue

Scarlette's POV

My entire life I knew that I had a true mate. My mate mark was proof. But sadly I had a duty to do. A duty to my father my pack my king and that kept me from my true mate that I've never met. The Prince High- Alpha, Ares Mactabilis Praepotens, is my future husband and future mate. We have both known we would marry our entire lives yet we have never met once. Everyone calls me duty bound I don't date I don't mess around I've never even had my first kiss. but I'm not saving my self just because people thing I'm duty bound I believe all that I am and have should go to my mate and Ares will be my mate.

I accept my life. I accepted it long ago. I will love him and be truthful and faithful. I just wish he was my true mate.

Ares' POV

Duty bound they all call me duty bound. My family, my friends everyone does just because I believe that I should be faithful to my mate or I should say future mate because I will never meet or have my true mate. But it's not duty, its law from my father he says we will marry and mate. The daughter of the U.S. Alpha- Alpha, Scarlette Rubella Acredula, is my future wife my future mate. We have always known we would marry and mate yet we have never met once. My mate deserves everything I am everything I have. I knew I had a true mate my entire life. Even though both my wolf and I know this we accept Scarlette and now think of her as our one and only mate.

I accept my life. I accepted it long ago. I will love her and be truthful and faithful. I just wish she was my true mate.

3rd person's POV

She sits alone on her bed. Both hand wrapped around to her left shoulder holding her mark. Her true mate has the exact same one yet she hopped she never met him for she will be married and mated in a month. She doesn't wish to run into him one day and he realize she should have been his yet now she is another's, she could never be able to deal with the pain she will cause him. Her face turns into her shoulder that her hands hold and silently crying for her loss. She feels this loss greater than any loss she has ever known before. She grieves for a loss of a mate, she grieves for the loss of a love she grieves because she has never known him and still loves him more than many can endure.

He sits on the in the pack living room. Few of his pack members are around talking about their soon to be Luna. Both he and his wolf listen to the conversations wishing they were talking about his true mate. He sighs and gets up and heads for the bathroom. He stares at himself. Wishing he wouldn't be hurting his mate this way but in a month he will be married and mated to another. He rolls his neck to the side moves his shirt to see his mark he touches it and feels emotions he knows aren't his it happens sometimes he can feel her emotions when he touches their mark. It's said that if strong marked mate couples are both touching their marks and one has strong emotions at that time the other can also feel it. He wished he knew her and they could be together to stop these emotions she is feeling though he would also like to know why one so precious is feeling this way this strongly. The hurt, the pain, the loss it almost feels like when one describes loosing a mate and she wouldn't know what is lost because they have never met. It hurts so much feeling the loss from her a couple of tears slip from his eyes. He wonders if a family member has died. He holds his mark a couple is seconds longer just wanting to feel her even if she is in this pain. He takes a deep breath and slowly lets it out wiping the tears he shed away. Then he turns around and walks out of the bathroom heading back to the living room.