Rejecting Her

Chapter 1

The news of what my mate had done hit me in the chest like a mac truck of bricks. How could my Macy do this to me, how could she do this to the pack?

My Beta came to me in the middle of the night frantic and in tears, I have never seen him so worked up in my life, not even when his twin sister was murdered.
" Luna! Oh Evangeline!" He collapsed on the floor with a sob after crashing through my bedroom door. I jumped from my bed to sit with him on the floor and held his hand, trying to coax out what stressed him so.
" Henry, what's the matter? What happened?" I asked softly in hopes that it would lessen his frantic breathing.
" Your mate! She-" he didn't get to finish his sentence before a fit of sobs shook him.
" what about Mercy? What happened Henry? I demand you tell me this instant!" I asked standing up off of the floor. I feared she had been taken, someone has been picking off my pack members one by one every few days. I couldn't bare to have her taken from me now.
" Oh Luna she... She's the reason for the killings! She's the one killing the pack members! I saw her with my own eyes just now!" He cried.
I couldn't form words, I wracked my brain for what felt like hours and I came to the conclusion that I must no longer know the English language. No words could explain the emotion i felt at the moment. Disbelief, denial, anger, sadness, all off it and none of it all the same. It couldn't be her. There was no way. Why would she systematically wipe out dozens of pack members like that? What reason would she have to kill so many of our pack, was someone forcing her to do this? As if life slowed down to half its normal speed, I look up from Henry, who is a heap on my bedroom floor, to the open door just in time to see my beautiful mate storm in with an uncharacteristic lack of grace. She was covered in blood and didn't seem to see me as she lunged at my beta, shifting in mid air to her large gray wolf form. Blood splattered my face, clothes, room, and her fur. Gore that wasn't even seen in war or the most realistic horror movies lay in front of me. Bile rose in my throat as i heard the cadaverous thud of his lifeless form slumping over on my previously clean hardwood floor. I couldn't breath, the sight in front of me was too much all at once. She ripped his head off before he had a chance to shift and defend himself. It all happened too fast, he was there, she wasn't, and then in a blink it was the opposite and there was nothing I could have done to stop the whole situation. I started to hyperventilate. The world went out of focus, got too bright and too dark at the same time. A ring of black clouded my sight as the ground came up to meet me. My vision tunneled out and snapped away in a heart beat as my head made contact with the bloody ground with a guttural CRACK.

5 YEARS AGO

It had to have been a dream, I thought as I sat up in bed, what a disgusting dream at that. What was it about again? I can't seem to remember now, even though it was jus moments ago. the lingering feeling of tears on my cheeks were the only reminder of it at all. I sighed and stepped out of bed, sliding my feet into my pink rabbit slippers as i did so. the dream didn't matter, today was my 16th birthday, i was going to be able to shift for the first time tonight and maybe meet my mate! My Pa thinks my mate will be " a super strong man! Maybe even an alpha from another pack!" I don't have the heart to tell him that i am a lesbian and that I'm pretty sure i was going to have a female mate, and if not id reject him. id rather spend my entire life in agonizing pain and crippling loneliness that be mated to a man, i shivered at the thought. I don't have anything against men if that's what you're thinking, i just don't want to be with one in any way shape or form. the smell of maple bacon and French toast tickled my nostrils as i walked up the basement steps of the large alpha house my parents owned. before you scream that my family has done me an injustice for putting me in the basement, i was the one who picked my room, its closest to the kitchen ok!

"Good morning Evangeline! Happy birthday, Baby Girl!" My mother called across the counter to me.

"Thank you, Momma! Happy Birthing day!" i called back, after all I am only here today becayse she birthed me, she deserves to be celebrated too!