Raked

Chapter Two:

Seraphina's POV

A rejection just got handed to me on a day that should mean the world to me. It felt like a bad dream that would be becoming my reality.

My life wouldn't have been like this if I had played my cards right. I knew it. I tried to follow my heart and be obedient. Despite all, I had stayed obedient. But life wasn't a fairy-tale and this was a harsh reminder.

Alpha Sebastian did not even bother to spare me a glance. "And my reason being...."

"You don't need to give a reason, Alpha." Rachael calmly interrupted with a lowered head. "She wants the good of the pack as much as we all do so she understands perfectly that she isn't a suitable Luna."

My eyes darted from Rachael to Alpha Sebastian, and to my Boss who seemed to be holding his breathe since I came in.

I swallowed nothing and did it again as I desperately tried to suppress a lump growing my throat. My eyes stung and I rubbed them. I sniffed and an unwarranted chuckle left me.

"So your new secretary is really the one finishing up your words for you." I nodded at my words.

Another chuckle left me, and sounded more hysterical than the last. My life was really a joke that I had to laugh at. All those studying and working hard to be able to stand by his side, all was for nothing.

"I thought you loved—"

He raised his hands, shutting me up. He faced Rachel. "I believe I have an engagement after this, don't I?"

A tear fell off my eye. So I was 'this'? His own fiancée? I hurriedly wiped it the year that fell off my eye and rushed out of the office. As I came out, I saw half of my co-workers step away from the door. They'd been listening and had mocking smiles on their faces.

I sniffed and when I felt I was on the verge of a breakdown, I grabbed my purse and sprinted off. My heart grew heavier by the second and no humiliation could beat the emotion I felt right now.

I slammed the bathroom door open and fell inside. I cried till I could not hear my own voice.

Sebastian Renaud, I shall return your reward in seven folds.

I washed my face quickly and left the bathroom. I always had my resignation letter in my bag, waiting for the day I had to leave my job to become the Luna.

I barged into my Boss's office but Alpha Sebastian was already gone. I slammed my resignation letter on the desk and walked away, with no words exchanged.

My co-workers gossiped amongst themselves as I left and I felt smaller and smaller than I had ever felt. Didn't I do enough? Despite being wolfless, I contributed a lot to our pack financially and strength-wise.

Tears welled up in my eyes as it dawned on me that I had no home. I couldn't bring myself to return to that pack after all that happened.

I could never be seen as their equal as they've finally plastered on my face that they only saw me as a nuisance all through the years.

My father was their late Lead Warrior and my mother was a wolfess that they had accepted with open arms. Things went south when my mother died and her multimillion company was taken over by her younger sister.

My mother's company had been the pinnacle of our small pack's wealth so when it was gone, our Alpha went into war to usurp other packs, a war that killed my father.

Since then, the fact that I was actually a wolfless werewolf became so rampant around the pack and their treatment of me changed. I had been under the illusion that the Luna Queen, mother of the Alpha, had cared about me but she'd been the same.

I closed my eyes, exhaling and trying to gather my thoughts to move on. The actual truth was I had no wolf in me, but that's different than being a wolfless wolf.

No one knew anyway. It would still being a wolfless wolf to them so I kept the secret safe.

I stepped into the road to get to my car, and from there, I didn't know how it happened and I couldn't see the driver responsible.

Pain raked through my body and I heard the ripping of my skirt as the large metal truck slammed my body. "Sami—" my head became heavy and I blacked out instantly.

Was this... death?

Why? I got rejected and died on the same day? What did I ever do to the Moon Goddess? Tears rolled down my eyes as I laid there, before my lids slowly closed.

There was endless darkness yet I still felt my connection to Samira. Hours must've passed and I didn't know how I wasn't dead yet.

As I laid in the pool of my own blood, my life replayed in my head. This was my mistake. I should've stopped it all before it got to this extent. I should've made them all pay before it got to this point.

Tears rolled down my eyes as I tried to raise my finger to touch Samira, my wolf, but she wasn't close to me. We had both been unfortunate.

For the last ten years of my life, my late parents and I did our best to hide my six foot wolf that physically came into my life on the day I should've shifted. I didn't know why she had detached from me.

Instead of sensing my wolf in my consciousness like every other person, she had been present before me after I thought I had shifted. Yet as my only confidant, I loved and confided in her, till this drastic end.

"Make sure you burn the body." I heard the voices of my murderers and the sound of shovels and fuel being poured soon after.

One of them snickered. "This one nearly took a big dog down with her when she's just a wolfless thing."

I had no idea what they were talking about but it didn't matter anymore. I could tell I had been taking to an abandoned building because of the cold ground and grasses touching me. They must've acted like they were rushing me to the hospital only to do this.

Why would anyone try to do this to me? I knew I had enemies, but not those that wanted my life.

This was really my end. I closed my eyes as I rested in the peace I felt. My first peace for seven years. If there was a next life, then they would pay. They would all pay.

I wouldn't let Samira and I suffer isolation and humiliation for seven years only to be killed like chickens. There was nothing but darkness around me.

Since it seemed my consciousness was active, I tried to connect to Samira. I couldn't. Of course, I was slowly dying and it broke me to know that she would die with me.