Chapter 3
"This was very basic love. But if you say so I have to introduce myself. I am Bryan Jordon, Alpha of the Dark Wood Pack." He says and...
I freeze breathlessly.
He is... Bryan?
Like the well-known Bryan?
The one who hates my pack and has tried to harm it so many times? The one he wants me and my family dead?
He is my mate?!
MY MATE?
My heart is beating faster than any other time and I start shaking. I am sure I am turning pale and I see concern in Bryan's eyes.
I jump up quickly with shaking legs and take some steps back unable to believe what I just heard. He sits up with wary and seems like he is getting panicked from my reaction.
"What is wrong mate?" he asks me almost whispering and I exhale harshly.
"Leave, Ember. Run away from him." Beth screams in my head and makes me even more frustrated, I am getting dizzy.
"Love?" he says again more worried than before.
"Ember!" I hear my father's voice screaming and I quickly run and take my clothes wearing then in a hurry with shaking hands.
In a second my father, my uncle, Dean, Cai, and some fighters are standing in front of me ready to attack Bryan and protect me.
Bryan's eyes widen immediately and he jumps up outraged. He is staring at me with so much hatred that it could be enough to kill me and my heart hurts like hell.
My father is standing in front of me in his big, black wolf and growls at Bryan warningly.
"You are this killer's daughter, huh?" Bryan screams shaking from anger and I feel tears falling from my eyes with my heart breaking.
"You are dead to me, you disgust me, from now on you are my enemy. I will kill you one day even if this is the last thing I am going to do. Mate or not I hate you." He continues and my father takes one step to him controlling himself with difficulty in order not to attack him.
He is not going to make it for too long and I can't let him kill Bryan.
No!
"Father no! Let him." I scream panicked when he takes one more step and he stops immediately.
"I, Bryan Jordon Alpha of the Dark Wood Pack reject you, Ember Glenn from the Shining Full Moon Pack as my mate and my Luna." Bryan says with a steady yet calm voice and a blank, cold expression.
I instantly close my eyes and fall on my knees in pain the next second he finishes his sentence and Dean runs to me worried with Cai next to him. My uncle joins my father's side and gets ready to attack Bryan who shifts in his wolf form and howls with anger.
Beth is howling from the pain and I try to take a breath desperate.
Bryan turns and runs quickly leaving us all back. Our fighters attempt to chase him but my father commands them to stop and turns to me worried.
It hurts so much, my heart is burning, my stomach, I...
I just curl like a ball, cry and scream praying for the pain to end and they all circle me worried.
After some time the pain leaves me just like my strength and I close my eyes passing out with the darkness consuming me.
~some hours later~
I open my eyes after I don't know how much time and look around me lost. I am in my room with my mother, grandmother and Henna sitting next to my bed staring at me with wary. I hear Beth howling lowly relieved and I exhale glad that she is alright.
"How do you feel baby?" my mom asks me with tear on her eyes and I slowly sit up on my bed.
"Considering what happened I am good I guess... He is my mate... Or better he was." I say and my mom pulls me in her embrace gently.
"I am so sorry baby. I can't imagine how hard it might be for you. I can't say a thing about what happened." She whispers.
"We mated..." I announce them and burst into sobbing immediately.
"Oh my little baby!" I hear my grandma saying and she comes and sits with me and my mom.
"I will accept his rejection. I can't accept him as my mate. Why him?" I ask desperately and continue sobbing for some more minutes until we hear a knock on the door and my father gets in worried.
"Can you leave us alone?" he asks them and they all nod and get out after getting sure I am better.
"I want you to know that I am not mad at you baby!" he says and sits next to me pulling me in his arms.
"I am sorry." I whisper with my face buried in his chest from embarrassment.
"You don't have to be sorry angel. It was not your fault. You did everything too quickly but you are mates, it is logical. I understand. You couldn't have known, there was tension between you as in all the mates. I am sorry he rejected you and he hates us for believing something that never happened. I am sorry you are in pain but you are strong. You are my daughter, a true Alpha, a leader, a fighter and I know you can make it without him. He may change his mind, you may find another mate, a lot can happen. Don't lose your hope and keep on being strong. You have a pack to run and protect. Tonight is your night." He tells me and I sigh sadly.