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Chapter 3: Mate

VALENCIA'S POV

"Aren't you a little too happy?" My subconscious asked as I skipped a step while ascending the stairs to go to the ground floor and rush out of this school to go back to the pack house.

"Who won't be? I will hopefully find my mate today," I replied, the smile on my face freezing when I saw my sister Matilda standing at the exit of the school gates, her arms linked with Alpha Tyler.

A pang immediately shot across my heart. She was probably waiting there to laugh at my face and mock me on how she got the man I was crushing on.

It was almost her daily routine. If it wasn't that, then it was her minions who would deliberately tell me if she was making out or having s*x with Alpha Tyler.

I took a deep breath, preparing myself once again.

Just this one day. Once I find my mate and see who that amazing man is, I am sure this one-sided crush or whatever it was will be over, and I won't feel hurt anymore. Why would I feel hurt by another man when my heart would be full of thoughts of my mate only, right?

'Quit talking to yourself and get going. Aren't you getting late now?' My conscience reminded me, and I walked ahead with my head bowed.

I could feel their stares on me, and quite a few snickers too.

"Guys," Alpha Tyler warned them, and they immediately stopped.

"Baby, have you asked your father about our engagement?" Matilda's voice came next, and I felt my body subconsciously freezing in its place.

I raised my head, a mistake I must admit, as my eyes met with Alpha Tyler, who was looking back at me with a mixture of emotions.

"Let's talk about it later," Tyler said to Matilda before he gently removed her hand from his chest.

As if they were supposed to comfort me.

I don't know why I felt so much pain in my heart at that word, but before I could control myself, I was already running away from them, unsure of where I was going anymore.

I kept running until I reached the stream of the river.

'Hey, Val, it's okay. Don't -' My conscience tried to console me, and I shook my head at her.

No. This was wrong. I didn't need her consoling words. All my feelings were irrelevant. They didn't make any sense to me. Why would I feel so strongly towards the alpha just because he saved my life?

He was allowed to stay happy with whoever he liked, and he was clearly happy with Matilda, the beta's prestigious daughter.

I wiped my tears furiously before looking around when I realized I accidentally wandered into Noman's land.

Have you ever felt like those damsels in distress heroines who keep getting in trouble and the hero comes to save them?

Well, that's exactly what I was feeling. The only difference was, I didn't have a hero by my side.

Without wasting a second, I turned around, ready to leave, when I heard someone's groan.

"F*ck me!" It was a man's voice, quite dominant and bold I must mention.

Usually, I wouldn't act stupid enough to go and see what it was in a place like this, but the thick scent of blood that followed the groan, had me stopping in my place and I bit my lips.

"I don't think this is the best place for that," I said, unable to control my mouth as my conscience chuckled at me.

I softly moved towards the large stone as the voice seemed to be coming from there.

"Stay where you are, woman!" The man growled, making me shake in my place at the anger he was emanating.

He was surely wounded. The increasing smell of blood was clear evidence of it.

"Shut up. Are you wounded?" I asked not going behind the rock, in case the man wasn't decent.

There was no voice on the other side for some time, and I was about to move, thinking he fell unconscious when he finally spoke.

"Yes,"

"What kind of wound?" I asked, looking around the river to see if I could find the herbs to heal him.

Thanks to my pack members who don't stop at anything to bully me, I studied a lot about herbs that could help me heal faster so that the council doesn't suspect anything and take me away from my family.

"A wolfsbane-laced dagger," he said, and it was the second time I froze because of this man.

"O-okay. Are you decent?" I asked, and he hummed after some time, groaning inexplicably, making me sigh in relief.

I walked under the large stone where he was probably sitting and seeing the large sickening wound on his abdomen, I couldn't help but gasp.

However, what made me flinch slightly was the fact that he was a rogue.

The scent of blood around him was so thick that I couldn't even recognize his rogue scent.

His face was hidden behind a black cloth that was wrapped around his face and neck, the worn-out cuts on his clothes a clear indication that he had been struggling for quite some time.

"A pack she-wolf," He said as if acknowledging our differences, his voice holding a hostility.

"A human," I whispered, making him go silent as I gently lifted his shirt to expose the stab wound on his side.

It was bad, but it wasn't deep enough to hurt any vital organs.

Quickly washing the wound with river water, I rubbed the herbs on the clean stone beside him before applying them to his wound.

This won't do. The herbs need to stay there... But...

I looked at the cloth on his face. Knowing all too well that as a rogue he wouldn't want to compromise his identity, I looked at the scarf I was wearing, one of my grandmother's only souvenirs to me.

"If we ever meet again, give it back to me. This is important to me," I whispered before taking off the scarf from around my neck and wrapping it around his wounds.

"Get the wound treated by a skilled doctor ASAP. It won't infect now and will help your wolf heal it softly," I said, looking into his hazel eyes that were looking at me intensely.

"I am a rogue," He said instead.

I couldn't help but smile sadly at his words. The guy was probably used to living alone and being chased by the packs so many times that it was hard for him to believe that a pack member helped him.

Then again, rogues weren't good wolves to start with.

"Take care and live like a good human," I said, unsure why I even bothered to say those words.

He scoffed.

"How to repay you?" He asked, his gaze unrelenting, and I smiled.

"Live like a good human being," I said before leaving the place.

I looked at the sky and noticed it was already getting dark, making me sigh.

I was getting late for my birthday.

Without wasting a second, I went back to the pack, bowing my head as people looked at me weirdly.

Thankfully, there weren't many people outside as I rushed to the pack house from the back doors.

After taking a quick bath, I got dressed in the only dress I had that didn't look like it had been worn for years before being given to me.

Just like my other clothes, this dress belonged to Matilda too. However, she needed to maintain her perfect curvy figure, and this dress fortunately didn't fit her.

After wearing the dress and using the homemade lip balm, I did my hair in a side ponytail, leaving some of my strands loose to add more to my facial features.

I wanted to look perfect for my mate.

I gazed at my appearance one last time before wearing the moon pendant that my grandmother left for me and asked me to cherish always.

Everyone was busy with the bonfire and its preparations since it was a full moon, and I quickly rushed out of the pack house, walking towards the forest to celebrate my birthday alone like I have been doing for the last four years.

It was a hidden spot near the lake that only I knew.

The path went from behind the bushes which looked like they were a big tree.

Standing near the lake, I looked at the time on my watch before looking at the reflection of the full moon in the lake, smiling at the beauty.

"Let me meet my true mate, Mother Moon Goddess, the one who will truly cherish me and love me till eternity," I whispered the wish, smiling in delight when I heard the tick of my watch, a clear indication that it was already 8 pm.

It will happen anytime now.

I will smell the scent of my mate.

"Well given how you are around a few hundred meters away from civilization, I don't think you will smell your mate," My conscience reminded me, and I chuckled awkwardly.

"Right. How could I forget -" I paused.

My conscience was wrong this time.

I could smell him. My mate.

Inhaling the intoxicating smell of wood and cinnamon, I immediately stood from my place, almost slipping into the lake if not for the branch that I quickly held.

'Haha, calm down. You will get hurt like this,' My conscience said, and I chuckled.

'I don't care. Moon goddess didn't hate me. She loved me too. She didn't disappoint me and gave me a mate just like everyone else. And he is in my pack only. I couldn't be happier,' I rushed towards the pack house, running at the full speed I could, using all those running training I took to run away from my bullies, ignoring the weird smell that came along with my mate's scent.

Within a few minutes, I could see the pack house coming into view, and I furrowed my brows while smiling.

My mate was in the pack house? Why did I not feel him before?

Could it be that he returned today? Didn't 20 or so people return to the pack for the half-yearly bonfire?

Without thinking much, I trusted my instincts and let them lead me to what looked like the second floor.

As I started to get near the room my instincts was leading me to, my steps started to halt.

Probably my mate was talking to Alpha Tyler. That could be the only plausible reason.

With a deep sigh to contain my happiness and fast-beating heart, I wiped my sweaty hands on my dress before clenching my fists and opening them to ease my nervousness.

'Valencia, don't do it,' My conscience suddenly said, but it was too late for her to warn me.

I had opened the door already, and the scene in front of me left me both startled and heartbroken.

There he was. My mate. Having sex with another woman. And it wasn't just any woman. It was my sister.


Chapter 4: Rejecting the alpha

VALENCIA'S POV

I struggled to breathe.

This wasn't right. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

I stepped back as the door closed on its own, making me want to vomit as the bile rose in my throat from the disgust I was feeling.

It was painful. Almost as if someone stabbed my heart with a sharp dagger and twisted it down to my abdomen.

Alpha Tyler, the man who saved me all those years ago was my mate. My mate, who was having pleasant sex with my sister.

Judging from how he turned 18 around one and a half years ago, it was clear he knew I was his mate all along and still chose to date my sister, right in my face.

Why?

I thought he cared for me because he pitied my situation. And stupidly I was okay with it.

I was okay with the idea of him pitying me as long as he looked my way, as long as he held my hand to ask if I was okay, and as long as he smiled at me to comfort me.

Was I not worth it? Was I really that weak in his eyes? I didn't need him to tell me why he didn't choose me. Maybe in his eyes, I wasn't -

'Shut up, Valencia. I am suffering from heartache too, and I have no heart to console you in your self-loathing at the moment. Don't you dare disgrace us by calling yourself unworthy! Unworthy are those who disrespect you,' My conscience reminded me, and I bit my lips before nodding.

She was right.

I had been acting like a perfect pack member, taking everything these people threw at me, but at the end of the day, what did I receive in return?

Betrayal? Humiliation? Pain?

His anger when I talked about Dylan, his care when he saw me crying and wounded terribly.

Everything started to make sense.

Tears rolled down my cheeks as I stammered back, holding the railings to support myself. All those emotions were clear as daylight.

"Valencia, do you think it's time for you to roam around freely? Get your ass-"

The maid of the pack house came to me, but as soon as she noticed the look on my face, she stopped.

The sound of the door opening snapped me out of my thoughts, and I turned around to face that one person who was the culprit of this situation and ruined my biggest dream.

'A mate is someone who is bound to love you till eternity, someone who will cherish and want you all the time. He will be someone for whom you will be his world.' My grandmother's words echoed in my head as I looked into the eyes of Alpha Tyler.

"Valencia, let me explain -"

"Why?" I asked, looking behind him at my sister who was standing there with a smug expression, dressed only in Tyler's shirt.

The pain in my chest increased visibly and I almost lost my balance, tightening my hold on the railings.

No. I couldn't appear weak at a time like this. Not when I was faced with a scum like him and a b*tch like my sister.

All the good thoughts and ideas about him shattered like a piece of glass, and I smiled in self-mockery.

People were right. Once you see someone's true colors and remove the blind of love from your eyes, you really see the ugly personality they behold.

That was exactly what I was seeing.

I wasn't looking at the man who saved me. I was looking at the man who let me get tormented for four years despite feeling for me.

This man wasn't someone who comforted me. This was the man who got into a relationship with my sister, despite knowing how much she hated me right on his eighteenth birthday, probably the time when he found out I was his mate.

"Can you stop creating so much drama here? What are you crying for? I haven't even laid my hand on you," Matilda scoffed, and I glared at her.

'This b*tch! How dare she talk to us like this after what she did?!' My conscience said the words that I wanted to say.

This time, I wasn't going to give my sister any satisfaction by walking over to me today.

"Matilda, I am not in the mood for your games and plays today. So you better shut your pathetic mouth and close that loose dr*pping p*ssy because the pungent ugly smell is making me vomit," I seethed.

I could feel everyone gathering in the hall as they heard what I said.

The expression on Matilda's face immediately changed, and she seethed with anger.

"You b*tch! How dare you insult me -?" Matilda started, and I felt a sudden rush of anger rising inside me. Without waiting for a second, I kicked her away as soon as she raised her hand on me, making her body hit the wall, probably wondering how the omega got the beta's daughter.

These people probably keep forgetting that I was a beta's daughter too.

Everyone gasped in shock, but I couldn't care about anything anymore.

"Tell me why you did it?" I asked, hardening my glare, wiping the rogue tears that weren't stopping today.

"What do you want to hear, Valencia? You already know the answer. I am an ambitious man. Taking this pack to the highest position it deserves is my only priority, and for that to happen, I need a strong partner -"

"A strong partner like the beta's daughter Matilda, and not a MATE like me, right?" I completed his sentence, and he pressed his lips into a thin line before sighing.

"Valencia, you are uselessly extending this matter. This doesn't have to be like this. We don't have to be like this. It's not like I am rejecting you or anything. If I wanted to reject you, I would have done it when I found out you were my mate. But I don't want to do that. You can live and enjoy the luxuries of being an alpha mate, but as for the position of the Luna, Matilda is the best fit for it," Tyler said.

I stood there stupefied.

Was this the same man who I liked for four long years? Was this the same man who used to smile at me and care for me?

I blinked my eyes. He wanted me, his mate, to be his slut while Matilda enjoyed the title of the Luna of the pack.

And it wasn't even about the title, it was about dignity. It was about self-respect.

My grandmother said to me if I found my mate, I shouldn't ever let him go ...

I looked into Tyler's eyes before nodding my head.

He was right. A lantern like me didn't deserve to be the Luna of this pack, this pack that only respects the powerful and bullies the weak.

"Okay," I whispered.

'Val! Have you lost your mind? You can't be serious. Are you ready to accept it just like that? No. Please, don't do this to yourself. You will be dead inside if you accept this humiliation,' My conscience screamed at me, and I smiled softly, looking at Tyler's relieved smile.

"I want to see you happy too," I whispered before I looked at all the people gathered in the hall to see the drama before I looked at Matilda who had a smirk on her face, as if basking in my defeat.

It was good.

It was a clear indication that today the world who loved power and strength won, and my heart lost.

Love, lost.

"I... " I gulped, taking a deep breath, and seeing Tyler's eyes widening, I knew he could see what I was doing.

"Valencia, have you lost your mind? This is a fair opportunity! Do you think the outside world is so good?" He growled at me, losing his patience with me for the first time.

Then again, didn't he lose his respect in my eyes first?

"I am sure that the outer world is still better than the world this pack created for me. A 14-year-old girl was forced to starve for 5 days every week because she couldn't change into her wolf. If the council hadn't been coming to check up on me and threatened your alpha position, my so-called dad, a pathetic excuse of a father, would've killed me already. That's exactly how everyone treated me too, like I was a lifeless doll who couldn't feel pain," I chuckled through my tears.

"Wait. You guys knew I was in pain. Weren't my cries actually music to them? I really wish what happened with me happens with none of your daughters," I looked at all the elders.

"Since I am already dead, it doesn't matter whether I am dead in this pack or outside the pack,"

"You have humiliated me thoroughly and it's time for your payback," I whispered before looking straight into his eyes.

"I, Valencia Brooklyn, the daughter of the moon goddess, under the full moon, and in the presence of the pack members of Hazel Moon pack, hereby reject Alpha Tyler Anderson as my mate and alpha. I might be a lantern, but I will never take a disloyal mate who cherishes power over the mate bond established by the goddess.

And with that, I reject the pack bond with the Hazel Moon Pack and hereby declare myself a rogue and a free soul until I decide so," I said, stumbling back in the pain as my head swayed.

However, the pain on Tyler's face as he stumbled back with his hand clenched around his chest was worth it.

I turned to the pack members and looked at my so-called mom and dad with contempt.

"A child is a boon that the moon goddess gives to you. Look at those people who can't bear a child. But you treated your child like it was a curse. I rejected the pack bond today, but you took away the home from me 4 years ago already. I wasn't a disgrace to this family. There are other lanterns in the world. But you were definitely a disgrace to humanity," I turned to the people who were my regular bullies and shook my head.

"You have ambitions to take this pack to the top? An Alpha who thinks the mate decided by the moon goddess is worthy of being a second woman, and a chosen partner is worthy of being a Luna, will rule over some disgraceful pathetic wolves who don't know the basics of humanity. I would like to see how far this pack goes," I said before turning around to pack my belongings and leave the pack forever.

Today, I not only rejected the mate bond and pack bond, but I also rejected the idea of suffering and letting people be okay with my emotions.

From now onwards, I won't let anyone treat me badly. It was a promise I made to myself.

I wiped my tears, finally feeling all the pain I had been stuffing inside, surfacing as a scream left my mouth as soon as I exited the pack.

'Don't cry. Valencia. You are not alone. I am with you,'


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