Chasing His Betrayed Luna

“You like that, don’t you…” Alpha Raiden said, jerking within me. “You’re mine to keep, mate. Your body and soul belong to me and you dare not reject me. I’m in charge of you…”

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Aurelia lived for Alpha Raiden. For many years, her heart belonged to him but the one sided love of a weak and wolf-less omega wasn’t enough to keep Alpha Raiden even though she was mated and married to him. Three years into the loveless marriage, Aurelia was served divorce papers with the return of her mate’s ex-girlfriend, betrayed and broken.

With no one to live for, Aurelia thought death was better than living as her mate’s prisoner but the moon goddess had other plans for her and the seed growing within her womb. Will Aurelia survive rejecting and escaping Alpha Raiden after he warned her against it? Will the seed survive as well and will revenge be her goal when she meets her ex-mate again five years later? A lot has changed and that includes Aurelia and now, Alpha Raiden wants her back but will the other man in Aurelia’s life let her go? Find out in the pages of this book!

1. Wanna-be Luna

AURELIA

~<>~

“Look at me.” He grunted out an order, sending shivers down my spine as he slammed into me like a beast.

“Look into my eyes, mate!” Another order came and this time, I obeyed him even though it was hard to fight against the need to let my eyes roll to the back of my skull while he tore me apart with every thrust.

I looked into the mesmerizing gray pair of eyes that I had come to love. I felt every part of him sinking into me roughly and pleasure and pain accompanied each thrust. For some minutes, the pleasure outweighed the pain but my body still recognized the pain my mate… the man I loved with every bone in my body was causing me while he chased after his pleasure.

Despite the dull discomfort between my legs, I still found myself moaning when my mate drove himself into me the minute our gazes locked, “Alpha.” I itched to cry out his name. I wished I could give in to my desire, let my fingers sink into his dirty blond hair, and guide his head downwards until our lips lock in sync as well.

Oh, how I wished.

Yet, I dare not.

In fact, I couldn’t, not when my hands were pinned above my head and definitely not when my mate jerked above me, releasing his seeds into me as he came down from his high.

“Mmh mm…” I winced not because of the rough sex that seemed to have ended but because once again, I had been denied the pleasure of experiencing an orgasm by the one man I would do anything to please.

He was my Alpha. My mate. My husband.

He was my everything. He was Raiden. My Raiden.

I kept my eyes on Alpha Raiden, hoping that he would return to me and push me over the edge of pleasure but he detached completely, left the bed, got dressed, and exited the room without sparing me another look.

He was done and gone.

Like a rag doll that had just been used, I lay in the one bed I was allowed to be in with Alpha Raiden. Like an emotionless sex toy, I stared at the white ceiling of the only room in the entire world that I was allowed to share with Alpha Raiden. It was a room I had named three years ago and I call it, “Sex Room”

“Always be in this room when I need you.” Alpha Raiden had gritted to me three years ago after our wedding ceremony. “I don’t need you anywhere else but here. Do I make myself clear?”

“Yes, Raiden. I won’t be–” I had begun to respond with excitement and desire.

But he snarled ferociously, “Never!”

I recalled staggering backward towards the bed as I watched the man I had loved for years stare down at me with nothing but disgust. The kind that I had never seen in his eyes before.

“Never say my name, mate! I’m Alpha to you and don’t go about acting like we are madly in love, woman!” He had said with a tone of finality.

Yes, my heart broke that day three years ago but Alpha Raiden wasn’t always like that. He was a good man and I couldn't give up on the beautiful mate bond that the moon goddess had blessed me with. Alpha Raiden was the only person that I could boldly call my person.

He was mine.

I had no one else so I thought he would one day understand that he was all I had.

I had hope and I’m still hoping that he would one day look at me with love in those gray eyes. I was hoping that I would be able to prove that I was worthy to be his Luna and goddess knew that I had tried. I was doing my best to support him and love him even though he still wouldn’t kiss me.

Huh!

Three years of answering to his sexual call whenever he needs me as his mate yet it’s been three years of no kiss and three years of little to no emotional connection between my mate and I.

“He hates you. He will always hate you.” A tiny voice inside my head chimed.

No.

Alpha Raiden didn't hate me. He was just angry about the fact that he had to mate with the lowest wolf in the pack. He was stuck with an orphan and to top it all, this orphan couldn’t shift or access her wolf yet he had to mate with me. Even if he wanted to form a stronger bond with me, I wouldn’t sense it because I was wolfless and weak.

I knew that much and I hated myself more than anyone in the pack… And there were so many who hated me. Countless to be honest.

After several minutes of self-pity, I pushed myself off the bed even though my body resisted. Sex with Alpha Raiden always leaves me tired and bruised and today wasn’t any different. I could see the red marks on my body as I made my way to the bathroom to clean up.

I soon made my way to the kitchen of the Alpha Mansion which has been my home for the past three years, to make breakfast for myself because no one would. I was the Luna of the Dark Moon Pack yet no one served me. It wasn’t new and I was used to doing everything myself.

After all, I used to be one of the Alpha servants before Alpha Riaden married me.

Just as I started whisking the eggs I had broken into a bowl, I heard the front door opening. Of course, that couldn't be Alpha Raiden. He is usually out of the mansion during the day so I suspected that whoever was in the house with me was a servant.

What I didn’t expect was to see two female servants and two armed warriors walk into the kitchen, approaching me.

My brows furrowed and I blurted, asking the familiar female servant a question, “What now, Nina? Are you here to speak down on me again?”

Nina was the head of every servant that worked for the Alpha. She used to be my mean boss and let’s just say she didn’t like the fact that I was now her superior.

I assumed Nina would say something mean to me but she stunned me as her frown deepened and she faced the warriors, hissing, “Drag the wanna-be Luna out!”

And to me, Nina smirked, “This is your end, Aurelia. I have waited three years to witness this.”

2. Uncontrollable Balls

AURELIA

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I have always known no one in the pack respected me as their Luna but until now, no one except Nina had the guts to disrespect me to my face. They usually murmured and laughed at me behind my back but they wouldn't dare lay their hands on me.

But that changed the minute Nina gave the warriors an order that I didn't know would change my life forever…

“What are you doing? You can’t do this!” I yelled, struggling to free myself from the stronghold of the warriors whose hands were crushing my shoulder as they attempted to yank me out of the kitchen.

My struggles were futile, of course.

I was pulled out of the kitchen like a lightweight paper by the warriors despite my screams of protest.

“What are you planning to do with me?” Are they kidnapping me, I asked myself but quickly blurted another question. “What gives you the right to touch me? I belong to the Alpha and he would have your head for ever laying your hands on me!”

Nina laughed hysterically. She told the warriors to pause for a minute, showing her twisted face before mine. “You really think you mean anything to him? He despises you, Aurelia and we all do–”

That was old news.

“Tell me something you haven’t told me before, Nina.” I tried to be the strong Luna. I really tried. “What gives you the right to come into my matrimonial home, give orders, and treat me like a mere slave?”

I wasn’t so sure I could handle the answer that Nina would give but what the heck was going on?

“You mean who gave me the right, huh?” Nina corrected me, emphasizing the ‘Who’ like she was trying to prove a point.

Actually, she was.

My heart constricted sharply as it drew on me that there was only one person who could give such right to Nina and the warriors. But he wouldn’t–

“The Alpha wants you out of the Alpha Mansion. He ordered your removal, Luna.” Nina broke to me, her voice carrying mockery. “And to clarify, you are just a mere slave, Luna.”

My world tumbled and crashed instantly. At least that was what I thought was happening to me as the warriors resumed pulling me out of the mansion. While Nina’s words resonated in my head over and over again, it became difficult to fight against the warriors.

Alpha Raiden wanted me out of our home?

Why? Why would he do that?

I knew he didn’t love me but still, he needed me. He needed our bond to remain the strongest Alpha and one of the promising ones in our world.

Although I asked myself questions just so I’d understand the situation, I couldn’t. So I asked Nina another question just as I was dragged through the entrance of the mansion, “Where are you taking me?”

Nina glanced at me briefly, muttering, “Where you belong. Where you actually belong.”

Her response was meant to taunt and break me further but unfortunately for Nina, even I didn’t know where I belonged without Alpha Raiden.

The fear and curiosity that zapped through my body intensified when Nina gave out orders to some of the servants that were outside the mansion, waiting to witness my fall from grace to grass, “Why are you standing around? Get in there and remove every bit of trash she owned.”

A bile rose in my throat but I pushed it down. It was hard not to cry. My eyes were stinging and the fact that I was being watched by some of the pack members wasn’t helping. I was embarrassed. Getting dragged out of my matrimonial home like this was nothing short of disgraceful.

“Why would you let them do this to me?”

That question was for my mate but I asked myself, tears swelling in my eyes. I let my gaze shift to the floor and didn’t struggle with the warriors anymore. I lost the will to fight, sadness creeping into my body like it was created to be a part of me.

The Raiden I fell in love with wouldn’t let anyone treat me like this. He used to be a sweetheart. A kind-hearted person.

Five years ago, when I was just sixteen years old, Alpha Raiden had barked at some of my bullies, “You will treat her with respect unless you have a death wish.”

Back then, he was the Alpha Prince and he always stood up for me even though I was the rootless and wolfless servant in the pack. I fell in love with that eighteen years old boy but clearly, Alpha Raiden wasn’t that boy anymore.

Sniffing back tears, I could only wonder what changed.

Like a bag of spoiled grain, I was tossed into an unfamiliar room. “Where am I?” I asked.

I would have known If I paid attention to the paths I was dragged through but I had been lost in thoughts. I didn’t even notice that Nina was no longer with us until now.

One of the warriors, the taller one of the two, answered gruffly, “Somewhere far away from the Alpha’s mansion just like we were commanded.” His eyes sparkled with mischief as they raked down my body. “You and I could have some fun, you know? Since the Alpha is done with you. You know I have always wanted to feel those cheeks of yours–”

The warrior rattled on. I didn’t even know him… How would I have known that he had such thoughts about me? His supposed Luna?

The second warrior chuckled, “I should give you both some privacy then.”

“No! Don’t leave!” I cried out, scared for myself as my eyes shifted from one corner of what I supposed was a room in the servant residence.

The second warrior whose name I didn’t know as well, retorted amusingly, “Oh! You want me to stay? She wants me to join in the fun, Leo. Who knew the Luna was a kinky one.”

The taller warrior who must be Leo, laughed loudly, “It’s a good thing the Alpha doesn’t want her anymore, Mateo, because I want her so bad–”

Fearfully and with tears trickling down my face, I yelled, “I want to see the Alpha. Now!”

However, Leo and Mateo began to take steps towards me, their tongues rolling over their lips and eyes darkening with what I knew was desire. With every step they took forward, I took three backward but I knew I had nowhere to run to.

Mateo eventually uttered, “But the Alpha doesn’t want to see you. That’s a shame.”

My heart swelled with pain and anger. Those two emotions colluded with each other as I roughly cleaned my face, getting rid of the betraying tears that had been rolling down my face. “Stay back! Stay away from me!” I screamed, hating how weak I was and how pathetic I sounded.

The warriors closed in on me and while I was trapped between their stinky bodies and the plain wall of the room, they chuckled, reaching out for me. I closed my eyes, expecting the worst that could happen, tears pouring out of my eyes.

Look at what you have subjected me to, Raiden… How could you? What did I ever do to deserve–

“What do you think you are doing?”A familiar voice barked at the warriors as the door opened, in time to save me just as I felt Mateo and Leo’s callous fingers on me.

Unfortunately, the voice that saved me wasn’t Alpha Raiden’s. When I opened my eyes again, I didn’t see my mate seething at the warriors. Instead, I saw Nina, standing akimbo with her eyes shooting daggers at the warriors. Nina barked angrily, “Have you lost your minds! Do you want me to drag you through hell with your uncontrollable balls?”

One would have thought she cared about me as she gritted at the two men who were close to assaulting and molesting me sexually.

Without another word or look, Mateo and Leo scurried out of the room. If only I could be as strong and threatening as Nina. Although she didn’t like me, Nina could stand for herself and I lacked that ability. Sadly.

“Crying again? When will you stop acting like the entire world is meant to run to your rescue? No wonder the Alpha doesn’t want you.” Nina growled at me, reminding me that we were not buddies.

I wiped my face again and prepared my mind for more of Nina’s tongue-lashing session but to my surprise, Nina simply shook her head before stretching her right hand forward, revealing a stack of papers, “This is for you. Do the needful and give it back.”

Along with the papers, she gave me a pen as well.

My face furrowed, curiosity setting into my mind as I took the papers. “What is this-” I started asking with a low tone.

But the rest of my words died in my throat when I saw the heading on the front page – Dark Moon Pack’s Court Issued Divorce Papers.

My eyes widened, my jaw hit the floor hard and my heart shattered just as my hands began to tremble. I thought I wouldn’t cry anymore, at least for the day but my eyes stung with tears and there was no stopping them.

“D-divorce.” I blurted, my blurry eyes shifting to Nina’s emotionless face. “H-ow can t-this be f-for m-me? W-what am I–”

“Can you please do the needful and stop wasting my time with your stupid questions!” Nina cut me off without batting an eye.

I shook my head vigorously. This shouldn't be happening.

Alpha Raiden needed me. Right?

He can’t– I can’t lose him. He is my everything. The only person that was mine. He was my consolation gift from the goddess for crying out loud! My legs gave out as I sobbed like the devastated woman that I was.

“Sign the damn papers, Aurelia!” Nina hissed at me.

“No!” I hissed right back, surprising both Nina and me. “I won’t sign this. I want to see my mate. I demand an audience with Alpha Raiden.”

Nina stared at me like I had grown two heads for a minute before she burst out laughing. She voiced, clearly amused, “Who are you to demand an audience? Who do you think you are to not sign the papers that the Alpha already signed? He ordered you to sign them immediately–”

I cut in, my pain turning into anger, “I’m his mate!” Nina frowned but I didn't let that stop me. I had nothing to lose. “That’s who I’m, Nina. His mate and I demand to see him this instant because I sure as hell won’t be signing these damned papers!” Even though he had signed them.

Whether it was awe or anger in Nina’s eyes, I couldn’t tell but I soon sensed that she was talking to Alpha Raiden through the mental connection that everyone with wolves in the pack shared. I wasn’t a part of that connection for obvious reasons.

I wasn’t surprised when Nina announced, “The Alpha will see you in his office.”

However, the biggest shock of my life hit me right in the chest the second I stepped into my mate’s office for the first time in my life.

She was right there in his office, on his lap, in his arms and he was kissing her passionately.

3. Hated Prisoner

AURELIA

~<>~

It was her.

I knew her.

Although I was yet to see her face as she was cooped up in my mate's arms and her back was to me while her face was getting loved on by the man that was supposed to be mine– by the man who didn’t give me as little as a peck on the cheek despite being married and mated to him for the past three years.

First time in my mate’s office and this was what I saw? Huh?

The familiar shiny long blond hair was enough to let my crashing self know that the woman in my mate’s arms was no other than Princess Larisa Wellington, his ex-girlfriend.

My lips trembled, my entire body shook as every part of my already shattered heart broke into tiny pieces and my puffy eyes were filled with hot tears once again. I wasn’t usually a crybaby even though everyone around thought so but how do I stop crying when I was witnessing the end of my life?

Heck! He had never kissed me.

I had never gotten the opportunity to be kissed by him… by anyone at that.

Yet, he was kissing her so passionately.

Alpha Raiden was so lost in the kiss and in Larisa. Lost to the point where he didn’t notice that I had been standing there in his office for an eternity. I was frozen on the spot but couldn’t he sense me?

I watched as my mate groaned into the kiss, getting off his seat to pin Larisa against a wall and to kiss her even deeper. He only broke the kiss to say to her, “God, I have missed you so much, Isa.”

He said her name so fondly and all I could do was cry silently. My heart died when Larisa giggled like the fulfilled woman she was, responding with love, “I missed you even more, Raid.”

Raid?

Alpha Raiden smiled, his eyes twinkling with pure love as his name rolled off his lover’s tongue… He wouldn't even let me, his wife, mate, and Luna call him Raiden not to think of a pet name.

But clearly, his lover could do that and more.

It killed me to call her his lover but that was the truth. I could see the love Alpha Raiden and I lacked flowing between him and Larisa. Larisa was his childhood lover. She was the beautiful daughter of the previous Beta who served Ronald, Raiden’s dad, during his time as Alpha. and she was loved by all. They all wanted her to and believed that she would be their Luna but that didn’t happen because on the day Larisa turned eighteen, I also did and I turned out to be Raiden’s destined mate much to their disappointment.

Princess Larisa, as they always call her, was broken and she disappeared, leaving the pack with no trace while Raiden was left with no choice but to mate and marry me if he wanted to become the next Alpha. So he did. He mated with me, became the Alpha after Ronald, and spent every day of the past three years hating me…

He hated me.

I have accepted that now. I mean, if he didn't hate me, he wouldn’t have been shoving his tongue down another woman’s throat.

“Oh, Aurelia. You’re here.” Princess– no! She was no princess to me; Larisa gasped, beaming at me like she didn’t just kiss my man. Like she wasn’t being held by my man like she was some delicate flower.

Raiden had never held me like he was holding her.

He usually handles me like he has the desire to break me even in the sex room.

Gosh, how was I so blind to the fact that he didn’t want me and he never would?

My mate’s gaze fell on me momentarily before he shifted his dilated eyes back to the woman he had always wanted and loved. “You asked to see me?” Alpha Raiden asked that question like he couldn't stand the sight of me.

He wasn’t bothered by my tears nor did he feel sorry for all he had done to me today… for the past three years, in fact.

He wasn’t sorry and he would never be.

“Why won’t you sign the papers? Do you need me to sign on your behalf?” Alpha Raiden seethed, his anger brewing rapidly.

I was certain that he would have lashed out at me if Larisa wasn’t in his arms. He would have lost his cool if she wasn’t touching him in places no one else but I should have access to.

He was a cheater! Yet I couldn’t bring myself to hate him or be as angry as I was supposed to be.

Goddess, why did you have to give him to me when he wasn’t even mine? Why? I cried again but at this point, I knew what I had to do.

“You don’t have to cheat on me to be with her,” I uttered softly.

I heard my mate scoffing, “Then why won’t you sign the papers? You are even making demands now, huh?”

How could he not feel my pain? How could he not tell that he was killing me with his words, his look, and the fact that he was still holding Larisa despite my presence?

He must really love her…

I couldn’t believe this was happening but I knew my greatest wish was to see Raiden happy even if I couldn’t be his source of happiness and he was happy with Larisa.

I stepped closer to the desk, taking my eyes off the duo that were causing me pain and I placed the divorce papers which I had brought with me on the flat surface. I muttered, “If signing these papers will free you and make you happy, then I’ll gladly sign them.”

With a million reasons to hesitate in mind, I signed the papers. With tears in my eyes, I legally let my consolation gift go.

Alpha Raiden eventually took his hands off Larisa just to take the papers from me and check if I had truly signed them. My gaze lingered on his face as I bottled my emotions in. I thought I should take a good look at him because this was the end of us… and the end of my life.

However, when Raiden met my gaze, he raised his brows, asking with no remorse, “What are you waiting for? Are you expecting a thank you?”

“No. I’m freeing you completely.” I responded, unbearable emotional pain coursing through me.

“Then take your leave. I have better things to do with my time than whatever this is.” Alpha Raiden etched, referring to my lingering gaze with obvious disgust.

I nodded, “I won’t waste your time.”

Alpha Raiden frowned. He was impatient. He wanted me gone so he could return to eating Larisa’s face and I would be gone as soon as I let our weak and useless bond go as well.

Rejecting him was harder than signing the legal papers but I had to do it to clear the path to his happiness.

I inhaled deeply and let out the word as I exhaled slowly, “I, Aurelia, reject you, Alpha Raid–”

“Stop!” Alpha Raiden yelled ferociously. I jumped backward, shocked by his reaction. “Stop right there!”

W-what?

Why was he angry? Did I say it wrong? Or was it because I didn’t include my family name? I never knew my family so how was I supposed to know what name to add? Why was he being so unreasonable–

Alpha Riaden stunned me even more by growling, “How dare you think of rejecting me!” He took threatening steps towards me, leaving Larisa behind.

I had wanted his full attention and now that he was giving that to me, I wanted nothing more than to run the other way.

“How dare you try to sever the bond we share, woman!” He asked again.

With a shaky voice, I asked, “Isn’t t-that wh-what you want?”

“Who are you to decide what I want or even question it!” Alpha Raiden barked in my face, causing my body to shiver like it was getting buried in ice.

My mind failed to comprehend him. I also couldn’t come up with a response since he was confusing me.

Severing the bond was necessary if he wanted to be with Larisa and if he wanted me gone. So why was he–

“Warriors!” Alpha Raiden called for the men outside his office and two of them rushed into his office, dropping to their knees to avoid facing his rage. “Grab this insolent woman, return her to where she belongs, and let me warn you…”

The warriors could feel his anger in their bones even though Alpha Raiden’s anger was directed at me.

He voiced the warning, “If she escapes, you lose your heads.”

“Yes, Alpha.” The warriors answered.

My mate’s– was he still my mate? After all, we have severed the marital bond. What we have left was the mate bond he wouldn’t let me sever. Alpha Raiden looked at me one last time before his men dragged me out of his office and he said, “You are mine to keep.”

Yet he went back to Larisa.

I had never felt more confused.

But when I was tossed right back into the plain shabby room and locked up, I realized that I was no longer a married woman but I had become the Alpha’s hated prisoner.

4. Stormy Blue Eyes

ALPHA RAIDEN

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I could feel rage still boiling inside of me even though several hours had passed since the woman I was forced to marry and mate with tried to sever the same bond that I sacrificed my happiness to create.

The nerve of her!

Who does she think she is?

Some goddess in charge?

Tsk…

My eyes caught the dark sky of the night as I emptied another shot of the strongest tequila in my bar, kinda hoping that it would kill my anger and stabilize my spiraling emotions but drinking didn’t help me. Within a few minutes, I was drunk yet I didn't stop drinking.

“Why am I still sensing anger from you, Raid.” The soothing voice of the woman my heart beat for, echoed through the bar and my eyes eagerly searched for the beauty of her face. “Don’t tell me you are drunk because of her.”

I couldn’t stop myself from smiling sheepishly when Larisa’s face popped before mine. She left to meet up with her old friends a few hours after the woman I was forced to marry vexed me. I might be drunk but I could still see discomfort and a bit of jealousy flashing through my Larisa’s eyes.

“Not entirely, Isa, I'm angry though. She vexed me.” I said to her, turning around on my high bar stool to pull Larisa in between my legs.

She stood tall like a glass of wine, her elbows resting on my thigh, “Same difference, Raid. I fear that you don’t want me here nor do you need me. Perhaps coming back after all these years is a mistake–”

“Hey…” I cautioned her, frowning drunkenly. “Why would you say that? You know I have missed you? I have spent the last few years trying to find and bring you back home. Why would you call this a mistake, Isa?”

My heart clenched painfully. I thought Larisa’s return would heal my broken heart. I thought she would be happy with me now that I had become the Alpha. I had the power and authority to protect her now unlike three years ago.

“Because you are acting like she means the world to you. Like you have fallen in love with her.” Larisa stated, her lips trembling.

Without hesitation, I hissed, “I do not love that woman, Isa.”

Larisa's frown deepened, her eyes searching mine for what I assumed was reassurance.

“You are the only woman I have ever loved and I have never stopped loving you, babe. You’re the one who means the world to me.” I voiced those words slurrily, my sight getting blurry as the alcohol I had consumed began to kick in fast.

“I still love you too,” Larisa muttered but her eyes sparkled with tears when she looked at me.

“What’s wrong, Isa? Talk to me, Please.” I was worried about her… about us.

There was nothing more that I wanted. Being with her was all I have ever wanted. She was my biggest desire and having her in my arms was a three-year-long dream come true.

Larisa pulled away, taking a few steps back before she said, “I’m scared, Raid.”

I left the stool, staggering on my feet for a few seconds. I cursed myself for drinking so much. I knew that if Larisa had been around, I wouldn’t have had any cause to drink. She would have relieved me of the anger that woman sparked within me.

Larisa continued before I could get to her, “I was forced to leave my home, my pack, my friends, my entire life, and the man I loved three years ago. I was forced to live a lonely life, struggling through each day with a broken heart, Raid. It was hard to survive without you but I knew better than to be in the way of your duties as the Alpha. You didn’t need me around to be a great Alpha and as much as it kills me to say this, the truth remains, you needed Aurelia to be your best–”

“Please stop talking like that, Isa. I didn’t need her then and I don’t need her now. You and I would have led the pack better. My parents didn’t understand that but–”

Larisa cut in, tears rolling down her pretty cheeks, “Then why are you so angry about the fact that she tried to sever the bond? Why are you holding on to her?”

My drunk mind failed to come up with a good enough answer. I could have just told Larisa that I was keeping Aurelia around because I had already created a bond with her and breaking that bond would be risky. It would kill me and my wolf but I didn’t tell Larisa that for some unknown reasons.

Perhaps I thought that would hurt her more.

“I am not asking you to divorce her, Raid. I don’t want you to become weak because of me. All I want is to stay by your side, be with you, and make up for the lost years. That’s all I am asking of you.” Larisa cried.

Finally, I said, “I want that too. I want that very much, Isa–”

“You don’t seem to want me like I do. You don’t seem to love me like you used to, Raiden.” Larisa countered and I shook my head, hating that I couldn’t open my heart to her and show her just how much I wanted her. “I think I should stay at my parent’s home for a while.”

“No! I want you here.” I disagreed strongly, trying to hold Larisa.

But she avoided my hands as she said, “It would give us time to know what we actually want. I also don’t want to cause any problems for you. You know where to find me when you sort out the mess with your mate.”

Larisa didn't wait for me to respond before she walked away and out of my mansion. I yearned to rush after her but my heart tightened, causing anger to swell within me again.

“This is all her fault! This is that woman’s fault!” I gritted audibly but there was no one around to hear me.

I didn’t like saying her name or even thinking about it.

I married her because I needed to just like Larisa pointed out and I was keeping her around for the same purpose… I needed her body and the bond to keep me sane.

“She might as well serve her purpose now,” I muttered ferociously before sending orders to the warriors guarding her to bring her back to the mansion and take her to the only room I had ever shared with her.

Maybe it was the alcohol in my system or the anger coursing through me like burning lava, I stormed to the room and sat on the bed. My eyes were stinging and my nose flaring as I waited for Aurelia to be brought to me.

The second she stepped into the room, her familiar flowery scent drove me crazier. My brief tightened and I let out a one-word command, “Strip!”

I expected her to shakily obey my command like she had been doing for the past three years of our loveless marriage. I expected her to shyly look at me with her bewitching stormy blue eyes that always get me undone whenever we are in bed together.

However, to my greatest surprise, I received the biggest shock of the day when she looked at me with empty eyes and responded with one word as well.

“No.”

5. A Passionate Song

AURELIA

~<>~

“No”

I let out that word despite knowing that it would only fuel Alpha Raiden’s anger.

He could get angry but I had the right to say no to him. I was done with him. I was done giving him every part of me without asking for parts of him in return. I was done loving him with all of me even though my heart was kicking against the idea of that.

“What was that, mate?” Alpha Raiden asked, his voice low and challenging.

I inhaled sharply, finding it hard to repeat that single word. I averted my eyes and took steps away from him and the bed. He shouldn’t be able to keep me around while he wants another woman– but he could do that. He was the Alpha.

He could have his cake and eat it.

“Do you need me to repeat myself, woman!” Alpha Raiden growled impatiently and I nearly jumped out of my own skin as he pumped fear into my bloodstream.

He started peeling his shirt off without caring about me and angrily, he hissed, his eyes burning holes into my face, “Strip this instance!”

That was a command.

Yet, shakily, I retorted, “I won’t be doing that. If you want sex, get it from the woman you are passionate about. I’m no longer your wife and left to me, I would have ended this wretched bond that keeps us tied to each other. I would have freed you–”

“ENOUGH OF YOUR NONSENSE, MATE!”

Alpha Raiden snarled like the beast he was.

Gone was the man who showed passion to Larisa this morning. He wasn’t that man with me. He had never been and he would never be.

“You think you can defy me just because we are no longer married legally? Because we are divorced? I’m still your mate and Alpha and you will obey me.” He spelled out, dropping his pants to the floor and standing before me in all his naked glory.

I shook my head, shoving the urge to take a minute and look at his well-sculpted body for what might be the last time as tears threatened to spill out of me, “You are not happy with me. You can no longer be my mate, Alpha Raiden. Make this easier for us all and–”

The rest of my statement was cut off when I was suddenly swept off my feet not like some angel but like a weed… I was uprooted like a weed and thrown on the bed without much effort on Alpha Raiden’s part.

I yelped, “No. I don’t want this. You can’t do this.” Tears streamed down my face.

“You don’t have to want it. I want it.” Alpha Raiden seethed. He ran his hand over his length and my eyes fell to the thick piece of flesh that I had always been drawn to since the day we officially became mates. Heck, I was addicted to that part of him but now? Now I was scared. “I can do this because I am your mate and I will do it because you do not get to say no to me, mate.”

“Please, D-don’t d-do t-his–” I cried, folding my legs into myself as I sobbed and voiced my refusal.

Alpha Raiden’s gray eyes dilated and I thought I saw him hesitating but he tugged at my feet, yanking me flat on the bed and before I could let out even a cry, he flipped me over, my chest flat on the bed.

As he gripped my hands, holding them on the low of my waist, he whispered into my ears, “You will soon beg me to give you more, mate. You cry now but you will only moan out ‘Alpha’ in a few minutes.”

I wanted to call him out so bad and let him know that it was wrong of him to kiss another woman this morning only to return to my bed. I wanted him to know that he shouldn’t want the woman he divorced earlier today the way he wanted me.

His want for me… or should I say, his want for my body was obvious from the redness of his balls. I had sighted that before he flipped me over and as much as I didn’t want him to touch me, a bigger part of me loved that he wanted me badly.

A part of me wanted him to rough handle me in bed and for him to kiss me while he claimed me as his mate over and over again… I wanted him to see no one else but me, not even his dearest childhood lover.

Alpha Raiden ripped my dress from my waist downward and just like he said, my cry was replaced by a loud moan when he pushed himself into me. His hold on my hands loosened with every move of his waist and he groaned into my ears, singing a passionate song to me.

“How could he not see how we fit beautifully?” I thought to myself while my mate devoured me and I took all he had to give, making myself believe that he was here in bed with me not just for my body but for me…

I mean, there was something different about the way he hit my sweet spot repeatedly, making me scream as orgasm washed over me like an angry wave. It was almost as if he was making sweet rough love to me… like he was punishing me for wanting to tear us apart by rejecting him yet apologizing for making me sign the divorce papers….

“You like that, don’t you…” Alpha Raiden said, jerking within me. “You’re mine to keep, mate. Your body and soul belong to me and you dare not reject me. I’m in charge of you…”

It was hard to tell if that was him or his wolf but those were the last words I heard as another orgasm hit me hard… hard enough to make me lose my consciousness and slip into a sweet terrorizing nightmare.

By the time I woke up, it was morning, and Alpha Raiden was gone as always and I had bruises and hickeys on my body. As always.

“Maybe Larisa was a dream. Maybe there were no divorce papers…” That thought flickered in my mind as I stretched my sore body and pushed myself off the bed, walking to the door in my ripped dress and hoping that yesterday was one bad nightmare.

But when I turned the doorknob, I realized that I had been locked inside the sex room. This was when it occurred to me that I had not only become the Alpha’s hated Prisoner but I had also become the Alpha’s hated sex slave.

Like he wanted to prove that to me, Alpha Riaden didn't come to the room again until he wanted sex again and he didn’t let me out of the sex room for days. Each time he came for me, he rode me to bliss and I let him because there was no other choice… at least not for me.

6. A Weak Bond

AURELIA

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The next few days went in a blur.

Much to my relief and dismay, Alpha Raiden stopped coming to the room. He hasn’t been here for the past two nights. He didn't let me leave the sex room and I also didn't know what was going on out there in the pack. I also didn’t have the energy to do anything more than shower in the adjoining bathroom and wrap myself in the sheets that still smell like Alpha Raiden and I.

I was crazy for and about him. As stupid as that might sound.

Usually, my meals were delivered to me by servants who would push my tray of almost disgusting food through the space that I woke up to find underneath the door. The space was just big enough to let the tray in and out of the room.

Clearly, I had been living the life of a prisoner yet I dared not reject Alpha Raiden and free myself from the torment he was putting me through. The fear of what he was capable of doing to me if I tried to reject him again kept getting in the way… or maybe I was too scared of losing him just as much as I was scared of meaning nothing to him.

I was lost in my own thoughts when the bedroom door swung open, disrupting my thoughts as hope sparkled within me.

“Alpha Raiden…” I breathed, stupidly excited about seeing him. I jolted off the bed with the sheets still around me.

No one else had opened the door to the sex room. No one but Alpha Raiden. Well, until now.

“Oh, sweet Aurelia.” Larisa’s malicious voice resonated in the room even before she stepped in, showing her face before me. “You must be disappointed to see me instead of the man who you desperately yearn to see.”

Yes, I was disappointed.

But I shoved that feeling to the deepest part of me as I asked, “What are you doing here, Larisa?” That question popped out of me even though I could see the food tray in her hands.

There is no way she was here to give me food. The pack might see her as a saint but I have experienced firsthand that Larisa was more of a demon than a saint.

Larisa’s face scrunched into a frown and she barked, “Larisa? How dare you call me by name?”

I rolled my eyes mindlessly, “How dare you raise your voice at me? I am still your Luna, Larisa.”

That was a bold move… a bold move that I didn't expect from me. Of course, Larisa was stunned but she covered up by laughing.

“You are such an idiot, Aurelia.” She spat, throwing the food tray on the floor. I watched as what I assumed was my food for the day splattered all over the floor. “Luna? Is that what you think you are?”

“Larisa, please just–”

My attempt to plead with my mate’s lover to leave me alone was cut short by Larisa’s palm as it connected with my right cheek, sending my head sideways as my cheek stung from the hard impact.

“You’re not worthy enough to say my name, bitch!” Larisa snarled, pulling at my hair just so she could look into my red eyes.

She slapped me again and this time, I staggered backward. I didn't have the strength to fight back nor could I hold back the tears that rolled down my cheeks. I have been deprived of good food for many days. I had been tormented by my own mate and now? Now he sent his lover to strip me of what was left of my sanity.

“I thought I should bring you food– aah. That’s a lie.” Larisa confessed to me. “I came here to let you know that Raid is mine. He has always been and he will always be.”

To keep my strength and save myself from any more assault, I kept my tongue in my cheek, listening as Larisa told me about the Luna ceremony that would be coming up tomorrow.

My eyes widened and my body shook as sorrow zapped through me when Larisa announced, “Raid wanted to hold the ceremony so he could officially name me Luna. He said he wanted to strip you of the honor of being called Luna publicly. He wants to choose me publicly, Aurelia.”

He never chose me publicly.

A Luna ceremony? Tomorrow?

Larisa’s voice found its way into my head when she continued speaking. She etched, smiling, “You must feel weaker than usual, Aurelia and you must have noticed that he stopped coming to you for sex. You are completely useless to him now, Aurelia–”

“W-what are you saying?” I stuttered, fear gripping my heart as I already knew the answer to that question.

“I am saying that Raid has been making sweet love to me for the past two nights. He holds me, kisses me, worships my body and he doesn't care about what our steamy moments do to you. It’s time you give up, Aurelia because I can tell you are holding on to him.” Larisa answered, each of her words stabbing me in the gut.

“Liar!” I exclaimed, crying profusely. “I would have felt it if he made love to you. I didn’t feel it–”

“Then your bond must be weaker than I thought.” Larisa laughed in my face. “What’s the point of keeping such a weak bond, Aurelia? In fact, you are no match for me so you will never be a competition. You were never one, anyways.”

My legs gave out under the weight of my body as mental pictures of Alpha Raiden and Larisa in bed, tangled in the sheets and completely entrenched in every way possible, flashed through my mind, killing me rapidly.

Something twisted in my stomach and a new kind of pain rocked my body.

“You will die soon, Aurelia. There would be nothing left of you when I become Luna tomorrow, mark Raid, carry his mark, and claim all that was rightfully mine… all that you took from me. I can’t wait to see your dead body.” Larisa muttered to me, kicking me in the ribs just to watch me suffer.

She left the room after stomping on the food she brought in and I was left alone to not only cry my eyes out but also dread what the nearest future had in store for me.