REJECTED BY THE ALPHA CHOSEN BY HIS TWIN

Selene’s Pov

Seraphina, my supposed distant best friend, walked in smiling beautifully. I turned to Lucien, he was smiling brightly, not the one he kept on this afternoon.

I walked over to where he stood, he signaled to his guard to restrict me.

My body felt hot, I felt my brain frying, this has to be a mistake.

“Lucien what are you doing?” My voice rang out.

The loud music made it impossible for the crowd to hear.

I turned to look at Keal, he looked unbothered.

I ran to him almost tripping in the oversized gown.

“That's the mother of your pup, go tell Lucien he's mistaken her for me. The guards won't allow me there.” I tried to touch him.

A single cold stare from him stopped me.

“We decided to keep our relationship a secret, away from prying and evil eyes, but now is the time to take her rightful place.” Lucien boasted holding her close to him.

I fell when the crowd cheered. Luna was smiling brightly, the one she never sent to my direction.

“Wait!” I yelled. This time people heard me.

“What do you mean rightful place? I heard something like our relationship? She's Seraphina, not Selene Lucien…” I was going feral.

Aria and Bella quickly came to where I was to help me up.

“Mother.” A tiny voice sounded from the corner.

It was Orion, Seraphina’s son. The one she had with Keal.

Maybe this is going to break them out of the evil spell possessing them.

Seraphina sent a cold glance towards Orion.

Unbothered by that, I jerked my hands away from my friends.

I went to Lucien, “Tell me this isn't true.” I held his shirt.

I looked over to Keal, he looked like he was enjoying the show. No smile, no sadness, face unreadable.

“I only pitied you, I wanted the students to treat you well, that's why I got together with you. I'll find you a good mate after my marking ceremony in two days.” He said gently.

He only got together with me because I was being bullied? No, no, no.

This is all a dream, for the first time in five years, my eyes stung with tears and it came cascading down like waterfalls.

“Don't do this to me Lucien, if this is a prank, I can't take it anymore.” I begged.

“What made you think he'd take you as his mate? You can't even transform yet, what made you qualify as his mate?” My supposed run away best friend asked mockingly.

The betrayal hit like a poisoned arrow.

She told me Keal beats her that was why she left the academy and travelled to another pack.

“You told me he beats you, that was why you left the academy, you've actually been scheming to get Lucien because I was happy?” My voice shook.

“You're disrupting my engagement, please leave.” She said coldly.

My dignity is slowly slipping away, even without my wolf being visible yet, I still have value for my dignity.

There was no turning back from this humiliation.

I stood up, looking at them both like a wounded puppy. I turned to walk away.

“It's only right to reject you now, so I can claim my woman without restrictions don't you think?” Lucien said.

This bastard felt no remorse at all, his smell that once comforted me now felt like an odor.

He held my hand ready to reject me. The hands that used to make me feel loved now felt like blades.

“I Alpha Lucien Blackthorn reje…”

“No, I, Selene Ashcroft, reject you as my mate.” I cut him off looking at him dead in the eyes. His eyes held shock and disbelief and some other emotion I couldn't name.

The sharp stabbing pain came, it felt like my heart was pierced with a dagger, I fell to the floor sweating profusely, my eyes turned red due to pain.

The rejection pain is not describable.

I curse you Lucien Blackthorn.

My wolf let out a painful howl in my head.

“Come my daughter.” I heard my mother's voice. It was laced with pain.

What mother could bear to see her child in pain?

“You disrupted the Alpha son's engagement, how rude! Punishments will be given later, for now take them out of this place.” Luna growled.

I could barely stand, Aria and Bella helped me up, they guided me towards the exit of the hall.

“Well, well isn't it the rejected garbage’s day?” Charis came out of a corner before we made it out.

I was writhing in pain, I could barely mutter a word.

“You were the first who got rejected bitch!” Bella snapped angrily.

I barely heard what Charis said , my mind refused to keep up with me, I collapsed.

I woke up slowly, my eyes hurting from the ray of sunlight, “Thank goddess you're okay.” My mother's relieved voice came from my side.

It was then I drank in my surroundings.

This is not my mother's house. I saw Aria and Bella sleeping by my other side.

Oh goddess! They stayed with me? Hot tears stung my eyes again.

“It's okay my baby, don't cry, you'll recover in no time.” My mother persuaded me.

Memories of the nights came rushing back, not like I forgot in the first place. I wasn't conscious about it.

“Thank goddess you're okay Selene, we were so worried about you.” Aria hugged me.

I didn't know when they woke up. Bella patted my head.

I tried to move my body, but the aching in my bones forced me to lie back.

The pack doctor came in.

“Can I have a word with the patient relative?” He adjusted his glasses.

“No, say it here, we're all family. ”There was no need to hide anything.

“Well then, have you been able to connect with your wolf since you woke up?” He asked.

That's true.

Crystal? I called through our usual link. No response came, I called again and again. Still no response.

Shaking, I looked at the doctor. “I can't reach my wolf, what happened? Is she fine? I can't feel her.”

“Due to the impact of the severed mate bond, she can't connect to you due to weakness and pain, it'll take time for her to come back.” The doctor explained at once.

No… this can't be happening.

“Please what do I do to get crystal back? I can't live without hearing my wolf, she is my other half.” I looked at the doctor expectantly.

“There's nothing we can do, until she heals by herself there's nothing I can do, besides why did you poison yourself with wolfsbane?” He asked.

“Why would you expose yourself to wolfsbane?” He asked again.

Lucien.

“Wolfsbane? She didn't take any of sort, she didn't eat anything from the party, so where is that coming from?” Aria stood up facing the doctor.

“The clothes she wore, the two extra layers are thick with wolfsbane, she wore it for a long time and it took effect. The moon goddess sure loves you, other worlds died even before arrival.” The doctor rushed his words.

The ward went silent.

Did I hear him right?

“What? You meant the dress was laced with wolfsbane?” Bella opened her mouth after what seemed like ages.

The doctor nodded affirmatively.

Not only did he reject me and humiliate me publicly, he also tried to kill me?

Why?

My death would've been said to have come from the rejection and not that I was poisoned.

Ha!

“We have a test today, we might not make it to the final grade if we don't take it.” I muttered calmly.

Aria snapped her head towards me. My calmness had surprised them.

“Not in this state of mind Selene.” Aria shook her head.

Two years of living a lie, he had groomed me into fitting what he calls his perfect Luna only to be publicly humiliated and rejected. He told me I was his fated mate.

He used my inability to smell my mate against me.

I ripped the necklace he had once gifted me off immediately.

“Easy Selene.” Aria's concerned voice came staring at the redness of my neckline.

Lucien wanted me gone,how about I stay in his face? I'm about to give him the shock of his life.

I want to see the look of shock on his face when he finds out I survived.

My mom was skeptical about it, but my mind was made up. Everybody is expecting me to be absent today. I'm not giving any of them that satisfaction.

We prepared and left for the academy.

People began to whisper the moment they saw me, some had the look of pity on their face, some had the look of Victory on their face.

I walked towards Lucien's dorm, the one he shares with his twin, although it's two different rooms.

As I approached the door, I began to hear faint voices.

“You told me you'd end everything before now, people are still feeling some type of way about me. I'm Keal's ex!.” A voice I recognized to be Seraphina's voice.

From her tone she's angry.

“The relationship is for the people and the alpha selection, they'd know in their heart their next alpha is kind regardless of status. I don't understand how she was able to stand for that long, she's supposed to have blacked out before you came in. Why don't you get it?” Lucien's voice was equally filled with anger and frustration.

Two years of my time and love was for a show and politics?

I staggered backwards until my back hit a hard chest.

The familiar cedar woody smell wafted my nostrils.

Keal.