Iris’s POV
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“Ada” I say in a whisper, because right now my voice no longer has the power to be heard. “What is he doing?”
“He just rejected us.” my wolf says and she starts to howl in my mind.
Is not like you have probably heard. Yeah, you feel the pain of rejection, you feel that you lost something important. It hurts worse than a human feels when he or she is dumped by the loved one, and that’s because having a fated mate should be something magical.
But I guess that it was magical only from my point of view. For he was nothing, just something to fill up his days until he reached this moment.
And that’s exactly why right now I feel like dying. He made me think that he accepted me. I love him. I never thought that O could love someone the way I love him. I accepted our mate bond completely and gave him everything, so I just look at him and I know that I look like a wreck.
“But, he can’t…” I whisper and I burst into tears. “We are lovers. We are mates and we have been together for almost a year. He…”
“I Alpha Liam Brown, Alpha of the Crescent Moon Pack, reject you as my mate and my Luna.” he repeats, loud enough so that everyone gathered here to be sure that there was no mistake.
“He can’t do this to us!” Ada growls and I barely control her because she wants to transform and mark Liam by force and kill the woman who sits near him.
“Let me teach him a lesson!” Ada growls again but I can’t even breathe right now. "He challenges the goddess by rejecting us!" she growled but I simply let Ada alone.
I know where I stay. I know who I am. Finding that he is my mate scared me, exactly because who he is and who I am, but he stood by my side a whole year for the goddess sake! It was all a lie?
I need to find if this was his plan form the beginning. I need something to hang on. A reason to hate him. I just need something or I am going to die loving him.
“Why Liam?” I ask him and he looks at me a little bit taken aback. I suppose he didn't expect to ask him that.
“You knew from the beginning, Iris, that there is no future for us. I am an alpha and you are just a poor omega. This will never work. It was great while it lasted, but the fun is over now.” and I see him taking that beautiful girl’s hand in his hand and I feel that I will die in the next second.
“I choose a mate. Someone who will help me to rule this pack and protect my people. It is not personal, Iris, but you know that I am right. You are not a Luna material.”
I am not a Luna material? Is he kidding me? I stood by his side a whole year and Crescent Moon Pack members love me. I was there for them as weak as he sees me, but I did my best even if I wasn’t their Luna yet. Knowing that I am Liam’s mate made me feel responsible for them. I did my best for him! And now what? He just had the revelation of his life?
“Is this going to take long?” the woman asks and kisses his check as she places her arms around his waist in front of the pack.
This is his Alpha ceremony. We’ve been together in the morning and he acted like everything was normal. He said nothing. NOTHING! And now he is suddenly rejecting me?
“Say no, please!” Ada says, crying. “I can’t survive without him.”
Right now everyone is whispering.
I never felt more humiliated in my life. I never thought that I could feel lower than being an omega, well, Liam just helped me to cross that bottom line.
He just annulled me as a human being, as a lover, as a fated mate. Who the fuck rejects his fated mate?
“You should have told me” I tell him with calm and gentleness and this time I simply look into his eyes. I am not crying anymore. And why should I? Was everything a bad joke? Yes, it seems that it was, because now I have the whole picture.
“Look omega, we don’t have the whole day “his future Luna said. “I came here for my Luna ceremony and I can’t have it until you accept the rejection.”
“Iris, please, say no” Ada cries again but this is beyond her wishes. He judged me by my status in this pack. What about my feeling for him? What about all the love I put in our relation during the last years. All the smiles he gave me. All the kisses and all the promises that he will take care of me? He's just fucking lair!
“No, Iris...Please don’t do it!” Ada started again but even if I am dying right now, I will never let him see me down.
“Iris Gerber", his father’s beta asked me “Do you accept Alpha Liam's rejection or do you have any objections?”
Is this a fucking joke? Do I have an option here? And I start to laugh, making everyone look at me as if I just lost my mind.
Oh my goddess, this is not a joke. This is real.
I look into his eyes and ask him one more time.
“Is this what you want Liam?”
He looks perplexed at me. He opens his mouth as if he was ready to say that he changed his mind, but his future mate grabbed his hand, squeezing it in her hand.
The pack is mute and everyone breathlessly awaits for his answer.
“Is that what you want Liam?” I ask him again, this time raising my voice, to his shock.