5

~Lou Wilson~

So here I am in the hotel hallway really going along with this nonsense of pissing off the alpha of the three. It was weak-headed. Why did I go again? Oh yes, because I hope that I can still get home somehow.

An idea occurs to me. Why don't I just transform and run home? Maybe because then my mother will kill me for the dress, but she will anyway, as Zara had already worked on. But I should keep this plan open as plan B in case this doesn't work out.

The boys knocked on the door of the room and, strangely enough, my body became more and more restless as the seconds went by. My heart was beating faster, but I couldn't explain why I felt this way. What was the matter with me all of a sudden?

Nothing happened behind the room door, so they knocked again. And as if my heart wasn't beating fast enough already, it probably just doubled its pace.

Suddenly the door to the room was flung open and the first thing you heard was a sharp: "WHAT?"

Then, when the corresponding body entered my field of vision, I thought I was dreaming. I immediately blocked out all the voices around me, all that mattered was this guy in front of me.

It wasn't the fact that this huge black-haired guy was stark naked or that I had a perfect view of his toned body. No. I felt it from the first second I saw him.

Never before have I had such deep feelings inside me. Never before has my heart almost jumped out of my chest and never before have I been so sure of facing my mate.

I finally found him. Now I know why I first went to the club with Zara and later came to this hotel with the boys. The moon goddess wanted to bring us together. First Zara and Alex and now me and...

And Ariane. That's what they called him earlier.

Arian... What a beautiful name. I could let it melt over my tongue forever.

But said one didn't even seem to realize that he had just met his mate, because he was talking to Alex and Zara, who had her hands in front of her eyes.

It was better that way. If she takes one look at my naked mate, I won't just rip her eyes out.

Where did these thoughts suddenly come from, I was shocked at myself.

After what felt like an eternity, my mate finally seemed to notice me and dared to look at me. And... oh wow. Those eyes are a dream I'd like to sink into. They were as blue as the ocean itself.

When he looked into mine with those eyes just like that, a flash came over me. Although I was already sure before that he was my mate, but this whole tingling, which spread over my whole body, confirmed me again.

I wanted to approach him. Finally touch him and be very close to him. I've waited for this moment for far too long. But instead of giving me a loving look, he gave me an angry, almost hateful look.

I stopped, confused. Why was he looking at me like that? did i do something wrong?

And then arms, which weren't mine, wrapped themselves around his naked body from behind.

All the alarm signals went off in me.

Someone who isn't me is groping my mate. The emphasis is on mine .

Before I could even think about my action, I "fingers off my husband" ran up to this black-haired hussy and would have almost torn her apart if my mate hadn't stood protectively in front of her.

Why does he want to protect her. I'm his mate. Not her. Did he love her more than me? But what do I know about love?

And then he said something I never imagined you could say to your mate.

"Listen! I know now you're thinking we belong together or some shit. But we don't. The moon goddess made a huge mistake with us. You're not my mate and I don't want you as my mate either. So leave me alone and just fuck off! Do you understand?" he said coldly to my face.

Did I just mishear? The moon goddess never makes a mistake. Never. But he doesn't want me. Why doesn't he want me?

When I realized that, my soul felt shattered. And not only that. My heart was ripped out of my chest with his words as well. A hole was all that was left. And that pain was just unbearable, like ripping your chest open.

He doesn't want me. He doesn't want ME.

"N-No," I stuttered. I just couldn't understand. We didn't even know each other and yet he doesn't want me. Isn't I pretty enough for him? Wasn't my hair the color he wanted?

He probably likes something like the black-haired one behind him. Shapely body. Not a gram of fat too much and just beautiful facial features. She was perfect unlike me. I was nothing I wasn't good enough for my mate.

As if what he had already said wasn't enough, he added: "I don't accept you as my mate. do you understand I don't want you and now go and don't I ever see you again."

And now it was finally clear to me. So he really didn't want me. He turned me down without batting an eyelid.

Now I couldn't hold back the tears as all the dams collapsed inside me. Nothing held me anymore. Nothing and no one could stop me at that moment.

My mate, the love of my life, rejected me. He doesn't even give us a chance because he hasn't liked me since the first second we met. He hates me without really knowing me.

I didn't want to appear weak, but I couldn't help my sobs. The next moment I was walking down the hall and out of this hotel where my worst nightmare came true.

Without thinking about where I'm going now, I ran down the street with tears on my face. In the corner of my eye I only saw that the houses were becoming fewer and fewer and soon I was alone in the forest.

And now I didn't care if anyone else would see me.

I held nothing back, but released my wolf.

My bones cracked and my whole body twisted until I could no longer see my feet running beneath me, but my snow-white paws.

I was still completely torn inside. But I absolutely had to put as much distance as possible between me and my heartthrob. Maybe then I would survive that. Yes, maybe.... If I still want to live at all.

I just didn't want to believe it. First this joy of finally meeting him and then how hell on earth came.

At some point I just stood still in the iron winter night and howled loudly.

My mate rejected me. But why?

These thoughts kept coming to me.

Then I stuck my snout up and started to cry.

I was now a lonely and broken wolf. My mate broke me completely with just that brief glimpse. I'm broken and it's only because we wolves were doomed to have a mate.

Because as I now found out, this Mateband was not a blessing. No. It was a curse.

A curse in which one becomes attached to and dependent on a person. Anything that person decides. She also decides for the life of the other. That's exactly what Arian had done. He chose to reject me and thus he destroyed my life.

It hurt terribly when this newly released mate tape ripped.