When their mate turned away Chapter 02
Snow whipped down, stinging our faces and freezing us to the bone.
Jason Cole didn’t care about our status as princesses and future Lunas.
He ordered us punished simply to please Mia Bennett.
Warriors dragged us roughly outside the Moon Guard barracks and forced us to our knees in the snow.
Few people passed by, but the curious, judgmental stares felt like needles piercing our skin.
My sister turned to me, a bitter, guilty smile on her face.
“I’m sorry I dragged you into this.”
Her voice cracked as she spoke, and she began to cry.
Her quiet, broken words echoed in the wind, piercing my heart.
“We were perfectly matched, one hundred percent. The bonding ritual was all we needed.”
“They loved us more than anything. Why did everything change when Mia came?”
A sharp ache seized my chest, and tears spilled down my cheeks before I could stop them.
Everything had been so perfect once.
When we were thirteen, Maya and I were reborn with our past memories, bound to Derek Reed and Jason Cole as fated mates.
Back then, they were just homeless rogue Alphas.
Using our titles as pack princesses, we begged the alpha for favors, cleared their paths, and gave everything we had.
In just three years, we turned two penniless boys into the most powerful figures in the pack—the Moon Ceremony Consul and the Moon Guard Chief.
Young and in love, they swore the pack’s deadliest oath to stay by our sides forever.
For three years after, they spoiled us endlessly, their mate bonds locked tight, their pheromones always wrapped around us.
At sixteen, we were old enough for permanent bonding.
We promised we’d stay with them even after our rebirth mission ended, spending our lives together.
Then Mia Bennett arrived, and it all crumbled.
She’d tossed them a few scraps while they begged, and they called it a life debt.
Jason Cole claimed he was only repaying her, yet he took her in and doted on her obsessively.
Derek Reed said he only saw her as a sister, yet at her claim of feeling unsafe, he and Jason Cole delayed the bonding ritual again and again.
In two years, they canceled our ritual ninety‑nine times.
They abandoned us countless times for Mia Bennett.
After ten years, they finally agreed to the bonding.
They broke their promise and took Mia to the Moonlit Grove, leaving us to freeze in the blizzard until we nearly passed out.
I’d always been strong‑willed. I pulled my sister close.
“Let’s give up. We don’t need them to be Luna.”
“We’re the most omegas in the pack. We can live peacefully on our own.”
Maya had still held out hope until that night.
She’d been shot in the Moon Guard barracks, her pheromones spinning out of control, but Jason Cole ignored her to fetch Mia’s earring.
In that moment, her heart died completely.
We decided to let go and live for ourselves.
But they hurt us again, all for Mia Bennett.
My sister looked at me, her gaze firm.
“I’m done this time. For good.”
I pulled my frozen lips into a straight line and, for the first time in front of Derek Reed, summoned the alpha’s personal guard.
“Back to the wolf palace.”
“From today, we cut all ties with those two.”
We’d once given up our pride to live in Derek and Jason’s homes, clinging to them for our mate bond.
Returning to our own palace felt cold and empty, but neither of us looked back.
We had the servants clean every room, then collapsed onto soft beds and slept soundly for the first time since Mia Bennett appeared.
At dawn the next day, we sent maids to the Consul’s Palace and the Moon Guard barracks.
They burned every piece of our clothing, every unfinished bonding token, every trace of us left behind.
We cut them out completely.
Mia Bennett had begged to see new sights, so both men were gone. Our orders were carried out without trouble.
That night, we changed into plain clothes and went to the pack’s bonfire grounds.
Lights blazed, crowds laughed, and the air was warm.
We hoped to clear our heads under the moon, but we ran straight into the last people we wanted to see.
There was Mia Bennett, with Jason Cole and Derek Reed guarding her closely on either side.
“Princesses!”
Mia Bennett ran toward us, acting as if nothing had ever happened between us.
Then the crowd erupted into chaos.
Someone tossed a packet of pale green powder into the air.
A sharp scent filled the air—heat inducers, made specifically for omegas.
I shoved Maya away as hard as I could, but I couldn’t escape.
Mia Bennett breathed it in too.
Agony exploded in my stomach, and forced heat crashed over me.
My limbs went cold, my high‑tier omega pheromones spiraling out of control.