Chapter 3 Chapter 3
Marcus’s POV
"Marcus? Did... did I do something wrong?" Lila was sobbing, and as she lay feebly in my arms, her tear-filled, innocent looking doe eyes gazed up at me.
“No, my love, you did not do anything wrong! This is that fucking woman’s!”
I gave Sophia a cold glare. Now it made sense.
I had observed her hand when she gave that glass of wine back to Lila and I was so mad at myself for not expecting this woman to do something like this. jealous woman like this.
“Guards! Detain the Luna and bring her down to the dungeon!”
“What? Marcus… you must be joking?!” You can’t do this to me!”
“Shut the fuck up Sophia! Guards! If she proves difficult, restrain her.”
Sophia was screaming to no avail Gently, as gentle as I had been all day, I lifted Lila from the floor and I held her close as we made our way from the banquet hall.
“Sophia wasn’t our mate and that never was going to end well!” My wolf hissed angrily at me, her panic about our mate’s condition palpable even in my mind.
“Darius, please. I would never have guessed that Sophia was capable of this. I’d never seen anything except her kindness and compassion.”
Sophia and I crossed paths in high school. She was the sole heir to the Darkridge pack Pack, and an Alpha no less. I’d always felt that, as the Alpha of the Shadowmoon Pack, I’d always felt that we were just perfect for each other.
It made sense for us to pursue a relationship, even if it turned out that she was not my fated mate, I still thought that together, we would provide strong leadership for our packs. I had no intention of changing my mind.
All this time my wolf, Darius, had been trying to warn me that something like this would happen, but every time she looked at me with chocolate colored eyes, I saw nothing but deep love and affection radiating there.
She was a caring and attentive wife and an excellent Luna.
Sophia had always ensured that everyone knew how much she loved me and she had done more for our pack than anyone in anything that she had ever done.
Once our pack combined, I was going to be the strongest Alpha in our kingdom. As that unusual pair of Chosen Mates, their love story had been breath of gossips on everyone’s lip.
We’d become the legendary couple
to which everyone idolized, and no one ever seem to say bad things about me, in their eyes I was perfect gentleman.
Sophia and I needed to consummate the illusion and play out our roles as we always had and everything would be fine but now, I'd learned, she had another side to her that I didn't know .
"I'm sorry Lila, my love. I should have talked to her earlier about it, and maybe it wouldn't have been such a shock to her.
If I had just given her a little time to get used to it, maybe you wouldn’t have gotten hurt."
I carefully laid Lila on the bed and summoned the doctor to aid her. My unfortunate Mate had been barely escaped from the destruction of her pack when now she was confronted with an additional nightmare.
“It’s all right, Marcus. Don’t be so hard on yourself, I don’t blame you one bit. None of us saw that coming from Sophia, not even remotely, and that’s especially because she is Luna.”
"Oh yes, such a Luna behaving like this," I spat in disgust, "If she can behave like this in front of me then what else is she capable of behind my back?"
After I had left the doctor with instructions to look after Lila, I called Brock back into the banquet hall. The guards had Sophia
pinned to the ground and restrained on all sides.
I made my way through the crowd that had gathered around her to watch.
"Sophia, I had always thought that you were a kind woman, I didn't expect you to use such an underhanded and despicable method to try and get rid of my fated mate!"
"It's funny, because I also naively thought that my husband Marcus Blackthorn, was also a good husband!"
I clenched my teeth and looked at the prideful woman in front of me.
I grabbed her chin as I moved forward quickly, pinching tightly, and made her meet my eyes.
“If you are able to acknowledge that you were wrong, Sophia, and allow Lila’s presence here as my mate, then I will overlook this…troublesome business and you may keep your title as Luna.”
The woman in front of me suddenly smiled and her eyes started to turn to bright purple, indicating she was going to turn to her wolf Luna’s power.
I took a quick step back from her and then without any kind of announcement the guards that had held her down were flung off from her with so much force that tables and chairs flew as their bodies collided with them.
What was supposed to have been a perfect anniversary feast is now just a disaster.
“Sophia! Are you out of your mind?! You really
assaulted your own guards!”
“Yeah, I’m fucking crazy,” she growled.
Sophia looked at me, her purple eyes dangerous and wild smile on her pretty face.
The costly cocktail dress that she had worn for the dinner was ripped in a few places, revealing her white skin where there was nothing but her beautiful pale skin in front of me.
As much as I hated to say it, that’s what this version of Sophia was, the one who stood before me and was beautiful in her rage was a fantastic sight.
She turned around to face the pack member assembled for the banquet and spoke loudly in a confident voice that carried the full length of the room.
"I, Sophia Evergreen of the Darkridge Pack, hereby officially reject Marcus Blackthorn of the Shadowmoon of Pack, and from this moment forth, I am no longer your Luna."
"What the fuck are you talking about?!" I yelled in panic as I rushed over to grab hold of her arm roughly, and spun her to face me.
"Don't you get it?" She sneered, "This is the end of us."
"You actually had the nerve to reject me?!"
I hadn't even punished her and this asshole woman had decided to reject me before anything was decided.
Fuck IT!!!!
"You'll regret this in the future Sophia! I am Marcus Blackthorn of the Shadowmoon Pack, hereby accept your refusal! You will now be arrested for murder! Guards! Take this asshole to the dungeon!"