Sophia's POV

I hated morning duties more than anything in the world. The dishes were usually so many and most of the omegas in the pack woke up late, leaving everything for me to handle.

Not like I usually complain. But I had slept so late at night because I was hyperactive about getting my wolf today, which was my eighteenth birthday. To my disappointment, when the time struck twelve, I couldn't feel my wolf. Up till now, she hasn't come.

Sadness threatened to overcome me. But I was an optimistic person. After everything I had been through in the pack, a lot of people expected me to give up or run away but that wasn't happening.

I won't give them the satisfaction of seeing me crumble. They have seen me crumble once. But never again. I take all their beatings and bullying without a sound of grief.

I was used to it already or so I thought. A thick wall had been built where I stored all my emotions. Now, I look like a robot without any form of emotion.

In my thoughts, a smell wafted into my nose. It was the most intoxicating smell I had ever come across. I stopped and tried to get where the smell was coming from. Following my nose, I found out it was coming from the Alpha's son's room.

Did he get a new cologne? My feet moved on their accord and I soon found myself at his door. I wanted more. My mouth watered from the smell. I couldn't get enough of it even when I knew I was crossing into enemy territory by placing my hands on the doorknob.

Just a whiff and I would be out of there. I entered his room and the smell was stronger on his bed. Looking at the door to be sure no one would walk in on me being a creep, I walked to the bed and inhaled all of it.

But no matter how I tried, I wanted more. I wanted to soak myself in the scent. Like the wind had picked up in his room, the smell was stronger. I followed my nose and my eyes came in contact with him standing by the door - the Alpha's son.

"Mate," he growled, his eyes turning dark. My World seemed to have stopped by his words. Did I hear correctly? That explains why his room smelt so great. But that wasn't right. I don't have a wolf yet. Why have I found my mate and it was the Alpha's son?

"The moon Goddess must be playing a sick joke on me," he scoffed and I watched as his eyes flicked from his beautiful baby blue to black which meant he was in a fight with his wolf. He entered the room.

"This is great news. Right?" I asked him as I stood transfixed on the spot, my lips trembling from too much emotion; fear, excitement, uncertainty and hope.

"Great news? You think I'll accept someone as useless as you? You are nothing. And being my mate doesn't change that. Now leave," he said and my heart began to break. I could feel the mate bond pulling me to him.

"Why are you sending me away? Just because I was wrongly accused doesn't make me useless." I whispered and my tears began to leak from my eyes. I couldn't stop them. The pain of seeing my mate sending me away like I meant nothing made my heart hurt in ways I could not explain.

"Why? You dare ask me why? It's because you fucking killed him," He snarled, the veins in his head prominent.

"I'll say this again even if no one believes me. I didn't kill him. Why won't anyone ever believe me?"

"You really want to know why? It's because you are a bloody liar. Yes, that's what you are. This pack doesn't need a weak, lying Luna like you. I would be damned to take you as my Luna. You are better off dead," he spat and clenched his fists.

My heart clenched from his words. I took a step to him and he took two back like I was some kind of plague. I didn't have a wolf so why did this hurt so much? Maybe he was right that I was better off dead.

"No. I'm not a liar. I'm telling the truth," I said more to myself but he heard it and sneered down at me.

"Delusional simp. You don't even have a wolf. A disgrace to all werewolves. I am rejecting you right away even if it hurts my wolf. He will come back to it. We can live without you."

"You'll be breaking the sacred bond between the moon Goddess and us. Do you want to offend the moon Goddess?" I shook my head as more tears fled my eyes from the heart wrenching pain but he smirked at me.

I had always had a little crush on the Alpha's son for so long. I knew we couldn't be together. But that moment he said I was his mate, I saw a life of us together. One I had often envisioned. And the next moment, they all came crashing down.

He walked closer to me and the hate I saw in his eyes made me take a step back. It was intense like he wanted to smolder me with his eyes. He hated me. I had always known that because I was wrongly accused of killing his best friend, Rudolph. I didn't kill him.

No matter how much I pleaded with everyone, they never believed me. Because of that, I was demoted to the lowest rank in the pack, lower than an Omega. And was also a subject of constant abuse and pain.

"Whether I offend the moon Goddess or not is not your business! You are worthless and you have to accept it. I, Alexander Batrez of Crystal-River pack, reject you, Sophia Alenza my mate and future Luna," he spat and I doubled over because of the sudden pain that took my body.

"No, you can't do this. A mate is one blessed by the moon Goddess. And the moon Goddess is always right," I managed to say through sobs and the pain that made me wish for death.

"But this time, she's wrong," he said.

I am supposed to die with my parents. This life isn't something I wanted even for my enemy. It felt like my skin was being pulled apart by different people at a time and my bones were breaking.

A scream tore through my lips and sweat coated my forehead, sticking my hair to my head. I was on the floor at that moment. I could no longer stand on my feet. I felt the bond weaken slowly and painfully.

"When you are done with your act, leave this room and send someone to fumigate it. I don't want whatever disease you have to get in here," Alexander spat.

I knew he could feel the pain just like me because of the tone of his voice - it was strained. But my pain was worse since he was the one who initiated the rejection.

Soon, the pain lessened and I was able to stand on my feet again. I cleaned my eyes and my snut with my dress and turned to leave when I saw the doorknob turn.

"What are you doing here?" Dianne sneered at me when she entered the room. She placed her hands on her rounded hips.

"Nothing. I was about leaving," I muttered and intended to walk to the door but she blocked my way. She always meant trouble.

"Liar, like always. If you think you can sink your claws into Alexander as you did with my mother, it's not going to work."

"You don't have to worry about anything. Alexander rejected me as his fated mate already," I said with the little energy I had in me.

I saw surprise and happiness flash through her eyes before it was expertly masked. She was the Beta's daughter and her mother was the only person who has taken a liking to me in the entire pack.

And Dianne has not been happy about that. She believes I stole all the love from her mother when in fact, her mother loves her so much. She crossed her hands around her chest, pushing her bosom up.

"What were you thinking? That you'll be our future Luna? Alexander didn't back away from his words of making me his chosen mate and Luna afterall. Obviously, you can't compare to me in any way," She said and I clenched my fists. She was doing this deliberately to get on my nerves.

I smiled bitterly through my pains. "I wasn't thinking about anything. I was just about to leave," I said bitterly as I made to move.

"You must be so bitter about me being your future Luna you can't even offer a congratulatory statement," She said and I stopped, anger and shame coursing through my veins.

"Congratulations soon-to-be Luna of Crystal-River pack," I said while I tried to rein in my pain.

"Thanks. Better than you would have ever been," She smiled and held my gaze mockingly and I resisted the urge to tell her off.