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Once both parties reject the other, there is no way to repair the bond. I felt the pain when I threw away my Goddess–given mate. Then Sarah had attacked
her, but I’d been, and am, too weak to protect her. I look at her picture. The board lists her as First Rank Alpha Class. She deserved better than me. My wolf spoke to me for the first time in a while“” She should have someone stronger than us, she was right to reject us.” Aries’s sadness is my own. “No, she didn’t
reject you. It was me she rejected.” I tell him, pain in my
voice.
“This was my fault. If we get a second chance. I’ll not make the same mistake. I feel Aries stir in me. ‘Will you listen to me now,” he asks softly. I should
have been listening to you all along. Hopefully, the goddess will give us a chance at redemption. And another mate I will swear to love and appreciate like I
should have Alora. I watch Alora as she descends, she looks ready for battle.
I’m filled with sadness for what I’ve thrown away, and longing for what could have been. “I hope the next one the Goddess chooses for her truly deserves her.” I look over at Sarah, the stupidest reason I had for rejecting the glorious she–wolf. And I see her glaring in a peonous fury at Alora. “I don’t like the
look on her face,” I say to Aries.
“She’s going to do something, something horrible to that girl.” was Aire’s response. “I don’t doubt that.” My stomach turns at the thought of having to go near Sarah. “The only thing we can do. Keep her attention on us and away from Alora,” he growls not liking the Idea. “I also think it’s time I talk to Darien. He was right all those years ago.” Sick to my stomach but resigned to my fate I looked up to Darien, he would be up next to fight Alora.
I see Darien using his phone to record the battle. The bell rings, bringing my attention back to the two opponents. She moved fast, a blur of speed and grace going in low only to snap up high in a spinning whip–like kick that had the wolf flying back body spinning, he landed face down before rolling to the edge.
Alora landed from her kick with both feet and spread her arms up in a fighter position. She waits for the other wolf to get back up, he runs in her direction and she’s off again with all that speed going at him then she jumps up high over him, and spinning, lands another whip–like kick on the back if his shoulders, sending the large male crashing down to the floor.
Alora landed next to the wolf and jumped back before resuming what I’m now tagging as her fighter stance. She waits. Her opponent doesn’t move. She’s declared the winner, she hadn’t even broken a sweat, she wasn’t breathing hard. She had moved from her fighter stance and was now standing proud, shoulders back, spine straight, head held high, her eyes still glittering like purple diamonds.
She’s an Alpha she wolf. Without having to be mated to an Alpha, she is an Alpha, and the full ramifications of what I gave away start to drown me. I never deserved her. Her next mate would have to be the Alpha of Alpha’s to deserve being blessed with her.
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Darien’s POV
After texting my brother I decided to record Alora’s battle so I could send it to him. I record her walk down into the Arena, and her climb to the platform. She removes her cardigan and skirt and takes a familiar fighter stance. One I’ve seen my brother and father take. There is a reason I’m one of the top two ranks of the Alpha class. But watching Alora move and take down the other wolf reinforces why Alora was ranked first. I didn’t start training with Alora till this year. I knew she was training in a separate dojo arena since the beginning of high school.
I knew my brother and father had done that to protect her from her sister. But I realized as I was training with her, it was also to help her hide her abilities. The less her family had to despise her, the fewer reasons they had to abuse her, and the more chances she had to improve herself to get her out of their reach. That’s why my brother and father have helped her as they have. And I was thinking it would be better to move her into the pack house sooner rather than later. Looking down at Sarah and the maniacal fury on her face makes me think tonight would be the night she needed to move.
I send my brother the video of her fight. Then I sent him a message about what I’d observed and my thoughts and gut instinct telling me we needed to move her into the pack house tonight. I got a text back that he had already thought the same thing and was waiting for our father to message him back. I knew my father was among the crowd.
There was no way he was going to miss this. He has watched all of our official fights. Damien’s, mine, and Alora’s. He thinks of Alora as the daughter he never had, mom loves her and wants to be able to shower her with it. But Mom knows what her family would do to her if they knew how much the Luna and Alpha of our pack cared about her.
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To me she was more than my best friend, she was my sister. But I was sure she meant so much more to my big brother, and not as a sister. I hoped the Goddess would bring those two together. If anyone would take care and love Alora the way she deserved, it was Damien, and at age 23 with no mate yet, I was starting to wonder if that wasn’t what the Goddess had planned in the first place.
Comments
Basmattie Reshma Nirmal
wow, that was nice, I too hope the new Alpha would be her mate. can’t weight for that to happen
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
