Chapter 5 Rejected

• Chapter Five – Rejected.
• Rihanna’s POV
• Prince Chris was my mate. As I had always dreamed. He was my mate. Lana stopped jumping when she saw his confused look become a bit sad.
• Didn’t he want us? How could he be sad to see us? Lana slumped back inside as I walked towards Prince Chris.
• “We are mates?” it wasn’t a question. It was clear we were. I may have a bad sight but not a bad sense of smell.
• I studied his expression. No, this wasn’t the look of a man who just found their mate. It looked hurt but offended. I looked offended as well.
• “You’re not happy we are mates, why?” I asked him. He didn’t look up in my eyes.
• Someone cleared their throat behind and I looked to see the Alpha King towering over me. He was dressed as well, only with black suit.
• The Alpha King looked at us incredulously and I understood he heard me of speaking of mates.
• The Luna Queen walked out, her blonde hair was in a high pony, making her look taller. She looked over us.
• She stared at Prince Chris in the eyes and spoke with him through mind link. I wondered what she said but then she abruptly walked out. Prince Chris sighed.
• “You can’t be my son’s mate! What kind of pair is that?” the Alpha King asked the moon goddess the last part.
• “And why!” I barked. I dared yell at him.
• The Alpha King growled lowly and dragged my hand, “You are a weak wolf! A stupid weak wolf.” Prince Chris pulled his hand from me.
• The Alpha King glared at him and I looked at Prince Chris confused, was he protecting me? Did it mean he was accepting me?
• “If not you’re my Beta’s daughter, I’d have thrown you away long ago! You’re a curse to my kingdom.” the Alpha King scowled. Prince Chris's hands fell off me, I felt cold immediately.
• The Alpha King shoved past his son and walked towards the birthday hall. Prince Chris and I stood there in silence. And it was eating me up.
• “I am not weak, Prince Chris. Train me and I’d be really strong. My wolf is a…” he placed his hands on my mouth.
• Wait, he should hear me out. I had a silver wolf, I was useful to the pack. I wasn’t weak. Lana became jittery and paced around me.
• “He is going to reject us. We’d be rejected by our mate. I knew it. That’s what saddened my heart earlier today. I knew it.”
• I still kept quiet. Prince Chris and I always connected. He couldn’t…
• “I’d reject you, Rih.” he broke my heart, “Maybe you’d find someone else that’d love you but I have to reject you. I’m an Alpha King.”
• My breathing became uneven. The Alpha King’s words echoed in my head. I was weak. I was stupid. Even my mate doesn’t want me.
• And why! No one wants to tell me why I am hated. For destroying Vanessa’s cake as a nine year old? Then I’m sorry. Why would I be labelled with such hate!
• “But you like me.” a lump was in my throat, I telepathically shared my pain with my twin so I'd be able to speak clearly, “And I like you too.”
• His eyes sank, he looked away from me, “Well, that’s how mate pull works, isn’t?” he let out a painful chuckle, “It makes you think you’re in love.”
• His words. I couldn’t believe them. Did he just deem the mate pull insignificant? Lana roared in me and I was scared of her reaction.
• “Let him reject us already. He’s right, we were only interested in him due to the mate pull. He isn’t worth us.” her voice died to a whimper.
• She didn’t believe what she was saying, I didn’t know what to believe now.
• Prince Chris exhaled just as Raymond found us in front of the Alpha King’s mansion. With him came my parents, the guests and the pack members. Will I be rejected in front of them? On a day that was supposed to be special to me?
• “Chris! Reject her already!” I heard the Luna Queen’s voice.
• The people gasped and began whispering. Raymond came closer but the Luna Queen growled at him to stop. Prince Chris exhaled again.
• Lana frowned, “Why’s he wasting time?”
• I yelled back at her, “Do you really want to be rejected!”
• “I don’t want to be ridiculed, Rihanna. I am a silver wolf. A goddamn silver wolf. Don’t you see they don’t know. If they know, they’d make you stay but enslave you, do you want that?”
• Realization hit me. My pack had forgotten I was a silver wolf or else they wouldn’t reject me. I wiped off my streaming tears.
• “I was only nice to you because I pitied you, Rih. I, Prince Chris Wayne, reject you, Rihanna Sam, as my mate. I’m sorry, may the moon goddess help you.”
• The whispers increased and I saw Princess Vanessa’s head from a window. She had a smirk on. Some pack members had smirks on too.
• They all celebrated my pain. Lana sighed. I don’t know where she got strength from but I felt strength coming in me too. Some guests looked sorry, and my father bowed his head.
• “Fine!” I blurted.
• Prince Chris had been avoiding my gaze but when I spoke, his head snapped to my direction, “What?”
• I looked at Raymond whose eyes were already red. “I said fine.” I repeated, looking back at Prince Chris.
• “And I, Rihanna Sams, accept your rejection, Future Alpha King Chris Wayne.” I had a pronounced mocking tone on “Alpha King”.
• The Luna Queen growled and came forward, “That’s bold of you. So there’s some strength in you, after all.”
• I shook my head. Strength she never knew I had. I looked back at Raymond at my parents. My mom, she had an indifferent expression.
• “I’m leaving.” I said to Raymond through our mind link and turned around, walking out on all of them.
• My red dress restrained me, so I tore it out, dropping the piece on the ground. I felt hurt ripping my grandmother’s wedding dress.
• But while it held memories for her, it held sorrows for me. I hate my pack. Damn them! Damn all of them! I had my wolf to protect me.
• Raymond followed behind me. When I heard my dad coming, I snapped back and growled at him. “Don't follow me, Beta.” I had the same mock emphasis, it shocked him. He was the weak wolf.
• His daughter had to face humiliation, face rejection when she was a Beta’s daughter. He didn’t deserve to be my dad. Some better man must have produced me.
• When I got to the house, Raymond helped me do whatever I wanted. Remove my makeup. Trash the house in anger.
• Destroy all my paintings of Prince Chris, mom and dad and finally pack my things.
• He was hesitant, “You are leaving?” it wasn’t much of a question. He knew I would. “You’d be killed, Prince Chris would have to hunt you.”
• Lana seethed and collapsed in me, her last wall of courage failing. He was no longer our mate. Why did he still affect her?
• I sniffed, “Well, then I’d do what rogues do. Fight. But I wouldn’t be like other rogues with no purpose. I’d have a pack. A pack for real.”
• I stared at Raymond's brown eyes as it reflected mine. I was determined and he needed to see that. His twin would be okay.
• I folded the last painting, one of Raymond and threw it into my bag. Strapping behind me, I bounced out of the house.
• “Where we’d I find you? Won’t you like to see my own mate?” Raymond blocked me, his tears free falling. He was the last thing I had here but shouldn’t stop me from leaving.
• “She’d be a good girl. If not, reject her cos even gems can be rejected.” I shoved him aside and continued my way.
• My tears fell from my eyes. I didn’t want to turn back or I could stay.
• “Change your name.” I heard him say. I peeked back, “Change your name. I’d fake your death so no one would come after you.”
• I was surprised at his words. Fake death? Would they believe it after I'd been headstrong? How’d I have my revenge if they think I’m dead?
• “Even better. They won’t know what hit them.” Lana replied slyly. Her voice stronger.
• I nodded to Raymond without facing him, “I will. Thank you. Bye. Protect our weak parents.” I saluted and continued on my way.
• “We are free.”
• “We are free.” I repeated after Lana.
• “We are rogues.” she added. I paused.
• “And that’s not as bad as it sounds.’
• I felt a surge of energy blew through me as I crouched in my knees. Strapping my bag on my shoulders, I tried to shift.
• I hadn’t shifted for almost five years. It was stressful and long and very painful but soon silvery fur covered my arms and legs
• A boundary formed in front of me, one I knew only I could see.
• I suppressed the howl trying to escape my lips. That would attract attention. I couldn’t adore my silver wolf as I couldn’t see myself.
• But I felt powerful with my sharp claws and silvery fur. I was enchanting, I knew it. Lana stressed her paws and made small jumps.
• “You ready, Silver.”
• “I’m Your Silver. Tell me when you’re ready.” my wolf responded energetically. ‘Your Silver'. I repeated it to myself. I liked it.
• “Yes, we are ‘Your Silver'. The only thing strong enough to cause a wolf pain, even Alpha Kings. Lana bounced impatiently and I told her to run.
• She sped like a bolt past the tress that I felt I saw them move. She maintained the speed, breaking stones and twigs under her feet.
• We looked back at the hills we always visited. It was far behind us, as did our pack.
• Today I was a rogue. And not just any rogue. A Silver Wolf rogue.
• The people who hurt me had seen nothing yet, nothing. They rejected a silver wolf but she’d be back.