REJECTED BY THE MOON Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1.
MY REJECTION.
The atmosphere was cold and chilly. It was the winter season, and as usual, the soft breeze and melodious songs of birds could be heard.
I sat in my room in absolute dejection.
Today, was the day. The day when my destiny will be marked, and my future, rewritten.
Few minutes from now, I shall be standing before the pack elders and the entire pack to mark my bound with Alpha Shane Gledova.
It came with a mixed feeling with of uncertainty, and many 'what if...?'.
"Rory, are you ready?" The voice of my best friend, Becky, brought me back to reality.
Without being told, I knew that she could see the look of dejection on my face.
"Do you think Shane will accept me?" I asked with a distressed voice, and Becky, immediately blew a soft kiss towards my direction, as she walked to my side.
Softly, she caressed my right hand, as she looked into my eyes in the most reassuring way possible.
"Rory, you're the most beautiful Luna I know..." She began with a smile. "I'm very sure that Shane, can't wait to have you as his bride. Now, dress up... The ceremony will soon begin." She reminded me, and I nodded.
Immediately, I stood up from my bed, and walked towards my wardrobe to get my attire for the day. Each step I took towards that angle sent shivers down my spine.
In my community, rejection was a curse, and the only way you could run away from the trauma was death. I've heard stories about Luna's who were stoned to death cause they were rejected by their mates.
To make matters worse, my cousin, Jada, recently ended her life, after she was rejected on her birthday.
This and many more stories kept giving me reasons to doubt my chances at being accepted.
"Hurry up, girl... The pack elders shall soon be arriving." Becky's reminded me, and I nodded.
Slowly, I opened my wardrobe, and picked my ceremonial dress. This dress was special to me because it was worn by my mother on her own marking day.
Unfortunately for me, she wasn't alive to witness my day. The dress had a white color with burgundy lining. It was also embedded with both silver and white ocean pearls.
Swiftly, I sat on my dressing table, as Becky, helped me to dress up. Afterwards, I applied a nude makeup on my face, before wearing my marital veil.
"You look like a goddess." Becky praised me with a big smile. "I swear to the moon, Shane, will kill to have you."
I sat there with a pale look. Nothing even seemed to move me anymore. Even though I had waited my entire life for this moment, I was still scared for my future.
As we stepped out, I held unto Becky's left hand, like a newborn child.
"Becky, do you think I will survive if he rejectes me?" I asked with a shaky voice.
"Look at him..." She pointed towards the crowd. "Can you see how he looks at you with so much adoration? Well, he'll not reject you." She responded with a smile, and I nodded.
The venue was already filled to the brim with both spectators and gossipers. Some were present to enjoy the moment, while the others were here to find what to gossip about.
"She looks beautiful." I heard one of them mumble to the other, and I smiled to myself. It was the confidence booster I just needed.
Suddenly, I raised my eyes towards the direction of my mate to look at him one more time, and I was mesmerized by his heavenly beauty. He was tall, had broad shoulders, ocean green eyes, raised jaw bone, and a super model figure.
At that instant, I felt mesmerized by the beauty of this man.
Soon, my eyes crossed path with his, and somehow shifted in my body. I felt confident that he was the one for me.
"I agree. I'm ready to take him as my mate... I'm ready...!" I mumbled with a silent smile.
At that instant, I could feel my energy being refuelled.
"Rory, listen to me..." She began with a firm voice. "Never lose your voice. Always follow your heart and know that you're your own biggest cheerleader. I love you, sis." Her words marked my spirit.
'Never lose your voice!' 'Never lose your voice!' 'Never lose your voice!'
Those words kept ringing through my mind.
In a world where our lives were always at risk, I was never going to lose my voice.
In no time, the ceremony had already began in earnest. I kept staring at Shane, as I admired his looks.
Soon, the pack elders, priests and priestesses, knelt down around us in a circular manner, as they binded us in a circle with a white chalk. Next, they began to recite words of incantations, and speak in strange languages like they were hypnotized.
"We'll know why we're here." The voice of our oldest female alpha spoke up. "We're here to witness the holy matrimony of Aurora Devine Wood and Shane Gledova."
Each word that came out of her mouth, was accompanied by dead silence.
"As the unite today in holy matrimony, may the moon goddess bless and approve of their union, and give victory to our pack." She prayed.
As she spoke, my heart froze in silence. I knew what was going to come next.
The cold breeze of the winter couldn't even save me, as I felt very hot. As I walked forward to face Shane, my heart skipped for some seconds.
"It is time, my heartfelt Luna." His thick, yet manly baritone voice melted my heart.
This handsome alpha, was the only one who has ever made my heart to flutter.
"Yes, it is time..." I responded with a huge sigh of relief.
At that instant, we both held each other's hands, as a symbol of our union. Deep down inside my mind, I was praying for peace to reign.
Soon, it was the moment of truth.
It was time for the exchange of vows.
I had been rehearsing my lines for the past two months, but even at that, my brain still went blank.
"From today henceforth, I stand before our pack to declare myself your protector and strength, till the day I answer the call of death." Immediately, I felt a powerful sensation run down from my head, down to my spine.
There was silence. Everyone was waiting for me to speak.
"I, Aurora Devine Wood, take you..."
"Shut up!" Shane's voice suddenly interrupted me, and I froze.
"Is everything, okay?" I asked with a scared voice.
There was a sudden shift in the atmosphere, as the audible murmurs of the guests could be heard.
"You can't be my mate, Rory... You can't!" He blurted with a thick voice. "I can't be a mate to an incomplete wolf." He went further, and I froze.
Each of his words were really scary to me.
"Why? What did I do wrong?" Streams of tears ran down my cheeks, as I asked him.
"I, Shane Gledova Chalk, rejects you, Aurora Devine Wood, as my mate!" He announced, and I passed out in shock.
My name is Aurora Devine Wood. Follow me, as I tell my story.
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REJECTED BY THE MOON of Contents
Chapter 1 Ch. 1Chapter 2 Ch. 2Chapter 3 Ch. 3Chapter 4 Ch. 4Chapter 5 Ch. 5Chapter 6 Ch. 6
Chapter 7 Ch. 7
Chapter 8 Ch. 8
Chapter 9 Ch. 9
Chapter 10 Ch. 10
Chapter 11 Ch. 11
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8.1
Evelyn's betrayal of her own sister ends up revealing a shocking truth.
Evelyn is pregnant with David's child-David, who is Steffy's husband, and Steffy is Evelyn's older sister. Confident that she will become the heir to the Willson family fortune, Evelyn secretly conducts a DNA test on Steffy and Hendri Willson.
But is the result of that DNA test truly valid? And what truth will ultimately come to light-one so shocking that it leaves everyone stunned?
8.4
To keep her grandmother on life support, Aracely was blackmailed into taking Evelyn's place in the pitch-black bedroom of the ruthless billionaire, Brennen Levine.
After that night, Evelyn tossed a hideous silicone scar at her feet, forcing Aracely to glue it to her face and work as a bottom-tier maid in his estate so he would never recognize her.
Brennen, suffering from chronic insomnia, was completely addicted to the sweet gardenia scent of the woman from the dark. But when he saw the "disfigured" Aracely scrubbing floors, he was physically repulsed, publicly humiliating her and calling her a monster.
Meanwhile, Evelyn paraded around as his soon-to-be wife. Terrified of her lies unraveling, Evelyn constantly abused Aracely, throwing scalding coffee at her face and threatening to pull the plug on her grandmother if Aracely didn't sneak back into Brennen's room to act as his human sleeping pill.
Aracely endured the suffocating fake scar, the insults, and the freezing servant quarters. She ground her teeth, swallowing the bitter injustice just to keep her only family alive, wondering when this torturous hell would ever end.
But Evelyn's malice knew no bounds. When Evelyn raised her hand to strike again, threatening to rip off the very disguise she forced Aracely to wear, something inside Aracely finally snapped.
"Do not push me."
Aracely locked her hand around Evelyn's wrist in a bone-crushing grip, completely unaware that Brennen was watching from the balcony above, his dark eyes narrowing as a dangerous realization hit him.
7.7
Nora's life turned into a nightmare after she was banished from her pack by her own husband. She was subjected to mockery, abuse and humiliation before being cast out with nothing.
Faced with the cruelty of a world that had never once been kind to her, the moon goddess decided to bless her with her fated mate.
The same man she watched slaughter others without a single trace of mercy. The man who was twice as cold and twice as ruthless as the husband who destroyed her.
Yet he would not let her go. She found herself stuck between the husband who used her and the ruthless mate who wanted her but refused to admit it. Two powerful men. One woman who was never supposed to survive any of it. And a moon goddess who was not done with her yet.
8.6
"What do you think people would say if they found out you don't have a dick?" Christian asked, his voice low and dripping with seduction. His hand pressed firmly against my crotch, fingers exploring the flat, unfamiliar emptiness there. A devilish smirk curved his lips. "Or if they discovered these voluptuous breasts you've been hiding so well?"
A strangled moan slipped from my throat as his hand slid under my shirt, his fingers brushing over my hardened nipples, teasing them with slow, deliberate strokes.
"Which do you think they'd call you?" he murmured, eyes gleaming. "A boy with tits... or a dickless little fraud?"
I stared into his hungry blue eyes, words failing me.
"The term you're looking for is 'girl,'" came Xavier's smooth voice from the bathroom doorway. He stepped inside, closing the door behind him with a soft click, his gaze raking over me with open interest. "So tell me, little girl... what the hell is someone like you doing in an all-boys dorm?"
Christian's smirk widened. "She wants to be devoured by boys like us." His fingers gave my nipple one last firm pinch before he leaned in closer, breath hot against my ear. "And I'll be more than happy to give her a taste."
9.0
Adaline Poole thought she had escaped her family's toxic corporate grip by moving to London and adopting a stray cat named Monty.
But when she returns to her empty apartment, her father delivers a chilling ultimatum: he has kidnapped the cat and will euthanize it by morning unless she accepts an arranged marriage with Barron Cooke, a notoriously elusive billionaire.
Her entire family becomes complicit in her sale. Her mother demands she secure their elite status, and her brother secretly spies on her social media to feed Barron her every move. Horrified to discover Barron is a thirty-three-year-old "fossil" twelve years her senior, Adaline resorts to sabotage. She goes to a Soho club, takes a scandalous photo with a frat boy, and sends it to the old billionaire to disgust him into canceling their upcoming dinner.
But her rebellion backfires horribly when the frat boy spikes her drink with a powerful narcotic. As her body burns with a terrifying, feverish heat, she collapses in a dark corridor. Stripped of her phone and betrayed by her bloodline, she is left utterly defenseless as a predator approaches to drag her away.
Suddenly, the heavy fire door is kicked open by a towering, terrifyingly handsome stranger who effortlessly neutralizes her attacker.
"Please... help me," Adaline begs, deliriously throwing her burning body into his arms.
She has absolutely no idea that the handsome savior she is clinging to is Barron Cooke himself.
7.2
I am a resident surgeon, secretly married to Dr. Barrett Walters, the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery. It was a transactional marriage; he paid my mother's mounting medical bills, and I was his secret, obedient wife in the dark.
But at the hospital, he was a cold-blooded tyrant who deliberately made my life a living hell. During a major medical conference, he viciously tore apart my successful surgical repair, looking me dead in the eye as he called me incompetent in front of all my colleagues.
The humiliation didn't stop there. With his tacit approval, the senior residents bullied me, assigning me every brutal night shift. When his beautiful, wealthy heiress "girlfriend" visited the ward, he publicly mocked my background to make her smile.
"Some people get in through the back door. They're not fit for the front lines."
Even when I was forced to work as a secret banquet waitress to cover the medical copays he ignored, he found me, ruined the job out of pure possessive jealousy, and then fined my meager resident salary the very next morning just to show his absolute control.
I endured his punishing kisses and cruel rebukes, sacrificing my dignity just to keep my mother alive. But I couldn't understand why he had to destroy every shred of my peace. If he wanted the perfect heiress, why did he refuse to let me go?
Staring at his cold, controlling eyes in the stairwell, my exhaustion finally overpowered my fear. I was done being his victim, and it was time to tear up this contract.
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