THE ALPHA'S SLAVE MATE

CIERRA

It’s going to be a full moon today, I’m going to spend the night with my lover, my mate, the man after my heart.

In a few minutes, he will be walking through my room door, and just the thought sends my heart fluttering. I can feel butterflies racing in my stomach, and I can’t help but blush. I count the stars as I sit up on the bed, trying to distract myself from the excitement rushing within me. However, the door swings open, and there he is—my mate.

Today I will share some good news with him. Just the thought of his reaction sends me another rush of excitement.

“Ashton” I mutter, getting to my feet, while I suppress the urge to run and hug him. Yes, he’s my lover, my mate, but he’s the Alpha ruler of the Blue Moon pack, the pack I grew up in, so I can’t act on my free will with him.

There are some boundaries between Ashton and me in our relationship. Boundaries that I dare not cross, like telling anyone about our relationship. He’s strongly opposed to it, and though something deep inside tells me there’s something off about the way he treats me, I’m still certain he loves me. It might not be as much as I do but he does have feelings for me or else he won’t have sex with me.

I admire him as he approaches me, his scandal wood scent filling my lungs and I can’t help but blush at the proximity between us. My heart pounds, my breath quickens, and every second feels stretched, heavy with anticipation. Is he going to kiss me? I want him to kiss me.

I shut my eyes waiting for his kiss, waiting for him to wrap his arm around my waist and pull me to him.

However, my anticipation shatters with my heart giving way as I listen to Ashton speak.

“I got engaged today” Ashton reveals and my smile drops.

I feel an intense whirlwind of emotions rush through me. My eyes widen, bile rises in my throat, and a profound sadness engulfs me as tears begin to form in my eyes.

It’s like the time has frozen while I’m trying to grasp the words Ashton just said to me. This cannot be true. I blink my eyes one, two, three times trying to stop the tears from flowing down as I stare at every object in my room aside from Ashton.

“We must end here today, Cierra”

His words drop on me like a brick.

“But we love each other” I manage to say, my voice coming out as a whisper as tears trickle uncontrollably down my cheeks.

Ashton hisses, throwing his gaze away in frustration.

“Please don’t reject me” I beg shamelessly, but this is the only thing I can do. I can’t live without Ashton, my life will be meaningless without him. I don’t have a family, Ashton is the only one I know, the only one who has ever shown me care. The only one that doesn’t discriminate against me for being an omega.

“Can you not be pathetic right now? This why I can never like you, you always act like the omega that you are, you cry when they correct you, you think you are bullied all because you are an omega” Ashton scolds and my legs are unable to keep me standing. I can’t believe what he’s saying right now.

“I thought you love me” I mutter, the knot in my throat tightening as I speak.

“No Cierra, I never did. You were just a good fuck, you’re an omega and a maid why would I want to spend the rest of my life with you?”.

Breathing has become hard. I fall to my knees gasping for air, unable to ask any more questions, unable to beg him. He never loved me, Aston, my mate never loved me, he sees me no differently than everyone else does.

“I don’t want you in my life and in this pack anymore, Cierra. And so I Ashton Johnson reject you Cierra Williams as my mate”

It all happens so fast, a sharp pain piercing through my heart, my head spinning to the point, I don’t recognize the guards carrying me out of my room. The room I spent passionate nights with Ashton.

Despite my cries of pain, I’m thrown out of the pack under the heavy rain with nothing but my bags.

I stay in front of the Royal Pack’s compound crying my heart out, not even the heavy rain can wash away the heavy pain weighing on my heart. I try to get to my feet. If this is what Aston wants I should give it to him, if truly I love him, I should let him be happy. Besides it’s not his fault.

It’s my fault for being an omega, it’s my fault for being nothing but a maid. It’s my fault for thinking such a high and mighty person could love me back.

I finally walk away. Heading in no direction. I’m lost in thoughts, lost in the memories of where I was with Ashton. However, I’m abruptly pulled out of my thoughts at the sound of an aggressive voice.

“We have a trespasser, it’s a lady, catch her!!”

I feel a rush of adrenaline as I realize, I’ve passed the woods of the Blue Moon Pack. I need to run, I need to hide, being a trespasser can give me a death sentence in a land I know nothing about, I need to run, I can’t be killed.

I sprint. It’s dark and I can barely see but I don’t stop running until I reach a cliff, my heart is in my throat as I hear the aggressive voice again.

“Stop or we are going to shoot”

This is not how I planned the night to be, I’m supposed to be spending the night with Ashton, I’m supposed to have told him about our unborn baby, and I’m supposed to be celebrating with him. But here I am, at the edge of death, with a baby inside me, his child.

I only have two choices, die here, or die in an unknown pack.