The Twins' mate

Prologue

The petite redhead girl looks on as her mother and father show her sister off to all their friends. She feels left out and not part of the family. Her pretty blond twin sister is getting all the attention. She sometimes wishes she was also as beautiful as her sister. Her little freckled face looks sad. The Alpha of their pack and his wife, and the rest of the pack are. It is her sister's and her birthday today. They are five today, and her parents bought each a doll. Of course, her sister got the pretty one with the car and accessories, while she got a baby doll with no accessories. Sebrina holds her baby doll and looks at it. It is nothing special, but she treasures it as it is not every day that her parents buy her something. Leona, her sister, walks over to her and starts crying. She wants the baby doll and wants to play with it. Sebrina refuses to give it to her, and her mother walks over, takes the doll from her hands, and gives it to Leona.

"Sebrina, you have to learn to share," Mavis Dawson says. Sebrina looks on as her sister rips her doll's head and throws it down to the ground.

"It is an ugly doll. I don't want to play with it anymore," Leona says. She smiles evilly at her sister, who looks even sadder, and that goes to pick up the broken doll. Sebrina goes upstairs to her dark little room and puts the broken doll with the rest of her broken toys in the box under her bed. She knows her parents and sister will not miss her, and she does not care anymore.

Sebrina thinks of all the times her sister has hurt her as she waits for Josh, the Alpha's son. He told her to wait for him after school. She knows he is her mate and that of her sister. At last, Josh shows up with Leona and walks over to Sebrina's seat. Sebrina gets up to face Josh. Her sister was always everything, and she was nothing in anyone else's eyes. Sebrina was the ugly duckling, and Leona was the swan. Sebrina looks at Josh as he stands in front of her. She knows what he is going to say. She knows he will reject her for her more beautiful blond twin sister. She and Leona can not be more different, and everyone can not believe they are twins. Her parents always loved Leona more than her as she had red hair and green eyes and freckles, while Leona was the pretty one with blond hair, blue eyes and the perfect skin.

Sebrina has learned not to ask her parents for love and attention from a young age as all their love and attention went to the cute child. They ignored her like she did not exist. It made Sebrina push people away from her, and that is why she is standing here in front of Josh, her mate waiting for him to reject her. Sebrina being the rebel she is, smiles as she waits for Josh's words. It is not uncommon for twins to have the same mate. It happened before. The twins turned eighteen last week, and they realised that Josh was their mate. Usually, the choice is up to the mate. Sebrina already knows what he is going to say to her. He is going to reject her in front of everyone in school.

"I, Josh Norton, future alpha of the Red Wood Pack, reject you, Sebrina Dawson, as my mate," Josh says. Everything inside Sebrina feels like it is dying a slow death, her wolf is whimpering, but she quiets her down.

"I, Sebrina Dawson, accept your rejection, future alpha of the Red Wood Pack. I hope you and Leona will be happy," Sebrina says with a sarcastic smile on her face. She knows her sister, and she knows she is spoiled rotten.

"You are just going to accept it like that?" Leona asks from the side. Sebrina knows her sister wants a fight, but she will not give her the satisfaction. Sebrina looks at Leona and smiles.

"Best of luck to the two of you," Sebrina says. Their father is the beta to Josh's father, and Sebrina knows her life is not worth a dime after today. Leona will want her dead to make sure Josh stays hers forever and that he does not change his mind in the future. Sebrina has already packed her stuff and is waiting for nightfall to leave the pack. Josh looks at Sebrina, and he feels a bit sad. His wolf is not happy, and he can feel it. Is he making the right choice? He looks at the beautiful Leona and smiles. Yes, he is! How can he even think twice? Look at Sebrina. She is not half as beautiful as Leona.

Sebrina is hurting, and she has no one that will understand, not a mother or a father. Her parents are on cloud nine when Leona tells them that Josh picked her over Sebrina and that she will become Luna of the Red Wood Pack soon. Sebrina walks up to her room. She is not hungry as she hears her mother and Leona plan her dress for the Luna ceremony. She does not care as she will not be there. She is heartbroken, and her wolf feels sick. She never shifted in front of anyone as she felt ashamed. Her sister has this beautiful white wolf, and her wolf is red and much bigger than her sister's cute wolf. Tonight she will be gone, and nobody will miss her. She knows her parents and sister won't, and she does not have any friends in the pack as everyone was too afraid to make Leona angry.

Sebrina does not even bother to leave a note. She will just slip away into the city nearby and disappear forever. Then, she will never have to see this pack again, and she will see what the future brings her. She knows her parents will not care as they will be so busy with the new Alpha and Luna ceremonies that they will forget about her. Hopefully, her sister will not notice that she is gone. However, Sebrina knows that her sister will be furious when she finds out she is gone, and she does not have a chance to illuminate her biggest fear. So, Sebrina runs home, and she knows she will have to let go of the pain of rejection. She needs to forget about it and not let it make her weak. She has to be strong now and run away tonight, although she feels like going to lie in her bed in a bundle and cry. Her wolf is hurting as much as she is, but both must be strong if they want to live.

"Ruby, snap out of it! He is not worthy of us, and we have to accept that he chose a more beautiful woman than us," Sebrina talks to her wolf.

"You are beautiful, and you can not see it, but one day you will. I have accepted that he chose Leona and that our destiny is not with him. he is a weakling that thinks beauty is everything," Ruby says.

"So tonight we leave, see what the world is outside this pack," Sebrina says.

"That is the spirit. One little thing like this is not going to get us down. There is a whole world out there that we have not seen yet, and think of all the fun we can have. We will be free at last," Ruby says.

"Yeah, we will have to stay out of other pack's territories as we will become rogue, so we will have to be careful. But, the big cities are no man's land and are free to any wolf to work and make a living for themselves. So for now, let's stay in the big cities, and it will be difficult for the pack and Leona to pick up our sent in a big city," Sebrina says. She needs to get a job as she only has a few dollars she saved when working in the local diner. The money will not last her long, and she is not afraid to sleep in the streets as she knows she can protect herself. She always trained with the pack, unlike Leona, who thought she was too beautiful to fight.

"Our training will come in handy if we have to sleep in the streets, but I am sure we can find a job fast. You are clever and a hard worker. Luckily old man Jimbo gave us a reference. It will help you find a watering job fast," Ruby says as she reads Sebrina's mind. Sebrina hears her mother and father talking to Leona downstairs.

"So he chose you! I am so proud of you. We should have known your sister did not stand a chance. You are so much prettier than her. Congratulations, my lovely daughter, I am so proud of you," Her mother says.

"Thanks, mom, we will have to go to the Alpha's house tonight, but I do not want to take chances. I love Josh, and I will not let Sebrina intervene in our relationship. It is a chance I can not take," Leona says.

"What do you mean by that? You want us to send her away?" Her father asks.

"And risk the chance of her coming back one day? No, she must die," Leona says. Her parents are quiet for a moment. Dave and Mavis Dawson say nothing at first. Sebrina feels a bit of hope in her heart. Maybe her parents still have some love left for her.

"She is your twin sister," Dave Dawson says. He is a bit shocked, but he knows in the werewolf world, only the strongest survive.

"We will have to make it look like an accident," Mavis says.

"You two are thinking of killing Sebrina? Are this for real?" Dave asks. He does not feel good about talking about killing his daughter, but his wife and Leona always control him. They get what they want from him. So he always ignored Sebrina as he did not want to anger his wife and Leona. However, he loves Sebrina in his own way, and he is trying to think of a way not to kill her, but he knows his wife and Leona will do as they please.

"Come on, dad, it is not like she means anything to anyone in this pack or family. Sebrina is an embarrassment to us, and now she will never have a mate as her mate rejected her and chose me. It is not my fault we had the same mate, and I am not taking chances with my future," Leona says. As Leona and Mavis walk to Leona's room to discuss the ceremonies and what Leona will wear, Sebrina sits in her little room. There is a soft knock on her door. Her father walks in and puts an envelope in her hand. He shows her to be quiet and not say a word. He quickly walks out again, and as Sebrina opens the envelope, there is money and a note inside.

"Runaway tonight and never come back. Here is some money that will help you out," The note reads. Sebrina knows her father did not do it out of love for her as he always ignored her. He is the beta, and it is one of his duties to protect all pack members even if he does not like them. Sebrina does not realise that her father cares for her and wants to help her out, but he is too afraid of what will happen to her if he shows her any affection. Leona was always jealous of Sebrina because, deep down, she knew Sebrina had a unique beauty that only a real man would see.

Sebrina waits until her parents and Leona leave to go to the Alpha's house. Then, she picks up her bag and starts running. Well, at least she has enough money to get a place to stay for a couple of months. But, as she reaches the border and crosses it, she feels her bond break with the pack as she speaks the words.

"I am free. I am of my own will. I am rogue now and break all bonds with the Red Wood Pack," Sebrina says and runs towards the sitting.

Josh feels a jolt in his heart while meeting with his parents and Leona and her parents. Sebrina has broken all bonds with him and the pack. He feels like he lost something special, and when he looks at Leona, she does not look as beautiful as she did anymore. Josh is not sure he made the right choice, but it is too late now, and he says nothing of Sebrina leaving the pack.