Please Reject Me.

Punishment.

I stared out of the window disassociating from the life around me.

“Is she deaf?” A shrill voice giggled, before I sensed something being thrown at me. I knew moving would only make things worse so I braced the impact.

I heard the sound of the glass cracking into my head, I lurched forward, letting out a fake groan as I reached up, touching the wound already bleeding. I quickly smeared the blood around hiding the silver ichor that was in it. “Girls, is that necessary?” Alpha Blake announced his presence.

“She was the one ignoring us,” Bianca huffed.

“Is that true, Hesperia?” Alpha Blake’s demeanor changed, I could feel the anger beginning to rise.

I turned to see the man towering over me, his blonde hair matted with the rain.

“I am sorry sir,” I apologized, hoping to just be done with this situation. “You should be apologizing to the future Luna of this pack!” Grace growled, she always clung to Bianca because everyone thought she was Joshua’s mate. It was decided that even though they weren’t mates by the moon goddess they would be chosen mates on Bianca’s 18th birthday.

“I’ll leave it up to Bianca to decide the punishment for this transgression. Be advised Bianca sometimes showing mercy can go further than a punishment,” Alpha Blake nodded at the young woman as he walked away.

“Okay, how about this you mutt?” Bianca walked over to me. Her boxed dyed blonde hair pulled back revealing a hickey on her spot from Joshua. “You can kiss my feet and apologize.”

“You’re kidding, right?” I looked at her astonished, though Alpha Blake left it up to her, he gave her instructions even if they didn’t sound that way. “I would rather have 50 lashes with an iron wipe,” I laughed, even if I didn’t actually care about my life right now. Having to kiss this asshole's feet was a step too far.

“Really now,” Bianca grinned.

I was marched to the cellar, where the walls were infused with iron and silver to make all creatures of Nilynthe weak. They stripped me down, leaving me in only my panties and the chains that bound me to the cell. They threw ice water on me, making my skin tighten as the pulley system hoisted me up the cuffs against my ankles, pulling back keeping me suspended in the air slightly so I could move at all.

"Say what you want about this mutt, but f**k her body is amazing," one of the guards laughed. "How long until she gets her lashes?"

"Bianca wants her hung until the other packs leave after her party Friday," the other guard grinned. "So we have her for a week."

The guard with the auburn hair came into the cell, "I heard you don't have a wolf, you're basically a human." One of his hands gripped his gun tightly.

I didn't bother to look at him, the whole pack knew I didn't have a wolf, I had only turned 18 about 2 months ago and everyone knew that I was bad luck because even the goddess didn't bless me with a wolf.

Another reason to just stop living. I sighed in my head, even if I left I would never be able to protect myself from the other pacts or rogues.

The guard pulled off his gloves, and stroked my arm, making the hairs on the back of my neck stand. He then cupped my breast from under, making me thrash against the chains.

"Ooo she's got a little fight in her after all." His hand tightened around my breast, the other still firmly around his pistol.

"Shane get out of there, Joshua is coming," the other guard hissed.

I told myself I would reject him as soon as I could, but now I wanted him to suffer the loss of a mate when I died. I wanted him to know agony, and it was obvious to me that the mate bond affected him much more than it did myself.

"Leave," he told the guards loudly. The guards hurried off.

"I'm sure you know what I am to you," his voice was low, so only him and I could hear. "I want to take you as my mate Hesperia."

"And Bianca?" I laughed. I wanted to hurt him.

"She will be my chosen mate and the Luna of this pack, but I need you with me," he tried to reason.

I laughed even louder. The thought of him having both a chosen mate and a mate given by the goddess was ridiculous and would never be allowed. "I would rather die than be tied to this pack." I looked at his hurt gray eyes. I meant it too, and it seemed like he knew that.

"You just need time," he announced, more to tell himself than anything.

I was left hanging there for a week each day Joshua came to speak to me to try and get me to try and accept the offer of being his mate and staying in the pack. Bringing me clothes and food but never letting me out of my chains. I could tell he was still nervous about something, but wasn’t sure what.

“Look, the party is tonight where I will take Bianca as my chosen mate, after the party I will come down and mark you,” he gripped my chin, the tingles that people feel towards their mate felt like needles pricking my flesh. “You will be mine whether you want it or not.”

He stopped at the entrance of the cell. “You will never get away from me, no matter what you try so don’t bother trying anything stupid.”

I looked up at him, he knew. He knew I was miserable enough to want to end everything and yet he didn’t care that he was the cause of this misery. In fact he wanted me to suffer more.