How to reject a Luna

Chapter 20

*Sebastian POV*

'Lets go and get her'

I don't care who she ends up with, me or Tobias, all I know is I want her safe, I don’t know what I will do if she dies, it may be a black hole that I am never able to pull myself out from.

I don't care what the rogue said, there is no way that Willow is a huntress he must have been mistaken, but their mistake might cost her her life. I don't know why they've decided she is, in the two weeks I've been hanging out with her, in no way has she ever said anything that would make me suspect her, she has never done anything that would make me suspect her, if she was a huntress, instead of getting upset when Tobias was a jerk, wouldn’t she punch him in the face instead? She wouldn't just sleep with me if she is a huntress, hunters and werewolves are natural enemies. She would know that I was a werewolf, technically she would be disgusted with our kind.

Why would a huntress be mated with an alpha?

But the reasoning doesn't matter right now, we just need her back. The longer she's away and more chances that she will be killed once they work out that she is not the person that they are after. They will just kill her, there won’t be any ‘sorry for the mix up’ they won't send her back to us, we will be lucky if they return her corpse.

I can feel Tobias desperation beside me as we run.

'Do you love her?'

'Sebastian I really don't want to talk about this now'

'I want to know'

'Of course I love her, she is my mate'

All this mess, her feelings, me feeling, his feelings, all of them ruined and messed up because he didn’t say a word. He knew for 2 weeks.

I will never be able to understand.

'Why reject her, why not tell me?'

'Sebastian please don’t, we will talk about this when she's safe'

I press down the urge to hit his head against a tree, there is obviously no brain in there anyway. His idiocy is beyond my comprehension.

'Fine'

We just keep running, my anxiety growing with every step. I hope he still has her scent because I can't smell anything, we are running so fast that I can only see the blur of trees, scents rush past so fast that I can’t pick up a single thing. I know he is a good tracker but I'm still worried.

'Have you still got her scent?'

'Yes of course I do'

'How? I don't smell anything'

'She is my mate, her scent is stronger to me'

I just shake my head I cannot believe he even talks about her being his mate, the word mate grates on my nerves, how could he have a goddess given mate and not worship the ground she walks on? From the very first moment that he saw her he should have cherished her, given her all the love that she deserved, why treat her like that? Why treat her so poorly? Why reject her?

*Willow POV*

I just run into the tree line without a second thought, I just need to get away from the situation, I need distance. I should have just driven, just kept driving until the car ran out of fuel, maybe to the airport and flown somewhere, anywhere but here. I don’t want to see them, I don’t want to feel like this.

I have no idea where I am going now that I am stuck on foot, I just kept running I don't know what was happening behind me, whether Sebastian is fine, I feel a tinge in my heart at the thought of him getting hurt, but I can’t go back, the only thing I can do now is move forward no matter what is happening, it is nothing to do with me.

I know that, that is not true, it is everything to do with me.

But what can I do? How can I intervene.

I am hurting, I am hurting so much that I can barely breathe. For some reason the words that Tobias spoke, I understood. I myself do do not understand it, I have no idea how I know, but for some reason the word mate just makes sense.

I don't know how exactly, but I know that a mate is someone you are meant to cherish.

Tobias is my mate?

So why be so harsh to me? Why reject me? Am I not worth respecting? Am I so bad that even though instinct is pushing him toward me, I am still not worth it?

When Tobias started to fight Sebastian like that, Sebastian who has been nothing but nice to me, who does he think he is?

Anger clouds my mind as my speed increases.

I am so hurt, hurt in the heart, hurt in the head.

I just run crashing through branches trying not to hit trees I stumble and fall a couple of times, but hastily pull myself to my feet and just keep running, I hear something that stops me in my tracks, is that a growl?

I look around me. 4 massive wolves start stalking towards me. I look at them. I am not sure what to do now. Do I run? Do I scream? Do I cry? Nothing seems like the right course of action. One wolf starts to move, he steps to the side and a man and a woman step towards me.

What the hell? Who are these people? I say

"Who are you?"

The lady speaks.

"No the question is who are you?"

"Willow"

The man speaks.

"It's not her, I've seen her with the beta"

"So he might have just been with her protecting her"

"No I saw them in the car she was WITH the beta"

"It still might be her"

"What type of alpha would let their beta f**k their mate?"

The woman looks at me.

"So tell me, are you the alphas mate?”

"What's a mate? Who is an alpha?"

I don’t understand myself at all so I am hardly about to admit to anything. Since this group looking nothing but threatening, I decide the best thing to do at this point is to play dumb. Deny, deny, deny.

"See it can't be her she doesn't even know about our kind"

"She knows more than she's letting on otherwise should be running and screaming by now"

"What is your kind?"

"You tell me, you didn't know you have been f*****g a werewolf?"

I gasp, putting a hand over my mouth trying to look as shocked as possible, while I don’t know anything completely, I have gathered all the clues in my head, sorted them and arrived at such a conclusion.

I never thought I believed in such things so how would I not bat an eyelid at that? It just seems natural.

"What do you mean a werewolf?"

I am cursing myself for not taking drama class, I am sure I am not looking very realistic.

"You're not fooling me princess, no one stands still, looking so stony face when they find first find out about werewolves"

Damn it.

"I don't know what you're talking about, I really don't know anything Sebastian's just a guy I know from school we've been dating a bit"

"So you've had no interaction with Tobias at all?"

"We have some classes together and he is Sebastian's best friend, but that's all I know we have hardly said two words to each other"

"Two words hey? Why did I see you run off from him the other day crying"

"He was meant to be my study partner but he doesn't want to work with me"

"And you cried over that but choose not cry and about 4 wolves and 2 people standing in front of you"

Will crying help? If it will help I will release the waterworks, but crying never helps. Will tears make the people in front of me any less dangerous? Will it soften them and make them not hurt me? Unlikely, they are all looking at me like they want to rip me limb from limb. Are they going to release me, are they going to let me go on my merry way if I cry? I will fall to the ground right now and bawl like a baby, rocking back and forth in fetal position. None of it helps.

The reason for their hostility? I have no idea.

I have never seen any of them, how do they know me and why do they know me? How would they know that I am Tobias’ mate? I myself only found out half an hour ago.

"Do you want me to be crying? Why? Is it going to help? If you want to kill me just do it"

I don’t mean to sound impatient to die, I really am not, but I am not in the right head space to be approached like this, my anger and hurt has not even begun to heal, the pain festering under my skin.

"Oh no no no Princess we don't want to kill you, you are worth a lot to us, I bet you never thought that pretty little face of your was worth so much"

"But why?"

This whole day is just a never ending list of unanswered questions. The man just keeps looking me up and down before he speak again.

"It just isn't her, look at her how could she possibly be, she is just some human girl that the beta is laying"

The woman looks at me again

"Are you f*****g the beta?"

The man yells back at her.

"I already told you what I saw"

"But they may have just done that to put you off the trail"

"No they would definitely fvcking, no one can be that good at faking it, anyway Tobias wouldn’t go to such lengths, he wouldn’t let his beta touch his mate to keep us away"

The lady looks at me again.

"So answer me are you sleeping with him?"

"Of course I am, who wouldn't, haven't you seen him?"

She just laughs

"You're a gutsy girl aren't you?"

She looks at the wolves

"Take her, even if she isn't the right one at least we have something against the pack"

“You really think Tobias will care if you've nabbed a girl that Sebastian is fvcking"

"What do you think Sebastian is just some beta to Tobias? They are as close as beta and alpha can be, they are closer than brothers"

I get grabbed by 3 men, 3 very naked men. I have no idea where they all suddenly came from, that is until I notice that there is only one wolf left. Yep okay, they are definitely werewolves. For some reason my lack of surprise about werewolves being real seems to be more disconcerting than getting kidnapped.

None of this is normal, why am I not scared?

They tie me and one of them boosts me over their shoulder. They all start running. It is incredibly unpleasant being carried on someones shoulder while they are running. My stomach kitting his strong shoulder with every step, I am glad that I didn’t get to eat breakfast otherwise there would be a lot of vomit. But still I am not scared. What is wrong with me? Am I in shock?