Fated To Three Alphas

Rejected

Ella’s POV

I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was no way this was actually happening. I pinched myself slightly on my thigh and sure enough the sting was there. I wasn’t dreaming?

As Zane looked into my eyes, I felt an intense energy pulsating through me. My wolf Snow was howling like crazy in my head and I could feel her excitement rushing up and down my body.

There was no mistaking it. My Mom had described this to me so vividly that there was no way I couldn’t tell what was happening here.

I just couldn’t believe it was him. Zane was looking at me… noticing me. For the first time ever. It was like all my dreams were coming true in that moment.

I opened my mouth to say the word that was raging so strongly through me, but before I could even spell out ‘mate’, I suddenly noticed a look in his eyes.

It was dull and disappointed. I got confused. Wasn’t he feeling what I was feeling? Wasn’t that how it worked? Mom had told me that’s how it worked… so what was happening?

Before I knew it, Zane walked up to me. He grabbed my hand and quickly whisked me away from the hallway. He brought me into an empty classroom and quickly turned to lock the door behind us.

I couldn’t understand what was going on.

“What are you doing?” I asked him.

He was busy lowering the blinds.

“I can’t be seen with you,” he said.

My heart skipped a beat. I heard my wolf Snow whimper in pain in my head. Those words were like a dagger straight to the heart.

“But… but you’re my mate,” I said.

“Don’t…!” he barked.

He then rushed up to me, leaning on me and backing me up against the wall. With him so close to me I instantly forgot all about what he had just said. My heart was beating fast and I could feel heat growing in my groin.

His hands on me were sending tingles around my body, making me gasp and wish he’d just hold me longer.

The mate bond was driving me so crazy I couldn’t seem to get myself together. Zane took a deep inhale of my breath, and then he looked up to my face.

From the look in his eyes he knew… he knew that I was his mate, and yet he still looked troubled.

“Don’t you dare say that to anyone, do you hear me?” he continued, while still leaning me up against the wall.

Being in contact with him was driving me so insane that I wasn’t really processing the full gravity of what he was saying. My heart was racing in my chest, not because he was being so harsh, but because I was so turned on I wanted him to take me right here.

He then suddenly let me go and moved back away from me.

“I’m not your mate. I don’t want anything to do with you… bookworm. I have a reputation here, do you understand that? I’m about to be Alpha, strongest of the pack, and I already have Bianca, someone who actually matches my status… I can’t be associated with a weird freak like you.”

I stared at him blankly. Every word he was saying seemed like a sharp sword that just kept on slashing my innocent heart into pieces and pieces. And just as I thought it couldn’t get any worse, he went the distance.

He quickly peeked out the windows before suddenly turning to me in a huff.

“I, Zane Hunter, reject you Ella Williams as my mate. You are never to talk about what happened here or mention it to anyone… am I making myself clear?” he used his Alpha tone on me, exuding his dominance across the room and leaving me no option.

I fell to the ground. My body was shaking and my head was cloudy.

“Yes Alpha,”

As soon as I said the words, I heard the door bang loudly. I looked up to see he was gone, leaving me on the floor, my heart bruised and battered. Tears were flooding out of my eyes.

My wolf was whimpering in pain from the loss of our mate. Anguish washed over me in a flood. It was like nothing I had ever felt before.

I couldn’t understand. I couldn’t understand why he would do that to me. Mom had told me that my fated mate would be the one person that would accept me. The person that would love me…

While the emotions raged through me, I realized I needed to get out of here before someone walked in on me crying on the floor. I wiped my tears and picked my books up from the ground.

I walked fast through the hallway to my locker, stashing my books in there and locking it up. I hurried up to my chemistry class with the soul-crashing agony of my broken bond looming over me like a dark cloud.

I didn’t even know if I’d be able to pay attention in that class, but I just didn’t know what else to do, or where else to go.

“Is everything alright Ella?” Wendy asked me, moving her chair closer to my desk.

Wendy was one of the few people in school who treated me like I was human. I figured everyone else just saw me as some brainy dork … or ‘weird freak’ as it had been so brutally pointed out.

“I’m okay Wendy,” I told her, “I think I just have a headache,” I lied.

My whole body was still shaking and I was doing everything I could to hide it. My head was cloudy as hell and I felt like I was going to pass out. I didn’t know what was happening with my inner wolf Snow, but it was clear she was taking this really hard because I could literally feel her pain in my body.

Luckily, the Chemistry teacher wasn’t in class yet, and so I had a minute to get myself together before she arrived.

“You know... you can just go to the nurse and ask to leave school early if you are not feeling okay,” Wendy said.

I turned to look at her. I hadn't thought of that. She was right, I couldn’t stay here. Not with him here. I had to get out.

“Yeah, I think I’ll do that Wendy… thanks,” I said to her. She smiled slightly as I stood up.

“Feel better,” she added.

The nurse said I was unwell and so I got a free pass out of school to go rest at home. I had never left school early before, and it felt kinda strange, but I knew I had to get out of there.

I wanted to shift into my wolf and run through the woods to the pack house, it had felt so amazing when I did that last night. But I didn’t think my wolf was up for it. Not after what had just happened to us… so I took the bus.

No one was home when I arrived and so I went straight to my room. I thought I would just sleep but I tossed and turned, playing it all over and over in my head.

Why was this happening? Why didn’t my fated mate want me?

“Honey, are you here?” I suddenly heard Mom’s voice, followed by a knock on my door.

She caught me off-guard. I didn’t think she’d be home this early.

“Yeah… yeah I’m here Mom,” I muttered, sitting up on my bed.

She opened the door and quickly hurried in when she saw me.

“Are you okay? What happened…” she started.

I couldn’t tell her what had happened. I didn’t want her to know. I didn’t want anyone to ever know that my mate rejected me and called me weak. Being rejected by your fated meant that something was wrong with you, I wasn’t good enough, and I could never let anyone know that had happened. Not even Mom.

She meant well, I knew that. But I just couldn't tell her. Not right now.

“I got a headache at school and I had to leave early,” I told her, “I think it might have had something to do with shifting for the first time last night,” I added.

Mom smiled.

“Oh dear… that’s alright. You’ll be just fine. It might take you some time to get used to having your wolf, but you’ll get the hang of it, I promise,” she said.

Mom made me soup, but even that couldn’t help drown my sorrows. It was official, this was the worst birthday of my life.

Only one good thing had come out of it though, my wolf Snow. And sure, we were both suffering the excruciating loss of our mate at the moment, but I decided to hold out hope that we would be okay.

When evening came, Dad brought home a birthday cake. My parents sang me happy birthday and made me blow out candles to try and cheer me up but I just wasn’t feeling it. Today was so not like any of my other birthdays.

I was maimed on the inside, and try as I did to fake some excitement for my parents, I couldn't really fake it to myself. I was nothing but a reject and no one would ever love me.

Or so I thought.