The Luna Game

Chapter 3

Melissa ‘s POV

I didn't wait any more minutes, I rushed down to his house behind my very home. So it was so easy to sneak around when I want to, to be honest, it has been spontaneous so far and I don't want it to end.

When I got there, I met him talking with my cousin, Tamara outside his door, they seem to be talking about something secretive but today was not the time to enter into my detective mode. I had not planned to see Tamara or talk to her that day, so when she ran off, It was like a relief.

“What nonsense do you speak of Melissa!?” he growled at me, looking at me with so much detest when I broke the news to him and I didn't know anything to do about it.

Of course, I expect him to be furious, but I didn't think it would be to this extent.

“I am not telling you to believe me, but I didn't apply for the competition. We can run away, we can leave here, forgetting about the pack, forgetting about my mother and my father. They don't care about me anyway” I said, trying to keep the mood to a minimum.

I thought perhaps, if I did that, he would see reason with me. I know he loves me too much to consider this.

“I am not going anywhere with you” He pointed, his face rigid with little to no emotions now. “You have your whole family and it a privilege that you have good things you have enjoyed all your life with you and you just want to leave them all behind?”

“Yes, for you Luka. . . I would do that for you” I said beaming and holding his hands, I wanted to feel him, I wanted him to feel me too. He was beginning to scare me with his expression and his choice of words.

“Then you are ungrateful. It must be easy for you to leave this whole thing because you have enjoyed it all your life, but it's not the same for someone like me. I am going to be staying. I have my whole life planned ahead of me. And you were in it until now. . .” he looked down at our fingers that were intertwined together and slowly removed his.

“I know you are angry. I am angry too, I don't understand why this could have happened. I promise I didn't apply!” I was beginning to get really frustrated and feel unheard. No one was listening to me. Not my mother, not my father, and not Luka. Out of everyone else, I thought he would at least understand how I feel.

“I leave tomorrow and I don't know when I will ever see you again” I probed, hoping he would give me a hug and deep kiss to tell me everything was going to be alright.

But what he said next broke my heart “I am sure by now you know there is no reason for us to be mates. Besides I don't feel my wolf calling out to you, so it's easy. I am breaking up with you” He said so calmly I thought I had not heard him well.

“What?” I asked in disbelief

“Go to your competition and win the Luna’s title. Do well and go where your heart is. I know for sure that it is not with me”

“Oh please Luka. Don't be like that. You of all people should know what I can and what I cannot do. You know I would not have applied for this without letting you know. You know I love you to that extent. Why would I want to be anyone’s Luna when I have you?” I said, probing into his emotions, I wanted to feel something there that says he understands me.

He didn't say anything so I continued “Okay, I know it's hard to believe but I am not one of the girls that won’t shut up about it. I am not in anyway interested in the selection. Please Luka listen to me” I pleaded

“Lies! Even as a man I know being Luna is supposed to be every girl’s dream. It is every girl's dream. And it's not just any Luna, Melissa. It is the Alpha supreme’s Luna. You lie if you tell me you were not in the least interested in this!” Why does he keep saying this when I have said it times and again that I didn't apply. What is he trying to say?

“Even your cousin Tamara was as Interested as everyone. I could just let her. . . “ He stopped talking.

That caught my attention. “You could not let her what?” I asked, wanting him to continue talking.

“There is no need to worry about things that have already happened, Melissa. You have been chosen” He chided,

I have never known this side of Luka, he had always been sweet to me from the beginning and up until now.

He has always been my solace when I didn't have anyone to talk to. He has never made me feel bad about my complaints when other people would say I am just a spoiled brat. But now everything was different.

“Luka, I know you feel angry but please think about our sweet moments, think about how safe we make each other feel” I said, reminding him of what he had always said about feeling safe with me and how I have said the same thing, hoping he would have a change of mind.

But that not forthcoming as he took two steps back away from me, looking all rigid and proceeded to say “ I, Luka Adorn, reject you Melissa Bennett as my future mate” he was angry, and it seems nothing I was doing was helping matters because why on earth would that be his next cause of action.

“I am not going to accept your rejection, Luka. There is no way I am going to accept that's the next thing to do. You can tell me to come with you to my mother and father right now and let them know that I am not going for the selection“ I said determinedly and grabbed him towards me, aiding him to move.

But it seems what I was doing was useless, he still had that expression on his face. Either way, Luka had made his mind. . .

“What I have said is final, that's how I can move on, and away from this. You should move on too. If perhaps we meet each other in the future, let's just greet each other without hostility” he said just that and left me standing there.

That was the last I heard of him, nothing else from him until I finally left the pack to the infamous Alpha Supreme’s pack at the other end of the land. Far away from my pack and from my people.

I knew the plans have changed, I was no more the spoiled princess, and now I have to work for my head, I have to save myself when no one was going to be there to save me.