Rejected, I Won A Second Chance Mate

Chapter 2

Jemima's POV

"I, Alexander Lancaster, take Jemima Brown as my fated mate. To love and cherish you, in sickness and in death, in lack and plenty..... "

Seeing Alexander standing before me and sharing vows was a shocker. I didn't know what made him change his mind. I looked at my wedding dress that almost filled the whole room and I didn't want to be happy. Because this was too good to be true. It must have been a dream. How could he have changed his mind so fast like that?

I looked around and saw everyone present at the ceremony. The Alpha, even my aunt was there with her smile almost widened to her head. How could this be?

The last thing I remembered was Alexander torturing me by sleeping with another woman. He couldn't possibly change in a few hours.

"Smile Jemima, you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life?" Said the man who told me that I was the most disgusting thing in his life.

Is someone trying to play a trick on me?

"You may kiss the bride...." I heard the priestess say.

Just as he leaned towards me, pain struck my heart like lightning and I held my chest screaming in pain. I didn't want to ruin my wedding with pain but I couldn't help it. I was still trying to resist the pain when something liquid dropped on my head from nowhere. It tasted salty but spicy.

Just then my eyes opened to reality but my eyes began to pepper. I couldn't open them and I shouted in pain.

I was so sad that even if everyone was bullying me, should my dreams also bully me? I couldn't even cry because my eyes were tightly closed.

"Even if you are so despicable and filthy that you slept outside the whole night, shouldn't you have woken up to do your chores!"

I could recognize that angry voice. It was Tam, she always loved to act like she was the head maid, especially to me.

I tried standing up but I was in pain, coupled with the fact that I couldn't open my eyes. My clothes were soaked with the spicy water.

"You better get your ass down!" She said before she walked away.

Alexander was doing what he did yesterday which made me pass out again. How could I have been silly to dream that he got married to me? Soon, the pain in my chest reduced, but my eyes were still closed.

Knowing the pack house so well, I went to the tap and washed my face. After I was able to open it even though it still stings, I rushed to the store room where I slept and quickly had a change of clothes.

Just as I stepped out, mockery was flying everywhere. The maid that Alexander slept with last night was among them and she talked about how good he was with s*x. She told me I would never get to have a taste of it. My heart ached knowing she was telling the truth.

Just then I went to the pack hall where I was assigned to clean. The Alpha was seated there with three visitors. I didn't know why they had meetings so early.

"You will need to give us one female this year. The Alpha King wants a female," I heard one of them say.

" That's easy Beta, " our Alpha said.

I didn't want to get close to them so that they wouldn't think I was eavesdropping. But yet I wondered what the female would do. Just then Alexander walked in and bowed.

"Alex, I called you because I needed to talk to you about something," the Alpha said.

I was sure that the Alpha would have heard that I was mated to Alex but he didn't want me. He must have called him to talk about it.

Our Alpha had compelled many matedates to get married because they had no choice. My heart warmed thinking about this. Looking at Alexander's face, he wasn't looking happy. I made sure to hide myself well so that I won't be seen. I didn't want them to see me and interrupt anything they wanted to say.

"What is it, Alpha?" Alexander asked.

He looked at the visitors and then back to the Alpha with a grudging look.

"The Alpha King had told us that it is our pack's turn to give him a caretaker and this time he wants a female......"

I was heartbroken when I heard what the Alpha said. He wasn't even talking about our mating bond. I got excited for nothing. Just as I was about to continue my chores, he said something that struck me like lightning.

"Since you don't want your mate, why not let us send her," he said.

Everything in me was paralyzed. He wasn't going to help me like he helped others. He was going to give me away to the sick Alpha King.

The Alpha King had been sick for ages. There was nothing that hadn't been done to heal him and for years now many people have lost their lives trying to tend to him. For them to think that sending me there meant that they wanted me dead.

"Alpha, no problem. I was going to reject her anyway," Alexander said casually.

My heart shattered into pieces and my tears fell like a fountain. He agreed quickly without a second thought.

How could they do this to me? I knew I hadn't wronged any of them since I got to the pack house. Now they wanted me dead but I wasn't going to allow it. I might tolerate everything, but I won't tolerate death. I'm not going to die.

I carried my tools and left the place. I didn't want them to know that I heard them so that they wouldn't stop me.

"Jemima, you have to do something!" I said to myself as I walked away.