REJECTED

Excuse me?

Nathan

I had lost my mate! She had been right there and then she wasn't, the worst part is I could not get my men to search for her because I had not gotten a visual.

With the effects of the wolfsbane wearing out I could clearly feel and hear my wolf now. To say he was angry would be an understatement.

Rage, disappointment, disbelief, I could feel them, all of them. His emotions churning inside my mind, he was mad at me

"You are supposed to be an alpha, are those what you call alpha instincts?" my wolf growled in my head, I was suddenly filled with shame.

I was the alpha, I was supposed to be the smartest of them all what more I had gone through this whole process before. Why had I not done anything? Why had I stood there taking a trip down memory lane? Lucia was not coming back.She was gone forever

The first one I had lost to rogues.

The second one was by my own carelessness.

"Had you not drugged me, we could have been with our mate now you dumb human" he actually says what I had been thinking.

If my wolf were in his full senses our mate would not have gotten away from us, he would not have let me get dazed back there.

By the time my Pack had left the railway station I was in a worse mood, normally it would just be my wolf throwing a tantrum about how being under wolfsbane hurt and how much he hated my guts to him forcefully taking over when we were meant to travel but today was different.

My wolf was in a bad mood, mine was worse. I was feeling incompetent. I had never felt that way ever since I became an alpha.

Slow, stupid. I kept wondering if my pack members felt that was about me. My self esteem suddenly hitting an all time low.

"No alpha, we think you are the best." came my Beta's voice through the pack link.

That there proves my incompetence again, I had just projected my internal thoughts to every member of my pack through the pack link. Now everyone one knew what I was feeling.

‘Were they judging me?' I asked myself, this time remembering to shut off the pack link. I wasn't going to let them see me being pathetic anymore.

Great!

*~*

Dawson Pack's alpha had been gracious enough to send us a few wolves to escort us back to the pack house and I readily accepted the distraction. I was up in my mind beating myself up that maybe the unfamiliar wolves starting up conversations was just what I currently needed.

The journey was quiet short but I guess that is what you get for a small pack like Dawson, everything was basically an arm throw away from each other.

Must be very inconvenient for pack runs!

The teenagers were just getting out of school, the whole place was buzzing.

Lively.

I had forgotten how that felt like, and there I was making my self sound old again.

I had taken over my pack quite young, something about my dad wanting to take my mom an a trip around the world, my parents were not the bad alphas people often heard about on the contrary they were very chill.

So chill in fact that they left the pack in the hands of a teenager. Sometimes I wanted to curse at the for making me not have a life of my own but the egotistic, narcissistic part of me was proud to be given such an honor. None of my age mates could brag about such an achievement.

I could stand tall and proud among the other alphas. All of them older than and not to toot my own horn, most of them were pretty scared of me.

Some people loved to call me ruthless but I did what I had to do for the safety my people.

If that was being ruthless then so be it. My reputation also helped my pack stay out of danger anyway so it was a good thing if you asked me.

Alpha Colton's office, it was written right there on the cliché golden plaque at the door. I had made up my mind to stay at his pack for the shortest time possible. I would usually stay long enough to oversee training to perfection but I had a mate to find.

Who knew if she would be in danger wherever she was going? My wolf would not let me care for others when he had no idea about how our mate was. He was already getting restless.

The door opened even before my beta knocks Alpha Colton seemed to have been eagerly expecting us. He is too excited to see us but of course I take no note of that. Why you may ask?

That scent!

It was back!

Fresh mangoes and strawberries!

She was here before, my mate had been here. My wolf that had been feeling low since the railway station is now alert.

I can't help but take a big whiff of air, earning a weird look from Alpha Colton and a smile from my beta.

"You smell her here too alpha?" he asks with a knowing smile.

"Yes." I grow out, canines showing, my wolf coming to the surface, if our mate had been here then maybe she was a member of Dawson Pack or at least had an interaction with Alpha Colton. Maybe finding her will not be so hard after all.

I could feel the hope and joying bubbling up in my wolf, the anger from earlier quickly forgotten. He even purred in contentment.

"This is going to sound weird Alpha Colton but who was with you in here before we got here?" I was too excited and impatient to beat around the bush. The Alpha would probably find me creepy but I did not really care, I had to find my mate.

"What do yo mean Alpha Nathan?" I knew he would be confused.

"There is the smell of another wolf in your office Alpha, who was it?" I question slowly, I really needed that piece of information.

"Oh, that? Some teenage she wolf came to request to leave the pack." I could not hold back the growl that came out me, all my alpha aura had leaked out forcing everyone to submit to me including Alpha Colton.

There was a reason why there was a rumor about me being the alpha of alphas. I could make every werewolf submit, including alphas. It had been discovered after the death of my first mate. I had gone out in a grief filled rampage and no alpha order could get me to stop. Back then I wasn't even an alpha.

Right now I could see Colton trying to raise himself from the bowing position, it was not a good picture for an alpha to submit to another. That usually just happened when on had been defeated in a challenge.

My wolf and I knew that we were making him look weak in front of this pack but we did not care.

Was the moon goddess trying to joke with us?

How was it that every time we were late? Every single time? Was this some kind of game?

"Leave? What do you mean leave? What happened to her? Why would a young she wolf want leave a secure pack and go on the own?" my tone left no room for deceit. That was an Alpha's command. I had to know.

"She was rejected by her mate." Alpha Colton mumbles his answer, thank the goddess for our very sharp hearing.

"Who?" I needed to know what kind of wolf would reject their mate. A mate was like a gift, some wolves even died when their mates did and one actually had the audacity to reject their mate? "Who?"

"She, she would not tell me. She just said nothing was keeping her here anymore so I let her go." said Colton, trying extremely hard to convince me that he knew nothing about the rejector.

REJECTED!

She had been rejected. Her mate did not want her, which was great for me because the moon goddess had given both of us second chances but I had heard about how much rejections hurt.

Someone had hurt my mate in the worst way possible and now she was out there all alone.

I had to find her no matter what!

I am coming for you mate! That was a vow

Wait for me.

"....."