The Alpha King's Desperate Luna

04 - Get Lost

I was happily having my breakfast with Arthur when the SHE – devil walked in, clinging onto Davina. Her long blonde hair was pulled up into a ponytail and she looked all beautiful and dolled up probably hoping to seduce Arthur.

She doesn’t like me and I too don’t like her so we mutually hate each other.

“Hi Laila” she says waving at me.

Putting on the perfect smile, I reply “Hi Debby.”

She sat opposite Arthur with and looked at him with a shy smile “Hi Arthur.”

“Have some more” Arthur said completely ignoring her as he placed more bacon on my plate. I was almost full but I happy put another bacon in my mouth as I smile at her.

“How is the preparation for the mating ceremony going mom?” Arthur asks and the smile on her face stiffen.

Casey had told me that she almost became his Luna 15 years ago and my appearance had ruined it all for her.

Davina looks at Deborah sadly before she replied “I’m getting started on it.”

“There isn’t much time left mom, we have less than 3 weeks so hurry it up”

“This won’t be the only full moon Arthur” Davina says as she looks at me wearily and honestly, I don’t mind. I get it, am weird, am a weirdo and nobody knows who/what I am nor do they know where I come from.

None of this is my fault but it isn’t their fault either, they had planned their entire life and I ruined everything when I should up so I get it.

“We are having the ceremony this weekend, if you can’t handle it pass it over to Casey.” Arthur says with dominance making Davina sigh as she looks at me.

Unable to bear her gaze, I get up and excuse myself, it’s time I get ready for school.

Stepping into my bedroom, I shut my door and head straight to the shower letting my tears mix with the running water. Growing in a pack is meant to be an amazing experience giving the stories I’ve heard from Uncle Roy about their childhood but mine has been the total opposite.

I’ve spent my whole life trying to belong yet these people still treat me like a ticking bomb and I hate it. The look on their damn faces when they look at me, how kids my age is taught to stay away and how they tell me to my face that am not good for their Alpha.

I didn’t ask for this and I too want to know who my family is but there’s no clue as to how to find them so here I am desperately trying to be a part of a pack that doesn’t want me.

I put on a pair of jeans and long sleeve crop top, I let my hair loose as the thick curls fall over my shoulders and down my waist as I pick my bag before leaving my room.

Once I got to the bottom of the stair, I come face to face with Lewis and the sad smile on his face confirms my worry. Arthur has gone and he would be dropping me off today. Sighing, I follow him to the front where Avery was waiting in the car.

Lewis opens the back door for me and I climb into the car. I notice Avery smile at me and I just return the smile before facing the window as I watch the houses and trees move by.

At school, I keep my head down and focus on my study like I’ve been doing my whole life. I’m no longer the little girl that cried because no one wanted to play with her, am now a full-grown woman and all I have to do is get through this month, write my exams and we are done.

During lunch break, they all head to the cafeteria while I head to the back of the school, there’s a nice tree with a nice shade that I like to sit under. I pull out a book from my back, leaned on the tree as I lost myself in the book. It’s a book about myths and the development of various supernatural beings.

I buy these sorts of book in hopes that one day, I would find something about my type of people and to increase my chances, I’ve dived into African folklore. Giving my dark skin, am probably of African origin but somehow, I ended up in North America.

I’m pulled out of my thoughts when I see a pair of red heels in front of me. I look up to see Deborah’s face staring down daggers at me and I immediately begin to have a headache. School is always peaceful because they don’t mind me but she is getting on my nerves by coming here.

“Tell Arthur to postpone the mating ceremony” she says coldly in a condescending manner.

“Go tell him yourself” I reply before getting up from the ground, I hate the feeling that she is looking down on me.

When I met her gaze, I could sense the hate and hostility behind them as she stares dagger at me.

“Don’t test my patient freak, you better get Arthur to call off the mating ceremony or you get lost from his life”

I ignore her, put my book in my backpack before looking at it again “Even if I die Deborah, he still won’t be yours.”

“b***h!” she screams slapping me across the face and I smile.

“Does it make you feel any better?” I ask looking her in the eyes and the hot sensation on my cheeks is reflected in the fury in her eyes.

Not waiting for an answer, I walk past her when she pulls me back and said “Do you think he loves you? Wake up! He’s only with you because of the mate bond and not because he loves you. He chose ME but you had to appear from nowhere and ruin it all.”

She sounded like a maniac as she spoke but what hurts more than her slap is that there’s some truth to what she says. Arthur would have been happily mated to her if I didn’t show up and if I left, nothing much would probably change.

“You are right Debby, he discarded you because of my bond with him but whether or not he loves me is none of your business”

“Are you that selfish?” she hisses as she folds her hands before her.

“He has been facing a lot of pressure from the council, his people talk behind his back all because of you and here you are selfishly clinging on to him.”

I always knew they didn’t want me especially because am different but I never knew he was facing some troubles too.

“Do you all hate me that much?” I ask shakily as I try to endure the burning pain in my chest.

“Hate? Have you seen yourself? Pointy ears, black skin, messy hair and unknown background. You are nothing but a threat to us and a burden to Arthur so it would be great if you got lost”

She left after saying what she wanted to and though the break was over, I didn’t feel like going back to class. I just want to get lost but I don’t know the outside world, I’ve heard of it, read of it, watched videos of it but I’ve never left this town and today… I want to.