Chasing His Betrayed Luna novel Chapter 2

AURELIA

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I have always known no one in the pack respected me as their Luna but until now, no one except Nina had the guts to disrespect me to my face. They usually murmured and laughed at me behind my back but they wouldn't dare lay their hands on me.

But that changed the minute Nina gave the warriors an order that I didn't know would change my life forever…

“What are you doing? You can’t do this!” I yelled, struggling to free myself from the stronghold of the warriors whose hands were crushing my shoulder as they attempted to yank me out of the kitchen.

My struggles were futile, of course.

I was pulled out of the kitchen like a lightweight paper by the warriors despite my screams of protest.

“What are you planning to do with me?” Are they kidnapping me, I asked myself but quickly blurted another question. “What gives you the right to touch me? I belong to the Alpha and he would have your head for ever laying your hands on me!”

Nina laughed hysterically. She told the warriors to pause for a minute, showing her twisted face before mine. “You really think you mean anything to him? He despises you, Aurelia and we all do–”

That was old news.

“Tell me something you haven’t told me before, Nina.” I tried to be the strong Luna. I really tried. “What gives you the right to come into my matrimonial home, give orders, and treat me like a mere slave?”

I wasn’t so sure I could handle the answer that Nina would give but what the heck was going on?

“You mean who gave me the right, huh?” Nina corrected me, emphasizing the ‘Who’ like she was trying to prove a point.

Actually, she was.

My heart constricted sharply as it drew on me that there was only one person who could give such right to Nina and the warriors. But he wouldn’t–

“The Alpha wants you out of the Alpha Mansion. He ordered your removal, Luna.” Nina broke to me, her voice carrying mockery. “And to clarify, you are just a mere slave, Luna.”

My world tumbled and crashed instantly. At least that was what I thought was happening to me as the warriors resumed pulling me out of the mansion. While Nina’s words resonated in my head over and over again, it became difficult to fight against the warriors.

Alpha Raiden wanted me out of our home?

Why? Why would he do that?

I knew he didn’t love me but still, he needed me. He needed our bond to remain the strongest Alpha and one of the promising ones in our world.

Although I asked myself questions just so I’d understand the situation, I couldn’t. So I asked Nina another question just as I was dragged through the entrance of the mansion, “Where are you taking me?”

Nina glanced at me briefly, muttering, “Where you belong. Where you actually belong.”

Her response was meant to taunt and break me further but unfortunately for Nina, even I didn’t know where I belonged without Alpha Raiden.

The fear and curiosity that zapped through my body intensified when Nina gave out orders to some of the servants that were outside the mansion, waiting to witness my fall from grace to grass, “Why are you standing around? Get in there and remove every bit of trash she owned.”

A bile rose in my throat but I pushed it down. It was hard not to cry. My eyes were stinging and the fact that I was being watched by some of the pack members wasn’t helping. I was embarrassed. Getting dragged out of my matrimonial home like this was nothing short of disgraceful.

“Why would you let them do this to me?”

That question was for my mate but I asked myself, tears swelling in my eyes. I let my gaze shift to the floor and didn’t struggle with the warriors anymore. I lost the will to fight, sadness creeping into my body like it was created to be a part of me.

The Raiden I fell in love with wouldn’t let anyone treat me like this. He used to be a sweetheart. A kind-hearted person.

Five years ago, when I was just sixteen years old, Alpha Raiden had barked at some of my bullies, “You will treat her with respect unless you have a death wish.”

Back then, he was the Alpha Prince and he always stood up for me even though I was the rootless and wolfless servant in the pack. I fell in love with that eighteen years old boy but clearly, Alpha Raiden wasn’t that boy anymore.

Sniffing back tears, I could only wonder what changed.

Like a bag of spoiled grain, I was tossed into an unfamiliar room. “Where am I?” I asked.

I would have known If I paid attention to the paths I was dragged through but I had been lost in thoughts. I didn’t even notice that Nina was no longer with us until now.

One of the warriors, the taller one of the two, answered gruffly, “Somewhere far away from the Alpha’s mansion just like we were commanded.” His eyes sparkled with mischief as they raked down my body. “You and I could have some fun, you know? Since the Alpha is done with you. You know I have always wanted to feel those cheeks of yours–”

My face furrowed, curiosity setting into my mind as I took the papers. “What is this-” I started asking with a low tone.

But the rest of my words died in my throat when I saw the heading on the front page – Dark Moon Pack’s Court Issued Divorce Papers.

My eyes widened, my jaw hit the floor hard and my heart shattered just as my hands began to tremble. I thought I wouldn’t cry anymore, at least for the day but my eyes stung with tears and there was no stopping them.

“D-divorce.” I blurted, my blurry eyes shifting to Nina’s emotionless face. “H-ow can t-this be f-for m-me? W-what am I–”

“Can you please do the needful and stop wasting my time with your stupid questions!” Nina cut me off without batting an eye.

I shook my head vigorously. This shouldn't be happening.

Alpha Raiden needed me. Right?

He can’t– I can’t lose him. He is my everything. The only person that was mine. He was my consolation gift from the goddess for crying out loud! My legs gave out as I sobbed like the devastated woman that I was.

“Sign the damn papers, Aurelia!” Nina hissed at me.

“No!” I hissed right back, surprising both Nina and me. “I won’t sign this. I want to see my mate. I demand an audience with Alpha Raiden.”

Nina stared at me like I had grown two heads for a minute before she burst out laughing. She voiced, clearly amused, “Who are you to demand an audience? Who do you think you are to not sign the papers that the Alpha already signed? He ordered you to sign them immediately–”

I cut in, my pain turning into anger, “I’m his mate!” Nina frowned but I didn't let that stop me. I had nothing to lose. “That’s who I’m, Nina. His mate and I demand to see him this instant because I sure as hell won’t be signing these damned papers!” Even though he had signed them.

Whether it was awe or anger in Nina’s eyes, I couldn’t tell but I soon sensed that she was talking to Alpha Raiden through the mental connection that everyone with wolves in the pack shared. I wasn’t a part of that connection for obvious reasons.

I wasn’t surprised when Nina announced, “The Alpha will see you in his office.”

However, the biggest shock of my life hit me right in the chest the second I stepped into my mate’s office for the first time in my life.

She was right there in his office, on his lap, in his arms and he was kissing her passionately.