Chapter 104


    Willow


    “Rose”


    I woke up in a cold sweat, my heart racing as shes of mes and screams from the past filled my


    mind. The memories that I had forgotten for so long had returned, flooding me with guilt and sorrow.


    The image of my pack, my family, being engulfed in fire haunted me. It had all happened because


    of my love of fire and my careless wish for everyone to disappear that had been spoken to the


    wrong person. It was my fault that so many innocent lives had been lost.If only I had not saved him


    that day


    My heart constricted painfully out of guilt as I pressed my face against the cold hard floor. I had


    been lying here since I had been knocked unconscious during the mental pressure and memories of


    the past. I couldn’t tell how much time had passed. My entire brain throbbed with pain and my body


    too for some reason, and I couldn’t even muster the strength to move a muscle. Yet, despite my


    broken state, I could still feel a strange sensation through the bond I shared with my children.


    My heart pounded in my chest as I forced myself to sit up from the cold hard floor. Two days had


    passed since I sent the first round of pills to Reuben for our children, but I still hadn’t received the


    last dose for Wyatt and Lori. Panic consumed me as I clutched at my chest, feeling a heaviness


    growing inside. Something was definitely wrong with our children, time was running out to get that


    last dose to them before it was toote.


    My hands trembled as I pushed myself to get up on my feet before the bedroom door. opened. My


    heart raced with fear, thinking that he had returned for his sick and twisted desires that he could


    never satisfy with me. He was like a rabid animal, willing to consumet my flesh just to satisfy his


    insatiable lust but since Reuben and I had mated and marked each other, my wolf denied his


    advances. He could not force me to for sex, causing him not to rape me at all.


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    But as the door swung open, it was not him standing there. Instead, an unknown woman strode in


    with arge te in her hands, her expression unreadable yet her shivers down my spine.


    presence sent


    She stopped in front of me and stated, “please let me help you get ready, Luna.”


    Luna? Why was she calling me by that title? What the hell was going on now? “Why do I have to get


    ready?” I demanded, a very bad feeling rising in my heart.


    “For your wedding to Alpha Dark. The New Moon is only a few hours away,” she exined.


    “My wedding to Dark?” My eyes widened in horror as I stared at her as though she had sumbed


    to madness. Yet, the meticulously arranged attire and jewelry that had been ced upon the grand


    tray she presented to me contradicted any of my doubts. “Absurd…” I muttered, vigorously shaking


    my head. “I am not…”


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    “Please, allow me to assist you in dressing,” she began advancing toward me, clutching the


    wedding gown in her grasp. “The Alpha is growing impatient…”


    “Have you lost your mind? Stay away from me!” I yelled at her, hurling the wedding gown aside in a


    fit of rage. Itnded on the floor, prompting her swift retrieval. “Where is Dark? Where is he?!” I


    demanded, but she merely lowered her head in response.


    “Please, get dressed, Luna,” she persisted, evidently determined to dress me against my will.


    “You understand nothing…” I stared at her in disbelief, then stormed out of the bedroom in search of


    Dark.


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    “Dark!” I shouted in the never–ending hallway. The whole ce was like a maze. Every hall seemed


    to be identical. It had been six days and I still had not been able to figure out where exactly I was. It


    was like a pce that had been constructed underground where everything was dark, gloomy, and


    wanted to consume me whole. There was no escape from here. “DARK! I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR


    ME!” I screamed into the air, not knowing where to find him. He was always the one that came to


    my room, but when he was not here, I always felt his eyes on me and his presence around me like


    a curse.


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    “This is the first time you called me by name,” he said. I paused in the middle of the hallway with a


    gasp when my surroundings drastically changed. Suddenly I found myself in a dark yet very


    beautiful room where Dark stood right in front of me, his hand touching my cheek with his face a few


    inches away from mine. “Say it again,” he whispered, his eyes filled with sick needs.


    I stared into his eyes. “Give me thest dose,” I demanded.


    “What dose, Rose?” he replied, feigning ignorance.


    His question set off a wave of panic inside me. “Thest dose of pills for my children. Their


    condition seems to be worsening. Please give them to me like you promised!” I reminded him.


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    He pulled away from me and turned to pick up a ss of wine. “You will get themter,” he replied


    casually.


    “Why?! I need them now! My children’s lives are in danger. They are dying!” I turned to face him,


    desperation evident in my voice. “I have done everything you wanted and obeyed you. Now please


    give me thatst dose,” I begged.


    He frowned and grabbed me by the throat. “I said you will get itter. Now go and for our wedding,”


    he growled, pushing me away.


    get ready


    I staggered, struggling to keep my bnce as his words hit me like a sucker punch to the gut. So


    what that woman had said was correct? Dark wanted to marry me? My whole body shook with this


    dreadful revtion. By marrying me he somehow wanted to im my body and soul, “I am not


    marrying you!” I murmured, taking a step back.


    “What did you say?” His eyes shed with


    anger,


    his expression darkening.


    I clenched my fists, straightened my back and repeated, “I am not marrying you!” I dered.


    He threw the wine ss furiously on the ground and grabbed my throat. “DID YOU FUCKING


    THINK I WAS ASKING FOR YOUR OPINION?!” he barked in my face, his mismatched eyes


    growing darker and scarier. “I AM ORDERING YOU,” he dug his nails slowly into my flesh. “GO


    AND GET READY IF YOU NEED PILLS. WE ARE GOING TO GET FUCKING MARRIED TODAY


    ON THE NEW MOON AND THAT’S FINAL.”


    “AHHH…” I hissed in great pain but never tore my eyes from him. “This order of yours will never be


    fulfilled. I am not going to marry you, I will not submit to you. I will dly allow you to turn me into a


    dead body to do those things too, if you are capable of doing that.”


    “Say that again and see if you ever get thest dose from me,” he growled lowly. My face turned


    white at his threat. “Another refusal from those lips will cost you the lives of your children. Their


    lungs will burn, their blood will run dry, and there will not be a single part of their body that will not


    rot until death…”


    “NO! YOU CAN’T DO THAT!” I screamed in horror as he made me envision my children dying in all


    the gruesome ways he described. “GIVE ME THE PILLS! GIVE THEM TO ME!!!” I screeched like a


    crazed woman, scratching his chest with my sharp ws and drawing blood.


    He slid his hand from my throat to my cheek, his touch sending shivers down my spine. “What


    happened so suddenly? Weren’t you just talking about death and some other shit?” he grinned


    wickedly. “I would even marry your dead body, but do you have the guts to see your children die the


    worst death imaginable? Do you have the guts to watch your soulmatemit suicide as I burn his


    pack and his people to ash, then have you in front of his eyes? Do you have the guts to watch him


    die?” he questioned, his eyes glinting with malevolence as tears finally gathered in my eyes. “The


    last time, you sacrificed yourself to save him, but now, do you have anything to offer me when I am


    close to im every hole of your body tonight on our wedding bed?”


    As he spoke, memories of those dark nights flooded my mind–the moments when I couldn’t escape,


    I had to leave Reuben and our babies.


    He smiled at my shattered state and traced his finger along my lips. “You’re refusing to marry me


    because you’re still clinging to Reuben’s love, aren’t you?” he taunted. “But will he ept a woman


    that has stayed with another man day and night over three days?” he grinned.


    I wanted to die at that moment when he mentioned it, “Nothing happened between us!”


    He loved the expression on my face and leaned closer to my lips, “it is something only you and I


    know. Will Reuben believe it? Every bite mark on your body screams my name. I’ve made you my


    whore, my bitch that will spread her legs only for me from tonight! Do you think he’ll ept a


    whore?” he jeered.


    I bit my lip to stifle my tears and replied, “Reuben will believe me. He loves me for who I am,


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    not just my body”


    “What a blind love,” he scoffed angrily, yanking violently at my hair. “But I wonder if he’ll still love the


    woman who won’t be his anymore, not just physically but also down to her soul.”


    I shuddered at his words. “What do you mean I won’t be his, not even my soul? I belong to Reuben,


    now and always,” I retorted, only to then recoil as his gaze slid from my eyes to my neck, where my


    mate mark was. “What… what are you looking at?” I began to struggle in his grasp, terrified of the


    sinister intent in his eyes focused on my mark.


    “What if you are no longer his soulmate?” he locked eyes with me, the corner of his lips curling into


    a meaningful smile.


    “No…” I shook my head, understanding his intentions. “Please don’t,” I struggled wildly, waving my


    arm around, “NOOOO!!” I cried, pushed him away then turned around to run out of the room. But


    just as I was getting away, the door closed itself and Dark caught me.


    “Where do you think you are going?” he growled and pinned me on the floor.


    “NO! DON’T!!” I screamed, but he ruthlessly tilted my neck to the side and bit my neck, marking me


    over Reuben’s mark. “NOOOOO…” I howled loudly in pain seeing it felt like my soul and wolf were


    being ripped out of my body. His mate mark killed something inside me as Reuben’s mate mark on


    my neck disappeared.


    He pulled his canines out, licked the blood clean and whispered in my ear, “Now you are only mine,”


    he kissed my lips and got off me. Iy on the floor motionless and in pain. “You have half an hour to


    get ready for the wedding. Don’t make mee find you,” saying, he turned and left the room.


    I slowly lifted my hand and touched my neck where Reuben’s mark had once been. Tears gathered


    in my eyes and I cried loudly. “Reuben….”


    I couldn’t feel him anymore. I could not feel our mate bond. I lost him. I curled into a ball and cried


    loudly. I had lost everything that meant anything to me; my parents, my children, and now Reuben


    too.


    “Luna,” that woman once again came with the wedding dress in her arms. “Please take a shower


    and I will help you to get dressed,” curled on the floor, I stared at the wedding gown for a long time.


    So it was how everything was suppose to be from the beginning? Reuben and I could never be


    together?


    Iy on the ground like a dead, staring at the wedding gown that was nothing but grave- clothes for


    me. I bit my lips harder and dug my nails in my palm.


    I got


    up


    and took the dress from the woman’s arms and entered the bathroom. She looked at me in surprise.


    Standing under the shower, I recalled the death of my parents and every pack member. My children


    were ina, my dignity was long gone and I no longer shared a bond with Reuben. I had nothing


    to lose.


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    I donned the wedding dress and did my own hair before I looked at myself in the mirror,


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    From then on there would be no tears or pain. I opened the door where the woman stood with a


    bouquet of flowers in her hand that I snatched and tossed the train of the long gown- behind me


    before I walked to the room where Dark was standing under the ss roof from which the dark sky


    could be seen.


    He looked me up and down before locking eyes with my dead ones. My ws secretly came out in


    blood thirst as he extended a hand to me.


    I would take revenge for everything he had done to me. From now on there would be either Dark or


    Willow in this world, not both.


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    I had nothing to lose.


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