But no, she just smiled right at him, the perfectly happy smile she had when she looked at babies, real happiness there on the surface not only for him to see, but to know it was actually for him, she really was happy for him right this very minute; That he had found his Goddess-Gifted Mate.
Vex wanted to snarl at her for seeing her so happy about him being gifted to another, but turned and stalked off away to the back of his mind, ‘I’m not voicing it.’ he snarled at Parker and lay down inside his mind to watch her from back there. She’d been mated by his wolf in human form as often as she had been by Parker himself. They were both attached to her and both wanted her.
His wolf was annoyed as much as Parker was right this very minute that she could be so bloody happy for them, it was not what he wanted to see from her; not at all. She and Carina were two very different people from what he’d seen so far. Belladonna was the better of the two of them, and he knew it.
Parker
He had brought Belladonna into his office because he actually wanted to talk to her, because he wasn’t 100% sold on his Goddess-Gifted Mate. He didn’t know what he should do. Chosen verses Gifted it was a dilemma. They also had a very specific mating alliance as well, which defined the two Mates.
Carina, he had seen strutting about at that mating ball flirting with all the highly ranked members. She’d not so much as paid attention to anyone that was below Delta Rank. He had also not been attracted to her at all. Yes, she had a pretty face, but her attitude turned him off and left a lot to be desired.
She’d glanced at him only briefly, her eyes had landed on his filigree, and she turned her eyes to his unit, all of whom were also mated, had looked annoyed about it and turned and clicked away in her heels to look at other Alphas and their units. She’d found a few that weren’t claimed and hung about them.
Was he knew looking to get herself a ranked member, likely an Alpha, with the way she’d looked at him before his unit even. He’d also seen her rap out orders to the omegas and get angry at them when they didn’t do as she told them to fast enough.
He’d seen several of them back away and cringe when she walked their way, tried to hide from her he’d thought, so had his unit. She appeared to be a very entitled young lady. Was only 20 and enjoyed lording herself over others, was beta-blooded and used that to push those beneath her around.
He’d not actually agreed to take her as his mate at this time either. He had only agreed to sign a basic agreement, that would see her be brought here to his pack, to get to know her, seeing as he already had a Mate and Luna.
He understood one’s Goddess-Gifted Mate made you stronger, and was good for the pack, though he also knew that only occurred if the Alpha and Luna’s bond worked, and they fell in love, and with every day their bond grew stronger and flourished. Because they would make each other a better person.
But he had a Luna that was good at her job, well liked and never lorded herself over anyone. Treated the omegas here just like all the others in this pack, with kindness and respect. His pack with Belladonna here was healthy and prosperous, his pack members were happy and so was he 90% of the time.
Carina was, from all appearances, going to be the complete opposite to Belladonna, in every way, including he thought, the way she was going to treat the pack members, and that actually bothered him greatly.
He knew why he’d really brought Carina here to his pack, it was not just so that Belladonna could see her and know he was going to reject her on the spot. No, he was trying to elicit an angry or jealous response from Belladonna herself.
To have her show him, that deep down inside of her, that she did care about being bonded to him, and wanted to be here, to be his Luna. But he was not getting that at all, not even anything close to it. A part of him was more than annoyed with her for that, but mostly he was just disappointed that she felt nothing.
He’d hoped that there were some sort of feelings to be had with his current Mate and Luna. Anything at all would do; annoyance, anger, jealousy or sadness. Anything but happiness at him finding his Goddess-Gifted Mate, and her being replaced by that woman, but there was just nothing that he could see; nothing at all.
He couldn’t read Freya, had never been able to. She was closed off to everyone inside this pack. He nor Vex had ever laid eyes on Freya, not even when they went into heat, he didn’t even know what colour eyes that wolf had. She never surfaced, not even when Belladonna was knotted to him.
Eight years inside this pack, and Freya only ever emerged when he and Vex were off pack territory. The minute they set foot back into it, she relinquished control to Belladonna. Freya only ever wandered the pack during the night, and out in the depths of the deepest woods away from everyone, she didn’t want to be seen, and he knew it, so did Vex.
Vex had tried to call her wolf out, but the stubborn creature wouldn’t be called out. They were marked and mated by him, and he was her Alpha, but Freya, it seemed, was not one to be told what to do.
Belladonna had stood and stared up at Vex on the surface of his human body when he’d tried to call Freya out to no avail, even with full annoyance and trying to force her wolf to surface, nothing had happened. He couldn’t do it in human or wolfen form. She’d never even attended pack run.
Belladonna had stood before him and shrugged it off uncaringly, she’d not even bowed down to him, had felt it, frowned at his beast, but that had been it, and then she’d sighed at him and his snort of annoyance and stated simply to his beast “She doesn’t want to. I can’t make her.”
He and his unit had come to the conclusion that her wolf wasn’t exactly normal, it must have some distinctive feature that would see her as a Wolf of Destiny, and there were some; Cobalt Wolves, Blood Wolves. He’d read a few tails about them, and maybe if they saw her, they’d never let her leave due to being one of those. That was the conclusion.
He’d not even been able to get a description from Belladonna, she’d simply shaken her head and stated “Freya doesn’t want you to know.” There was no pack photo of her wolf, and no description either, not even so much as her colour.
The moment those words were out of Belladonna’s mouth, as she stared at him in his office almost expectantly, “I was chosen, just to be rejected by you.” he understood her finally, after all these years. This was the day she was waiting for; to be rejected by him.
That’s why her side of the bond never grew. That was why Freya wouldn’t show herself to him or Vex, or be mated by her wolfen Mate. They were nothing to him and his beast in her mind, just something to be held onto, until he was tired of it, and discarded when he found his Goddess-Gifted Mate.
Something that had actually been his intention eight years ago. But she’d changed him, gotten under his skin, and he hated being away from her, away from the pack, because she had never left it, not once in eight years, not even to go shopping. She did everything online from her office or her suite, had never been to his head office in the human world.
He’d always get up and leave her in the Luna’s suite because she had no feelings for him at all. It hurt to know, that although she enjoyed the s*x as much as he did. That he could make her gasp and moan, beg for more, and scream his name at times. That was it, there was nothing more. She never rolled towards him, or asked him to spend the night.
Never once in all their time together had she asked him to come to her room, told him she wanted him outside of a heat. She would mind-link to him when she was in heat, but that was a different thing and didn’t count, in wanting him. She simply had to have him at that time, a compulsion was all, and it was the only time he recalled she ever put hands on him first.
Now to hear her issue that rejection, before he could, and barely a minute had passed inside his office. She wanted out of their Mate Bond, and with that mating alliance they had, she could issue it now, of her own free will. He had to release her from it as well, now that he’d found his Goddess-Gifted Mate.
It hurt to hear those words come from her, hurt to watch his filigree burn off her neck, and he felt Vex howl in pain inside his mind when he heard Parker accept her rejection of them. He had to let her go. It was in their mating alliance, and it was obviously what she wanted.
Parker watched his Gamma touch her and roll that charm over her to help ease her pain at being severed from him. It took only a few minutes before she stood up and thanked Shannon for helping her.
Then she just looked at him and told him to go and mark and mate his Goddess-Gifted, because it would help ease his pain, and once again he didn’t understand her. Then told him she’d be fine, that Kane would complete the necessary paperwork to have their mate bond null and voided officially.
Kane had nodded and agreed to her request, and the three of them watched her turn and walk out of his office. He had no idea how she could just walk away like that, after eight years together.
Belladonna
She walked upstairs to the Luna Suite and stepped inside it, she leaned on that door and looked around at the rooms that had been her home for the past eight years. Knowing that today would be the last day she was in here; she was going to leave this pack today, once everything had been sorted out.
There would be no sleeping in this room one more time, no. She’d call a cab to the pack gate and have it take her into the city. She’d not set a single foot outside the pack in eight long years, and now today… She smiled, and bit her lower lip just a little, she was going to get to. There was just a little bit of excitement building inside of her.
As she looked about the suite it was, as it had been the day she’d been shown into it by Parker, Bella hadn’t changed anything about this room. It still had all the furniture from when she’d moved into it. She’d never really seen a point in making it her own. Parker could well have found his Goddess-Gifted the full moon after he’d marked and mated, any full moon after the previous one, her for all she knew, and so she would be moved out of it.
So, this room, although it was hers, she’d not bothered to personalise it, and it was nicely decorated anyway, in soft sage green and cream with a few white accents, the furnishings were plush and comfortable. The room was nicer than where she had lived previously. There was nothing to complain about with the Luna Suite, as far as she was concerned. Even the living area was nicely decorated and had big French doors that opened out onto a balcony with a view of the forest to the south of the packhouse.
The bed was big and comfortable, there was a lovely soaker tub in the ensuite, all the things a Luna could want; she knew that. But nothing in here represented who she was, not even the clothes she wore. Well, not many of them anyway, there were a few items she’d purchased herself; but she only wore them when Parker was out of the pack.
She stuck to the clothes he’d sent to her; when he was there, it was she knew how he wanted her to dress, as his Luna. So she’d dressed as was expected of her. She was to be his Luna until their bond was severed. She had to do as he pleased, attend to all his wants and needs. That was in her mating alliance, she just presumed that also meant wearing the clothes provided for her as well.
Bella stepped into her walk-in, it was large and everything in there was neatly lined up and folded by the omega that tended to her room, Merideth. She had many lovely suits and dresses in this wardrobe, and nice shoes to match the outfits, though some of the clothes still had tags on them. She often wore scrubs and was in the hospital some days, all day every day.
She had never worn some of the dresses in there, and wasn’t going to take them with her either. She would only take what she came with, and the clothes that she had purchased for herself. Would leave everything Parker had sent up to her, have it taken to the donation bins downstairs; they could be worn by other pack members and put to good use.
She pulled out her suitcase and opened it. Her copy of their mating alliance was in there; it’d been a long time since she’d looked at it. She knew Parker liked to follow all the rules of an agreement, so she needed to make sure that was what she did for her leaving this pack as well.
Bella sat on her bed and looked through it once more, turned to the page that had all the clauses both she and Parker were bound to by, and read over it once more.
1. Belladonna Harrington will be Marked and Mated by Parker Hartly and then hold the title of Luna within the Lustrous Moon Pack.
2. Belladonna Harrington is to perform all duties of a Luna within the Lustrous Moon Pack; including stating the Alpha’s needs and wants. For the entire time, they are bound to each other.
3. All children born between Belladonna Harrington and Parker Hartly during their Mate Bond will remain with Alpha Parker Hartly; after any rejection has been issued, they will be seen and known as the heirs to the Lustrous Moon Pack.
4. Belladonna Harrington, as a Chosen Mate, will reside within the Luna Suite the entire time she is bound to Alpha Parker Hartly. Due to the fact that he could at any given time find his Goddess-Gifted Mate. Only his Goddess-Gifted Mate is entitled to live with him inside the Alpha Suite, and reside in the Alpha’s actual bed.
5. Alpha Parker Hartly is only required to keep Belladonna Harrington as his Chosen Mate until the day he finds his Goddess-Gifted Mate, at which time a rejection and acceptance between Belladonna Harrington and Parker Hartly will be issued.
6. Belladonna Harrington is allowed to continue to study medicine within the Lustrous Moon Pack, so that once she has been rejected and is no longer a Luna-ranked wolf, she has a job to fall back upon. Can find work within another pack of her choosing after the rejection has taken place.
7. There will be no betraying of the mate bond under penalty of death for either party.
8. Once the rejection has been issued and accepted, Belladonna Harrington will return her pack card and pack phone, both of which will be handed directly to a member of the Alpha Unit and signed back into the packs log books. To prevent accusations of unauthorised use of pack funds.
9. Belladonna will receive a monetary sum for her role as the Alpha’s Mate and performing her Luna duties both in and out of the bedroom, a minimum of $12,000 per year.
10. Belladonna will receive, for each child produced if there are any, a one-off payment per child of $25,000 when she relinquishes her claim on them.
11. Alpha Parker Hartly will not Mark or Mate his Goddess-Gifted once he finds her, prior to rejecting his Chosen Mate, Belladonna Harrington. He will wait, regardless of if he is in another pack, off in the wolfen kingdom, and is a day or week away from his pack.
12. Alpha Parker Hartly will not claim his Goddess-Gifted Mate until Belladonna has left the Lustrous Moon Pack, set foot outside the pack’s border.
13. Belladonna Harrington will be given 24hours to pack up and move out of the Lustrous Moon Pack.
14. If Belladonna Harrington grants permission to Alpha Parker, he may Mark and Mate his Goddess-Gifted before she leaves the pack. Within the privacy of the Alpha Suite.
15. The new Luna is not allowed to harm the former Luna of the pack, she must allow Belladonna Harrington time to leave the pack according to this mating alliance agreement.
16. Belladona Harrington will sign a separation agreement, rescinding all her rights to the Lustrous Moon Pack and any claims she may feel she has on Alpha Parker Hartly. All the above-mentioned items that are to be returned will be documented in this agreement.
17. Belladonna Harrington will leave Alpha Parker Hartly and the Lustrous Moon Pack without causing a scene. She will not start any fights with the new Luna taking her place. She will not cause any trouble for Alpha Parker Hartly and his new Mate. She will leave quietly and willingly.
Things Belladonna will retain, or be given to her, that is not mentioned in the above clauses.
I. Any clothing she has purchased directly.
II. Any clothing that has been provided for her.
III. Any gifts given to her by any pack members or Alpha Parker Hartly himself, including jewellery, regardless of the cost.
IV. The Luna’s car. If no car was ever given; then she will be given a pack car of the Alpha’s choosing to leave the pack in and keep for herself. Its registration will be fully signed over to Belladonna, and it will no longer be considered a pack car.
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