“Alpha? You’re just a puppet to them.” Sylvia chuckled like a madwoman.
Her words were starting to irritate me a lot. With one swift movement of my arm, I threw her down to the floor.
“You bitch! You think you’re so noble, huh? Well, if you don’t like this arrangement, then I can just send you to be a sex slave. You’ll get fucked by thousands of different werewolves! Can you still be so noble then?”
My parents passed away while I was still very young, so I couldn’t take on the Alpha position yet. Instead, the Gamma temporarily filled in as Alpha at the time. For many years now, all the pack’s affairs had been under the control of the Gamma. The pack members also grew to trust him. But now that I was about to become Alpha, it seemed that I had no trust or power over these people at all.
It was all because of Sylvia’s mother, that traitor. How dared she mock me like this?
On the floor, Sylvia coughed a few times and gasped for air. She then looked up at me fearlessly.
“Are you done yet? Can I get back to work now?”
“Fine. Since you want to be a slave so bad, I’ll make it official for you.” I smiled deviously. “As the future Alpha of the Black Moon Pack, I, Shawn Gibson, hereby solemnly reject you, Sylvia Todd, as my mate.”
I looked at Sylvia with cold eyes, waiting for the regret to show on her face and maybe she would shed some tears.
However, Sylvia stood up slowly with a blank expression. She even seemed… relieved.
“Thank you for that, Shawn.”
I blinked in confusion, wondering what about my declaration just now was something to be thankful for. Why didn’t this goddamn slave feel sad at all?
Before I could say something else, Sylvia looked at me with a cold smile. “I, Sylvia Todd, the daughter of the deceased Beta Olivia Todd of the Black Moon Pack, hereby accept your rejection.”
After saying that, Sylvia turned around and left without even looking back. I was too shocked by what happened to stop her and get the last word.
I just wanted to threaten her. After all, after rejecting the Alpha, I was certain she wouldn’t be able to find a better werewolf, ever!
For a long time, I stood there, stunned that the slave she-wolf simply accepted my rejection without even being sad or hesitant about it.
In my anger, I smashed the vase beside me into a million pieces. I immediately tried to form a plan in my head to torture her and make her regret her decision.
“Shawn, what have you done? You were acting too impulsively again! Why did you reject Sylvia? We’re never going to have a mate as beautiful as her again! Go! Get her back, please!” Zeke was frustrated.
“No, Zeke. I’m going to teach her a lesson about regret.” Seeing Sylvia’s receding figure out the window, I only wished that she would be back here so that I could rip her to shreds.
“And how are you going to teach her that lesson? Don’t go too far with it, Shawn. You’re about to become the Alpha. Now is time to build a good reputation, not a reckless one,” Zeke persuaded me.
“Prince Rufus is coming to my inauguration ceremony today. I heard he is a ruthless and bloodthirsty one. A pack once gifted him a female slave and he tortured her to death! I’m going to send Sylvia to his bed.”
“What? No! Are you insane? You’re practically sending her to her death! Sylvia is your mate!” Zeke strongly opposed.
“Not anymore.” I gritted my teeth.
Obviously, my wolf refused to give up on Sylvia, and so did my body. Every time she crossed my mind, I would get that same burning passion inside again.
But I didn’t care. By the time she’d be dying from being tortured by Prince Rufus, she would be begging on her knees to come back to me.
Unfortunately, the only place I allowed lowly slave she-wolves like her to beg was on my bed.
Sylvia’s POV
“Well, it’s a good thing Shawn took the initiative to reject us himself,” Yana said in relief.
“I agree entirely. Who knows I’d be assigned to be that disgusting playboy’s mate?” I sighed and dragged my feet down the stairs.
“Oh, cheer up, honey. At least, Shawn is out of our worries now. That’s a good thing!” Yana comforted me.
“Yeah, but is it bad that I don’t think so highly of the mate bond anymore?” I frowned.
“I understand. But maybe it was just a fluke. Perhaps the second mate lined up for you by the Moon Goddess will be an excellent man.”
“You think so? Oh, I hope you’re right.”
I thought of the current situation I was in. Considering that I was still trapped down here, who was I to expect some kind of magical love anyway?
Yana must have sensed my emotions and decided to give me some space.
All I wanted was to seek justice for my mother. No matter what I had to face, may it be thorns and blood, I knew I had to forge on for my mother. But quite frankly, I didn’t have an idea where to start.
Depression overwhelmed me for a moment. Obviously, I couldn’t have one minute of silence for myself as an angry she-wolf came striding towards me.
“Bitch! I’ve been looking for you! Have you just been hiding and slacking off all this time?” She picked up a broom that leaned against the wall and tried to whack me with it.
I dodged to the side and made up a distraction. “Shawn’s looking for you. Something’s wrong with the suit, I think.”
The she-wolf immediately stopped in her tracks and glared at me.
“Why didn’t you say so? If this impacts the business, you’re going to suffer for it!” She dropped the broom and scolded me a little more before leaving me alone.
“Prince Rufus is coming to the ceremony today. Get out of here and help with the preparations! If I catch you slacking off again, I will break your legs!”
When I heard that Prince Rufus was coming today, I got an idea. Maybe I could make an appeal to him.
I hurried to the banquet hall, hoping I could get a glimpse of him. Unfortunately, the guards stopped me at the entrance, saying that slaves were not allowed to enter.
I decided to hide in the corner and wait there instead.
Not so far away, several she-wolves who were going to the ceremony were gossiping.
“I heard that Prince Rufus is a lustful and bloodthirsty tyrant. One time, he took a female slave to bed and then tortured her to death that same night!”
“Oh, I heard that story too! Apparently, he’s powerful, but very heartless. Even the lycan king couldn’t do anything about him.”
“You know, I heard that it was the lycan king who was supposed to come today, but it just so happened that Prince Rufus was passing by this way on his way back, so he’s the one attending instead.”
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