𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐀✔️

FORTYONE|MINE

He stood over her, just as I had hours earlier.
He touched her face, just as I had.

The only thing I had that he didn't, was the mate bond.

-But one of the many things he had that I did not, was her affection.

Every time he touched her if left as though a dagger had pierced my heart. I didn't want to feel this way, but the moon goddess insisted.

I was done fighting her. I was tired.

Though recently she had seemed almost as worn as I was, she wasn't picking fights between us. Or at least that was what I thought.

I ignored the horrid feeling in my chest the night of the ball when she had disappeared. I told myself that the feeling was merely due to her absence. She would barley touch me let alone another male. That was what I told myself.

But deep down I knew where she was, I knew what she was doing... Just not who she was doing it with.

-But now I knew.

I should have been filled with rage as the mate bond declared, but instead a strange and heavy feeling settled upon my chest. The weight of knowing that my mate wasn't really mine after all.

The bond meant nothing to her.
I meant nothing to her.

On the outside it didn't surprise me that she felt nothing for me. As she said herself, we fucked and that was all. Nothing more nothing less.

But deep down I hoped, I prayed that it meant something more to her. It did to me.

And I knew that I had fucked things up between us right from the start when I treated her like an animal, tying her to that pole for days on end.

I thought I could break her, I truly did.

But afterwards, she was so strong. Stronger than I could ever have imagined.

It was ironic that now, when I was trying everything I could to bring her back to me was when she seemed the most broken. She had seemed down, she was quiet and completely out of character. -But now I knew why. She was fucking someone else behind my back, another Alpha if all people.

I didn't know if any part of her still held onto me, still wanted me even if it was just a fraction of how I felt about her. Something, anything. I needed something. Some lifeline to hang onto no matter how small or weak.

Instead I had nothing.

And that filled me with an unfamiliar feeling, my chest grew tight and the urge to explode building up within my lungs. Anger and something else, something stronger... something like grief?

No.
How could I grieve over something that was never mine.

I fought back the stinging sensation in my eyes long enough to growl. "What are you doing in here?"

His hand shot away from her face, and he span to face me.

Alpha Marus of White moon.

A young Alpha, though only slightly younger than myself.

He stared at me through pale blue eyes, almost unnerving in their likeness to the moon.

"I saw the fight." He commented, turning back to brush a stray dark hair out of her face. "I wanted to make sure she was okay."

I grit my teeth. Anger slowly sleeping through, turning the mixture of emotions red.
How dare he take what was mine.

"She's fine." I snapped.

He let out a hollow laugh. "Well, she's certainly stronger than she looks."

How could she love him?

A growl slipped from between my lips, and I had to turn my back to the man to stop my rage getting the best of me.

What was this feeling.

Something was broken inside me, the shards like glass burying them selves deep beneath a stony heart.

My fists clenched as everything within me continued to build up, if I didn't leave soon I would explode.

"I should really be getting back-" He began, sensing the tension so thick in the air you could almost taste it.

"-Wait." The words came out forced and tight through gritted teeth. "...The moon will always get her way."

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