Once Rejected Now Wanted By Two

IRIS' POV

My face burned from the disgusted look he threw my way. My hands balled themselves and I held the hem of my dress in agony as the look forced my head to bow and my eyes to be casted away from every direction he could throw my way.

My heart ached from the words unsaid and internally I cringed at the moment his lips would utter the words I knew were only a breath away.

While I stood,my hands holding my hem for dear life and my eyes cared away from even his shadows, he began to circle around me, his demeanor, that of a predator and I, an unworthy prey.

"You can't really believe you're my mate. Do you?" he spat at me and I flinched back in fear, fighting back my tears.

All my life I'd look forward to meeting my mate. It was every wolf dream and mine also. I admired the love and chemistry between my parents and wanted someone to love me the same way.

I wanted someone to share my dreams with me, share my happiness with me, share my pain with me. I wanted a mate who would treat me like I was his world and his essence but I've always being unlucky.

When Alpha Xander turned out to be my mate, I was the happiest person on earth to have found my mate. Not just anybody, he was the soon to be Alpha of brazen wolf pack plus he was smoking hot.

The moon goddess didn't hate me after all or so I thought. The moment our eyes met, instead of happiness I saw anger, hatred and disgust in his eyes.

"Why...why don't you want me?" I asked,a tear falling from my eyes.

He snarled at me,his teeth out and baring.

He hated me that much.

"Stop crying," he barked at me. I wished the ground could just open up and swallow me. Why did the moon goddess have to give me someone that wouldn't want me?

"Why don't you want me?" I sniffed, trying to stop the tears but they just wouldn't stop. They kept rushing out against my will.

"Because you're weak and pathetic," he eyed me irritated. I could feel my heart being crushed to pieces by an invisible fire and I could do nothing to stop it.

"You don't even have a wolf. You're 18 and you've never shifted and you have no possibility of ever shifting. Rather than stay alive, you should have died. I can't have a weak girl like you as my mate. You will only be a liability to me and I don't want a liability as a mate."

With teary eyes, I looked into his eyes hoping to find a little warmth in it for me but I found nothing but disgust and hatred.

"Please, I'm sure I'll still meet my wolf. I still have time and I'll become stronger." I held his hands and I felt the electric shock again. I looked at him hoping he'd feel it too but even if he did, he didn't care.

"I, Alpha Xander, future alpha of the Brazen wolf pack, rejects you Iris Conner as my mate," he said, flinging my hands away.

The pain that seared through my heart was unbearable. It felt as though hot iron was penetrated deep into my heart. I squeezed my eyes shut as I tried fight the pain. The feeling of rejection was so painful.

"Accept the rejection!" He grabbed my chin roughly, forcing my eyes. He didn't love me and he didn't care that I was in pain. He wasn't even moved my the rejection and I seemed to be the only one in pain.

"I, Iris Conner, accept your rejection," I said, my voice breaking. Whatever connection I had left with him, disappeared the moment I accepted his rejection. He immediately released me from his hold as though I burnt him.

"Let this be between us, no other soul should hear about the fact that you were ever my mate," he glared at me. I saw his mouth moving and heard what he said but I couldn't comprehend what he was saying. I just stared at him blankly with the tears still cascading down my face.

He stomped away leaving me all to myself and collapsed on the floor, crying my eyes out.

Why was I so unlucky?

Throughout my high school days, I was bullied for not having a wolf like everyone else. My friends from junior school became my bullies and worst nemesis.

Was it my fault that I was yet to have a wolf?

I've always wanted a wolf like everyone else but I never got one. I was the only one in my age group without a wolf.

I was sure the moon goddess hated me. Although my mom thought differently but if she didn't, why wouldn't she give me my wolf?

Why would she give me a mate that would reject me?

I stood up from the ground and stumbled home. I got pitiful stares from those that walked past me and mocking stares from others.

I just wanted to be in the arms of my mother.

I got home in no time and was about to go in when I heard mom and dad discussing about me.

"What should we do about Iris?" I heard mom's worried voice and dad sighed.

"She's being so unhappy lately and has no friends. No one wants to relate with her and it pains me so much to see my baby in so much pain."

"I've been worried about her too. I wish there was a way we could help her. I thought she was a wolf when we picked her by the river side. If we knew she was a human we would have taken her to the humans and would not have brought her here." My hands flew to my as I covered my mouth in surprise over what I heard Dad said.

They were not my parents neither was I a wolf.

I choked on my sobs as I tried not to be heard. I stepped away from the door as fresh tears rolled down from my eyes.

Xander was right, I ought not to have been born, I ought not to be alive and I definitely do not belong here.

My entire life was a lie. They always made me believe that I was special which was why I never had a wolf. I believed them even when the kids bullied me because their words gave me hope.

They lied to me. I was never theirs from the start, my real parents obviously saw how useless I was and dumped me immediately.

I ran away from home, running through the woods crying as the wind blew my hair around. I was truly a nobody and I was just living a fake identity all this while.

I stopped at the cliff edge and looked around, admiring the beauty of the trees as I wiped my never ending tears. I wish my life could be as beautiful as these trees. I looked down the cliff and gulped at the depth. I took a step back fearfully.

"What are you waiting for? Jump and end everything. You have no life here, you have no mate, you have no parents either. You were abandoned. So, what's stopping you?" Guilt gnaw at me at the thought of leaving my parents but I had to. They weren't even my real parents. I was just a liability to them.

"I'm sorry Mom, I'm sorry Dad."

With my eyes closed, I etched forward and let myself fall down the cliff.

The world would be better without me.