A Proposal For The Rejected Luna

d ended. The one person I thought I could always count on. His eyes, cold a

" "But Kara is my true mate. 'She'

happening? If even Mason, my most trusted mate, could betray me like this, who else would be capable of su

" We've been together for years. I believed we were

"I'm sorry, Cassie. It's not my choice. It's fa

e, and see everything we had built together. I st

ll just a mistake. "You're just confused. You've been wit

flicked to the floor. "I've tried, Cassie. But I can't keep preten

ouldn't breathe. I couldn't think. I had given him everythi

d barely form the words I whispere

rned away, his back facing me now, his b

ible. I had always known mates were forever, but

Don't just walk

verything before I knew it. The pack gathered behind him, in the den, watchin

ere, silently cho

ugh the whole thing, but now he was standing close by, his eyes full o

t express. My everything, my mate, had just chosen anoth

omething else. It was so sharp and all-consuming that I thought I might suffocate from it. I could

the words and whispered a

t walked away, disappearing

ed and left s

orld felt unreal. Like none of it made sense. Why would Mason do this to me? How

the pack against me. They didn't care about me. They couldn't. They would have sto

o close. I didn't want to turn around, but c

tone. "I know this is hard. But y

in. Nothing could right now. It wasn't when the one person I trusted mo

d time to when Mason was mine. The pack was a family, an

alone for a while," I s

n. I pushed past pack members who barely looked up and ran as f

The cold air, the silence, the trees. No one co

To breathe, think, and understa

know if I was running from Mason, my pack, or myself. The ache in my chest, growing

felt like they might collapse. I finally slowed down an

t n

ed, what should I do? How could I stay in t

terly lost. But there was nothing. No answers. Only the sound

betrayed me, or would I leave ev

now. I cou

pain was

tely, alone for the f

is it time to leave