Aria’s POV

I sat on the bench beside the river shore heartbroken and shattered, my world has crumbled.

Could I ever know what it feels like to be happy?

I can't continue pushing forever, I thought finding my mate will wipe my tears but hell no! The Moon goddess did the worst by pairing me with Allen of all people.

What was she thinking, that he would leave Amber and come running to me??

What a life!

My heart feels heavy and my throat burns.

I can test the bitterness in my throat. I am broken beyond repair, I thought that mates are the glue that will join the pieces of their other half together but mine was the opposite.

His words were as sharp as a razor blade, too severe and brutal. He is ruthless, cruel, and fierce.

I have always loved him despite his cruel and cold attitude toward me. I do envy his relationship with Amber.

But now that he was supposed to be mine, he rejected me without a second thought. He stares at me with disgust and so much hatred, his cold eyes always make me want to crawl back and shrink in fear.

He doesn't love me which is obvious, he doesn't even care. It seems like my life wasn't meant to experience love, it was meant to be loveless and frustrating.

Soon he was going to be crowned the Alpha of this Pack, I know what he was going to do picking Amber as his mate and then having me banished from the Pack.

I can't allow the humiliation, NEVER!! I can't allow him and others to keep deriving joy and satisfaction in seeing me in pain, in seeing me wallowing in pain.

Struggling to survive, battling to free myself from misery. I have suffered, but I can't continue like this.

They can't continue picking on me, I deserve better. I deserve to be happy, my happiness matters.

"Ah!" Clasping my skirt tight, I cried bitterly.

My existence doesn't matter to anyone, they wished that I didn't exist.

I sniffed before I felt someone push me from behind causing me to twist my wrist as I fell into the muddy water in front of me.

Turning around, I shivered in fear as I watched Amber match toward me. She is not with her minors, this time she came alone.

"How… how can I help you, Amber?" I stammered as I battled with the right word.

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?" With a wicked smirk lingering across her lips, she asked.

"Hmm… Yeah, maybe," I mumbled.

"Maybe…" She drawled.

"Um… I mean yes," clearing my throat, I muttered.

"Good,"

"You know sometimes, I wonder why you were still alive… You are better dead than been alive,"

"Your presence irritates me, not only that it irritates me, it is like a thorn in my flesh…"

I stared at her with pain and anger as hatred and resentment flashed in her eyes.

She strives to act calm but her words give it away, they scream danger and danger.

She irks evil, her attitude sucks that I sometimes wonder what Allen sees in her apart from her beauty, other things concerning her are zero.

"You are worthless, Aria… You think that I am a fool, a blind she-wolf," she scowled.

"How shameless and foolish you had become, I left you for some minutes and you thought that you could flirt around, not only around but with my man!" She yelled the last word causing me to instantly flinch back in fear.

"Your man!" The word rolled out of my lips.

"Yes! My man, Allen… You better not pretend like you don't know what I am saying because I have caught you multiple times gawking and staring at him but today you shamelessly went ahead to have a word with him," she accused.

"How dare you!" She snapped.

I so much wanted to tell her that her so-called boyfriend of hers was no other than my mate!?

The one that the Moon goddess has paired me with. But the fear of Allen had my mouth shut with my tongue tangled to avoid any word slipping out of it.

"I have nothing to do with your man," I forced the word out though the last word hurts.

It hurts to call my mate, my Allen, her man. It hurts!! But I couldn't do anything.

"Don't you dare take me as a fool because I saw everything," she lashed out.

"He came to me," I defend.

"Then what is caging your legs from running away?" She blurted.

"I did run but he is faster than me," I mumble.

It was true, I did run but he caught me before I could make it out of the woods.

"Ah!" I cried out as I held my cheeks with anger and pain reflecting in my eyes.

"How dare you lie against Allen?" She slapped me again across the other side of the cheeks.

"I can never lie against him, I meant everything, please let me go," I cried.

"You whore, you disgust me,"

"Of all people, you came for my man… have you lost it completely?" She kicked me in my ribs causing me to groan in pain.

"What's going on here?" I heard a voice behind me, it is Allen.

God please, why me? I am screwed.

"Babe…" Turning around she sealed her lips with that of Allen, my blood fumes as I watched their lips move in sync.

His hand sneaks around her waist as he pulls her closer to his body, my heart crumbles as I watch with distress and grief how Amber acts all innocent and calm.

This was an angry wolf trying to devour me a minute ago.

It hurts that Allen couldn't even acknowledge my presence. His whole focus was on Amber.

"What is this thing doing here?" Amber's brother, Taylor, coldly snapped.

"Ooh! About that…" a wicked smile sneaked onto her lips.

"I was just trying to teach her a lesson," she mumbled.

"Without us…" her minors whined.

"Just wanted to deal with her all alone," she uttered with a devilish smile.

"What happened," Allen cut in with an icy tone.

"Babe, she called you names," she fabricated as Allen and others hurled deadly glares at me.

"I… I…"

"SHUT UP!!" Allen loudly growled.

Tears welled in my eyes as I felt worthless for not being able to save myself, to defend myself.

"She said that you were chasing her and forcing her into having intimate with you," she prevaricated.

"What!!" The minors screamed with their hands half covering their mouth.

Taylor glared coldly at me with his fist clenched in anger.

I stared at Amber with shock and surprise, how could she fabricate everything that just happened now? Always have a way of making me look like the wrong one.

"That's not true," kneeling instantly, I pleaded.

"Shut up! You ugly thing," he lashes out at me.

I know that he might be thinking that I told Amber about us.

"How dare you, dirty pieces of trash," Allen condemned. He walked toward me with a predatory step.