Aria’s POV

Today was my day, my birthday.

I woke up so early to get the work and house chores done, and none of them wished me a happy birthday as usual.

I wished myself a happy birthday and walked out of the house. If I have any wish, that wish could be to have a wolf.

I just hope I found my mate who could love me to escape from this messy lifestyle.

Today I decided to have a walk around the woods since everyone might properly still be sleeping in their houses since it is still early.

My excitement couldn't allow me to stay in that house, not even for a bit.

"Refreshing…" Closing my eyes, I inhale the earthly sand and smell.

It was heaven. It is not every day that I get to smell that. I wish I knew what it feels like to have a wolf and run in these woods in your wolf form, from what I have heard I know it is a good one.

It makes you feel like you were in heaven as your wolf's paw hits the ground with the sands shoving up as the air swirls around you when your wolf runs.

I let out a sad smile, looking like I wasn't going to enjoy that.

"Hey! You have to be positive today and have no bad energy," I cautioned myself.

"Just enjoy your day and put away any bad images and shove bad imaginations behind," I mumbled within.

"Since I don't have a wolf or a friend let me keep talking to myself then," l let out a small painful smile.

The sun is slowly coming out, it is almost daybreak.

I smiled and continued walking into the woods.

I so much wanted to run around the woods but I don't want to exhaust the little energy that I have because if I return home, I will need another energy to do chores that Susan will pop out of nowhere.

I sighed and shoved their images behind me. And that's when it hits me, the heavenly smell, the smell that I haven't scented or perceived in my eternal life fills my nostrils.

It was strong and inviting, and I wanted to drown in it forever. I didn't know but I feel this is my mate that I am perceiving, his scent is miraculous.

But how is that possible? I didn't have a wolf and how am I supposed to perceive him? I made my way to where the scent was coming from. A few meters away, I saw him.

No fucking way! No! Why! Moon goddess?

Why him? Why him? My number one enemy! Amber's boyfriend, Alpha Allen, the future Alpha of the Bright Moon Pack.

I watched him as he swam in the water. Walking out of the river, I watched as tiny drops of water dripped down his abs and disappeared in his?V -line. I bit my lips as I gawked at him.

He unexpectedly stifled, and I suddenly regained myself and froze instantly.

My heart pondered heavily as he flared his nose up and sniffed the air before turning around and saying the word "Mate".

I watched as he said the word with confusion and anger.

As he couldn't believe his eyes or understand why I was standing there, he twisted his head and peeked behind me to know if he could see someone else but his frown deepened when he couldn't get a glimpse of anyone.

He walked over to me with resentment and irritation.

I noticed him battling with his wolf internally as his eyes kept changing colors from his wolf eye to his normal green eye.

They were battling over who to have control, his wolf wanted to take over.

"You are my mate? The one that the Moon goddess has honored me with?" He forced the question out with doubt as he stared at me to say no.

"Ye... Yes," I nodded, he was my crush and turned out to be my mate though my existence horrified him.

"No, thanks… I don't want you," his words pierced my heart like a sharply silver blade but I ignored the pain.

He forcefully shut his eyes, opening them. I noticed that they had returned to their normal color.

"How can the Moon goddess pair me with a weak thing like you, you don't have a wolf, remember," he snarled, reminding me of my pain.

"We have different qualities and we can't match," he spits with venom.

"The Moon goddess never makes mistakes," I desperately mumbled.

I don't want him to reject me, I have always admired him from afar though he always finds a way to hurt and humiliate me.

"IN THIS KIND OF SITUATION SHE MAKES A MISTAKE!" He madly yelled.

I shrink back as I pray inwardly for the ground to open and swallow me.

"But we can work things out," I mumbled more like pleading.

"I know you have always liked me but I don't know that you were this desperate," he taunts with a mocking brow.

"What do you think that I am? I am the future Alpha of this Pack! Their safety depends on me and I can't rule them with a weak creature, a pathetic Luna beside me…" He cursed.

"Please… don't make it harder for me," I cried.

"I Allen the future Alpha of the Bright Moon Pack, rejects you, Aria Scott as my mate and future luna,"?

"Ah!" A disheartening sob escaped my throat, I stared at him as my heart broke and shattered into tiny pieces.

I can feel the pain but he stood there like he couldn't feel anything.

Clasping my hand tight, he lifted it and snarled at me "Accept the rejection, now!"

"Please… Allen, you are hurting me,"

"Alpha Allen to you not Allen….. You dumbass," he growled.

"Alpha Allen, please..." I whimpered.

"SHUT UP!" He yelled.

"Accept this rejection, now!"