After a long year of battle against the Winterbreeze pack, finally Shayne returned with the other warriors and Fenja could breathe in relief to see her mate was well.
However, she noticed there was something different about him. She didn't understand what was that until one day…
There were sound of voices came from inside Shayne's room… there was no mistake in it.
Fenja's heart was beating painfully against her chest. Her mind told her not to go and check the source of these salacious sounds.
But, her body didn't listen.
She kept walking toward her bedroom, where the sound was getting louder and clearer. Their moans echoed softly against the wall and through the small crack of the door, Fenja could see what they were doing.
Her heart shattered and her world crumbled with the sight before her eyes when Shayne was in a compromising position with Nadia, the beta's daughter, whom he said not to be worried about, since he thought of her as his 'little sister'.
Well, that 'little sister' was riding his face right now.
They engrossed in their act of betrayal, to the point they didn't realize there was someone else watching their action, their scent was very strong.
Fenja wanted to curse herself when she didn't leave or confront them to save herself from the heartache, instead she watched everything, unable to move.
Just like earlier, her body was not willing to cooperate. She felt her legs rooted in the same place.
How could you betray your own mate was beyond her.
A mate for a shifter was for a lifetime, it was a blessing from the moon goddess, the sacred bond that you couldn't take lightly.
The bond should be strong enough to prevent such thing from happening, but from the look of it, it didn't stop Shayne from being pleased by Nadia.
"Fenja?"
It was Nadia, who noticed Fenja first. Her voice shattered the spell and Fenja was thrown back to reality. She met Shayne's black eyes and there was this mortified look in them.
Why would he terrify when this was his wrongdoing?
"Fenja?" Shayne immediately covered himself and pushed Nadia away from him. He got off the bed and put on his boxer. "No, this is not what you think."
Classic. Would he tell her they were only checking each other bodies and wishing for Fenja to believe that?
However, before Shayne could feed her with his bullshit, Fenja had turned around and shifted into her beast, rushed away from the scene.
She ignored Shayne's plea for her to stop and Nadia's voice that asked him to stay and give Fenja some time to discern the whole situation.
The audacity of that woman was appalling.
Tonight, a festivity was held for the victorious return of the alpha after a long battle. Fenja left the party because she was looking for Shayne, since he should be the one who became the star of tonight event.
The music was blasting the night, people were dancing, however, Fenja found something that turned her world upside down.
She rushed through the sound of people laughing, teasing, and their cheerful mood carried the image of what the cruel thing her mate had done to her.
She ran away as fast as she could from Shayne's attempt to mindlink her, she shut her mind and kept going until it was quiet.
And once Fenja stopped running and shifted back into her human form, she was already deep into the forest, so close of crossing the border of her pack territory.
There was no going back from what she witnessed.
"Why? Why?" Fenja stared at the darkness around her, but instead of fear, she felt this pain in her heart. It shattered through her body and she wailed to the void, asking the question that she didn't want to know the answer. "Why did you do this to me!?"
Shayne was the alpha of Silver Moon pack, he just took the title from his father two days ago when he returned from the battlefield, while Nadia was the former alpha's beta's daughter.
They had known each other since they were little, people thought they were mate when they came to age.
Yet, Fenja crushed their dream when she appeared as the alpha's destined mate only a month before he was supposed to leave to the battlefield.
Many people disagreed with her as the future luna of the pack, because she was only an omega, but Shayne stood by her side. He defended her, until now.
How long their affair had been going on?
Fenja didn't know. She didn't want to think and when her body exhausted and she had no more tears to shed, her eyes closed.
She fell asleep on the dirty ground of this quiet forest, while the merriment was still going on in the distance.
***
Shayne had asked a few of his warriors to look for Fenja, but they couldn't find her.
He still kept this under a wrap because he didn't want to alert other people. It wouldn't look good if they figured out the future luna of the pack went missing, especially when they started to dig about the reason behind it.
"Calm down, Shayne. She will return." Nadia tried to appease Shayne's anxiety. She stretched her hand to massage his shoulders, but he swatted her hands away.
"You better leave, Nadia. Fenja will not please to see you here." Shayne was very restless. He couldn't sleep a wink when he didn't know what happened to his mate out there.
He had messed up a big time and he needed to fix this.
"No, I am at fault here too." Nadia shook her head stubbornly when Shayne chased her out again. "I want to apologize to her too."
"This is not a good idea for you to talk to her."
Nadia disagreed with him. "Only woman can understand woman. I will talk to her that everything was a mistake and it was not like how she saw it."