Chapter two.
"But I planned this wedding. He told me he would—"
"He would what, Arabella? Marry you?" Celine scoffed, rolling her eyes dramatically. "You must be dreaming."
Arabella's fingers trembled as they curled into her gown. "You planned the wedding for me and the Alpha. When did this wedding become yours?"
"But we are mates," Arabella interjected softly, her voice barely carrying over the murmurs in the hall.
"That doesn't change the fact that your fertility count is low," Celine snapped coldly. "You are cursed.
If our Alpha marries you, wouldn't we all be damned? You are an anomaly. Your only place is to become a breeder."
Sophia could not take it anymore. Her eyes flashed with rage as she pointed straight at Celine.
"You are going too far, you wench. Who gave you the right to come between two destined mates?"
"Enough!"
Victor's voice boomed through the hall, thick with Alpha authority. His command forced everyone into submission, heads bowing instantly. Silence fell so heavily it felt suffocating.
"This is my decision," Victor continued, his tone detached, almost cruel. "I cannot marry a wolf with low fertility. I choose Celine because her fertility is high, a very rare B-class."
The hall erupted into gasps. Whispers spread like wildfire. B-class fertility was extremely rare. A-class was the highest, but no one had seen one in generations. They were considered extinct. In a time when fertility rates were dangerously low, B-class had become the highest attainable level.
"I hereby reject you."
Victor's voice rang out again, silencing the gossip instantly.
"Please don't do this," Arabella pleaded frantically, tears streaming down her face. "Please… you promised me you would love only me."
"I'm sorry, Arabella," Victor said calmly. "But it has to be done. I planned on doing this for a long time."
Her world shattered.
"I reject Arabella Montclair as my mate."
The bond snapped violently. A sharp, unbearable pain pierced Arabella's heart, ripping through her chest like claws. She screamed as she collapsed to the floor, coughing up blood. The agony was indescribable.
Sophia snapped.
She rushed forward and slapped Alpha Victor across the face. The sound echoed sharply through the hall. More gasps followed. No one could believe what they had just witnessed. Everyone held their breath.
"How could you?" Sophia screamed.
Guards restrained her immediately.
"You bastard!" she yelled as she was dragged away. "I pray you and that bitch rot in hell for everything you've done!"
Her voice faded into the distance.
"Arabella," Victor said coldly, "you have to accept my rejection so the pain can become bearable."
It was a lie.
But Arabella was in too much pain to think. She only wanted it to stop.
"I accept your rejection, Victor Ashford."
The remaining bond shattered completely.
Victor merely squeezed his face briefly before returning to normal. The mate bond affected him far less than it did Arabella.
"Take her to the slave quarters," Victor commanded. "From today onward, she is officially a breeder."
I would never be you your breeder, i would rather die than become your breeder" Anabella said weakly.
"You have no choice in the matter," Victor said annoyingly. "And when you take her out, I want her punished till she know her place" he said
Without another glance, he took Celine's hand and walked back to the altar as if nothing had happened.
Arabella was dragged roughly through the halls and thrown into an empty room in the slave quarters. There was no mattress, no blanket, nothing. She was severely beaten till she could no longer feel anything.
She lay weakly on the cold floor, her body shaking. Her wolf, Lyra, was badly hurt when the bond was broken. Slowly, Lyra retreated into silence.
Arabella couldn't feel her anymore.
As time progressed, on that bare floor, she sat thinking about when it all went wrong, and had the little smiles he pestered on his face whenever he saw her all fake? She asked herself.
Or had she been the one fooling herself and they were never in any relationship. She has lived all her life in the shadow of Celine, she was basically a slave in her own father's house. Her step mother would find every reason to maltreat her, she endured all those hardships hoping that one day, her mate would come and rescue her, so you could imagine when she found her mate when she turned eighteen.
Alpha Victor was a childhood friend because her father was a gamma before he died in a rogue attack. So Victor was not a stranger. He promised her the world and made her feel like all her suffering has come to an end.
She took the medical test with Victor by her side, when the result came it shattered her, she remembered crying but Victor was there all through the way, promised her he would never leave her, that he doesn't need a child and everything would alright. He even went as far as telling her that he would adopt if he really did need a child.
As time went by she noticed the change in him but she didn't take it to heart, she believed him when he told her he was busy and wouldn't make it to dinners, parties, birthday celebrations. She believed him when he told her that he was going to get married to her.
She believed all his lies even when she knew something was up, she chose to ignore it because she felt hopeless and scared. Now all her fears had come to pass, he had betrayed her in the most horrible way possible.
She was so happy, she cried silently wishing her dad was still alive, he wouldn't have let her fall into this mess. She has been downgraded to a mere breeder lower than a slave.
She was considered useless and her only way to support the pack is to allow all men to use her for their own pleasure. There are not many breeders because they mostly take their life from the embarrassment they had to live with.
Anabella laid down there, not knowing how long she had stayed there, her mind shut from the world, she had cried her heart out and there were no more tears left.
For a while it seems the silver moon pack had forgotten about her and truly they had. A letter came the same day that Anabella was declared a breeder that the lycan king would be coming for a visit, which came as a surprise. Leaving alpha Victor stunned, he couldn't even enjoy his honeymoon as he began the preparation for the king visit.
The entire pack began scrambling to keep the pack tidy and prepare to welcome the lycan king. Alpha Victor was busy hiding his shady business so he also totally forgot about the new breeder.