shuhaige
Chapter 36
Kaia POV
"Rosa..." Riley tries to get his sister to focus on the task in hand, before his eyes glaze over into a mind- link. Whatever words of encouragement he gives seem to work as her head starts to nod slowly in agreement.
She stands by herself, leaving mine and her mother's steady embrace as she moves closer to the chained up male before her.
She was the bravest young woman I had ever met. She will be fine with the love and support of her family and pack, she will be fine.
I'm not entirely sure what is happening until Rosa rejects the mate bond, his own name forced from his lips as something is plunged into his side.
Rosa doesn't see it, but I do, Riley does it very discreetly.
As she makes her rejection, he fights against Riley's hold, a protective brother enforcing his own revenge on the what should be protective mate of his little sister.
The male squirms, even looking pained by the rejection. His mouth refusing to open, refusing to accept and reject in return.
"Rosa, close your eyes." Hector's cold firm voice echoes through the room, his alpha command rolling off him and on to her.
I feel like an intruder, witnessing not only a secretive event of the pack but also a private family situation that should be done behind closed doors.
A forced rejection.
Again, I'm getting in too deep here.
Following her alpha's command, Rosa closes her eyes.
When the male grunts in pain as the curved knife is twisted, causing enough pain for him to commit to his own rejection, she whimpers until her mother whispers in her ear to accept it.
My heart breaks as a high-pitched scream leaves Rosa, she collapses to the floor, her mother catching her in time.
Her skin turns grey and as I look back up at him, his skin mirrors a similar colour. Both of them rejecting the choice of the Moon Goddess.
It makes you question whether the Moon Goddess knows what she is doing sometimes. Whether she actually has a plan or we are now alone.
I am heartbroken for her, she is only 16.
Too young to experience the pain of the curse of the mate bond. But was I any older when Than tricked
me?
I was 16 when I joined college and he approached me, was he just as guilty as this male sitting before us.
Both of them are in pain, even the male... his breathing heavy as he sucks in air. Perhaps it has just dawned on him what he has done, what a mistake he has made. 1
Is this what it is like to reject the mate bond? This level of pain, and Rosa can't even feel the full bond... goddess help me.
With the mate bond severed between the pair, Rosa is taken out by her mother and father, her sobs quieter this time.
Riley remains, as does Hector and Ezra. My eyes refuse to leave the Amber Desert male in front of me, whose eyes are transfixed on mine.
I'm certain if we still had the pack link together he would be cursing at me through the mind-link. Without those chains he would be clawing at me, thinking I was the enemy to his pack. Thinking he was doing his alpha a favour.
Hector remains close to me, his eyes following Rosa and her parent's leave the room. Once they do, he takes in the male like a predator sizing up it's prey. It doesn't take long for Hector to realise who has the male's undivided attention...I do.
"Kaia...perhaps you should join them!" Hector's words manage to tear my glaring eyes away and on to him. "You need to leave." He says with a cold authority which I respect, I understand now what was happening. The mate bond was severed so that when this pathetic excuse for a male was killed, dear sweet Rosa wouldn't feel his death, wouldn't be punished again by the mate bond.
In time she can have a new life, she can hopefully find a second mate.
This Amber Desert male won't return to his alpha, he won't leave these cells alive.
Leaving the cells, I walk slowly back to the alpha house. My eyes keeping to the borders in the distance. He was out there, he was waiting for me.
As much as I want to honour Hector's agreement with Than for the sake of Rosa. I can't return, I won't. If he finds out I am with his child, I won't even be returned to my house like before.
I'll be in a prison, even worse, locked away in the alpha house, my every movement monitored. I can't live like that again.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.
Than wouldn't even accept my rejection if I tried. He knows that keeping me locked in the mate bond serves his purpose.