Tattooed By The Wrong Mate
BRIANNA
My wolf howls in my head, her excitement echoing, 'it's today, Bree! Olson is crowning us tonight'
I clutch the golden crown from its delivery box, the light weight of it makes my heart race madly with nervousness as I place it on my hair, while the metal kisses my scalp. The grace of it on my head complements my hazel green eyes as I blink with hope. Tonight, I'm becoming the Luna of Rave pack, and will be forever bound to Alpha Olson, my mate.
We met last year at his sister's marking ball and when the mate bond glows, he claims me immediately. Our love burns hot and fast, a wildfire that consumes us until we both almost get tired of loving each other. And my virginity that I keep for him until Tonight.
"Are you going to exhaust the whole night on make-up?!" Jennie, my best friend and housemate, yells through the door.
"Coming!" I shout as I scramble to gather my make-up and other necessary things, shoving it into my backpack.
With one final glance at myself through the mirror, I take the bag and step out of my room gingerly, only to see Jennie dressed up so gorgeously and extravagantly even more than I, the main star of the day. I can't help but gasp, "Hey Jennie, are you the Luna to be crowned? And we still have two hours before the ball?"
"Should we go there after the party?" She grumbles, rolling her eyes, "As the Luna to be, you should be there by now, with your Alpha!"
I giggle softly, shooting the tall, girly, brunette girl a smile over my shoulder as I slowly make my way out of our apartment. "But two hours is too early of a time"
"I have to be there earlier to seduce" she jokes back, sliding into the Toyota Corolla before me. I hop into the passenger seat, Jennie turns the keys into the ignition within seconds. The engine roars to life, and off we go.... To the pack house.
The city lights blur past my window, the midnight wind hugging the car and the full moon staring at me, Jennie speeds the car madly through the buzz, playing my favorite song.
As if she knows how happy I am tonight. I slowly dance to the tune imagining if I would get to enjoy these happy days with Jennie again once I become the Luna.
My name is Brianna Julliard and my life isn't extraordinary, just a string of monotonous days bleeding one into the next. An orphan with no family to speak of, I've been on my own for as long as I can remember. Well, save for the past two and a half years that I've had Jennie whom I met through Olson to call my family.
Jennie stops the car at the parking lot of the pack house where the Alpha, my mate resides.
Everywhere is colorful and shiny. A poster carrying the photoshoot I have with Olson ahead of the event graces the middle while the orchestra plays at the side.
Euphoria rushes to my stomach, my wolf howls in ecstasy, I balance my crown on my head and look up to the sky, "Goddess, why do you love me so much?" I mutter.
I stare at the moon for a long time before Jennie finally comes out bearing my bag. "I'll carry this. Just beep me if you need anything"
"Thanks so much for everything Jennie" I tell her sincerely. "You're the best thing to ever happen to me"
Jennie as a carefree person that she snickers, "Why are you thanking me all of a sudden? It's not as if you're going to die"
She won't understand. So I shake my head, "Don't worry. Enjoy the party, I'll go see Olson upstairs"
"Okayyy"
I watch until she disappears amongst the crowd before turning to the entrance of the building.
I take a deep breath, feeling my heart at my throat with the uneasy nerves of showing Olson how the crown looks on me as I push the door open.
'Something's...off.' my wolf growls and I stop.
My eyebrows furrow as I scrutinize the living room but find nothing. I shut the door behind me, perhaps I'm just hearing things.
My eyes gloss over the place, drinks arranged tidily at the mini bar, the aroma of food on the dining and finally.... None of the pictures we take together is here in the living room like it has always been in the past.
No. Something isn't right.
As I move further into the room, just a few feet away from the bedroom door, my eyes land on a shirt crumpled on the floor beside a pair of unfamiliar stilettos. And emanating from the bedroom, unmistakable sounds of grunting and panting and skin slapping against skin.
'No...'
Hot tears fill my eyes, burning rage boiling inside me as realization sets in.
'On my coronation night...? When will we be joined together officially?'
I gulp hard before pushing the door open with some invisible force I don't think I have before.
There he is, the man who vows to be mine, the man who promises to make me his tonight, naked and intertwined with a blonde I've never seen before.
"What the hell is happening.....?" my voice quavers, filled with pain as I shatter their lustful reverie. They scramble apart, the woman lazily covering herself with sheets.
"Bree, I can explain -" Olson starts, but I cut him off.
"Explain what? Explain that you're fuckin some girl on my coronation night?" Humiliated tears sting my eyes, falling before I can attempt to blink them back.
The woman smirks, and steals a glance at Olson as if to ask what's happening, "Maybe if you hadn't kept to yourself so much and satisfied his needs, he wouldn't need to go looking somewhere else."
Her words knock the wind out of me, hitting me like a punch to the gut.
How can Olson do this to me? After we have an agreement that I want to keep my virginity until the day I'll officially be with him?
In my embarrassment, my gaze lingers on the floor, shifting to the discarded box where the same nylon that I strap from my crown is.
I stagger back in shock! No this can't be!
"No. Olson you..... You can't do this to me" I breathe trying to keep my sanity in check because I'm seriously losing it right now.
The blonde notices my gaze and climbs down the bed to the closet. She opens it, and there is a long ball gown that looks five times more expensive than mine. On the drawer beside it is the crown! The same crown I am wearing, with a purple ruby different from mine!
"Say something!!!" I scream painfully. "Tell me all this is a joke!"
"I'm sorry. You give me no chance to tell you that I don't really love you" Olson repents, trying to sound sad but I don't want to hear it.
My head becomes heavy with dilemma, I can barely stand properly on my feet. He says he doesn't love me? Even though he keeps showing me off as his future Luna, is it all lies?
Tears rush down my face, I grab the crown from my head and point it at him. "Olson you really give my crown to someone?"
"Point of correction, it's my crown!" The blondie interrupts. "We plan to keep this a secret until I conceive his child and keep you here, for the pack to see, but you happen to...."
Anger courses through me and I throw her a dirty slap! "Keep your mouth shut!!"
'I'm done. We're done.' My wolf cries in despair.
My eyes meet Olson's golden-brown ones for the last time, and I raise my hand, "I Brianna Julliard reject you Alpha Olson Wills of Rave pack as my mate and Alpha!" and after that, I storm out of the bedroom, tears blurring my vision.
I hear him call for me but I ignore him, slamming the door behind me and running out of the gate, not minding the celebration going on.
I run down the street, not stopping until my lungs burn and a stabbing pain rips through my side.
I collapse onto a bus stop bench, my breath coming in heaving gasps that turn into wrenching sobs. The image of Olson and that...woman fucking flashes through my mind and I press the heels of my hands to my eyes, desperately trying to block it out.
'How can he do this to me? To us?'
I should've known better. All the times he blatantly lies to my face, telling me it doesn't matter if I give him sex or not.... 'How can I be so blind..?'
I sit on the bench for what feels like hours, numb to the curious stares of passersby and the chill of the night air until my tears finally run dry. A heavy, leaden feeling settles over me, the shattered pieces of my heart rattling in the empty cavity of my chest.
'What am I supposed to do now..?'
