CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
ASHER’S POV
That one night I spent with Freya ruined everything.
The dagger has been destroyed.
Her father even showed it’s ashes to me and now, I have lost all hope.
The date for the wedding has been set, which happens to be this weekend and I just want to die.
I don want to marry Freya.
I hate her with all my heart, soul and mind.
I hate her so much that if she were to be hit by a trailer, I would be the one driving that trailer.
She is my worst nightmare and most at times, I wish she could just disappear into thin air and never show up again.
God, I hate her and I don’t want to marry her.
I’m only doing this for my people and for Astrid as well. If I don’t marry Freya, her father will rain on us all and that is what I don’t want.
The witch who was supposed to be on our side is no better than anyone of us. I wonder if she even knows what she is talking about.
If I hadn’t seen her do a few extraordinary things like dissapearing into thin air and making cups fly, then I would have lebelled her a con artist. She has been of no help to us.
Totally useless!
Right now, all I can do is wait on the Moon goddess to intervene in this issue, because I really don’t know what I can do.
As my beta stops at my castle premises, I hastily alight from the car, banging the door hard behind me.
I don’t care if it tears off.
Suddenly, a strong wind blows, causing an eerie feeling in my stomach and all the hair on my body to stand erect.
I look around in fear and I almost scream when I see that everyone else around me has paused on their tracks like a movie.
No one one is talking or walking or doing any action. Even the trees around are still, I’m the only one active and that terrifies me to the core.
Ok … I want to scream, but I can’t find my voice.
“Asher” a familiar voice calls from behind abd when I turn to look, I tremble on my spot when I see the witch walking towards me in all her beauty and glory. Her black gown is all over the place and her aesthetic make-up is so appealing to the eyes
She is a gorgeous woman, but her personality and manner of passing out information irks me to the core!
“I would feel the same way if I were in your shoes, young Alpha”
“This is not the time for you to be considerate. Yes, I know I have fucked up big time. I have gotten intimate with two females whom I highly doubt are my mates, yes, it’s my fault that the dagger has been destroyed. We have lost all hope, but I can swear on my life that things would not have gotten to this level of you had just told me what to do and not spoken in parables instead” I dish out bitterly and she just smiles.
“The moon goddess has a reason for letting all this happen?”
“What kind of reason could that be? It doesn’t make any sense that innocent people keep suffering this way. Why can’t she just help us right now when we need her?”
“Everything will make sense to your later on, not now”
“You are not helping this issue with all those parables you keep dishing out here and there. Please, tell me what to do!”
“I will tell you what to do when the right time comes. For now, do all you can to protect your subjects and the people who are dear to you, keeping at the back of your mind the fact that all this will soon come to an end. The Moon goddess has not forgetten about you. She has big plans for you, so just be patient.
And then she disappears into thin air and everything goes back to normal.
People start talking and walking again and the plants start swinging.
The eerie feeling in my abdomen is gone and I feel fine right now.
I make my way into my chambers as the witch’s words keep ringing on my mind.
The moon goddess has not forgotten about me.
What big plans does she have for me?
ASTRID’S POV
I haven’t seen Alpha Asher ever since we got intimate. I’m not sure he has even noticed that I moved out of his chambers and now, I live in Arya’s chambers.
All I do every night is cry myself to sleep
How could he be so cruel. After what we did, he didn’t even bother to come check on me later, he just went ahead and slept with Freya as well.
I thought he loved me, I thought he truely cared for me, but I just realized that I was wrong. He only acted as if he cared because he wanted to sleep with me and now that he has gotten what he wanted, he doesn’t want to see me anymore.
I want to hate him.
I want to hate so bad, but I can’t. No matter what I do, no matter how much I fill my head with bad thoughts about him, nothing changes. My heart is so stubborn and every now and then, I find myself wishing that he will come back to me.
I’m nothing but a hopeless romantic.
That is never going to happen anyway, because today is his wedding day.
He is getting married to Freya and there is nothing me or anyone else can do about that.
Freya made sure I was involved in every preparation and she never missed the chance to make fun of me. It has honestly been a horrible experience.
You might be wondering why I haven’t left the pack already. That is something I can’t do.
The Crystal Moon pack is the only safe place I can be at the moment.
The last place I can think of going to right now, is my pack. Alpha Adoph will not only enslave me this time around, but he is going to turn me into his sex slave as well and that is something I don’t want.
The moment I cross this pack’s boundaries and set foot into another pack, I will be considered a rogue and that is not a very good title to acquire.
So you see, I’m kind of stuck here. This pack is safe for me and what I need to do is move on from this cruel heartbreak. I believe that the moon goddess has someone better in store for me.
By the way, finding love is not me greatest priority right now, what I need to do is train harder so I can one day free my people from that tyrant called Adolph.
“She doesn’t even look pretty” Arya comments, forming a disgusted expression and I fight my urge to laugh.
She’s lying though.
Freya looks drop dead gorgeous in her exagerated wedding gown and the smile she has could have lit up this entire hall if she had a good heart.
Her father and brother are both seated at the high alter, together with Alpha who is but on his feet, waiting for his bride.
He doesn’t look happy and everytime our eyes meet, I can see in them that he wishes the ground could just open up and swallow him.
I can’t believe I have to sit here and watch him marry someone else.
I didn’t want to attend.
No one wanted to attend, but Alpha Adolph passed a warning, promising death upon anyone who dared stayed at home on this day.
Now, the entire hall is jam packed with people who are grumbling and making funny expressions, because none of them want their Alpha to marry the daughter of a tyrant, but what can they do?
“This entire family has no shame!” Rowan whispers into my left ear and I can feel the contempt in his voice.
Both he and Arya are seated at my left and right hand side, respectively.
“No shame at all” I whisper back.
“Don’t let this bother you okay, the most important thing right now is for you to ride on with your training so you can take this tyrant down one day. He doesn’t have much time on that throne and on this earth as well” Rowan explains still in a whisper and I smile as I turn to face him.
“Rowan, you are miraculously well adjusted. Thank you very much for those words of encouragement.”
“Anytime”
“Shhhh… they are about to say their vows” Arya urges.
“I can’t believe I wrote that vow” Rowan laments.
“What do you mean by that” Arya asks confused.
“Well, Asher came to me this morning saying he had nothing to write down, so I just scribbled down the trash he is going to say right now. Our dear brother is dead with, Arya. This wedding is the worst thing that has ever happened to him”
I look up at Asher and listen to him lifelessly say his vows to Freya as he puts the ring on her finger.
I single tears escapes my left eye and I immediately brush it off before anyone else can notice.
I honestly don’t know where I went wrong in life.
Sweet moon goddess, why are you letting all this happen to me?
ASHER’S POV
The moment my Beta closes the car door and Adolph is out of sight, I quickly lose my tie and take off my tux jacket.
Everything I have on us suffocating me, the person sitting by my side is suffocating me and everything happening to me at the moment is suffocating me as well.
I wanna die.
I just wanna die right now.
“Baby, why are you taking off your clothes?” Freya’s screeching voice asks and I cast her deadly glance.
I don’t reply her, I don’t even have time for her right now.
“Are you still mad at me?” She suddenly asks.
I want to tell her that I hate her, that I wish she would just die right now, that I feel like opening the door and throwing her out of this speeding car, but I decide against it.
The witch told me that moon goddess has not forgotten about me, that means she has plans for me, so I’m going to wait patiently.
I’m not going to let Freya make me spoil things for myself.
“Anyway, now that I’m Luna, I just want to let you know that I’m going to make Astrid my main servant” I turn abruptly to look at her with my eyes wide open as she creases her brows. “Babe, Astrid has been serving me for over fifteen years now, she very well knows how to do…”
“Freya, that’s not going to happen. Find someone else to be your main servant”
“But, I want Astrid”
“And I say no!”
“I am the Luna now and that means I can do anything I want!” She dares.
“You seem to be forgetting that I am the Alpha here, I am above you and I have every right to say no to your lofty demands. Astrid will not be your maid and that is final!” I roar with my Alpha voice and she goes mute.
“Jared, stop this car” I order the driver and the car immediately comes to a halt. I turn to face Freya once more. “Quick reminder, this entire world does not revolve around you. You might think that’s the case right now, but you are wrong. It doesn’t and I’m going to prove it to you very soon. Mark my words!” I open the car door and step out.
“Alpha, where are you headed to?” Jared asks as he steps down from the car as well.
“I’m going for a run, take Freya home”
“I will mindlink Beta Kane to join you”
“Do whatever you want Jared” I say as I shapeshift into my wolf form and dash into the nearby woods.
I need to clear my mind with a long run.