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 The whole of my body froze with mixed emotions running throughout my body. A strand of tears forced out from my eyes like the water from that day. The memory is fresh in my hand like it was just yesterday.

  The day that marked a new beginning for Alpha Luke. Alpha Luke had always been popular in high school back then.  He was every girl's dream.

  But he was so cold that no girl could come close to him . I would sit at the cafeteria, staring at his handsome face all day from afar, wishing that I could make him mine. 

This continued for several months until my little teenage mind could not bear the mental torture anymore.

  Right there, I decided that I was going to approach him and pour out my heart. It was the craziest anxiety that I had felt all my life.

I had even prepared a few pages of what I title my heart, memorizing it even more than I would, my school note.  

For the big day that I had planned my confession, I needed him to be alone and I knew just the perfect place for that. He was always in the woods during the breaks, alone. 

But then, a heavy storm began disrupting my plan as the dam built near the school broke. The heavy storm was a perfect glimpse of my torn emotion.   

I had to head to safety and I was already making sure of that until I saw that my Alpha was drowning.

For those split moments, my whole world paused and I had forgotten about my safety, rushing over to the Alpha as water like heavy bricks hit me but I didn't care. 

"Hold my hands Alpha!" I yelled trying to pull him off from the flooding waters. 

Water forced itself down my throat untilI choked, blurring my vision and eating deep into my consciousness. I knew that if I continued, I was going to pass out,

However, I wasn't going to forgive myself if the love of my life drowned and I could do nothing about it.  With all the strength that I could muster, I cried as I tried to pull the Alpha off from the water and with my hands supported by a tree truck, and I was doing it. I smiled gradually seeing that it was working.

But so was my consciousness that was slipping away until eventually, my body would not withstand it anymore and I broke, passing out right there.

When my consciousness was slowly beginning to creep back, I didn't know how long it had been. I only remembered trying to save the Alpha and didn't know if I was successful or not. 

Immediately I regained my consciousness, the first person that clouded my thoughts was Alpha Luke.   

Every single bone in my body screamed pain and blood running throughout the injuries that lined almost every part of my body.

However, I was still more concerned about him.

I  quickly jerked off from the floor that I laid to look for him in the ruins of the aftermath. But the first thing that I saw, the first heartbreak that I had received was Alpha Luke kissing Silva, the leader of the cheerleading squad, his eyes filled with love and passion. 

"Thanks for saving my life, Silva. After all these years of searching, I have finally found someone that I love." His passionate words toher cut a deep cut right through my heart and my world crumbled as the little crowd that had gathered cheered.  

Everyone praised Silva for saving the Alpha while I returned to my regular torture, only this time, he was in Dreamland with another woman, magnifying my torment.

  Ever since Alpha Luke had always loved her and would do anything to make sure that she wasn't hurt.  Sometimes, I wished that I was the one who was in that position instead. I knew that it was selfish but I prayed that one day, I would get to be this side of Alpha Luke.

And my prayers were answered in ways that I could never imagine.  

I teared out my eyes out with the rest of the miserable night that I thought would be the best night of my life, all dry and frustrating. 

I only wanted constant banging to be over.

Immediately he was done, he fell asleep right before me. I tried not to, but it was difficult to resist the urge to look at his face.  "I have always loved you, Alpha Luke! I'm I so invisible to you?" 

  It was difficult for me to sleep that night, remembering how all through the years he has tortured me for the loss of the one that he was supposed to be married to instead of me.   And eventually,   I gave in to sleep in the late hours of the morning. 

"Splash!" That was the first greeting that I received after the worst wonderful night of my life. 

The extremely cold water that perfectly mixed with the cold demeanor of his face sent chills through my skin, jolting me out of bed. 

Alpha Luke's face looked like that of a handsome monster ready to rip my soul off from my body. 

"You fool! How dare you!" His fury was beyond anything that I could imagine. 

My head was all over the place, confused. I could vividly recall that I had done nothing to piss him off over the past few days. 'Why was he so furious?' 

"Don't give me that innocent look, Ariel! We both know that deep down, you are a monster!" He growled. 

  Even though these lines were repeated in my ears almost every single day, it still stings like reopening an old wound. 

"I know that you are a disgusting little animal, but I never thought that you would stoop so low just to get what you want!" He glared. 

"What are you talking about?" I still didn't get what he was getting at.

"Do you think that drugging me into bed with you is going to rekindle our love that never existed? Do I need to inform you again that I got married to you because I didn't have a choice?" He glared.

  His words were ruthless daggers goingright through my heart, making my eyes filled with multiple emotions. But the last words that he spoke, drugged? I would never stoop so low to get him into bed with me. 

"I don't know what you are talking about Luke! I will never do such a thing." I replied.  My wolf Rose was already staring up in me. Rose had first loved Luke until he started treating us like we were nothing other than some luggage to him.

  "If you need my two cents! I think that a slap right in the face should fasten a few loose nuts in that brain!" She jolted through our minds link. 

It was more like a raging war in me, my heart was breaking.  

"I don't know what's it that happened last night Luke but I have nothing to do with it," I replied with genuine innocence.

   "Oh! Don't give me that crappy look. Wasn't it the same you that spread rumors about Silva having nothing to do with my rescue that night of the flood? After all that she went through to save my life? You lowly b***h!" His voice went deeper with rage with every word that he spoke. This anger is certainly fueled by an external source.

  I was going to take the blame for this. But it was just what I had observed. On the night of the rescue, the last thing that I remembered was Silva leading a group when I left. The time of the accident didn't add up, it was almost impossible. But everyone expected me to be blinded by her charms.  

However, even with my theory, it stayed with me. The rumors were itching for me to spread but had only been told to My High School's best friend, Sarah who betrayed me.  

The only thing that I could do was watch Alpha Luke stab me repeatedly with his cold words. My head was bowed and I didn't dare to make him more angry by looking at his eyes.  

From his weekly routine, his taunting was supposed to last for as long as fifteen minutes. You would understand if you have to go through a particular evil repeatedly. It was my nightmare.  

"And to think that after you discovered that we were mates, you sent people after her to kill her. The only obstacle that came between you having me. That I will never forgive you for!" He smashed a glass cup angrily on the floor. 

That accusation was different, jolting me together with the sound that vibrated throughout my body back into consciousness. 

"What!" My eyes popped still deeming these words unbelievable.

"You think that I was never going to find out?" He scoffed. 

  I could not believe the words that I was hearing. Shortly after college, we discovered that we were fated mates as opposed to their thoughts that the moon goddess would bless their relationship.

  Alpha Luke was purely against the mate bond, ready to reject me for the love of his life. However, it had only been a few months after our graduation when she disappeared.  

Alpha Luke at that time needed a Luna and our grandparents were friends already. It turned out that our grandmothers had already matched us.  After a lot of pressure, he finally agreed to get married to me and make me my Luna. We never marked and he forced me to keep it a secret.

   Thinking that now that I would always be by his side, I would be able to win his heart over as I had always thought, he only turned out to grow more icy than ever.   And now these accusations. If I wanted Silva dead, I would have done that already. Even before she dragged her miserable life into his.  

For the first time since his hateful words were stated, I had gotten up from the bed and looked straight right up into his cold gaze.

  "I did not do any such thing Luke, who is feeding you with these lies!" I blotted. 

  "Who? Do you want to know? Great, I will tell you! That girl that is supposed to be by my side, the one that you threatened away, she is back!" He barked at me.