Lily felt her heart fall into tiny bits.
She had been hoping, excited that she would finally get to leave.
So she wasn’t just being rejected, she was also being abandoned.
She weakly sat back down on the mattress.
"I thought about it and decided coming along wouldn’t be helpful to either of us." He said.
Lily’s throat was dry.
She had nothing to say.
She was too weak.
All this while.
All those years that she had spent being raised to be his mate.
The Luna of the pack.
It was all for nothing.
She swallowed hard and could feel her wolf going week.
"I understand that I’ve disappointed you."
He began. "But I’ve made a lot of mistakes. Mistakes I’m not proud of. Mistakes I should have never made especially as an Alpha. I have let a lot of people down. And if I can go back, I’ll take it all back."
Lily said nothing.
She had nothing to say.
She rubbed her very tensed fingers on the bedsheets.
"Is it because of Jasmine?" She couldn’t help asking.
Xaden seemed hesitant at first. "Not quite. It’s everything that has happened. I’m trying to do things right now."
She felt the tears behind her eyes.
"If you still wish to be my mate, and Luna of this pack. If that’s what’s you really want then I can’t force you. But I will never change. We will never have children and I will never love you. You would hate our mate bond and you would grow to hate yourself. Is that what you want?"
She shivered and shook her head.
"No."
She couldn’t be in a loveless marriage.
She had grown to learn that people didn’t really change in relationships.
Only if they wanted to and from Xaden, she could tell he was never going to.
Not for her at least.
Trying her best to send her mind elsewhere.
"What’s going to happen to me then?" Lily found herself asking
He gave a slight shrug. "What do you want? It’s all in your hands."
"Uther wouldn’t be happy." Lily said.
The moment those words escaped her lips, Lily instantly regretted it.
Xaden still had no idea about his uncle’s ulterior motives.
"Whether we are mates or not is none of my uncle’s business." Xaden said plainly. "It’s yours to make."
And then it finally hit her.
Her entire life growing up, she had been raised to be Xaden’s mate.
The future Luna.
It was her destiny.
She was the perfect she wolf for him.
She was groomed to be his lifelong partner.
That was all she had ever known.
And now that she was being rejected, she was being given the opportunity to map out her own life.
She thought about all the times that she spent growing to be his.
Was it what she had always wanted?
Or was it what Uther had wanted and she has grown to believe that it was the best thing for her.
The realization finally started to hit her.
This wasn’t what she wanted for herself.


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