Chapter 2: Regrets...

Iris' POV

'Dear Iris,

I do not know what my life would be like when you get this letter. I may have already died or become a rogue, a wanderer. But whatever I become, I know you will not make it your business because I do not deserve your concern. But once more find it in your heart to forgive me and my family.

I wish you all the best.

NB: I have accepted your rejection, you must have felt it the instant that I did. And attached here is the divorce papers I have duly signed.

Once more, I wish you the best!'

Adrian B.

I got this letter, a week after my lengthy discussion with Adrian. I shed a few tears. It was sad really. We had started well, at least so I had thought when we met. I had been so sure ours was going to be like the love my parents shared. That great love between Alpha King Sylvester Merryweather and the great Luna Queen, Millicent. A love that had stood the test of time and survived against all odds, but it was not meant to be.

I thought back to my eighteenth birthday anniversary. It felt like a century ago. I felt I had aged but it had only been about two years. but I remember how Adrian had come into the banqueting hall of my birthday party, and how we had been drawn to each other like a fly to nectar. It was obvious there was a supernatural force at work. And as soon as my eyes met with his, I knew I he was the one I had been waiting for, the one I was destined to be with and I was sure he felt the same way. But he hadn't. His intention had been to get back at me for the sins he felt my parents had committed against his own parents.

I shake my head now, trying to brush off the unwelcome thoughts but they persisted. This letter has brought on memories that were supposed to be a blissful reminder of a great love but which turned out to be a torturous period of my life - a period which was better forgotten.

I went back in time, yet again, to the day of my eighteenth birthday anniversary.

As our eyes met, the force drew him to where I was standing, each of us forgetting that there were others in the hall. Without any care in the world, he drew my face to his and we imprinted. The kiss was searing as it was delicious. More delicious than anything I had tasted in my eighteen years of existence at the time. I could not stop imagining how mating with him would feel like if a kiss could render me breathless that way, turning my legs to jelly, unleashing such flood of lust inside of me.

I recalled my parents' warning, not to get involved with him due to their past experiences with his parents but I would not heed their words. My heart was already his and my mind was made up.

'If I don't get to be his bride', I told my parents, 'then I shall remain unmated and unattached to anyone for the rest of my life!'

'Shut your mouth!' my mother exclaimed, clasping her hand over my mouth. 'Don't say such foolish things. Do you want to bring down the curse of the Moon Goddess on yourself?' she asked.

My parents spoilt me because I was the only daughter and when they saw how seriously I felt about it all, they gave in. My happiness was more important to them than any useless feud the families held against each other. I was determined, that this union which was obviously initiated by the Moon Goddess would unite the families, causing them to let bygones remain bygones and forge ahead towards new beginnings. Stupid, childish me! Thinking that such great grievance could be forgotten by a mere union. I had been so optimistic and I thought I had a partner who was ready to work together with me. He had said something to that effect too.

'I don't know what it means s with my mother', he had said. 'She seem not to be too happy about the union'.

'Mine too. I didn't know you have noticed it's, I said, hoping it would not make any difference. 'But I assured them that it was either you or no one else!' I told him, smiling.

'You are a she - wolf after my heart's, he said hugging me. 'I said the same thing to my mother and anyway, I am now the Alpha and she has no option but to obey me and it is my desire that she accepts the money I love as my Luna!'

I had been ecstatic. Such a man willing to defy his mother for me just as I was defying my parents for him must love me just as much as I did him, I thought in my joy. What I fool I was. He must have laughed himself to tears thinking how I had fallen like a pack of cards for him and his lies.

'Hmmm!' Well, not anymore. I made sure that such a mistake would never happen again. Why did it still hurt? I passed through hell in his hands. Where do I start to enumerate all he put me through. Was it the continuos sexual abuse I endured? Humph! And that too, to a naive girl who could not wait to experience a continuous earth quaking - mating session with her destined mate because of the body quaking kiss that sealed their fate as mates when they imprinted at her birthday party.

Or was it.... The tears came then and I wiped them off furiously. I had been prepared to keep enduring everything, keeping the fruits of those abuse as my compensation but even that was denied me. That had been the last straw. Now he writes. To what end? To make me feel guilty?

His negligence and cruelty and the wickedness of his mother and his mistress had caused me to become barren but it's okay. I have learnt my lesson. There is nothing like true love in this world. True love does not exist. And if f it does, it is overrated!

'What about the one your parents share?' my wolf asked.

'Oh, that?' I replied, a tiny smile breaking forth from my tear - stained face. I was always so marvelled at those two. They still behaved like teenagers in their first throes of love. 'Theirs is legendary', I said and sighed. Sometimes I envy them their love but I am also very happy for them. At least my mother wasn't going through hell in her home like I did. 'Love ended with theirs. They must have absorbed all the love from the world when they loved!' I concluded as I looked out of the window and saw the mighty Luna, my mother in the arms of the great Alpha King Sylvester. They were staring into each other's eyes and smiling, a promised paradise and of everlasting love shining forth.

'Not every one is as lucky as they!' I said, with a heavy sigh.

As I was about to look away, something attracted my attention but before I could find out what it was, my parents claimed my attention once more with their kiss. It was obvious to any onlooker that they were still very much in love. Their kiss was never perfunctory. It was always so full of love and care.They always seemed to be perpetually in heat.

They must have felt my eyes on them because as they broke off the kiss, they both looked towards my window and I had to dock. I didn't want them feeling guilty on my account. It was not their fault that my marriage didn't work out. And neither do I want theirs to suffer by allowing them think I wasn't happy. They should rather think I am happy because I really am. I mean why would I not be happy that my mate, the man I loved with the entirety of my being, preferred someone else all through the period of our union and they both put me through hell, including murdering my pups even before they were born and ensuring that I never had the chance to have other pups even If I wanted to...

Sneeze. I am happy... very happy... sneeze ...at least I am free from that hellhole of a union!

'