Game of Destiny – A Thrilling Tale of Power, Love & Fate

Chapter 2

“Armeria, James said. He said it in a low, wistful voice.

“James,” I answered. I hardly noticed how everyone around us cleared the space, giving us a clear view of each other. It was important to give a newly mated pair space as the protectiveness was at an all time high until they had claimed each other. I faintly heard my father and the Alpha laughing as they congratulated each her, I saw a shadow pass over James‘ face and I knew him well enough that my heart and stomach sank.

“Amie,” James said, using the nickname the pock use. His voice was sad and I tried to brace for what I knew was coming. He took a few steps towards me, but I couldn’t move, I couldn’t look away from his eyes. They told me what he was going to say before he let The words fly. “I’m sorry, Amie, but I can’t. You know I can’t,” he said I know it was coming, but still, each word felt like a physical punch. The pack had gone deadly silent, everyone was listening and for a moment, I wished James‘ words had been physical punches. Then I would have a chance to pass out, or die. Anything but stand in the middle of the pack being rejected by the one person who should love me above all others. “I will become Alpha ce day, I need a strong Luna,” James continued, as if he didn’t know he was tearing my heart from my body. “Amie,squ don’t have wolf, oven If you get one, we all know it will be weak. I love you, you know I do. But my duty is to the pack, and this pack deserves a strong Luna,” he finished. There was only silence for a long while. I tried to find my words. My first instinct was to plead, to tell James I could be anything he wanted me to be. I could change. But the part of me that made my mother sigh in despair and complain about how stubborn her daughter was, held me back.

“Son,” the Alpha gently said. “You don’t need to do this now.”

“It would be cruel to give her hope. I won’t do that to her,” James said.

You need to think this thr

through, son. This is not the place or the time.” There was a warning in the Alpha’s voice.

“I won’t change my mind,” James insisted. I felt my father and mother walk up to flank me. My mother put her arm around my

waist.

you are doing, you are mates. The gods

all

the yearly pack summit. The games were held every tenth year, and each pack sent the five most promising pack members and a support staff to enter. It was not just physical challenges they would face. Everything was tested, from strength to endurance to intelligence and cunning. My pack always ended up in the top ton, the last fifty years we had been in the top five. To be one of the five pack members sent to the games, you had to be over eighteen and in full physical and mental health. What my father had pointed out was that the break of a mate bond was considered to be a mental wound. The council would demand at least three months to heal from it before they deemed someone to be in full health. The games were in a month’s time. James looked like he reconsidered his decision, and my hope flared. I knew how much he and my brother had been looking forward to entering the games. We had all trained hard, even me, and the Alpha would be announcing the selected

games out and join the next ones,” he then said, the determination clear on his face. The last ember of hope was extinguished in my chest. I vaguely heard Luna Joy saying something, but I had stopped listening. My hands had been clenched

radiated in me. I saw the looks the other pack members were giving me, but I tried not to register them. It was bad enough to be pitied for not having a wolf. Now they would pity me for being rejected by the future Alpha as well. Some of them reached out and gently ran their hands over my arms as we passed. was a sign of comfort and support, But it didn’t help. I remembered the promise uncle Jonas had given only hours before. That he and his friends would beat

I used to fall and

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felt the scent of my father, I may not have a woll, but my smell, eyesight and hearing was still better than a human’s But nowhere near a werewolf’s,

father had taken him into his study, as far away as they could go from

bedroom

my father’s voice. I had never heard him talk to anyone like that, especially not his best friend and Alpha. “She has spoken, not after what James did to her.”

sorry, Ron.” The Alpha sounded honest.

mind is made up?” my

“It is

you do?“”

do you mean, Ron?”

as the male that ripped her heart out and stomped on it in front of the entire pack? You know as well as I do what our rules are if someone breaks the