Chosen, just to be Rejected

7

Belladonna

She walked upstairs to the Luna Suite and stepped inside it, she leaned on that door and looked around at the rooms that had been her home for the past eight years. Knowing that today would be the last day she was in here; she was going to leave this pack today, once everything had been sorted out.

There would be no sleeping in this room one more time, no. She’d call a cab to the pack gate and have it take her into the city. She’d not set a single foot outside the pack in eight long years, and now today… She smiled, and bit her lower lip just a little, she was going to get to. There was just a little bit of excitement building inside of her.

As she looked about the suite it was, as it had been the day she’d been shown into it by Parker, Bella hadn’t changed anything about this room. It still had all the furniture from when she’d moved into it. She’d never really seen a point in making it her own. Parker could well have found his Goddess-Gifted the full moon after he’d marked and mated, any full moon after the previous one, her for all she knew, and so she would be moved out of it.

So, this room, although it was hers, she’d not bothered to personalise it, and it was nicely decorated anyway, in soft sage green and cream with a few white accents, the furnishings were plush and comfortable. The room was nicer than where she had lived previously. There was nothing to complain about with the Luna Suite, as far as she was concerned. Even the living area was nicely decorated and had big French doors that opened out onto a balcony with a view of the forest to the south of the packhouse.

The bed was big and comfortable, there was a lovely soaker tub in the ensuite, all the things a Luna could want; she knew that. But nothing in here represented who she was, not even the clothes she wore. Well, not many of them anyway, there were a few items she’d purchased herself; but she only wore them when Parker was out of the pack.

She stuck to the clothes he’d sent to her; when he was there, it was she knew how he wanted her to dress, as his Luna. So she’d dressed as was expected of her. She was to be his Luna until their bond was severed. She had to do as he pleased, attend to all his wants and needs. That was in her mating alliance, she just presumed that also meant wearing the clothes provided for her as well.

Bella stepped into her walk-in, it was large and everything in there was neatly lined up and folded by the omega that tended to her room, Merideth. She had many lovely suits and dresses in this wardrobe, and nice shoes to match the outfits, though some of the clothes still had tags on them. She often wore scrubs and was in the hospital some days, all day every day.

She had never worn some of the dresses in there, and wasn’t going to take them with her either. She would only take what she came with, and the clothes that she had purchased for herself. Would leave everything Parker had sent up to her, have it taken to the donation bins downstairs; they could be worn by other pack members and put to good use.

She pulled out her suitcase and opened it. Her copy of their mating alliance was in there; it’d been a long time since she’d looked at it. She knew Parker liked to follow all the rules of an agreement, so she needed to make sure that was what she did for her leaving this pack as well.

Bella sat on her bed and looked through it once more, turned to the page that had all the clauses both she and Parker were bound to by, and read over it once more.

1. Belladonna Harrington will be Marked and Mated by Parker Hartly and then hold the title of Luna within the Lustrous Moon Pack.

2. Belladonna Harrington is to perform all duties of a Luna within the Lustrous Moon Pack; including stating the Alpha’s needs and wants. For the entire time, they are bound to each other.

3. All children born between Belladonna Harrington and Parker Hartly during their Mate Bond will remain with Alpha Parker Hartly; after any rejection has been issued, they will be seen and known as the heirs to the Lustrous Moon Pack.

4. Belladonna Harrington, as a Chosen Mate, will reside within the Luna Suite the entire time she is bound to Alpha Parker Hartly. Due to the fact that he could at any given time find his Goddess-Gifted Mate. Only his Goddess-Gifted Mate is entitled to live with him inside the Alpha Suite, and reside in the Alpha’s actual bed.

5. Alpha Parker Hartly is only required to keep Belladonna Harrington as his Chosen Mate until the day he finds his Goddess-Gifted Mate, at which time a rejection and acceptance between Belladonna Harrington and Parker Hartly will be issued.

6. Belladonna Harrington is allowed to continue to study medicine within the Lustrous Moon Pack, so that once she has been rejected and is no longer a Luna-ranked wolf, she has a job to fall back upon. Can find work within another pack of her choosing after the rejection has taken place.

7. There will be no betraying of the mate bond under penalty of death for either party.

8. Once the rejection has been issued and accepted, Belladonna Harrington will return her pack card and pack phone, both of which will be handed directly to a member of the Alpha Unit and signed back into the packs log books. To prevent accusations of unauthorised use of pack funds.

9. Belladonna will receive a monetary sum for her role as the Alpha’s Mate and performing her Luna duties both in and out of the bedroom, a minimum of $12,000 per year.

10. Belladonna will receive, for each child produced if there are any, a one-off p*****t per child of $25,000 when she relinquishes her claim on them.

11. Alpha Parker Hartly will not Mark or Mate his Goddess-Gifted once he finds her, prior to rejecting his Chosen Mate, Belladonna Harrington. He will wait, regardless of if he is in another pack, off in the wolfen kingdom, and is a day or week away from his pack.

12. Alpha Parker Hartly will not claim his Goddess-Gifted Mate until Belladonna has left the Lustrous Moon Pack, set foot outside the pack's border.

13. Belladonna Harrington will be given 24hours to pack up and move out of the Lustrous Moon Pack.

14. If Belladonna Harrington grants permission to Alpha Parker, he may Mark and Mate his Goddess-Gifted before she leaves the pack. Within the privacy of the Alpha Suite.

15. The new Luna is not allowed to harm the former Luna of the pack, she must allow Belladonna Harrington time to leave the pack according to this mating alliance agreement.

16. Belladona Harrington will sign a separation agreement, rescinding all her rights to the Lustrous Moon Pack and any claims she may feel she has on Alpha Parker Hartly. All the above-mentioned items that are to be returned will be documented in this agreement.

17. Belladonna Harrington will leave Alpha Parker Hartly and the Lustrous Moon Pack without causing a scene. She will not start any fights with the new Luna taking her place. She will not cause any trouble for Alpha Parker Hartly and his new Mate. She will leave quietly and willingly.

Things Belladonna will retain, or be given to her, that is not mentioned in the above clauses.

I. Any clothing she has purchased directly.

II. Any clothing that has been provided for her.

III. Any gifts given to her by any pack members or Alpha Parker Hartly himself, including jewellery, regardless of the cost.

IV. The Luna’s car. If no car was ever given; then she will be given a pack car of the Alpha’s choosing to leave the pack in and keep for herself. Its registration will be fully signed over to Belladonna, and it will no longer be considered a pack car.

V. All things related to her medical degree, books/equipment, etc.

VI. A brand-new phone, still in its box and unwrapped and untampered with.

At the bottom of that was her father and Parker’s signatures. She had not been required to sign it or even agree to it. It was a mating alliance to stop a war. Whoever the two warring Alphas saw fit to be attached to that agreement was all that mattered. Because both had to agree on the same she-wolf.