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Cooper's POV:

After I heard the "amazing" news, I went to the back of the campus to throw up. The reason this is going to be so hard is that Dylan and I were once best friends at. We were with each other so much you would have thought we were connected at the hip. I remember us playing all the time in the field, playing with other pups, watching tv, or playing card games. I don't know how I remember these considered I was four and he was seven. My eyes betrayed me as I felt tears threatening to spill, I was forced to rapidly blink to blink away tears. Nostalgia is a bitch. We were happier back then, not "we" as in Dylan and me, no, we as in my brothers, the pack, Dylan, and I. The death of my parents was not the reason for Dylan and I's division, I have the emotional trauma and pain to prove it as well. When we are born their individual wolf needs time to mature and gain strength. This means that until age 13, pups are basically more advanced humans. Wolf blood runs through our veins which means we develop faster. However, I remember being able to talk to my wolf even at the age of four, maybe even three. People thought I had an imaginary friend, but I could vividly see him prancing around in my head. The only reason I remember this is that it was the only time I heard his voice, Axel's, it was deep, but he always softened it when he talked to me. He acted as if he was my protector. What happened to us, Axel? What really baffles me is when I shifted, instead of the purple wolf I am today, I shifted into a mahogany brown omega wolf; I still do not understand this phenomenon, how does a tall, purple, red-eyed, and muscular wolf that exudes more power than an Alpha turn into its complete opposite? Do I have a bipolar wolf? When I asked Axel about this he simply grunted and stated that I should not question or investigate ungraspable concepts.

I knew better than to try and find research on this subject again or try to harass Axel until he tells me. I tried both and they both failed. After my first shift Dylan stopped talking to me, he ignored me and hung out with his other friends, so the day before he left for Russia, I asked him why he stopped being friends with me. He responded by telling I was a weak, worthless, a runt and a disgrace to our pack. That the health of our relationship has no significant future effects on the pack. "This means our relationship is of no importance, I hereby terminate any personal interactions between the two of us" was his final words to me. To say I was crushed was an understatement, he was the glue to keep the pieces of my heart together. My brothers had disowned me after they saw I was an omega, my parents died eight years prior, and now the one holding my heart together grabbed a sled-hammer and shattered it.

This all seemed so surreal to me, how did time fly so fast that I did not notice Dylan was coming home. Am I prepared for him mentally, physically, or emotionally, I honestly don't know. How much time do I have before he comes back? I never heard them discuss that. I have two feasible options: to snoop around and find what date he will arrive then avoid him like the plague or leave. The first is easier and safer, the second I attempt to escape to a rouge territory to the Freeland, I will be hunted and killed. How do I know for certain they will hunt me down like a rabbit? They told me straight out. The only reason I am still in the pack currently is because they would oppose the Elder Council if they banished me without probable cause. The Elder Council is made of the cruelest and strongest wolves throughout the centuries; standing in their court has an Alpha wetting his pants, opposing them is a whole other level of scary.

I start my walk home, without playing my music, to just enjoy nature; the calmness of the trees as the winds give the leaves a gentle push towards one direction, then encourage them to sway the other way; the violet-colored flower petals spreading in an array of beauty while new one's blossom; the blue jays chirping their happy songs in unison; the grass a luscious dark green that almost stops to your ankles; the dead body lifeless in the middle of the pavement- WAIT WHAT THE HELL?! I am obligated, like any other supernatural, to inspect the body to make sure this is not supernaturally related in any way before reporting it to the authorities. As I slowly approach it, my breath hitches as if it was paralyzed by fear. It was a female, she was thin and looked to be about 18 or 19. The sight was gruesome, her neck was snapped in half in a way that her head cascaded below her left shoulder. As I look down her body, I feel the bile in my stomach start to rise again, her right arm and left leg are missing. It looks as if something ate them off, I can see the teeth marks on the remnants of her arm and leg. What scared me was I heard her voice, she was pleading for me to help her, how am I hearing her voice?! It was soft as a whisper, but loud enough for me to hear it and it petrified me. I was trembling as I dialed the three longest digits in my life, nine-one-one. As I turn on my phone, my clock in big white says "2:00", this was when I realized I was soon about to join this girl in the afterlife.

I have never been this late to return "home" before, I'm sorry Miss Jane Doe, but you are going to have to be my alibi. For this to work, I must make this believable; I mentally prepare myself as I dial the emergency number and hit the "call" button. After two rings, the third was cut off by the operator answering, I hear a male voice asking me what is my emergency. This is when I began to act hysterical, sobbing, sniffling, and cutting my words off. Eventually, the operator finally got me to "calm down" enough to state what occurred. "I was walking home from my way to school and there is this girl laying in the middle of the road, she isn't moving- oh my god... I think she is dead!". The operator then dispatches police units and an ambulance to me.

àààà TIME SKIP ßßßß

After being interrogated, questioned, and many more vigorous exercises because they did not believe I was an innocent bystander, I was released from police custody and dropped off at my "adoption home" at 8:57 PM. I smiled at the kind humans as they apologized for taking up most of my day, as they drove off I hear growling behind me. This causes the hairs on my neck to erect and my body stiffen. I gradually turn around to see who is about to rip my throat out. Who I see is what shocks me, Dylan. I notice two things: One, his eyes are iridescent yellow instead of gray which means his wolf is out and has no interests in releasing. Two, he has gotten hot, like insanely hot. He pins me to the ground and demands an answer as to why I was in the car with those two men. Normally I would be petrified and be begging for my life as the 6'6 man, who is currently being controlled by his Alpha Wolf, is on top of me. Rather than a plea, I answer him as calmly as possible. Even with his wolf in complete control, I feel strangely calm. Things get even stranger as I feel Axel drop the mind blocks he always has up. I am about to ask him why he dropped them, he only does this when it is urgent, but I am soon answered as we simultaneously say the word 'MATE'. He smells like cinnamon and freshly cut grass, I feel my body physically react as he digs his face into the crook of my neck and inhales deeply. He possessively growls "mine." as he is doing this to me. As a result, I start to squirm and moan under his body.

àààà TIME SKIP TO THE NEXT DAY AT 10 AM ßßßß

I am currently sitting in the Alpha's office. He minds linked me and told me to come to his office. My mind almost starts to drift elsewhere for the possible reasons he could have called me, I am cut off as I hear the hinge of the almost eight-foot hickory colored door open. Alpha Reed, Luna Michelle, Beta Victor, and future Alpha Dylan walk in and take their respective places. Reed sits in the big black rolling chair behind an enormous wooden desk; Michelle stands beside Reed, Victor is in the back corner of the room awaiting any orders his Alpha will give and Dylan choose to sit right beside me in the other black leather cushioned chair. "As you may know, Dylan, my son, was in Russia training to become Alpha just like I had to. On his first day back home, he was surprised he instantly found his mate." Alpha Reed states emotionless. The room becomes filled with joy and pride as Victor and Michelle start smiling and about to congratulate him. However, they are stopped by Alpha Reed's next words "His mate is the weak link of the pack, the outcast within the outcasts, Omega Cooper James Hughes". Instantly they become quiet, I receive looks of pure hatred from Victor and Michelle as Reed wrapped his words with a poison venom. "This problem will be dealt with in a sophisticated manner and to avoid embarrassment, no other pack will know you were ever his mate. At the Alpha Ceremony tomorrow, Dylan will reject you, you will accept, AND he will break the mating bond with you." I was hoping he was finished as that punishment was cruel enough, but he was just catching his breath. "As for you, filthy Omega, you banished from the pack after the mating bond is destroyed" Axel and I both whimpered trying not to cry, let this just be a cruel joke. Please let it be a cruel joke. When I look at Dylan he is graciously smiling proudly with his head held up high. Both his mother and Victor are ecstatic, they are already talking about strong females that would be superb Lunas. The only person who remembers my presence is Alpha Reed, he tells me to go pack my belongings and then to prepare the food and decorations for the party.

I finally get to my room, crying, to pack up all my belongings which include: $50,000 that I have accumulated from constant saving, my iPhone, MacBook Air and its charger, which nobody knew I had, then my clothes. After folding my clothes neatly into the suitcase, I was generously provided, I am sure to hide my valuables under my clothes for safe keeping. I leave the safety of my room to prepare the most painful party, for me. I finished cooking, coloring, decorations, everything at 5 PM, I decided to at least make my mate happy since it will be the last time I ever see him. I chose his favorite colors, royal purple, and brilliant gold; I cooked some of his favorite foods I remembered from childhood, bacon wrapped shrimp, chicken alfredo, and steak with a rosemary blended with lemon zest sauce. I hear the Alpha talk into the microphone from on top of the compendium, I begin to cry again as I walk out to the backyard.

"Hello, members of the Silver Blood pack. My son, Dylan Grayson, has finally returned home from special training to lead you as your new alpha." Peopled were shouting and cheering as they heard this, "What you may not know is he found his mate. His mate is not only a male, which means no possible heir but an Omega at that. The infamous Omega, Cooper James Hughes" shocked was present on everyone's faces; then they look directly at me with more hate than they have possessed ever before. As Dylan slowly walks up onto the stage with a black suit on, I start to feel my eyes water and knees tremble. When he reaches the microphone, I hope that this is all some sort of fake reality, a dream, that he will change his mind and accept me. "Hello, my future pack, I know this may come as a shock to you, but yes, Cooper is my mate. However, I nor my wolf can accept him, he will be the end of this pack if he is to become Luna. To sum it up, I, Dylan Walker Grayson reject Cooper James Hughes as my mate, official Luna of the Silver Blood pack, and he is banished from this pack and never to return." I remembered something crucial as I remembered what the Alpha said, to break the bond, you need a witch. I was about to run away when a woman with wavy platinum blonde hair in a purple dress made of silk appeared beside the Alpha from thin air. Shit.

She announced herself and her duty, her name was Morgana Blaire, the most powerful witch in one of the most powerful covens around the world, and she was here to perform the mate-bond breaking. After she chanted the spell, I screamed out in pain feeling our bond being forcefully broken. She was courteous enough to heal me, but after that she told me "Fear not, for your life is a lie. Everything you know is to hide the truth, your true life will reveal itself to you; this had to be done to reveal your true powers, my lord."

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Hello, this chapter was much more interesting than the last. The action and drama won't happen until later, as for right now it is fillers. But the more important part, who was that dead girl? What is this all powerful witch talking about? Who is Cooper really? Find out in the next chapter!

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