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houghts anyways. I’ve mastered mother’s spells in shielding my thoughts from a werewolf if I wished. “What are you thinking about?” Pedro Wade asks, narrowing his gaze to meet mine and I shrug, mirroring his expression. “Is there something you should be worried about?” The music stops abruptly, but I hear him whisper underneath his breath, close to my ears, “you better don’t try anything funny today, mate.” My blood boils with a seething rage. Alpha Pedro Wade knows I hate him and he’d do more and more to get on my nerves by adding the stupid mate to whatever he tells me. I let out a low scoff and await for him to begin his speech. “Ladies and gentlemen, it is time—” he turns to me, taking my hands gently. The daring look is gone and now replaced with one of soft warming gaze. “I Alpha Pedro Wade accepts you, Luna Zara WilGeorge s to be my mate.” He says. The crowd howls in excitement and I grimace. He’s awaiting my acceptance and my mind immediately cast back to the incident of four years ago. My parents, his outright rejection— my fist hardens as I look up at him with a glare. The nerve of him to toss me aside and afterwards pretend like everything is fine, expecting me to run into his arms just like that. “I Zara WilGeorge s, with all fiber of disdain in me, reject you, Alpha Pedro Wade as my mate because I believe moon goddess must be playing a sick joke on me right now to let me have you, a coward as my mate.” I announced and for a second, I feel a sharp pain shoot through my spine. The crowd is rooted in shock. And I dare to meet Pedro Wade’s gaze. He is as fiery ad a burning furnace. Like his eyes are literally blazing in anger. “What?” a low growl resounds from around me and I quiver, taking a moment to realize that the sound erupted from Alpha Pedro. I take small steps backwards. The gasp of shock and dread from the crowd, a low mumbling whisper which would obviously reach through the whole of almight town, Pedro’s hot glare on my skin like it could actually pierce through me. I’m done for. He won’t let it go. Never. I t