Fated: The Alpha's Unwanted Luna-Chapter 111: The Alpha’s mate

The Silver Pack Healing House

Laila, who had been unconscious for a complete day, had finally woken up in one of the VIP rooms. She could be seen sitting on the bed with her head bowed, her mother next to her, while her uncle stood before them, looking so pissed that she couldn’t dare move an inch.

"You had one single job, just a simple responsibility to make me proud, but you blew it off! Do you even know what it caused me, you fool? I am now a laughing stock among my own people just because of you!" Elder Halvrek chided, angry veins popping against his forehead and neck as he couldn’t contain how disappointed he was in his niece, who had lost to a mere wolfless girl.

The idea was laughable, so outrageous that he wanted to hit her just to put some competence back into her obviously empty head.

Laila’s mother, Agnes, who was sitting next to her, wanted to interject and stop her brother from scolding her daughter, but she had never really had the courage to stand up to her elder brother, who was known for his very bad temper, anger he had inherited from their own father. Seeing Laila’s energy rising, Agnes knew her daughter’s own temper, which was as strong as her brother’s, was about to flare as well.

She quickly put her hand over her daughter’s, giving it a squeeze to calm her. The last thing she needed was two angry people facing each other and putting her in the middle. One would think that her older brother was too hot-headed, but her own daughter was just as hot-headed as he was, and sometimes she got a little cold sweat when she wanted to talk to Laila in that mood.

As a mother, she knew her daughter could be a little terrifying, even to her, which was why she had never really stopped Laila from living her life outside their pack and exploring the world the way she wanted. Being here would only make her constantly clash with her uncle, who wanted so much in life yet hadn’t settled down to have a child to control for it.

She didn’t know what had brought Laila back to the pack permanently, but Agnes was sure it was because her daughter liked the Alpha and had hoped for a marriage. However, now that things hadn’t gone as planned, she needed to stay in the middle lest these two set the whole place on fire with the hotheadedness that ran in their blood.

"Hermano, will you calm down and let’s talk this out carefully rather than shout? We are in the healing house, and people are bound to hear if you continue—"

"Shut up, Agnes. Tú también eres una gran decepción! You are no different from your daughter, you hear me?" he snapped at his sister, who quickly pressed her lips together. This wasn’t the first time he had called her a disappointment in their native tongue. One could say it was his favorite words to say to his younger sister.

"If you had married the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack instead of the brother of the Red Moon Pack’s Alpha, we wouldn’t be here now," Elder Halvrek chided displeasingly.

Laila, who heard this, was barely holding back her own tongue. Since she was little, she had heard this phrase from her uncle over and over again: had her mother married an Alpha he picked for her rather than chosen her fated mate, who was the brother of another Alpha of a different pack, she wouldn’t have been such a great disappointment and wouldn’t have given birth to another disappointment.

Though the Red Moon Pack was powerful and were strongly backing up Laila and her parents, to her uncle it didn’t matter, because his sister hadn’t married an Alpha and had instead settled for a Beta.

Her uncle was the main reason she didn’t like staying in the Silver Pack, because nothing she or her mother did was ever good enough. She had tried countless times to please him, yet it never turned out right. And now, when she had the chance to make him never open that mouth of his about her again by becoming the Luna and marrying Sebastian, everything had gone downhill, all because of a wolfless girl from nowhere.

The thought that she had failed to a weakling was more insulting to her than it was to her uncle. He didn’t know how she felt. Waking up believing she had won, and that the wolfless must have died fighting the Black Howlers, only to be told she had failed and the wolfless would be marrying Sebastian in a week, her only hope at rising above her uncle and showing him she wasn’t a disappointment, had collapsed in an instant.

Laila had never failed in anything she did. In fact, she was feared by many she-wolves in the pack for a reason, because she had an alpha wolf. But in the end, she had failed to a wolfless. Wouldn’t that make many who had feared her until now see that she was nothing after all?

Her worst fear in life was becoming a failure and being viewed as a nobody. But wasn’t she now falling into what she feared the most?

Her insides curled with anger, but the anger slowly began to subside as something drew her in, and she finally raised her head to look at her fuming uncle. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Just because I failed the competition doesn’t mean I have failed and lost my chances at being Luna, uncle," she told him, watching as he looked at her with a dark, questioning gaze.

"What do you mean?"

Laila sighed, pulling her hand away from under her mother’s, fighting not to show that she was irritated at her mother’s cowering behavior. The fact that her mother had allowed her uncle to have this control over their lives was the reason he still tried to control Laila now, even when she wasn’t his daughter.

"Have you forgotten that I am one of Seb’s mates? I have more power over him than the wolfless girl ever may. In fact, he doesn’t care about her and wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice her as the third Luna who would lift his curse if he can’t find the prophesied one. She is bound to die, uncle. I still have ample chances with him."

Elder Halvrek’s face immediately lost its harshness at those words. He had completely forgotten that fact due to his anger, but now that she had mentioned it, he realized they hadn’t lost their chances at all. If he backed her properly along with her useless father’s family backing, she would be carrying the Alpha’s heir in no time, even with the wolfless in the picture.

"You worry too much, uncle. Perhaps the Moon Goddess is trying to save me from the fate of the third Luna’s death. The wolfless is nothing but a sacrificial lamb for taking that position," Laila reasoned.

Let the wolfless have his Luna’s position, because Laila believed she would have every single night with him after the marriage, until the girl’s death and her chance arose. All she needed was to get this old wolf off her back, and then she could think and find her way to making things right again with Sebastian. They had grown apart during the competition, and she needed to see him, tonight.

With that thought in mind, Laila got off the bed and approached her uncle, saying, "Do not worry. I will make you proud, so proud, uncle." She gave him a tight smile, then turned to her mother. "I am leaving this place today. I feel perfectly well right now, Mami. I need to see Seb."