"So this is true?" Sienna yelled. "You lied to me about going to a diplomatic meeting only to secretly fly out my stepsister and get married to her. You both are demons."
"I should have blamed myself first of all for deciding to do good to her. Now the good has turned to bad."
"Are you insane, what are you talking about?" Sienna felt like pulling over a rod and hitting him so hard in the head for pretending as though he didn't get what she was saying.
"Are you calling me crazy now?" She asked.
"Yes, because I don't know what's wrong with you. I'm getting married to my fated mate, the love of my life. So that's not your fucking business. Remain the wife which you are," he sneered.
"What wife?" Dera scolded.
"I'm sorry baby," Gray pleaded. Sienna gnashed her teeth, folding her fingers into a ball. She was vibrating inside of her. She even heard both of them kissing, they were doing this to hurt her, she knew well.
"I'll make sure both of you pay for this crime you've committed!"
"Wait, madam mistress….." Dera said with a chuckle. "I hope you know I'm in control now. I'm his Luna. Stop living in illusion!" She barked.
"You can do nothing! He's mine!" With this, she hung up, leaving Sienna gazing into space in horror as she slowly lowered the phone from her ears.
"I can't believe this is true!"
"I can't believe this is happening!!"
She was drained of tears and sweat, still sitting on the floor. Slowly she stood up from the floor and walked to the bed, sitting on the side. All the knocks on the door seemed like a trance, a mere imagination to her.
She couldn't still buy the fact that she had lost her husband, her chosen mate who was more than a fated mate to another girl. Worst was, it was a girl she knew and loved, a girl who always called her 'ma' am.'
She quickly resorted to messaging.
"Gray," She replied. The message popped up on Gray's screen. He was still online.
"We have been together for three years and during these three years, I abandoned my work to be a full-time housewife so I can cater for your needs when you're back from your office as the Alpha."
"Aren't you satisfied, what did you want again from me? If anything, why didn't you tell me? Wouldn't I do it for you?" She was almost moved to tears again. She dropped a teary emoji.
"Can you tell me exactly what you want that I haven't given you, is it sex, food, attention, respect? I even get to kneel willingly for you without you compelling me, I'm pretty sure not all wives do that for their husbands."
She paused to swallow some saliva as she was choking. Gray was reading all this but he gave no single answer.
"Why would you still go secretly to take that petit, little brat as your wife?" She attached yelling stickers, as she was fuming up seeing him read through her messages but not saying anything.
“She's my mate and I love her more than you. I had to go for my heart, she gives me calm and makes my wolf strong!" Gray replied, at last, hurting Sienna so much.
This response wounded her more.
Sienna froze. It was as though someone slit her throat.
"But….. Mmm," she was confused and didn't know what to say.
"You're my chosen mate! She's my fated mate." Alpha Gray typed.
"I'm sorry, I know how you would be feeling now but there's nothing you can do. I had to do this!" His message seemed sympathetic, but in actual sense, he was grinning hard with Dera.
"Leave that fool! She's nothing more than a fool." They both burst out laughing.
"Sometimes, the truth is the hardest to hear." She told herself that Sienna was getting to believe this reality. She smirked.
"They will surely pay for it!"
Alpha Gray spent a three-week honeymoon with Dera, his new mate before returning to the Harlow Pack.
His wife met him with a deadly gaze.
Without saying a word, Alpha Gray knew what was in his wife's mind.
"My little mate, I promise won't stop you from the position which you are, as the Luna."
"I'm not after that, but you. Why would you dare do such a thing after you stood before you made a blood covenant with me, promising me in the name of the moon goddess that you will never get a second wife?"
"Why did you give me hope that you would never look for another girl, no matter if she was your fated mate?"
All these, Alpha Gray did only to end up going against his promise. This is what hurt Sienna the most. She had great hope for him.
"No woman wants to share her husband with any other woman, and no responsible man would get into an affair with a young adult behind his wife's back!" She barked at him in the face.
"So you call me a fool now for choosing to be with my mate?" He gave her a hard slap before everyone who was gathered on the estate's ground floor to welcome him back.
"What?" Sienna yelled in horror. "How dare you do this to me?"
"Because you've forgotten how to talk to your Alpha with respect!"
"Let's go in!" He uttered to Dera as he grabbed her by the wrist.
Sienna was still standing there, without motion. Everyone had a look of horror, they never thought their Alpha could act this way. Alpha Gray was always the gentle, loving, and caring husband to Luna Sienna. Even other married women and single girls were jealous of her and wished they had such a man.
"Hey baby," Carla, Sienna's cousin, emerged from the crowd running to meet with her cousin. She didn't mind the crowd, she called her Luna by the fond name she gave her.
"Don't worry about him, we will sort things out soon. We will do everything possible to make sure Dera doesn't stay in this estate and in Gray's life." Carla was fusing with anger inside of her, her eyes were bloodshot.
"Carla, I can't believe this is happening to me!" She sank to her knees.
Carla tried her best to raise Sienna. She led her into the house, to her apartment.
"We can't believe this is happening!" People started to comment. The Alpha didn't even give them a hint that he was going to take another Luna after Sienna had already been installed as their Luna.
Sienna was their most beloved Luna, she was cordial and merciful, and there was no reason for anyone to hate her with the type of life she lived.
Yes, this caused a great sense of worry to all but it couldn't be measured by the worry Sienna had. This disturbed Sienna more than she ever thought of. So she decided to spend her days inside her room, turning an introvert overnight.
Gray was becoming so violent in words and act each time they crossed each other, so she chose to avoid him.
Since Alpha Gray was a terror in appearance as well as in actions, no one dared to challenge him for his new treatment of their beloved Luna, Sienna. They kept quiet, not as though they didn't care but they were afraid. Aside from this, Gray wasn't the type that would listen to anyone. As for the Beta, he watched what was happening in silence.
Sienna continued to live in her misery, wishing for things to change but it came up to the point that Sienna couldn't keep quiet any longer, so she decided to act.
"I don't give a damn shit whether she's his fucking mate or whatever, I will drive her out of this estate!" She vowed as she left her room finally. She headed to her husband's apartment which he now shared with Dera.
As she approached, she saw Dera going into the room she once used to stay with her husband, it was their matrimonial room.
Dera held a tray of appetizers chopped into pieces which she and Gray were going to eat for the morning. She was going to make a fruit salad for Gray, it was obvious. This was her favorite delicacy while in bed with Gray. Then Dera used to prepare it.
It was so sad that she now had to be the one enjoying this with her husband while she had to stay alone and gloomy inside her room, gazing over at the window every day, dying of loneliness.
Sienna hastened up, pulling her by the shoulder so violently that the tray fell and all of the fruits fell on the ground.
"Hey girl, what are you up to?" She growled, snarling at her.
"I'm over there in my room, so sad and lonely and you think you can enjoy my husband. No!" She shook her head. "Not in this life."
"You, ugly bitch, I wonder why you should be so clingy. It's so disgusting!" Dera spat on her. “You don't even fit to be his Luna.”
"Gray has shown many times he doesn't want you, still you persist. Don't you think you should pack your things and go out into the streets?"
"Go and die there with your bitterness!"
"I'm tired of seeing your ugly face in this house!" She spat on Sienna. Sienna couldn't believe that her little stepsis was talking to her this way just because she happened to become her husband's new Luna.
As she bent to pack the appetizer from the ground into the trash can since they couldn't be fed on again, Sienna jacked her by the hair. Jacking her face up, she gave her a hard slap which sent her crashing to the ground.
It was at this point Alpha Gray came out. He had a white towel wrapped over his waist. He had beads of water streaming down his chest. His hair was messy. His chest was hard with his eight-pack abs making him look all sexy and hot.
His face was strong, his eyes turned red seeing his little mate on the floor.
He didn't say a word but dashed at Sienna, giving her several slaps. Her cheeks turned red, her entire face got swollen. He kicked at her and she stumbled, falling to the ground. Sienna groaned in pain.
He then rushed over to Dera.
"What's going on sweetheart?" He was panting. "Hope you're not really hurt? I can't believe this clingy fool pushed you to the ground."
Sienna cried out. "I can't believe you would do this to me after all the love and earnest promises.” She said in tears and a broken voice. “I still can't believe why you would do this, you came in and without knowing what happened between us, you descended on me." Her heart was pierced as she saw Gray petting Dera.
When he raised his head and shot her a glance, she shivered. He had so much hate in his eyes towards her.
"She said she's going to kill me if I don't leave this estate!" Dera lied after Gray raised her to her feet.
"What?" Gray gasped, about to descend on Sienna again but Dera held him.
"Don't worry, I'll deal with her myself."
Dera stormed towards Sienna, pushing her against the wall. Sienna's knees were weak. Gray's beating had rendered her weak physically and emotionally. Even with her weakness, there was a fire in their hearts.
She pushed Dera's hands off her.
"Get your filthy hands off me!" She barked at her, pushing her away from her.
With this, Dera still walked towards her, Sienna's eyes were filled with shock. She couldn't believe that her little stepsis she helped could take this stance against her. Her heart was still into when they were mistress and maid.
The anger infuriated her, making her shift into her big gray wolf. "I'm gonna show you that I'm still your superior, even when my husband is touching you!"
Dera was scared at first, but soon she found herself slowly shifting too. Gray glared at them, wishing Dera would beat Sienna. He was ready to defend her in case the fight took another turn.
"What were you expecting before?" Dera mocked. "You didn't want him to touch his mate, but to come touch you, old girl?" Sienna was five years old, she was more mature in appearance which made Dera refer to her as an old girl.
She scanned her body with prideful eyes then turned to look with disgust at Sienna's. Her eyes were enough to pass on what she had in mind. Dera was mocking Sienna, showing her how young and beautiful she was.
This, she did before she completely shifted to her radiant brown wolf.
Just then the Beta arrived to tell Gray important news only to catch the side of both Sienna and Dera in their wolf form. It was a crime to shift inside the estate. Shifting could be done outside.
"What's happening here?" He growled. He was surprised to see the Alpha watch this without saying anything.
"Hey, stop. You two." He moved towards them to pull them apart but Gray grabbed him from behind, pushing him away.
"Who's asking you to pull them apart? Are you crazy?"
Fred stared at Gray with a puzzled gaze. Shifting was prohibited inside, the rule was even made by Alpha Gary himself.
“You will not get away with this!” His Beta snapped at him and walked away. He stormed out of the room, he couldn't contend with Alpha Gray's recent behavior.
Sienna was about to storm out too when Gray grabbed her violently.
“How dare you treat my fated mate this way? Do you know she's greater than you in rank right now?”
This was the last thing Sienna expected to hear. What she thought was happening right in front of her.
"But you said your mate doesn't stop me from being the Luna of this pack?" She reminded him with a smirk on her face. She was about to cry but seeing that Gray would be happy to see her hurt, she held back her tears. Instead of a tear, she held a smirk.
"How is that even possible when I've found my heart?"
"So you believed?" He chuckled, folding his arms across his chest.
"Oh God!" Sienna exclaimed, raising her hands to her head. She looked at both of them with a cold smile, not saying a word.
His conscience hit him hard, even amid his disgust towards Sienna, he was pushed to talk gently with her.
“I promise to hold you dear by my side, but my wolf beats for Dera. She's my mate and as the Alpha, I need her. I'm sorry, I can't help." He walked away from her to Dera. He draped his hand over Dera's shoulders, turned, and pulled her into a tight hug.
"I'm pretty sure I'll be removed as Luna soon, it's already obvious!" She shut her eyes so tight to prevent her from seeing Gray hugging Dera. She rose from the ground.
“Dera is here to stay. Perish whatever thought you have against her. You'll only be chasing after the wind!" Gray growled before leading Dera inside his bedroom.
"I don't want to see these when I come out," he pointed to the fruits on the floor. With this, he slammed the door hard in her face.
Sienna remained there.
It didn't take long when she began to hear moans and groans coming from inside the room.
"Gosh! They are making out while I'm here, standing like a fool!"
She stormed off, kicking at the fruits to scatter more. She warned all of her maids not to touch it. She wanted to see what Gray would do when he eventually came out.
"I wouldn't turn to their slave, not in this house!"
"So sad! When someone you have becomes someone you used to have." Sienna sighed, as she climbed into her bed. Thoughts of Gray and Dera making love recreated in her head. She tried to wipe it away, but it persisted.
It seemed this was the new tempest she had to battle with, she didn't know for how long.
"So I'm not included in his future?" She sighed.
As she lay on the bed, she heard a knock on the door. This was three hours later.
"Come on, open this door!" It was the Alpha. "Why didn't you clean up that mess on the floor?"
Sienna rose, walking to the door. She leaned on it without opening it. "Ask your mate to do that for you, she dropped it, so she has to clean it."
With this, she returned to her bed. Pulling her headphones over her ear, she folded her arms across her chest wilding away time while listening to music. Gray was at the door knocking, not knowing she wasn't even hearing.
"I have to punish her so hard so all this disrespect would end!" Dera balled her fist in support, she held a sinister grin on her lips.
Towards the evening, it was time for the President of the Alpha Council to visit. Carla, Sienna's cousin, had made a post about the Alpha taking a new mate after he promised not to. She tagged the president in the post which got him to see it eventually.
She had made a promise to her cousin, and she had to fulfill it.
For the dinner which was an honor to welcome him, everyone had to be present. The Alpha was sitting with his mate, Dera. The Beta and Gamma with their mates were also present and three other senior members of the family were in attendance.
Sienna arrived late. There was no seat in place for her, the Alpha didn't order for an extra seat. Even though Patrick was the President of the Alpha council, he was under Gray's control. This was the secret Carla didn't know but Sienna knew.
"What's wrong between both of you?" He asked, deviating from Gray who was meant to be the center of focus.