It has been a year since our mate bond formed, but my fated mate Damon Borden has never lost control around me.

Even in the height of desire, he will only use toys to help me find release, but he always refuses to let me help him.

Despite how much my heart aches, I plan to let him go. Even though he is my fated mate, he doesn't love me.

I get a potion from Helena Craw, the witch. This potion will dissolve our mate bond. However, the night before I'm about to take it, I stumble upon Damon in the study, using my photo while venting his desire.

He does it again and again while murmuring my name and saying that he loves me.

I'm shocked. I want to record the scene with my phone, but I accidentally take Damon's old phone. I tap on his chat records with Helena.

"I'm the fated mate of the woman I love, and I love her very much. However, I'm far too strong. What if I hurt her while making love to her?"

"How can I restrain my desire and control my strength to please a female wolf?"

"If my mate runs off with someone else, how can I overcome my possessiveness and continue to love her?"

When Lyanna Yates found out that I wasn't being satisfied in bed in my marriage, she immediately sent me sexy lingerie, despite the late hour.

"Change into this! I'm sure that Alpha Damon will not be able to resist!"

I looked at my reflection and how alluring I was. My wolf, Sasha, cheered me on. I was sure that I would be able to win Damon Borden over this time.

I thought of how enormous Damon was when he was aroused and couldn't help blushing. I hastily suppressed my emotions so that the mate bond would not expose my plan.

At that moment, Damon opened the door. When his gaze fell on me, the look in his eyes sharpened, and his Adam's apple bobbed up and down in an erotic manner.

I giggled and went over to take his arm. As I did so, I deliberately brushed against it with my chest.

I was sure that he would not be able to resist such seduction.

As I had expected, Damon's eyes filled with desire at once. I leaned forward boldly and gave him a deep, intense kiss.

We moved from the door to the bed.

Damon was on top of me, and there was a dreamy look in his eyes as he stared intensely at me.

His hands began roaming all over my body, and he began to undo every single knot on my lingerie.

My hands wandered downward, but before I could touch him, he grabbed my hand and said hoarsely, "Don't mind me. Let me help you."

My thoughts of romance disappeared at once when I heard how matter-of-fact he sounded. "Don't you want to get in bed with me?"

Damon held my hand tightly and got off me. There was a restraint in his eyes that I could not understand. "There are some things I need to take care of with the pack. Rest early."

I almost burst into tears from anger. I was a beautiful mate with a good figure, but he had refused to make love to me.

"Damon, do you think that I'm easily fooled? Are you impotent, or is there another female wolf in the picture?"

Damon stopped in his tracks. He turned back and sighed. "Raeya, I would never betray you."

So what if he wouldn't betray me? I yelled in fury, "If you leave, I'll go to another male wolf!"

Damon shuddered violently, but he still strode out.

This was the fifth time that Damon had rejected me. Even Sasha could not stand it. She began howling in my mind, "Is Damon an Alpha or not? If he doesn't like you, why did he make a mark on you?"

I laughed out of sheer anger and called Lyanna. "I failed. Bring me a bottle of wine."

Half an hour later, Lyanna barged into my home. "How could you fail? Is Alpha Damon actually impotent, or does he like males?"

Lyanna poured out wine for me, looking confused.

As the Luna of the Bloodlune pack, I was usually very strict on myself. I rarely drank, but all I wanted at that moment was to numb myself with alcohol.

A notification sound went off on my phone, which was beside me. It was a message from Damon: "I was at fault just now. I should have taken care of work before going home. Please don't be angry at me, alright?"

Damon was always like that. He would apologize to me after rejecting me, and it made me furious when I saw it.

Damon and I grew up together, but on the day that we were confirmed to be fated mates, I discovered that there was a female wolf that he had had a crush on for years.

Perhaps she was the reason he was always rejecting me.

Lyanna sighed. "You two are fated mates, for goodness' sake. You were brought together by the Moon Goddess. I mean, it's not like you can dissolve your mate bond, right?"

I took a deep breath and slammed my glass of wine down on the table. "You're right! I'm going to dissolve my mate bond with Damon!"

Lyanna practically fled from my home.

She claimed that she could not be held responsible for me breaking up with Damon, but she still told me to go to her if I got into any trouble.

I walked with her out of the neighborhood, but then I turned and saw a car parked in the dark.

"Are you going to the bar?"

The car window purred down slowly. Damon's eyes were lowered, and he cast a hungry glance at me.

I pulled my coat open to show Damon the lingerie I was wearing inside. "Yes! Since you can't satisfy me, you're not going to stop me from going to other male wolves, are you?"

There was a flash of rage in Damon's eyes, and I found myself hoping that he would get jealous, or that he would kiss me in fury and tell me that I could only be his.

However, he did not. He took a deep breath and lit a cigarette as he said, "Pull that coat tighter around yourself, and let me take you there. Don't catch a cold, as the wind is strong at night."

"Catch a cold?" Sasha snorted. "Is that all Damon can say?"

I immediately felt frustrated.

If a male wolf didn't feel any possessiveness at all when their mate was going to a bar, was there any point in maintaining the marriage?

Besides, there was no physical intimacy in my marriage with Damon.

"Thank you for your concern, but I'm fine."

I opened the car door and shut it with a bang, then headed home without looking back.

Late that night, I began feeling more and more uncomfortable. My body was protesting at the lack of release.

My claws ripped the sheets, and just as they were about to pierce my palms, a pair of warm hands entwined themselves with mine and stopped it from happening.

He freed a hand and began rubbing my stomach gently, as if he were handling a precious treasure.

"Don't resist if you feel uncomfortable. If the effects of the scent of my possession weaken, then tell me. Now, relax. Take some more restorative medicine, alright?"

My discomfort had been transmitted through our mate bond, and Damon had come to me as soon as he sensed it.

When I thought of how cold and distant he was to me in bed, his gentle actions just seemed like an act.

I refused coldly. "Thank you for your kindness, but I'm fine."

"What do you mean? We're mates, and taking care of you is my duty. How can you refrain from contact with me when you need comfort?"

Damon continued nagging me as he took off my clothes. He pressed himself tightly against me as he held a bottle of medicine to my lips. "Open your mouth, darling."

I pressed my lips together tightly and ignored Damon.

He sighed in resignation in my ear. After five seconds, he kissed me.

He pressed my chin down and pried my mouth open to pour warm medicine into my mouth.

He then grabbed my waist and deepened the kiss.

I could feel his warm chest and broad arms against me, and I felt my face burning as my discomfort was alleviated, and desire rose up in me.

I did not notice that Damon was already aroused just from hugging me.

I moved sideways and actually hoped that Damon would take the next step.

I had asked Helena Craw about this many times, as she was a witch. She always said that it was very difficult for fated mates to resist that innate attraction.

That was why the elders in the pack all thought that it was my fault that Damon and I did not have any pups. They would send people from time to time to pressure me.

This made me feel defiant, and I would try very hard to feel his emotions through our mate bond. However, his emotions were always restrained.

I could sense slight ups and downs in his emotions, but he would immediately suppress them until I could not feel them at all.

However, a minute passed, then another. Damon did not do anything.

After a long time, he finally said hoarsely in a humble tone, "When you feel better, shall we try again? I—"

I felt a lump in my throat and turned over at once to sleep.

However, I felt even more determined to leave.

Since I did not mean anything to him, why should I remain fixated on someone who would not respond to me? I might as well divorce him so that we would both be happy.

…

Early the next day, Damon began getting frisky before I was even awake.

His hand crept under my shirt and rubbed my stomach before slowly moving upward and cupping my chest.

"Does it still hurt?"

I shook my head groggily, and Damon blew on my earlobe.

I immediately felt myself tingling all over, and I wriggled involuntarily. "What are you doing?"

"If it doesn't hurt anymore, shall we go and run under the moon tonight? I'll be free."

I immediately felt much more alert when I heard this.

If Damon had invited me in the past, I would have kissed him in delight.

As my fated mate, Damon attracted me like metal to a magnet.

When I looked into his eyes, which were hazy with desire, my heart fluttered involuntarily.

However, I did not want to keep doing this anymore. Therefore, I buried my head in the blankets to express my stance.

When Damon saw that I was firm, he gave in and planted a respectful kiss on my forehead.

When I got up the next day, the lingerie that Lyanna had bought me was gone.

Damon was only in a towel, which revealed his muscled chest and defined abs. He was actually walking around casually in the living room, which was very unusual for him, as he was almost always in a suit.

I was shocked. I felt desire rise up in me, and I felt as if I was burning up.

Was he seducing me?

Unexpectedly, Damon pushed me against the wall. He was holding a piece of toast, and there was a look of inscrutable satisfaction in his eyes.

"Are you hungry, darling? Should I feed you?"

I swallowed. I felt that he was implying something else.

Sasha reminded me. "He is tempting you, and yet he's not moving forward to the next step. It's like looking at meat and not being able to eat it. That's worse than not having any!"

Sasha was right.

I looked away and rejected him impassively. "I'm not very hungry. You can eat."

I did not see the look of disappointment in Damon's eyes as I asked, "Where are the clothes I was wearing yesterday? Did you give them to the butler to wash?"

There was a flash of uneasiness on Damon's face. He looked away quickly. "I don't know. Maybe there was a thief."

A thief?

Would anyone in the Bloodlune pack be bold enough to steal anything from Damon's home when he was the Alpha?

However, it was a minor matter, and I could not be bothered to think about it. In any case, Damon could not possibly have been the one who took it.

"Remember to have it dealt with. Losing my clothes isn't a big deal, but there would be trouble if pack secrets were stolen."

I did not ask about my missing clothes after that.

I went straight out and headed to Helena's home.

…

"Luna Raeya, have you really thought this through?" Helena asked, trying to dissuade me.

"Once you drink this potion, your mate bond with Alpha Damon will be dissolved. You may feel a lot of pain."

I scoffed. No matter how painful it was, it couldn't be worse than how I felt whenever Damon rejected my pleas for love.

"Perhaps this is just a misunderstanding and that Alpha Damon has his reasons."

"His reasons?" I snorted. "Do you know what his reasons are?"

Helena shut up, and I did not comment further. I booked my flight tickets and decided to go home and drink the potion. I would leave after that.

Right before I got home, I bumped into Damon, who seemed to be in a hurry to get home.

Something black and lacy peeked out of his briefcase.