Previously:

He kneeled down on the floor, facing me.

Slowly, others also turned to kneel in my direction. In unison, the whole room spoke: "We present our greetings to our new Luna Queen!"

'Huh?!'

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Elizabeth's POV:

When I was young, my grandma would often tell me about how much of a big blessing our chosen mates were. I would lay my head on her lap and listen closely to her as she would tell me about her time spent with my grandfather, the previous Alpha of the Red Spade pack. Her eyes would always be overcome with a strange type of emotion whenever she would reminisce about her time with him. I would always wonder how it would feel like to have a mate and had been waiting impatiently for him ever since my eighteenth birthday.

So, when I had heard of the news that the Alpha King was coming over to our pack to choose his mate, I had prayed with all I had, for that person to be anyone but me.

'What the f**k? When did I become the Luna Queen?'

My dark brown eyes immediately went to seek those identical ones of my mother's. It was not hard for me to find her. After all, she was among those three people who had not bowed. The others being my father and the Alpha King. I shot a desperate look towards her, begging her to somehow get me out of this mess.

How did I end up in this situation in the first place? He was handsome and had a high rank, but that did not mean that I wanted to be the one stuck with him. His reputation was pathetic and he was known to have a short temper. Who would want to willingly put up with a man like him? And to mention, those rumors regarding the first Luna Queen's death, his actual mate chosen by the moon goddess herself, did not settle too well with me.

Mom had a defeated look in her eyes, as she silently shook her head and then avoided my gaze and went back to staring at the floor again.

Dad was not even looking at me. The whole time, his eyes were on the floor and he did not even lift his head.

The Alpha King had an arrogant look plastered on that stupidly handsome face of his. He smirked at me, almost as if he was mocking me.

I knew that I had no chance of saying no to him. He and his pack were way more powerful than us and angering him would just lead us all to an early death. So, instead of recklessly denying him in public, I walked up to him and gave him a small smile.

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"I am deeply honored to be chosen, but I wonder if it is the right decision?" Mates were regarded as something sacred and special. Perhaps if I brought up the topic of the importance of meeting our fated ones, he could be publicly pressurized to reverse this decision of his?

He tilted his head to the right as he stared into my eyes and his smirk turned into a mocking smile. "Are you saying that I made a mistake? That I was wrong?"

I shook my head. "No! I would never dare to say anything like that. It is just that...I yet have to find my mate. Will it not be unfair for me and him if I end up becoming the Luna Queen? As you already know, the pain of losing your mate-"

He suddenly cut me off. "We can worry about that when your mate finds you. Now, let's leave this stupid conversation for another day and prepare to leave for my pack immediately!"

Though his face was neutral, the anger in his eyes gave away his true feelings. 'Did me mentioning his dead mate anger him or was he angry at me trying to make him back out of making me the next queen?'

Then his words suddenly came back to my mind. I moved closer towards him, until there was almost no space left between us. "What do you mean by preparing to leave immediately?" I hissed into his ear.

"It is exactly what it sounds like. We are leaving. Immediately."

Before I could say anything else, he grabbed me and dragged me out of the room. He dragged me! Cameras started flashing the moment he touched my arm and continued to click until we were out of everyone's sight. All the werewolves who were still kneeling, started to get up slowly and watched us go out with confusion. My face started to feel hot and I could feel my anger rising. How dare he humiliate me? And he did it in front of the whole world! I tried to shrug him off but he would not even budge. Instead, his hold on me tightened even more until he stopped in front of a shiny white Bentley.

That stupid beta of his was not too far behind us. That Blondie looked at me for a fraction of a second, as if his sea-blue eyes were trying to convey some sort of message to me. I was, however, in no mood to play spy right now, so I turned my head to the other side and ignored him. Noticing that I was not going to listen to whatever he wanted to say, he then immediately opened the car's door for us and ran towards the driver's seat. I tried to resist him again but he easily threw me in the backseat and quickly sat down in the front one.

Fear and panic gripped my heart, as I frantically tried to pry open the door, but it had already been locked. The same was the case with the windows.

"You know that this counts as abduction, right? What you are doing is 100% illegal and I can take action against it by appealing to the Elder Council?" I knew that fighting against him was going to be fruitless, but that did NOT mean that I was going to just resign to my fate so easily. Somewhere back in my mind, I had already known that mentioning the Elders to try to frighten him was going to be useless, but what I did not expect was a small cough from the Beta.

'Is he laughing at me?' For the nth time tonight, embarrassment took over me and I felt the blood rushing to my cheeks. Instead of coming up with a reply, I slid into the super comfortable seat of the car. Both of them had started to talk in low voices and I could only pick up a few lines from their discussion.

"Damien, when are you going to tell... ..."

"When it is time... ..."

"I have a feeling that Eddie won't like it... ..."

'Huh? Who is Eddie?' What were they talking about? Damn, I really wanted to know! But it is not like it is going to make any difference.

'Maybe I should give up. For the time being.' I thought dejectedly as I let out a resigned sigh and closed my eyes. The moment I did so, exhaustion took over my body and I started to fall asleep, drowning out the sounds of conversation going on between both of my abductors.

'I wonder what the Alpha King's name is?' was the last thing I thought of before I passed out.