Page 16 of Bullied Forced Omega
IN unison, the pack speaks their practiced oath. Their voices chorused through the trees, sending goosebumps rippling over my flesh.
Not one of them protests my position. They all accept me and honor me.
They bow a second time, and when they stand, tension is higher than ever.
Jeremy waits until the forest is silent, then he announces, “As the words of the Wolf King have already been spoken, acknowledging our Alpha as our Alpha…I present to you all…our Alpha, Jace Greenwood!”
Howls erupt in the still night air. Piercing the night, screaming into the dark. The forest is suddenly alive, awake, and throbbing with excitement.
I throw my head back and yell into the sky, and next to me, Mira does the same.
It takes a while for the pack to settle before Jeremy can speak again.
“And now for the bonding ceremony,” he says. “A moon wedding. Our Alpha will accept his fated mate beneath Selene’s gaze.”
“Place your hands in hers,” Jeremy says.
Mira turns to face me. She’s shivering, but not from the cold. Adrenalin is coursing through her beautiful body. I place my hands palm up, and she places hers palm down in mine.
Instantly, the current of our fate pulls us together at the point where our flesh touches. A low growl rumbles from Jux, up through my chest, and slips from my lips.
Mira gasps, her lips parting as her wolf bucks and paces in the same way mine does.
Her eyes are brighter now, glowing yellow and gold as her wolf shines forth.
Jeremy steps onto the stone behind us with a loop of gold cord in his hand. He begins to wrap the cord around our hands, binding them together.
“With each loop of gold, your fates are bound. With each knot, your lives are woven together. With each breath and each scent, with each passing second, you change. You are no longer two but one. The Alpha and his Luna. Joined for eternity, in this life and in the next. Selene sees you, honors your fate, and binds you beneath the light of her moon.”
My whole body is on fire. Magic courses through me in ways I can’t describe. It feels as though Mira has stepped into me, into my mind, into my heart. I can feel her, sense her, smell her. Her thoughts are in my head. Her fear, her panic, her lust…
“Miranda Nelson of the Rose Falls Pack, do you accept your fated mate, Jace Greenwood, Alpha, and your chosen?”
“I do,” she whispers, so softly that her voice is barely a breeze in the night.
“Jace Greenwood, Alpha of the Rose Falls Pack, do you accept your fated mate, Miranda Nelson, as your chosen?”
“I do,” I say, instantly feeling the golden thread tighten around our hands.
“You are bound, in the light of the moon, for all eternity.”
As Jeremy speaks the words, the golden threads glitter and turn to dust. It seeps into our skin and onto the stone beneath us. Glittering, drifting in the soft breeze.
And I can feel everything. I can feel her.
She is everything.
My heart races, and my body begins to hum with need for her. My wolf wants to sink his teeth into her throat, to mark her as our own. I sneer, fighting for control.
We are married now.
I will not claim her in that way until she wants it too.
I did not come home for love. Or lust. Or desire.
I came home to lead this pack as the best Alpha this world has ever seen.
Taking a step away from Mira, I thread my hand through hers and lift her hand into the air, “My Luna, my light, I will run with you tonight,” I thunder. “And I invite my pack to join us, to celebrate. To run until your breath is lost and your pads are raw. To have fun for the thrill, the chase, the freedom. And then to join is for a feast.”
