Once Rejected, Thrice Accepted
Chapter 45

TRIGGER WARNING! MENTIONS OF R**E WITH ONE OR MORE MEN. MENTIONS OF DUDES BEING SCUMBAGS. IF THIS IS AN ISSUE FOR YOU PLEASE SKIP THIS CHAPTER AND I WILL DO SMALL RECAP IN AUTHOR NOTES ON NEXT CHAPTER FOR YOU. "You think she will actually make it back?" Dennis laughed after we lost sight of Sundance. "I have a few extra guys planted."

I smirked at him. "I know. I also know she can take care of herself. She is my sister after all."

"What the hell are you blabbering about?" He rolled his eyes nodding at two of his warriors to drag me behind him in the opposite direction of my pack. "Mother is going to be so happy her daughter is back. Our favorite little plaything." He was actually serious. With how he smiled and acted like nothing had changed, I knew he still thought I was his little sister. What a stupid little boy. Mommy could tell him the ground was made of chocolate and he would eat it as dessert for weeks on end. "Hate to burst your bubble but I am not your blood sister. I was lost in the woods with some warriors who found me, and your shitty parents decided to keep me and use me against my real family later on." Both warriors looked at me like it was the first time they had even seen me. "Have you ever met the royal guard? Maybe the leader and his family who were blessed by the Moon Goddess herself?"

Dennis tripped catching himself on a tree before turning back to me. His eyes were wide like he just put the puzzle pieces together and was having a small freak out. Good, anything to slow them down so my pack can save my pathetic ass. "No... Mom said you are my sister. She just didn't show up during her pregnancy with you." He walked closer, putting his face within inches of me. "We have the same eyes."

"Not really. You are seeing what she told you." I pulled against the warrior's arms wanting to head butt some sense into Dennis, but their grips held firm. "Think about that guard family and how they look."

He pulled his phone out and put it on speaker as he called someone. Slyvia answered by the third ring. "What? Did you screw up yet again you waste of s***m?" Damn, now I felt bad for him but only a tiny bit.

"She isn't my real sister, is she?" He didn't even greet her. He sniffed me before standing back eyes even wider. "She is the missing girl the royals and their guards mentioned so often. You stole her?!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" She groaned. "She spoke to you, didn't she? You were always so gullible. I should have sent the son I wanted but never got."

"That beta's son is a lying piece of shit. He won't ever be good enough to be your son like I am." He growled walking farther away and taking the phone off speaker.

'Thats why she was so pissed about the rejection. She didn't care if he hurt us but we hurt her precious want to be son. Moonlight gagged. 'Well at least I hope it's the son and mom thing not the dirty version of it because that is disgusting!

I laughed. The warriors stared at me again but this time like I was crazy. "Hey there Thomas. Zach. How are your cheating mates doing or did you decide to get new ones since they weren't your fated anyway?"

Thomas growled before punching me in the stomach. "Shut the hell up whore. The only time you need to say my name is when you're choking on my stick."

'Can't even say the correct name for his anatomy? Our old pack shouldn't be allowed to reproduce! Moonlight was pissed.

I kept my mouth shut watching and waiting. He had about ten warriors surrounding us in the woods. They weren't the A team but they were some of stronger ones. They were just stupid and could only be used as muscle. They didn't think this through yet again. 'Gemma!' Draco's link finally came through. 'Where are you? Who has you? Britt barely made it here and only said you were being taken!

'About damn time. I don't know where we are since I am still getting used to these woods, but I do smell burning timber along with burned fur.' I looked around but we had walked far enough off the trail I had no idea where we were or even what direction the pack was. 'You can hear Dennis screaming at his mother on the phone!

'This was Dennis?' Draco's voice was deadly. I knew if he got to us first, he would kill him without a second thought. He didn't need that on his conscious.

'It is but you have to promise I get to kill Dennis.' I pushed my voice to sound full of rage and blood thirsty. I didn't care who killed the cockroach but I sure as hell wasn't going to allow him to do it. 'Promise me Draco. The man who helped t*****e me and pushed me to the brink of death every week is mine to play with before killing'

'Fine. He was short with his answers, but I knew he would do his best to keep his word. 'There was a storm a bit ago and lightning hit part of the pack lands. Duncan knows where you are, and we are headed your way. Charles is staying with Britt and several of their warriors but the rest of us are headed your way!

'Ok, I will do my best to slow them down.'

My head was ripped to the side by my hair turning me to face Dennis. "Who are you linking? She shouldn't be able to do that?" He growled out searching his warriors faces. "Tate, why is she able to link her pack?"

"The battery died. I told you we only had an hour tops, with this machine." Tate snarked at him. "But no mister big and bad was right even though he doesn't know shit about technology."

Dennis let my hair go and stomped his way to Tate. "Big and bad huh?" He smirked before ramming his fist through Tate's chest and ripping his heart out. "We don't need you if the tech doesn't work." He threw the heart in the woods as Tates lifeless body hit the forest ground.

'This is not going to end well for us if we stay with them,' Moonlight sounded worried.

I agreed. The aura coming from Dennis was turning blacker by the second which worried me. I knew his intentions were never on the positive or good side, but I had hoped if I showed him how big of a snake Sylvia was that he would let me go or at least turn on her. It seemed he was torn between both stories, but he loved his mother too much to ever turn on her. That would be his downfall. He would be dying today.

"Dennis, I don't know what she told you but-"

"Slap" His open hand slammed into my face twisting my head so fast my neck pop.

"Shut the hell up. I have orders to bring your back regardless, but they only mentioned you being in one piece." He grinned as he looked me up and down. "Now that I know we aren't blood related it seems my team and I can have our turns." "W-w-w what?" I gasped as his friends laughed around me. "You grew up thinking I was your sister and all of a sudden you found out we aren't blood related so you're ready to touch me sexually? How disgusting can you be?"

He slapped me again. And then again. "I have always wanted you. I wanted to be your first. Show you how a real man takes someone virginity. Show you how much pain I could give you before turning your over to your mate used and abused. Mother said I couldn't do that. that was frowned upon but once you turned eighteen, she promised a few of my men here a taste. Now she is letting that promise happen."

"Shouldn't we get a bit farther from the pack?" one of them asked walking up behind Dennis. "If she linked them..."

"Yea yea. You're right." He put his hand on my neck and stared. "I get first dibs. I can't wait to leave my handprint on your pretty little throat."

I gulped and tried to focus on keeping my heart beat regular. I didn't want to let him know I was scared, like actually scared of him for the first time in forever. I had gotten used to the regular beatings and knew they would only go so far but now he was out on the loose with no one to rain him in. If anything, this group might push him forward.

'Hurry Draco. Dennis, I paused keeping my eyes locked on the crazy man in front of him hoping he didn't realize I was talking to my hopefully here soon savior. 'A bit more unhinged than normal. They only need me back in one piece and there are about ten of them thinking they are going to get in my pants!

Before he could reply I linked my mates. 'I love you guys. Just know that you are the best things that have ever happened to me, and I don't know where I would be right now if it wasn't for you.'

'Don't talk like that.' Duncan and his wolf howled. 'We aren't far behind.'

'Whoever touches you will die! Leo stated soundING as cold as death. 'No one hurts you and gets away with it!

'What they both said.' Lucas sounded the most in pain. 'Stay strong and fight. You got this!

"Let's go. I saw a pretty little cave that is calling our names." Dennis smirked, removing his hand. "I can't wait to see if our noises get louder while we are in there."

All the guards laughed and started walking. Several kept looking back at me and grabbing their crotches. I hoped they realized that as soon as they started anything I was going to use everything I had including my teeth. I would make a few eunuchs before they would be able to tame me. 'Here.' Duncan warned me before they all leapt out ripping into Dennis's team.

Draco's wolf slowly walked up with Jackson's eying the ones holding me. "I'd run if I were you. Those two would kill for even looking at me funny and you are way past that point."

Thomas threw me down putting his foot on my throat with his partner shifting shredding his clothes. "Come any closer and Ill break her windpipe. You would miss those pretty little sounds she makes when she is happy or sucking a man's-"

He didn't get to finish that remark as Draco leapt at him dragging him down and ripping into him with his claws. Jackson did the same to the other. I tried to get up but all I could do was stare at the sky. My brain remained blank while the noises went quiet. 'Gemma, get up!' Moonlight shouted urging me to fight.

The only thing I could focus on was the voices coming back from before telling me how bad of a girl I was. I deserved the pain. I deserved to never know what love was. I deserved the hate, rejection, and anything else I was given. I could never be good enough. The only thing that changed was now they spouted how my mates hated me but needed their fated mate to be strong leaders. They were going to cheat on me as soon as the bond was completed, and the pack pushed for it. They would never let me bear their children because they would never want them to be weak.

"Gemma..." A voice whispered past the voices screaming at me. "Gemma, we are here. It's going to be ok."

A hand turned my face to the side, and I saw my mates staring at me. Looks of worry and rage battled in their faces. The faces I had come to love but didn't deserve. Dennis was right. He had told me so many times before how I was only going to be good at spreading my legs and cleaning up the messes people left behind. My mates were so good, so strong, and here I was bringing them down.

"Baby girl, say something. Anything. Please." Leo begged reaching out to touch me. I flinched back and closed my eyes.

"Everything will be ok. They are all dead except Dennis." Lucas growled sounding upset that he still took oxygen into his lungs.

"Draco mentioned you wanted to kill him. I make no promises what shape he will be in when you are ready."

Duncan laid down beside me close enough to touch but didn't. "You are the air I breathe, the reason I wake up, and the face of the woman I want for the rest of my life. No matter what they said before or during this failed kidnapping they are wrong. Don't let them win." I nodded and shifted. Moonlight took over and I fell into the dark. I needed time.