"You are only my mate in name." Hunter mutters behind me. I feel my heart shatter as tears well up in my eyes and I feel my fists clench tightly.

"My parents were right about you, you are nothing but a womanizing pig!" I wrench myself from his grasp and run to my room, slamming the door behind me. Grabbing the bags I had just finished unpacking, I begin tossing everything back in but then I stop. If I go back home it will prove that I'm a piss poor Luna. Vanessa will be right after. I will never be able to live it down if I leave now. For now I will have to suck it up, a mate only comes once in a lifetime, I can't give up on this one.

I sit alone in my room, feeling a pain in my heart as I gather up the courage to leave my room. Cracking opening the door I am relieved that no one is there. I quietly make my way down to the living room and Lilac looks at me with a frown. I guess the dejected look on my face says it all.

"Hey, you want to go with me to the mall?" She asks me as Hunter walks down the stairs behind me.

"Where are you taking my mate?" He asks as he pretends what happened upstairs didn't happen at all, his hand grasping mine and I give him the side eye.

"Why should you care?" I respond snidely and he squeezes my hand so hard it feels like he is going to crush it.

"Why should I care? Because I'm your mate. Why wouldn't I worry about where my mate is going?" he gives me an innocent smile. He is suddenly acting like such a doting mate. He is such a two faced ass.

I let out a low growl as I try to pry my hand from his. Once I'm free I follow Lilac to her pink Porsche Boxster and get in, excited to be away from him.

We drive to the nearest mall and lilac practically drags me into a nail salon. She runs right for a particular color of nail polish like she knew exactly what color she was after leaving me to browse the shelves till a color catches my eye. It is a light pastel blue color, very muted and elegant. I pick it up and flip it over to read the label on the bottom. It's name is Happily Ever After. I feel a tinge of pain run through my heart and I let out a low sigh. I always dreamed of the day I would find my mate, the day I would find my happily ever after but I never expected my mate to be so cold to me let alone be the two faced cheater he is.

"Do you like that color?" Lilac asks.

"Um yeah, it's nice." I put on a fake smile but it doesn't seem to fool her.

"You're upset about my brother aren't you? Don't worry things will turn out okay, I'm here for you."

"I saw him with another woman. I know I don't know him that well and I only just met him but it still hurts." I mutter disappointedly.

"Well you two do share a mate bond after all, so it's only natural that you would feel that way. He has always been like that." She tries to comfort me. "He has always been a tail chaser."

"Is that supposed to make me feel better?" I say with a sigh.

"Sorry... Let's just get our nails done and forget all about him for now." She smiles.

"Alright." I take the polish over to a lady and she paints my nails, adding a small, elegant flower design. After which Lilac and I wandered around the mall. Several stores and shops are lined up with everything from jewelry to clothes to even tattoos. Lilac grabs my arm and drags me into another store full of dresses.

"What are we doing in here?"

"You're going to need a dress in a few days, for when my brother introduces you to the rest of the pack as his mate. It is a tradition." She mutters as she picks up dress after dress, tossing them into my arms.

I let the pile of dresses drop from my hands and fall to the floor. "Lilac, do you think he is really going to go through with it? I haven't even been here four hours and he already went for that hussy over me."

"He will. He won't have a choice, our parents will make him."

"I don't want that either. I want him to come on his own accord,..... because he loves me." I could feel my tears begin to form. Deep down I know he will never love me. "Let's just go back home."

With a sigh, Lilac drives me back to the pack house. Once the house was within sight I open my door.

"Roxie, I'm here for you if you need me." Lilac calls out to me and I smile back at her.

I walk into the house and Hunter is sitting in the living room watching TV. I don't even acknowledge him as I walk past him and to my room. He doesn't even try to catch up with me. Once I am in my room I pick up my phone and notice a message from Alex.

"How are you setting in, mom and dad told me that you found your mate? Are you happy or do I need to knock a few heads for you?"

"Everything is great, everyone is very friendly. Hunter and I are getting along well. I've never been happier." I text my lying response and I can feel my wolf staring angrily at me, her cold stare boring a hole into the back of my head.

Sitting on my bed I let my phone drop onto the mattress with a loud sigh. Then I start thinking about how I had been sighing a lot today. I haven't even been here a day and I'm already so miserable.

I curl up in my bed and begin to sob quietly to myself, hoping no one could hear me. Tomorrow is another day. Things will get better. I hope.....