---- Chapter 6 Kaelen's POV "Get away! I'm not leaving!" I shoved aside the border guards trying to stop me and knelt before the massive gates of Moonshadow City. "Alpha!" The captain of the guards pointed his spear at me. "Her Highness has given the order. You must leave immediately!" Hearing that, my heart plummeted. I was right here, so close to her. She wouldn't even see me? Just as despair threatened to swallow me, I remembered the wolf-fang necklace I'd prepared. She'd asked for one so many times, but I'd never given it to her. ---- Every time she brought it up, I'd just brush it off. Now, maybe this necklace would jog her memory. "T need to see her." I held the necklace up with both hands, like an offering. ''This shows how serious I am. Please tell Her Highness I'd give anything I own to beg for her forgiveness." I swallowed all my Alpha pride and knelt, facing the castle. A guard took the necklace and disappeared behind the castle gates. I waited, my heart full of hope. She used to want this necklace so badly. And I just shut her down, cold as ice, even scoffed to myself that an Omega like her didn't deserve such an honor. How stupid I was! Half an hour later, the guard came back. He wasn't holding the whole necklace anymore, ---- just shattered pieces. "This is Her Highness's reply," he said coldly, scattering the pieces in front of me. Staring at the pieces scattered on the ground, the brutal truth finally hit me. Even the thing she once wanted most... to her, it was now just trash to be stepped on. To her, I meant nothing anymore. The head guard pointed his sword at me, trying to drive me away again. But I just roared, trying to intimidate them with my Alpha presence. The guards looked at each other, then finally retreated to watch me from a distance. I started to build a simple shelter by the gate. Using branches, animal skins, and ropes, I put together something that could barely keep out the wind and rain.