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Chapter 29

So that’s what it meant to you?” The words sounded grave coming from his lips as tears ran silently down his cheeks, “An object you can manipulate at will? That’s the price for saving my life?

Serguei, Christian and the other wolves were speechless.

-How ironic, isn’t it, Alisha Meyer asking for help to keep her life safe and I replace danger so close that it is right next to her?

-Alisha, that’s not the way things are,” Christian tried to reason with her.

-Ain’t that the way it is mate?” she referred to him with irony- True, you save my life, but in return, I can barely be calm without knowing I’m going to lose my sanity- she didn’t move, calmness was taking over her like a battery doll just talking and talking- I put my trust in you and what do you pay me with , with drugging me to give myself to you for my supposed will. Just so you are informed Christian. My she-wolf and I had come to a deal. Serguei, you knew about it.

He looked at the alpha who only crossed his arms over his torso with an indecipherable expression.

-For the good of the pack and both of us, I was going to give myself to you, to fulfill my task as the beta’s mate and as a werewolf, I just needed a little time because until the other day I was a mere human. I don’t understand their canine psychology yet, but no, they couldn’t wait,” she took a breath with a slight sob.

Cristián took a step towards her but Alisha backed away threatening him with her eyes, it wasn’t a good time to approach her.

-You know the reason why I don’t get together with people more than strictly necessary, for this very reason. What’s the point of trusting if in the end they’ll just bury the dagger in your back,” the memories of Ania’s betrayal hit her.

-Alisha, we thought it was for the best,” Serguei jumped into the conversation.

-Better, better for whom. Did they ever think of me. What I wanted, what I wanted, what I thought. Not once did they ask me my opinion, it was all impositions, they closed off all possibilities, leaving me with only one, and in the end they did what they wanted – he had started to shout, he calmed down again, lowering his tense shoulders.

-But there is one thing I have noticed. You told me that his women had long since disappeared,” the wolves face darkened, he didn’t care if he hurt them or touched a weak spot, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, “Apparently not having them around has made them forget…how to treat one.

And he turned and walked stiff-backed out of the room towards his room, leaving all those imposing men without a single retort.

Alisha let herself fall against the wall of the shower as the water bravely embraced her body. She pressed her knees to her chest and buried her face in them, letting out one audible sob after another. She couldn’t stop. She felt so betrayed that her soul was breaking in two. And she couldn’t call anyone to drown her sorrows like a normal person could. She had no friends and Ania, the only one she had trusted, had crushed her. She had no parents to tell her, I warned you. So alone, vulnerable in a world she barely knew. She felt the knocking on the door of the room beyond the bathroom.

-Alisha, it’s me. Let me talk to you, explain.

She ignored him. Even though she was several metres away, she could hear him perfectly well and he knew it.

-I feel your pain, love, let me see you, please,” she said.

But she didn’t want to see him. She didn’t want to see any of them. They would try to cajole her again and she would not allow herself to fall into their clutches. For now she just wanted to drown in her own sorrows. She closed her eyes. She needed a moment of peace. She let herself be carried away by the sound of the water falling and moving over her skin, of the leaves moving in the wind around the mansion, by the stream beyond, near the boundary where she would like to go. So, little by little he let himself slip into unconsciousness. It would be nice if he didn’t have to go back.

Cristian pounded his clenched fist on the wood of the door, knocking splinters out of it. His chest tightened in consequence of his partner’s hurt. Every step he took only pushed him three steps back. Nothing he did ended on good terms with his wife. Not even now that their souls and bodies were entwined. Only the distance was greater. He fell to his knees, leaning his forehead against the door. She hadn’t answered him, wouldn’t open the door. He knew she didn’t want to see him now, but he had the urge to try to make things right. He had a feeling that if he didn’t, the situation would get out of hand.

His chest gradually calmed down and he knew that she had fallen asleep. He clenched his fists again.

A hand rested on his shoulder and he turned his face to replace his brother looking at him curiously. Of the two of them Cristian had always been the more stable and emotionally strong, to see him falling apart was surely something new for him.

Note: Hi. Thank you for your votes and comments on this story and those who have stopped by my other wolf story Captive of the Alpha, and I’m glad you’re liking it.

Well now we see that our dear beta is not so perfect and everything he does only hurts his mate, even though he doesn’t want it to. What do you think he will do to regain her trust?

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