How on earth am I your woman?”
Stella raised her head to question the man who was a head taller than her. “You haven’t given me a title, a status, or even have the ability to mate me. So what am I to you? A bed partner? Friend with benefits? Eric, tell me, what kind of relationship is this?”
Eric’s face turned pale for a moment. He stepped forward and hugged Stella again, pressing her head against his chest. “I will find a way to mate you. Can you wait a little longer for me?”
Stella saw the panic and anxiety in Eric’s eyes, as if he was afraid that she would leave him because of this. Stella knew she had succeeded, but the final step remained… to send Eric to hell!
Stella nestled in his arms, without much expression, and asked him, “What do you plan to do to mate me?”
Eric was silent for a few seconds before answering her without reservation, “Leave the Sinclair pack and cut off ties.”
He finished speaking and lifted Stella’s chin, looking straight into her eyes. “I will mate you. Don’t accept Henry.”
Stella gently pushed away Eric, and when she looked at him again. There was no longer any love disguised in her eyes, only
She raised her rosy lips and smiled faintly, “But I don’t want to mate you. No, I have never thought about mating you.”
Eric’s heart sk ipped a beat. Even though he had already guessed Stella’s intention, he still didn’t believe it. He reached out to hug her again, but was ruthlessly pushed away by Stella.
His hand froze in mid-air for tens of seconds. He forced himself
to contain his impending anger and grabbed Stella’s shoulder, exerting all his strength to hug her tightly. “Take back what you just said, let’s just pretend that nothing happened.”
Stella could feel his body trembling, seeming to be unable to accept the truth. She couldn’t help but laugh coldly, “Eric, you already know the answer in your heart.”
His arms, which were holding her, stiffened for a moment. But then he uncontrollably hugged her tightly again. “Are you having an affair with Henry? Is that why you said those heartless words to
me?”
Stella didn’t continue to provoke him with her words when she heard this, but chose to remain silent.
Not because she sympathized with him, but because she thought that torturing someone was best done slowly and methodically.
She, Stella Cobb, knew how to provoke and hurt Eric bit by bit, muy, ping.
She wanted Eric to kneel before her and apologize!
She wanted Eric to spend his entire life repenting for what he had done to her in the past!
Eric received no response from her, and thought that she had fallen in love with Henry. His expression turned cold.
He grabbed her chin and stared coldly at the face that had once caused him to fall. He shouted again, “Speak!”
Compared to the emotional Eric, Stella appeared extremely calm, almost indifferent. She taunted, “It has nothing to do with you.”
As soon as the words left her mouth, a palm strike with full force landed on her face, causing her to turn her head.
Drops of blood from her lips fell to the ground, strikingly heart-wrenching.
After Eric finished hitting her, he put his trembling hands behind him and stared at Stella with reddened eyes. He stood still for a few seconds, then took a step forward.
However, Stella stepped back and begged, “Don’t come near me, please.” She raised her hand to stop him from approaching, then touched
Her swollen face, looking up at Eric and asked, “When will you stop hitting me?”
After she finished speaking, tears streamed down her face out of the blue…
Since pup period, whenever Eric got angry, he always punched and kicked her, destroying all the love she had for him when she was young.
Oh Eric, did you know that she once loved you with all her heart? But why did you have to be so cruel and destroy everything!
The tears that flowed down in torrents stung Eric’s heart deeply. His hand that was behind trembled uncontrollably.
He clenched his fingers and walked towards Stella, only to be stopped by Harper and Taya who were both rushing out of the villa.
Harper held Stella and looked down at her face to check for any injuries, while Taya stood in front of Stella and frowned at Eric.
“What are you doing?”
Taya didn’t quite understand Eric. He obviously cared about Stella, why did he have to resort to violence against her?
Eric ignored Taya’s question. His dark red eyes were confused and lost, staring tightly at Stella.
Stella, who was still covering her face, was also looking at him. The emotions she disguised in her eyes faded away, leaving only disappointment.
After a moment of eye contact, Stella was the first to speak. “Eric, when I said I loved you and wanted to mate you all these years, it
was all a lie. I don’t love you, and I don’t want to mate you…”
Eric’s handsome face turned pale at her words.” What are you
saying…”
Stella lowered her hand and revealed a face that was badly swollen. She tugged at the torn corner of her mouth and continued, “You hurt me in the past, and now I’m hurting you once. We’re even now. This is where our relationship ends.”
After she finished speaking, she grabbed Harper and Taya’s hands, leaning on their support, and turned around.
Eric watched her graceful back, feeling his heart ache.
“Stella, have you never loved me?”
Was everything just for revenge?
Stella stopped in her tracks, turned around, and looked at the figure that had accompanied her for half of her life. All of a sudden, a smile appeared on her face, “I loved you, very very
much…”
Since the year she was fourteen, the moment he, the young man.
she called Eric since pup period, bravely rescued her from the sea, she had fallen in love with him.
a strong love made her follow him no matter how he bullied or beat her. She never wavered in her affection for him, and even hoped that Eric would fall in love with her. But… Stella cried again, “Do you know that I studied medicine Becaus of you? It was because you once told me that if I could become an excellent doctor like you, you would mate me. It was just a joke to you, but it made me spend my whole life learning medical skills that I don’t even like…”
Eric heard her words and was even more pained, finding it difficult to breathe. “You never told me…”
Since she was young, she was silent. She would only follow him, unable to express emotions or even laugh. Faced with his teasing and mocking, Stella would only look at him quietly. Stella, who couldn’t be driven away no matter how hard he tried, was it
because she loved him?
Stella’s eyes were filled with tears, but she smiled as she looked at Eric. “On the night of my eighteenth birthday, I wanted to tell you that I had feelings for you. But Eric, what did you do that night? You sent people to gang-r*pe me. There were so many people holding me down on the ground. At that moment, I kept shouting your name, hoping you could come and save me. But you just sat in the car and did nothing!”
Stella raised her chin and pushed back the tears in her eyes.
When she looked at Eric again, there was no love in her eyes, only
hatred.
She grabbed Harper and Taya’s hands with all her strength, and screamed out the deep-seated hatred she had hidden for years.
“Since then, I became pregnant, and I don’t even know who the father is. All I know is that my body is weak with a fragile uterus wall, so I couldn’t get rid of the baby!”
“But you performed the surgery yourself and terminated my pregnancy. You even cursed the unborn pup as a b*stard and called me a sl*t!”
“Clearly, it was you who made me into a sl*t. Yet you turned around and cursed me?”
“It’s one thing to curse me, but you even did a sl oppy job during the surgery, causing me to get an infection!”
“Aren’t you a medical genius? You had ways to save me, but you didn’t!”
“You took away my uterus and deprived me of the chance to be a mother. You even sent people to throw me into the wilderness when I was seriously ill!”
“Do you know that if it weren’t for my cousin and Alpha Knight showing up in time that night, I would have died long ago!”
“So, tell me, how can I dare to tell you that I once loved you? How can I still like you?”