Casper
I felt life slowly crawl out of me as my body turned ice cold for some minutes.
I trembled hard, yet my body felt like it was on fire.
Wiping the sweat that dropped on my forehead, I swallowed, trying to digest the truth.
Fuck!
The truth hurts so bad, and I felt droplets of tears gathered around my eyeballs, stinging them.
The heavy wind found its way to the room, almost knocking me down to my feet. I knew it was nature mocking me for falling in love and trusting someone the second time.
I was a fool.
The saying goes once beaten, twice shy. But I allowed myself to be beaten once again.
My heart squeezed painfully as pain engulfed me.
The bitter taste of betrayal and hurt stuck to my gut as I bit my lips hard enough to draw blood.
Was Lilith a whore?
Any lady who joins the Fantastic app and creates erotic videos is paid, according to my knowledge.
If she needed money badly, why didn’t she ask me?
I couldn’t believe those clothes had been worn by her and those horny bastards on the app had seen it.
How dare she expose her body to other men despite showing her how much I cherished her?
It hurts to believe that Raphael was right after all.
I should have listened to him and fired Lilith when I had the chance to.
I let myself down and my trust was broken once again.
It made sense. She was never satisfied with the money I gave her, but she had to join a silly platform to sell her body in exchange for more money.
She was a filthy gold digger!
A stripping whore!
A pretending two-timed bitch!
A surge of anger flowed through my veins, almost blinding me.
Cursing loudly, I punched the wardrobe so hard that my fist left a hole.
“Casper, please, think through before doing anything drastic. You get extremely impatient and it leads to rash decisions when you get mad. Remember she is our mate. We can’t hurt her and we can’t push her away. The moon goddess might not give us another mate after her. Punish her lightly, but don’t push her away,” Max tried to warn me but I growled, making him retreat into my head.
“Watch me!” I started as a dark expression settled on my hardened face.
“Please, Casper!”
“Shut the hell up. You can desert me again like you did the last time. I don’t give a fuck!”
My breath hitched the moment the door flung open.
I was about to lash out when Raphael strode in.
“I’ve been looking for you all over. I traced your scent here.” He broke the silence, staring at me with his keen eyes.
“I have delivered the message to the elders who have delivered the news to the pack. They received it with great joy and they are expecting a date for the ceremony. We’ve started making preparations and I’ve drafted a list of Alphas to invite.”
“I need Luna’s opinion on the theme of the ceremony, and also, the pack designer would like to take her measurements to style a lovely dress for her.” He stated, before stopping to catch his breath.
I patiently waited for his speech to be over before tossing the ring box out of my pocket.
“Cancel everything. There is no ceremony, no Luna, no proposal and no date!” I ordered, swallowing painfully as I struggled not to break down before Raphael.
I don’t think I will be able to handle the ‘I told you look and speech’ he would rub on my face, not after the threats and fights for disrespecting Lilith.
Covering the space between us, a worried look inclined on his face.
“Why? Are you having cold feet? Or you are not ready?”
“I’ve made a mistake,” I started. Blinking hard, I gritted my teeth, preparing to speak without letting my voice crack and give my emotions away.
“You are Casper Hunter, you never make mistakes.”
His words hurt, stabbing my broken heart once more. The sharp pain radiates all over me.
“Lilith is a whore. She strips on a Fantastic app…” I revealed
“I know that app. Fuck that bitch! I knew she was a pretender.”
“I almost proposed to her, but I found reasons I should separate from her instead. She caused most of our fights which I apologize for.” My voice shook at the end of the word as I embraced Raphael.
“It’s fine, Alpha. I’m happy she has been exposed. I knew we couldn’t trust that bitch!”
*****
Lilith
It was surreal.
How life could slip off someone in the flash of light.
Everything one has ever worked for was left behind, to be enjoyed by another.
One minute, my mum was talking to us; the next minute, she was stone-cold dead.
It was like a nightmare that I wanted to wake from.
I could still hear her voice replaying in my ears.
Every word tore my heart to spread.
Still, I couldn’t believe it.
It wasn’t until the doctors wrote her time of death and wheeled her body to the morgue that I accepted the reality.
My mum was gone forever!
It happened so fast, I didn’t know what to feel.
Rose bawled her eyes out, while I froze in disbelief, glancing at everyone from a distance.
I wish to possess superpowers to go into the past or turn back the hand of time.
Thrown off balance I let the tears fall freely from my eyes.
How could I be hit with 2 huge pieces of news in minutes?!
One minute, I found out I was pregnant; the next minute, my mother was dead.
Somebody, wake me up from this nightmare!
I needed time to grieve for my mother, but what about the baby?
Terminate.
I would terminate the pregnancy. Now was not the best time.
“Miss Parker, meet me in my office,” the doctor announced, shaking his head sorrowfully