Arya’s POV
“Arya Mikayla Lincoln I never knew you to be this heartless” Kelsi glared at me as soon as she walked into my room. I rolled my eyes. I had expected many people to be angry at me when I got back from the pack, but everyone seemed to go about their daily affairs. Well except for my best friend.
“Please give me a break”
“What did you say? How could you do this to Chase?”
I arched an eyebrow. “Do what to Jake? Tell me are sired to him now, that you always take his side”
“It’s not about whose side I have taken, Girl I have to be honest, what you are doing is downright annoying”
I scoffed. “Then let him be” I took off my shoes and began to message my feet. “At least we are now even”
“What?”
“You heard me. Chase is not exactly clean as you paint him to be” I barked. “Why don’t you ask him why he didn’t attend the picnic” Kelsi went quiet. She just stared at me.
“Why did he not attend the picnic?” she said scrunched up her eyebrows. “You know I cannot ask the Alpha that question”
“Yes you can’t but you have to figure it out” I began to wipe off my makeup furiously and that made me tear the wipes.
“Okay since you know tell me”
I turned easy from the mirror and faced Kelsi. “Well if you care to know, your alpha was out hunting for new mates while I his mate waited for him”
Kelsi gasped and that was what she shut her up. She immediately walked out of my room. Allowing me to be in peace. Ever since that day, I and Jake became sort of inseparable. Despite what everyone was saying, I just couldn’t pull away from Jake. I went on more dates with Jake. We bantered and laughed, just like old times. He made me happy and I began to toil with the idea of going back to him. Now it was certain. I still had feelings for him.
All through the time we spent together, I would go home and have beautiful dreams of us together. That made me happy. It has been affirmed. Then suddenly I began to have series of bad dreams of which one stood out. It was ugly and painful. That following night I slept in my son’s room and then again I began to dream.
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My eyes fluttered open. It was morning. I recognized where I was. It was in Jake’s bedroom.
I closed my eyes as events of last night began flooding my senses. I sat up, and clutched a hand over my mouth. I looked around me a towel think was mine was still on the floor. So it was not a dream. I had truly slept with Jake. I smiled. Our relationship had grown stronger. My next line of thought was interrupted when I had a familiar laugh.
Hey I know who that is.
I draped the sheets tighter over my naked body and tottered to the door, then I froze. I staggered back and in that I collided with a table. The vase on the table was about to fall off but I stretched my body like a snake and caught it. I ran back to the bed, panting.
Ohm god I clutched a hand over my mouth. I couldn’t believe it was happening again. But this time he was still with her even though she was the one he had slept with.
Then suddenly the Vase was not placed well and it crashed to the floor. I flinched, and ducked my head under the pillow. The door to the room was open.
“Jake she’s awake” Anastasia walked into the room with a half-smile. “Well well well isn’t it little miss hard to get”
“Anastasia what are you doing here!” I said. My face was the exact color of a fire truck. Letting my sister, an enemy see me in my most vulnerable state, had to be the most embarrassing thing in my life. . My voice came out different than I had expected. Shaky and croaky.
I had seen Anastasia kissing Jake but the pain in my heart had made it hard for me to process all of it. I didn’t know what was actually going on.
Jake walked in and planted a deep kiss on Anastasia’s lips and she chuckled. “You should have seen her last night” Jake said with a smug expression.
“I know” said Anastasia with a wicked laugh. “She is a little angel but she had never had a man touch her down there”
I wanted to tell them I was no virgin but I had other important things to say.
I was too stunned to speak. I watched Jake’s hand snake around Anastasia’s waist as he pulled her in for another kiss.
“Anastasia what did you do” I swallowed. Tears were welling up in my eyes.
“Aww she’s about to cry” Anastasia laughed. “Well Arya, we used you to get what we wanted from the pack elders. They saw me as a bad person, so I suggested Jake woo you to show that you are slut and you fell for it” she smirked.
“I’m leaving I can’t stay in this shit” I threatened.
“Did you tell her” Anastasia asked and Jake smirked. “No”
“Tell me what” I said. This time my voice was a bit gruff. I tried to blink back the tears. I was never going to give them the satisfaction of watching me cry.
“This marriage stands till I say I don’t” Jake deadpanned. “And also you signed an agreement saying you can’t tell anyone we are together”
Oh no. not a blood agreement. Jake flung the paper at me and there I saw it. An oath if secrecy.
They laughed and began kissing again. I mustered all the strength in me, I sprang up from the bed and ran out of the room, fighting back my tears. I broke down in the hall way.
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I jerked up, sweat adorned my skin. I hated my dreams, they had the potential to be true. I had seen a pattern. But then what about all the sweet good dreams I had of Jake? Were they not valid?