Chapter: Chapter 14: More Than I Asked ForSERENA'S POV I swallowed hard, my hands balled into fists at my sides and I turned away. I had the feeling that I was wading through an impossible phase of my life with each step I took toward the door. I had to get out of my heart before it engulfed me in its battleground of opposing emotions.I quickly wiped my face, took a sniff and lifted my head and told myself that crying won't solve this, that crying won't stop him from rejecting me if he wanted to.He grabbed my hand as my fingers touched the doorknob. “Serena. “ He called,his voice was rough, low and laced with rawness, a desperate sound which I didn't want to hear at all. My breathing was too shallow and too rapid and I froze, not out of fear but because I didn't know what to do, to go out or to stand here and listen to what he had to say.But I didn't want to. Even though I wanted to run out of that door, something was stopping me, holding me from doing so. Because I knew that I would fall if I did. “Derrick let me go
Last Updated: 2025-03-02
Chapter: Chapter 13: Telling Him
SERENA'S POV I exhaled and I stared at my fingersSadly the past has a way of entangling itself in the present. I could never get rid of it no matter how hard I tried to push it to the back of my mind. Elliot had left me so broken that loving again was like gambling and I wasn't sure if I wanted to love again.And here was Derrick, my heart was beating. I never imagined telling Derrick about my mate, Elliot the person who turned me down and threw me away as if I were unimportant, like I was just a piece of trash that should be taken out immediately and how foolish I was that I had allowed me make love to me and now I was carrying his child.As I relived the pain however my voice trembled and I muttered the words one after the other. “He didnt want me.” I muttered my throat aching from the memories. “ I thought that he did, like I was the best thing that had ever happened to him.But then everything changed and he claimed that I wasn't deserving of him. Sophia was better and hr cho
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Chapter: Chapter 1The Truth Unveiled
SERENA'S POV I looked at Derrick, my body shaking with incredulity, rage and something else I couldn't quite put my finger on. betrayal. And that was it. betrayal.I wanted to slap him. Yes, that was how I felt. How dare he? All these lies were making me go mad. I didn't know if I was to cry, to laugh, to yell at him.First I had a mate who left me for another and now I had another mate who keeps things from me.Wow.I first learned—not from him but from another woman—that he was the Alpha of a strong pack. Then I learned that ever since he saved me from those rogue wolves in the forest he had known I was his mate. And now here we were looking at each other and his deceit was like a boulder pressing down on my chest.I trembled as I whispered .“Say that again.”Derricks jaw tightened as he let out a sharp exhale. “Serena as soon as I saw you I knew you were my mate. The night I rescued you. I was following the scent and I saw you.”A scathing, dry laugh came out of my mouth. I sh
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Chapter: Chapter 11-The sting of betrayal
SERENA'S POVPain. Feeling ashamed. Confusion.It was everything I felt at once. Everything happened so fast that I didn't see it coming.My cheek ached from the slap but the empty uncaring expression in Derrick's eyes hurt even more. He didn't even stop her, he just stood there staring at us as if everything was like a movieHe didn't speak at all. Touching my face with my palm against the burned imprint left behind made my breath hitches in my throat .The woman who hit me came even closer , her eyes blazing with rage. She spit out in a venomous voice .“How dare you address the Alpha by his name, you lowly servant?.”Alpha? My brain whirled. Was the Alpha Derrick? I stepped back, my vision going fuzzy as the realization hit me hard. Everything made sense now including the weight of the hatred in her eyes.This was new.How I'm I supposed —He didn't tell me. However, why had he not informed me? Why had he allowed me to think he was just Derrick? Desperately looking for an explana
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Chapter: Chapter 10- He Doesn't Want Me
SERENA'S POV
The sun rays pushed through the sun and I blinked rapidly trying to understand what was going on and where I was.The last thing I remembered was I was standing with Derrick and the servant woman and the fight.Somehow, something felt different now, it was as if I had been transported into a new world.I sat up slowly. The room was so magnificent, worthy of a Queen.I was lying on a massive bed with heavy drapes of dark velvet which sat in the center of much beauty.Everything seemed to shimmer in an almost unnatural way, including the sleek contemporary furniture. I wondered again where I was as I brushed my hand over the plush silks as I reached out to balance myself on the bed's edge. It was too lovely. Too tidy. I felt confused.Where was Derrick ?My mind races as it worked to piece together what had happened . My last memory was of Derrick calling my name. The world had been a blur of panic growls and footsteps. Then. pain. As I fell I could hear Derrick calling my name and
Last Updated: 2025-02-28
Chapter: Chapter 9-The Hunt
SERENA'S POV
I sensed that something wasn't right as soon as we stepped out of the boundary of the first pack we got to. We were received warmly and had a little dinner at a small in at the far end of the pack and immediately we were on our way again and my heart was beating even when Derrick was walking right beside me .My stomach rumbled because I had eaten very little but I didn't want to bother Derrick about it, he had done so much for me already.Only the glow of lamplights extending down the road, the hum of the night in the distance and the deserted street. I could feel eyes on me though. I felt as if my breathing was labored and that the air itself had become harsh to me. “I think something is wrong.” I whispered.He looked over his shoulder as if he thought someone might suddenly leap out at us from behind .But then, I heard it as we were almost at the end of the alley. a faint sound that was hardly audible. Slow, deliberate and too closeMy instincts went into overdrive as the hair
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