Chapter 4

Jenny had to leave for her own peace, hoping they did not notice her.

She left the restaurant after asking her friends to send the bill, rushed into her car, sat behind the steering wheel, and began to cry, her inner wolf whining with her.

Just when everything was coming together for her and she thought she was stable once again — then everything had come crashing down for her again, and this time, she was broken to find out about her step-sister's betrayal.

How could all of it have happened under her nose without her knowing?

She clearly remembered how she introduced them to each other at a family event Alpha Tony followed her to, and she had basked in the respect and attention everyone showered on him as he was among the most powerful Alphas around, only a little below her father.

It must have been the moment she orchestrated her own downfall, because the mood got to her head, and she had gone around with her arm in his, introducing her lover to everyone as Alpha Anthony Martin, or Alpha Tony.

All of them felt his power — his cold, piercing gaze that seemed to take in far more than it appeared to, the aura he gave off that even made an uncle of hers bow to him without knowing, and his charming smile, which she loved because he gave them to her alone.

Cheyenne had been standing by herself a short distance with a glass of wine in her hand as she pleaded with Alpha Tony to come with her. It had taken a lot of pleading, as he insisted that not everyone had to speak to him.

“Just my step-sister, please. She is my favourite of my mother's other daughters, and I want you to know her.”

Only then did he budge, and she went with him to see the woman standing alone.

“Hello, Cheyenne…”

Her stepsister turned to her, those black, seductive eyes in her direction before a smile came upon her face. They kissed each other before she turned to Alpha Tony, introducing him.

“This is my lover, Alpha Tony; Cheyenne… I thought of introducing him to you.”

And for the first time since she fell in love with Alpha Tony, from their childhood, she felt her spirit tear apart from his. Her senses had taken everything that passed between them too, and she felt like a third party between them.

There was that sparkle in Cheyenne's eyes, and the smile on Alpha Tony’s face too — the very smile she knew he reserved only for her while the rest of the world saw other parts of him. At that moment, he gave it to her step-sister.

Jenny remembered slipping her arm in his, trying to regain something she thought she had lost control of. That spark had passed so quickly that it scared her, but she paid no attention to it. They did not know each other, and would not come across each other until she brought him to another family event that Cheyenne also came to.

In fact, Jenny forgot all about it until she saw them together that day, and it became clear to her that she had ruined herself with her own hands.

“I should never have introduced them to each other.” She whispered to herself, wiping the tears that had been flowing down her cheeks.

It ruined the rest of everything for her as she drove home in a foul mood, wanting to do nothing but lie in bed. She was doing exactly that, until a phone call from her mother rang in her ear, which she received after blowing her nose and clearing her throat to stop her mother from knowing that she had been crying.

“Hello, Child?”

“Yes mother,” Jenny answered, trying to put as much cheer into her voice as she could.

“Why are you doing this to yourself?”

“Doing what, ma?”

“I know what Alpha Tony did was something that broke you, and something I cannot forgive him for. You also have not taken it easy on yourself, staying in that house all alone like that. I want you to come back home, to your family, so we can all take care of you.”

“No I am fine —”

“Don't lie to me, Jenny. And don't argue with me too. Come back home tomorrow. I want to treat you to something special.” Her mother ordered.

At this point, Jenny had no choice. She could as well begin to pack up, in readiness for a trip back home.

“Okay mother.”

“I love you, Jenny. Come back home to mama.”

The line went dead before Jenny could say hers back, and she chuckled for the first time since spotting her sister with Alpha Tony that evening. Soon, she closed her eyes, but the sleep did not seem to want to come, only making her toss and turn in her bed.

She was curious to know if her mother knew about Cheyenne.

Frustrated, she got off the bed, deciding she could as well be packing up the clothes for her journey back home. She pulled out her favourite box, rested it on her bed, and was lining her clothes in, the folding motions helping to distract her from her irritable state of mind.

Something seemed to be eluding her, however, and she began to sweep through her room, hoping to see it and remember. That was when she pulled open one of her drawers and saw the piece of cloth the stranger who saved her had given.

It still bore the scent, and she could smell it all over. The memories of the nights she would go to sleep with it in her hand came rushing back to her, and it annoyed her this time.

“He is a man, just like Alpha Tony, and all men are the same.” She growled to herself, tossing it outside her window.

Hopefully, she would never think of the stranger again, or want to see him. He was going to remain nothing but a sweet memory to her.