CHAPTER 003

   The sun did nothing to alleviate my suffering as it shone merciless above me. It was an unusually hot day. Another day to face the bricks that would break my bones and leave my life in the shadows of pain.

"She's here," I heard whispers and everyone seemed to stare awkwardly at me, not like I cared since I had been dealt the worse blow of my life the day before and was really ready for anything. 

Maybe mot anything. I casually dropped my bag and buried my head in work to distract myself all day.

"Here comes the slimmy and shameless bitch." Someone said when I walked out my door to give a file to an employee. 

"Excuse me what?" I turned when I realized I was the only female approaching since the rest sat behind desktops.

"You heard me," a slightly tan lady eyed me but no matter how I tried, I couldn't recall her face. She definitely didn't work here.

"And who are you to think you're worthy of speaking to me?" I was done playing dumb and doormat. 

"Oh, I see you have wings simply because you successfully seduced Draven right?"

What?!

"I'm sorry what?" I was puzzled by the trash she spat and her audacity to slander me so openly before so many employees in the hall.

"You really want to know?" she was really bratty, I studied her look.

She looked like a regular plain Jane overly accessories and dressed to make a statement that would never make the news.

She wore a pleated knee length plaid skirt and tucked a ruffled white chiffon top in the biege colored skirt.

"She is Ana," that unwanted pain in my ass called Sophia snorted as she catwalked to where I stood.

"She is the new intern I hired and she will be your replacement." She dropped it like she was tossing a wrap of chocolate in the waste bin. Very randomly. 

My heart skipped a bit, was I being replaced without my knowing? So many questions ran through my mind but I only wanted to ask them to one person. My mate; Draven.

"And where are you going?" Emily side stepped and grabbed my wrist when I motioned to leave.

"Let go of me, I want to speak to Devine," I pulled my hand out of her grip and stormed away.

"You want to seduce him again to keep your place don't you?" That Ana said making me stop in my tracks. 

"There really is a difference between the Alpha’s bed and the office you know," Those words belonged to Sophia even if Ana had said them.

All the color drained from my face.

"Are you surprised?" Sophia smirked as she plaved a hand on her hip and stood akimbo mocking me.

"We know it all Aveline. Everyone has heard already." Ana added.

"Heard what?" I blinked back the tears that threatened to fall from my eyes and managed to ask with a slightly croaked voice. I wanted to know.

"They have heard how you seduced the Alpha all the way in college and got yourselves a place to work here," what was she saying in front of all the employees  

"You are crazy," I retorted as I felt the strength leave my legs.

"No I'm not, they also know that you have been fucking the—" 

"Ana!" I screamed not wanting her to continue speaking at all.

"Oh relax Aveline, did I hit a nerve or have you not been warming the Alpha’s bed?" She cocked her head to a side and waited for a response.

I felt guilt eash over me as the reality of her words hit me like a slap across the face. It was true but not the way she had said it. 

"Oh come on, we know that you only got the position as his personal secretary because you threw yourself at him and you—" 

"Just shut up, shut the fuck up." I ran into my office utterly ashamed and disheartened. 

My life was getting more herculean by the day and it was really exhausting. I felt a sharp pain in my lower abdomen and my mind went blank.

I couldn't let anything happen to my child.

The pain intensified as my mood got sour from so much crying and when I couldn't take it anymore I rushed to the hospital. 

On the way there, Ana's words clouded my memory, the way she smiled as she said the things she did with no remorse.

I had to clutch tight to the leather seat to control myself from breaking down in the car till I got to the hospital. 

The doctor ran a few tests and had my results in due time, I waited patiently to hear his advice and comment. 

"Your baby is fine Miss Aveline, " he started and I heaved a sigh.

"But," he paused.

Damn the but, I hoped it was something good so I waited for him to finish up.

"You can not expose yourself to anymore mental emotional breakdown, do you understand?" He asked and I nodded slowly.

He already found out about my mental stress from when he questioned me before running the tests.

At least the only piece of Draven I had was still intact. I thought to myself as I bid the doctor fare well and he left the ward. 

Just as I walked to the counter to pay, my eyes fell on a familiar duo, a man and a woman entangled cordially as a nurse looked at the lady's arm.

Did Draven really bring Emily here for that insignificant mark on her skin?

That could definitely not be classified as a burn. I was pissed, I was going to tell him how pissed I was and more so, I was going to tell him about my child.

"I am pregnant. Meet me in ward 456, we need to talk about it." I typed it on my phone and hit the send button. On cue he took our his phone and looked at the screen, I turned and walked to the ward where the doctor had attended to me to wait for him.

Few seconds later, the door was pushed open but when I lifted my head, I saw someone different. 

I saw Emily instead.