MIA.
“When are you going to crown me as Luna?” I asked, kissing his lips and sliding my hands down his chest. I had to spike his coffee to get him to this point, to touch me and allow me to touch him. Yet, he kept mentioning her name. He thought that I was Arabella.
“Next week.” He raised my head and kissed my neck, sucking my skin and where my mark was supposed to be. I moaned, wanting more of him.
However, at the same time, the door flung open, and Arabella’s scent wafted to my nostrils. He got away from me very quickly and then turned to her. I groaned at the sight of her. Dramatically, she ran away and I rolled my eyes.
Rhys rubbed his forehead and then took a look at me again, probably confused about the reason there were two Arabella.
“Fuck!” He groaned when he saw me and then wore his trousers properly before running after her. I sat up with a deep growl. She just had to come and ruin everything for me.
I wore my dress well and ran after them. It took me a while to find out they were in the forest and to my bitterness, the duo were kissing each other.
Rhys was moaning and groaning as he deepened his mouth in hers, it hurt so much that I felt like killing the bitch. Why can't she just leave the man for me? Why can't she go away and never return?
Tears burned my eyes, I felt dejected.
Without saying a word, I went away from there and instead of going to the pack, I went home. Mommy said that she would ruin the bitch and now I want it as fast as possible. I want her to die a horrible death and never come back to life again. Luckily, I met my mother in her room. She was adorning herself in some gold set I got from Rhys’ money. The past weeks, Rhys and his father had adored me with money and gifts for my mother and myself.
“Mom...” I sobbed as I walked in.
“Hey, baby..” Mom came to me and then ushered me to sit on the bed.
“Arabella came over and then I saw her and Rhys kissing. Rhys would not let me touch him so today, I spiked his drink but it only made him think I was Arabella. Mother, we bewitched him to think I am his mate yet he cannot love me the way he loves Arabella.” I sobbed. The thought of it all was making me feel inferior.
“We can ask the witch doctor to heighten the charm. Although she mentioned to me that you need to see her. You should do that today and tell her what you want.” I raised my head, fully interested in what Mom said. It was a nice idea to my ears and I wanted more than to have it that way.
“I have nothing to do, I will go right away.” Mom nodded her head and then I picked up my car keys and went out of the house. The witch will double the charm that she used on Rhys and he would think about nothing but me.
About thirty minutes later, I got to the location of the witch. This witch was a rogue there; she stayed in the forest where anyone could get access to her. Her name was Stephanie. She was a middle-aged woman with white locks. Something tells me she was older than she looked after all she was a witch who could extend her lifeline.
“You are here,” she uttered as soon as I approached her. Her eyes were closed and she sat in a meditation position yet she saw me.
“Mom said you wanted to see me and I need you to help me seal Alpha Rhys so that he will only think about me. He loves that stupid Arabella so much that he only thinks about her.” I hissed, sitting in front of Stephanie. Then she opened her eyes and looked at me with scrutiny before frowning.
“The first spell we did took a lot of energy and you know nature would always want to find a balance. We made Alpha Rhys believe that you were his mate hence a repercussion that would descend on the pack. You are not the right Luna. Now, you want me to further bewitch him?” Stephanie raised her brows cockily and then shook her head.
“We need to stop the spell or pray that the repercussions will not wipe out the pack.” She added and my heart jumped to my throat. I was going to say something when I heard struggling behind us. And then the next second, former Alpha Archer stepped in. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw him and my heart jumped in my throat at the next words he said.
“You bewitched my son?” He asked.
“I came out in search of scouting rogues but it seemed like I found more than that. You are not Rhys’ real mate, no wonder he doesn't like you deeply. I had to threaten him to take you and fulfill pack duties. However, it turns out you are nothing but a scam!” He growled at me.
The next second he looked at the witch.
“I am going to tell my son about this, he will destroy the two of you!” With this, he turned around and walked away.
My heart thumped loudly in my chest. I knew that I was now doomed and nothing was going to save me this time. Tears gathered in my eyes and I fell to the floor weakly.
“What will I do now? Archer is going to tell Rhys and he will find out I am not his mate!” I sobbed.
“No, he will not. We can kill him before he gets to Alpha Rhys. Aside from that, we can use his blood to clear the repercussions.” Stephanie uttered behind me and I turned to her. A smile popped on my face because of her idea. I did not care about Archer, I only care about Rhys, therefore, anything that will stop our union, I will not hesitate to get out of the way.
“Let’s do it. And I want Arabella to be framed for his death. I was Rhys to believe that his beloved lover killed his father, that way he will no longer adore her.”
After agreeing with Stephanie, I wasted no time and went straight to find the rogue assassins who lived near FrostBite. I intended to hire them to eliminate Archer before he could reach Rhys.
ARABELLA. A thin line between breaking and getting yourself back. Rhys was my thin like. His saying the perfect words would have made my day better. Perhaps him choosing me over everything else would have made me float in the air instead of this heartbreak. He kissed me, and this made me think that he was ready to choose me over anything else. “I have duties to this pack.” He reminded me that the pack was more important. He said that choosing Mia - his right mate - was for the betterment of the pack. He said he could not reject her and again, I should be his mistress. My ego would not let me accept to be his mistress so I ran - I ran into the forest in my wolf form. All I could think about was how life had defeated me once again.My mother - the woman I thought loved me turned out to be a fake. She wasn't my mother and she hates the gut out of me. Mia took Rhys away from me and the one man I have ever loved wanted me to be his Mistress. My wolf whispered as we walked through the for
ALPHA RHYS. I walked back and forth in the meeting room. I held most of my meetings and disputes right here. I had never thought that one day, Arabella would be the reason for a meeting in this room. Every part of me wanted Mia’s words to be a lie. A big mistake that I would overlook very quickly. The next second, she was pushed in. Craig shoved her into the room. It seemed she was struggling to come in and he had no choice but to shove her into the large meeting room. Mia walked in after them, she came to stand beside me. Arabella’s eyes rounded at the edge. She glared at Mia and the latter did the same without a care in the world. Arabella’s eyes eventually stopped on me. “Why am I here?” She asked, her voice lower than normal. It was different from the woman I used to know. “You killed his father!” Mia was quick to answer. Anger oozed out of her. She sounded in pain. Of course, father was always on her side. I had only accepted her as my mate because of him. This makes me thi
ARABELLA. The day was gray and murky. All I wanted to do that particular day was sleep until my eyes became arid. However, this was until some men walked into my room forcefully. Although I couldn't see them clearly, the aura coming from them made it obvious that they were from the Alpha. “Where are you taking me?” Two men grabbed me by the arm and shoved me out the front door. The bright sun got in my eyes and I winced before docking. “Don’t say any more words.” A masculine voice sounded in my ears. I kept quiet after that. I wasn't in a good shape to argue much. My memories were parched though, I could hardly remember anything that happened before now. Soon, we got to the pack house. Everywhere was colorless. I had been here a couple of times and I know they had some bit of color to them but this time, they were gone. No, it had to be the drugs I had been using. They were fucking with my head. The men by my side only stopped when we got to the Alpha meeting room. Alpha Rhys
ALPHA RHYS. Her eyes wouldn't leave my memory. It was as though she was right here, beholding me and begging me to believe her. I want to. Every part of me wants to turn deaf ears to the evidence. To the proofs. To her marks which lay claims on my father’s corpse. To ignore the words knocking at the edge of my heart. To believe her alone. Yet it was hard. The evidence was clear. I didn't want to be blinded by love. I didn't want to make a mistake. I hissed and took the dangling glass to my mouth. It was filled with an amber drink and when it touched my tongue, it ran down and burned my throat. It was just what I needed to remind me of reality. To not be blinded by sweet feelings. Anyone could turn evil. We are all capable of evil only some of us have more self-control than others. And when we lose everything holding us back, we delve into it hungrily like a starving wolf. I heard the door open behind me and then soft footsteps followed. Her scent spread across the room. I didn't
ARABELLA. He let go of my neck yet I felt like he was still strangling me. I coughed out and it felt like my lungs had been wrung. I just stared into the air, tears pooling around my eyes. His words hurt too much, it felt like my heart was shattered into two. They were like spades, dividing my timid heart into two. The same man that promised me heaven on earth. It was the same man I thought I would end up with. My dirty cunt? The words were so thick, that I could almost taste them. I stayed in the position for many hours. There was no need to count the time, I would be here for a while. However, I did know when it was morning and night. Another two days passed. No one came to my dungeon. There was no food or water. At some point, my mouth went dry and I could almost not feel my tongue. I knew that Mia was behind it. The bitch would do anything to make me suffer. Right now she was in the upper hand. And she got Rhys on her side as well. On the third day, I knew my death was ap
ARABELLA. They kept hitting me, stomping on my back and limbs. They did not care that I was a mere female or I was weak. My bones broke under their maltreatment. Still, they did not stop. I cried and screamed in horror. They were despicable. Animals that did not care about the tears of a woman. What did I ever do to deserve this? Why did this have to happen to me? Did Rhys think betraying me like this was fair? He slept with me and ended up taking my sister as his mate. This wasn't fair. I thrashed and cried and screamed as each hit came at me. I was in immense pain. It was too much for me to handle. I wanted it to stop at all costs. I begged the men to make it stop instead I was slapped in the mouth and my lips busted from the intensity. “You stupid girl, disturbing the peace of others!” He slapped me again. Another one dragged my leg and used his hard boot to slam against my flesh. The sharp part of his boot tore my skin. It was bad. I hated it. I cried loud but no one came to
MIA. I dropped the cup of champagne after gulping the cup at once again. I was at the bar and Craig, Rhys’ Beta was with me. He helped me pour another round into the cup while I looked into space, seething. Rhys had to regard for me. He was nothing but a lying Alpha. One time, he wanted me, and most of the time he didn't. The times he wanted me, I forced myself on him. It had always ever been Arabella even after all of my plans to make us mate. There was a time he called her name from his sleep, I sat up and looked at him thinking it was a mistake but then he did it the second time. That night, I cried like I had never done before. I was frustrated because why did he have to think about Arabella after all of my plans. It was almost as if I wasn't beautiful enough. “Your Alpha left without informing me, did you think that is right?” I looked at Craig and he shook his head. “Where did he go?” I asked, looking back at my drink. “He didn't say,” he replied softly. I scoffed. He
MIA. Craig informed me that he had arranged the meeting and this made me leave the bar. I went to the location where I saw Alpha Jack sitting and watching the bed hum on the tree. Craig fixed the meeting in our private garden. The garden was always cared for. No one dared to mess with it. Also, it had the most beautiful gardens and the perfect view of the sky as well as the freshest air. Indeed, it was the best place to have this meeting. “You called this meeting,” Alpha Jack said without looking at me. He had heightened senses. I wasn't surprised though, he was a powerful Alpha. “Yes,” I said, walking closer to him. “Why?” He asked coldly and my heart quickened at his lack of humor. It didn't matter though, I would still go on with my request. “What do you want?” He turned to me. Alpha Jack was sitting on the bench in the middle of the garden and I feared sitting next to him. He didn't look friendly at all. Why wasn't he friendly to me but he could give Arabella the healing
ARABELLA POV“I can’t believe you’re getting married,” Lily said.I turned away from the mirror to face her. “Do you think I could be potentially making a mistake?”Lily laughed and playfully slapped my arm. “Don’t be silly, Arabella. You thought about this for months. You even went through the painful process of telling everyone your identity.”I smiled at the memory of that. “Yeah, it went surprisingly well. People took it in pretty well.”“You know the one they took in the most? The arrest and public death of Mia.”My mood dampened just a bit. My half sister was killed two weeks ago and here I was, getting married to the man she was previously married to. Rhys asked me not to overthink it as he wasn’t even hers to begin with, and I was working towards that step. I turned to Lily again.“Do you think James and Jenny would make it? They promised that they would show up today and they’re not here yet.”Lily slapped her forehead in embarrassment. She’s been slapping a lot of things lat
RHYS POVI stood outside the boys’ quarters, thinking of how best to go over this. If Jack wanted us to talk about whatever he wanted to talk about, then this was a big secret opener. I was dying to see just how much secret he was willing to uncover, and that included Mia.She was dancing when I stepped into her room. As always, it was open and inviting, as if she was waiting for the day when I would finally accept her. Was she expecting that day to be today? Had she done all this just because she wanted me?Yes, dumb ass. Yes.I ignored my wolf voice and cleared my throat. She stopped dancing and smiled brightly at me, as if I was the sunshine at the end of her tunnel.“You’re here,” she said, wiping her brows with a face towel.“And you’re dancing,” I commented. “What’s the occasion?”“You’ve confined me to this mean, smelly place and I have to get used to it, Rhys.” She gulped down a glass of water. “The fact still remains that I’m your wife and I will be until I sign the divorce p
ARABELLA POVI’ve never had so many things happen to me in the space or hours or minutes but it was definitely happening now. First my children gets kidnapped, then after 24 long, excruciating hours, I go to get them and discover they had somehow managed to free themselves. Then I stupidly went into to the cabin instead of running away with them only to get kidnapped again and have a gun pointed at me.“Your children was a handful,” the first man said. “That is not surprising. I see now where they got it from. You do know we can’t leave you alive after this?”I immediately clasped my hands together in prayer. “Please, I’m begging you with the almighty name of the moon goddess, please let us go. I swear I’ve packed all my things! I’m ready to leave now.”He shook his head. “You’ve seen our face, lady. I wish there was some other way to not kill you—”The door burst open, forcing a startled scream out of me. The kidnapper in front of me trembled. I angled my body to the side and shifted
ARABELLA POV“What are you going to do now?” Lily asked me. “Do you have any plans on how to tackle this?”I paused my restless pacing and turned to her. “I’m burnt out, Lily. I don’t know what to do! I’ve tried to think of every possible thing but nothing. Rhys isn’t even helping matters. He thinks Mia is innocent simply because she hasn’t left the house in days!”“And the kidnappers want you to leave?”“Yes! They clearly said no money, that I should just leave. Who else would not want money and ask me to leave?”She cocked her head at me as both of our mind went to Mia. She was the only sworn enemy that I had that would dare though my children and go Scot free. Thinking about it made by blood boil. I wanted to grab her hair and force her head into a hot oven…“Okay, you’re making that face again, “ Lily said. “We just need to think about what to do next, Arabella. I know this must come as a shock…”“It’s quite the shock, Lily.”“But we have better things to do like waiting for the k
Arabella PovI realized I was vibrating with fear and doom. I needed to calm down, but the thought of my children going through the most traumatic experience of their life was chilling to the bone. Why was it only them that was kidnapped out of all the children coming to school? The kidnappers had technically been aiming for me and my children. I glanced at Mia. It was her. It had to be her. There were no other logic asides the fact that Mia has a vindictive aura towards me and she was not afraid to use them.I turned my back to them and spoke into the phone. “What do you want, please? Can you just let my children go, please? I’ll do anything.”‘Of course you’ll do as you’re told, Dr. Emma, or you’ll never see your children again.”I shivered once more, bracing myself as I asked the most important question. “What do you want then? Is it money? How much would you need to let my kids go?”“You insult us, Dr. Emma. We don’t need your money. We only need you to do one thing and we’ll retu
ARABELLA POVI was very upset, and rightfully so too. I thought about Rhys every day for five days, mostly wondering if he didn’t want to let Mia go. Did he trust her enough to be sure that she hadn’t killed his father? If only I had enough time then to pressure the guy more so he would tell me the truth about Mia. She certainly had more wicked things up her sleeve and I was very desperate to reveal them to the world.“Dr. Emma, you’ve wiped that post four times in a row now,” a nurse said.I jerked back into consciousness and realized that I was in the hospital, wiping a patient’s wrist over and over so I coke inject their antibiotic for them. Murmuring my apologies, I quickly gave them their dose and stood up.“You look tired,” the nurse who had called my attention said. “You can go home; I’ll cover your shift for you. I’m not sure I want to see you dozing off the rest of your days here.”“I’m fine,” I saidSpacing out. I was constantly spacing out because I was concerned for Rhys an
ARABELLA POVI was really bumped and hyped with energy when I took Bruno back to the car. He asked load of questions about why he wasn’t allowed to see the prisoner and I said something in the lines of how his ears were too little to hear all the important details. It would really sick if he had to hear from a strange prisoner that his mother was involved in a crime.Once I left him in the car and locked it, I ran back to the cell. My heart was drumming with excitement. I imagined that prisoner holding Mia’s picture and announcing that she was the one who had made the order. Oh, that would make so much sense! However, when I joined Rhys minutes later, I noticed that he was silent and now holding the picture, having collected it back from the Rogul. The Rogul was snacking heavily on the food I brought, which I now every much regret since the mood wasn’t what I expected it to be.“What did he say?” I asked Rhys, a note of desperation in my voice. “He was holding Mia’s picture, right?”
ARABELLA POVI had a plan. A grand, beautiful plan. Rhys was going to be here anytime soon and he would be solely against it, which means I have to be wise towards it. I knocked once on the children’s door before opening it. They were laughing and walking about, looking for the perfect fit.“Mom!” Delinda cried when she saw me. “Do you think I should wear a dress to the park? I can’t seem to find the perfect fit.”I smiled reassuringly as I remained at the door. “You don’t need to stress to much, my darling. You guys should all wear shorts and shirt—you can wear a skirt, Delinda—and carry a backpack too.”Damon frowned. “A back pack?”“Yeah. It’ll make you looo smart, like a professor.”I knew they would accept readily to what I said, yet I waited on high tension. When they finally agreed to dress like professors and carry their backpack, I grinned. Earlier today in the morning, I came across Bruno’s backpack and I slipped in Mia’s picture in it. At first when I saw her picture lying
MIA POVI paced around my room, completely restless. He hasn’t been sleeping at home lately and now Bruno was gone. When he was brought back from rhe hospital, Rhys took him away and said he wanted to take him to a recovery center. How long do recovery centers usually take? Did Arabella put this idea into his head?Oh, Arabella, that wench!I laughed wildly as I continued to pace around. She thought she won this time, didn’t see? She was the lowly, stupid omega in the past, and now she’s come back a bit chic doctor who’s trying to steal my man? How are people not violent towards this act?! Do I need to start an uproar? She’s not going to win against me. The deadly wench is not going to win me.“You do not get to have the last laugh!” I roared loudly, and then fell to my bedroom floor in a beep.My hair was a mess. With everything going awry, I haven’t give my much thought to how untidy I’d been. That was fine; it didn’t matter what I looked like. I would have every single thing I’d ev