Willow let herself go after Abigail hugged her, she buried her face in the woman's chest and wept bitterly. She remembered how she was there when Liam rejected Scarlett and how she consoled her friend, but no one was here for her and it was all her fault. If she had told them what happened from the beginning and did not try to reason with Harrison because of her selfishness, she wouldn't be in this situation.Willow wondered if she would have been able to do what she just did if Abigail was not here to support her.“Come on, your work is done. Let's leave,” Abigail helped her to her feet and supported her to step down from the raised platform and to walk out of the hall.Everyone's eyes were on her, and Willow kept her face down when she got to where Marshall was standing.Abigail paused to speak with him, “I need to take her home,”“I understand”. Willow could feel his eyes on her, but her head remained bent. She did not want to know what he was thinking. He already knew about the n
“What do you think, willow?” Scarlett's voice now held a coldness she had never used to address Willow before.“I don't know. Did you know about Harrison having another mate?” Willow asked again. At this moment, Scarlett's response was very important to her.“I know about it, Willow, but I only found out about it recently. You've been with him for more than two years, Willow. You had all the time in the world to tell me, so imagine my shock when I found out” Scarlett snapped in anger.“How did you find out?” Willow wanted to know. If Scarlett knew them, many people would already know including her family, right?“Willow, you completely changed after you left. Anytime we spoke on video calls, I always saw a cry for help in your eyes. You always smiled, but not as brightly as you did when you were here. I did not notice it in time but when I did, I began to always ask if you were and drilled you for answers, but you never gave them. I thought to myself that I must be reading too much in
Willow saw Abigail again when she woke up in the morning. She refused to step out of her room for fear that she would see Marshall. She did not know if he came back with Abigail but she did not want to find out. Her initial plan for going to that party last night was to rub it in Harrison's face that she was fine and doing well without him. Her second plan had been to steal the show and make Marshall notice her, but everything quickly changed with that man's appearance and she had to make the decision she should have made years ago. Willow did not regret that she abandoned her plan and went with something different. Instead, she felt that this should have been her plan all along. Why did she just think of jumping into getting a man that belonged to another woman when that's exactly what she'd been trying and failing to do for the past two years.Why has she let Abigail and Barbara convince her that she could succeed in snatching Marshall because he glanced in her direction and show
Scarlett was on her bed crying when Liam walked inside their room after telling Noah to prepare for their journey to Harrison's pack. She was supposed to be dressing up, but she was sitting in the bed in just her underwear and had tears streaming down her face.“Hey, why are you crying?” Liam called in a panicked tone as he rushed to where she was. This was not the first time he's walked inside their room to see her crying. It has happened more than nine times in the space of a month, and it was always one unreasonable thing or the other that's causing her to cry. He could not for the life of him understand what was going on with her. He would just try to know what was making her cry and console her. If not, she would turn the house upside down.Scarlett looked up, “Do you think I'm a bad person?” she asked Liam.“Eh?” Liam looked confused. He wondered what this was all about, “What kind of question is that?”“Just answer me.” Scarlett snapped with a hard glare, “Do you think I'm a b
After her outburst that left Liam shocked, speechless, and pushed to the floor, Scarlett turned and ran into the bathroom to shut herself. Liam who had been shoved violently to the ground recovered quickly and raced after her but it was already too late. She had locked the door from the inside.“Scarlett,” Liam called out as he knocked on that door, “Now is not the time to be emotional or to hide in the bathroom and cry for something we cannot change. We've made the mistake already. We abandoned one of our own and let her suffer because we decided to play by the rules. That's all gone now, all in the past. We have an opportunity here and that's to change and redo everything. Hiding in the bathroom is not going to help issues. The news is everywhere on the internet already, his king before her parents comes to you or people start talking?”After waiting for a while for a response from a Scarlett and getting none, Liam sighed before he turned to walk out of the room. When Scarlett was r
It was happening again. Willow was sitting on the edge of her bed and tapping her feet anxiously on the tiled floor as she stared at the door while biting her fingernails. She was supposed to be anxious about when Scarlett would get here so that she could finally be out of this place, but Willow knew that Scarlett's delay was not the reason for her anxiousness.Her wolf was prancing about in her head restlessly, and she was sweating at the back of her neck. She wanted to see Marshall one last time before she left, but Willow was not sure whether it would happen. Willow was alone in her room, Abigail had something to attend, and Barbara had work to do as Marshall's beta. She told them her goodbyes before they left because she was not so sure if she would be here by the time they returned.Willow had refused to turn on the television or pick up the newspaper the butler gave to her at breakfast. She knew that her face must be plastered everywhere because so many people took videos of
Scarlett spent the next few weeks hounding Willow about reporting Harrison and getting him punished but Willow was adamant. She believed that she had punished Harrison well enough by destroying his pride but Scarlett thought otherwise. Liam had put his hands on Harrison after they left him behind but Scarlett was not satisfied. She wanted to see Harrison go down more than the level he was.“Willow, Liam gave this to me!” Scarlett shrieked, happiness glinting in her eyes as Willow entered her office in the pack house and she stretched an envelope to her.With raised brows, Willow asked at the same time she reached out to receive the letter, “What's that?”Scarlett gave a careless shrug, “Someone is already doing what you refused to.”Now, Willow was curious. “What do you even mean by that?” She quickly tore the envelope open to bring out the letter.“You'll find out when you read it.”Willow was quiet as her eyes took in what was written on the paper. As she read through, her hand sque
Another two years flew by quickly, each day as quiet as the last. Willow's life was dull and without spark, but she would never let anyone know about it. There was always a smile plastered on her face as she moved about, trying to appear the picture of happiness.Like now, she was holding Scarlett's second baby; a boy who was just a year and a few months old, and she was smiling widely as the baby clapped his little hands and babbled incoherent words. Willow loved the baby, no doubt, but she wanted hers.She was twenty-five years already and would be turning twenty-six soon, but she had no partner and had refused every man who tried getting close to her.Scarlett has tried to set her up on dates, but she refused to attend any. She did not want any chosen mate but at the same time, she wanted a mate. Being around Scarlett and Liam and watching their public display of affection made her yarn for a love she knew she would never have.After that day two years ago that she let Scarlett co