His first love returned

After another torturous moment of pleasure and pain, Alessandro got up and walked towards the bathroom. I remained in the bed, trying to forget the pain or rather I should say that I was trying to avoid the pain in my body, while reaching out to the nightstand.

"Tomorrow is our three year anniversary!" I said calmly, holding the invitation card from his family.

Despite being in pain, I needed to do what I was supposed to do. Obeying his orders and acting like his wife when I was nothing but a placeholder in his eyes were my job.

Slowly I got up. The first thing I did was to put some concealer on my neck and collarbone. Although I wasn't marked, I couldn't show people those hickeys. Alessandro hated it.

"So what? Are you trying to get some sort of special attention from me?" He asked in disdain.

"I dare not!" I muttered, lowering my gaze, "Your parents sent a formal invitation card to join them in a lavish party. Cruise Party precisely! They're expecting both of us to attend!" I explained quietly. Although it's been three years, I wasn't still used to the pain he gave me subconsciously or consciously.

He turned, his brow arching with distinct irritation. "I told you not to communicate with my parents. Did you just disobey me?" He growled, his Autumn Brown Eyes glowing golden.

"No!" I calmly replied, clenching my jaws. The invitation card shook in my hand.

"Alpha Simmons and Luna Simmons have sent the invitation card through the mail. Also, it is not a secret that I am a placeholder to your muse. They won't give me that respect by talking to me privately!" My voice was calm as I explained, ignoring the turmoil inside me. I clenched the bedsheets to calm myself down.

Alessandro's expression darkened but my response might have satisfied him. He said nothing but walked towards the nightstand and took the invitation card.

"It must be my brother's succession day. You don't have to worry about it. Anything related to my family and friends shouldn't concern you!" He said, putting his clothes on.

I nodded quietly since it wasn't a new thing to unfold. The Alpha family never acknowledged me from the beginning. A human wife for their Alpha Son, that was degrading and disgraceful for Alpha family. But nobody could do anything about it since it was solely his decision.

"Then—" I clutched the edge of the blanket, gathering all the strength I had inside me, "Can I leave the house tomorrow!? I have something to do in the Valkyrie Pack!"

He was reading the invitation card. The moment my words left my lips, his eyes darted to me with an immediate reaction, "What do you have to do with Pack Valkyrie?"

He sounded sarcastic as if he was mocking me. But I didn't have the right to retort, "My Mother's Cousin resides there. So I would like to meet her. She has been sick for a while!"

"Is she a human too?" His voice turned cold with a distinct sarcasm and in disdain, "I mean it must be a genetic disorder. A human child from two Betas!"

I couldn't say anything in return because it was against the rules. He didn't care much about my emotions. Not even when he humiliated me because I was a human, "Am I allowed to go or—"

My words cut off by his phone ringing. He narrowed his eyes before receiving the call in front of me. However, the moment he pressed his phone against his ear, his eyes lit up.

"She is back?"

For the first time in my three years of marriage, I heard his warm voice.

He took a glance at me dismissively before heading towards the door. "I will be downstairs."

I followed him to the stairs as I was supposed to prepare something to eat. However, my body froze when I noticed a figure walking inside the house. My chest tightened with that uncomfortable emotions stir inside my heart. I was supposed not to feel that way, but tears seemed to have forgotten the rules we were supposed to obey.

Her dazzling ginger red hair and that nude red lipstick that I was forced to wear all day, screamed at me that the marriage was going to be invalid within three weeks. And... she was nothing like me. She was another level of beauty.

Evelyn Graham, my husband's first love and the owner of the position I was securing as a placeholder has returned.

" I want you to stay in your room. Don't come out or she'll get upset!"

My feet were still on the first staircase when Alessandro turned around and looked at me with that usual cold and distant gaze. He didn't hide the fact that he was getting annoyed with my present within a few seconds of her arrival..

My eyes widened with a pang of sadness washing over my chest. It didn't take a long minute for him to discard me as a nuisance the moment that woman walked in. But even a second of reconsideration.

I nodded quietly like an obedient person. It was part of my contract. Although it hurt my feelings and my ego, finally at least I was going to get free from this fake life.

However when I watched his expression shifting to something warm, when his scent felt so good and calming and that broad back started getting distanced, I realized that I was feeling something inside that I was supposed not to.

Something greedy, something that would be considered as a sin, a crime against the foundations of our relationship. A violation that could cause me something worse than just money.

Yet,

I wanted to hold that firm hand and told him that... Let her go and stay with me forever. But I couldn't. I was a placeholder who had given everything in exchange for the money. And he was the man who had been waiting for that woman who looked absolutely gorgeous yet... far more distance than he thought he was.