Chapter 2: Another Betrayal

I sat on the wet forest floor gazing at the moon through the trees, hardly noticing the cold night. I was even tired of crying and my eyes hurt like a thousand needles had pierced them.

My dress which was now filthy and wrinkled held on to me like a memento of the cancelled ceremony. I swallowed hard. If someone had told me that the love of my life would toss me aside like yesterday's trash, I wouldn't have believed it at all.

The embarrassment was still vivid and my heart felt like it had been broken into a million fragments and my chest tightened again and again, making it difficult for me to breathe.

 Long after everyone had gone back to their packhouse,  I had remained out here. Hiding and praying that no one finds me here, if not they had taken pictures, posted it on social media and made me beg for death.

Ever since,my parents died at twelve years old. The only love I got from the world was from Liam but now thinking about it I felt if all it was a lie.

I dreaded going home, I was afraid of the looks of sympathy and the whispers. But as the hours went by something changed within me. 

Liam had to tell me why he did what he did.

 He might have spoken under pressure or in rage.

 Maybe he would reconsider if I spoke with him and reminded him of our past love.

He couldn't just reject me like that.

 I pushed myself up and walked back to the packhouse, my legs shaking.

 The party had ended and the building was strangely quiet. Steeling my nerves I paused outside Liam's room thinking of what to do.

I stood in the hallways which were dimly lit. I took a deep breath and held up my hand to knock. 

But I froze before my knuckles touched the door.

A light-hearted playful female voice was saying and I didn't know why it felt awfully familiar.

"I don't know what you saw in her Liam." The voice continued and I knew it was Sophia. 

 As I leaned in and pressed my ear against the door my heart fell.

 When Liam spoke to me earlier his voice was warm and full of something I hadn't heard before but now they sounded like he was in love.

"She's nothing compared to you," he said.

 I forced myself to remain silent by biting my lip and felt my eyes stung.

"Oh, stop it Liam. You're going to make me blush." Sophia squeaked . 

"Sophia, I don't know how to say this, you're flawless."  Liam remarked." You are everything Serena isn't. You possess beauty and strength and you are deserving of standing next to an Alpha.  I couldn't wish for a better mate."

Even though my chest constricted, I couldn't bring myself to turn away, to stop listening .

I peered through the sides of the door and a soft gasp escaped my lips.

They were standing so close together, their bodies nearly touching, Liam even had his arms around her waist.

Liam extended his hand to stroke a lock of Sophia's golden hair behind her ear as she looked at him passionately.

"She has no place here ."Liam added, his voice growing icy." She is nothing more than an Omega without a wolf who is holding onto unattainable goals and thinking she's going to be my mate and Luna."

Sophia grinned back. " She is really so pitiful. " She said, her voice dripping with venom."Did you notice the way she gazed at you throughout the ceremony as if you were a lost puppy in need of rescue?"

She finished and they both burst into laughter.

I felt a tear run down my cheek as they both laughed again and again. 

"She must be stupid to think that of all the women in this pack, I had chosen her. She's not in our league ."Liam stated. 

"I am an Alpha and you are the kind of strong woman I need by my side, not some pitiful omega who needs rescuing."

I put my hand to my mouth to stop myself from crying. 

I never knew something like this would happen, that the man I loved would talk about me in such a degrading manner.

It felt like a bad dream, one I desperately wanted to wake up from.

With her hands on Liam's chest , Sophia took a step closer. "And I'm glad to be that person, I love you Liam and I want to be with you for eternity ."

Just like a dream or a bad movie, I watched as my mate, the one true love, lowered his head and kissed Sophia.

It was not a tender kiss. It was the kind of passionate intense kiss I had once hoped he had given to me.Those kind of kiss that leaves one squirming for more.

As I watched them,  my nails dug into my palms, the betrayal going deeper than I had imagined.

Sophia laughed quietly as they finally parted, her fingers tracing a line across her firm breasts. 

"I should leave before anyone notices us. "

"I don't care about people,"Liam grinned. "What they think doesn't matter to me. I want you and if I can have you right here and now I would do it ." He smiled mischievously.

Sophia nudged him playfully ."You're awful."

His tone was lighter than I had ever heard him use and he teased.

" And you will  love  it. "

 She smiled and shook her head then turned to go." I will come to your room tomorrow." She said coyly.

 As soon as the door opened and she left, I swiftly moved back and hid in the shadows.

 I briefly thought about going up to Liam and asking him why he was acting in this way. 

But I was stuck, I was too shocked to move, disbelief held me in place when I saw him standing there grinning smugly. 

He thought I was nothing. 

I turned slowly and moved away, my steps getting heavier by the second.

  Finally returning to my tiny room I fell onto the bed and sobbed silently, my body trembling.

The rejection wasn't just a rejection, it had seemed like the worst pain I had experienced. I made a mistake. I could not get the picture of Liam and Sophia together out of my head. 

Why could he do such a thing to me?

I thought he loved me.

His words rang in my ears, each one cutting like a blade through me. 

*She is nothing. *. 

*Woflless*.

 I suppressed my sobs by pressing my face against the pillow. How was it possible for him to humiliate me in front of the whole pack and then turn around and declare his love for someone else? 

Sophia of all people. She was the daughter of the Gamma family and she was all that I wasn't: strong and attractive. 

It makes sense why he picked her.

 But that did not lessen the pain. ---. . I lay awake and stared at the ceiling as the night wore on. 

I couldn't stay here. No, not in this way. Liam had stated that he didn't want me and the pack would never accept me. 

But where would I go? 

I had nowhere to go.

I clenched my fists, the pain gradually giving way to anger.

 They believed that I was weak and would give way under the pressure of their hatred. 

But I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of seeing me break, of seeing me cry.

So long as Liam and the other members of the pack wanted me gone.

 I wouldn't go quietly though. 

With determination strengthening my anger,  I wiped away the last of my tears. I had to see him one last time .