~Emerald~“Hello!?” I have been searching for the way out of this forest, but it seems like I was already lost. It was already almost an hour of being stuck in this nowhere. No one is living here, and it's just naturally surrounded by trees. “Can you just please rest?” Lilian muttered, trying to calm me down. I messed up my hair, and annoyingly sat on the ground. “How could I rest if we were lost? We couldn't even find the way back to the pack!” I uttered, almost screaming. Lilian took a deep breath, and then she replied, “I know your distress, but if you keep on doing that, it will be difficult for us to find the way!” I shook my head and washed my face using my hands. Staying in this forest is a wrong decision. This place was the home of many wild animals, and we're just lucky because we didn't meet any wild animals yet. I won't know later.“Maybe your instincts could help us,” I responded, but Lilian just let out a sigh. I shook my head and couldn't stop from letting out a de
~Emerald~“I'm sorry, Babe,” Alpha James apologized while his hands were still cupping my face. “I'm sorry if I can't help it.”My hands clenched into fists when I began to fight what I am feeling now. James just literally kissed me. I was stunned by that. No words would come out from my mouth as my mind was still preoccupied with how he crushed his lips with mine. I even felt a sudden disappointment when he stopped kissing me for no reason. This is such an insane imagination. I should not let this feeling overpower my anger towards James. He hurt me badly.I hated him, but at the same time, I wanted him. I want to feel his body against me, and I think this is unstoppable. After a year of hatred with James, he still has a part of me that I couldn't deny. I know I keep telling myself that I should not be feeling this with him, but my heart betrayed me.“Emerald,” James called me, so I lifted my head. “I want you now…”Just before I could even react to it, he took my lips again, not al
~Emerald~I suddenly woke up from being asleep, my forehead covered with sweat. I just had a bad dream. A dream that I don't want to happen again in reality. I took a deep breath and stared at my side. There was a pain in my heart when I saw his face. The man's face in my dream. I gritted my teeth as I rose from lying beside him. James woke up from being asleep, and then he furrowed his brows.“Emerald?” I gritted my teeth because of how he called my name. “Is there something wrong?”I couldn't stop washing my face with my hands as I felt annoyed after I realized the mistake I made. I was supposed not to allow him to touch me. James should not be here beside me. We shouldn't be f*cking, but why? Why did I allow James to fool me again? Why am I being so weak again? ‘Don't say that, Emerald. Nothing's wrong with you. It's just that, you can't deny the fact that your body still wanted him,’ Lilian spoke at the back of my head. I disregarded her words, and focused my eyes back to Jame
~Emerald~“Oh, James! I have been looking for you since afternoon!” I gritted my teeth after I saw Katie running into her husband's direction. My hands clenched into fists upon seeing her. I just followed her with a stare. Seems like I made a mistake looking at her. I just saw them kissing each other. ‘F*ck that woman!’ Lilian screamed. ‘See? He's still an idiot. We shouldn't trust him.’ This is my response to my wolf who shut her mouth now. Just for the last time, I shook my head and met Gideon on the way whose face was already dark. He just lessened his dark reaction when he saw me. “Are you just alright?” Gideon asked, and he began to check my body. I just laughed at him, trying to hide the nervousness from my body. “You have no idea how you made me worry. We just found out that you're missing and James as well.”I bit my bottom lips towards Gideon. I just hope that he wouldn't think that something happened to me and James. He would never know about it. I don't want him to thi
~Emerald~“Don't provoke me, Emerald. I know what my capabilities are. You have to learn to accept it. Seems like you are still in love with your ex-husband.”These words from Katie made my jaw tightened. I want to crash her mouth and throw her out of this pack, but still, I can't do that. This is not the perfect place to teach that woman a lesson.“I am not provoking you. I am just stating the facts here. You are just the second option, and look at you now. Your husband was trying to get rid of you, yet you still followed him here,” I muttered, making myself as calm as possible. Katie burst out laughing as if she finds my words so funny. I raised an eyebrow while waiting about what James would do to her.“You will not make a scene here, Katie. Don't you dare try my patience on you!” James looked so devastated now. I could feel from his voice how much control he just did because of his annoying wife.“Just deal with your wife, James. She's not allowed here in the first place,” Gideo
~Emerald~“What does he want to tell you about?” I bit my bottom lips from Lilian's question to me. I just shrugged my shoulders and watched Gideon leaving my direction. This time, I decided to enter the house and found Cassandra in her worried face.“Where have you been, Em? I found out that you're missing!” Cassandra shrieked, so I let out a deep breath before telling her what happened.“I got lost in the forest, but don't worry because I'm safe now,” I clarified, and she nodded her head, but still, her eyes were on me.“Did James save you?” I was stunned for a moment. It just came to me that James really saved me from the danger I got in earlier. Despite everything that happened to us in the past, I still can't forget the moment when he came to rescue me if I need his help. I wouldn't even dare to ask for help from him, but James was really there in everything. I have no idea how he did that, but what's important for me is that I'm back with my son. Nothing happened to me. ‘But
~Emerald~James' words really made me stunned. I couldn't even believe that I'd heard this from him.‘Well, expect the unexpected,’ Lilian spoke at the back of my head.I can't help but to bite my bottom lips as I tried myself not to overreact. James will not find out the reaction on my face that would make him think I was affected by him.“That's enough, James. I can treat my wound by myself,” I uttered in my cold tone. Alpha James continued what he was doing to my wound. He kept cleaning it until the bleeding stopped. I watched him do that, and my heart couldn't stop from beating. This is the first time in a year of anguish that my heart beat so fast. It pounded again because of James and I don't know why. I don't know why my heart will beat again for him after my greatest heartache from him. He betrayed me, he rejected me, and he threw me away from the pack. Why would my heart beat for him again?“I should keep my eyes on you next time,” James uttered to me. I stared at him, my
~Emerald~“Cassandra is not around this morning, so I made you this. I hope you will eat before you go to work.”I can't stop myself from furrowing my brows after I heard James' words. He was looking at me straight in the eyes as he spoke those words as if he were telling me how sincere he was.I shook my head, while the corner of my lips lifted. This seems surreal to me. I couldn't believe James was preparing breakfast for me. He never did this before with me.“What are you doing, James?” I asked, making him sigh.“It's because I wanted to. I wanted to serve you the way you did to me before and also because of one reason,” he paused, making me shake my head. “I love you, and I regretted abandoning you before, so I wanted to make you feel the thing I failed to do with you before.”I was speechless. I couldn't find the words to say in response to James. This whole thing is not yet clear to me. I can't explain myself right now. It seems that I want to smile, but I did all my best not to