Please Ember...

Ember’s POV

So many dark thoughts filled my mind as I tried everything possible to take my mind away from his betrayal.

It’s been a week since my heart was shattered and my whole future was left in disarray, none of the methods I had tried was working so far.

The worst part of it all was finding out on our anniversary, I wondered what he thought upon seeing the preparations I had made.

This was the worst gift he had given me and it wiped all good memories we had created.

The question of why he had done it still haunted me but I didn't have the courage to ask him to his face nor did I have courage to listen to his explanation, I found it better to avoid knowing the truth.

Seeing it hurt me more than his confession and worse still this wasn't a one-night mistake but something the man I had called my husband has done multiple times until he finally hit the jackpot.

My methods of pushing him away were quite extreme because I had started sleeping in another room and avoided eating at the same table with him for either breakfast, lunch or dinner.

At first it proved to be hard but I was always quick to attend pack meetings being the Luna and got myself busy in the pack libraries with books; something that I wouldn’t do on a normal day.

All this was to take away the foul thoughts that came with the pain of his infidelity, I would do anything in fact to get his infidelity situation out of my head.

“Luna” I heard someone call out pulling me out of my reverie.

“The meeting with the council of elders is due in ten minutes,” my assistant said after apologizing for startling me.

“Is she around yet?” I asked, hoping deep down Grace was around because I was already losing my shit trying to keep my emotions all bottled.

“She is in the pack, I got alerted by the guards at the west gate, her car just came in”.

We headed out immediately without talking, and also, she made sure to walk far ahead. I found peace in the silence but that peace didn’t last long enough as I heard a familiar call out.

Someone I have been ignoring all this while, the last person that I wanted to see was jogging towards me, I increased my pace and I could hear him do the same.

“Ember…” he drawled causing me to scowl but as soon as I was about leaving the mansion, my arms pushed back by Xander and in that moment my reflexes acted as I gave him a nerve hitting slap, which echoed across the mansion.

“Xander, let this be the last time you’d try that with me again” I warned spitting fire from my eyes too, carefully shielding the tears that threatened to fall.

It’s been long since I saw him and he looked terrible, not like I cared though.

“I have carefully stayed off your path for the past one week and until an agreement has been come up with, don’t you ever come close to me again, if you do long for a female company you could go on and stay with your baby mama”

Without saying any more to him, my eyes caught on to the maid that had stood shell shocked upon witnessing what had happened and I immediately followed her ignoring him.

“Come here” I commanded as she tried running further away from me.

“What did you see?”

“Luna...” she stuttered and I cut her shut immediately, “you saw nothing right?”

She nodded fearfully, “if by any chance I hear any rumor fluting around that would lead back to what had happened here then that day would surely be your last day on earth”

“It’s a promise” with that I left to attend my meeting.

As the proceeding on the meeting went on, one of the council members thought it was wise to ask, “Luna you don’t seem fine at all, is everything okay!”

“Why? Yes, I’m okay”

I watched as he furthermore exchanged glances with the rest of the elders, informing me that they had discussed this quite a number of times.

“Is anything the problem? Is this an issue that was stated in today's affairs?” I barked.

“Well, I didn’t mean to offend you or anything but…”

“Well, what!”

“Indeed, it was mentioned in our today's matters as a lot of the pack members have expressed their concerns about your marriage with the Alpha”.

“My Marriage” I asked sarcastically coupled alongside a scoff.

“Truth be told we also noticed the invisible tension lying between you and also that you both haven't been seen together”

I don’t know what it was about his words but it seemed to have fueled the anger within me.

One thing I hated more than ever was having my marriage being placed on a table of evaluation, I hated the fact that Xander had made our marriage to be a subject of open discussion.

“I don't want to hear this again from the mouth of anyone in general” I warned.

“For your own good, I’d advise that you never speak about my marriage again”, “Luna…” he had begun arguing but I was in no mood for banter.

“I see that there is nothing to talk about again, this meeting has been dismissed”.

“Luna Grace is waiting in your chambers” my assistant whispered before disappearing into thin air to avoid facing a misdirected missile of fire being thrown at her”

As soon as I entered my room, indeed Grace was there, seated with her hands open wide up for me to seek comfort and in there I broke down.

All my bottled-up emotions which I had hidden behind my anger and rage, I let it all out.

She said nothing but rather listened as I explained all that had happened, “Grace, the worst part is I’m watching…unable to do anything as my marriage crumbles!” I sobbed, the sting of his betrayal hurtling me over and over again.

“You are stronger than you look, Ember” she said encouragingly as she hugged me tighter, I could hear her sniffs.

Grace was in a tight spot and I knew about it. The manner at which she consoled me showed that she neither supported my actions towards Xander nor supported Xander himself, who was her brother.

I didn’t want her to choose between me and her brother, I just wanted my friend to tell me all is alright but she didn’t, she let me air out my pain before finally speaking.

“After that night, did you find out the backstory behind what you saw and his confession?” She asked.

“Huh?”

“Did you find out why?”

“I don’t think I would survive the horror that time to do itself and listen to him?”

“Why should I? When he was inserting himself in between their legs…”

“Ember, you don’t know that now, do you!” She stopped me short.

“Yes, my brother was wrong for what he had done, playing that kind of game with you was something that you don’t deserve but you can’t keep on beating yourself up for it”

“Don’t let your marriage crumble”.

As though on cue, the door opened and this time, Xander stepped in and without even anything, he fell to his knees.

“Ember, I don’t deserve anything from but li ten to me just this once” he pleaded and I looked up to Grace who nodded at me before waving at us both.

“Please Ember, just this once” he pleaded, grabbing my leg as I moved to leave the room after Grace.

“Okay! Tell me the full story I have been dying to hear!”