CHAPTER 2

Vanya's POV:

"Josephine," I whispered her name. It sounded foreign on my lips, a name I hadn't spoken in years. "What are you doing here?"

"Me?" Josephine laughed, placing a hand over her chest. "You don't seem so happy to see me. It makes me sad. After all that happened?" She cocked her head to the side, a pout on her red lips. 

After all that had happened. My hands formed tight fists as I struggled to keep them by my side. Josephine. The one woman I had hoped to not see again. Memories started to rush into my mind. Of a time, we were young and the best friends in the world. A time where nothing and no one could ever separate us. A time when things were a whole lot easier.

Cian walked over to us, I noticed how he took a stand beside Josephine, their shoulders almost touching. He looked at her, and I swear I saw his cold gaze soften.

"Excuse us for a moment, okay?" He said in a voice he only ever used with me. But now he's using it on Josephine. 

"Sure thing hon," Josephine replied in a cheerful tone. She turned to me and waved. "I'll see you in a bit, best friend." She blew me a kiss and walked away, her hips swaying as she made her way up the stairs. 

I felt helpless watching my husband, the love of my life, looking at another woman with such eyes. Using such tone of voice on her. Cian turned from her to me, and his eyes went back to being cold. 

"What's going on?" I asked. "Why....what is she doing here?"

He didn't reply immediately. Instead he handed a black file over to me. When I hesitated to take it, he took it and put it in my arms. "Sign those papers." He said. 

"P-papers?" I sputtered, my heart falling to my stomach. "What papers?"

"Open it and see for yourself and stop asking me dumb questions."

His words plus his cold eyes shot a dagger straight to my heart. I opened the envelope, my hands trembling as I did. There was single sheet of paper inside. I pulled it out, my heart racing so loud I feared it would just burst.

Dissolution of marriage.

I looked up at Cian, a cold chill descending on my body. "You're divorcing..."

"Yes." He said. "I'm divorcing you. Sign those papers and leave my house."

"But why?!" I cried out. "Why?! Everything has been going fine so far? Why?!"

My heart felt like it would split in half. There's no way Cian is divorcing me! I refuse to accept it! He loves me, he does!

"Why?" He scoffed. "Honestly, you're so dense it's so annoying."

His words cut through my heart. "Dense? What do you mean? You love me, Cian. You do."

"Love?" He laughed bitterly. "Don't delude yourself with such a thing, Vanya. I never loved you. Not even a single day on my life"

"What?"

"And maybe if you weren't so delusional you would have noticed it. But instead you chose to live on a fantasy bubble, believing whatever you wanted to, just so you could be happy."

"What does this have to do with divorce!" I screamed, hit tears covering my eyes. My hand went to my stomach; I was starting to feel sharp pangs of pain in my stomach. 

Cian sneered at me, His eyes darkening. "I only agreed to marry you, because you look like her." 

My heart shattered. 

Because I look like her? That's....that's why?

"No," I shook my head, tears rolling down my eyes. "Cian you can't...."

"I've always loved her. She was my first love. And you were just the one in the way." Cian continued, a cruel smile on his face. "She's back now, and there's no need for me to keep up this charade anymore."

"Charade?" I laughed. "That's what you would call three years of marriage?"

Josephine. It has always been Josephine. 

"What did you think it was?" He laughed. "You're just an omega, Vanya. Nothing else."

I felt the weight of my baby weighing heavily on my mind. I had been so excited, all I wanted to do was make a nice dinner and break the good news to him. 

I can't even gather my thoughts. He's divorcing me. He loved Josephine, he was only with me because I looked like her. 

I always hated that. Growing up we looked like twins, but Josephine was more of everything. She had wealthy parents. She had good grades, a social life, everyone was obsessed with her. And I was just the omega who she had befriended. I was her shadow, the only thing good about me was that I shared her beauty. 

Or at least I used to think. 

And now the love of my life confesses to being her love.

"You're wasting time." Cian sighed in annoyance. "Sign those papers immediately."

"I love you," I said, hoping my words would get to him. "And I'm..." I caught myself. Should I just tell him? 

He regarded me coldly. "I don't care, Vanya. Josephine is the woman I love."

I stared at the divorce papers, tears obscuring my vision. My heart felt like it had been crushed into pieces. The pangs on my stomach increased in intensity every second. 

"I can't..." I cried. "I can't sign this. No I..."

"I don't even know why I'm entertaining this." Can said with a vexed sigh. "I, Cian Valor, alpha of dragon claw pack rejects you, Vanya Jacobs as my mate and Luna."

"No!" I cried out, my wolf howling in pain as the mate bond between us snapped. It felt like a hot pain in my chest, searing through the pieces of my broken heart. 

"I wanted to do this the human way. But you don't deserve that." Cian said, his voice full of hatred.

A scream of agony tore through my lips. I grabbed my chest, the pain getting hotter and hotter. The next thing I knew, my body fell to the floor and I lost consciousness.