Nikolai’s POV“What do you think?” I responded as I regained my breath and position. Andre stared at me with contempt before punching me and making me stagger again.“This isn’t what you told me,” he continued, his eyes burning with so much anger that I knew Andre was going to have a hard time trying to control, “how could you do this?” He asked.The way he stared told me that the conversation we were about to have or the one we’re already having wasn’t going to be pleasant.Andre’s chest heaved, his breathing paced and his hatred for me at the moment oozed out as he looked at me before running his fingers through his hair.The thought of what happened in the hell coursed through my mind and I felt my anger rising. I couldn’t believe that Andre could still have the balls to come to me like this.Anger swirled within me as it thrummed through my veins, I felt my vision changing and everything I was seeing had already turned into red as I lifted my gaze to look at him.“You have a lot o
Lilliana’s POVHurriedly, as fast as my legs could carry me, I made my way out of the venue and started walking back home. I didn’t wait for Andre because I wanted to be left alone and I was glad when I didn’t feel anyone following me.I still couldn’t bring myself to believe all of this but Nikolai’s words back in the hall kept playing back in my head and my cheeks burned in remembrance.It was a humiliating, deflating feeling that kept washing through me as I walked. My vision was blurry and my eyes stung from all the tears I was trying to hold back.“How could he? How could he do this to me?” I said to myself, doing nothing to keep my thoughts inside as my voice shook and my lips quivered.My face felt hot and I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me that I was crimson with resentment and humiliation. My pride had been seriously bruised but what was I thinking? That he was going to care about me?My embarrassment gradually turned into fury as I channeled all of my anger into my moveme
Nikolai’s POVRunning my fingers through my hair, I felt my heart race and my breathing paced as I tried to keep my feet on the ground. The pain soon stopped and my eyes widened when I realized what just happened. ‘It’s our mate,’ my wolf said as I stared at the door like I was expecting to see something, ‘she’s no longer our mate, she accepted the rejection.’ He finished.No. No. There’s no way the rejection was going to work without me being with her when she accepted it.Questions ran through my mind as I walked around the room, my eyes wouldn’t leave the door and it was as though I was expecting her to show up.Andre had just given me not only a piece of his mind but also of his fist and now the bond between Lilliana and I has been broken.Why? Why would she accept the rejection? How the fuck did she even remember I’d rejected her?I’d thought that I'd done more than enough to get her to want to be with me but she had to refer to a rejection and accept it?My head felt light, my
Lilliana’s POVGroaning, my eyes fluttered open and I shut them back as I tried to regain my consciousness fully. My head pounded but it felt light at the same time.Closing my eyes, I tried to remember everything that happened last night but all I knew was the fact that I eventually got caught by the guards.This is why you should always plan properly before trying to run away.I opened my eyes again and everywhere felt foreign to me, it was hard to reconcile my thoughts and the environment felt extremely strange.The walls were blue and white, completely different from Nikolai’s or my room and I was also wearing a change of clothes. “Hello?” I tried to call but my voice was lower than I intended it to be and it wasn’t until I looked properly that it dawned on me that I was in a hospital room.“What’s going on? Why am I here?” I asked the nurse that worked in and she was only smiling at me like her ability to speak has been taken away from her.“You shouldn’t be stressing yourself o
Nikolai’s POVShe looked shocked to see me but that wasn’t what was really clear in her eyes, it was the sheer look of hatred that caused a tingle in my chest.She looked like she didn’t want to see me and the sight of her being with Andre…. Again, angered me more than anything else.“What are you doing here?” Andre’s voice jolted me out of my thoughts and it wasn’t until then that I realized that he was already in front of me.“That shouldn't be any of your business, should it?” I retorted, the feeling we both had for each other was sort of mutual but I wasn’t in the mood to fight my best friend.I was too tired to want to do any of that because my heart has been racing for the past twelve hours, trying really hard to get my mind together.I couldn’t deny that I was worried and right from the moment that I heard about everything that was going on, I was already in the hospital and stayed up all night, waiting for her to wake up.Different thoughts and questions ran through my mind la
Lilliana’s POV“Wait, WHAT?!” I yelled again, completely dumbfounded as Nikolai left Andre to focus on me.My eyes were wide and I could feel my throat getting dry, making me realize that I was going to need a lot more than some water to regain the moisture.Really, what? There was no way I heard that right. There was no way that Nikolai just said I was pregnant.How could I be? How can I be pregnant and how could he know before me?The words kept ringing in my head over and over again but my brain still couldn’t comprehend it and I still couldn’t wrap my head around what I’d just heard.If I’m pregnant then Nikolai is the father and the last thing I want in this damned world where everything about me just seems to come out as ‘unlucky’ is carrying the child of a man I now hate with every fiber of my being.“W—- what did— what did you just say?” I asked like I didn’t hear the first time, my lips quivered and I was shivering visibly as I tried to think back again.It all made sense but
Lilliana’s POV“I’m glad that you’re okay now but when you feel uneasy, don’t forget to let me know.” The doctor said and I nodded as I smiled.It’s been four days since Andre and Nikolai’s last visit since I refused to see any of them. I couldn’t be happier that I was getting discharged.I knew I had no place else to go but I wasn’t going to go back to the same house where I was disrespected and treated like I was nothing even though Nikolai wouldn’t stop making it clear that I was going to come back to the house.“Thank you so much.” I responded as I took a deep breath. I felt stronger and I could walk on my own without needing any help.“Don’t you think I should call someone for you? Do you have anyone else except those two fools?” He asked and I laughed as I shook my head.“I’m fine, I’m not going back to the Alpha’s house anyway so I’ll just walk until I get somewhere.” I responded.Doctor Goldberg tried to urge me to call Andre to come pick me up since he seemed like the most re
Lilliana’s POV“What?” I asked, unsure how to react or what to even say to what the maid had just said, “I’m having dinner with Nikolai?” I asked and she nodded affirmatively.“That’s the Alpha orders ma’am.” She responded a little too firmly, getting a scoff out of me as I walked back to my bed.My mind wandered around and I just can’t help but wonder what Nikolai wants with me. First he’d forced me to stay in the house against my own will and now I’m going to be having dinner with him?That’s the last thing I want to do and it’s really the last thing I’m going to do because I’d rather die than sit on the same table with him.I would rather scratch my own eyes out than be on the same table with a man that didn’t care about anything while he was shoving my heart into a pit-hole.“Well you can go back downstairs and tell your alpha that I’m not eating with him,” I said after a while of silence. My stomach growled and I knew that I needed to eat something soon.It’s been a while since I