CHAPTER 4:
"Why do you think I am dressed like this?" She scoffs. The same way she did the time she was bragging about her connections.
But I am still confused.
"I don't get it", I mutter as I try to conjure the situation. But nothing comes to my head.
It still doesn't make any sense.
But she seems so smug and proud about it.
"This time, I will get the alpha and we will be mates and I will have his son and be his Luna. You are not the only one who knows how to play dress up", she says and I frown as I am more confused.
Because it doesn't look like dress up.
Right on her shoulder is a red mark shaped like an iron and it looks pretty recent.
A wind blows through and she winces in pain.
There are bruises on her face too.
"So you did all of this to win the alpha's attention and have him sleep with you?" I ask her and she nods, looking quite satisfied with herself.
"Yes and it doesn't end there, you put all of this marks on me", she says.
"No I didn't." Her gaze flickers to the side before she smirks back at me and the next twenty minutes go by in a quick blur.
I'm confused, I'm devastated and above all, I am heartbroken by the Alpha's reaction to all of it.
Warren's POV
Granny comes out and tells me about how Heather has been acting tyrannical and making her cry everytime.
She goes on to keep me standing at the palace gate for almost 20 minutes which is quite unlike her, but I listen anyways and let her go on with it, because all this is unlike her.
Then after she has had her fill of giving me an update, she insists that we go in through the entrance.
"Sure Nanny Deliana, but how come you're not scolding me?", I ask as I walk behind her.
She easily dispersed the other soldiers to rest.
"That's because I trusted that you were probably going shopping", she says distractedly as if watching out for something or maybe someone.
"Oh well, that I was", I tell her even though that was the first set of words I greeted her with when she came to welcome me.
I knew that she would have questions about why I didn't give her a message about the situation of the war or my location.
And in truth, I had traveled to get gifts, just not specifically for her.
She was on my mind all through and as soon as victory was assured, I found myself looking for things that could entice her, because she didn't look like the happiest person.
For some reason, I want her to be one.
But Nanny recounted the total opposite of what I thought happened when I was away.
"You'll see for yourself and understand that you have to send her out. You have to send that witch away from the palace lest she brings in evil", she says as we take the steps.
"But you always wanted me to find someone", I say because I don't believe the accusations.
"You'll see for yourself why I wanted you to find someone worthy and not someone who bullies people and bosses them around because she thinks she owns the world."
"Oh grandmother, I don't think that little weak girl would do that."
"Okay then, explain this", she says as the doors are pushed open.
My grandmother gasps from the sight in front of her before rushing ahead.
But I do not expect what happens next.
Heather pushes grandmother to the ground because she was trying to separate her and another woman from a fight.
I take a step forward and instinctively reach out for the one who seems to be badly beating.
Not because I feel pity, but because I want to confront Heather.
All of this can't be real.
Just then, the other lady who I grab in my arms faints, but I recognize her as one of the daughters of the alpha's who try to curry favor from me.
Heather looks in my eyes and tries to explain as she wipes blood from the side of her face.
But Mara's body is even more bloodied.
She looks like she has been suffering abuse.
But I can not bring myself to think that Heather did it. She looked so weak and different.
"Heather did it, the witch did it!" Nanny says as she stands up in a jolt before ordering the guards to hold Heather.
Nanny continues," she has been so haughty and I have always suspected that the injuries on her body that day were a fake, it turns out so", while Heather is trying to struggle out of the hold of the guards.
"Let me go and stop lying against me. Those injuries were not fake", she fights while the weak Mara breaths weakly in my arms.
"Get her a doctor, call doctor Killian. Mara is a princess, yet I could not do anything to stand up for her when she was being bullied. Doctor killia can also prove the injuries." Grandmother says.
One of the maids rushes up to hold Mara when I almost let her go and all through this time, I feel Heather's gaze on me.
I am however too stunned to look her back or say anything.
Grandmother can not possibly be lying about all of this.
But something does feel suspicious.
Doctor Killian joins the gathering soon after to confirm Grandmother's story.
"It is true that the injuries were fake", he says and lowers his head.
"I should have told you before you left, but I didn't want you to worry about anything."
"Liar!" Heather shouts with her voice and eyes looking pained and betrayed.
"You told me yourself that I had more than a week to heal and that I had some internal bleeding as well." She says, but my grandmother casts a hard glare on her.
"You see what I was saying? She is a rude brat and talks rudely to everyone and does anyhow she wants. If you want, I can call my hand maid", Grandmother says and does just that.
"You don't have to do any of this and I don't have to deal with this either. I will go up to my room now", I tell Nanny, but she stops me.
"No, you chose her and you must send her out yourself, or else that would be treason on my part", she says and I sigh.
This isn't what's I was looking forward to at all.
But with all of the proof and evidence, I can not fight for her even though that is what my heart yearns to do.
I send a glance to her direction and the most painful and pleading gaze falls on mine.
We share eye contact and for those moments it felt like her eyes were boring into mine. It feels like she is trying to appeal to me.
Like she can reach into my heart and command it to do her bidding and for a minute, I think that is what is about to happen. Until Nanny's interruption.
"Look how she's glaring at you. She is conjuring her witchcraft."
"But you don't even believe in witches."
"I believe in evidence grandson and I have had enough to come to this conclusion. Oh poor Mara was bullied and treated so badly yet…", granny pauses as she sniffles and I let out another sigh.
"You know I didn't do it Mrs Deliana, you know I am being falsely accused, why are you doing all of this to me?" Heather's voice sounds pained and weak that for a moment I think she might fall.
But she doesn't.
She seems to stand her ground and become even fiercer.
Nanny clears her throat and shuffles her feet before standing up.
"That's right," she says, totally ignoring Heather's last words.
Something is definitely at play here's but I don't know what.
"I need to check up on the poor girl who hid all of this from me until it was too late", she says and walks away leaving the scantily spread guards and maids and Heather and me in the living room.
I make my way to my room too, avoiding any eyecontact again.
And when I have reached the top of the stairs that leads to my bedroom and made sure that I didn't turn back, I hear feet shuffling.
And a the sound of someone bursting into tears.
But by the time I look back, she is no where to be found.
CHAPTER 5: MARA SEDUCES LUCASAlpha Warren's POVAfter a few moments of trying to relax in the shower and on my bed, I still find myself stuck in my thoughts. Heather couldn't have done that, but grandmother can not possibly be lying to me. She has only ever wanted the best for me and that I found someone to bear a child with which I have done. Everything is fishy and I feel so bad about it. The room is still filled with the scent of Heather from the time she stayed here. I insisted that she be treated in my room, but I doubt if Nanny let her stay if she had those suspicions towards her. The actions and evidence are outrageous and they have left me ever so confused. Then I hear a knock on the door. My heart skips in excitement and anticipation for Heather."Come in", but the sight of the person who enters my room is none other than Mara. I thought she was passed out. Her body is scantily covered and I can see the bruises on her skin as she slowly approaches me with a tray in
CHAPTER 6 - WAKING UP TO A SAD REALITY Heather's POVBeing bullied by my parents in the past made waking up to pain a norm for me, but today's is different. There's an ache in-between my legs that brings memories rushing through my head. As I force myself to sit up and face the mirror on the other side of the wall, I realize how red my face has turned. Although it aches, I know that I would do it again and again if time rewound. The way he touched me and called my name made me feel so beautiful in ways I had never felt before. He said he inched to bite me and mark me but although he didn't, I don't feel bad at all. Him seeking me out to sleep with me and eventually making love to me all night must mean something. It must mean that although he could not fight for me yesterday, he realized how wrong things were and he wanted to make it up to me. He must have realized that we were mates and that he was just too awkward to acknowledge it at first. I'm so glad. I'm so grateful to
CHAPTER 7 - Alpha Warren's POVA week goes by and I must say I have never been torn in between emotions as much as I am with Heather. Most times, she's the woman I want to wrap around and scoop and kiss and fuck and I even get the urge to mark her and make her mine, but the other times, she's talking back to my grandmother and Nanny Deliana is always having to report her to me. Those times just override the good joys and thoughts I have of her which has in fact forced me to ignore her and with everything in me avoid her since the morning I woke up to her in my bed. It's all suspicious. The fact that she keeps trying to see me to plead and explain to me that she's misunderstood while my grandmother says she's the villain. My grandmother will never do anything to hurt me, but this just keeps getting me confused. "Alpha, Heather is here to see you again and she appears even more aggressive than usual", my secretary says as he hands me an iPad with a live security feed. One of Hea
CHAPTER 8 - betrayal in guilt Alpha Warren's POVShe looks helpless, defenseless and so vulnerable and it feels like deja vu all over. I'm back to the first time I laid my eyes on her. When she looked so weak over the shoulders of the soldier that carried her into the palace. Limp and extremely vulnerable and again, she has my attention. My undivided attention as she doesn't try to defend herself like the other times rather her eyes and full gaze are on me and piercing into my soul. Without words I can hear her pleas. Plea for me to remember something, a plea for me to fight for her, a plea for me to do something.And I try, I will myself to try very hard to remember what it is that I have to, my mind travels back to that morning when I woke up naked beside her. That morning still puzzles me, I still wonder what happened that morning. Had we really slept together? No, I disregard that thought immediately, because if she is really the woman my grandmother paints her to be, the
Chapter 9 Heather's POVHe'll be out of the palace in two days and for twelve days, I have requested to meet him. I have fought and screamed on top of my longs, I have tried all I could to communicate with him, to tell him, to help him remember because it seems like all the passion that we shared that night have gone deep deep down in his memories. And I can't seem to find anything to help simulate it. His family isn't helping, Doctor Killian has been completely bought over that he has refused adamantly to check me up even though I complain of sickness. Sometimes, it feels like I am going to pass out from the sudden exhaustion, pain and irritation I feel, but I am abandoned. Nobody seems to be on my side, in fact they aren't. God mother Deliana seems to be glad as her plan to have Lucas's eyes away from me has worked. Five weeks away from him and I don't feel good at all, it feels like the end of the world and everything in its entirety. It feels like I'll never recover. And
HEATHERS POV.I've never felt this received, although I'm still careful knowing well he's a stranger, his face has a striking familiarity but I can't quite place my finger on how I met him and where I had seen him before."I'm sorry we had to meet this way, I'mKeegan, the alpha's beta a and a friend of to Lucas" he explains, I draw a line sigh of relief as it comes flashing back to me, I had seen him earlier on in the office the day I was Falsely accused of being a liar, just now I realize he might have fallen into their clutches as well."I didn't do any of those, they lied" I explained to him not wanting to seem like a bad person."it doesn't matter what I think Heather it's what you did, once you have a clear mind then none of it matters anymore," he says to me"Why would I do it? I did nothing at all but I can't just get why his grandmother won't leave me to be in peace" I answer, He gives me a knowing look and a relaxing smile."I believe you Heather, but first you said we need
HEATHERS POV.I feel a sudden uneasiness in the pit of my belly, I feel my head twirl, my nerves are pressed,My whole world seemed to have just been plunged Into darkness. How on earth am I to deal with this?I had lasted out at Keegan and the woman in the room earlier on and I know it was not in their best interest or mine but I could not keep a restraint on myself,At the moment I felt really irritated and this is what it comes down to, I feel my head go on with a loud bang, and I sniff hard as I had been bawling my eyes out for hours.The fact that to Lucas I have suddenly become nothing than a breeder, it was brought into the Pack to bear a child for him and now that had finally happened I feel myself plus ged deer into darkness,It's way too much for me to handle. How on earth am I to bear being with him? He doesn't even care about me, ever since we had sec I've been trying to reach out to him.Each night I get starved all due to me missing curfew and now I'll go on and tell hi
HEATHERS POV."thanks Laura, maybe I should take my time thinking about it but first off I need to get back home soon I can't afford missing curfew" I answer."oh that right, we've spent way too much time out of the pack house" keegan reminds.I hope out of bed on recollection of that, I had almost gotten too comfortable in this house without knowing who it belongs so,"that right Laura we have to leave now, thank you, for everything" I say to her, "If you feel stressed or under pressure remember to always take in deep breaths although it won't work until you believe it would and keep your mind at bay, it helps I promise" she nods slowly, then pinches at my cheeks before passing a snort at her brother.Keegan grins in response to her and Soon after we are headed back to the Pack house.I feel a rush in my blood as the main gates come to view. It had been a long time since I had a chance like this, I hoped things would at least be better between us both.I had hoped for a better time,