Chapter 52
EMMA
That moment when time stops and you can hear nothing around you for a while! That’s what’s happening as I stand before Bianca. She’s speaking some words but I can’t hear them, my mind repeatedly going over the engagement she’s mentioned
- c. right
Engagement? The Alpha? Will How’s that possible? That’s not that’s not true,
“What do you mean?” I ask Bianca when I finally find my words and she says, “The Alpha. Your stepbrother. He’s getting engaged to some girl. A
chosen Luna”
“Where did you hear that from?” I lift a brow and Bianca’s lips part. “Someone I know. Who also heard it from another person! It’s become news and everyone is talking about it. As she mentions those words, I look around me again, and the stares I’ve been gettinghinally make sense. The whispers, the murmurs of my name, along with other words–1 thought it was bullying again. I thought they were trying to get on my nerves. Trying to do what I’ve known them to do and now that the actuality is out, I wish that had been the case. I wish it was bullying rather than this truth I didn’t see coming.
“You truly did not know?” Bianca speaks again and I can only nod, afraid my voice would crack if I try to voice words out.
Will getting engaged? Why? How? Since when? Is this why he’s been away? Why he didn’t show up in my room! Why I haven’t seen him for the past Jew days? I thought he was busy with pack affairs but he’s been occupied with plans of his engagement
That’s not that can’t be true. Right?
“Hey Rhysand. Heard the Alpha is getting engaged.” It isn’t Blanca that speaks. Some girl I do not recognize stops before me with her friend and they watch me as they wait for my response.
“I thought I might have a chance with him, but now he’s getting engaged? Who’s the girl and why’s he choosing her?”
“Is she prettier than me?”
“I can’t believe she gets the Alpha. Whoever she is; she should know she’s one lucky woman.”
“Leave her alone and fuck off. She isn’t here to listen to your stupid fantasies.” Bianca speaks for me as they continue to spit out words while I only stand there, unable to comprehend the news.
The girls exchange glances before they walk away and Bianca lowers her head to catch my gaze, her hands dropping on my shoulders. “You sure you’re okay! You don’t look too good”
“Yeah. I just thought. Why didn’t he tell me? I blink and lick my mouth. “Sorry Just not feeling too good today. I’ll use the restroom real quick.” I tell Bianca, and she nods,
“Sure habe. I’ll be waiting for you in the cafeteria.” Her hands drop from my shoulders after a squeeze, and I watch as she strides down the hallway. Once she’s out of sight, I look around me and they’re still staring.
1 gulp through the tightness of my throat and keep my head down as I walk back to my leker. 1 place my book back inside and grab my phone before rushing down the corridor.
I make my way into the restroom and waltz into one stall. I keep it locked before settling on the toilet seat cover and I let out a shaky exhale as I lift the phone.
My finger touches the screen, and I go to the contacts. I tap my feet against the floor as the pad of close to his name. My chest falls and I drop my head. After a few seconds, I lift my head and finally tap his contact, I hold my breath as I watch the
my finger dances across the numbers, edging line rings. Then it hangs.
I shake my head and dial the contact again. Still no response.
I press the icon to the
HE
Then I wait.
message inbox, and my hand is unstable as 1 type our a message.
I wait for seconds. For minutes, I wait and hold my breath. I watch the message turn to deliver, then I continue waiting. Waiting for him to reply and to hear the news from him because I refuse to acknowledge the truth they’re telling me
I wait and I wait, but there’s nothing. He didn’t pick up my calls, and he doesn’t see my text- † pertaps he’s just intentionally not opening it.
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2:49 PM
Chapter 52
A lump is in my throat and I blink back the tears that are in the brim of my eyes as I watch the screen slowly dull, the minute of the time turning while my message remains unanswered.
I pace across my room as I bite down on my nails. I’m restless. I can’t hold or sit still, and I’ve been unable to get those words out of my head.
Throughout the rest of the school day, words were whispered and said about the Alpha’s engagement. It was a hot tople, and I was apparently the only one who knew nothing about it. I felt stupid–having to hear it from them despite what I shared with Will Or what I think I share.
Why wouldn’t he tell me? I thought we had something going on, so why…
My gaze shifts to the phone on the bed, and 1 go to grab it again. It’s all I’ve been doing since I arrived–staring at the single text I sent more than six hours ago and just waiting for the display to turn to read.
But it hasn’t.
My fingers dance across the keypad and I chew on my bottom lip as I begin to type out another message. I shake my head and delete the words before throwing the phone to the side. I hold my head in my hands, and after a few breaths in, I move off the bed and cross to the door. I walk out of my room and trot toward the Alpha’s office
If he won’t respond to my text, then I’d stand before him and hear those words everyone’s been uttering leave his mouth.
I halt before his office door, about to grab the knob, when the door swings open. I flinch in surprise and my brows furrows when Ryan steps out of his office. He shuts the door as he steps before me, hands slipping inside his pockets. “Hey. He’s not in.”
“Did you know?” I ask him and he sighs. I see you’ve heard”
“Everyone is talking about it,” I tell him and he nods. “So it’s true!
Ryan lifts a brow. “You said everyone is speaking about it. Yet you don’t believe it?”
“I didn’t think. I don’t..” I jerk my head and avert my gaze from his “I don’t know. I just thought.. I wasn’t sure. My voice turns quiet as I try not to break down before Ryan.
He’s silent for a while before I hear him move and he wraps his hands around me “I don’t know what to say, pretty. I don’t know what’s on the Alpha’s mind and I can’t speak for him. I don’t know how far this thing between you two has gotten, so I can only ask you to wait and hear from him. He’ll come to you. I’ll make sure he does. He has to.” He tightens his hold on me and I shut my eyes, hiding from the world that’s turned rather sorrow as I push my head into his chest.
-NIGHT-
He isn’t here…
1 don’t think he’d be. He probably doesn’t want to see me anymore now that he’s getting engaged to another. Still, I bind my hands around my ankles and rock on the edge of the bed as I stare at my door.
My gaze shifts from the door to the wall clock, then back to the door, and the more I hear the clock tick, the more I’m driven to the point of insanity.
I’m pushing back into the bed when I see my knob twist and I’m quick to rise to my feet. My breathing is loud and the sound of my heart thumping reaches my ears as I wait for the door to open.
And it does. And he walks in. And it’s different
I know as he shuts the door soundlessly behind him and turns to me–I won’t like this. Still, I hold up my head and try to keep my expression neutral; the same way his is, I try to not show him how much I’m hurting inside as he closes the distance between us, stopping when he’s neither
too close nor too far.
“Hi” He mutters and I draw in a breath “HL”
There’s silence after that. No words from him despite everything he has to speak on–everything I need him to speak on.
“Lleft you a text,” I tell him and he gods. Yh. Just saw it. It’s why I’m here.”
My brow raises. “It’s why you’re here? Not because you have something to say to me?” He goes quiet again and I try to keep my annoyance down as I continue. “I heard you’re getting engaged!”
He hums. Just a hum. That’s all he has to say is it even say to the girl he’s been messing
–
g around with after she hears news that leaves her shaken-
2:49 PM & D
Chapter 52
“Speak.” My voice is louder and when I take a step forward. Will takes one backward and I freeze, completely baffled by his behavior. I knew it wouldn’t be the same. Of course, I knew he wouldn’t have a smile on when he walked through that door, and I wasn’t expecting a hug. I was expecting nothing but an explanation. And here he is, not even giving me that.
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“What the fuck is wrong with you?” I let my anger out now as I glower at him. “I learned you’re getting engaged and you have nothing to say to me?”
“I don’t know what you want me to say. As those words leave his mouth, everything ceases for a second. The anger, the resentment, the ache I feel in my chest. Then they come back harder, eating at me and I let it all out.
“You don’t know what I want you to say!” I scoff. “How about a fucking explanation? Why? How? You don’t think I deserved to know? You didn’t think about how I’d feel hearing it from someone else that the man I’ve been fucking is getting engaged?” A tear rolls down my cheeks, but he isn’t shaken. He doesn’t budge. He does nothing but just watch me. He stands there and watches me cry for him.
My head jiggles. “Why, Will Why’d you do this to me? Why are you so cold? I thought there was something. I thought we had.
“We had nothing” He interrupts and finally takes one step forward. “We were fucking. You wanted it, I wanted it and that’s it. It was fun, but you- honestly didn’t think it’d be something else, did you? I’m an Alpha and I need a Luna What do you think was going to happen? That we’d fall in love and you’d be my Luna?“;
“That isn’t that wasn’t..” my voice cracks and Will chuckles. It’s not one that’s nice to hear. It’s almost mocking as he says, “I don’t think I did anything that made you believe that, Emma. I told you I warned you. But you said what happens later doesn’t matter. You said the only thing that matters was what we had at the moment and the moment is gone. It’s done. This is reality and I’m getting engaged.”
My fingers dig into my palms as I stare at him through my blurred vision. The tears won’t stop falling and my heart hurts so fucking much,
I didn’t think he’d be so insensitive. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, but I didn’t think he’d make it hurt like this. So ruthless with his words and uncaring about how I take them.
I’m such a fool. Such an idiot. I let myself fall for a man and this is what L
I sniff and wipe my tears with my knuckles. “That’s all you have to say! Nothing more?”
He drops his hands into his pockets and the words that leave his mouth when he parts his lips aren’t ones I expected. “It was nice. The sex. I had a pleasant time and I think you-
“Get out,” I growl as pain shoots through me. Will doesn’t move, so I do. I walk to him and use my hands to shove him back, slapping his chest. “Out! Out, you fucking asshole! I gave you something pure. I thought we were building something and all you have to say is the sex was nice? After you took my virginity? After you took my body and acted like you cared? Get out Go! Leave. Fuck you and your fucking engagement!” I keep pushing him, but he only falls back a step. He moves slowly and doesn’t leave fast enough for me, and I can’t hold myself together any longer.
I break. I fall to my knees and press my hands to the floor as tears stream down my face. “Just leave. Go. It’s done like you said”
He waits longer. Torturing me with his presence for a while more before he moves and I watch his feet. I hear the door open, and once I hear the click, I fall on my ass and clutch my chest as sobs leave my mouth.
He’s gone. It’s over and just like I thought it’d happen–he’s broken my heart..
Only in a way far worse and cruel than I thought possible,
AD
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