CHAPTER THREE

AMY'S POV

How wrong I was to think that my longtime boyfriend, Neil, would know what to do.

With the small amount of cash left with me, I took a taxi and gave the address to Neil's house. My tears blinded me all the way there, that I wouldn't have known if I was being kidnapped.

My life had been so unfair up until this day, and when I finally thought it was time for me to have a good thing that was all mine, I was this close to getting into medical school that I could taste it. I would have left this miserable omega life of mine behind. And my mother had swept it all away in one clean swoop. 

"Ma'am? We're here." I cleaned my tears long enough for me to pay my fares and stumble onto the sidewalk. 

The short walk to his apartment building didn't stop the stream of tears down my face, nor did the elevator ride up. The first thing that should have warned me was his door was left slightly ajar. Neil never left his door open. 

"You never know what could slip in through the crack, baby." He would say when I teased him about it. He was paranoid like that.

Even as the door glared at me, my first thought was that he was in danger. Maybe something terrible had happened to him. That line of thought was shut down fast when I tripped on a lacy lingerie. 

I stopped, and all my earlier crying ceased. My legs carried me across his living room into his bedroom. I heard of his betrayal first before I saw it. Loud, obscene moans rang down the hallway, and I gasped.

I pushed the door open with an emotion I couldn't bother with at the moment. My boyfriend had long blonde hair wrapped around his fist, and his other hand was furiously rubbing the girl's cl*toris as he slammed into it with all the fervor he never seemed to have for me. 

If I wasn't so betrayed at the moment, I would find the scene playing out in front of me hot. Not my soft sob broke them out of their activity. That was how loud the girl moaned. 

"Neil," I said. That was what did it.

"Babe!" I didn't wait to hear his excuses. I simply wanted him to know that I had caught him in the act. "Wait."

I didn't, I ran down the stairs. I didn't cry. I was feeling too much at the moment, and the street was not the best place to have a meltdown. I hailed another cab and mentioned the last place on earth I would find solace. My best friend's house.

Madeleine, best known as Maddy, was singing along to an old pop song when I pushed the door to her room open, and I smiled at how much I could rely on her to be the constant in my life.

She took one look at me and opened her arms for a hug. She just knew that I wasn't okay. I didn't have to say anything. 

"You poor baby." She smiled sadly.

"Maddy, what am I going to do? I'm never going to recover from this." All the emotions I had been suppressing burst out. I don't know how long I stayed in her arms.

"Are you done crying?"

"Yes." 

"Now tell me what happened." So I told her everything. As usual, she was absolutely enraged on my behalf.

"What the f*ck? How could she do that to you? She knows that is the one thing you want, and she did that! Don't get me started on worthless Neil. I'm going to castrate him the next time I see him." She said all that in one breath. 

"I know you're always telling me he's not worthy of me, but..."

"Still, I'm sorry he had to cheat on you for you to find out. That fool, so what if wolves don't have to wait for a fated mate anymore?"

Maddy was so pissed that I was forced to calm her down. "Maddy, calm down."

"I can't." She raged. "That stupid fool gaslighted you all these years and made you feel like you had to be grateful for him being with you."

By any means, I was not ugly. The only flaw I had was my lack of rank. I was an omega. I was at the bottom of the food chain. 

"I just want to forget about this day forever." I groaned, not believing how much I had lost in one day. 

"Funny you would say that. I know just the way to do that."

"What way?" I asked.

"I got tickets to this exclusive club. Club Noir. It's the grandest club in town right now. I was able to snag two tickets. Rumor is that the owner is an Alpha. It's very exclusive. To think I was just about to call you to hang out."

"Do I have to go?" I pouted. "I just want to moan my bad luck in peace." 

"No, that's the last thing you need. All you need is music so loud that you can't hear your own thoughts."

"I don't think so." But at the end, my own opinion didn't count, and she ended up squeezing a tiny black dress that seemed to be painted on me. The bottom line was that we looked hot. Other people seemed to think so, too, because the bouncers let us in without even flashing our tickets. 

The energy in the club was crazy. We had VIP passes, so we were taken upstairs for free drinks. 

Maddy was right. I forgot about all my woes and even dared to dance with a few people. I was getting tired when my eyes met with a man's that descended from the stairs as if he owned the place. The crowd parted for him until he reached my front.

His eyes were almost black with desire, or maybe that was my own imagination.

"Hello, beautiful."