chapter four

Camilla's POV…

The pressure that I was receiving from everyone and their intense disgusting stares were getting on my nerve. I was starting to find it even hard to breathe.

Elisa's shrill voice was making my head hurt. I felt like my brain was going to burst and I only wanted to get myself out of this place. If I had known that I will face such humiliation and be rejected again, I would not have taken a step to this place.

But if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have known how cruel humans were.

All I could do now was blame it on my bad luck. But what hurt me most was the fact that Lenox refused to acknowledge me and even claimed that we did not know each other. I felt like I have been feeding all my feelings to the dogs.

Coupled with the rejection wound that was yet to heal, I felt my heart be torn into pieces. It was so painful that if I had not bitten on my lips until they bled, I would have lost consciousness.

But I was not going to kowtow to this bitch. I would rather surrender to a dog than submit to her. I knew that whether I knelt one thousand times today, there was no way she was going to let my family go. I was already on her death list, if that was the case then I better save whatever dignity I have left for my grave.

I knew for sure that the time for the West pack was coming to an end. Brenna was also putting pressure on me. She refused to help me but did she not know that the moment Elisa and Lenox decide to deal with our pack, she will not be spared. She now thought that she has aligned herself with the rich, ooh how wrong she was!

Everyone was starting to complain that I was disrupting the party, but did I call them here? Didn’t they bring their own asses because they did not want to miss the gossip? Now that also has become my fault.

But I have already gotten used to taking every fall tonight. But whatever they did, I will not kneel and apologize and if Lenox did not want to help, then well and good because this was also the last time I will beg.

I hadn’t realized how foolish I have been all these years until this moment. I have never known that a man’s heart would be as black as the bottom of a pot. Even after we have been through so much together, he did not bat an eyelid as I was being humiliated by his ‘fiancee’.

My grandfather has always been good to him and treated him like family, but now that he had no power, even those he treated well did not want to give him a second glance.

The cruelty of the world, in my eyes, was on another level. This life truly has no balance. At one point, everyone was sucking up to me but now they could not wait to bury me alive.

I was on the verge of breaking down from despair. Was I really going to let my grandfather pass away just like my parents? I now have no mate, no one to depend on, is this really the end for me?

The despair and the lack of ability to even take care of the person who has taken care of me were eating me up. What sin did I commit in my past life to deserve all these? I felt hopeless and for the first time, I hated how useless and powerless I was.

“Moon goddess please, I am your child, how could you let this happen to me? What I have done that has made you turn your face against me? I know my request sounds absurd, but if you really are as they say, please give me another chance.

I cannot do this without you. Send your son or whoever might help me my way and I will forever be indebted to you. I just want to save my grandfather and I promise I will never ask for anything else. If he dies under my watch, I don’t know how I am ever going to face my grandmother and my parents.”

I was still making my silent prayers. I only hoped for someone to come and take me out of this place…

Just then I heard a voice, it was cold and without emotions but for a moment, I felt my heart beat faster. I felt myself calm down just from hearing the cold voice.

What was this feeling? Who was this person with such a majestic aura that was able to shut everyone up just by uttering a few words? I felt the room quieten down and even those who had surrounded me took a few steps back.

I was finally able to breathe some fresh air after almost being suffocated to death.

It was only after the people surrounding me had moved away from me that I was able to notice a pair of shiny brown leather shoes shining right in front of my eyes. As if spellbound, my gaze moved from the shining shoes to the well-ironed black trousers. It was fittingly hugging the long and powerful legs and the muscles of the strong thighs were also visible.

Upward through, my eyes met with a leather belt that was tightly secured around his slim waist. All the way from his legs to his waist, there was no extra fat on his body. His body screamed of nobility and someone who has the world under his feet.

I don’t know what possessed me but my gaze lingered on that waist for a good amount of time. It was only after hearing a low chuckle that seemed to come from the deepest part of the chest that I came back to my senses.

I almost buried my face in the ground from the embarrassment. How could I stare at a stranger like that? Where were my manners?

I did not dare to continue looking and lowered my head in shame. I could feel my face heating up, coupled with my sorry state, I knew that I looked more than miserable at the moment.

The man’s cool gaze was making me extremely nervous. Even when Elisa embarrassed me earlier and when Brenna pushed me, I was not this embarrassed. It was as if all my secrets have been exposed in front of this stranger man.

The man stared at me and although his gaze was oppressive and it made one want to surrender to him naturally, I did not feel that way. I felt like his gaze meant no harm and he was not among those who wanted to humiliate me.

But I could not be so sure after all I have never seen him nor been in contact with such a powerful man. Although my heart was cold and fearful and the sight of such a man, there was a glimmering light of hope in the corner of my cold heart.

I did not want to hope for much but I felt like this man was not one to harm me. He looked like someone who would mind his own business.

Just as I was feeling hopeful, I heard a surprised voice calling out the man’s name. hearing his name, my heart flew out of my chest and fell to the eighteenth level of hell.

When I had first decided to come to this party, I had done my research. I knew that the main character for the night was someone extremely powerful whom no one did not dare to offend.

I was told by Brenna that the main reason why the organizers placed too much effort into preparing such a perfect party was just to please the man whom I had his name ached in the deepest parts of my heart and brain.

Although I have never met him, I have heard a lot about him. The moment I heard that name, I knew that I was done for. There was no chance of survival for me! I was not afraid of Lenox or Elisa's threat, but this man, just being able to breathe the same air as him, you could tell how ruthless he was.

But even after the man had been called, he did not react and continued to stare at me. I was one hundred percent sure that everyone was waiting to see my tragic ending. Although this alpha Lucien has never been to this city, his name was known all over.

He was not someone who would flinch even if the emperor was dying right before his eyes, what about a small fry like me who was only a pack omega?

The more he stared at me, the more nervous I became. I did not dare breathe out loud for the fear that he might notice that I was still alive.

He might be thinking of ways to end me as soon as possible. Yes, that might be right. Such people like us should never have existed in this world in the first place, so it was only natural that we die.

I made every kind of prayer and sacred incantation that I could remember.

To my utter disbelief, the man stretched his hand towards me. I was thinking that he was going to snap my neck into two but that did not happen.

I could not believe that someone like that would give me a helping hand.