Betrayal

Tiara's POV

" Do you, Alpha Bernard, take Zara as your Luna and mate? To uphold and to hold in holy matrimony?"

My hands clenched on the gown I had on, tears welled up in my eyes threatening to spill as they fixated on him.

Everything screamed in me to speak up, to let everyone know that I was against the marriage happening right now but my world crashed at the next word that was uttered.

" I do," Bernard uttered with a smile so wide on his face that tears stung my eyes.

Mustering up the strength, my feet padded across the huge room back to the cab waiting for me.

" Take me back" I said in a whisper, unable to recognize my voice.

Staring blankly, fond memories sipped in of I and Bernard which had just about turned out to all be lies, I tried to swallow the lump stuck in my throat, but it seemed rather persistent.

" Thank you" A smile graced my face at the cab driver who nodded at me, not before giving me a sympathetic look as I sauntered over to the trailer in the pack where our love story had begun.

My legs found their way to the kitchen, needles jabbed my heart endlessly as I picked up the celery, slicing through when barely minutes after, the door was yanked open and my body collided against the warmth of another.

With nose nuzzled against my neck and breath fanning my ears, he said in a whisper." I have missed you so much, Tiara, what is for dinner?"

" Where were you?" My hands clenched tight around the knife, squeezing my eyes before flickering them right open.

" Work was so hectic, but I am done, and I am here with you now. What do you want me to do? Assist you with the veggies? I can do that, also...we can watch that series that you have wanted all this while" he suggested.

A peal of laughter erupted through my throat as I placed the knife by the side, my eyes pivoting round until they were staring at him.

" You were at work? Bernard, are you going to do this? Right now?" My voice came out in broken shells.

He looked stunned, his eyes morphed into shock when he saw the tears I was trying to hold back.

" I was at work, what are you talking about? That is where I am always and...."

" Oh, please stop it!" I was tired of this charade he was putting up, how he was acting as if he had done nothing.

Slipping my hands into my pocket, I drifted the card at him.

" That is where you have been all day! While I stayed back at home, washing your clothes, making sure you had something to eat when you are back, you were out there getting married to my sister, of all people, how could you get married to my sister?" I raged as the crystal I held in, snaked down my porcelain face.

The sizzling of the pot rang across the air telling me they needed my attention, but I was done being the housewife he wanted.

" Tiara..." he held a hand out, racking a hand through his hair. "I can explain what it is, I didn't do this on purpose. I mean come on, you know I love you and...."

My fingers poked him on his chest, with my eyes glaring daggers as I wished that he would be hurt just like I was.

" You don't tell me you love me when you got married to someone else already! I dedicated my life to you, I did whatever you wanted me to and this is how you repay me? You should have done better. You owed me that"

" I owe you nothing!" He retaliated, my eyes widened at his words.

" I gave you a home, you had recognition because of me, everyone knew you because of me.... Oh, the alpha is dating that poor lowly omega, he is such a sweet man. That was all because of me and you knew it"

A chuckle of laughter escaped my throat, my heart slammed so hard against its rib cage that I couldn't breathe for a second.

Everything in spirals as my world darkened. I had loved him even more than I had loved myself. I had felt the bond, the pain with him, I was there when everyone didn't want him and now....

"And then you had to do that with my sister? Why wasn't I ever enough?" I muttered out.

" She is better in every way that you would ever be. You did your part and she did hers. You were never supposed to find out, if you weren't nosy, you wouldn't have known about this." He exhaled.

"We would have still been the same sweet couple everyone knew" he squeezed the paper into a ball, advancing further.

My wolf writhed in pain, snarling and growling at the betrayal, but there was nothing that could be done. Fisting my palm, I glared at him, watching as he halted in his footsteps.

With determination coating my tone, I said. " I don't want you anymore. I am renouncing our bond, from today onwards, we have nothing together"

My stomach twisted as air knocked off me. I couldn't think anymore, with reddened eyes, I tried to walk past when he held my wrist.

"You can't go.... Tiara...you can't...no one will love you as you are, no one will desire you as you are. I will take you as my mistress, stay back and be my mistress....just don't...don't go"

My feet halted, transfixed to the spot as I shook my head, trying not to succumb to his request, wriggling his hands off, I sneered at his words.

"You may find me undesirable, but that doesn't mean other men look at me the same way"

I picked up the pace, his growling voice behind me faded as I ran down the pavement, crashing into a nearby bar.

" A gin and tonic please" I placed a dollar bill on the table.

I had made a resolve to get wasted but when the alcohol hit the right spot, all I was instead, was a crying mess.

A gentle voice pierced through my reverie, jolting me out of it as I sniffed in, flicking my head around, my eyes met with honey brown orbs that seared into me.

I was lost in them for a minute, before staring elsewhere. Tossing his glass at me, he winked. "You look like you need company" his tone made my head muddled.

My stomach reeled in, heat pooled between my legs as a sandalwood scent drifted into my nostrils, awakening and intoxicating all of my senses.

" What gave it away?" I questioned, a gentle smile tugging at my lips, trying to look beyond the fact that I was soaked in-between my legs already.

His lips curved into a smile. "Your eyes, has anyone told you how easy it would be reading you?"

I shrugged, trying so hard to get rid of him until the music came up. A smile hinged at the edge of my lips as I nodded to it, memories of I and Bernard waltzing to it came on.

"You like it?" I bobbed my head.

"Then dance with me," he had a hand stretched out, waiting for me to take it.

" I am drunk, I can't" I waved him off when he insisted.

" If things doesn't go the way they should, I am surely going to take care of you, you don't have to worry about that. Just trust me"

My teeth dug gently into my lips, before accepting his hands. " One dance and I am done"

I tried to fend off the sizzling attraction I felt to him but when my hands leaned on his shoulders, his orbs locked on mine, I let him sway me away into the night, letting myself go.