Chapter 6

Veyra’s POV

Alex moves very fast and catches Valen’s hand before they can even touch me.

"Don't you even dare!” Alex growls “Don’t you ever try to lay a hand on my sister," Alex snarls, his grip tight enough to make Valen whimper painfully . "I'll pluck out your eyes if you so much as make any wrong move!” I can see blood dripping down Alex’s palm- Valen’s claw had scratched him, but his attention is not even on the cut or the dripping blood

Valen claws retracts immediately and he tries to struggle free, but Alex is stronger. "Do you know me!? Do you know who you are talking to?" Valen screams, spittle flying from his lips like an unrefined imbecile. I cannot believe that this is who I gave my heart to. . "I'm the future Alpha of this pack! You can't threaten me!" he screams like a child.

“No, you are a coward in a crown!” Alex growls

“I will tell my father! I will send the guard to deal with you!” Valen almost cries out from pain

“Deal with him yourself!” I cut in angrily without control. “ That is the problem with you! You never handle situations on you! You always depend on ‘Daddy’ and ‘daddy’s guard’”

“Has he ever touched you before!?” Alex turns to me with fury in his eyes, praying for me to nod a yes so that he would unleash his terror on Valen. “Because if he has, I would rip his throat out from his neck right now!”

“No,” I shake my head. At this point I am wishing that Valen has a history of hitting me so that Alex can beat him to a pulo

“Leave me alone!” Valen screams. “I am the future alpha!

It is funny how Valen used to tell me about how we would rule this pack side by side as soul mates, now he uses that same position that he once used to entice me to threaten me

Alex's laugh lets out a cold deep laughter. "I don't give a damn if you're the future king of the world. Touch my sister, and I'll kill you,” he growls

"You'll regret this," Valen threatens, his voice shaking with fury. I go down that he is scared of what he does not want to show it. "I'll make sure you both pay for this disrespect. I'll have you thrown out of the pack. I will tell daddy to banish you!”

"You ungrateful idiot," Alex spits, finally releasing Valen's wrists and throwing him to awall nearby. "You're a betrayer, you abandoned Veyra? The one person who risked everything she had to save your worthless life years ago. She should have left you to die! At least it would have been better for her to know that you are dead!”

“I didn’t ask her to do that!” Valen spits back and even though I have been thinking to myself that I am successfully getting over him, I feel my heart shatter into pieces

"She saved you when no one else would," Alex rowrs."

I feel my breath catch, my rib cage tightening and threatening to suffocate me, my heart beating twice as fast. As the memorie pour back in, I feel my joints weakening, my legs are getting wobbly. I still struggle to make sense of my current situation. Did Valen always love me? I remember the first time he said he loved me. He held my hands under the oak tree and stared deeply into my soul. I had believed him. Now I cannot help but think about that day, was he lying to me?

Did Valen love at some point? It would be consolation to know if he did love me or not. At least I would be able to gauge how much of a fool I was. Did my best friend love me at any point? When and what time did they plan my downfall? What did I do to them to make them treat me this way? My parents practically trained Gina through school and showed her love that even her parents never showed her. Where did we go wrong?

I had given up my very essence just to make sure that Valen is alive today. If not for me, this arrogant bastard would be dead! And what do I get in return? Betrayal! Hurt! Ungratefulness! The two people I learned so much in this world join hands to betray me? What did I even do to deserve this? I feel the tears gathering in my eyes like clouds before a rainy day. But no, I decided not to cry. I would not give this bastard just to see me weak. I would not satisfy his urge to see me cower and suffer

Valen looks at me with so much cruelty in his eyes- that I wonder if he ever meant when he said he loved me in the past. “ I never asked you to sacrifice a single sweat from your head for me. That is on you. Your decisions years ago lie heavily on you now. Whatever you did, whatever you feel right now, does not concern me. It is not my fault.”

Alex reads me like a book. He knows I am hurting inside. He knows that even with what I did last noght and everything I have said, I am breaking like weak blocks crumbling to the ground. He knows that despite the turmoil I feel in my heart, I do not want Valen to feed on my mystery. So he steps in immediately

"Stay away from my sister," Alex commands. “She's done with you, Find someone else to torment."

"This isn't over," Valen murmurs as he starts to leave

“Valen!” I say his name as he turns his back against me. He pauses, his curiosity getting the better part of him. “I will get back at you, and I will get back at you hard!” my voice almost breaks as I make this promise

“You will do nothing!” Valen hisses and proceeds to leave