Chapter 8

Valen’s POV

Ungrateful whore! She is a bitch! She is such a cheap thing! I scream as I storm away from the bakery, My clenched tightly as I walk away. I hold back myself from going back into that pathetic excuse of a bakery and another chaos. Alex, that stupid person! Because he is a beta, he thinks he can challenge me? I just did not want to fight! I am the future of this kingdom and I have to control my temper, if not he is too small for me. I would have beaten him so much that he would see stars. And that Veyra… the nerve of that bitch. The absolute fucking nerve.

“She thinks she can humiliate me like that?”

My wolf, Dada, growls in agreement within me. She's nothing without us. She thinks she is made? We made her what she is. If not for us, who would notice her? Who would notice omega living in the glory of her beta family? Ungrateful whore! Ever since we started suspecting her, I told you to stay away. I don’t even know why you chose to punish her that way that you did. They were other better and more painful ways to punish her. Sometimes you are too soft, Valen, when will you learn? Perhaps that is why your father does not take you seriously.

“Do not start with the topic,” I growled at him immediately drops his last sentence

“Fine, fine I would stop,” he retracts. “The nerves of Veyra though?”

“Exactly,” I think back to him as he curls himself up and yawns lazily in that place that he stays up in my head- he is practically my consciousness, my thinking. He is always in my head. “Without me, she'd still be that nobody baker's daughter, an omega that everyone ignored.”

My chest burns with fury as I replay her words. I hate the way she talked about my father. The things she said about my father would haunt me forever. How can my father even stoop so low? He has all the girls he wants, why Veyra? I have not even gone to confront him about this whole thing. I have not even seen him today and I don’t want to see him. I don’t want to see his face because I don’t know how will react. If not for Gina that told me she saw Veyra coming out of his office last night, I would not have known that he did such a wicked thing to me

She seduced him, I tell myself. That Veyra, she is a whore. She had always seduced my friends when we were dating. I should not even be too surprised. She threw herself at my father like the desperate slut she is. Partially, I do not blame my father. Werewolf men, especially unmated he-wolves like my father tend to fall for temptations like the one Veyra presented.

I myself have fallen for several temptations like this. Even when I was still dating Veyra, I could not control myself when another woman came close to me- it is the way men are wired. And that is why I like Gina, she totally understands that I cannot just stick to one woman-especially as I have the deformity of not being able to sense my mate. Gina understands me perfectly. She understands that I am different from her. I can’t be polygamous, but she cannot be. This is something that I and Veyra thought about a lot. This is another reason why I picked Gina over Veyra- apart from the fact that Veyra cheated on me

I notice as the late afternoon sun beats down on my back and I realize I'm walking. Walking like some common pack member. Fucking hell! I was so angry when I left the house this morning that I forgot to bring my car. Now I'm trekking back to the pack house like a common peasant. A whole royalty like me? This is all her fault.

A group of younger pack members notice me approaching. Three girls and two boys, probably around sixteen to eighteen years of age,. They bow their heads respectfully.

"Good evening, Future Alpha," one of the girls says. Veyra had always told me that people referring to me as ‘future alpha’ sounds weird. But I like it. I was the one that even told people to refer to me as such. Gina think the title is perfect- she says I need to make people start respecting me even before I take the alpha position

“Good evening, Future Alpha,” they greet again, but I don't respond. I can't trust myself to speak without screaming and right now, I don’t want to cause a scene. As I pass them, I hear their voices behind me.

"Did you see his face?"

"Something's wrong with him."

Then comes the sound I can't stand. Mocking laughter. Soft, but I hear it. They're laughing at me. They have no respect for me. I will teach them a lesson

“They know,” Dada snarls. They know about what happened inthe bakery. They know about everything that she said. They you know that she is fucking your father. Everybody knows now.”

This is like a catalyst to my impending reaction. My vision starts to blur. The words Dada said gets to me. I think of the possibilities of them knowing. I think of them laughing at my situation. These children, did you not respect me any longer because they know that my ex-girlfriend fucked my father. My vision goes red. Without thinking, I turn around sharply and I see the nearest stone, it stared at me - asking me to use it. I pick it up. It's bigger than my two fists together, jagged all over and heavy. I hurl it at them with all my strength.

"Fools!" I roar as I throw

The rock hits one of the girls' heads with a loud thud. From where I stand, I hear her skull crack. She drops instantly to the ground, blood streaming down her face. The others scream and scatter like frightened rabbits. This is how to maintain respect. Next time they would never laugh at me.

“Good,” Dada purrs. “Now his is how to show that you are strong. They would not dare to disrespect you next time.”

I turn and continue walking, ignoring the girl's moans of pain behind me. She curls up on the ground shaking like a leaf and crying on top of the pool of her own blood. She'll live. Maybe next time she'll think twice before disrespecting her future Alpha. Rubbish.

But as I walk, I can't stop thinking about Veyra. I do not even think anymore of the girl that I have just hurt, she deserved it- so I don’t need to think about stupid things like that, it is in the past now. I am thinking of Veyra now. I think of her face when she spoke about my father. The way she smiled when she said those vile things. She sounded so much like it slut and I know she wanted to get on my nerves. How dare she act like she won something?

“We're free now,” I remind myself. “All of these years that we dated she had been manipulating me, and I am glad that I am free.”

She always had this way of making me feel guilty. Making me question myself. She always complained a lot. She always told me that my character was not good enough. She always had a problem with how I treated pack members. She was suffocating. It was only Gina I could talk to whenever Veyra chided me like a child. She acted so much like a saint when underneath her evil veil was a cheat- she was sleeping with all my friends. She broke my heart first. Now I see her for what she really is. A whore who seduces old men the moment things don't go her way.

“ I cannot believe that there was a time we cared so deeply about her. We thought she was so perfect. Do you remember?” Dada's voice drips with disgust. “How pathetic we were to trust her”

I did care about her once. I loved her. I thought she was different from other girls. Pure. Innocent. I was even the one that took her virginity. She was not like other girls-so I thought. I was such a fool.

It was Gina who opened my eyes. Sweet, loyal Gina who actually cared about my wellbeing. I should’ve fallen in love with Gina instead of Veyra. She was the one who showed me the truth about Veyra's nature. She was the one that made me see that Veyra was it slithering snake

My heart ache as I start to remember those memories- the memories of how she cheated on me and made me feel less of myself

Cheating! Cheating is the reason why I hate Veyra! Cheating is the reason why I decided to humiliate her the way I did! That was not even enough punishment for the emotional trauma that she made me go through

I hate her!

Or so I think