Chapter 2

In the car, my mind was blank. I could not understand why I put myself thought this. At that moment, his phone pinged and I guessed it was Diane again and picked it up to respond.

At that moment, my eye caught a conversation Mason had with one of the wolves in his pack.

"Don't tell anyone, just leak that I am about to take a mate," Mason had written.

"Diane sure will return, but are you really taking Opal as your mate?" The person asked.

"Just a fake bonding ceremony will be fine," Mason had answered. A sadness came over me.Years of devotion and this is all I was worthy of? This is all I deserved? A fake bonding ceremony? This must be why he wanted to keep our bonding a secret, even making me promise not to tell anyone. Only his closet formed knew. But both our families were still in the dark. It seemed it was finally time to let go.

After a while, I drove home and helped him up to bed. I sat for a while thinking of the past. By morning I was much more calm. I had let go of the relationship.

Mason woke up to find me on the phone with Lily. We talked a while about my relocation. When I ended the call he appeared before me, his hair still dripping wet from the shower.

"Are you going somewhere?" He asked. I figured he must have heard me talking.

"Just family stuff," I answered vaguely, but he did not go into it and just walked away. He had not walked far, when he spotted the glass of honey water I had made for him according to Diane's recommendation and paused.

He picked the cup and threw me a sharp look.

"What is this?" He asked coldly.

"Honey water for your hang over,"" I answered calmly.

"Who taught you this? Don't go believing nonsense you read online!" He said, slamming the cup down and storming off. I suppressed a bitter smile.

It seemed he did not like his sweetheart being imitated.

When it was time for us to leave for our photoshoot, he turned to my whole dressing. "I have called the photographer to change the location of the shoot to the lake side. It has a better scenery," he said.

When I heard his words, I smiled bitterly inside. I was glad I had looked up Diane on Social media after last night. It was not hard. Mason was drunk and he followed all her social media handles.

If I had not wanted to know who she was, I would not have noticed she had posted yesterday about wanting to visit the lake side by Mason's pack territory.

I did not bother exposing him. For me, something told me we may not be able to save this relationship

"Alright. Anything is fine," I answered.

Knowing he was not going there for me, I made sure to put on a dress that I could easily move around in.

We arrived at the lake to find the photographer waiting for us. Mason was greatly distracted, seemingly looking around for someone. Soon, he found Diane by a tree and turned and walked towards her without any word to me.

I froze as he just walked away. My face suppressed a bitter smile. Sure enough, he went to her. It felt as though as long as there was Diane, I could never exist. As long as Diane existed, I was invisible to him. I took deep breaths to calm myself.

As he walked over, I met Diane's eyes and I knew she made that online post on purpose. She knew Mason would come.

The photographer looked at me puzzled but I gave him a bitter smile.

"I don't think we will be taking pictures today. I will pay for cancellation," I said.to him.