Chapter 2

Your husband is going to love you, Bella. I am giving him the best woman any man could ask for, I bet he would make you happy  and treat you like a queen for the rest of your life.

Those were the assuring words my father said to me when he was giving my hands in marriage to Zayn. But that was not the case. 

My husband has not for once failed to rub it in my face that he had married me for the talent my father had passed to me and he emphasised that my major duty as his wife is to improve the pack’s finances.

Zayn walked in quietly while I was sorting some paperwork for the importation of  cotton as summer is approaching. The pack’s merchant house needs to restock on wool and hasten the production at the factory so that the pack member will be able to purchase lighter clothes for the season.

“You are back at work again.” He said with a smile on his face, “I know I can always rely on you, Bella.”

“These days it seems like the papers on your tables never reduce and my table is quite empty.” 

I glanced up and looked in his direction hoping that he would show some interest in the pack’s affairs and ask me to delegate some tasks to him.

“I shall ask the Beta to find you a bigger table, this current one is too small to accommodate all of your work.”

 My fingers tightened around the pen I was holding, before I knew it I had snapped the plastic pen into two unequal halves.

Luckily for me, the ink in the pen had almost finished, so nothing spilled on the reviews I had been writing.

I just tossed the pen aside and picked another one. I did not give him a response, I just continued to append my signature to the heap of documents I had previously gone through so I do not make mistakes with the ones i had not reviewed at all because i can’t seem to control the barrel of anger that is me.

“Bella, you are a little cold this morning, did I do something wrong?”

That is not supposed to be a question you dimwit, everything you do to me is wrong. 

“How could you possibly wrong me, my Alpha?”  I didn't bother to spare him another glance, even his handsome face will not be able dissolve my anger. 

“You say I have not wronged you, yet you sound like you would tear my face up if you were strong enough to do so.”

Here he goes again, verbally putting me in my place. He should just say, ‘your weak ass can do nothing to me regardless.’

“Is this about last night? Are you jealous of Gina?”

So he remembered that I showed up at the party last night and he wants to use the jealousy card on me.

“I am afraid I don’t know who that is, my Alpha. Why would I be jealous of her?” 

“Keep your eyes on me and stop working while I am talking to you." He commanded me using the Alpha’s tone.

I placed my hands on the table and my eyes locked in with his eyes. Normally, I would feel butterflies when I looked into his eyes, that was what kept me going and I was hopeful that Zayn would someday love me in the way I have always imagined.

Today, it seemed like the butterflies were on strike, so they sent wasps instead to sting me in my stomach while he spoke to me.

“Well, I introduced her to you last night and I am glad you are not the type to get jealous over trivial things. After all, you have the position any woman would kill for, you are the Alpha’s wife.”

“No one wants my position, my Alpha. I am just your wife and not the Luna of this pack. I am certain that no woman is interested in taking such a useless position.”

“This is not the time to whine about that, Bella. I do not have the strength to talk about it either, besides I even have something important to share with you.”

Something important? Is this man about to take a large chunk of money out of the pack’s treasury again?  That is another two months working overnight for me.  Did he take some load or make a drunken deal with one of the Alphas from the neighbouring packs? What mess do I have to clean this time?

I adjusted in  my seat and kept a straight face. I have to be prepared to hear the worst from this man and prepare to work like the corporate slave that I am.

“I intend on taking a mistress."

My eyes widened, “A mistress?” I repeated after him.  

Despite not having a loving relationship with my husband, taking a mistress was the least thing I expected from him.

Sex with us was good, Infact great.   

“Why?” I blurted out. Why does he need a mistress?

“ I think I’m finally ready to have some pups. Now that things are quite stable, making an heir should be my priority right now.” 

“We can make a pup, my Alpha, you don’t need a mistress for that. All you have to do is finish in me. That way I’d be able to conceive.”

He chuckled, “if I decide to have a pup with you, who will run the pack’s affairs when you are pregnant? All these nights you spend working here will be allocated to consummating with me and that will affect the pack.”

So to him, I’m just a money making machine.

“But I want a kid  of my own too and I can make it work, doing the pack’s work and making babies too.”

“Bella, it is way more than that,” he got up from his chair and moved closer to me. He ran his hands over my shoulders. “I need full Alpha pups. Your omega blood will only taint my heir.” He kissed my neck then he took a few steps away from me.

“I hope you understand.”

      

“Gina will move in the next three hours, please ask the maids to set up a room next to mine for her. Her favourite colour is purple.”