HER BROTHER'S BEST FRIEND

Sierra's POV 

“You are unattractive.“

Varek, my husband—the Alpha of the Moon Eclipse Pack—voice echo through the room. His voice is sharp and final. His nose flares up, eyes blazing like fire threatening to consume everything in its path.

I know this version of him too well. It's a defense mechanism he always put up anytime he was guilty of something and instead of an apology like every normal human being, he would turn himself into a victim. It's always been his way.

But this? 

This crime?

Unforgivable.

Unattractive?

I’ve just caught him red-handed. Cheating. Right inside the mansion he built specifically for us—because he claimed the palace lacked privacy. And here he is, in the guest room, fucking a girl barely over twenty.

Mira—the cheerleader of the ice hockey team.

The same team where I'm the assistant coach.

The Moon Eclipse Pack runs one of the most elite academies in the country. The Moon Eclipse academy—a place that grooms the one percent of the one percent prominent werewolf heirs—Alphas, Betas, Gammas. A place where ranks matter more than brains and where anyone without a prominent family name is disposable.

That was the case for me too. When I was studying here, I was a nameless scholarship Omega but then I found out that the Alpha son was my mate. I had expected rejection. Everyone said I wasn't qualified to even stand beside him as his maid but surprisingly, not only did my prince accept me, he made sure everyone respected me.

“I will love and protect you from now on, Sierra Cross,” he had said, in front of the entire school.

But now? 

I don't understand if this is the same man I married six years ago. Every year, I lose a piece of him. Every day, he drifts farther from the boy who once swore to love me forever.

I press a thumb to my eyes, willing the tears not to fall. I don't want them to see me cry. Especially this bitch—Mira.

My weak wolf howls in pain, then goes silent. Hollow.

“I'm unattractive, really?“ I ask, my voice trembling with barely restrain fury. My eyes wide, hoping, praying that this was some sort of a nightmare I can wake up from. But it's real. It's so real.

“Look at you?“ Varek spits, eyeing me down like the mere sight of him makes his skin crawl. “Fat, everywhere. The reason why I accepted you then was because you were very hot. If not, why would a whole me— an Alpha—marry you, a worthless Omega," he say, pride brimming in his voice.

Gods….. his words are like a dagger, piercing through my heart and ripping it apart. The tears I have been holding all this while finally slide down my cheeks.

I glance down on my body.

Fine, I have gain some weight. But it’s not like I’ve let myself go entirely. Women change. Bodies change. Time does that.

Looking at him too, he isn't the same like when he was twenty-four. Then he was the hottest boy in school with solid chest that is enough to shield one from the chaos of this world. Now, his tits and stomach are nearly as round as mine.

But he's not done yet. 

“Sex with you is a waste of time. You just lie down there like a log of wood. I want someone wild. Someone sexy. Someone I can flip anyhow I want."

Then his gaze shifts towards Mira and his lips curls into smile. 

A smile that used to be mine.

 A smile that used to make my heart skip and stomach flip. But not anymore.

“You’ve changed, Sierra,” he says, his tone softening, like he’s doing me a favor. “You’re not the woman I married. I need more. Mira gives me that. I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

I shake my head so hard that I think it was going to snap off. As if that would somehow deny the scene unfolding before me.

Fine, maybe our sex is a bit….. boring, but he's never said a word. He use to moan loud enough for the neighbours to hear. He use to talk about how perfect my pussy clenches around him perfectly. He use to want me.

Mira, who doesn't even bother to cover herself, grabs one of her breasts and smirks. “So, baby, you've been sex starved all this while?“ Her sultry voice makes my blood boil.

Baby?

She calls him baby.

How poetic.

“Yes baby.“ He turn towards her, stroking his cock slowly. “Thank Goddess I found you months ago. If not, I would've been dead by now."

Wait…. Months ago?

This isn't the first time?

This has been going on?

And yet… I felt nothing. The mate bond—the one thing that should’ve burned, screamed, shattered—was silent.

What happened to our mate bond?

Even now, as I stare at them, nothing flares in my chest. My wolf is quiet. Numb.

I run a hand through my head, frustration building like a dam about to burst.

“Get her out of my house,” I say, gesturing towards the door. I step closer and reached for his hands. “Let's talk about this. I can change. I'll lose weight. I'll be sexy again. Just send this girl away from here.“

Varek exchange glances with Mira and they both burst into laughter—sharp, cruel and mocking. 

“You really think you're the prize, ehn?" he sneers. "If anyone's leaving then it's you, Sierra.“

I squeeze my eyes closed. One breath. Then another. Calming the chaos inside me.

What the hell happened to my marriage? 

We were still fine yesternight. We even discussed the Ice hockey tournament, Pack matters. Nothing felt.... off.

I thought he loved me but it's seems there's no love anywhere. 

There won't be any love between an Alpha and Omega, just pain—Simon, my younger brother said that to me on my wedding day.

While my parents thinks I'm lucky to be mated to an Alpha, and that they can finally climb up the social ladder, my brother was dead worried. 

I couldn't count the number of times, Simon asked him if I was really sure I wanted to get married to him. I remember when he came to my hotel room on my wedding morning and told me there's still time to back out now.

But I told him that I'm going on with it.

I think about Mira again—her smug face, her hands on my husband—and for a moment, I want to smash her head against the wall.

But I won't. 

I won't lose myself because of her. Or him.

I won't let them tear me down.

My parents will throw a fit when they hear about this decision I'm about to make. They'll blame—say I let myself go, that I wasn’t sexy enough. But I don’t care.

“Then reject me, Varek," I say, voice steady. "Be a man and end it — if you're so tired of me.“

“Reject you?“ He take a step closer to me. His eyes soften a bit as he tucks a strand of my stray red hair behind my ears. “No, I won't,” he whispers.

"What?" I snap, gritting my teeth.

“I need you to run this Pack with me since Mira is still in college. She's too young to handle Luna duties.“

My stomach flips. My mouth goes dry.

He smirks. “Yes, my love," he adds, tilting my chin up to meet his green eyes. “Moreover you're my omega. You belong to me. Now and forever. What would you even do without me? The Luna title and the respect that comes with it. The luxurious life style. Your job at the academy. Your father's cancer treatment too. You'd lose everything."

Father has cancer treatment and of course, with the influence of Varek we didn't have to pay a dime for the treatment since the hospital belongs to the Pack.

I yank my face away from him. “Leave me to worry about all that. I just want a divorce.“

“No.“ He turns away. “Instead of a divorce..... I want an open marriage.“