SECOND CHANCE

ELODIE'S POV 

I jerked up from where I was lying, gasping for air and sweating profusely. My heart was rampaging hard against my chest, my whole body trembling uncontrollably. I was pethadied.

Was that all a dream? 

That was the scariest nightmare I've ever had. It felt so real that I could still feel the pain of the gunshot on my chest.

Glancing around I realized I was on the cold floor in a dark room. I wasn't wearing my wedding gown which felt off. Isn't today my wedding? Then why am I locked up in this room... again? And what is this unsettling feeling of Deja Vu?

I can vividly recall the event leading to my being locked up here. It was when my parents found out about me and Alastair. He had proposed to me the day before and I gladly accepted. But my parents were against it and tried to force me to break up with him. 

My father, Alpha of the Crystal Blood Pack, and Alastair's father, Alpha of the Dark Moon Pack were good friends and that was how Alastair and I got to know each other. But my father never intended for us to go beyond being just friends because he already betrothed me to the son of his business partner.

So I, for the first time in my life raised my voice at them in objection and ended up being locked up here for weeks with limited food and water.

But this was from months ago. Why am I reliving it again? Did I go back in time?

The door of the room opened and I could already tell who was coming... Eloise. She will rush towards me with a worried look and then...

"Why will Mom and Dad do something like this to you? Can't they for once let you be happy?"

"I'm sorry I wasn't here when this whole thing happened, Elodie. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let them lay a finger on you" Just as I remember, this was the exact thing Eloise said that day.

"What date is today?" My question caught her off guard.

"Erm, Sis. Is everything okay?"

"Just answer the question!" My heart was beating fast in anticipation of what she would say.

"14th of August?"

"What year?"

"Erm, 2021?"

Shock ran through me when the realization hit me. I have gone in time; to six months before my wedding. So all that wasn't a nightmare? I glanced at Eloise who was gaping at me like I had finally lost it. Anger surged through me and swelled up my chest. All I wanted to do was her to death this instant!

"Erm, Elodie, are you okay?" She made to hold my hand but I slapped it off and stormed out. As I rushed to my room, the tears I'd been holding back rolled down freely. I shut the door of my room, slumped to the floor, and broke down in tears.

It hurts, so fucking much. I am still finding it difficult to believe that she and Alastair will do something like that to me. How I wished it was just a nightmare. What wrong did I ever do to them to make them loathe me that much? Was I at fault for loving them with everything in me?

I stayed on the floor, with my arms hugging my legs, and cried for hours till my eyes swelled up. It was the only thing I could do with how badly my heart was aching. Everything that happened was all my fault. None of it would have happened if I never trusted them that blindly.

No, Elodie. Enough with crying! None of this was my fault. They are the ones who betrayed me! I am the one who was wronged! 

The moon goddess just gave me a second chance to correct everything; to stop being weak and soft. This was my chance to make the two of them pay for toying with me, especially Eloise. I am going to make my parents and every single person who made my life miserable pay!

In this life, I am going to write my story the way I want it to be! I am going to get that happy ever after I've always wanted after I ruin their lives.

I wiped my tears and walked over to the standing mirror with a smirk. Now to begin this new chapter of my story, I am going to do two things.

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"You want to call off your engagement with Alastair?" Seraphine asked in a whisper and I nodded. I just finished telling her everything that happened, excluding the fact that I died and had reincarnated.

Seraphine was a close friend of mine. In my previous life, she was against me dating Alastair from day one and hated how my family treated me. One certain time she revealed to me that Alastair was cheating on me with Eloise but I was so blinded by my love for him. That day, I was so angry with what she said that I ended our friendship. I can still remember all the hurtful words I said to her that day. If only I had listened to her.

"But won't that put your life in even more danger? I mean, they want to kill you so breaking off your engagement will give them even more reason to." Seraphine added.

"No. The deed, that was the main reason why they killed me."

I recalled those two mentioning the deed before I died. I didn't put much thought into it then but now that I think about it, the main why those two killed me was because of that deed. But what deed were they talking about? What was inside it that Alastair had to pretend to love me just to get a hand on it?

"What deed are you talking about?"

"I can't tell you everything, Seraphine but one thing I am sure of is that they won't kill me. No, they can't kill me not until they get me to sign that deed. I can use that to my advantage, to do whatever I want. So even if I break my engagement with Alastair, he will try every possible to win me back and Eloise will keep pretending to care about me until they get access to that deed."

Those two were unable to get me to sign that deed not until six months from now. Which means I have only five months to get my revenge. I have only five months to find that deed and ruin their lives.