Broken vows

XENA'S POV

I stood frozen, my heart shattering in my chest.

Jason rolled his eyes, letting out a scoff, like I was some kind of bug that he hated. 

Chloe, my step sister or should I say the snake, just smirked and wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him like I wasn’t even there.

“Jason…” My voice cracked, my hands trembling. “How could you?”

He chuckled. 

The scumbag actually chuckled. 

"You should’ve seen your face," Chloe laughed nastily. "Pathetic."

I clenched my fists so tight my nails dug into my palms. I wanted to rip both of them into shreds and throw their remains deep into the ocean. 

My brain screamed at me to move and teach these two beasts a lesson but my legs were stuck to the ground as if they were glued there all of a sudden. 

“You’re my step sister! And you—” I turned to Jason, my eyes burning in rage. “We are supposed to get married in three days.”

Jason rolled his eyes like I was a boring chore. “Oh please, Xena. Don’t make this dramatic.”

I took a shaky step forward. “You love me, we loved—” I cried, still unable to wrap my head around what was happening. 

“I never loved you,” he said coldly, cutting me off.

My jaw dropped open in shock. And to think I knew this man, fought for him and gave him my all…only to get betrayed and not just with any person but my stepsister. 

Chole flipped her hair to the side, pulling Jason into another hot kiss while I stood there like a dumbass. 

She scoffs faintly, turning to me, her face filled with disgust. 

“Do you need something?” She frowned. “Can't you see we are busy?”

Do I need something? Did she just ask me that? Oh, yeah, I desperately need to kill you. 

I lunged forward, shoving her to the side. “You piece of shit,” I cussed, reaching for her hair but Jason pulled me away from her, throwing me to the ground with ease like I was just some worthless piece of paper.  

“Jason,” I called, tears flowing down my cheeks. “How could you?”

He stepped closer, towering over me. “You are just a stepping stone, Xena. An opportunity,I couldn't miss out on, I knew you had a huge crush on me, and I knew how desperate you wanted a friend, so I got close to you, and then it occurred to me, being a friend to you was an opportunity, but being your husband was a blessing to me, I just proposed to you and your mother made me the Beta of the pack.”

I gasped. My vision blurred with tears as my heart screamed in my chest. 

It was all my fault. I was the one who foolishly begged my mother to help him get the title and even on hunger's strike when my mother insisted that he wasn't capable enough for that position. 

I can't believe I didn't see through his plans, my mother was right, we should have waited till after the wedding but no…I was so stupid in love that I listened to his lies and stood my ground and I now look where it has gotten me. 

“But now?” he sneered, jerking me back to my cruel reality. “Now she's dead and I don't owe you shit.”

Tears flowed down freely, it felt like the world was crashing down on me—fast. 

Chloe laughed behind him. “Honestly, we were just waiting for your stupid mother to die. Took her long enough.”

I turned to her with a cold glare, rage burning through my veins. “You bitch!” I growled, standing up to my feet. “You would regret this, Jason, I won't let you go away with this.”

Jason laughed mockingly. “What would you do? Report me?” He sneered. “Get yourself together, it's not like you can do anything, you are just an impure wolf.”

My fists clenched tightly, smoldering at him with resentment. 

“Curse both of you!” I screamed, lunging at Jason with every bit of rage left in me.

Chloe gasped, stumbling back in alarm, her smug expression cracking for the first time. “You’re insane!” she snapped, fixing her tousled hair. “Get out of here, Xena.”

“If anyone should get out of here, it's you,” I snapped. 

She rolled her eyes, locking arms with Jason, who wore a proud smile. “You’re disturbing our fun time.”

“Fun time?” I echoed, breathless. “You mean your disgusting sex fest with my fiancé?!” I turned to her, eyes blazing.

“Call it whatever you want,” she shrugged. “But I promised Jason I was going to empty his balls and right now, you are making me go back on my words.”

“You snake! You seduced him!”

She scoffed, strutting forward with a cold smirk. “Oh please. Don’t flatter yourself. Jason came to me, baby. And let’s be honest, you were never woman enough to keep him.”

My blood boiled. “You lying bitch!” I shrieked, lunging at her with clenched fists, grabbing at her stupid, smug face.

“Get off her!” Jason growled, yanking me back like I weighed nothing. He slapped me so hard across the face, my head snapped to the side. I fell to the ground with a cry, my cheek burning. 

“Oh, so brave now, huh?” Chloe jeered, touching a scratch on her neck that I hadn’t even realised I made. She hissed dramatically. “Look at what she did to me!”

Jason bent down to her level, caressing her face like she was a wounded child. “I’ll take care of it, baby,” he whispered to her, brushing his lips across her forehead.

Then he turned to me, his gaze dark. “You’ll pay for this, Xena. Every last scratch.”

He moved toward me, fists clenched like he was ready to end me—and I panicked. My mouth moved faster than my brain.

“I’m pregnant!”

He stopped mid-step.

I curled myself on the ground, holding my stomach like a lifeline. 

Jason stared at me like I’d slapped him back. “What?”

“I’m pregnant,” I repeated, chest heaving, eyes locked on his. “With your child.”