Chapter 54

LEAH

It has been three days since the incident with Paula and Alpha Victor happened and I had not been able to step foot outside. I was enraged, knowing that Paula had probably moved in with him by now because they were mates. If they slept together, their bond would hold them to each other and they wouldn’t be able to leave again.

Especially after she has been gone for a long time. I couldn’t help but feel like the both of them used me for their selfish gain. While she was gone, Victor used me as a distraction and now that she is back, I was tossed away like an empty bag of nothing. It hurt me more than it was supposed to.

I felt like I was slowly slipping into the depression phase because I had barely eaten since that night, and I had not bathed since then. But when I saw how time was ticking and moving, not bothering to wait for anybody, I knew that I had to do something or else my entire life would go to shit. I wanted to leave the pack and head to another, where no one would know who I was in this pack.

I have had enough of people I love betraying me. I had it somewhere in my mind that Alpha Victor would waltz into my chambers and apologize- even though I wasn’t going to accept it- but at least an effort was made. But neither he nor anyone close to him came to my door to do or say anything. I have never felt this unappreciated and unloved in my life.

Today, I decided to wake up and get ready. I was going to bathe and eat, then read the book I had been reading before I started to prepare a plan for me to leave this place once and for all. I couldn’t possibly hide in here forever. I stared outside my window, the half-moon shining up in the sky. For the Tick Moon pack, a lot of things happened at night.

It was our tradition to get work done when the sun went down and sleep until it was the next day’s noon. For some other places, it was awry but we were used to it here. There are a lot of things that would be weird outside our pack but normal in here, which made me realize I had to work on myself after I reached whatever destination I wanted to be at.

I got up and stretched my back before I headed to the kitchen. I boiled some water and poured them into my bathing bucket before I headed to my bathroom and had a relaxing short bath. After I was done, I cleaned myself up and applied a moisturizer all over my body before I slipped into a baggy shirt.

My stomach grumbled, so I skipped back to the kitchen and opened the freezer, only to find nothing but steak in it. I had kept it here the last time I came, and not even in my wildest dreams had I thought I would come back to it just a few days later. I shook my head as I sighed before I brought it out. I cut it up into smaller pieces because I didn’t have all the ingredients.

I placed it all in the pot and added salt, pepper, and water then closed the lid and allowed it to cook. I diced up some onions and put them in it just for the extra aroma. After it had cooked, I removed it from the fire and placed the pieces of meat on a plate before I picked up my book and headed into the sitting room.

I had just plopped a few pieces in my mouth when I came face-to-face with the last person I wanted to see, sitting down on my couch while he looked down at the floor. When he felt the presence of someone standing in the sitting room, he raised his eyes to look at me. I locked in the stare as so many emotions passed through me.

“Leah,” he whispered, getting up from the sofa. He tucked his hands into his pocket as he gave me a long hard stare that made the hairs on my body stand.

I was irritated, and I didn’t want him any closer to me.

“What do you want Victor?” I frowned, my body suddenly trembling with anger.

“I want you, Leah. Please give me a chance to explain.”

“To explain what? That you cheated on me?” I yelled. He shook his head before he took a step toward me and I took one back.

“I need you to understand that she is my mate. I couldn’t resist it.”

Those words dug deep into me faster than a bullet would. My heart clenched with hurt, anger, and sadness all at the same time. The plate of meat in my hands suddenly didn’t look very appetizing and my taste glands went bland. Nothing excited me anymore at that moment. I wanted to leave before I did something we both would regret.

“Okay, Victor. She is your mate and you couldn’t resist it. Could you please leave me alone?” I tilted my face away because I couldn’t bear to face him.

“I can’t leave you alone Leah. I told you, I love you.” He said, and I hated that I saw the sincerity in his eyes. I just wished he was saying all this to play me, then it would have been easier.

I swallowed hard, “Well too bad you cannot have two sisters to yourself.”

“You don’t get me. I don’t want her, I want you.” He took short strides towards me and this time, I couldn’t move. I couldn’t take a step back and I couldn’t stop him until he was close enough and he took my plate away from me.

He kept it down on the side table before he backed me against the wall. He traced my face with a finger, stopping right where he knew would make pleasure ripple through me, and it did. The fact that he knew me that much made me disgusted.

He leaned his face to kiss and just when I was about to, realization washed over me like a cold buck of water. He kissed my sister probably just a few minutes ago, and he was down here trying to do the same to me.

“You need to stop Victor,” I whispered, placing a hand between us as I tried to push him away but he won’t repent. He never did.

“I can’t stop Leah. You’re driving me so fucking crazy.” His hot breath fanned my face and embarrassingly, I felt a rush of liquid down in my panties. I wasn’t supposed to feel anything, I was supposed to push him away with all my might. So I did.

“You said you wouldn’t do anything like this again,” I whispered, trying my best to push him even more.

“Yes. But you can’t deny you want me as bad as I want you, Leah.”

“What?” I frowned. “Let me go, Victor!” I yelled this time, but he wouldn’t back away.

He brought my hand and forced it on his bulging crotch, which made me so angry that I did the unexplainable. I didn’t know when I raised my hand to slap him, and the look on his face after I did that made me swallow the bitterness in my throat.

He backed away from me, a malevolent look laced on his face. No one had ever slapped Alpha Victor, not his mother or father, no one. I knew he hated it, but I did it anyway and now, I had to face the consequences. He looked like he was about to rip my face away.

“You fucking bitch.” He muttered under his breath.

I opened my eyes to talk, but nothing came out of it. I didn’t know what to say again because I knew whatever I said would spark his ire even more. I slipped away from his figure as I headed towards the door, praying that he doesn’t decide to follow me.

Once I was out the door of my chamber, I started to run. I ran away as fast as my legs could take me, afraid that if I turned back, I would face the wrath of Alpha Victor. I had seen him do so many things to people that defied him. He hated people that did so and now, I was part of them.

I was scared of what he would do the next time he laid eyes on me, so I went to the only place that I could comfortably stay without worrying about Alpha Victor finding me. He was vicious when he was angry and just now, I made him the angriest he would probably ever be this year.

I raised my hands to the Alpha. It was going to come with a lot of consequences that I wasn’t sure I could handle.