Chapter 3

Titan's POV

I knew I was supposed to feel something as I watched my former mate being led away by guards. I waited to feel something, but I didn't. The part of me that once felt anything for Kari was dead forever, after all the despicable things that Indira told me about her.

"Titan?" A hand closed around my shoulders, and I turned slightly to see Indira standing there. When I caught her eye, she gave me a sultry smile. "The people are waiting for you, Titan."

I turned back to the people who had gathered for my ceremony with Kari. They were all standing in clusters, murmuring and whispering and speculating amongst themselves. I could hear the thoughts running through their mind, like a stream of accusations.

Why did our Alpha reject her?

What did she do to offend him?

After months of wedding preparations, Is this real?

I cleared my throat, found my voice and plastered a fake smile on my face. "People of Wilder Pack, I am genuinely sorry for this interruption." I called out to them. "I am aware that you have been anticipating this wedding for so long. I promise you that there will still be a wedding, but for now, I implore everyone to return to their houses."

The people still stayed behind and continued murmuring, almost as though they still couldn't believe what had just happened. But eventually, they got the message and began to walk away.

"I'll be in my room," I muttered to Indira and stalked down the aisle, towards the pack house.

Indira followed me relentlessly, and it annoyed me. She never knew how to back down, that one. Even after I accepted her as my mate, she still wanted to lay her claim on me, somehow.

"Go home, Indira!" I yelled at her. "I will reach out to you when the time is right."

"Should we not talk about our wedding preparations?" She called out to me. "Now that Kari is out of the picture, we should talk about that. Unless you don't want to do this anymore."

I paused in my tracks on the staircase and slowly turned to her. "I never said there would not be a wedding. I just need some time to think."

I was about to continue my ascent upstairs when she spoke again. "Well, I have nowhere else to go." She told me. "I stayed here only because Kari needed me to be her bridesmaid. I'm very sure that by now, she would be back at our home pack, and she must have told our parents what happened. I cannot go back there and show my face, I would be branded a traitor."

"Well, then." I replied, shrugging. "You can stay in the pack house for as long as you need. For now, I need to go to my room and think."

I walked up the staircase to my room, but Indira kept her pace behind me. I knew her to be a heady woman, but never this heady.

I opened the door of my room and walked in, and she followed closely behind. Shutting the door, I turned to face her. "What else do you want, Indira?"

"I hope you haven't forgotten what Kari did to you." Indira whispered. She walked towards me and placed a hand on my shoulder with a look of worry on her face. But there was something else under all of that. She was desperate as well.

"Remember what I told you Kari did to you." She continued. "She slept with your beta on the night before your wedding. She was conniving with your beta to overthrow you and take over Wilder Pack. No matter what our parents do about this issue, you have to remember the betrayal she caused."

"Of course, I haven't forgotten." I sighed and turned away from her, pacing the room. Thinking about Jasper my beta and Kari all tangled up in bed, was sending hot spurts of anger through me. "I have banished Kari, but what do I do about Jasper? He was my most faithful friend. I cannot—"

"You can do whatever you like, Titan. You are the Alpha!" Indira insisted and stepped closer to me again. She placed both hands on my shoulder to stop me from pacing.

"Listen to me." She murmured, green eyes boring into mine. "They have to pay for what they did to you, all of them."

"Yeah," I nodded vigorously. "Yeah, you're right. Right."

"Good."

"What do you think I should do to Jasper?" I asked. At that point, I was helpless and I needed solutions.

Indira gave me a smile that I thought looked more devilish than charming. "I want you to kill your beta, Titan. Kill him, so he never betrays you like this anymore."