CHAPTER-3: Reject you

“Oh I did. Are you scared, little human?” Wrath, Gideon’s wolf, rasped.

The suffocation, outrage and pain of betrayal was not suppressed but He felt little ease by killing this cunning bastard who was openly lying to him.

Two guards grabbed the sobbing Maya out of the dungeon and Silence prevailed in the room with the Alpha’s heavy breathing before He closed his black pitch eyes, forcing himself to calm.

Then He spun around and advanced towards his wife. Angela hiccuped in terror, She looked at him with trembling lips and a tear-stricken face. He loomed over her like a shadow, his wolf eyes were looking at her intensely and calmly. The history was repeating itself, she strengthened the reason for his hatred towards women tenfold.

“Gideon. I love you. Please don’t hurt me...” She whispered softly as fear gripped her heart firmly. He was looking not less than a monster now. A monster disguised as a beautiful human. And she didn’t know how to prove her innocence. She was afraid He might kill her too.

Gideon growled in pure menace hearing those words which she used to moan on their bed. In a flash, He got over her face and trapped her against the wall.

He cupped her face slowly and looked into those deep baby blue eyes. “Love?” He chuckled lowly like it was a joke for him. “You claimed to love me and kissed another man, Angela! Tell me, was I not enough for you!”

Angela was startled, sensing the emotion behind his words. She shook her head crying as He caressed her busted lip where Victoria slapped her.

“Did you love him so much that you betrayed me?” Angela sobbed but melted into his touch. She never spent much time with him, only a few nights as He was always cold and distant with her but had sex with her for his heir during those nights whenever they were together.

Angela felt maybe He would listen to her once she told him that she was expecting. Though it was not confirmed but Angela knew it when she missed her periods for two months.

“Gideon, I am p…” She opened her mouth to speak but He shushed her instantly.

“Do you think I would kill you, wife?” She opened her eyes and blinked.

“No. I can't kill you. But your punishment wouldn't be easy, Angela. You will regret every second of your life why you were born. You will remember every second who your husband is. And those seconds of your life start now.” Her heart trembled seeing that familiar gleam in his dark gaze. The look which He reserved for his culprits only.

She couldn't decipher his words until his next statement which crumbled her entire being. She was not ready to hear it.

“I, Gideon Woodbead, the Alpha king of the Shadowcrest pack, reject you, Angela Clampitt as my mate, Luna and wife.” The Alpha deadly tone rang in the air as He snarled, looking down at her.

Angela gasped loudly, she felt like a physical blow as she staggered back. She felt like someone plucked her heart out painfully. She let out a cry in agony as sudden hollowness gripped her body after being rejected. She looked into his black pitch eyes glaring at her.

Victoria smirked with satisfaction as she raised her chin and exchanged a glance with her smiling daughter.

“Noo…” Angela cried in pain. Her whole body turned cold as she lingered on the ground in pain. Though she was a human, but the rejection made her body snap into two. The mark on her neck burned like someone had thrown an acid on it.

Gideon was satisfied seeing her condition. He stepped ahead, sat on his knees to her level and spoke.

“This is just the trailer of your new life, dear Wife. Your punishment starts with this rejection. You are now nothing but my culprit. Behind this innocent face lies a desperate whore who doesn't deserve my mercy. You made a grave mistake, Angela but now you will see the real beast of me!” His ice-cold voice was like a dagger piercing her heart again and again.

She lost the last person in the world whom she considered hers. She thought He would give her the love which she never got from anyone since her birth but He was not different from others. He was the worst of them. Did He really never feel anything for her?

Angela held his gaze trying to read him, to feel little empathy but nothing.

“Just kill me?”

She knew how He torments his culprits and Angela had no soul left to bear his hatred. She had gotten enough hatred from everyone in the pack. A lone pathetic tear left her eye as she sobbed. “Just kill me!” she couldn't stop the word from her mouth.

Gideon’s nose flared. She broke his trust but He was not the one to forgive people easily. The flashes of her getting intimate with Jordan blanketed his mind and He yanked her hair back and got on her face. Angela winced but didn't look into his stiff silver eyes.

“I want to kill you right now but that would be an easy death for you, sweetheart. You must see what happens to those who betray Gideon Woodbead!” He seethed, jerking her head painfully. Angela closed her eyes. The terror she felt for this man was greater than her love for him.

“Nobody will come to the dungeon until I say so. And nothing will be served to her until I announce her punishment.” He ordered in a growl and his voice echoed through the dungeon walls making everyone bow.

Gideon stared at her with his hands fisted on his sides. For the first time in his life, He felt something for this girl, but she had to ruin it. She killed his emerging feelings for her. But she was nothing to him now. She must be punished for betraying him.

He turned on his heels and walked away. After him everyone left silently. Angela could only cry at the corner of her fate while caressing her belly.

‘Please Gideon, stop. Don’t leave me! Don’t leave us’!’