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Evelyn's POV

With a wince, I rubbed my butt and met Tyler’s angry eyes… he glared at me with so much hatred and disgust that caused my heart to ache.

I must have been crazy to think that just one drunken man talk would end three years of pent-up hatred.

Gone was that vulnerability I saw yesterday and standing in front of me wasn’t the man I laid with yesterday.

He was gone just like the alcohol had left his system.

“Can’t you hear me? What the fuck are you still doing here?” He thundered, causing me to flinch.

“Don’t you remember Ty?” I dared ask.

“Yesterday was our anniversary Ty and you came in here drunk…” I added quietly avoiding his eyes, but I could still feel the intensity of his glare.

If looks could kill, I’d be dead, but I was ready for this… I didn’t regret lying in his warmth even though it was just for a few hours.

“We share no relationship, woman why were you laying on my body… you really have some nerve!” He snarled, venoms dripping from his words.

“You came home drunk, I wanted to leave, but you stopped me, so I just stayed… ”, I began and boldly walked towards him.

“Do you really not remember Ty… You said you loved me, You apologized…” My words trailed off as he slapped me before pushing me back once again.

Instinctively, I raised to cradle my cheeks in surprise, with tears streaming down I whispered, “why?”

“I was drunk, and you decided to take advantage of me!”

“What the fuck is wrong with you!” He continued his hatred glaring right in my face and just then the door opened, I watched my best friend walk in and hurried to his side.

“What is with the blood everywhere?” She asked not even bothering to look at me.

The blood was mine from the broken glass last night, I wanted to say but just let the tears drop as I stared at Tyler while wondering why Alicia would comfortably enter my matrimonial bedroom and cling to my husband!

“Evelyn just made me lose it!” He spat with so much disdain and my best friend asked instead of being worried about me, “is she still so desperate?”

Desperate?

This was my husband.

I didn’t understand what was going on here, but alarms in my head were blaring.

Alicia, my supposed best friend had walked in and saw me clenching my face but said nothing and rather ran to my husband's side?

“What are you doing here? In my husband's arms?” I asked her, wiping away my tears and rather than an answer, she burst into laughter.

“Baby, why haven't I told her?” She finally asked Tyler that took a look in his eyes I couldn’t decipher.

“Told me what?” I pressed the feeling of dread feeling me up once more.

“You will be stepping down as Luna tomorrow, Alicia is pregnant with my child.” Tyler just casually said, his words a punch to my gut.

I took steps backwards, my eyes wide in surprise while Alicia held my gaze with a smirk.

What?

“Why?” I asked heartbroken, but he didn’t even look guilty.

“Alicia, you are supposed to be my best friend!” I burst into tears and with that smug look she asked, “What were you expecting, I mean he needs a child, and he can’t have one with a traitor!”

“It’s been three years Tyler and to taunt me for a crime I didn’t commit you and sleep with this slut?!” I yelled and Alicia moved to slap me when I held her back.

Never again.

Was this what he meant when he asked for forgiveness yesterday?

“This has nothing to do with that, Alicia is with my child and I have no choice here” he said softly, and I couldn’t almost hear the guilt in his voice, but I knew better.

I burst into laughter, and they watched me confused as I laughed away my pain.

“How would you have reacted if I told you I had slept with another man and was pregnant?” I asked, my eyes locked on Tyler’s.

His face darkened, his eyes flashing with anger and I watched as his jaw clenched, and his fists curled at his sides.

For a moment, I thought he might lunge at me. “You would never do that,” he growled, his voice low and menacing but to me, it looked so comical.

What a hypocrite!

“You're my mate.” The word was laced with possessiveness, and would have caused a shiver run down my spine in delight, but I couldn’t feel it.

All I felt was anger!

The pain of betrayal!

But I just laughed again, the sound tearing from my throat. “That's rich, coming from you,” I spat, my eyes blazing with anger. “You, who have betrayed me in the worst possible way.”

“I stayed! I prayed! I hoped! I wasn’t about to walk out on our vows because you thought I did what I didn’t do and what did you do?” I cried out.

Alicia scoffed but thankfully said nothing, for her own good.

“How much more do I have to take before you let all this go? Before you think I have paid enough!” I begged, but the indifference in his look told me all I needed to know before he said anything.

“She was my only family, you know how I felt about her, yet you are asking me when your punishment will be enough?” He finally spoke, his eyes clouded with an emotion I couldn’t decipher.

It was never going to be enough to fill the void in him!

He was broken, and I knew I couldn’t fix it… I was done trying too!

“You are unredeemable! You must be crazy to think that I would take this too! I was ready to take everything but this…”

I glared at Alicia, “You and this snake?” I added before laughing again.

I should have done this a long time ago, but I was stuck… All I used to see was the man I had fallen in love with until today!

“Yesterday you asked me to stay, you asked me to forgive you… you gave me hope before crushing it all over again!” I continued holding his gaze and ignoring his bitch.

Interrupting, Alicia sneered, “Shut up! And enough of your drama, you should have thought about this when you let your dad go… you should have run away with him”.

Looking at her, I wondered where that attitude had been a while ago.

Was this what she meant when she promised to help be a mediator?

I should have known the signs were there, but I ignored them because of Love?

Love was nothing but a myth.

“That’s all I keep asking myself, but I won’t step down for your pregnant mistress!” I said, my voice cracking slowly.

With a frown, he coldly said, “You leave me no choice…”

Stopping him before he insulted me any further, “I’ll leave both of you to it… this is the last day you would see me cry, I am done with this stupid charade”

“I, Evelyn Carter hereby annul whatever had bound us, Alpha Tyler Blackwood”, ignoring his angry call, I walked out without looking back.

I pray we never have to cross paths again, Alpha Tyler.