Chapter 2

"You really impressed me," he sneered. "Do you even know what you’re saying?" He released his grip on my hands, letting them fall to my sides.

He stared at me, waiting for my answer, but there was no answer to give. I had expected this, yet it still hurt. It hurt that he didn’t even try to understand me.

I fell in love with Adrian at first sight when I was in high school. I was just 16 at the time and I had been bullied by my classmates, taunted and locked in a bathroom, helpless and alone. I was so scared. Then, Adrian passed by. He stepped inside and helped me.

Flashback:

The girls locked me in the restroom and they were taunting me. I didn't understand why they hated me so fvcking much, maybe just because my identity of an orphan. I just cried and cried... until someone broke in. Adrian.

"A...Adrian, What are you doing here? This is the girls' room," Hannah, as their lead said, trying not to show how scared she was.

"Well, I can go anywhere in this pack. Got a problem with that? What are you guys doing? Bullying a girl?" he said and smiled in such a way, the girls cowered and quickly ran with fear.

"Thank you, Adrian. You should leave here soon, or else people will start talking." I whispered. I really didn't want him to get in trouble because of me.

“Fine.” He left looking completely unconcerned, as if helping me was just something he did effortlessly. But it meant a lot to me; he felt like my hero.

I still remember the way he looked at me—like I was worth saving. But he never remembered it now. He had no idea how much that one act of kindness meant to me.

I continued to love him silently from that day forward, hoping that one day, he would notice me as more than just another face in the pack. But he never did. As I grew older, I realized that Adrian’s heart had always belonged to someone else—Lynda, his childhood friend.

I searched his face for any sign of regret, any crack in the armor of indifference, but there was nothing. He was Adrian Miller—the alpha of the Crystal Blood Pack—and this divorce was nothing more than a minor inconvenience. He would go on with his life as if I had never existed.

Adrian’s hand suddenly grabbed my neck, the pressure tightening with every passing second.

His gaze burned with fury as he glared at me through clenched teeth. “I hope you mean what you say.”

I struggled to breathe, my pulse racing as the tension between us thickened.

“I will leave the Crystal Blood Pack,” I said, my voice breaking. “I’ll leave, and never come back.”

His hand moved from my neck to my jaw, and his lips twisted into a devilish smirk. “Can’t wait to that” His voice dripped with scorn. “I am just curious where would a wolfless werewolf like you go? ”

I looked into his hate-filled eyes. I had been nothing to him—an object, a means to an end. He had no love for me. I was just another thing to discard once he was finished with me.

"By the way, if you really want to leave, give me back my bank card. You must have spent a lot of my money over the years, you're such a gold digger," he said, slamming the door as he left.

My eyes filled with tears. He was wrong. I haven't spent a single penny of his. I didn’t shop often and live off my savings and the hard-earned money I make from treating patients at the hospital.

I became a healer since I found I have super healing strength, hoping to cure Adrian’s bipolar disorder someday. Yes, Adrian needed to take medication long-term to help stabilize his emotions, this was a open secret in the pack.

However, since my adoptive father, aka the Gamma of the pack, refused to pay for my tuition, I had to work at the pack hotel to support myself.

One night, after holding a big event, I ended up in bed with a drugged Adrian in one of the hotel room. I couldn’t remember the details, but we got married after that. I knew it wasn’t out of love—it was out of duty and a mistake.

Three years passed. I had tried to force a connection that never existed. Now, it was time to leave. I would do it on my terms, for my future, and for my children. I had carried the secret for too long—Adrian never marked me, never accepted me as his true mate. But now, I had something more precious than his love: I was pregnant with triplets, and I would protect them with all my heart.

I wiped my tears and opened my computer and began looking up the pack regulations. Found it!

“The son of an Alpha needs the Alpha’s approval to get a divorce. “

Alright, I’ll go to see the Alpha tomorrow to bring this up. I hope I can get divorced from Adrian as soon as possible..

I wiped the tears from my eyes, knowing that I couldn’t stay here anymore. I couldn’t stay in this place that had never been my home.

I was done.