Chapter 6

Azelea’s Pov

The room had gone quiet. Eyes staring at the men with wonder and fear in her eyes.

Noah hadn’t moved, no he looked like he was angry and scared at the same time. This is bad, I could already feel it at the back of my mind. I shouldn’t have walked in here. I should have gone straight to my room and slept.

Anger… that was it, it was what had made me storm down here. And now, that anger was going to ruin my life.

“Alpha King Kyren,” Noah muttered, putting on his best plastic smile. “Is there a problem?”

Dominic, Kyren’s right-hand man was already behind him, almost as if he was standing there to be sure that he held Kyren off from doing anything drastic.

“Your wife… tell me why she has a fucking mark on her face!” Kyren hissed.

Amara was closer than I thought, her hand grabbed my shoulder, giving me the support, I was slowly losing. “Stand strong,” she whispered softly in my ear.

Noah laughed, the sound that had always made me dizzy, “I don’t understand what you are talking about… I am sure that you have been mistaken,”

Kyren’s fist where clenched by his sides, the storm in his eyes was enough to destroy a whole nation. Noah’s narrowed gaze met mine, “Honey, what happened to your face?”

He fucking had the audacity to look at me with that feigned look of concern on his face. He fucking acted like this was nothing, like he hadn’t been the one to slap me in the face.

You. You hit me, you fucking cheated on me! You broke our marriage.

You broke me!

Those words hit hard against my lips, fighting to be let out. I could say them and watch as the world around us erupts into a fucking fire. But when the ashes are left in the wake of my actions, where will I stand?

“I was trying to tell his highness that I had walked into a door, I just…” The words clogged in my throat, tears forming in my eyes.

I was lying again.

Noah smiled, looking pleased at the answer that I had provided. He stood straighter, shoulders broad as he stared at Kyren with an air of arrogance around him, “I know this is hard to believe, but my wife is the clumsiest person that you can ever meet… this isn’t the first time that she has raised a false alarm,” he said.

Kyren moved to say a word, but Dominic was faster, “If she says it is a door, then we have to accept that,”

Noah smirked, he knew he had won, “I am sorry your highness that she had made you worry… she does this, always trying to have attention… women,” he laughed, causing the rest of the people to laugh. “They are always up to something,” he added.

I couldn’t handle it, couldn’t stand and watch him make a fool of me... he did this…

“Azalea, apologise to the Alpha king for wasting his time,” Noah said. His tone was soft, but I knew underneath that softness, there was more to it. I could hear the subtle threat, the promise that I would regret if I failed to do as he had requested.

“I am sorry, your highness, I shouldn’t have caused such a stir,” I whispered.

Kyren was quiet, I couldn’t even bring myself to stare at his face. I didn’t want to see the disappointment in them. This was the thing, Noah had the charisma, the charm that makes people believe him.

And me? I have spent years being lost in his shadow, no one really cares what I feel or say. They are just focused on him.

“Such a drama queen,” a voice spat from the crowd. I knew the voice; it was the same woman he had cheated on me with.

“Goddess knows the reason she had made her his wife,”

The murmurs were getting too much. The stares, the air was getting hard to breathe, and Noah, he hadn’t stopped smiling, clearly enjoying the way everything was turning against me.

I couldn’t handle it... couldn’t bear their stares, I turned, my feet thundered hard on the ground as I ran out of the hall.

I couldn’t stand there and listen as they talked about me as if I were nothing. But that wasn’t the only thing that had worried me, it was the fact that Kyren had said nothing after he heard everything that Noah had to say.

He believed Noah. I shouldn’t have been hopeful that I would be helped, I shouldn’t have hoped that something would change.

In their eyes, Noah would never do any wrong. He was the dotting alpha, kind, charismatic and… “fuck!” I yelled into the night.

The tears wouldn’t stop rolling down my cheeks, I was here, lost in my tears, while they all sat inside, dancing and laughing with loud music playing.

Where did it change? Where did we go wrong? We had everything. There was a time when I had thought he loved me, that I had assumed that Noah actually cared. And now, looking at the way things have been between the two of us, I didn’t know if there was ever any love between us.

“Azy...”

I quickly wiped the tears from my cheeks, “Amara, you shouldn’t be out here,” My voice cracked, I couldn’t hide the pain in my voice.

“Are you alright?” she asked, sitting beside me.

No. “yes,” I answered.

“You don’t have to hide your pain; you don’t have to…”

I smiled, the smile that I have been trained to... the one that hides everything that shouldn’t be seen.

“Amara, I told you, I am fine... I just, these things aren’t as they seem,” I whispered.

“They aren’t but that doesn’t mean that you should live in silence, you have to talk to me Azy, you can’t…”

I straightened up, wiping the tears off my face, “I am fine… I am fine,”

It sounded more like I was trying to convince myself more than I was trying to convince her.

“Are you telling me that, or are you telling yourself?” she asked.

Both? Can’t I do both? Maybe if I convince you hard enough, I can finally find a way to convince myself too.