CHAPTER 4

​The force from the slap sent me landing on my ass, the metallic taste of blood filled my mouth.

 My face didn't just hurt, it was on fire as if electric was radiating from my skin deep into my jaw, i lay there for a second, unable to move, my vision blurring.

​"Get up," Daven scoffed, "I didn't tell you to lie down."

​I pushed myself up, my arms shaking so violently i nearly fall back down, every inch of me hurt, my back felt like it was still being burned by that rod. 

I looked up at daven, and for the very first time, I didn't see the man I had spent years worshiping. I saw the monster everyone else had been warning me about.

​"Why" I muttered. "Why are you doing this to me."

​Daven frowned as he walked around the desk. 

"Because you are a burden, Kimberly, you are a weak person who has done nothing but bring me shame for the past three years."

​"I loved you," I muttered, I gave you everything I had.

​Daven rolled his eyes, your love is worthless It's suffocating, and frankly, it bores me to death."

​I felt something break inside me. It wasn't a sudden snap, but a slow, quiet crumbling of everything I had built my life around, he didn't want my love, he didn't even want me does he hate me that much.

​"You think this is all my fault" I muttered, standing up on my own. 

My legs felt like jelly, but i forced myself up. 

"You are the one who caused this, you are the one who lets these women trample over your own wife, and yet you call me weak."

Kimberly shut up daven scoffed raising his hands to my face.

No am not shuting up, whenever I stand up for myself, you the first to blame me for being too fierce not calm enough for a Luna you said as your Luna I should be obedient and never raise my voice have been doing just that for the past 3 years what more do you want from me tell me.

​ "Do not lecture me on my own leadership, you have no right to speak that way to me am the Alpha daven scoffed."

​"I am the Luna" I shouted. "I am the Luna, and I have rights"

​Daven chuckled, "Rights, you have exactly what I give you, Kimberly. And right now, I give you nothing i make the rules and whatever i say goes."

​He reached out and grabbed my arm, his grip so tight I felt my skin bruise under his fingers. He pulled me close, his face inches from mine. 

"You will serve me, you will keep your mouth shut, and you will learn your place. If you ever speak to me like that again, I won't just slap you.

 I will make sure you never walk out of this office again standing."

​I stared into his eyes, looking for any sign of hesitation, any flicker of the husband I thought I knew. I found nothing.

​I leaned back, pulling my arm away from his grip, "Fine," I muttered. "I will do as you please my alpha."

​Daven rolled his eye's, turning back to his desk. "Good. Finally, some sense."

​I turned toward the door, my heart aching with a new kind of pain. 

I was married to a man who would never love me in a pack that would never accept me, and I was utterly alone. 

I walked out of the office, the hallway feeling worst than it ever had before, I didn't cry cause i didn't have the strength to.

​I made my way to my quarters, my head pounding with every step,

I  pushed the door to the room open, Janet was sitting on the bed, her face turning pale when she saw the bruise forming on my cheek.

​"Oh, Kimberly" Janet mumbled, rushing over to me. "Who did this to your face?"

​I looked at her, my eyes feeling dry and empty, it's Daven he finally showed me who he really is.

​Janet placed, her hands over my shoulder it's okay Sweetheart he doesn't deserve you.

I really thought he would change and finally learn to appreciate me i mumbled tears streaming down my Face, as i walked to the mirror, looking at my reflection. I looked tired, broken, and beaten, but for the first time in three years, I didn't look like a fool.

​"I'm done hoping," I muttered. "I'm done fighting for a man who doesn't exist."

​Janet’s eyes widened. "Kimberly... does this mean you'll leave."

​I didn't answer. I just stood there, looking at my own reflection. I have no where to go and i knew that to survive, I had to stop being the "good wife." 

i had to first learn to love myself and I had to become someone else entirely. Someone colder.

​Suddenly, the door swung open again. Kate stood there, her eyes darting between me and Janet.

​"The Alpha wants you back in the kitchen," Kate scoffed. "He says the tea was cold."

​I didn't flinch. I didn't apologize. I simply turned and looked at her, my gaze steady and unblinking.

​"Then he can drink it cold," I muttered.

​Kate lunged forward, her hand raising high, ready to deliver a blow to my face, my body moved on instinct, fueled by the anger that had been building inside me for three years ​before her hand could touch me, I reached out and caught her wrist mid air shoving her back with every ounce of frustration I had held in me 

She lost her balance as her feet tangled together, sending her crashing down.

Kimberly, you... you kate eyes widened in shock that I had the gut to stop her. 

Am your Luna and you we learn to respect me from now on I muttered rolling my eye's.

The Alpha we hear about this Kate mumbled Scrambling back on her feet.

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