The dining area was unsurprisingly very large, seeing how the whole mansion was massive, the interiors were well-lit with mood and overhead lighting and had an intricate setting.
The long dining table was filled with different meals, it looked like a feast.
I was dressed up in a white long sleeve ruffled cocktail dress, the maids said I had to look good for my husband. The dress was simple and classy but I felt out of place. Like a doll dressed up for her owner.
When I got to the dining area, Quinn and two other young women were already seated there. Intimidated, I gingerly sat down on a seat, two chairs away from Quinn, directly across one of the young women.
There was silence in the room and it made me even more nervous.
"The next time we get to the dining area before you for dinner, you would wish you were dead." Quinn said to me casually, breaking the silence.
Huh?
"Was... that directed to me?" I had to ask because I was confused.
My question must have set Quinn off because she suddenly stood up from her seat and charged towards me, pulling my hair.
I winced in pain.
"Of course that was directed to you, you lowly bitch! How dare you talk back!" She yelled.
"I'm--I'm sorry..." I tried apologizing amidst the pain coming from my scalp.
Quinn raised her hand up, about to hit me when footsteps were heard and she quickly let go of me.
I panted heavily, trying to recover from the short assault I just experienced. I knew I was despised in this place but I didn't expect it to turn physical.
"Why the hell is she dressed in white?!" A deep, commanding voice yelled reverberating through the room.
I inclined my neck to where the sound of the voice came from and my gaze fell on a pair of beautiful grey eyes. The owner of the grey eyes was gorgeous as well. He had perfectly cut sharp jaw, filled with rough stubble that made him look mysterious and sexy at the same time, his lips were heart shaped and his nose were in a perfect shape. But his grey eyes looked cold. Ice cold.
"I asked who the hell dressed her in white?!" The gorgeous man asked again.
Was he referring to me?
A maid stepped forward from the line of maids that stood standby at the dining area.
"I did, sir." It was the maid that came into my room earlier on.
He eyed her icily, "You know I hate white, don't you?" Before she could respond, he said to no one in particular, "Get rid of her."
My eyes widened as guards appeared from nowhere and dragged the maid out with her kicking and pleading.
What the hell?
Did someone just get fired for dressing me up in white? Because he hated white??
Then it clicked.
Chase Wheeler!
This was Chase Wheeler!
The most powerful and most feared Alpha. My husband.
I hadn't even met him properly and I was already scared of him because who fires their worker for using a colour they hated.
"Chase. You are here." Quinn stated, her previous confident demeanor was long gone and she even looked intimidated.
Even his own sister fears him.
Oh my goodness....
The other two young women were now on their feet as Chase approached the table.
I kept my face down, scared to death to meet my husband's gaze.
Then I felt a cold hand touch my neck. I wasn't sure if it was the coldness of the hand that made me shiver or the fact that it was Chase Wheeler who touched me.
"Are you refusing to greet your husband?" Was Chase's first sentence to me.
Slowly, I raised my head up to look at him. He was smirking down at me.
He removed his hand from my neck and placed it on my chin to raise it up.
"Hmmm. Now that I'm taking a good look at you. You're not that bad. Though you still reek of wretchedness and mediocrity. And you'd be practically useless for me but you should do in bed." He stated with an evil grin on his heart shaped lips.
My eyes widened after I processed what he just said.
Wait, what?!
In bed?!
"What? Why do you look surprised? Didn't your father tell you?" He asked, after seeing my reaction. Then he cackled, "Oh that sly dirty bastard. Of course he didn't. You are here to give me a son. Why else did you think I married you?"
I blinked severally, my heart beating fast against my ribcage.
"What?" I whispered lowly.
I was married off to this man to become a breeder??
Chase clicked his tongue in mock pity and let go of my chin harshly. He picked up a piece of grape from a plate and threw it in his mouth.
"I'll give you the rest of today to get used to the environment. From tomorrow, you'd start spending the night in my room. I need you to get pregnant as soon as possible." He said and started walking away.
"What about dinner?" Quinn called out.
"Cancelled. That hideous dress she's wearing ruined my appetite." Chase replied and disappeared into the house.
Quinn was about to say something, which I was sure wasn't nice because the dinner just got cancelled because of me, but her phone started ringing, so she gave me a dirty look and also walked away to answer the phone.
One of the women also walked out with her.
I was left in the dining room with the other woman. I couldn't stand up to go to my room. I felt frozen to the chair.
I was not only married off to a heartless Alpha by my stepfather. I was married off to be his breeder.
Tears spilled out of my eyes and I let them. Maybe if I cried out my eyes, I would finally wake up from this nightmare.
"You're Layla, right?" The woman sat across me asked.
I looked up at her and was surprised to see a different look on her face. Different from the looks of hate and contempt I had been getting from everybody in this house, hers was gentle and soft.
After hesitating, I nodded and she smiled warmly.
"I'm Alice. Chase's cousin." She introduced and my hope deflated a little. Of course she would hate me as well. She was Chase's and Quinn's family.
"You look gorgeous." She said again.
I gave her a confused look.
"The dress fits you perfectly. You look gorgeous." She repeated, the warm smile still on her face.
Throughout yesterday I stayed locked in my room, staring at nothing. Chase ordered his workers to lock me in. I was indeed a prisoner in this house.
When morning came, I hadn't slept a bit.
I couldn't. I wanted badly to wake up from the nightmare.
So when I fell asleep and finally opened my eyes to the annoyingly bright pink colour of my room in Chase's mansion, my heart broke into tinier fragments.
It wasn't a dream.
This was my reality. This was my reality for two weeks in Chase's house. I was really married to Chase.
My lips quivered and tears streamed down my cheeks.
My throat felt sore and my eyes heavy from crying too much.
I heard the doorknob turning to indicate someone was opening the door.
My heart beat faster. I noticed that that has been reoccurring ever since I came into Chase's house. I became anxious at every slight sound I heard.
The door widely opened and Margaret stepped in.
"Why are you still in bed?" She questioned. "Look, the Alpha hates it when people sleep in, if he walks into your room to find you like this, you'd be in trouble."
When I made no move, she whisper shouted, "Go into the bathroom already! He's already back from the pack meeting!"
I quickly sprung up from the bed and headed towards the huge bathroom but Margaret's words stopped me.
"And be careful around him today. He's in a very awful mood. A pack member betrayed the pack."
After I had my breakfast, I went back to my room hurriedly because I didn't want to cross paths with Quinn. I knew that was inevitable considering the fact that she lives in the mansion too but for the main time, I didn't want to.
I had just shut my eyes, drifting into sleep for approximately fifteen minutes when the door to my room burst open.
One of the women at the dining room last night walked in.
Blinking my eyes, trying to recover from being jolted awake, I sat up slowly.
The woman eyed me with disgust, a look I was already used to in the Wheeler's Mansion.
"We haven't met, right?" She asked.
I shook my head negatively but that must have met her the wrong way because she suddenly grabbed my chin.
"Use words, bitch!" She spat.
Why the hell was everybody in this house so violent and impatient??
"No." I replied her.
"I'm Francesca Owens. If there's one thing you should know about me. It's that Chase is mine. And your presence here irks me." She said menacingly.
"What?" I whimpered.
"You might be married to him and shit but he's mine. I'm going to become his Luna so know your fucking boundaries. Got it?" Her grip on my chin became stronger.
When I nodded my head, she let go of my chin and let out a breath.
"Chase wants you in his room tonight. But I doubt you'd be as good in bed as I am. You'll probably be as stiff as a log of wood. I guess I'll let him be the judge of that." She smirked and left my room. Leaving me in further broken pieces.
Not only was my husband a heartless and merciless Alpha, he also had a concubine that he openly slept with.
When the night that I dreaded so much came, two of the maids came into my room to dress me up. To prepare me for my first night with my husband.
And after I was dressed in a silk black sleeveless slip dress, it was a maxi dress and slit in the front.
I had the chance to look at the mirror and I wanted to love the dress on me. I loved what I saw. But I couldn't help but feel like a mannequin doll.
As I was being escorted to Chase's room by Amelia, one of the maids, I couldn't help but wonder why Chase didn't just ak his sex partner Francesca, to birth a child for him? Why bother with arranging a marriage with my stepfather?
My palms were sweaty and my heart was beating faster than normal, as I stood in front of Chase's room. After I was dressed up for Chase and taken to his room, Amelia left me at his door and went her own way. I was told that Chase was still in a very bad mood and already fired three workers today. So I was scared shitless. He was a heartless man who married me without my consent, he surely wasn't going to treat me like a delicate flower. He doesn't even give two fucks about how I feel. Seeing how he brought me from my pack just to birth him a son.What if he violated me?What if he gets irritated that I wasn't good enough in bed and puts his hand on me? I've heard stories of how he punishes people with his fists, till the point where they end up severely injured but does he also hit women? Oh my god, what if Chase Wheeler is a woman beater? I don't think I would be able to--"What the hell are you doing standing there?" Quinn interrupted my train of thoughts.I looked up at her, s
Staring at Chase as he leads the meeting, my heartbeat pulsates. For some reason, I was nervous without knowing why. This has never happened before. When it comes to Chase I am very scared to do anything with him but this was too much, the anxiety was too much. This was my first time joining a pack meeting. When I was still with my stepfather, I never had to join any meetings as well because no one would let me in just as they wouldn't let me in Chase pack. When I locked eyes with Quinn, he smirked at me listening to Chase talking with some of his pack members. They were still exchanging pleasantries as he settled some urgent matters, something I couldn't ever have, not in my home nor here in Chase pack. No wonder my father didn't waste time to have me given away to him."Today a lot of you must be wondering why Layla Foster joined us for our meeting today considering the fact she was just given to appease me for the damage done by her pack on us"I was embarrassed but there was noth
When Alpha Chase left me, my heart pulsated as I stared at the arrogant Alpha who was mostly noted for his ruthless ways. The manner he stared at me made me wish the ground would open and swallow me so I wouldn't get to stare into those grey eyes that held no emotion but made my soul tremble, perhaps it was the intense that was fixated on me, or the fact that I still couldn't fathom why he saved me. After what happened in the pack house, he should have just let me go so he could get rid of me from his life, I knew he didn't love me and I did not intend to change his mind where I was for I know that would never happen. His sister will never allow it and neither will her friend."Why did you make such utterances?" He asked casting fear over my soul and so I glanced everywhere but not at him."What utterances?" This was my favorite game, a game of pretend and feigning to be dumped. It was the only way that I could get to live past this nightmare that my foster father had pushed me into.
For a moment, I felt the lump stuck in my throat, I couldn't get it to pass through as I wished I hadn't opened my mouth then perhaps he wouldn't be turning around to look at me like some prey."What did you just say?"I couldn't bring my lips to move and so I stared at for a moment before taking a step backward, a move that was stupid because he jumped right at me and grabbed my leg. "Where do you think you are going?" he asked and I shook my head. I wasn't about to get away from him since the room was locked and I couldn't just leave. I was only intending to save myself from his wrath."I wasn't going anywhere Alpha" Chase was cruel and I only got to know about it today. At first, it was just me assuming that he was mad at my pack for what they did but it wasn't. The Alpha was not just a sadist but a cruel man."Then what did you say?" He pulled me on my hair which only made me wince. He was right here and had called the Lewis, he heard what the pack doctor said and yet he was caus
"You must be out of your mind" Alpha Chase states and opens the door exposing Quinn standing at the door. She wasn't happy seeing me lying on her brother's bed. I didn't want to be here as well but Chase wanted me to spend the night there so who was I to defy his order? I already know that he had no affection for me and I don't blame him."What are you doing here?" Alpha Chase sees her at the doorstep. This was something I loved about him, he was the kind of man who was not easily swayed by his sister's word and loved to get to the bottom of everything before making a decision. Aside from that he was stern in his ways. "I came to see where you are and –""If you are looking for Layla, forget it she is staying here tonight" He was quick to say before she could get to ask him any questions."Is she going to sleep on your bed? I will have the maids change the bed and get hers over to your room""Don't bother""Chase" She whispered once again reminding him that my pack are the one who mu
By the next morning, the news that Chase spend the night with me has spread around the Mansion but no one knew that it was nothing like that. When he captured my lips, I pushed him away and he got mad. Confusion set upon my soul for I have seen such a man like him in my life. A lot of things run through my mind as the memory of last night strike through my mind but I pushed it aside reminding myself that I was going to forget everything that happened and remember that one; I was the rejected mate. As I entered the kitchen, Dahlia shot a smile at me, she was one of the few people who was nice to me in the Mansion."Someone is happy this morning"I already had a feeling what she was talking about but kept quiet about it. I couldn't really tell everyone what I did to the Alpha they will hate on me and at this point I might break if I get hurt any further."You and the Alpha" She smiles sheepishly. Sometimes she reminds me a lot about my self but she was better than I was. "What about us
Layla's POVWhen Quinn entered the kitchen, my heartbeat pulsated as I stared at her, The look in her eyes was frightening, I had never seen anything like it before. The woman was capable of anything and after last night, I needed to be careful so that I don't fall a victim. Even though I don't know Quinn very well was aware that she still remembered everything that happened with her brother and put the blame on me. I don't have a problem with whatever she thought but I hated it when she blamed me for something I had no control over. Chase was the Alpha and made the decision all by himself. I was even surprised to hear all that last night. Locking eyes with her, I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me so that I could get away from this situation."Is nothing, your friend here was being jealous as always. She couldn't believe that you guys lost, Is strike zero" Dahlia smirks triumphantly. By the corner of her lips, I could see something that I wasn't sure about, her eyes filled
Chase POVAnxiety dwelled in my heart as my heart falls on my sister she looked so fragile lying on the bed. I should have protected her from Layla then perhaps this wouldn't have happened. She was just like her father Jacob. He might be her Foster father but she was as wicked as he was. I couldn't believe she will hurt my sister and still deny it all. Her Silence assured me it was her who did it, if it wasn't for Francesca who saw it away and came to call me then Dahlia might have died and she will run away. After what I did last night I was mad at myself for daring to do such outrageous thing, Layla was a beautiful woman but she was just like every other woman I have come across, they were like poison. If I had been aware that Jacob felt nothing for her as his daughter, wouldn't have gotten married to her. But my plans were bigger and so I had to endure it all."Is she going to be alright? I asked the pack Doctor for the tenth time and he nodded his head. I would take his word for