02

SANDY:

The color drained from his face. 

“Babe…” was all Oswald could say. “I can explain.”

My chest felt like it weighed a ton.

Yes. He better explain right now, before I kill him!

“When did you start cheating on me?” Why did I have to know right after we fucked? After I gave him my body. My fucking body! 

The silence stretched farther than the sky. 

Finally, he stammered. “Babe…it's just a…”

A hollow laugh escaped my lips. 

I slapped my forehead when I remembered something. “Right. It was September 2. Two years ago. Was she good in bed? Who is the fucking woman, Alpha Oswald? Who is she?”

He sauntered towards me, but I slapped his hands away. Disgusted. 

My hands shook and I had to hug myself to stop myself from shaking. 

“Don't you dare touch me!” I exclaimed, without releasing the phone. He loved his phone so much and if I broke it right in front of him, it would be revenge. Not now. “I trusted you. I have given my virginity. What did you fucking do?”

This woman was the reason why he suddenly became distant in the past? His emotional distance was the reason why I gave him myself. Thinking it would change everything. That maybe the reason why he grew cold was because I did not want to give him what he wanted. 

"Babe...wait. Let me put some of my clothes first," he said and picked his clothes on the floor and put them on. “Please be calm, alright?”

“Calm? You wanted me to remain calm? Are you out of your mind? How could you do this?”

“Babe, please. You don't have to shout. The others might hear you.”

They won't. This was a soundproof room because I specifically told him that I did not want others to know about our relationship, especially since I had never told my parents about us. 

The thought that I chose him over my parents…the thought that I lied every single time just to meet him…I felt like a bitch. 

“Babe. Let’s settle this, shall we? I will make sure to explain everything.”

“Explain why you use her birthday as your new pin code on your phone. I was stupid to believe it was my own birthday, Oswald. I fucking was wrong about it!”

He was about to open his mouth but I held my hands in the air. 

"You don't have to say anything," I declared while controlling myself to stop myself from crying. My wolf was in pain. So was I. Oswald of all men? My mate? "It's already clear to me. You cannot put your dick on your pants that's why you cheated on me. You. Make. Me. Sick, Oswald," I spat. 

First, his face was begging, then it shifted. His face turned angry. 

He had the talent for that. 

"You blame me for cheating on you? How many times have I been telling you to give yourself to me? A million times, Sandy. Did you give in? No, you did not. So you don't blame me when I look for someone who could warm my bed."

A single tear dropped from my eyes.  

No, crying, please!

I balled my palms into a fist. 

"Now you're blaming me for your asshole behavior? I gave you myself even if my family warned me about it. Did I listen to them? I did not because I chose you for myself and now? Are you celebrating your second anniversary? I never thought you could be this bastard.”

The worst of all was that I gave myself to him. On this very day.

I felt like I was going to throw up.

Damn him!

“So what? What will you do, Sandra? You’re going to break up with me? Can you do that? Do that I will tell your family that we fucked each other. You want me to spread the video of us?”

A sex video? 

My cheeks paled until I found my hands landing on his cheeks.

I glared at him. “Spread that fucking video and let’s see if what I can do.”

His eyes widened looking at my shaking hands.

I never ever hurt him. I loved him that much. If we had some arguments, I always made sure to ask for his forgiveness so that there would be no arguments. So that there will be no fights. But cheating? That was one of my non-negotiable things. 

“You do not blackmail me, Oswald,” I growled. “If there’s someone who has the right to blackmail someone it is me. I am the victim here. I trusted you without knowing you betrayed me. Damn you! Go to hell, Oswald!” I screamed at the top of my lungs.

“Lower your voice. The slaves might hear you,” he threatened. 

Lifting my chin, I asked, “What will you do? Hurt me? Kill me? Do it! But know that the moment something happens to me, the Lycan King will let you be liable. News flash. The Lycan King is aware that you are my boyfriend right now. If something happened to me, you’re dead, too,” I lied. 

The difference between Lycans and ordinary werewolves? They could shift whenever they wanted without the moon’s influence while we werewolves needed the full moon for that to take place. Lycans were also considered more superior than us since legends had said that they were the original race. 

The Lycan King held so much power than alphas and that should be enough to scare him off. 

I did not know if the Lycan King would do that. For all I knew, he never saw me. Except when I was nothing but a child. Mom and Dad also did not tell me that His Highness had seen me. 

“The Lycan King?” he asked, confused. “Why would you let his name be dragged on this?” he growled. “Any lie using His Majesty's name will be punishable by death if it will be proved that you’re lying. 

No one was told about the arrangement that happened twenty years ago between my parents and the Lycan King. 

I scoffed. “Don’t you know my family promised me to the Lycan King? But because of my foolishness, I defied them. But not anymore. See for yourself how you will bow to me. I will become the queen and you will worship the ground I am walking on.”

According to my parents, they owed the kingdom something which they could not reveal and in exchange for that, they offered their daughter in exchange. That daughter was me. Unfortunately. 

Or maybe my family had already sold me in the past. 

Rina whimpered. 

‘His Highness will know that we are no longer pure. What will we do?’

If His Highness will accept someone who has already given herself to another man…why not? Then, I will make sure that Oswald will regret cheating on me, just like how I regretted giving myself to him.  

Alpha Oswald scoffed. 

“Even if what you said is true, you are my mate, Sandra. The Lycan King will never accept someone who is already paired with someone else. I took your virginity. You're already dirty. What else can you be proud of? You don't have anything left to be proud of, Sandy. The best thing that you should do is forgive me.”

“Forgive you? You think I am a fool? You think it’s a problem? You can now be happy with your woman. You're already trash in my eyes, Oswald. Trashes should remain in the garbage can.”

Panicked kicked in. “What are you trying to do, Sandra?” Panic was easily replaced with arrogance. “I am the alpha of this pack. I am your mate. You should be happy that I accepted you as mine and agreed with your terms for how many years.”

He did. And the more he was so patient with me, the more I fell for him. I thought there was no other man aside from him. Patient. Kind. Understandable. 

I was wrong. Very wrong. 

When I did not answer, he backed me into the corner and brushed my cheeks with his calloused fingers. 

I did not flinch nor give him the satisfaction that I was shaken. This was the time that I should stand my ground. 

Enough of this pain. 

Inhaling deeply, I answered, “I am officially ending our relationship.”

“What? Why would you…you just had given me yourself and you’re breaking up with me?”

“My virginity does not matter to me,” I lied. It fucking was important to me. That was the reason why I had a hard time deciding if I will give myself or not. 

“I, Sandra Austin, reject Alpha Oswald Patterson to be my mate. I don't want to do anything with you so disappear from my life.”