Chapter Three

The Ridiculed Wife

Elowen's POV

I blinked and he disappeared back into the darkness. I was left confused as to what the hell just happened, especially the healed cut on my palm.

I didn't give myself time to ponder what happened and quickly stood on my feet. I ignored my injured leg and dragged myself back to the direction of my house to make them pay for what they did to me.

I don't know how, but somehow I will.

The night soon turned to morning and the sun was up when I finally arrived at my house with a broken and swollen ankle. I panted hard and licked my dry lips. I was thirsty and I would pass out anytime soon, but my hatred fueled my body enough to keep standing.

“What the fuck? Are you seeing what I'm seeing, Henry?”

Henry and Olga, who appeared to be leaving, rushed to where I was. They were happily laughing at each other before I arrived. None of them looked happy that I was alive. And why would they be? When they left me to die.

“Fuck! Why did you come back, Elowen? Why did you have to come back?!”Henry screamed in frustration, throwing his arms in the air and grabbing his hair.

“Why can't you just die in peace and leave us alone, Elowen?”Olga pushed me and I fell on my ass. “No one will even notice you're gone!”

“I will tell everyone what you did.”I threatened them and Olga smirked at me.

“And who will believe a useless slave like you over someone like me, huh?”

That's right. I almost forgot. Olga belongs to a middle-class family and her father is a respected butler of a wealthy clan. While I am nothing but an orphan and a slave of a pack. 

The world has changed over the years and the lycans, werewolves and humans learned to co-exist with one another, but humans remained at the bottom of the food chain. 

“What have I done to you to deserve this? You want to leave me? You could have just said so! You didn't have to kill me, Henry! I'm your wife!”I pointed a shaking hand in his way and turned to Olga.“If you still loved her, why did you marry me?”

I always knew Henry never loved me because how could you treat someone you love like a slave? But I guess I held onto him because he was all I had. The first man to show me the affection that I craved.

“What's happening here? Why do you look like that, Elowen?”I heard Alpha Grayson asking behind me and I saw him with some of the pack members.

A spark of hope bloomed inside me. Alpha Grayson is a just leader, and he will surely listen to me.

“I was—”

“I caught Elowen cheating on me. Olga here personally saw it and she told me about it.”Henry interrupted what I was about to say.

I shot Henry a look of disbelief. 

“What? No! I didn't! They are having an affair behind my back and these two took me to the woods to feed me to the rogues, Alpha! Look at me. I barely made it out alive. Please believe me.” 

The pack members whispered to each other and Alpha Grayson himself didn't look convinced by what I said. 

“Elowen, Olga here is a valued member of the pack and her father has contributed to the pack a lot. I personally watched her grow up and she wouldn't do what you're accusing her of. Henry is also a good man.”

My mouth fell open in disbelief and everyone looked at me with judgement and disgust in their eyes. Their gazes penetrated my skin and made me feel small. 

“And if I really took her to the woods, would she even make it out alive? Have you ever heard of anyone coming back in one piece?! The beast never spared anyone!” Henry continued spouting nonsense.

And just like that, the table has completely turned. 

“Oh my. What a slut.”

“She had an affair and she wanted to turn the table on Olga and Henry? What a bitch!”

“Tsk. This is why paternity guidance is important. But if she's my daughter, I'd probably just disown her.”

Their words got into my head and my head spun. The strength I gathered just to come back completely left me and I collapsed on the ground with a thud.

“I won't feel safe with her around me anymore, Alpha,”Olga said.

Through my blurry vision, I saw her crying but discreetly smiled at me when our eyes met. 

“What she did to me is unforgivable, Alpha. I want to divorce her.”Henry added, and the crowd went wild.

They surrounded me and threw spiteful and vile words at me. Time seemed to slow down and I was beginning to lose consciousness. Black dots appeared in my line of vision and my head kept spinning.

“Kick her out of the pack, Alpha!”

“A whore like her doesn't belong here!”

“Take her to the woods to teach her a lesson!”

Their voices were drowned out by the loud sound of a motorbike engine.  They all gasped and jumped away in panic when they thought he'd drive through them, but I didn't move. I had no strength to move anymore.

He stopped a few steps away from me and blipped the throttle a few times before turning the engine off. He swings one foot on the ground, his leather boots scraping the rough surface. He crossed his arms in front of the bike and lifted his visor.

My vision was blurry, but I could feel his gaze on me. I squinted my eyes to see better and when my vision cleared, I saw a pair of piercing blue eyes staring back at me.  Something about his eyes was familiar and then it hit me. 

He was the lycan who saved me!

“There you are. We met again, human.”