Chapter Three

SIENNA

My heart fell to the floor and shattered, and as that happened, tears sprang to my eyes. My heart had just been broken right in the middle of a parking lot during my friend's birthday party and there was nothing I could do about it.

But I couldn't be weak. I was the daughter of an Alpha and even if I wanted to be weak, it wasn't in front of the people here. I was too strong for that. The despair in my heart was threatening to overtake me but I was still determined to be strong. At least, for the moment.

So I decided to go home. I didn't even bother to inform Hailey about it because I wasn't stable at the moment. Maybe when or if I was finally okay, I would call her to inform her and also apologize to her for leaving her party so abruptly.

Then I walked to my car, clicked the remote to open it and got inside, pulling out of the parking lot with nothing but negative emotions in me.

HAILEY

Sienna had been gone for far too long and she wasn't back yet. What was wrong? I really hoped that she had found her mate and everything was okay with her.

But I couldn't just sit here doing nothing when I had no idea of what was happening to her right now. I had to do something. So I stood up and started to head in the direction she had taken when she went in search of her mate.

After looking around the entire hall and I couldn't see any sign of her, I decided to go outside and check if she was there. When I stepped outside, I looked around and after a while, I decided to ask the first person I came across of her whereabouts.

The first person was a lady and she said he didn't know where Sienna went to. When I asked the second person, he had an idea.

"She left in her car not long ago," he said.

"Thank you," I replied gratefully, and he nodded before walking off.

That meant that Sienna had probably gone home. But then why did she go without informing me? I really hoped that nothing bad had happened with her mate.

I knew that I had to go and check on her and make sure that she was okay. But before that, I had to go back inside and inform my guests that I was going something as it was the right thing to do.

When I was done with that, I headed out to my car and drove off, and throughout the whole drive, I kept hoping that everything was okay with my best friend.

***

I walked up to the front doors of the mansion. There were always two security guards standing on either side of the door at all times, though they rotated so that it was not always the same pair of guards at the doors.

When I got to the main door, I didn't bother to state my mission. I just greeted the guards and responded to my greeting before they let me in because they already knew why I was here.

I was a constant visitor to this house, not recently but I had been coming here for a very long time, so all the guards already knew me. And why wouldn't they know me here since it was my best friend's house?

I made my way deeper into the house, already knowing where I was headed because of my constant visits. When I got to the door of Sienna's suite, I knocked firmly on it.

When there was no answer, I knocked again and almost immediately, a voice called out from inside.

"I already said I'm not seeing any visitor at the moment," she called out.

Her voice didn't sound too good, and I became very worried, more worried than I had been before.

"Sienna, please open up. It's me," I called out, hoping she would decide to let me in to see her and find out what was wrong.

There was no sound from inside and I thought she wouldn't let me in, but then I heard the shuffling of feet and I immediately heaved a sigh of relief. She was coming to open the door so I would get to see her.

When the door swung open and I took a look at Sienna's face, I immediately knew that something was wrong. It hadn't been long that she had left the party but her eyes were already puffy, and that meant she had been crying. But Sienna hardly cried so for her to have done so in this short period of time, then something have to had hapt. I just hoped that it was nothing to do with her mate.

But then, I wouldn't get answers from just thinking. I had to ask her about what happened when she went out of the hall.

"Come in," she said, and then she turned around and entered into the room, leaving me with no choice but to follow her in, which was what I had been planning to do all along because I needed to hear everything from her.

"What happened, Sienna? Why did you leave the party so suddenly? What happened with your mate? Please talk to me."

I could see that she was in pain but she was trying to hide it. Then she began to speak, telling me all what had happened.

When she was done with telling me everything, different types of emotions were raging in my mind, along with pain and hurt for my best friend and anger at the guy who didn't even deserve her in the first place. Jasper had always been an asshole, and I had known that.

But I pushed those aside as I moved closer to her and pulled her close before I began to speak.

"I am so sorry for what happened, my dear friend. Words cannot explain how pained I am by these events. Do not despair, for better days are ahead. Don't allow it to bring you down because you deserve better."

As I was saying these words, tears began to pour out of her eyes and my sadness increased at that. It has been very long since I had seen her cry and it was really saddening to see.

"It's okay, my friend," I said, patting her on the back as she was still in my arms. "You will be okay."

I choked on a sob and that was when I began to cry along with Sienna, my heart breaking in pain as I saw her like this. It was clear how sad she was. I just hoped she had the strength to pull herself away from all of this and come back stronger.

And if I knew my friend, I knew that she would. She didn't have Alpha blood in her veins for nothing. She was the strongest person I knew and I was sure that she would persevere at the end of the day.