ANMELDENKiaraSeeing her walk into the room so shamelessly while Thomas was fighting for his life poisoned my blood in a way I couldn’t even explain.Rage was pouring out of me from every direction. I attacked, but as always, he stopped me. Jake broke up the fight and got in the middle.When he left the room and didn’t come back, I felt a deep emptiness.My heart stopped when he returned an hour and a half later. I felt the urge to insult him because I was sure he would believe her. I was certain she had tangled him up in another web of lies.Why would Jake believe me? I told him back in that house, and he looked at me as if I had said the worst thing in the world.I noticed he looked sad, pale, his eyes slightly red.Had he been crying?“What happened?” slipped from my lips.Rose was by my side, and Jake asked her to leave and speak with one of his Betas.She closed the door behind her.“We need to talk.”“Did he die?” I felt the anguish building in my eyes.I wanted to cry so badly.This ha
JakeI let her go.As much as I tried to follow her down the hallway, she shouted at me in front of everyone to leave her alone. I had no choice. I think there was nothing left but to accept her decision this time. Something had broken, and she was right when she said I would never love her the way I loved Kiara. I couldn’t deny it anymore. Every reproach and every absence Irina endured because of me was because my feelings for the mother of my children always got in the way.I swallowed the lump in my throat as I watched her disappear at the end of the hallway when she stepped into the elevator. She cast me a quick glance as she got in, sad and devastated.I turned around, noticing the few people around, and went back to the waiting room. Mom didn’t take long to appear alongside Jason, one of my Betas.“There’s news, son,” Mom said, hugging me. “He’ll be out of surgery soon, but they say they don’t think he’ll wake up for a few days.”“Are you telling me Thomas is in a coma?” I pulle
JakeIrina had no intention of responding, and I couldn’t stay silent, so I decided that continuing to talk to her was the best option. I needed her forgiveness.“I know that sometimes I’m an idiot and that I hurt you, but it’s not my intention to do it. I’m asking for your forgiveness—I’m begging you. You don’t deserve me like this. You deserve someone much better than this. It wasn’t you, you have nothing to do with this, I know that.”She let out a small laugh. It surprised me.I knew that laugh couldn’t mean anything good. Not now.“Yes, you’re sorry—I know,” she nodded, unconvinced.“I mean it, Irina,” I assured her.“I want a divorce, Jake,” she stated, this time looking at me. There was no trace of playfulness in her eyes. Only determination. She looked at me with so much anger and disdain that I knew there would be no going back to her. “I want you to sign the divorce papers. I’ll take care of everything and have my lawyers contact yours so we can end this once and for all.”“
Jake“I seriously can’t believe the man I married is accusing me of something like this,” Irina said, her voice breaking, yet firm. “I really can’t believe you, Jake.”Her words stuck in my head for a moment, and I began to doubt myself. I began to doubt everything. She didn’t say anything else. She simply turned and walked toward the waiting room, with no intention of leaving, but also no intention of continuing to speak to me. The tension between us clouded the clean air of the hallways.She sat down in one of the chairs, alone, her back somewhat straight, trying not to look at me—but I knew she wanted to. And I didn’t want to see her eyes filled with anger or pain because I didn’t know what to believe. I was going crazy, and I didn’t want to keep doubting Kiara’s words either.She lowered her gaze, clasped her hands together, and didn’t look at me again.I stayed where I was, feeling as if the weight of the whole world was on my shoulders. My own words began to echo, and the flood o
JakeIrina uncrossed her arms when she saw me and ran to hug me as I approached. Her arms wrapped around my neck, and she stood on her tiptoes to kiss me on the lips. I didn’t refuse her, but I didn’t feel like kissing right now.“You’re okay, darling! Thank God you’re okay! I was so scared, I thought something had happened to you when those werewolves showed up at the house, saying something had happened. I thought you’d been killed. I would never have forgiven myself for letting you go there,” she tried to kiss me again, but I pulled away.“I’m fine, but Thomas isn’t, and that keeps me worried, and I feel guilty.”“It’s not your fault, Jake. You didn’t shoot him.”“No, but I’ve realized my brother matters to me more than I’d like to admit. I guess the betrayal didn’t make me stop loving him; it was just hatred covering the love. But I saw him die in my arms. He died… If help hadn’t arrived… he wouldn’t be fighting for his life right now.”She nodded and looked down for a moment.“He
JakeKiara’s comfort was all I needed to soothe the pain in my heart—a pain I never thought I’d feel again because of Thomas or because of her after the betrayal. But the number of recent events showed me just how wrong I was.Kiara’s arms around me rested gently against my body, giving soft pats to help calm me, something typical of her hugs. Not even my wife’s embraces would help me as much as Kiara’s did.“At least I know you’re okay,” I admitted, offering her a sad smile.“Thanks to you,” she nodded, holding my cheeks. “Thanks to Thomas. You both helped me be here.” A tear rolled down her cheek.“I thought I was going to lose you,” I confessed, letting myself be vulnerable.I felt like I was on my knees, my ego shattered, as exposed as if my flesh had been skinned.“You are two good men. You’re a good Alpha, Jake.”“An Alpha protects his woman—I mean, the people he loves,” I corrected myself, though the correction tasted bitter in my throat. Kiara was beyond that. She was much mor
KiaraThe waiting was still torture. On one hand, Jake was stable, but on the other, the doctors hadn’t ruled out the possibility that his condition could worsen.Hours passed, and although the critical window wasn’t the same as in the beginning, the possibility of death hadn’t been dismissed.My m
JakeWhen I saw Thomas appear through the crowd searching for me in a panic, I knew something was wrong, and my smile vanished. He didn’t need to say a thing. I looked around for Kiara and didn’t find her anywhere.She wasn’t there.I dropped my beer bottle, and it shattered on the ground.“What ha
JakeComing back home after three weeks in the hospital felt strange, because I had almost died. On the first day, I didn’t know if I was going to live; on the second, I was just as scared as the first, and only on the third did I begin to feel a small hope of survival.Death had stared me in the f
JakeThe wait was eternal.My hands were shaking as I sat next to Thomas and my mother in the waiting room.Why wasn’t anyone coming to give us information? Why was it taking so long? What was happening?The pressure in my chest was worse than the bullet wound. I didn’t think I could feel anything







