The Rejection II

Blair stood frozen in the doorway, unable to move or speak. She could barely breathe as she stared at the two people she had trusted more than anyone in the world. Adrian was the first to notice her presence. His wolf caught her scent almost immediately, and when he turned toward the doorway, the color drained from his face.

“Blair…”

She couldn’t answer.

Tears immediately filled her eyes as she stared at them. Her gaze moved from Adrian to Sienna and back again, as though looking between them enough times might somehow change what she was seeing.

“What is this?” she finally asked, her voice trembling. “What’s going on here?”

Neither of them answered.

Blair gave a bitter laugh, although there was no humor in it. “I asked you what is going on.”

Adrian quickly stood and pulled on his shirt before taking a step toward her. Blair immediately moved backward, her body instinctively rejecting his attempt to come closer.

“Don’t come near me.”

“Blair, let me explain.”

“Explain what?” Her voice cracked as tears rolled down her cheeks. “That you’ve been sleeping with my sister behind my back?”

Sienna lowered her gaze, but Blair caught the faint smile that touched her lips.

That smile hurt almost as much as Adrian’s betrayal.

“Don’t look at me like that,” Blair whispered. “I trusted you.”

Adrian’s expression remained cold as he stared at her.

“This marriage is over. I already filed for divorce. Daniella should have called you by now.”

Blair stared at him as though he had just struck her.

“I know,” she whispered. “Daniella called me.”

She wiped the tears from her face, but her hands were shaking too badly to stop them from falling again.

“But why?” Blair asked. “Why are you doing this to me?”

“Because I don’t want you anymore.”

The words left Blair speechless.

Adrian looked at her from head to toe before his gaze returned to her face. “You’ve become too fat, Blair. You’re no longer the woman I want beside me.”

Blair’s face turned pale.

“You married me like this,” she whispered. “You knew exactly what I looked like before you married me.”

“I thought things would change.”

Blair stared at him, her lips parting in disbelief. “And what else?”

“You can’t give me what I need. An heir”

Her hand instinctively moved toward her stomach. “An heir?”

“Yes.”

Blair swallowed painfully. “I tried.”

“You failed.”

The words tore through her.

Blair had gotten pregnant before. More than once, she had carried Adrian’s children, only to lose each pregnancy before she could hold them in her arms. Every loss had broken something inside her, and after the last one, the healers had told her that the damage to her womb meant she might never be able to carry another child.

She had cried for days when she heard the news.

Yet through all of it, Adrian had been the person she thought would hold her together.

Now he was using the very thing that had caused her the deepest pain as a weapon against her.

“It wasn’t my fault,” Blair whispered.

Adrian’s expression remained indifferent.

“You’re barren. Your womb can’t bear a child.”

Blair stared at him, unable to believe that the man she had loved could say such a cruel thing so easily.

“Didn’t you see me before you married me?” she asked quietly. “Didn’t you know what I looked like? And I was never barren. I carried your babies, Adrian. I lost them.”

Adrian didn’t answer.

Instead, Sienna moved closer to him, and Blair’s eyes immediately fell on her sister. That was when she noticed the way Sienna was protectively resting one hand over her stomach.

Blair’s breath caught.

Her gaze slowly moved from Sienna’s stomach to her face.

“Are you pregnant?”

Sienna remained silent, but the faint, satisfied smile on her face answered the question before Adrian did.

Blair looked at her husband.

“Is she pregnant?”

“Yes,” Adrian replied.

The room seemed to spin.

“With your child?”

“No,” Sienna answered before Adrian could speak. “With the heir of Nightveil Pack.”

Blair’s lips parted, but no words came out.

Her own sister was carrying her husband’s child.

Sienna lowered her gaze to her stomach, almost proudly. “Since you couldn’t give Adrian an heir, someone had to.”

Blair felt as though the floor had disappeared beneath her feet.

She looked at Adrian, silently begging him to deny it, to tell her that this wasn’t what she thought it was. Instead, he remained silent.

“It doesn’t matter anymore, Blair,” Adrian finally said. “Sienna is carrying my child, and that is what matters. The rejection ceremony is supposed to take place in two days. After that, you and I can go our separate ways.”

Blair stared at him, tears sliding down her cheeks.

She had already lost him.

She knew it from the way he looked at her. There was no love in his eyes anymore, no trace of the man who had once held her close and promised that she was the only woman he would ever need.

But the part that hurt most was knowing that she had spent years believing those promises.

“There is no need for a rejection ceremony in two days,” Blair said quietly.

Adrian’s brows furrowed.

“What are you talking about?”

Blair lifted her tear-filled eyes to his. She forced herself to straighten, even though her entire body was trembling.

“Reject me now.”

For the first time that night, Adrian looked genuinely surprised.

Sienna’s expression changed as she looked between them, but Blair didn’t take her eyes off Adrian.

“You’ve already made your choice,” Blair continued, her voice shaking despite her attempt to remain composed. “You’ve decided that I’m too fat to be your Luna, that I’m barren, and that my sister is a better woman for you. You’ve filed for divorce and brought another woman into our marriage. So why should I wait two more days for you to reject me?”

Adrian stared at her in silence.

Perhaps he had expected her to beg.

Perhaps he had expected her to fall at his feet and ask him not to leave and for him to take her back.

But Blair had already lost everything she thought she had.

She had nothing left to beg for.

Sienna finally spoke, her voice carrying an eagerness she made no attempt to hide. “Adrian, just reject her. Then we can get married and start our family.”

Adrian’s eyes remained fixed on Blair.

For a moment, something flickered across his face, but Blair couldn’t tell whether it was guilt, anger, or surprise.

Then his expression hardened.

He stepped forward, and the air in the room seemed to grow heavier as his Alpha aura spread through the space.

“I, Adrian Blackwood, Alpha of Nightveil Pack, reject you, Blair Valen, as my mate and Luna.”

The words struck Blair with a force she had never experienced before.

A sharp, unbearable pain tore through her chest as the mate bond between them violently began to break. She gasped and instinctively pressed a hand against her heart, her knees weakening beneath her as tears blurred her vision.

She had heard stories about the pain of rejection, but nothing could have prepared her for this. It felt as though something deep inside her soul was being ripped away, piece by piece, while her body fought desperately to hold on to something that no longer belonged to her.

Her breathing became uneven, and for several seconds she could do nothing except stand there and endure it.

Adrian watched her, his expression changing as he saw the pain on her face. Perhaps he had expected her to collapse completely. Perhaps he had expected her to beg him to take the rejection back.

Instead, Blair slowly lifted her head.

Her face was wet with tears, but there was something different in her eyes now.

The woman who had walked into that room believing she could still save her marriage was gone.

“I, Blair Valen, former Luna of Nightveil Pack, accept your rejection.”

The final words left her lips, and the mate bond snapped completely.

Blair felt the last thread connecting her to Adrian disappear.

She stood there, breathing heavily as she stared at the man she had once loved more than anything in the world. Adrian looked back at her, and for the first time, there was uncertainty in his eyes.

He had expected her to fight for him.

She hadn’t.

Blair didn’t say another word. She turned around and walked out of the bedroom, refusing to give either Adrian or Sienna the satisfaction of watching her fall apart in front of them.

She made it down the stairs before the tears completely overwhelmed her. By the time she stepped outside, she was crying so hard that she could barely see where she was going, but she kept walking.

She didn’t know where she would go.

She didn’t know what she would do.

She only knew that she couldn’t stay there another second.

Behind her, the door remained closed, separating her from the husband who had rejected her and the sister who had betrayed her.