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Chapter 49

Jenna's POV 

He's still the Alpha King. He has more influence than me. His word is the law. And though I am his wife and Luna queen, that law is for me as well. 

"Where is he?" 

"Behind you!" Mom exclaimed in a low voice near my ear before she broke the hug. 

She gave me a 'this is going to be dramatic and I don't want to be here to witness it' look and walked away. 

My back seared with goosebumps the second Jace stepped behind me. He lingered there without uttering a word. I could feel his anger radiating off him in palpable waves as his eyes lingered on the back of my head. 

Sucking in a breath, I turned around. My heart skipped several beats looking at him. He was shirtless, sweating and the cuts around his abs and biceps looked darker and more profound. Guess, he really worked out a lot in my absence. 

"So—" My mouth touched the floor when he stepped aside and walked past me. 

'Not a single word? Is he serious?' Gianna scoffed at his attitude. 

I just smiled, 'He's angry and I think this time he's right. I did cross a line by flying all the way to my Ex's pack to annoy him.'

That being the reason, I decided to go after him. I'll initiate a conversation— and take forceful kisses from him too if I have to— with him even if he doesn't. 

"Mom, where is my protein shake?" He went towards the vast kitchen. 

I wanted to say I'll make it for him when I heard a feminine voice, "Here, I made it for you, Jace."

My legs froze as I came to a dead stop. Liza came out shaking his protein shake container. She handed it to him with a sweet smile a wife would give to her husband. Jace accepted it with a gently mouthed 'thank you'. Then he did the expected— put some strands of her hair behind her ear. 

I felt as though I'd been struck violently in my chest. My fingers spasmed against the fabric of Jared's pants. My body suddenly became weak like someone sucked all the energy out of my body. 

A sob escaped my mouth before I could stop it. That made Jace shoot his head in my direction. He might not have expected this reaction from me because his eyes softened. A look of remorse came over his features before he took a step in my direction. 

“Jenna,”

I ran in the direction of my room instead. I thrusted the door open and came inside. I endeavored to make Jared sit on the floor but he won't let me. He was scared that I would leave him again. In the end I held him in my arms and began to breathe heavily. 

Just then the sound of the door hitting the wall resonated in the air. The sound that would come from someone rushing into a room before something went out of control. Jace had arrived. I gave my back to him as I bit into my lip to not cry. 

"Done playing 'I'm a good Ex unlike you' to your ex-husband?" He mocked. 

"You've made some improvement there as well. Setting her hair for her while she made your protein shake for you. I can see you both have already started behaving like a couple." I replied instead, my voice shaky but full of sarcasm. 

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Jace's POV 

Lead settled in my gut. I wanted to spin her around and kiss her until her lips bled. 

How dare she even think that? I only did that to annoy her. There was no underlying motive. 

"This is what you've been doing behind my back... Seeking solace in her arms?" That was like a bullet to my patience, snapping it.

I seized her elbow and made her face me. Her tears did something to my heart, but the weight of her words was still there. 

"And what did you do all these miles away in your Ex's pack? Did you do his bandages with your own hands?" 

"I'm not like you, Jace Kingston. I'm a married woman. I don't touch my Ex like you." She spat, and my heart constricted a little. "When I say I'm yours, I mean it in every way."

"But I don't think you really mean that." Saying that, she pushed me back and dashed out of the room. 

The whole day after that, I didn't see her. She spent it in her study, discussing all that transpired in our city in her absence with Beta Oakley. 

I spent my time in my study room as well. I was reading some reports when someone knocked on the door. 

"Liza, come sit."

"Thanks." She timidly smiled. "I see Luna isn't talking to you again. It's me again, isn't it?" 

I just looked away. 

"Jace," She touched my cheek, freezing me. "I'm sorry for causing misunderstandings between you two. Is there something I can do to help settle the matter between you and Luna? Please, let me help."

I removed her hands as it made me uncomfortable. Then I opened my mouth to reply to her when, "Wait, there's a loose thread coming out of your collar. Let me break it."

Before I could stop her, she leaned down to bite into the thread to snap it. I froze there. I was aware she meant it in a good way but this proximity made my wolf pace around in my head like crazy. 

Next second, I felt her lips on my neck. My nerves flayed. I held her shoulders to push her back when the door of my study was thrown open. 

A shiver ran up my spine as my heart slowed down. Jenna was standing there, eyes red and hands twitching beside her. 

"Luna!" While I sat there befuddled, Liza got up and adjusted her clothes. "Don't misunderstand us, Luna. Jace had a loose thread coming out of his collar. I was just removing it."

Jenna hardly listened to her. Her teary and shocked eyes lingered on my neck. At the mark of Liza's lipstick precisely. 

"Jenna, I swear we weren't doing anything wrong." I got up. 

I took a step ahead, and that sent Jenna running away. I ran after her. I caught her in the corridor. But she was so mad, she pushed me back with her wolf's strength. My back hit the wall as it groaned behind me. The wall had cracked. 

Glancing at it, I went after her again. We came into our room. Jenna was already up to throwing the stuff around. Gathering my composure, I dared to grasp her arm. 

"Don't you dare!" She connected a tight slap with my face. "This is why you can't let go of her, right. Because you won't be able to touch and fûck her."

Her words pricked my heart like a hot needle. I still stood quietly and let her vent out. 

"You're a pathetic, sexually unsatisfied and unfaithful person, Jace. I trusted you. I gave you my heart and you promised to protect it. But you broke it into a much more tinier piece. How could you do this to me?" 

"I didn't do anything."

"Liar," She pushed me back again. "The evidence is right here on your neck. Will you still lie?"

Tbc… 

Chapter 50

Jace's POV 

"She did tell the truth. She was just removing a loose thread." I defended Liza. 

"Stop it, Jace. Stop it or I will seriously kill you." She howled enragedly. 

Jenna said things that I would never forget. A point came when I lost my patience and pulled her to my chest. 

"You're calling me names. What about you? Why did you go to help Chris if you seriously despised him and loved me?" 

"I went for the sake of old times, bastård! I didn't even see him. He was seriously injured. Without a mate, he was extremely weak. His entire pack could've died if I didn't go there." Her tears caught my attention. 

They were transparent I know, but to me they appeared pink because all the area around her eyes and her nose was pink. I held her against my chest with an arm as with the other I cupped her face. 

This face... I missed this face and prayed for this woman's safety. For the days she was gone, I didn't sleep properly. Her safety bothered me. So did the storms she carried in her chest. 

My gaze fell on her lips. I rubbed a thumb over the rim of her bottom lip before sucking it in my mouth. 

Jenna ceased all motions in my arms. The effect of our connected lips weakened her. Our bond played its magic and she kissed me back. I felt as though a hand came out of nowhere and was saving me from drowning in the middle of the ocean. 

Her responding to my kiss meant she trusted me. That made me deepen the kiss. My fingers went into her hair as my tongue in her mouth. We were at each other's mercy. We were drinking from each other. Feeling up for each other.

That's until she remembered something and pushed me back. 

"You pervërt."

"Your pervěrt you mean." I smirked, causing her cheeks to turn crimson amidst those tears in her eyes. 

"It's high time now, Jace. You might not cheat on me. You might always maintain your distance. She won't. This can't go on. You have to throw her out of here." Back at it again! 

Closing my eyes, I inhaled deeply. 

"You know I can't do that. What you saw today was a misunderstanding." 

"Misunderstanding? Misunderstanding! So it's always going to be a misunderstanding until it becomes real." She shouted as she paced around hotly. "Jace, you really need to make a decision now."

She stopped in front of me. Her eyes were like a dark tempest against my clear like sunny day ones. 

"You need to make your choice today."

"...." 

"Me and our son… or her." 

"Don't make me do this. Please..." I sighed agonizingly. "You both are my family. How can I choose between you two, Jenna?" 

"Why not?" She snapped. "Choose the family that is the dearest to your heart."

I gaped at her in daze. 

"It's not possible, Jenna. You're my wife. She's my cousin. You both have different positions in my life. You're my life and she's my responsibility."

"Then why can't you simply tell me that we're more important?" She stomped her foot. "You can't even say it." 

Her voice cracked at the last statement. I quickly stepped closer and touched her face. Nevertheless, she threw my hands away and gave me that fiery glare. 

"If you don't choose today, then I'm leaving Jace. You have two minutes." Two minutes passed like two seconds. Jenna scoffed as tears strolled down her eyes. "Fine. I get it."

She wiped the tears from her cheeks, "I get it. You're choosing her." 

My chest was rising and falling in frustration. My wolf wasn't liking how she was putting pressure on us. He was the Alpha King. The strongest of all, and he didn't even like our mate so much attempting to dominate us. 

'Let me out, Jace. Let me take control and deal with her. She's our mate but she doesn't get to treat us like other husbands. Let me out, Jace.' Denis grumbled. 

I suppressed him in my chest. Him coming out would mean a direct divorce. I know my wolf. He is very bitchy and ill-mannered. The word 'respect' doesn't exist in his dictionary. 

"Since you don't want me, I'll take our son and leave. It was because of him I came here as your wife. I'll take him."

The mention of our son, his heir, rendered me speechless. My heart skipped in fear. Fear means weakness. And weakness means a weak control over your body. Denis took advantage of that and overpower my body. 

'Denis, no!' 

He tried to stop him but he had already done the deed— He had pushed Jenna on the floor in submission by her shoulder as he hissed into her face. 

"You weak wolf will take my heir away from me. You— a weak Luna who couldn't even protect herself from her ex-husband's oppression eight months ago?" I hated how my voice sounded. It was full of wickedness and malice. 

It was my wolf's voice combining with mine. But I couldn't tell that to Jenna. She probably thought it was me as her eyes turned frighteningly wide as though her heart was squeezed to death. 

"You want to go... Go! But you're not taking my heir." Denis pushed Jenna on the floor. 

"He's not just your heir. He's my son too!" 

"Yeah? Then treat him like one— Not like some bargaining chip." Denis turned her around. 

"I'm his mother! I can take him with me."

"And where will you take him?" Denis faced her again and flashed a shark grin. 

That sent her heart speeding up. She was seeing a person that was not me. 

Yes, Jenna. Love, it's not really me. It's my pathetic, conceited and ugly wolf. 

'Shut up, asswïpe. You couldn't handle a woman alone. Don't interrupt me now.'

"Where will you take him? How will you raise him? You have no kingdom, no income, no resources of your own." Denis mocked her. "You have nothing. So tell me how you will raise him without any money."

Denis made my hand grab her hair. 

'Don't do it, scumbag! She's our mate.'

He ignored my shouts and sniggered in her face, "You're standing here threatening to take my heir as though you can simply walk out with him and build a life overnight. But you know what... You are nothing without me. You're zero. I make you a hero. I... The Alpha King wolf, the strongest of all, makes you who you are."

"They respect you because my name is linked to yours. Once it's gone, see if they will bow to you."

Her face crumpled. Jenna appeared like something in her had broken beyond repair. 

Pain clawed through me. Her brokenness was making her more and more weaker. So weak that it was not enough to push Denis down and take control over my body. 

"So that's what you think of me?" She whispered while closing her eyes. "That I'm zero without you."

"After everything I've done for you… you think I have nothing? I'm useless?" 

"You think I can't give our son a good life because I have no money or no name? But I thought... I have you." Her voice choked on the last word. 

Tbc…