Semua Bab The Wrong Mate, The Right Alpha: Bab 1 - Bab 7

I had expected her to retaliate but she didn’t, it was one of Aiden’s colleagues who slammed his glass against my forehead and knocked me down. No one helped me.No one knew I was his wife.Then I heard him.“Talia—Talia, are you okay?”Aiden burst out from the restroom. He didn’t look at me. Didn’t ask what happened. Didn’t even glance at the blood on my face.He went straight to her, not me. I was bleeding, but she was the one trembling in his arms.His fingers brushed her hair. He touched her like I didn’t exist. Then he looked at me. Not with rage. But disappointment. “Mara. What the hell are you doing?”“What the hell are YOU doing?” I hissed, forcing myself up, head spinning. “Do you even remember who I am? Aiden, why don’t you explain to me who she is—”“Talia is my fated mate.” Everything stopped. I stood there, shaking, dizzy. “We had known that since the day I saved her,” he went on, like he hadn’t just detonated a bomb. “I found her. The one the Moon Goddess made for me

My first job for the day was nearly over, working as a small-time shop assistant in the market. The market was crowded with bodies and different scents.I kept checking my watch to be sure I wasn’t overstepping into the time I was meant to meet Aiden at the cemetery. There was a small opening in between my jobs and I was positive.My eyes caught a thin, tired-looking woman holding a small girl at her hip.I saw fear in her eyes as she stood waiting for someone else. I didn’t know what to do but watch the scene unfold.Then a man with multiple tattoos and a frame twice her size approached. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her roughly against himself.He began dragging her out of the main market roads.“You think you can just leave?” he gritted. “You still belong with me! You owe me.”The child whimpered and hid her face behind her mother’s nape.I moved before I even thought about it. Kira didn’t need to growl first.I walked briskly through the market, sidestepping until I could get be

“Please I need the new set of lingerie in black, the one on sale. Can I get it in my size?” I asked, still checking my watch as I counted down the minutes to when I needed to be at my third job that day. “Yeah sure Mara, I’d get it for you.” The shop attendant in the lingerie shop said, The store I worked at was right next door, staff met out front for lunch and most times we talked. I never shared my own story though, a little here and there. It was better that way. I straightened my uniform as she came out, with a box. I opened it, it was a simple black lace bralette and matching underwear. Definitely the kind of thing that could make me feel like a woman again, not a tired old mother. I closed it just as a customer spoke to Jenna. I stretched out my card. Most of my pay from my odd jobs had already disappeared into the mortgage, utilities and Aiden’s debt I still hadn’t finished paying off. It was like he basically did nothing but here I was using all that was left to buy new