Semua Bab The Wrong Mate, The Right Alpha: Bab 61 - Bab 70

Aiden’s POV The whiskey glass in my hand sweated against my palm. I swirled the amber liquid around, waiting. The phone rang, she picked up after the third ring. “Talia,” I said, letting my voice crack in just the right places. I dragged her name, letting it slur slightly. There was silence on her end, my chest tightened. It’s not that I was affectionate, no… I was angry. She had no right to act like this and make me wait like she was something special. Finally, her voice came through, clipped and unimpressed. “What do you want, Aiden?” I leaned forward, pitching my tone low, broken and vulnerable. “Why haven’t you come to see me? It’s been weeks. I… you know I can’t breathe without you. I’m going insane here, Talia.” “Listen here, I didn’t want it to come to this but I’m glad you called. So… whatever it was that happened between us was fun while it lasted. It was extremely intoxicating but now, I’m done.” She said, “I don’t want you contacting me anymore…” My hand clen

Talia’s POV “I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.” The words irritated me like insects crawling down my spine. My mother sat by the fire in her flowy white dress, one I knew she didn’t even know she had on. The only clothes she wore were white… my father’s preference. She rocked back and forth as though she was excited for what was happening. Her voice in a sing-song tone, sharp and with each repetition higher pitched than the last. “Shut up, Mother." I snapped the words before I could stop myself.Her smile widened even more, too many teeth showing. “Didn’t I tell you? Didn’t I say you’d ruin it? The Alpha won’t want you. He won’t… not with that heart of yours.” “Enough.” That was my father’s voice, the great Alpha Harrick Wrenfield, his tone was always heavy and final. The kind of voice that didn’t allow any debate afterward. He was seated on his throne-like chair at the head of the table, his eyes were narrow and cold.He didn’t rise from his seat. He didn’t need to.

Mara’s POV The room swayed with whispers and snapping flashes, all eyes were on me now. My chest heaved but my voice remained loud and sharper than a blade. “You think I didn’t know about what was going on between you two?” I hissed, locking eyes with Aiden. His face had gone chalk white, his eyes telling me he felt no remorse, just embarrassment. I didn’t give him time to speak. “I asked you one too many times, my instincts told me something was up but you swore that nothing was happening and I believed you. Afterall, the bond should have alerted me, the times I sensed her presence in our home and still perceived her scent after she had left.”Gasps ripples across the hall. Talia’s painted smile cracked and horror flickered in her eyes as she looked between me and Aiden and then the crowd, her father. “At first, I wondered… no it couldn’t be, right? He’s my mate and we were bonded. We never rejected each other or divorced. So there was no way that he could possibly be cheating on

Mara’s POVAfter rejecting Aiden, the banquet hall spun around me. It wasn’t the whispers or the gasps. It was the pull that dragged me from inside. Then Damon’s steady eyes. He was my fated mate. The words echoed in my chest like I was screaming it. My breathing became labored as I was panicking. Kira clawed at the surface, threatening to surge to life in a way that she had not been able to do in years. I immediately took off from the dinner. By the time I reached the gardens outside, I was already shifting. My bones snapped, my skin tore apart and my beautiful fur burst through. The shift that had been strangled for years now suddenly came so easy, like breathing after drowning. My wolf, Kira, threw her head back and howled in excitement. She was fierce and ran wildly. Finally. We were free again. I didn’t stop running until I was miles away. By the time I walked up to my house, my paws were already aching with a sweet pain I hadn’t felt in years. My lungs burned from exert

Damon’s POV Aiden sat shackled to the seat, sweat slicked down his face. The cell was windowless, it wasn’t quite a cell more like an underground chamber in a house I had acquired in the outskirts. The bulb was a bit unstable so it cast long, twitching shadows across the walls. Ryan stood off to the side, his arms were folded and his jaw locked. And me? I paced in the room. Back and forth, boots heavy against the floor. My wolf, Kai was snarling so loudly in my head that it felt like the walls were rattling. “You know why you’re here,” I said finally. Aiden leaned back, feigning calm. “I want to see my wife please.” I stopped. My head tilted. “Your wife?”“Yes.” His face looked genuinely pale and confused. “You mean the same wife that you publicly ridiculed by having sex with some other woman at a banquet. A woman she knew you were cheating with but because of the charms you had… or the same woman who rejected you publicly and broke what was left of your bond.” Aiden replied q