Lahat ng Kabanata ng Too Late To Want Me: his reject, her rising: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 5

Mara. I held back a sniffle. Even after spending hours walking alone and wandering the pack, Dresden’s harsh words were still ringing in my ears.An hour before that, we'd had a meeting with the pack elders who congratulated us while I had to force a smile. Dresden’s grip on my hand felt more like a vice. I knew that he wasn’t happy with us being mates, he'd never made it any more clear from the moment it was announced. From that moment, he looked at me like I was disgusting. Like I wasn’t even human.I'd borne his insults and abuse. How he always seemed to punish me by gripping my hand or waist harsher and more painful while we were in public. I could only feign happiness while his gaze promised nothing but anger.This time though, I was at my limit. Shortly after the Elders meeting, he'd outright thrown me to the ground once we stepped out. The shock and pain of my knees being scraped against the ground made tears sprout from my eyes, but what felt even worse was when I looked up

Dresden. 10 YEARS LATER. “I’m done with you!” Bella screamed. “That makes two of us,” I snapped. I stormed out before she could attack but it didn’t matter when a cracking sound hit the door right as I closed it. I shut my eyes tightly. I was going to have to call the maids to clean that up later. Damnit. Damn it all.I moved toward the office, and other servants and pack members were around. Pack members who had no doubt heard the screaming from the room. It was freaking humiliating, feeling their stares everywhere I went. Whether it was pity, or mockery, it still felt the same when I knew what they were thinking.For the past ten years, Bella and I have been unable to have a child.What should have been a small thing had devolved into this as the years went by. Our initial happiness was gone and now all we did was argue. She had changed most of all.Where was the girl I fell in love with? Now she was a constant thorn at my side, picking arguments and throwing objects. Maybe once

I growled while pacing the floor. My wolf was agitated, I was agitated and it seemed like no amount of whisky could calm me down.Five days. Five days since the Full Moon Festival began. Five days since the illusion of Mara was no longer an illusion.Five days since I saw her again. since I felt the bond fill the hollow part of me. since I heard those words.‘Mate.’She was my mate again, or still. It didn't matter anyways. When I started dreaming of her I thought it was a punishment to remember what I didn't and couldn't have. Turns out I was wrong. It was a sign. Even after the bond had been broken for a whole decade she was still my mate.She was mine. She was always meant to be mine. If only it was that freaking simple.Because since then I'd never seen her and it was driving me crazy.All the luncheons, meetings and dinners, she was never there. The only person that came was That Freaking Alpha called Matthew. Matthew, her apparent new mate.I wished it was the lack of a bond,