All Chapters of Two Loves, One Destiny: Chapter 141 - Chapter 148

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JakeIrina uncrossed her arms when she saw me and ran to hug me as I approached. Her arms wrapped around my neck, and she stood on her tiptoes to kiss me on the lips. I didn’t refuse her, but I didn’t feel like kissing right now.“You’re okay, darling! Thank God you’re okay! I was so scared, I thought something had happened to you when those werewolves showed up at the house, saying something had happened. I thought you’d been killed. I would never have forgiven myself for letting you go there,” she tried to kiss me again, but I pulled away.“I’m fine, but Thomas isn’t, and that keeps me worried, and I feel guilty.”“It’s not your fault, Jake. You didn’t shoot him.”“No, but I’ve realized my brother matters to me more than I’d like to admit. I guess the betrayal didn’t make me stop loving him; it was just hatred covering the love. But I saw him die in my arms. He died… If help hadn’t arrived… he wouldn’t be fighting for his life right now.”She nodded and looked down for a moment.“He

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Jake“I seriously can’t believe the man I married is accusing me of something like this,” Irina said, her voice breaking, yet firm. “I really can’t believe you, Jake.”Her words stuck in my head for a moment, and I began to doubt myself. I began to doubt everything. She didn’t say anything else. She simply turned and walked toward the waiting room, with no intention of leaving, but also no intention of continuing to speak to me. The tension between us clouded the clean air of the hallways.She sat down in one of the chairs, alone, her back somewhat straight, trying not to look at me—but I knew she wanted to. And I didn’t want to see her eyes filled with anger or pain because I didn’t know what to believe. I was going crazy, and I didn’t want to keep doubting Kiara’s words either.She lowered her gaze, clasped her hands together, and didn’t look at me again.I stayed where I was, feeling as if the weight of the whole world was on my shoulders. My own words began to echo, and the flood o

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JakeIrina had no intention of responding, and I couldn’t stay silent, so I decided that continuing to talk to her was the best option. I needed her forgiveness.“I know that sometimes I’m an idiot and that I hurt you, but it’s not my intention to do it. I’m asking for your forgiveness—I’m begging you. You don’t deserve me like this. You deserve someone much better than this. It wasn’t you, you have nothing to do with this, I know that.”She let out a small laugh. It surprised me.I knew that laugh couldn’t mean anything good. Not now.“Yes, you’re sorry—I know,” she nodded, unconvinced.“I mean it, Irina,” I assured her.“I want a divorce, Jake,” she stated, this time looking at me. There was no trace of playfulness in her eyes. Only determination. She looked at me with so much anger and disdain that I knew there would be no going back to her. “I want you to sign the divorce papers. I’ll take care of everything and have my lawyers contact yours so we can end this once and for all.”“

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JakeI let her go.As much as I tried to follow her down the hallway, she shouted at me in front of everyone to leave her alone. I had no choice. I think there was nothing left but to accept her decision this time. Something had broken, and she was right when she said I would never love her the way I loved Kiara. I couldn’t deny it anymore. Every reproach and every absence Irina endured because of me was because my feelings for the mother of my children always got in the way.I swallowed the lump in my throat as I watched her disappear at the end of the hallway when she stepped into the elevator. She cast me a quick glance as she got in, sad and devastated.I turned around, noticing the few people around, and went back to the waiting room. Mom didn’t take long to appear alongside Jason, one of my Betas.“There’s news, son,” Mom said, hugging me. “He’ll be out of surgery soon, but they say they don’t think he’ll wake up for a few days.”“Are you telling me Thomas is in a coma?” I pulle

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KiaraSeeing her walk into the room so shamelessly while Thomas was fighting for his life poisoned my blood in a way I couldn’t even explain.Rage was pouring out of me from every direction. I attacked, but as always, he stopped me. Jake broke up the fight and got in the middle.When he left the room and didn’t come back, I felt a deep emptiness.My heart stopped when he returned an hour and a half later. I felt the urge to insult him because I was sure he would believe her. I was certain she had tangled him up in another web of lies.Why would Jake believe me? I told him back in that house, and he looked at me as if I had said the worst thing in the world.I noticed he looked sad, pale, his eyes slightly red.Had he been crying?“What happened?” slipped from my lips.Rose was by my side, and Jake asked her to leave and speak with one of his Betas.She closed the door behind her.“We need to talk.”“Did he die?” I felt the anguish building in my eyes.I wanted to cry so badly.This ha

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KiaraSo this meant he wasn’t sure about what was happening, and he didn’t trust me. Even seeing me broken, he still doubted my words. As I said, I didn’t want to try to convince him anymore that I was right and that my sister was the bad one. That was no longer my fight. But he had divorced her. One way or another, that gave me some relief. Not because of the love I felt for him, but because I knew that this way my children would be far from Irina, and my babies would be safe. Still, this didn’t erase all the danger, because Irina would come back for more. She always would. The enemy made that clear to me. The enemy told me she was evil, that she was behind all of this.“Please, try to understand me, Kiara,” Jake said. “It’s not that I don’t want to believe you, it’s that it’s hard for me to see Irina as someone bad. She’s been there for me. You see? She lost the baby. She was affected too. I truly believe you’re telling the truth, but I also think someone has been deceiving you, fil

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KiaraHis hands slowly slid down my neck and settled on my hips. He held me firmly, because I knew that at any moment I might collapse. The kiss was so intoxicating, so full of passion, that I wanted more. My body betrayed me, my body craved more than just a kiss… and once again, guilt began to consume me, but I couldn’t help it. I couldn’t deny the instinct inside me. Love and anger pulled at me constantly. It wasn’t strange that I couldn’t forget Jake, and with this kiss, he only made everything more complicated.In the middle of our moment, the passion ended instantly when someone burst through the door. Jake pulled away from me abruptly, and we both looked at Rose, who stood by the doorway, having entered without knocking. Jake looked at her, annoyed, but it wasn’t her fault. Still, it bothered me that she knew Jake and me had kissed. It bothered me because she was part of the pack and could tell someone else, and this could reach Thomas if he was awake. I didn’t want to hurt him

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Jake:“Did you divorce Irina? Why?” my brother asked, struggling to stay awake. His voice was fading, but he insisted on continuing to speak.“It’s not something I’d like to talk about with you,” I admitted.“Not even going to tell me in the state I’m in?”I hesitated for a moment before answering. I didn’t want his questions, didn’t want his opinion, didn’t want his eyes on mine as he tried to figure out why I'd decided to accept the divorce. But still, I told him.“What happened is that I asked Irina if she had anything to do with it… and she got so angry that she asked me for a divorce.”“So you weren’t the one who decided to divorce. She was the one who took that path,” Thomas clarified.“Yes, it was her, Thomas. But I was the one who decided that this time I wouldn’t chase after her. It’s not the first time Irina has asked me to separate, and I go after her, trying to fix things. But I realized this can’t keep happening between us.”“And why is that?” Thomas’s gaze deepened. “Doe

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