Novel & Cerita After Betrayal I Chose Myself

She spotted it quickly. She looked happy as she opened the gate and set a timer to close the gate for a minute she turned on the motor’s engine and heated it for a few seconds. Then, she fixed her helmet as she finally squeezed the handle and drove off. *********** He had a bad dream. His mate had left him. His Lycan had been trying to wake him up but his body was simply heavy like he had drunk some drugs. Right. That’s right. It was his mate. His damn mate betrayed him.

“But I don’t love you anymore!” My words hit him like a thunderbolt. He stood there, stunned, the light completely fading from his eyes. I stepped past him with my head held high, every step steady. No longer was I the girl who needed his love to survive, but a queen in her own right!

He looked less like the monster the world had painted and more like someone who’d been living with a blade for a long time and decided to put it down for once. Something small and fierce flared in me then—an ugly urge to yank him away and tell him he didn’t have to be a martyr. But there was also gratitude and something that felt dangerously like relief. How could I refuse? How could I ask a man to risk himself for me when I had been given so little by everyone else? “Do it,” I whispered, the command slipping from my lips like a surrender and a plea.

And for defying my family's will, I had paid the price. My syndicate had dragged me into the punishment hall. Forced me into their brutal Blood Oath Reckoning, a ritual meant for traitors, not heirs. A punishment he watched from behind barred doors as I bled for choosing him. I thought I could love him forever and ever. But tonight changed everything. Ten years later, I’m going back. Back to the Hale estate. Back to reclaim the power and identity I once threw away. From this moment on, I would live my own life, and Pierce Voss would be nothing but a closed chapter.

… I had to,” she interrupted, tears welling. “My mother - she needed me. I had no other choice!”Fast steps closed the distance. Is there truly no alternative? That’s your excuse? You left her behind. Left me too. Noise rose, sharp and wild, echoing off unyielding rock. Pain turned fierce, burning clear until nothing else could be seen.She flinched at my intensity but met my gaze, unflinching. “I didn’t want to, Victor! You said no… you said the baby comes first. I had to save my mother. Do you even understand what it was like, knowing she could die?”I paused, my fists loosening slightly as the weight of her words settled. But it only fueled the fire inside me. “I understand? You deliberately

"I lost myself. I betrayed myself." Every morning I thought I didn't deserve love. I didn't deserve good things. I deserve the punishment, ill behavior, being degraded, being called something I wasn't, being used, being sold. Deep down I always thought this. From outside I betrayed myself saying something else, doing something else. I degraded myself. I put myself down. And it wasn't okay. "I lost my family," She whispered. "The one I thought would love me, left me because they thought I wasn't normal and I had done a taboo by being a lesbian."

We were supposed to get married tomorrow after so long. I never expected that she and my best friend, Jackson, had been involved for over three years and that they had a son together who was already two years old. On top of that, she had been taking care of the child, Mason Horton, as a mother the entire time. The double betrayal from my best friend and my fiancee hit me like a brick, shattering my heart. Forcing back the tears threatening to fall, I got up to leave that suffocating place. Just then, my phone rang.

My hands pressed against my chest, as if trying to hold my heart in place, as if I could keep it from shattering under the pressure. “God…God, I don’t know how I’m supposed to choose,” I choked out, my voice thick with anguish. “How do I betray the one person who made me feel whole? How do I turn my back on the only happiness I’ve ever known, just because it’s what they need from me?”