Novel & Cerita The Unworthy: A Novel

The strange feeling that there was something about my past I had never been allowed to know. I pushed the thought away. Not today, I said breathing hard. I wasn't ready to dig into a life I didn't understand. Downstairs, laughter began again. Sophia's laughter. Victoria's laughter. I stood by the window and looked across the city. I didn't feel jealous. I didn't even feel angry. I simply realized something I had never admitted to myself. Sophia had someone. Someone she could trust. Someone who knew her before I did. Someone who could walk into this house and belong without having to prove anything.

Anthony said grimly. "She doesn't seem like the kind of person who can hate anyone," she shrugged. Anthony nodded. He had been researching Faith. She had never done anything wrong. She was hardworking and loyal to the company. That stealing instance was the only bad thing she had done in her entire life. Her background was clean, and she was known to struggle at home to take care of her sick father and her sister. She must've been desperate to steal from him. He couldn't help but forgive her for that. Besides, he made her pay the price.

Ryan pressed the word beautiful making me blush. Orion snickered subduing the effect I was having on me.. Luckily he did.. I then controlled my emotion and said, "Thank you, Ryan Mcmaster" "Just Ryan. Don't need this much formalities," Ryan replied. The stiff look on his face got replaced by the known guilty look expressing he knows what he was blameworthy about. I sneered in my mind seeing him sorry. I don't want to make him feel guilty or anything.. I just want to know why...... Why it's me whom he chose to betray this way... Why I'm the only one who got abandoned, destroyed, betrayed by the loved ones. Am I that unworthy of love?

I had also failed to expose Victor and failed to protect myself. And now this. A child. For a man I did not know. I didn’t know his full name. I didn’t know where he lived. I didn’t know if he was married. I didn’t know if he was cruel. I didn’t know anything. The stranger’s face flickered in my memory then— his sharp jaw, the controlled gaze, the heat of him. The way he had said do not mistake this for anything. I had not. But life had. A fresh sob tore through my chest. My shoulders shook violently, and this time I did not fight it. There was no dignity left to protect.

She had everything under control. At least, she thought she did. Far from the glamour, behind the doors of privilege and pride, fate had just made its next move. And soon, a girl from Loven Street would walk into her world not with riches or reputation, but with something far more dangerous. Hope.

I asked to see it. Not because I wanted to. Because if I couldn’t believe he’d do such a thing, my head would keep making it worse. Adrian put the phone in my hand and didn’t say anything else about it. The email was short. That was the part that got me. Damien didn’t even write a lot. He said Adrian used his share to walk into his marriage. He said I was being kept in Vale’s building and the Blackwood company was under threat because he would not hand his wife over. My name was in the middle of it like I was a thing they could pass around.

I never let anyone get close. Not in my territory, not in my bed, and certainly not in my head. The Blackwood Pack’s annual gathering was supposed to be another display of power… wolves bowing, females offering themselves, lesser alphas measuring their worth against mine and finding themselves lacking. I stood on the raised platform in my black suit, golden eyes scanning the crowd, already bored with the predictable submission. Then she walked in. Elena Vale moved through my hall like she owned it. She didn’t lower her gaze when my eyes found her. She met them, held them, and gave me the smallest, most insolent smile before turning away to accept a drink.

I didn’t know how to react, especially when he said that the groom would only look at me because I’m unsure if the man I would marry would like me and if I would like him back, so I fake a smile. I have this presumption that maybe my groom was unattractive enough. If not, why does he agree to an arranged marriage for a woman like me? A girl without a good background and doesn’t have any achievements at all. I’m not even popular in school. The bottom line is I’m just an ordinary girl, but I do admit I have looks, although not as stunning as a celebrity does.

If only, I am that brave, I wouldn’t be stupid enough to trust a man who raped me in the first place. I feel like I was standing alone in a vast desert not knowing what to do and where to go. I have got plenty on my table to eat. But my tummy wouldn’t let a piece of it to enter. I threw up almost everything. It is worst. The more the time is running, the more my body is recovering from the numbness and the more I am realizing what is happening to me. He left, he has gone forever. Alexander and Celia; they are over. We are over. And what I have to do with baby we never want. It is hard to believe that I actually have a life growing in me when I lost my life.

Mate bonds really change people and their mindset. The alpha and the beta are living examples of that. Evelyn smiled looking at her mate and their kids. Years ago she thought she'd never experience something like this. She thought she was born to suffer and hide. A child and wolf rejected by everything and everyone. An unwanted creature. Never did she think she was going to be a brave warrior who'll fight and save people. If only she could talk to the Evelyn in the past, she would assure the girl that she's not unwanted.