Nightmares from the past

Eve's POV

I was dragged forcibly out of the mansion by the guards and I cried and fought to struggle from their grip but it was only a feeble effort. They were a hundred times stronger than me. The man who had ordered them to drag me away stood tall and merciless as he watched them manhandle me without a hint of sympathy in his beastial eyes. Even though I wondered how I had fallen so deeply in love with such a demon, I didn't want to leave him. 

"Please, don't do this to me! Please, give me another chance! Please, I beg of you!" I cried and tried to reach him but they pulled me away even farther apart from him. It broke my heart. Killed me. 

"A second chance you say?" He sneered at me and gave me that disgusted look he had always given to me ever since I had started living with him as his arranged mate. "I am too repelled by you to give you a second chance. Go away and never come back."

"Please! Please, I beg you." I fell on my knees, crying even harder now. I knew that none of my tears would soften his heart but I tried regardless. Maybe somehow in his stoned heart, there could be even a tiny ounce of soft spot for me. 

"Are you deaf, Eve?" He kept a straight, cold face. " Incase you didn't hear correctly, let me repeat my words to you. I, Lycan Stefan, reject you, Eve, as my mate. Get over it."

"Noooo!" I screamed and cried, feeling his words stab, slash, and maim my heart. I didn't want to hear any more of those heart wrenching statements. I was too broken to take any of it any longer. "Don't do this to me, Stefan. I forgave you even when you cheated on me with the same girl multiple times. I forgave you even when you embarrassed me in front of everyone and treated me like trash. Don't hurt me even more. Please. I beg you."

"We only got mated because of my parents and for the good of the pack. It was a marriage of convenience and I never had any feelings for you. Right now, I am letting you go, Eve…"

"I don't want to go!"

"Goodbye, Eve." He finalized and turned his back against me, walking away. 

"Stefan! No! Stefan! Don't do this to me! Stefan!"

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I opened my eyes with a short gasp and a hyperventilating chest. My lips quivered and I felt cold perspiration cloud my entire body as I tried to catch my breath. I blinked back the tears that gathered in the corners of my eyes and sat up on the bed. Turning the bedside lamp on, I reached for the sleeping pills on the bedside table and swallowed some.

"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." I dug my fingers into my hair and let out a deep exhale. My heart bled to realize that the worst nightmare that had tortured me for years was back again. I knew that it was because of my contact with the devil today and that had caused me to relive the scars of the terrible past I had with him. 

"Stefan, you fucking bastard." I cussed under my breath and my eyes grew teary. All I wanted was peace and to finally be able to forget him for good. Crossing paths with him today again wasn't something I had expected and the fact that it brought back those nightmares hurt me the most. And whenever I had these nightmares, I found myself revisiting those moments from eight years ago. 

A young, poor omega girl getting mated to the young, merciless Lycan king. Even though it sounded like an odd combination, there was a reason behind it. Once, there used to be a gap between the omegas and the elites in the pack and because of this, the elites thought the best way to handle this situation was to bridge the gap between them and the omegas, by mating one of their own to the omegas. And so, Stefan's parents had forced him to take me as his Luna. After we got mated, I started living in the Alpha's quarters and that was the beginning of my suffering. Even though Stefan made it clear that he had no feelings for me and hated me with every last drop of blood in his body, I couldn't fight the feeling of love in me that was beginning to grow for him. And then, he had cheated on me with an elite girl over and over again. It felt like a stab in my heart and my pillows were soaked with tears every night. But Stefan never cared. If anything, it seemed like watching me drown in misery pleasured him.

And then one day, Stefan decided he didn't have a use for me anymore. He rejected me in the most excruciating way possible and kicked me out of the Alpha's quarters. With a broken heart, a hungry stomach and dirty body, I found myself in another pack where I was made to work as a servant. The Alpha there had taken notice of me and made me his Luna. But I never really healed from all the pains Stefan inflicted on me. Sometimes, when I looked at Jameson's face and saw the resemblance between him and Stefan, I felt a burning hatred in my heart for Stefan. It wasn't enough punishment to suffer from the nightmares of the horrible moments I'd experienced with him but seeing a part of him in Jameson hurt me the most. 

It felt as though I could never fully get rid of him from my life. But again, I repeated the same promise I had made to myself all those years I'd been apart from him.

"Stefan Heart. You will never find out about my son. I will never let you take him away from me. I will never give you access to our lives again. Even if that's the last thing I do."