Evangeline’s POV
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He came in and sat across me and then he did something unthinkable.
“I am sorry.”, He said in a low tone. Barely audible.
“Pardon, please! I can’t hear you properly.”
“I am very well aware that you heard me.”, He said in his old arrogant tone. “And I am not going to repeat myself.”, He added.
“Whatever”, I muttered and was about to walk out but stopped by him, blocking my way. “What now?”, I asked, getting slightly irritated.
“Don’t you dare to run from this wedding just like your sister.”, He ordered.
Who is he to order me?
“Listen Mr. Arrogant, I am not your slave who will follow your order meekly.”, I spat.
“I know you’re not. But you will have to follow my orders.”, He growled and took a step forward while I moved backward. This continued until my back hit the wall.
He placed both of his hands on either side of the wall so that I couldn’t move. I could feel his hot and minty breath and tried to act as bold as I could.
“You are going to my wife. So, better behave like one from now on.”, He said while his right hand moved the har that covered my face behind my ear.
“Exactly. Your wife, not your mate. I am going to be just your wife whom you will easily kick out of your life after finding your mate just like you werewolves does.”, I hissed, pushing him away.
I saw him opening his mouth to say something but he decided against it. He stared at me for a while before leaving my room.
I placed my hand over my heart which was pounding loudly. I was trying hard to keep myself calm but couldn’t.
Why was that so?
I was mad at him for his arrogant behavior, still, I couldn’t stay mad at him.
I knew it might sound clingy but I felt I had known him for years. As if there were some bonds between us.
Okay! Now cut the crap! It was going too far.
I ran my eyes back to my bed where my mom’s diary was. I walked toward my bed and picked the diary. I softly touch it, with a small smile on my face. After all, this diary had memories of my mother's memories. I opened the first page and could see my name in her handwriting ‘For my princess, Evangeline’.
‘Dear Eva,
If you are reading this then I believe either you are getting married to some werewolf or you have decided to stay in the pack. And I can guess, the answer will be the first one, most probably.
I always knew that you can’t stay away from your destiny and I hate to tell you that your destiny belongs here, between the werewolves.’
I furrowed my eyebrow, after reading that sentence, wondering why mom would have written that?
‘Don’t get confused, my child. There are so many things that I want to share with you but I can’t, at least not at this phase because you are too small to understand things but now that you are reading this diary, I am sure that you are a grown-up woman.
First of all, I want you to forgive your father for the things he did to me because I knew he didn’t ditch me intentionally. We both were forced into the marriage for the sake of our packs but we had cleared the fact to one another at the very beginning that one will not stop the other if he or she finds their mates.
So, I would have done the same which your father had done if….if I would have found my mate again.’
‘Again? What does she mean by that?’, I wondered.
I touched the paper where my mom had written this and by touching it, I could tell that she was crying while writing this.
‘I have never shared this with anyone before but with this diary that I had found my mate.’
I gasped when I read that. I was clearly not expecting that to read this fact.
‘...But he was killed in a rogue attack. My wolf couldn’t bear the loss of her mate and even she left me along with him.’, I re-read everything twice or say thrice.
‘My wolf?’
‘Does that mean that mom was not a human but a werewolf?’
‘Oh, My God!’
‘Why didn’t she share this with anyone before?’, A lot of questions started filling in my mind but I had no answer to those questions until now. That’s why I started reading what else was written in the diary.
‘All this happened before my wedding with your father. I wanted to share this with him but by the time I could have gotten comfortable with him, he had already found his mate and by that time, he was not just my husband. So, I never got a chance to share this with him.
You are a very special child, Eva. That’s the reason, I kept you away from the packs and the werewolves when you were a kid and one incident made you hate them, which worked to my benefit for that period but now I want to clear this.
Everyone including you might consider yourself as human but I am sure you won’t be…’
My eyes widened when I read that. It means I have lived all my life in a lie. I turned the page to read more but found the next few pages had been torn and thereafter the pages were empty.
‘What the hell!!’, I muttered in frustration.
I picked up the diary in anger and walked outside my room to talk with Mr. William.
Correction, not ‘Talk but ask’ about the missing pages.
“Are you going to talk with my mate about this?”, I heard the annoying voice of my stepmother the moment I stepped out of my room.
I looked at her first and then toward her hand where she was pointing and found a few papers.
“It belongs to me.”, I said and stepped forward to take those papers from them but she pulled her hand away.
“I know but I will give it to you after the marriage.”
“But…But I have already agreed for the marriage.”. I tried to reason out to get those papers as soon as possible because I was desperate to read what else was written in those papers.
“You have AGREED for the marriage just like my daughter but you can run away from it just like her. So, get inside and now you will come out of your room only at the time of the marriage.”, Saying this, she pushed me inside my room and locked it from outside.
I wanted to bang the door and shout loudly but I knew it was of no use. It’s her pack and her orders would be followed here.
Also now that I had already decided to marry that Arrogant Alpha. I would ask for those pages after the marriage.
‘A little patience would cause no harm, right?’, I asked myself but didn’t get any response in return.
‘Is it possible that I could be a werewolf? But I am already 23 years old. A werewolf shifts at their 18th birthday. Or maybe just because my mother’s wolf had left her before my birth, turning her into a human, even I could be a human?’ I kept thinking about all the possibilities. I didn’t realize that it was evening already until I heard the door of my room getting opened and a few unfamiliar faces walked into my room with the wedding gown and the make-up.
I couldn’t believe that this was really happening. After an hour of work, with all said and done I finally got ready for my wedding. It sounded so strange because it was something beyond my wildest imagination.
When I came back after 17 years I had no idea that I would be an Alpha’s Last Minute Bride.
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#TBC
Daniel’s POV . I couldn’t express my happiness when I lifted my gaze from the floor and felt a rush of emotion swirl straight to my heart as my mate made her way down the aisle all dressed up in a pretty white wedding gown. The wedding gown they had chosen for her was perfect for her figure, it left me wondering whether they had already planned this all incident or they had planned her marriage to someone else who was not me. I felt instant rage at that thought. ‘Okay, fine! Don’t spoil our mood by thinking all those stupid thoughts.’, My wolf suggested. “Our mate looks so beautiful in her wedding gown.’, He added and I couldn’t help myself from agreeing with him. I tried to hide any more emotions from my face as Evangeline reached near me.
Evangeline’s POV.I couldn’t cry on my fate anymore after all I got married to an arrogant and heartless Alpha. I wonder what his problem was. One moment, I could find him looking at me with an unknown expression which I couldn’t name yet but at the same time, he looked like he didn’t give a damn about this marriage and had nothing to do with meWell, why would he?He wanted to marry my sister and got married to me instead.He ordered me to look at him and without warning, he gripped my waist and crushed his lips to mine. I was not prepared for the rush of emotions that jammed my heart. I couldn’t understand the reason for my sudden emotions for him. I gripped
Evangeline’s POV.“Where were you?”, And there came his first question.“In the forest.”, I replied the truth as he was already in my room and had seen me entering my room through the window. So, there was no use in lying to him.“That I already know, Evangeline. You know what am I ask, so, don’t try to be over smart.”, He said, coming close to me. I tried to move backward but my back hit the window, making me realize that I didn’t have any space to move away.“I have no idea what you are trying to ask. Why don’t you ask me directly? Maybe, in that case, you will get your answer?”, I questioned back innocently.
Evangeline’s POV.Daniel started walking toward the two women standing in front of the main gate. Daniel was the exact carbon-copy one of those women and another one looked like some relative. So, I guessed the first lady to be his mother.“Daniel”, Called the woman, who looked like his relative, and immediately he left my side to walk toward her. He held her hand in respect and turned toward me.“Evangeline, she is my…”Too late!By that time, I was already near his mother. I had no idea why? All I could think about was my mother when I saw her. She held the same warmth and love in her deep eyes. Also, it looked like I had seen her somewhere. I had no idea ‘where?’“You’re Daniel’s mother, right?”, I asked the most stupid question ever, even though I already knew the answer.She smiled widely and hugged me dearly. I felt loved after a long time.
Evangeline’s POV . It was still 4 in the morning so I was thinking about taking a small nap. After all, I had a very long day. But I couldn’t sleep in my wedding gown for sure and I clearly remembered that I didn’t take anything with me after our wedding because Mr. Arrogant dragged me from there. “Are you planning to stay in the washroom all your life?”, I heard his voice from the other side of the door. “Yes, It’s better than staying with you.”, I replied in the same sarcastic tone and after that I didn't hear anything from him again. After staying for one more minute, I stepped out of the washroom, only to find him half naked. My eyes widened, seeing his body revealing the sexiest manly chest I’d ever seen on any man before. I hated to adm
Daniel’s POV . “No, I will sleep on the couch. You should use the bed as it’s your room.”, She argued back. Not again. Why should she have to argue with me all the time? Why couldn’t she listen to me? But then again, I hate to admit it, her nature for some reason turned me on. I never liked weak and submissive people. The beast inside me, loved her feisty side and wanted her just as much as I did. “I mean OUR room.”, She corrected herself after a while. After hearing OUR from her, I relaxed a little, thinking at least she considered my room as her as well. “No. You should use the bed after all you are ti
Daniel’s POV . “Angel, wake up.”, I gently shook her up. “Two minutes, babe.”, She mumbled. Babe? ‘Who is he?’, I thought and started getting angry. She was here near me, in my room, on my bed and was thinking about someone else. I couldn’t help but growl at her sleeping figure. In no time, she woke up and looked at her surroundings. *** Evangeline’s POV . I quickly took in my surroundings. The wall facing the bed was rounded and wasn’t the wall at all, but glass from floor to ceiling. Dark
Evangeline’s POV . I didn’t know why I picked the fight with him again. I was cursing my big mouth. Everything was fine between us one moment and the second moment, we both ruined it. I stayed in our room, checking each and everything in it. After a few hours, the door of the room opened softly and a lady softly asked my permission to come in. She had a beautiful gown in her hand and all the matching accessories in her hand. She gave a polite smile before leaving the room. Once she left, I checked all the things which she had brought. I was surprised that the gown was of my size. It seemed like Daniel had already asked about my size from my stepmother. Not to mention, even matching lingeries was there with the gown. ‘