ARABELLA POVIt’s been five days since I last saw Mia. Five good days. Apart from the fact that my life has been good ever since her overbearing self disappeared from it, I can’t say the same for her. I’m absolutely sure she loathes me by now; maybe even more than I could ever imagine.Shrugging, I washed my hands off in the hospital sink and raised the overalls over my head, placing it on the head board and walking straight into the powder room. Should I shower here or not? I could really use the shower; it was nice to not smell in goo, blood, puke and fluid.Trashing all odds, I removed my clothes and had a quick bath. It was a small shower stall, but it would help greatly… and it did, really. By the times I was done and leaving the stall, I met another nurse coming on.“Oh, you’re here!” he said.“Yes,” I smiled wearily. “I’m here.”“Great, because the Alpha is looking for you in your office.”He went around me and got into the stall. I stared at the closed door for a long time, wo
ARABELLA POVI quickly adjusted my skirt back the minute I found my orgasm. This wasn’t supposed to be like this; sneaking around in my office and sleeping with the Alpha of this pack ho was also married to the Luna of the pack. While it was fun, it was also forbidden because apart from the fact that I wasn’t supposed to morally do this again with Rhys, it was also a flaw to my revenge plans. I can’t continue humping a guy and letting him touch me intimately if I was gonna exact my revenge on him.Sighing, I went to the door and unlatched it. Anyone could have caught us together because the door isn’t even supposed to be locked in the first place. If Mia finds out in this early stage that I was getting on with her husband…“You have to leave,” I said to Rhys. “Please go, we’re done here.”He smiled, as if knowing my harsh words were just a layer of my true feelings. “Yes, but before I leave, I have something for you.”“I don’t want anything from you, Rhys.”“You’ll want this, trust me
ARABELLA POVI laughed self-consciously. Penny started to laugh with me, expecting some sort of gossip to come out right after what she’d just spilled.“So…?” she probed. “What’s the deal with you and the Alpha and that puppy eyes he’s giving you?”“There si no deal,” I waved my hand in the air. “No sex, no fucking, no puppy eyes or whatever you call it.”“But he’s in love with you.”I placed my hand on my chest and feigned a gasp. “How do you know that? You can’t say things like this, Penny!”“But it feels like he’s in love!” She heaved sigh. “Listen, it’s just the both of us, okay? No one needs to know—except Louise and Kita but that’s fine because we’re all in the same anti-Mia club.”“No,” I said with a shake of the head. “There is nothing between the Alpha and I, I promise you.”“So you’re not sleeping with him?”“No, I’m most definitely not sleeping with him! If I was, eh won’t be here in my working place, would he? He just came for a checkup, that’s all.”“Oh that’s a shame,” s
ARABELLA POV “Ma’am, can you please come with us and step into the vehicle?”Joshua blocked the officers way before they could take his mate away. “No! No, Lily would never do such a thing!”“I don’t even know how that got there!” Lily cried. “I promise I’m a patriotic citizen!”It was chaos. Josh shouted and tried to hold her back for as long as he could, but there was nothing to do. There was contraband amongst her goods, and there was nothing to be done but take her away and investigate the matter. Josh turned to me the minute they were gone and shook me vigorously, removing the stunned spell that caught me since I saw the content of the box. Guns.Individuals were not allowed to have weapons like that.“She’s not a killer!” Josh said to me. “You need to do something, please save her!”We’re all killers, I thought, but not that kind of killers. Not the kind that got guns so it would be untraceable to the source. At least if claws and teeth were used, it’ll be easier to sniff out
RHYS POV I watched her leave. I know I should not have, but I believed Emma. Lily was an enemy, no doubt, but the way she pointed it out made me self-conscious. Was she truly an enemy or was that what I made her out to be? I won’t want someone else being punished for a crime that she did not commit. When I turned back to my office, Mia was glaring at me. Whatever happened between her and Emma was none of my business, and apparently, none of them wanted to say anything yet they kept throwing the heat in my face. It was hard enough seeing her in my house, and it was even harder seeing her with Mia. “Just know that Lily is guilty of whatever they say she’s guilty of,” Mia said under her breath. I heard her, but I won’t let that define me. I got into the office and went for my phone, calling my Beta. Craig picked on the second ring. “Good day, Alpha,” he greeted. “I want you to look into something,” I said, straight to the point. “I heard you arrested one Lily?” “Yes,” Craig answer
RHYS POVThe anger that filled me was tremendous. The audacity of Lily to talk to me that way because of the familiarity I had with her was wild. My anger pulsed through me and instinctively squeezed the life out of her throat. She coughed, her hand reaching up to hold her neck. I saw her life flash between her eyes. The light was going out, yet I couldn’t stop the anger. She had no right, no right whatsoever, to bring up Arabella in our conversation.“RHYS!!!”My body suddenly stilled. My wolf had never, never been held captive by the sound or the call of another. I felt myself reverting towards the new sound and person entering, mellowing down to receive orders from them. It was Emma. It took me a long moment to analyze this. Emma. Emma.Emma?How? How did she capture my soul with a single call when she wasn’t my mate? Was it possible to have two mates in a lifetime? Even Mia had never held my soul and wolf captive to make a point. She had never even held me captive before. Why was
ARABELLA POVI walked out and to my car, refusing to look at Rhys’ pitiful face. I didn’t want to deal with him that moment; if he wasn’t going to release Lily then I knew just the right person to pull their strings. The first mistake I made was going to Rhys, knowing that he was not emotionally stable and was biased when it came to me. Even though, did he have to attempt killing her? He could defend himself all he wanted and say that was not his intention, but at the end of the day, what was his true attention if his wolf and Alpha aura had gotten the best out of him? I honestly didn’t want to sit around and find out.Lily was still outside the cell when I left, but I’m sure she would have gone back now I needed to get her out of there as soon as possible; Rhys was still in his feelings and would rather discuss us than her. Bringing out my phone, I quickly sent a text to Mia, one incriminating enough to stand her on her toes.I want us to meet. It took a long moment of deliberation
MIA POVI watched her leave. My chest constricted with pain, spreading fat and wide until I felt it thumping against my rib cage. Oh, Emma was making a big fucking mistake. The audacity she had to summon me here and make a big fucking threat to me. I laughed, but the laughter stopped in my throat. There was nothing joyous to laugh too, and certainly not Emma. I felt as betrayed as I’d felt when I found out my friends weren’t really my friends, but somehow this betrayal sunk deep. They didn’t hold this secret that Emma now held above me, and they certainly did not threaten me fearlessly. I should have known the kind of person she was from the start, but she played her game meticulously. I would have snapped right here and now, and removed her stupid omega head from her body, but not yet. It was just not the right time. I didn’t know where she had kept the other evidence of my secrets, and I couldn’t just kill her without ensuring that the last of it was gone. Heaven knows how many she