Betrayed By Two Alphas:Bound By One Fate

Chapter 12

Aurora’s POV

“Aurora, you aren’t supposed to be here.”

Lucian’s voice drifted toward me as he stepped closer, but I couldn’t move. My shoes felt like they were nailed to the floor. I waited for the world to glitch, for the scene to dissolve like a bad dream, but the air remained cold and the smell of that woman’s perfume lingered. I had just watched his lips press against hers—the same lips that had whispered promises to me only weeks ago.

“Aurora,” he said again.

I forced my eyes up to his. My vision blurred, the room turning into a smear of colors as heat gathered behind my eyelids. I searched his face, desperate to find a flicker of the man I knew, but he looked like a stranger wearing my boyfriend's skin.

“Actually, it’s a good thing you’re here,” Liam interjected. I turned my head slowly, feeling a single tear track a cold line down my cheek. I swiped it away with a trembling hand, but another took its place. Liam leaned back, his lips curled into a sharp, amused tug. “I mean, you finally get to see your ‘devoted’ boyfriend in action.”

“Don’t, Liam,” Lucian snapped, his jaw tight.

“Lucian, why?” The words were small, barely making it past the ache in my throat. “Why did you do this?” My voice cracked, splintering in the quiet room. “You were supposed to be mine. But you… you just vanished.”

I choked on a sob, my chest tightening until it hurt to breathe. “I stayed up every night. I stared at my phone until the screen burned my eyes. I thought you were hurt. I thought you were dead, Lucian. And all this time, you were here? Kissing her?”

“Aurora, I can explain,” Lucian said, reaching out. I flinched, stepping back until my spine hit the doorframe. His hand hung in the air, empty. “Whatever you saw, it didn't mean anything. It was a mistake. I’m sorry.”

“You’re sorry?” Liam’s laugh was harsh and jagged. He stepped forward, his eyes flashing with a cruel sort of hunger. “What do you mean you’re sorry, Lucian? Look at her. She’s destroyed. Isn’t that exactly what we wanted?”

The crying stopped. Not because the pain was gone, but because my heart seemed to skip a beat in pure terror. I wiped my face with the back of my hand, my breath hitching. “What does that mean?”

Liam’s smile widened. It wasn't a kind look; it was the look of a predator who had finally finished the hunt. “I guess there’s no point in playing pretend anymore. I truly don't know how you stayed so blind, Aurora. How did you not realize Lucian and I are best friends?”

I shook my head, my mind spinning. “I don’t… I don’t know any of your friends. You never took me anywhere. You never introduced me to anyone.”

“Well, let me fix that,” Liam said, his voice dropping to a low, icy hum. “Aurora, meet Lucian. My oldest friend. The man I sent to find you, to talk to you, and to make you fall in love with him.”

The floor felt like it was tilting. I looked at Lucian, waiting for him to laugh, waiting for him to tell Liam he was crazy. But Lucian wouldn't look at me. He dropped his gaze to the floor, his shoulders hunched.

“What?” I whispered. The word felt like glass in my mouth. “What is he saying, Lucian? Tell me he’s lying.”

Lucian stayed silent. The silence was louder than any scream.

“Lucian!” I begged, my voice breaking into a thousand pieces as the tears flooded back, hot and thick. “Lucian, look at me!”

“I didn’t know you were that cheap, to fall so easily. You gave him your virginity and you actually thought he loved you?”

Liam’s laugh was a jagged blade, twisting deep into my chest until I felt my heart shatter into a thousand jagged shards. The air in the room turned thin, suffocating. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. My eyes remained locked on Lucian, pleading, begging for him to just look at me, but his head stayed bowed as if the floor held all the answers.

“Lucian, please,” I whispered, my voice trembling so hard the words were barely audible. “Tell me it’s all a lie. Please. Tell me he’s making this up. Tell me you aren't that person.”

Liam stepped closer, his presence looming like a shadow. “Lucian, tell her the truth. Tell her she means nothing. Tell her every touch, every word, was just a script I wrote for you.”

Finally, Lucian lifted his head. His eyes met mine, but the warmth I used to find there had been replaced by a cold, hollow pity.

“I’m sorry, Aurora,” he said.

The walls of the room seemed to shrink, pressing inward. The world went silent, the only sound being the rush of blood in my ears.

“I honestly didn’t mean for it to hurt this much,” he continued, his voice steady—too steady. “I’m not proud of what I did. You didn’t deserve it.”

“So you never loved me?” I asked. I sounded pathetic. I sounded like a broken child, searching for a scrap of hope in a wasteland.

“No,” he responded. The word was clipped. Easy. “I never loved you.”

My head dropped. My vision was a liquid blur, tears splashing onto the collar of my shirt. I felt small. I felt used. Then, a spark of something hot flickered through the numbness. I looked up, my face wet, my lips quivering.

“What did I ever do to you two?” I choked out. “I have never tried to hurt anyone. Why do I deserve to be treated like this? Why me?”

“You thought you could just walk away from me?” Liam’s voice dropped to a low, venomous growl. “You wanted freedom, right? I gave it to you. But I wasn't going to let you leave whole. You need to understand, Aurora—I made you. I gave you a name. I gave you status. But you were so quick to play the victim, to make me the villain, when all I did was take in an orphaned omega.”

“You really hate me that much, Liam?” I asked, my voice dropping to a hollow whisper. For a second, I saw his eyes flicker, a shadow of guilt crossing his face before he masked it with hatred. “All I ever wanted was a family. I walked into that marriage thinking I was finally going to belong somewhere.”

I wiped a fresh wave of tears from my cheeks, my hand shaking. “But you spent every night in other women’s beds. you treated me like I was something you stepped on in the street. You told me I was married to the pack, not to you. And I accepted it. I took it all because I’m an omega and I was told I should be grateful to be the wife of a man like you.”

I took a shuddering breath, staring him down through my blurred vision. “You were the one who asked for the divorce, Liam. Not me. I only did what you wanted. I honored your request. But even that wasn't enough for you. You had to destroy the only thing I had left.”

“I want to see you broken. Only then will I be truly satisfied and let you go,” Liam said. His voice was cold, like a heavy weight pressing me down until I could only stare at the floor through a thick veil of tears.

“Liam, I think that’s enough,” Lucian finally spoke up. “You shouldn't say things like that to her.”

My hands curled into tight fists. The skin of my knuckles stretched white as I forced my head up to look at him. “You aren’t any different from him,” I spat, my voice thick with grief. “I gave you everything, Lucian. I gave you myself. You gave me hope that I could finally be happy. You made me believe I was going to have a family. All I did was love you, and all I got was betrayal.”

The woman he had been kissing shifted uncomfortably, the silence of the room suddenly feeling too heavy. “This is getting a little too awkward for me,” she muttered, her heels clicking against the floor as she walked away without a second glance.

Lucian took a step toward me, his face twisted in a look of pained regret. “I only agreed to do this because I didn't think I’d care. But after getting to know you, Aurora... the guilt was eating me alive. That’s why I stayed away. I didn’t want to keep the lie going, so I ghosted you. I’ve never been in a situation like this before.” He looked down at his hands. “I’m really sorry. That’s all I can say.”

New tears burned my eyes, spilling over and wetting my cheeks.

“Don’t think I will ever apologize to you, Aurora,” Liam interjected, his tone sharp and jagged. “You needed to know your place. That’s all I did.”

“You are a horrible person, Liam,” I whispered. I turned away from them, the weight of the betrayal feeling like a physical blow. “I did love you once, Liam. That’s my truth. And I loved you, Lucian. That’s also my truth. In the end, I was just something for two Alphas to break.”

I let out a harsh, jagged laugh and turned back one last time to meet their eyes. “You both succeeded. I’m broken. Congratulations.”

The pain in my chest was so sharp I couldn't stand to be in the room for another second. I turned for the door.

“Aurora, wait!” Lucian called out.

“Don’t go after her,” Liam snapped.

I didn’t stop. I kept walking, my legs moving on autopilot until I was out of the house and breathing the cold night air. I stumbled down the street, feeling hollow and worthless, like a discarded toy.

“Revenge, Aurora. Revenge,” my wolf snarled in the back of my mind. Her voice was filled with a rage I couldn't feel yet—I was too buried in the hurt. “They can’t get away with this. We have to make them pay.”

Her anger only made me sob harder. Their cruel words played on a loop in my head, crashing over me like waves. I felt like I deserved nothing good. Maybe this was just the life an orphaned omega was meant to have.

Suddenly, a sharp screech of tires tore through the quiet night. I turned my head, my eyes widening in shock as a pair of blinding white lights swallowed my vision.

“Aurora!”

That scream was the last thing I heard before the world turned to black.