MURDERED BY THE ALPHA (Now I'm His Nemesis And Obsession)

>>>VIVIENNE<<< I'm on my knees in the mud and I haven't stopped shaking ever since Zane brought me here. My heart is screaming with fear. My wolf is curled up inside my chest like a scared animal. She's not fighting or howling anymore. She's just hiding because she knows what's coming. Zane is towering in front of me with a silver knife glowing under the moon in his hand. The most powerful Alpha I've ever known. My husband. My mate. The love of my life. He's conquered packs that no one thought could be conquered. He's killed wolves twice his size just with his claws. But right now, looking at him, I don't see any of that power anymore. I just see a man who's about to do something he can't take back. His face is hard like stone but his eyes aren't. They look like they're hurting. His wolf keeps moving under his skin, pushing against Zane's chest like he wants to come out and stop this. To stop him from killing his mate. But Zane isn't listening to his wolf. "Please, Zane. Don't do this. You don't have to do this," I plead, my throat already dry from so much crying. But he doesn't answer me. He keeps staring at me like he's trying to remember something. Like he's trying to remember why he even loved me in the first place. "Vee," he calls my name roughly, and my heart stutters. He stares down at me, like he doesn't know what to do with me yet. "You know I can't let you live. You've always known this day would come." I shake my head, hot tears trailing down my cold face as I feel my heart break for the hundredth time in one night. "I thought you loved me. You told me you loved me, yet you're doing this to me." "I do love you." He says it like it actually hurts him to admit it. “But that's the problem, Vee. I've loved you for two years and every single day of those two years, I've been betraying my pack. My mother. My f*****g blood." Edna steps closer. Her fangs and her claws are all out, sharp and threatening. She's enjoying this. "Just do it already," Edna snarls. "Stop looking at her like that. She doesn't deserve your pity. She never deserved anything from you, Zane." Zane's jaw gets tight. "Edna, I told you to wait in the f*****g car." "I'm not waiting outside while you talk yourself out of this, Zane." She crosses her arms over her chest, smirking at the sight of me begging. "You've been talking yourself out of this for two damn years. Every time you had the chance to kill her, you made a silly excuse. She's your fated mate. She's too weak. She doesn't know anything. Well, now she knows. And now you've got no more excuses." I look at Edna and my chest hurts, like someone keeps stabbing my heart with a sharp knife. But I'm not surprised. She's Zane's loving big sister, the only woman who ever talks to him like his equal. The only woman who actually talks and Zane listens. My wolf whimpers inside me. She remembers Edna's sharp claws from before. She remembers the way Edna used to corner me in the pack house when Zane wasn't around. The names she called me. Bitch. w***e. Cunt. Weak omega. Cursed blood of the Moongold pack. But I hid it all from Zane, because I'm just a weak omega whose presence is a taboo to the ShadowHowl pack. "Zane," I say, grabbing his arm with a helpless plea. "I loved you. I really truly loved you. I gave up everything for you. My pack was gone. My family was gone. You marked me and promised me you were going to protect me." He flinches and tries to pull his hand away. I see his wolf push against his chest again. Kael is trying to get out, but Zane is stopping him. "Vee, stop," he says, his voice sounding hoarse. "You're making this harder than it already is." "It should be hard, Zane!" I yell. "I'm your wife! Your mate! The woman you promised to protect from your pack! Now you're the one turning against me!" "I know what I promised." He runs his free hand through his long hair that brushes his shoulders. His silver grey eyes probe into mine like torches. He looks tired. He looks older than he did yesterday. "I made a promise to my mother before she died. She made me promise to end every single bloodline of the Moongold pack. Every single f*****g one, Vee.” “And you're the last one. I shouldn't have marked you. I shouldn't have claimed you. That's like spitting on my mother's grave." "You don't have to do this," I say. My voice is shaking, but I keep talking because words is the only thing I have left. "The bond means something, Zane. The Moon Goddess doesn't make mistakes. She put us together for a reason. You feel it and I know you do." He nods slowly. "I feel it. Every day. Every night. It's killing me, Vee. Loving you is f*****g killing me.” “This bond was a stupid mistake." He grunts, cursing the sacred love that we had. "There's no other way to do this," Edna says. "There's never been another way except her death." Zane's face is cold, like he's made his final decision. He looks down at me as his huge muscular figure towers above me, his long black jacket dancing slightly from the night breeze. I can feel it. My wolf can feel it too. He's closing the door on us and she's always silent when she's hurt. "I'm gonna make this quick!" Zane grunts. "Please, Zane," I plead, my heart rate spiking with real fear. He kneels down in front of me. His face is so close to mine that I can feel his breath on my cheeks. He doesn't look like the handsome man I fell in love with. He looks like a terrifying stranger to me. "I, Alpha Zane of the ShadowHowl Pack... reject you as my fated mate." The words hit my heart like a hot arrow, and a helpless gasp escapes me. My chest stretches with a sharp pain that could kill, and I yelp weakly. My wolf howls, screaming and clawing at my insides because she feels the bond trying to break. But strangely, it doesn't break. It just snaps back and stays there, horrifying us both. I can feel Zane's face glitch with shock. He experienced it too. But he hides shock. The bond isn't breaking. What the hell is going on? "The bond didn't break, Zane. Did you feel that?" I plead. "That has to mean something! The Moon Goddess doesn't want us apart. She wants us together. Please..." I grab his arms again. "Please just listen to me for a second." "Oh for f***s sake, Zane!" Edna snaps behind him. "You gonna get this done or you need the help of my claws?" "JUST SHUT THE f**k UP, EDNA!" Zane growls at his big sister, and I watch as her claws retract, her eyes wide with shock for the first time tonight. Zane finally turns to me. "The bond doesn't matter anymore, Vee." My chest rises with a sharp breath. My heart just broke into a million pieces. Zane shuts his eyes for a second, and when he opens them again, they're clear of any hesitation. "I'm sorry, Vee," he says, and in the same breath, the knife drives through my chest. The earth stills for a second, than… a cruel pain. "Arhhhh!" I yelp helplessly. I feel it go deeper as Zane's silver grey eyes probe deep into mine while he ends my life, like a weakling. My wolf screams and screams and howls. It hurts more than anything I've ever felt in my whole life. My hands grab his arms but he doesn't stop. He keeps sliding the whole length of the knife across my chest. "I'm sorry," he says again. His voice finally cracking. "I'm really f*****g sorry, Vee." I look at his face as my whole body goes limp. I want to remember it. I want to remember the man I loved, even as he's killing me right here in this cold dark forest. Edna is watching behind him, smiling. She's finally got what she wanted. Her brother is finally bending to her will after two years of screaming it in his ears. Zane finally drops the knife and my blood is on his hands. My blood is on my cloths. I'm already lying back, looking up at the dark sky filled with stars. I can't feel my legs anymore. I can't feel my arms anymore. My wolf is quiet. Fading. He scoops me up in his arms and carries me to the cliff where the river is. The water sounds harsh tonight, the waves crashing against the shore. "Zane," I whisper, but he can't hear me anymore. I can't even speak real words anymore. I can't ask him to not throw me and leave me all alone down there. My body just rests weakly in his arms as my tears soak his black leather jacket. He looks down at me and his face is wet. I don't know if it's the rain or tears. He hurls my body into the air and I'm falling. The breeze lifts up my hair strands as I fall, covering my view, but I can still see him and Edna up there, standing as they watch my body fall. I suddenly hear a loud splash as I land inside the dark sea. The water is cold. Cold enough to make me flinch if I was still my normal self. But I just keep falling, deeper and deeper. The water fills my nose, my ears, and my mouth. My lungs shut down. I can't shake my body to struggle. It's too weak to move an inch. Suddenly I can't see anymore. My wolf is gone. I can't feel her anymore. I'm alone in this dark water and I'm dying. The water is getting darker and I'm sinking deeper. My heart is crushed and my soul is bruised. But I can't fight it. There's no point in fighting. There's no point in anything at this moment. I've been defeated. My eyes finally shut and everything blacks out. … TEN MINUTES LATER A blinding white light flashes above me. It's so bright that I can't fully open my eyes to look at it. "Wake up, Vivienne," a voice says. "I have a mission for you. Alpha Zane has done the unthinkable, and I must teach him a lesson." I've never heard that voice before. It feels surreal. Like a comforting, divine presence. Like a mother wrapping her arms around me. My eyes finally snap open and my lungs suck in a large gulp of air, filling my body with life again. My whole body is cold, trembling with a mix of fear and shock. My eyes are fully open. I'm not drowning. I'm not dead either. I'm suddenly inside a car, sitting in the driver's seat while my hand rests on the steering wheel. Beside me on the passenger seat is a fancy golden card that's glittering. "Happy Birthday, Iris Eden" is written beautifully on it. "What..." I gasp, as everything comes into sharp focus. "Where... where the hell am I?"