The Enemy Alpha Claimed Me

Chapter10

Valentina

At a high-end club in the city, loud music blasts through the speakers. Men and women were on the dance floor moving their bodies and dancing to the beat of the song.

While some were getting wasted, others were already drunk and leaving with a stranger and sometimes a friend who was going to help them call a cab.

Up in the club in the VIP section sat me, Valentina Veylor or as I was often referred to Ms. V. I am Kade’s younger sister and the only one he loved aside from our dead parents.

The only one, Kade, was going to burn the whole world just to find the only one who could do anything and get away with it. That was all me.

I was equally considered one of the prettiest women in Veylor house. While some avoided me, others just wanted to be like me or close to her so that they could get Kade’s attention.

My brother was a handsome man. I know that. Which was why he could get any woman he wanted with a snap of his finger. They saw him as a sincere and upright man, but only me. Valentina Veylor knew the demons chasing after him every single day he closed his eyes to sleep.

Kade wasn't normal and neither was I. The two of us were damaged after what happened to us at a young age, and so we had only each other to rely on and only trust each other.

Anyone else was just a pawn in our games to get what we wanted, but while Kade was considered deadly, arrogant, full of himself and obnoxious, he was equally a dangerous man whom people have rumored wasn't just an Alpha but was also part of a Mafia organization or a mob group.

There were also rumors about him having the tendency to trap women into what they said was a sick relationship.

But I don't know about that.

I haven't asked my brother about his personal life. That wasn't any of my problems. They called me the viper, the servants feared me because my brother wasn't the one taking care of the household, giving the orders, firing and hiring whoever he chooses, it was me.

I could line up the housemaids and command the entire house to fall at my feet and bow to me, and they will do so because I ordered it and because they made me this way.

While growing up, after Julian took over, my brother and I had to leave the pack. I was not this way. I was nice, Kade wasn't.

I tried to make him believe that somehow there could be some good found in people, and we need to trust anyone who offers to help us, but I didn't know it wasn't that way.

That word trust and love were just as cheap as booking a hookah for the night. You could buy them in the market as long as the highest bidder offers something worth it.

I trusted the wrong man. I loved him. I brought him into our lives, we were engaged, almost married when he left me at the Altar and ran away with an old woman.

I tried to ask him a million times why he did what he did, but there was no response because he never picked the call.

Nathaniel was his name and since then something in me had died.

I was no longer the same girl with bright eyes and her innocence running around the house, trying to cheer everyone up, I was the woman who instilled fear, just with the mention of my name, let alone my sight.

I was a woman who ordered people to be killed without blinking an eye. I was now a woman who felt nothing, the woman with no path to redemption, and it was all Nathaniel's fault.

I don't blame him for cheating. I actually applaud him for finally letting me realize that humans will always be one thing: traitors and the moment you let them step all over you, they will take advantage of you and will never stop.

I never suspected that Nathaniel would do what he did to me, and he would break my heart in that way because our love was so young, pure and sweet.

Though, throughout our three year relationship we never got intimate with each other, he said he didn't want to pressure me even on my birthday and I wanted to give it all to him.

He didn't want to touch me and said he was saving it for the day, so when he proposed, I knew immediately he was the right one, because, unlike the wolves in the form of men out there who were ready to pounce on me at a young age, he waited patiently, and I thought perhaps this was it.

The one every woman dreams about, but he wasn't. He turned me into a laughing stock, he

humiliated my family and me.

My brother wanted to hunt him down to the ends of the world and kill him and his lover, but I stopped him.

I told him it was a lesson among others but from that moment on, Valentina Veylor died and someone else took over her body, someone no one wants to mess with, nor cross paths with.

“Look at that man over there, he has been staring at you.” My cousin, Nora, pulled me out from my deep thoughts.

She was Julian's younger sister and you might be wondering why we were hanging out together and if she's my friend.

The truth is, my relationship with Nora is still undefined. Time and again she has proved that she doesn't want to get involved with our situation with Julian and she doesn't support what he did lying against Kade, taking over his pack, trampling on him over and over again.

But then blood is thicker than water they say, and if Kade and Julian were drowning right now, I'm pretty sure she will pick her brother so why should I trust her?

Like I said, trust wasn't just a word I hand over to anyone aside from my brother, it was a word that was earned and she might have earned that, yet a part of me still didn't want to trust her completely.

She was a lawyer while I was a doctor and most times she was the only one who I could talk to. I didn't have any relationship with my colleagues at St Helena's Hospital. I just don't want to.

“It's no crime to look but it's certainly a crime to walk up to this table and try to talk to me” I had to remind her that I wasn't into all those things anymore.

I haven't had any relationship since Nathaniel and I parted ways and didn't intend to. When I grow older, I tend to get a sperm bank, get pregnant and conceive. I think that would keep my sanity, peace of mind, and guard my heart.

“I know. I equally heard that your brother is coming home with someone. A woman. It is quite surprising. Julian was supposed to get married today but the wedding got canceled and now your brother is returning with his girlfriend or not. What if she becomes the lady of the house?” Nora asked and I didn't know if she was trying to piss me off or make a point but clearly I wasn't in the mood.

“I don't care about her as long as she doesn't get in my way then we won't have a problem, and if she thinks that just being my brother's pet is going to make her the lady of the house then she's mistaken. That key will never be handed over to anyone as long as I live. You know me Nora, I just don't play games, I play dirty and whoever wants to swim in the same pond with me has to keep their distance or I bury them alive!” My grip tightened around the glass.

Kade had called me earlier but I was in the hospital. Last I heard he was out on a mission, it was surprising to hear he was returning home all of a sudden and not alone, with a woman.

He doesn't bring a woman back to the house, his girlfriends often wait for him outside the gate, and most times he doesn't ever introduce them to me because it wasn't serious.

They were just his play thing. His chess piece as he would call them, so who was this woman he was bringing home? Was it a mate?

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