I'm done/ second chance 5
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chapter 5
Penny pov
He had a f*****g female sitting on his lap, her lips were on his neck i saw her tongue licking up and down her hand going down between his legs…walking over to them, i grabbed her by the neck, she squealed, she didn’t think i would do that, i bet she thought I would run out of the office crying, but i didn't. i tore her from Con’s Lap tossing her out the door,
‘Find your way home because he damn sure not taking you tonight,” she ran out of the building into the elevators, I walked over to the window watching her run out of the building than jumped into a car speeding off, then i turned to Con, He was smirking, I wanted to knock that smirk right off his face, I've had enough, i had to ask him,
“Why are you doing this, Con? I’m the one who found you in the middle of the woods. I’m the one who marked you so you could get your wolf back. I told you I would help you get your revenge…. and instead, you treat me like this? I’ve done nothing to you.”
I don't know what was wrong with him.. I helped him create his company under a new name…. Cody Stars. We hid in the human world for over 17 years, rebuilding him from nothing….And now? His business has skyrocketed to the top. He’s untouchable. Powerful. Respected. And suddenly… It feels like he doesn’t need me anymore.
“Penny, it’s not like that,” he said coldly. “I still want my revenge. I have twenty rogues lined up. They’re working here now. They’re part of our pack, so they don’t smell like rotten eggs anymore.”
He smirked like that was supposed to impress me.
“We need over two hundred. Twenty isn’t enough. And you need to remember something…. you’re just here to make me stronger. That’s all. I told you, I don’t believe in this mate thing. Not after what happened to me.” The words felt like a blade sliding between my ribs. I was just here to make him stronger…
He doesn’t want me as his mate. For 17 years, I stood beside him. For 17 years, I pushed him, supported him, and built his empire with him. I watched him rise from nothing into the number one man everyone wants to do business with….And now that he’s on top…He wants to throw me away….I don’t need this. Not now.
“So what are you saying, Con?” My voice barely trembled, even though my wolf was clawing inside me. She was wanting to claw at his face. “Are you rejecting me?”
He laughed. He actually laughed at me.. The sound echoed through the office like a slap across my face. I was about to say something else…. something I knew I wouldn’t be able to take back….when a knock sounded on the office door. I moved to open it.
“Don’t,” Con said sharply. “Let them knock.” And the way he said it…
It wasn’t just cold. It was cruel.
“Penny, you can take it however you want, but I can’t just settle down right now. Just go home. I’ll be there shortly. Have dinner ready…you know what I like.” I stared at him like he’d finally lost his mind. Go home?...Wait for him?....Cook for him? The audacity.
Something inside me clicked into place right then. Calm. Cold. Clear….I slowly put on the sweetest, fakest smile I could manage.
“Of course, Con. I’ll have it ready when you get home.” His ego was too big to notice the shift in my eyes. I walked out of his office without another word, heels clicking against the floor, heart pounding…but not from heartbreak….From freedom.
Once I got home, I didn’t hesitate. I grabbed my suitcases and started packing. Clothes. Shoes. Important papers. The small things that actually mattered to me. I moved fast, tossing four bags into the back seat of my car..No tears…No second thoughts…No note. Let him come home to an empty house and a cold stove.
I slid into the driver’s seat, started the engine, and didn’t look back.
He didn’t know about the cabin….My cabin.
Hidden deep in the woods, tucked away where no one would think to look. I bought it quietly, paid in cash, and planned for a day I prayed would never come. ... Turns out, I was smarter than I thought.
As the city lights faded behind me and the trees swallowed the road, I felt something I hadn’t felt in a long time…Peace.
This wasn’t running. This was choosing myself.
And Con? He was about to find out exactly what life looks like without me in it.
“I, Penny, reject you, Con, as my mate and Alpha for life. I hereby strip all ties to the pack and to the mate bond.”
The words tasted like blood and fire. The pain hit instantly.
It felt like my soul was being ripped straight down the center… like claws dragging through my chest, shredding everything that once connected us. I gasped, barely managing to pull the car over before my vision blurred completely. My wolf howled inside me, grieving, raging, and breaking. For a moment, I thought I might die.
The mate bond doesn’t break quietly. It snaps.
I gripped the steering wheel as waves of agony rolled through me. Memories …. his touch, his scent, the way he once looked at me
..burned away like paper in flames. The golden thread that had once tied us together frayed… snapped… and vanished.
And then….,Silence.
The pain faded slowly, leaving behind a hollow ache. A scar where something sacred used to be. I inhaled shakily.
It was done. No more bond. No more Alpha. No more Con.
My wolf was quiet now. Not healed… but free.
I wiped my tears away and pulled back onto the road.
By the time I reached my cabin deep in the woods, night had fully settled in. The air was colder here. Still. Too still…I turned off the engine and stepped out of the car.
Immediately, my wolf stirred…Something was wrong.
The forest was silent, no crickets, no wind in the trees, not even the distant howl of a lone wolf. My skin prickled.
I closed the car door softly and walked toward the cabin, my senses on high alert. My hand slowly moved to the dagger strapped to my thigh as I climbed the steps. My heart pounded, but not from fea,,,,from instinct. Danger. I reached the door. The wood was slightly cracked near the lock. My breath stilled. I didn’t remember leaving it like that. Very slowly, I wrapped my fingers around the handle.
The door creaked when I pushed it open. And instantly… something felt wrong.
The air was thick…Metallic…Blood. My bags slipped from my fingers and hit the floor. He was lying in the middle of my cabin.
Tall. Broad. Dressed in black that was soaked dark with blood. His skin was too pale, not weak pale. Predator pale. A vampire.
“What the hell…” I whispered. My wolf stirred. Not in warning. Not in fear, in awareness. I stepped closer carefully. His chest rose shallowly. A deep gash cut across his side burned edges…wolf claws. Powerful ones.
Con.
My stomach twisted. No rogue could do this. Only an Alpha-level wolf. Only Con. The vampire’s eyes snapped open. Crimson. Ancient. Dangerous. I froze. Even bleeding out, he radiated power. The cabin felt smaller with him in it, like the walls were bending around his presence.
“Leave,” he rasped.
His voice was rough but commanding. Like he was used to being obeyed. My wolf pushed forward, almost shoving me toward him.
“Mine.”
The word hit me so hard I staggered. No. No, no, no. Not now. Not after 17 years wasted on a man who didn’t want me. The vampire’s gaze sharpened. He inhaled.
And everything changed. His expression shifted from lethal… to stunned.
“You,” he whispered.
The air cracked. Not physically. Spiritually.
Like something ancient snapped into place. The bond hit like lightning.
It tore through my chest, through my wolf, through my soul. I gasped, dropping to my knees beside him. The world narrowed. There was only him. Only us.
His hand shot out… fast despite his injuries…gripping my wrist." The contact sealed it.
“Mate.”
Second chance. Stronger. Deeper. Inevitable. His fangs descended slightly, not in hunger … in instinct.
“You are a wolf,” he murmured, confusion and something darker mixing in his eyes. “And yet…” His gaze burned into mine.“…
“You are mine.” My breath shook.
“You’re bleeding out.” His jaw tightened.
“I was ambushed.
By Con.”
I didn’t say it out loud. But he saw it in my face.
“Your Alpha wolf did this,” he said quietly. Not accusing. Stating fact. My stomach twisted.
“I’ll help you,” I said immediately. His grip tightened slightly.
“You do not know who I am.”
“I don’t care.”
That was a lie. I did care. Because power like his didn’t belong to some random rogue vampire. It belonged to royalty.
As if summoned by the thought, a pulse shot through the bond.
Not from him. From far away. Something powerful. Ancient. Searching. The vampire’s eyes darkened.
“They will feel this,” he said.
“Feel what?” I asked.
“Our bond.” He said. My blood ran cold.
“Who will?” He held my gaze.
“My father.”
And that’s when it clicked. The authority. The power. The command in his voice even while dying.
“You’re not just a vampire,”
I whispered. His lips curved faintly despite the blood at the corner of his mouth.
“I am the son of the Vampire King.”
Silence swallowed the cabin. The Vampire King. If Con knew who he attacked… This wasn’t revenge anymore.
This was war. Suddenly, the prince’s body jerked in pain. The claw marks across his side and began to smoke. Poison. Wolf venom. Con hadn’t just attacked him. He meant to kill him.
“You need blood,” I said, panic rising. His eyes flickered to my throat.
“No,” he growled, fighting instinct. “Not yours.”
But the bond burned.
Demanding….Claiming. Outside, the wind picked up violently, slamming against the cabin walls….Somewhere miles away…Con would have felt it.
Not the bond.,,,But the shift in power. The second my wolf anchored to another
Alpha force. And when did he realize? He would come. The prince’s grip tightened again.
“If he comes,”
the vampire said, voice dropping into something deadly despite his weakness,
“I will finish what he started.”
I looked down at him. At the man who was now my mate. At the future, the king of the vampires. And for the first time in 17 years… I didn’t feel small. I felt dangerous.
“Rest,” I told him softly. Let them come.”
And deep in the woods, something ancient stirred.
Because the bond between a wolf and a vampire prince had just snapped into existence. And neither kingdom would survive unchanged.
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