SIX MONTHS WITH THE CRUEL ALPHA KING

I REJECT YOU

Esmeralda’s POV

I returned to my room and from the sound coming from the bathroom, I could tell that Dante was in the shower and although I was impatient, I waited for him to finish.

It didn’t take long for him to stride out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist, his hair and body was still wet and even though I was in front of him, he acted like he didn’t see me.

“Andre,” I called, not caring about the fact that he had just ignored me, “what is going on? What are you doing?” I questioned, my stomach tightening as I spoke but yet again, he ignored me.

“How could you do this? Why would you even do something like this?” I continued, shoving my pain to the deepest, darkest part of my mind, “how could you let her in that easily even though she’s been gone for so long?”

“Can’t you see how suspicious all of this is? It could be a plan for all we know and you just allowed her not just into the pack but also in the—”

“ESMERALDA!” Dante’s loud voice brought an abrupt stop to my words and I jumped as I looked into his eyes, they were burning with anger so hot that I could feel it.

“Whatever decision I take about Nyla shouldn’t be any of your business, it’s not your business who I decide to f**k!” He gritted, causing my eyes to widen because there was no way he just said that to myself.

Flames of anger licked through me and I felt rage like waves gradually usurp me as my fist clenched, my heart raced and anger beat in my chest like a drumbeat.

He didn’t just indirectly tell me that he was going to f**k Nyla all over again.

My body shivered and my mouth opened as hot breath elicited out of it, my eyes burned and red rage coursed through my brain as I looked up again to stare at the man I’d gotten married to.

“IT IS MY f*****g BUSINESS!” I thundered as anger seized my being, “I’m your wife, Dante, and Luna of this pack and I at least deserve some respect from you!” I snapped, my teeth gritting and my eyes not looking away from his eyes.

“If you, my husband, acts so stupidly like this, what the hell do you want everyone else to say? How do you want them to treat me?!” I finished, my voice lowering as I moved closer to him.

Dante smirked, I could read his expression and could tell that he was trying to keep his anger at bay and I couldn’t, for the life of me, understand why!

I’m the one in the rightful position to be mad.

He was f*****g Nyla the same night she came back while I’m still his wife.

He had disrespected me and had the nerve to be angry.

The silence was deafening, I wanted him to say something, my stomach crawled and just at the moment I opened my mouth to speak, Dante growled at me.

His voice almost caused the ground to quake as he closed the gap between us, his eyes still blazing red as he lifted a finger to my face.

“Listen and I want you to listen very well,” he started, the word grinding between his teeth as his eyes threw burning daggers at me.

“I respected you when I pulled out of Nyla and came back to this wretched room that I don’t even want to be in so instead of you nagging like a woman that’s completely out of her mind, you should appreciate my act of respect, shut the hell up, lay on that f*****g bed and call it a f*****g NIGHT!” He hissed.

I blinked twice to be sure that I was really the one Dante was talking to, it was disrespectful enough that he wouldn’t stop talking about her for years.

It was humiliating when he abandoned the speech he was supposed to make just so he could fawn over him when she arrived, showering kisses on her face and hand.

It was so f*****g embarrassing for me to walk into that room while he was still plunging his c**k into her like his life depended on it and I had to walk in while he was in the middle of having s*x with another woman.

All of that was humiliating and the lowest of the lowest form of disrespect! He had dismissed and forgotten all about me in just a matter of minutes!

“What if it’s all a trap?!” I blurted, not thinking or caring about anything else at this moment, “how would you know that when you’re busy thinking with your c**k and not that tiny thing in your head called a brain!” I snapped, a vortex of anger swirling inside me.

“W—" I wasn’t allowed the privilege of finishing what I wanted to say when Dante grabbed my neck, his palm engulfed it and squeezed so hard that breathing felt like such a luxury.

My throat hurt and my eyes rolled as I blinked back tears all the while trying to get Dante to stop choking me so hard but his grip only tightened around my neck.

“Nyla would never try to lay traps for me,” he declared with conviction, “so, just keep that running mouth of yours shut and SLEEP!” He finished before releasing me.

Wincing, I rubbed my throat as I took a few steps away from him, coughing desperately and gasping to get air into my throat and other parts of my body.

I made my way to the door, my footsteps emphasizing just how livid I was and just when I was about to turn the door knob, I paused to look back at Dante.

“I know Nyla is up to something and whatever it is, I’m going to find out!” I declared before walking out of the room and slamming the door behind me.

PRESENT DAY AND THE DAY OF THE REJECTION.

It was the last day of the entire annual three day celebration. The hall was filled with different people, elite from within the pack and even outside of it.

It’s supposed to mainly be everyone having brunch together and just enjoying the last day of one of the largest parties of the year.

Staring at myself in the mirror, I dabbed on a little lipstick after putting on my earring and necklace and I was almost done when the sound of the knock on my door caused me to look behind me.

“Come in.” I responded and the door opened, revealing Erwin. He looked just as strict as he always does and that had caused him to be one of the feared guards around.

“Luna, I found something on Nyla and I thought you’d like to know, I mean, you should know so something will be done as soon as possible.” He explained and I immediately sprung up.

“What did you find?” I questioned, my eyes peering into him and without wasting much time, Erwin closed the door behind him so he would have the privacy of giving me the paper he had hidden under his coat.

“Nyla is only here because her past alpha is always abusing her majorly and because there’s a high possibility that she cheated on her husband and is now pregnant with a child.” Erwin explained as I went through each page.

There were pictures of Nyla sneaking around with an unknown man, happiness flowed through me like a current as I lifted my gaze.

Smiling to myself, I couldn’t wait to show this to Dante and say it to his face that I was right all along and Nyla was only here because something had happened between her and her husband.

She’s probably here because she knows just how stupid Dante is and how easy it would be for her to push the bastard baby she was carrying to him.

“Thank you so much, Erwin.” I said with a smile as I rushed out of the dressing room and although I heard Erwin calling to ask me something, I didn’t look back.

I only had one thing on my mind and that’s to find Dante and tell him that the b***h he thought could never try to do anything to him was definitely up to something.

Finally, I found Nyla and Dante in the hall, their arms intertwined with no care in the world. Anger like a bile formed at the back of my throat as I walked closer to them.

“Did you really think I wasn’t going to find you out?!” I barked as I threw the papers Erwin had handed me to Nyla’s face, “you think your little shameless act will remain covered if you came here?” I scoffed before turning to Dante who seemed to be confused.

My little action had acquired a bit of crowd and some of them were already murmuring as I told Dante everything Erwin had told me and even forcibly took the papers from Nyla so that I could show him the evidence.

“She came here after causing a big ruckus in her last pack and she’s also pregnant so her main reason for coming here is to pin the child on you!” I finished with a yell as I was unable to keep my voice down.

The murmurs soon became louder and the hall felt as though someone had broken a beehive and let the bees loose.

“You’re nothing but a dirty, filthy, nasty w***e!” I barked as I turned to face Nyla, “save yourself the embarrassment and just walk out of this pack the same way you strode in.” I spat.

“I can’t believe how shameless you could be and the nerve to act so innocent even after doing something so shameful is just disgusting!” I continued.

Nyla’s eyes welled up with visible tears as she looked around her, her cheeks had turned red even up to the tip of her ears and it didn’t take long for her to burst into tears.

“Seems I was right after all,” she said amidst tears as she faced Dante, “your wife doesn’t like me at all and she’ll go far and wide just to come up with stories and frame me with different sorts of things.”

“None of this is true, she’s only doing this because she hates me and the idea of me being in this pack, with you.” Nyla cried and I couldn’t believe my ears and eyes.

That b***h!

“It’s true! I’d never stoop so low as to come up with stories that are untrue!” I defended myself, “let go of her and let this woman go back to where she came from!” I added as I tried to peel Dante’s arm off her but I couldn’t.

His anger had spread so far that he pushed me with just a shove of his hand, causing me to fall on my ass to the ground.

“Why are you so horrible?!” Dante asked and my jaw dropped as I looked up to see him glaring down at me.

“You have never been of good use to me, Esmeralda, I never even loved you and I can never love you, it’s something that’s never going to happen,” Dante declared and I felt my world crashing down before me.

“The only reason I chose you as my Luna was because Nyla was not around and now that she’s back here, I do not want to have anything to do with you again.” He finished, my heart tightened against my chest and my stomach clenched.

“I, Dante Williams, reject you, Esmeralda and banish you from this pack right now!”