CURSED BUT FOUND

Chapter 2 ~ Betrayal And A Kiss

{Violet’s POV}

Slowly, I inched my body towards the door frame, and I was almost struck with a heart attack when the volume of a female's moaning crept into my ears.

As a result, I stumbled roughly to the side as my gaze stretched in shock. I stumbled not because there was a female in the same room as my boyfriend and they were most likely grinding the hell out of one another, but because I knew that female! I couldn’t mistake her voice for anything in the world.

Ashley Queen!

Without sparing another second, I threw my weight against the hardboard door, and to my surprise, I broke through. As I settled my stance, I drove my glare around with a hunting haste until it rested on my greatest terror.

There they were, intimately entangled— Ashley straddling Daniel, Daniel cuddling Ashley. Instantly, their two half-naked and sweaty bodies cursed me with tears as quiet pools glossed up my eyes.

“Daniel!” I bawled fiercely so that my voice filled the entire expanse of the room. But instead of the panic and trembling I had been expecting, the erotic twosome just broke up their sensual ecstasy in the most casual way ever and shot me distant looks. They didn’t seem surprised, scared, guilty, confused or anything. I couldn’t read a f*****g expression on their f*****g faces!

I tried forming words but it felt like I had suddenly lost that ability. The shock wouldn’t let me. However, my tears were speaking for me, but they only communicated my weaknesses and vulnerability.

I didn’t understand why I was tearing up so suddenly. I was only beginning to fall in love with this cunt and wasn’t necessarily attached to him emotionally, so why was I this wounded? Was it because I had been stabbed with betrayal once again— and this time, maybe by my fated mate? Or because Ashley was involved.

Slowly they both got up and I fixed my teary gaze on Daniel who looked rather undisturbed as he slipped back into his clothes. In my entire woeful living, I had never been presented so vulnerable before anyone as I was now, and the stinging part was that Daniel wasn’t even moved or affected by it.

I knew it was a bad move but I shifted my gaze to Ashley. I couldn’t help the choking suspense and just needed to know her slant with everything that was happening even though I already had a precise guess.

As expected, she wore a scornful smile that was intentionally crafted to spill my anger, while her hardened n*****s still arrowing in the air made a mocking addition. She had struck me with a very hard blow and she knew it.

“You don’t just come barging in on my private business, Violet!“ Daniel finally spoke up, breaking up my cloud of bewilderment with the cruelty of his voice, and I stared back at him with a solid gape.

Did he just call ‘f*****g someone else and cheating on me’ private business? No way he just said that. Maybe I didn’t hear him properly.

I took a lazy step forward and motioned to form words again but he beat me to it.

“You need to leave, Vii!” He adjured harshly and I felt a million stings in my chest. What was happening?

“But…”

“I can’t be mated to clot like you.” He wasn’t stopping. “And thanks to Ashley here, I finally know the f*****g truth!” He dumped his fist on a side table, causing a ‘thwack’ to fill the room!

I was forced to ignore the fact that he was the one yelling and ranting when it was supposed to be the other way around because he had mentioned the ‘truth’.

“What truth could he be referring to?” I quizzed in my head as fear and uneasiness crept up my lungs. If it was really what I was thinking— that he finally knew my secret, I needed to say something. I needed to do something— anything!

“Daniel…” I started without exactly knowing what I intended to say, but before I could continue in my aimlessness, Ashley rudely butted in.

“Don’t even bother, schmuck.” She countered before pushing her body into gentle strides towards me. She had worn her clothes now so that both culprits were fully dressed, and with this, I felt all my evidence against them gradually spilling away. Nobody would believe me now if I told them I had caught these mugs smashing each other.

“Daniel here.” She continued with a grating tone. “finally knows that you’re a breathing fraud!” She voiced and I felt my blood seethed in my veins. Even though I knew the grim reality of what she was referring to, I couldn’t stop the anger that was boiling in me. These fuckers fouled me and they were the ones yelling! How inane!

Due to our babel, a large crowd had gathered outside the Art room so that students littered every single inch of the hallway, and subconsciously, I had backed out of the room and into that news-thirsty crowd.

Daniel and his s*x mistress soon joined me in the hallway so that we were all now surrounded by waves of Students with eager ears. I wasn’t surprised by the sudden audience, however. This was Wolfville and everyone loved a good show.

“You thought you could continue lying to my face?— Tuck me away in your bag of pretense!” Daniel scowled at me, but with his volume, It was obvious that he was addressing our gathered audience and not me… and in that instance, I realized something. I realized what they were trying to do. They were going to use my secret as an anchor to turn everything against me and save themselves from the disgrace of their actions.

Fresh warm tears pooled down my cheeks as I realized how helpless I was. I literally had the two most influential Werewolves in Wolfville against me and I had no tangible evidence to defend myself with.

I had always thought it would be Ashley standing before the entire school one day to expose my inability. But never in my weirdest reasoning would I have thought that someone I was beginning to love, someone who might just be my fated mate, would be another main character in my ruination story.

Daniel turned his devilish gaze back to me and I was even more heartbroken seeing how satisfied he was with my gloom. It seemed like he was suddenly a completely different person.

The murmurs and hubbub had grown louder now as the crowd bawled in anticipation of what Daniel was about to say, and in that moment, I felt like sinking into the ground and staying there.

Slowly, I circled my gaze around and noticing the sea of criticizing gazes, my embarrassment was thrown to the top of its scale. My heart’s pound against my chest grew more intense as I realized I was going to be the school’s object of ridicule for a long time.

From the periphery of my vision, I could see Ashley preparing her signature smile and I knew Daniel was about saying it. He was about to make me the greatest joke ever!

Who could have known that the handsome chap I had met weeks ago would become the fiendish devil behind my sob story?

Nevertheless, I needed to do something. I needed to either save myself or kill myself. Either way would be a solution because then I wouldn’t have to endure the torment that was to come.

I stared back at Daniel and noticed his expression had grown a sudden coldness. He wore a distant look that made it seem like his words had tangled up in his tongue. Maybe guilt had finally struck him or he regained his senses. Either way, I was still to be damned, as Ashley on the other end, was looking vile as ever! I knew she had waited for this day and now that it was finally here, she wasn’t going to let the opportunity slip off her fingers.

As if noticing Daniel’s hesitation. She stepped forward towards me with a grin that I had seen a thousand times before. She stopped a few inches before me and the hall grew quiet at once. They knew she was about to say or do something. Something big!

“Listen up everyone.” She started and I felt myself slowly choking on the air of my helplessness. Why me? Why was I always drawn towards misery!

“What I’m about to tell you.” Her volume was low, but you could hear the evil vibrating between her lines. “Is going to leave you all stunned!.” Her voice grew a dramatic tone and I was forced to realize how seasoned she was at humiliating other people. “Because it’s even more humiliating than when Jackson” She aimed her finger at a guy named Jackson for emphasis, ”grew an extra tail during the grim moon.” She dobbed while gasps and murmurs of bemusement followed.

She inched her gaze back to me. “What if I told you” her lips formed a wicked grin “that Violet Hunter is—“

Before she could get the rest of her incriminating sentence out, I circled myself around and pulled the guy behind me— whoever he was, in for a deep kiss.

At once, the entire hall of babble, the bobbing crowd, their raucous chatter … everything and everyone grew quiet! … so that not even a single gush of wind could be heard. Ashley too was muted as her voice was lost somewhere in the silence.

I, on the other hand, was unexpectedly stolen by the gratifying ecstasy I had accidentally created. My lips were still very much glued with those of this nameless savior, and as weird and odd as the moment was, for some reason, it didn’t feel foreign.

The stranger, whoever he was, had been startled when I had pulled him in for the kiss as his gaze had stretched in confusion and his lips had hesitated for a brief moment on mine before they had gently melted into the kiss. Thank goodness he had been cheerful with his lips because goddess knows the additional ridicule and embarrassment that would have earned me

Now, he was tenderly kissing me back, with our tongues guiding each other’s in a way that almost didn’t feel human, and I was too pleased to wonder why. This sensual bliss continued for some heated seconds amidst the pool of dumbfounded stares and really wide gapes, and I caught myself relishing the moment before I finally forced myself to pull away.

Even though I had canoodled a complete stranger and might have just given the school a buzz topic that would probably trend for the rest of the year, I had still succeeded in shutting Ashley up, which had been my goal in the first place. I couldn’t wait to see the look on her face… but most importantly, I couldn’t wait to see the face of the Chap whose lips I had just borrowed.

Slowly, I inched away from our weirdly passionate clinch, and as I did, I realized just how imposingly tall and artfully toned this guy was. At once, my urge to see who he was tore up my comportment.

Promptly, I threw my gaze up to his face and I was stoned with staggering shock as my eyes absorbed the sight.

“L… Liam Cornaro?”

Fuck.