Alpha Conrad’s Little Pet

Seven

SAMANTHA

I froze as a cold tingle traveled up my spine, paralyzing all my limbs and rendering me speechless. s**t!

Consumed with fear and panic, I let myself get carried away and now, I’ve spilled out everything to Elara.

“What do you mean by you ran away from one only to end up with another?” She asked again.

Elara knew that I was supposed to get married to Zach so by now, her brain must already be working to arrange all the facts. Give her a little time she will figure somethings, if not all, out.

Elara has helped me a whole lot and she was my friend and I trusted her to keep my secrets. Has she not been keeping my whole existence a secret since I got here? I quickly made a decision to tell her everything.

The wound has been raw when I first got here and I did not want to talk about it as I would only break down. The wound was still there but it was slowly healing and I needed someone to talk to. I needed to vent to take the load off my shoulders. Elara was just that person I needed.

“Can we go somewhere to talk? I’ll tell you everything,”

“We can go to my office,” Elena suggested and I nearly said no because her office was here in the palace but I decided to go along with her while muttering a silent prayer that we won’t bump into alpha Conrad. I wouldn’t know what to do if that should happen and I knew that he won’t ignore us.

“Talk,” Elara said, finally breaking the few minutes of silence.

We were both in her office and she was sitting behind her desk while I occupy a seat in front of it.

“You remember Clarence?”

“Clarence? Who’s that?” Elara asked with furrowed brows.

“My best friend. The omega I grew up with. The one my father gifted me as a child.” I explained to her. She and Clarence met a few times but I never introduced them and they did not really click or talk.

“Oh, I remember. What about him?”

“The day before I arrived here, I found him in bed with Zach. Apparently they are fated mates and have been sleeping together behind my back,”

“s**t!” Elara cussed with wide eyes. “That’s bad,”

“Yeah? Tell me about it. It was the day before Zach and I were supposed to be married. I panicked and ran off. I could not stand looking at the both of them and I could not remain and be forced to marry Zach when I already knew,”

Her voice was filled with compassion as she said, “I’m so sorry, Sam. Hell, I don’t even know what to say about this. I’m sorry such a thing happened to you,”

“I’ve had time to think about it since I got here and I can’t really say I blame them for hiding it from me.”

“What do you mean by that?” Now, Elara was frowning.

“It’s not their fault that the moon goddess decided to play a fast one on us and made them fated mates. Zach’s father is pure evil and he is homophobic. He and my father would have Zach kill Clarence and still force him to marry me. From the get go, neither Zach and I loved each other but our parents did not care. According to them, we will grow to love each other and it did happen for me but because Zach already had Clarence, he could never love me. They did not know how I’d react that’s why I never told me,”

This was the part that hurt me the most. The lie! Clarence was my best friend for goodness sake and we hid nothing from each other. I told him how I was beginning to love Zach and he even seem happy for me when he was going behind my back to sleep with Zach. The both of them must think I am a bloody fool. They must have been laughing at me behind my back.

A fresh wave of humiliation washed through me at the thought. Maybe they even discussed my matter and laughed at me anytime they were done making love to each other.

I shut my eyes tight, trying to blink the tears that were threatening to spill as the image from that day flowed into my head again. The sounds of the moans and grunts, even the noise of flesh slapping against flesh and Clarence screaming at Zach to go faster and harder.

Thinking about it now, there had been so many signs but I pushed them away. Zach always refused to kiss me, telling me how it was wrong and we needed to save everything for after our wedding. He even painted a very beautiful story about how lovely it would be to kiss for the first time during our wedding ceremony and how letting out and taking care of our pent up desires on our wedding night will be explosive.

Foolish me had believed him. He only let me hold his hand and now, I could only see that he had been doing it to protect Clarence from getting hurt. Even Clarence told me that Zach was only doing all of that because he really loved me.

A self deprecating laugh burst out of me as the tears finally burst free and began to flow down my face.

I raised my head to look at Elara who was watching me with a sympathetic expression. Her eyes were also clouded with tears or was it just because my eyes were blurry that’s why I thought so?

“You know, thinking about it now, there were signs but I chose to ignore them. Our father’s were okay with us sleeping together and providing a heir even before we are married and I got my wolf on my eighteenth birthday but Zach was vehemently against the idea and I did not even worry because he was so thoughtful and I thought he wanted me to get older first. He spent more time with Zach than he did with me. They smiled and hugged each other like lovers but I thought they were just friends. They even…”

“Sam!” Elara’s voice was harsh, breaking me from my little rant, “None of it was your fault. If you don’t blame them because it was beyond their control then you can’t blame yourself either because it was out of your control too,”