chapter two
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After he rejected me I quickly went up to my room to pack some clothes before Ethan sent me out with only the clothes on my back, despite the pain in my chest which was a result of separation from my mate and I knew in a few days it would grow into full-blown torture unless I mated with someone else. I would have thought that was why Ethan didn't reject me earlier but this only applied to female wolves while the males go almost unaffected.
As I shoved clothes into a duffel bag I came across our wedding photograph. I picked it up and stared at it, I looked so happy with Ethan standing by my side not knowing what I was getting into.
When I looked at Ethan's face it confirmed what I had always suspected, he never loved me at all, he was just pretending.
While I was smiling at my new mate he was smiling at someone else, the waitress who appeared in the background of the picture.
Tears began to gather in my eyes, even on our wedding day he would rather look at someone else and pretend I didn't exist.
I put the picture aside and finished packing, I grabbed the duffel bag and went down the stairs where Ethan and his mistress were waiting for me.
I kept my head down and tried to walk out the door but Ethan stopped me.
"Come back here you cunt." I stilled in my movement and turned to him.
"What do you want?" I asked with a shaky voice and he threw something at me, I flinched and moved back, this wouldn't be the first time he threw something at me.
I looked down and saw that it was a bundle of money. It looked like it was up to a hundred thousand.
"Everyone knows what you wanted from the start," Freya said, caressing Ethan as she sat on his lap and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. "You're lucky he is so generous. Go ahead and thank him." She sneered.
"I don't want it." I would never stoop so low to accept money from them after the humiliation I went through.
Even though I had very little money and didn't know where to go I walked out of the house leaving the money on the floor.
Since I didn't have any other option, I decided to go to Annalise's place hoping she would help me.
When the bus I took dropped me in front of her house, I went to the door and knocked but no one answered.
I stayed out there for hours and it was 6 PM now according to my wristwatch and it was getting dark. I was starting to hear rogue wolves howl in the distance.
But Ethan didn't let me own a phone so I had no choice but to sit on the floor outside the house and wait in the cold. Another hour and a half passed before Annalise came back. She walked up to the house in wolf form and stopped when she saw me. She shifted back and quickly put on her clothes which she tied on her leg before shifting.
"Lianna?" She called out my name in surprise.
"Hi, Anna." I stood up and smiled weakly, the last meal I had was at breakfast.
"What are you doing here?"
"The Alpha rejected me, please I need a place to stay."
"What? The Alpha? What did you do?"
Tears threatened to spill as I remembered how badly I tried to save the marriage.
"I don't know what I did, please help me."
"I'm sorry, Lianna. You have to find someone else."
"Please Annalise, you're the only friend I have."
"I'm not your friend, I was just being nice to you." She started to sound angry. "Leave before I call the Wolfguards"
I got up sobbing and left, I finally understood that so no one cared about me, I was just a burden to everybody. I was alone in this world.
I had to get a job quickly to be able to pay for a night at a hotel and even though I studied business administration my certificate was still at Ethan's house and I couldn't go back there.
I started to walk and stopped at the first bar I saw. When I walked into the bar, and started to look for the manager, I was interrupted.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the slut herself." Two blonde girls stopped in front of me.
"Makes sense that she'll be here looking for a wolf to w***e herself to." The other one said.
"Who are you?" I was confused. Why would they be saying such things when I don't even know them?
"Miley and Riley. We're friends of Freya." Miley smirked.
"What do you want from me?"
"You thought you got away with stealing Freya's man, you b***h?" Riley spat at me.
What were they talking about, freya was the one who stole my mate.
"Please just let me go." I pleaded as I tried to go away and they pulled me back.
"Hey everyone!" Riley called the attention of everyone in the bar.
"We want to introduce you to a man-stealing w***e tonight." She announced loudly and everybody turned their attention to us.
I tried to get away again but they shoved me roughly to the floor.
"Come on Riley, you can't blame her," Miley pouted. "After all she's just following in her mother's footsteps." As everyone laughed my blood turned ice cold and embarrassment washed over me.
My mother was an omega from a neighboring pack and she mated with the beta of the pack then. Everyone had regarded her as a golddigger who seized an opportunity even though my father genuinely loved her.
"And of course, the Alpha has divorced her. Who wouldn't after finding out what a gold-digging b***h she was." I wasn't sure which one of them said it as I knelt on the floor, tears dripping from my eyes even as I tried to stop them.
I moved back quickly as a man came close to me and tried to touch my breasts.
"Why are you pretending? Everyone knows you're a whore." He sneered.
I couldn't take it anymore. I got up and ran out of the bar still crying as the words replayed in my head. I kept running till my legs got tired and I fell in the middle of an empty road.
I didn't know how long I was there before someone came to help me. It was a man and from the way he lifted me I knew he was strong and he smelt familiar. I looked up and wondered if I had passed out or was hallucinating.
"Edward?" I said in surprise. It was my husband's elder brother and the former Alpha of the pack.
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