My Human Wolf

Shocked

Chapter Two

Her POV

I couldn’t breathe. My hands were shaking so badly I could barely hold onto the edge of the desk. My chest felt tight, like someone had wrapped a band around it and was squeezing. The woman in the Luna outfit… standing so close to him… smiling at him… it should have been me. It should have been me.

“Alaric … what is going on?” I said, my voice trembling. I forced myself to step forward, though my legs felt like lead. “This outfit… the Luna outfit… I should be the one wearing it. It’s… it’s our day. It’s our moment.”

He turned slowly, his dark eyes locking onto mine. Calm. Cold. Controlled. That glint in his eyes… it wasn’t affection. It wasn’t love. It was something sharper… crueler.

He smiled, low and slow, like he was savoring my pain. “You think I would announce you as my mate?” he said. “You? Do you really think you are worthy of me?”

I froze. My heart dropped. “W-what do you mean?” I barely whispered.

“I need my territory to grow,” he said, his voice calm, deliberate. “I need human lands. I need power. I need… what you have. And I have it now And how could a fragile little human girl be beside me as my Luna? Because you are the CEO of your world? You think it’s same here? You think I wanted your loyalty? Your heart? Foolish.”

My stomach twisted. My hands trembled. “You… you mean… all this time… you never… cared?” I choked, tears threatening to fall. “I trusted you… I gave you everything! My company… my land… my life… all of it!”

He took a slow step closer, and I flinched. “Yes,” he said softly, cruelly. “You gave me everything willingly. You were nothing but… convenient. A tool. A human who thought she could play in the world of wolves. That’s all you ever were to me.”

My knees buckled, and I sank into the chair behind me. My hands flew to my face as the weight of his words crushed me. My mind spun. I loved him. I trusted him. I… I gave him everything. And he… he used me.

I wanted to scream. I wanted to run. I wanted to disappear. My chest felt like it was breaking from the inside. The warmth, the hope, the dreams I had built… all of it had been ripped away in one moment.

“You… you’re… a monster,” I whispered, barely able to breathe. My voice was small, but my anger boiled beneath it.

He laughed. A low, sharp laugh that echoed in the room and cut through me. “Monster?” he said. “No, human. I’m just honest. You… you should have seen it coming. You wanted to be part of my world. And now… you are.”

I shook my head, tears spilling down my cheeks. My chest heaved with sobs I refused to let out fully. “I… I trusted you… I loved you…”

“You loved me?” His smile twisted, dark and wicked. “You thought you loved me. Love has nothing to do with this. Power has everything to do with this. And you… you gave me everything. Without a fight. Without hesitation. You made your choice.”

I wanted to wail, to plead, to beg him to tell me it was a lie. My hands flew to the papers on the desk—the contracts, the lands, everything I had worked for—and my stomach churned. Everything… gone. I gave him everything… and he used me.

Then he called the servants. His voice was calm, unbothered. “Take her away.”

I tried to stand, tried to step toward him, my voice cracking with desperation. “No! You can’t do this! Alaric , you can’t!”

Two men stepped in, tall and broad. They grabbed my arms before I could react. I struggled, kicking and shouting, but it was useless. My chest ached. My hands burned. My tears fell freely now, stinging my cheeks.

“You don’t understand,” I gasped, trying to wrench myself free. “You… you can’t do this! You—”

“Enough.” His voice cut me off. The woman beside him smiled, leaning closer to him, whispering something that made his lips curl into that same wicked smile. My stomach twisted in revulsion. My heart broke all over again.

They dragged me toward the door. I turned my head, trying to memorize his face one last time. His eyes were calm, unbothered, filled with a cold satisfaction that made bile rise in my throat.

I wanted to scream, to beg, to fight… but the doors closed behind me, cutting me off from him, from everything I had thought was real.

I collapsed against the wall, my body shaking, my chest heaving. Tears streamed down my face. Rage and despair battled inside me, each breath burning my lungs.

I hugged my knees, curling into myself. My mind screamed, I trusted him! I loved him! And he… he took it all. How could I be so stupid? How could I…

Minutes passed. Maybe hours. I don’t know. All I knew was the fire growing inside me. The heartbreak… the betrayal… it was sharp, but beneath it, something stirred. Something that refused to be broken.