Alpha Ryder, You Have Lost Me Forever

Twelve

Chapter Twelve

Seraphina’s POV

By the time I rise up from the bed, Ryder isn’t here. I roll over in the bed, the memory of last night fresh in my head, especially as his scent still lingers. Last night was so beautiful. I had no idea that I wanted Ryder that much. Considering how he’s been avoiding me, I was a little shocked at how much he also wanted me. My legs still ache from the intense lovemaking. My wolf is just as excited. I can feel her purring from within me as she rises to the surface.

I wonder what this means for us now. I frown. But a knock on my door snatches my attention, and the head butler comes in. He brings me breakfast, stating that Ryder gave him orders to ensure that I’m well fed. He also adds that he added that he’ll see me after the day’s activities.

That brings a smile to my face, and the butler adds that he hopes I enjoy the food before he leaves. Again, I’m grinning. This means that he cares for me. The smell of bacon and sandwich wafts through the air, and I take a bite of the food. It tastes good. A part of me wonders if Ryder cooks, and I imagine him wearing an apron while cutting veggies in the kitchen. The image is so hot that I swallow.

Whatever he wants to discuss later, I really hope that it’s about us, particularly what will happen now that we crossed a line—one I don’t regret.

I glance at the alarm clock and almost choke on my food. I can’t believe that I slept for so long. It’s almost 10 am.

I finish up with my food, and just when I’m about to hit the bathroom, I hear a noise from outside the door, and I pause. I wonder what is going on. I open the door, heading down the stairs, when I hear Blake’s vicious voice.

“There she is. Seize her!” Before I can rush back inside the room, I’m overpowered by two powerful guards and dragged out.

“Let go of me! Where are you taking me?” I struggle to break free from their grip, but they are too strong for me.

“You’re such a shameless slut. Bring her!” Blake bellows, and I’m dragged till I’m brought before Ryder in nothing but my robe—his robe, technically.

“Take your hands off me!” I’m forced to kneel in front of Ryder, and I look around, wondering what is going on.

“Ry—Alpha Ryder, I was brought here forcefully by your men, who manhandled me like a criminal!” I say, still unable to believe the treatment meted out on me.

“How dare you still speak? Your shame has no bounds, does it?” "Blake says," his shrill voice slithering through the air.

“Are you not going to say something, Alpha Ryder?”

“Silence!” Ryder bellows, his voice booming through the air, and my eyes dilate in shock at the look in his eyes. He’s staring at me with so much disgust, like I’m some piece of s**t, and I blink, unable to make sense of what’s happening. He looks nothing like the man who showed me the greatest form of pleasure I’d ever known just last night.

“Not another word from you, Seraphina!” His voice is void of any kind of warmth.

“Bring it!” Ryder says, and a guard comes with an envelope. He hands it over to Ryder, who throws it at me.

I grab the heavy envelope and open it. It’s a wad of notes.

My confusion only compounds. “What’s this for?” I ask, unable to understand what’s going on.

“Your wages. For your service last night. It was good while it lasted. That’s all you ever wanted anyway. Money. You’re just like the others.”

“What? Y-you’re paying me for s*x?” I ask, my voice low, unable to contain my shock, despite how that sounds with the number of people present in the room.

“You’ve got some nerve to think you can try to fool me into thinking that you’re something that you’re not, when you’re nothing but a cheap w***e whose worth is some measly wad of notes. You’re lucky I’m not treating you any worse than this.”

“I don’t even—”

“You’re banished, Seraphina. I don’t want to ever see you here in. The next time you step foot here, I’ll not be nice enough to just let you go. Guards! Throw her out of here, including every single thing she came with. I don’t want to see even a pin.”

“Y-you can’t be serious,” I say, tears welling up in my eyes.

“Never show up in my face again, Seraphina. You won’t live to see the consequences of your actions if I ever see you again.” With that, he rises from his seat without looking back at me once.

“Alpha Ryder! Ryder! You can’t do this to me. Please, listen to me. Ryder!!” I cry desperately as I’m being dragged out like a prisoner, but my pleas fall on deaf ears.

“Take her away!” Blake says, his voice dripping with venom, but I don’t even pay him any attention. I continue to cry for Ryder to listen to me. But he doesn’t come out. Like a slave, I’m thrown out of the pack, with my things thrown at me. Other members of the pack gather, watching me, and in the next few seconds, different objects hit me from several angles.

“She seduced the alpha!”

“She’s such a shameless woman!” I cover my head, preventing more damage, especially as my head begins to bleed. It’s only when the guards finally lock the gate that they stop throwing things at me, and their voices grow faint.

The guards finally let go of me, leaving me in the middle of nowhere, and I stay in a fetal position, too weak to stand up. I replay the events of the last hour, wondering what happened. It feels like a nightmare I want to wake up from fast.

Ryder threw me out of his pack like I’m some garbage. I stare at the envelope, which the guards threw at me, and unable to contain my emotions, I burst into hot tears, every part of my heart ripping into shreds with each ticking second.

Where am I going to go?