Chapter 85
Chapter 85
ROMAN’S POV
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What I did in there was stupid and Ace is likely not going to let it go. I should have stopped, I told myself to stop talking but the anger and hatred I felt for him wouldn’t let me. It was like the words were pushing out on their own. I punched my steering wheel so hard and the horn blared loudly before dying off.
Fuck the way he was talking about Moon and the mate she rejected like it was some distant story. He was talking about me without even realising it. I understand that Moon had lied to him, I understand she twisted things, but did he have to believe every single thing she fed him? Did he ever once stop to think?
Ace is a cold Alpha. A man people say has no heart. But I’ve seen the other side of him too, I’ve seen him be the warmest person in the world when he wants to be. I will never forget what he did for me and I will also never forget what he did against me. When I moved back to the pack after I was called back from exile and became his Beta again, I had a plan, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. But I had a soft spot for Ace, one my mother absolutely hated.
It was none of my business who Ace slept with. Ace had fucked other women before he started dating Moon and nobody cared. That was normal for him. That night Moon had told him about was truly a birthday party, but it was held in our own pack for one of the high ranked wolf’s sons. The whole place was filled with horny wolves sucking their faces out in the open, some with their mates, others with random people, loud music, and drinks everywhere. I was going to get myself something to drink in the kitchen when it happened.
I caught a scent that wasn’t like anything regular, the best feminine smell I had ever perceived in my life. It hit me so hard I stopped walking. My wolf rose instantly and excited, repeating the same thing in my head. Mate. Mate. Mate.
I felt it deep in my bones. I finally had someone, someone that belonged to me.
I turned toward the direction of the scent, my heart was beating fast and I was filled with anticipation. Then I saw Moon. She was walking toward me and she suddenly stopped, her eyes widening the same way mine did. We just stood there staring at each other as the realization settled in. We were mates.
It was a whole freaking lot of messed up. She was in a relationship with Ace, my Alpha and friend. But the mate bond was stronger than logic and loyalty, it pulled us together like magnets.
She came closer first, like she couldn’t stop herself. When she touched me it felt like fire spreading through my veins. The noise around us faded, nothing else mattered. We fell into each other’s arms and had sex inside the nearest empty room we could find.
Afterwards I was still trying to steady my breath when I looked at her and said, “You have to break up with Ace. Tell him you found your mate. I’m sure he will understand.”
I was confident she was going to do as I said but she surprised me. But the expression on her face changed and that was when I realized she wasn’t thinking the same thing I was.
“I can’t do that, Roman. You’re my boyfriend’s Beta and I can’t hurt him by choosing you”
Her words didn’t even sink in at first. I just stared at her, waiting for her to laugh and say she was joking. I knew she was serious when she didn’t laugh it off.
“So you’d rather hurt me by choosing him? You’re fucking unbelievable.” She rejected me right there in that stranger’s bathroom like what we had just done meant nothing.
I refused to accept her rejection and she went crazy, or maybe she was trying to make me go crazy. She would kiss Ace right
in front of me, let him hold her, laugh with him, touch him like I wasn’t there with them watching. Every time I walked into
a room she made sure I saw them together. She did everything to make me accept that she chose him, but I was too
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tubborn to let it go. Many times, I felt it through the bond when she was having sex with him and it killed me inside but I vas too stubborn to let her go. I slept around with other girls knowing she could feel it too. She would come around and ight me for hurting her and we ended up having sex all over again. Ace had already taken too much from me, I wasn’t going o let him take the only person the Moon Goddess gave to me, my soulmate. I endured it and every single day I watched hem, and every single day my hate for him grew deeper.
don’t know what changed but Moon later came to me apologizing. She said she was confused, that the bond was verwhelming, that she would leave Ace at the right time. She kept repeating that, at the right time, like it was some promise vritten in stone, but that time never came. I started to believe she was playing both of us, keeping me close while enjoying >eing the future luna beside an Alpha, yet the mate pull between us was too strong and somewhere along the line I fell in ove with her. I wasn’t ready to let go and I kept telling myself that if anyone should step aside it should be Ace, not me.
Ve slept around for so long for her to get pregnant. At first she lied and said the baby belonged to Ace. I threatened to tell Ace everything, to end their relationship myself, and that was when she finally admitted it. The pup was mine. And I didn’t ven get to see my child before he died.
Ace and his father took my family from me, and then he went ahead and took my mate too. That was something I would
ever forgive. Some grudges don’t fade with time.
texted Moon to meet me at our usual place, at Ace’s old abandoned family house. No one ever went there anymore, the ack avoided it because of rumors surrounding it. That was exactly why it was perfect. And there was something darkly atisfying about calling Moon and fucking around in her husband’s empty mansion. The house was massive and grand. The irst few times I came there, I cleaned it myself. I walked to the cabinet and pulled out a bottle of Hennessy Paradis I had tashed there weeks ago. I didn’t bother with a glass. I drank straight from the bottle, the burn sliding down my throat as I lit
cigarette. Smoke filled the quiet space.
About an hour later, I heard her car outside. The door opened and Moon walked in, her face flushed red with frustration. Why the hell would you have me drive all the way here by myself at this time? The festival just ended….”
didn’t let her finish, I took another long sip and then smashed the bottle against the floor. The sound echoed violently hrough the mansion, glass scattering everywhere.
Don’t you fucking talk about the festival!”
she flinched but didn’t step back. “What has gotten into you? You and Damien had people arrested at the festival and you lon’t want me to talk about it?” Her eyes danced with anger.
I’ve given you over eight years to leave Ace. Every time we talk, it ends the same way. You promise you’ll leave him, you say you just need time, that you’re working on something, and then you go right back to him like I’m nothing. You keep tringing me along while still chasing after Ace, making me look like a damn fool.” Her actions betray her words every time, she takes me for a foolish ride but I can’t see myself leaving her.
I’ve told you so many times that I’m working towards a plan…”
‘Shut the fuck up with your stupid plan!” I snapped, the words exploding out of me.
She actually pulled back. I don’t yell at her, no matter how angry I get, I never raise my voice at her. This was the first time I let it rip, and it showed in the way her shoulders stiffened. “You’ve been planning for years.” I continued. “Years, Moon Your plan doesn’t look like it has an end.” I started walking toward her slowly. “Does this grand plan of yours include drugging and marking Ace?”
Her face was drained of color. “How did you know?”
A bitter laugh left my throat. “I know everything about you.” I stopped right in front of her. “I know you keep cheating on me while pretending I’m the only one you want. I know you’re meeting other men behind my back
My jaw became stiff as I said the next part. “And I know you’ve been fucking around with the leader of the rougarous
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The word felt dirty in my mouth, I had known for a long time. I let it slide because I convinced myself she was plotting something bigger, something that would end with her choosing me. But looking at her shocked expression, I wasn’t sure if I had been patient… or just pathetic.
“Roman, I’m sorry.” She hugged me and I fell back into her spell like I always do. The moment her arms wrapped around me, all the anger I was holding onto started slipping through my fingers. I am so freaking in love with her that no matter what she does, I can’t leave her. “I had to be with him even though it disgusts me,” she whispered against my chest. “That is the only way they can help us. We can’t take Ace down by ourselves.”
I pulled back just enough to look at her. “Are you really sure you want to take him down? Because a few hours ago you were trying to mark him. How desperate can you be?” My words choked. “You’re never going to leave him, are you?”
She shook her head so fast I was afraid it might actually fall off. “I’m going to leave him. It’s all part of it.”
“Marking and claiming him is part of the plan?” I let out a dry laugh. “Tell me something else. Let’s not even talk about the fact that you’re fighting your own divorce.”
She smiled softly. “I am doing all this for you. I want to help you take your revenge and get what you want.”
“And how do you plan to defend yourself in front of Ace? He already thinks you were the one in the elevator.”
She smiled again, that same smile I always found myself weak to. “He won’t be able to prove it was me. He was out of his head and the lights were bad, the security camera in that section has been faulty for weeks, I made sure of that. Even if he suspects me, it will sound like the rambling of a stressed Alpha.”
Her fingers tightened slightly on my shirt. “Don’t worry, it won’t trace back to me.”
“Not this time, Moon, I don’t believe you’ll lie your way out of this one. Charlotte followed you inside till they got there, you led her to that elevator.”
“Charlotte and her son are about to be out of the picture for good, we shouldn’t worry about them anymore.”
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
