Chapter 15
Marina’s POV.
“He sounded believable and you’re telling me not to take his word for it. I questioned Bree, who was seated beside me, giving me a foot massage.
She had just trimmed my nails and brushed my hair. Next was my nails and she was doing a pretty good job with it.
“What do you mean by that?”
She adjusted the rag on herself and continued to peel off the nail polish I had on next time.
The alpha had asked her to make me look extremely beautiful. He had planned a surprise for me. I could barely keep myself still from the excitement of it.
“Tell me.”
She hesitated again, fearing that I might tell the Alpha what she would say but I assured her that she had no reason to be scared.
I had grown to see her as a sister and I would not betray my sister like that.
I could never.
“Go on. Tell me.”
“In that case“, she cleared her throat, “I’m going to say this and you should listen.”
I dropped my feet and drew closer.
“Okay.”
“The alpha is using you. He wants you to calm down so he can have fun with you and then leave when he finds a new mate.”
It hurt you hear her say that to be honest, it had a bit of sense inside of it but I shook my head. I refused to believe anything she said.
“He’s not a liar and we both know it.”
“He’s not a liar to us, his pack, but you aren’t his pack. You have to be honest with yourself, Marina, you’re a maid who was elevated so you could serve as his sexual tool.”
Those words stung more painfully than when I had been rejected by my first mate.
“He likes you enough to be with you and have you all to himself but he will not let you go.”
I shook my head, disagreeing with her. I wanted to hear more words from her.
“I had been in the same situation before. I liked a man and thought he was my mate“. She stopped talking and shook her head before she went back to scrapping my old nail polish.
“What happened?”
She sighed. “It’s a long story.”
That didn’t stop her in the lifetimes I had known her. I asked her to go on.
“He was not an alpha or anything fancy like that but to me, he was everything. I loved him with every fiber of my being and swore to be faithful to him, even in death.”
I got curious, “So how did it go?”
“He didn’t reject me so I thought he loved me enough.”
She laughed. It was not genuine. I could sense pain beneath that short outburst.
“So why are you here?” It seemed like a valid thing to ask.
“He didn’t reject me but he also didn’t accept me.”
And what did that mean?
“He took me to his home and had me laid in with him. We slept together for the first time and I felt like we had found love in each other’s arms. I was happy with him and he was happy with me.”
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Chapter 15
Sadness lingered in her voice.
“And then what?”
She exhaled deeply.
“And then, things got rough. Without even realizing it, I became his sex mate. He would sleep with me in the morning, noon, and then in the night, every day, at every chance he got and anywhere.”
I imagined the pain she must have been through, “No one deserves to be treated this way.”
She nodded, “I had to run from him and I stumbled upon the Alpha who took me as his own and made me his maid. It was a blessing from the moon goddess, without him, I would have been found and maybe taken captive again.”
I shook my head.
Alpha Luther was not that way.
Surely, he was not exactly the sweetest man I had imagined him to be, and maybe, he was using me as his plaything.
But he was not like her mate. There was no way the Alpha would keep me locked up just to have sex with me.
Or so I thought.
A memory flashed through my mind as I spoke. The memory of him locking me up in that dark basement. The ones that had chains.
What if Bree’s fate turned out to be mine?
I was deep in thought when the door creaked open. Luther’s head popped from behind it.
“Are you done?”
Bree shook her head.
He caught my gaze. He looked down at my nails and then smirked at me. “I got you a beautiful dress, make sure they are beautiful as well. We have somewhere we are going to be heading to.”
He withdrew his head and disappeared behind the door leaving both of us alone to get ready.
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Bree hastened up and finished minutes earlier. She retouched my hair again and did my makeup.
We finished on time and went to get the Alpha.
He directed me to my room and asked me to take whatever I chose.
Inside, a rack of clothes had been assembled. I had a closet of shoes arranged in front of me, they were in different colors and designs.
“The alpha lets you pick what you wish to wear. They look elegant and beautiful. He must like you“, some maids that had come with me whispered.
Bree was in charge of the outfit. She picked out what I should wear and styled me wonderfully.
We waited a few minutes for the alpha himself to get ready. He came out in a black tuxedo, with his hair styled back and shoes that made him look elegant.
Everyone gasped at his entrance and I felt my cheeks turn red, seeing that I was being taken to a party by him.
He stopped when he got to me and stared.
“You look good.”
I blushed even more.
“Thank you.”
He took me by the hand and walked me to his car.
I felt my insides shake with joy. My hand trembled with joy as everyone watched us walk.
They cheered for us.
Things were going as planned but then suddenly, he stopped at the back of his SUV and opened the booth.
“Get in.”
I didn’t understand it. “Get in where?”
“The booth.”
