Bonds of the Alpha Billionaire (Maya and Alex)

Chapter One

-Four years ago-

-Maya's POV-

It rained on the day I died.

People die in different ways, mine was one of the most painful kinds. My heart was ripped out and shredded into a million pieces right in front of me.

"Alex, please don't do this to me," I begged running after him, "Please I am begging you. I have nowhere to go."

He turned to me, his blue eyes now as cold as ice stared at me. Gone was the warmth that made me feel safe whenever he held me to his chest, whispering just how much he loved me. "Alex," I whispered his name again.

"You are starting to irritate me. Do not make me throw you out, Maya."

Maya.

The sound of my name on his lips was another painful stab to my heart. He hadn't called me by my real name in the three years we had been married.

My begging was getting me nowhere I realized. Standing to my feet, I wiped the tears from my cheeks.

"You are really going to do this to me after everything we have been through together? After everything I gave up just to be with you?"

He didn't say anything. He simply stared through me like I didn't exist. Like I was nothing.

I stared at him. He looked the same. The same man I had fallen in love with. The same man I had turned my back on my entire pack for just to be with yet he was so different.

There had been so much whispers after the announcement of our engagement but the center of it all was that I was a gold digging stripper that had dug her claws into one of the most eligible billionaires in the city but neither Alex nor I had cared.

He kissed me two months after that and claimed me as his.

"You and I against the world silver.. Always and forever," he had whispered just before he entered me for the first time.

We had both made sacrifices for love and I was not going to let him destroy it.

"You cannot just discard me like I am nothing to you," I said finally, hoping to get a reaction from him but there was nothing.

"Do you have nothing else to say?"

Silence hung between us, almost suffocating me then finally he walked towards the table, grabbing a brown envelope and in that cold and detached voice, "My signature is already on it. Sign it and don't let me see you ever again."

"We can fix whatever is wrong. Tell me what happened. You can't just leave then return only to tell me you are ending our marriage and then throw divorce papers in my face. Please let me fix it. Whatever it is." I tried to step forward but halted in my step when I saw the flash of black in his eyes.

His wolf lunging to the surface reminded me of the most important detail of our relationship, "We are mates."

His eyes darkened fully making me wish I hadn't said that because the next words that came out from his mouth ripped my heart out.

reject you Amaya Stone and from this

on my knees gasping for air. I had

in pain as I struggled to

out of my

strong hands

gasped out,

echoed in

That night... It rained.

same night..

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home. I have found a man for you to

father's hard tone sounded through the phone again,

should have known immediately I saw Daniel Stones' name on my phone.

will the wedding take place? Who is he?" I managed to get out after

you before the

me. Like a common

I allowed to

me finish before ending the call and I let out a

I had it in me to fight. To say no. That I wouldn't be part of an arranged marriage to a man that I did not

approve of me bringing them to his house. The bastard children to your bastard husband as he called them. Thinking up solutions in my brain, I quickly scrolled through the limited

miss you so, so much! Oh my goodness, are you

trying to calm down my ever-excited best friend, "Could you

just can't help it. I get all hyper

again, gently teasing her,

Right, right! I'm all ears now. You have

excitement was infectious. Her words always poured out like an overflowing river, bubbling over with enthusiasm. It felt like

deep sigh, picturing Natalia's face in my mind.

the phone,

hesitating as I felt the weight of his demand settling over me, "he wants me...

silence on the line felt heavy, the space between her breaths seemingly long. Her silence spoke volumes before

in my mind, the words sinking into my heart like heavy stones.

name like

had honed this psychic connection from the

feeling her understanding seep through the line. "After everything I did... I

an act of reconciliation," Natalia retorted, her voice a mix of frustration

protest, to defend their actions, but Natalia cut in, her words gentle yet firm, "You did it for love. You loved him, Amaya. Don't let anyone ever fault you

have to say his name for a new wave

my decision heavy in my chest. "He said he would send a

out a laugh but it sounded hollow, "Fetch you?

if the situation had been

bother you if I had any other

dying to see you for ages. It's been over a year and I really want to hug you and you don't even have