Bonds

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.

to the surface reminded me of the

that because the next words that came out from his mouth ripped my

reject you Amaya Stone and from this moment, you are nothing

painful, it had me falling back on my knees gasping for air. I had heard

as I struggled to see through the

her out of

two strong hands pick me from the

gasped out,

were the last words that echoed in my head and

That night… It rained.

night.. I

***************

come back home. I have found a man

breath when my father’s hard tone sounded through the phone again,

father

known immediately I saw Daniel Stones’ name on my phone. My father hardly ever called

is he?”

your concern. I will send a car to fetch you before the

Like a

Am I

before ending the call and

part of an arranged marriage to a man that I did not

my father wouldn’t approve of me bringing them to his house. The bastard

I quickly scrolled

my goodness, are you at my doorstep right now? Please tell me you’re here! Wait, no, wait a sec, I’m not

down my ever-excited best friend, “Could you maybe give

am—I just can’t help it. I get all hyper when you call, especially ’cause it’s so

interjected again, gently teasing her,

I’m all ears now. You have the

words always poured out like an overflowing river, bubbling over with enthusiasm. It felt like she could fill an empty room with her energy, and I

in my mind.

through the phone, laced with

weight of his demand settling over me, “he wants me… he wants me to come back

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

father’s call still echoing in my mind, the words sinking into my heart like heavy stones. “Make

name

and I had honed this psychic

line. “After everything I did… I turned my back on my entire pack, and he still took me

voice a mix of frustration and empathy. “Your parents left you

protest, to defend their actions, but Natalia cut in, her words gentle yet firm, “You did

for a new wave of pain to wash through

decision heavy in my chest. “He said he would send

a laugh but it sounded hollow, “Fetch you?

laughed if the

I wouldn’t bother you if I had

I’ve been 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 to stress about