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.

lunging to the surface reminded me of the

me wish I hadn’t said that because the next words that came out from his mouth

Amaya Stone and from this moment, you are

falling back on my knees gasping for air. I had heard stories of rejection

in pain as I struggled to

out

hands pick me

I gasped

see her again.” Those were the last words that echoed in my head

That night… It rained.

night.. I

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back home. I

my father’s hard tone

Yes father

known immediately I saw Daniel Stones’ name on my phone. My father hardly ever called and when he did,

the wedding take place? Who is he?” I managed to

I will send a car to fetch you before the week runs out. Be prepared and

me. Like

father. Am

before ending the call

no. That I wouldn’t be part of an arranged marriage to a man that

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

solutions in my brain, I quickly scrolled through

the phone with an energy that could light up the whole city. “Amaya! I miss you so, so much! Oh my goodness, are you at my doorstep right now? Please tell me you’re here! Wait, no, wait a sec, I’m not even home. Let me quickly call

ever-excited best friend, “Could you maybe give me a

know how I am—I just can’t

again, gently teasing her, “You’re

I’m all ears now. You have the floor,

out like an overflowing river, bubbling over with enthusiasm. It felt like she could fill an

deep sigh, picturing Natalia’s face in my mind. I

happened?” Her voice flowed through the phone,

father,” I began, hesitating as I felt the weight of his demand settling over

long. Her silence spoke volumes before she finally broke it, her voice gentle but laced

my father’s call still echoing in my mind, the words sinking into my heart like heavy stones. “Make the same mistake again,” I whispered, feeling the sting of resentment, “get married,

breathed my name like a

felt like Natalia and I had honed this psychic connection from the very first day we met in

the phone, almost feeling her understanding seep through the line. “After

isn’t exactly an act of reconciliation,” Natalia retorted, her voice a mix

to defend their actions, but Natalia cut in, her words gentle yet

for a new wave of

in my chest. “He

but it sounded hollow,

have laughed if the situation had

you if

really want to hug you and you don’t even have to stress about Nate. You know how much he loves you. Sometimes, I’m convinced it’s even more than he loves