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.

of the most important

I hadn’t said that because the next words that came out from his mouth ripped my

from this moment, you

hit was so fast and painful, it had me falling back on my knees gasping for

wolf recoiled howling in pain as I struggled to see through

her out

hands pick me from the

gasped out, “I’m..

the last words that echoed in my head and that was the last

That night… It rained.

same night..

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back home. I have found a man for

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

father

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

will the wedding take place? Who is he?”

you before the week runs out. Be

me. Like a common

Am I

didn’t let me finish before ending the call and I let out

To say no. That I wouldn’t be part of an arranged marriage to a man that I did not know but there was no

eyes everyday were Ivy and Nathan. I knew my father wouldn’t approve of me bringing them to his house. The bastard children to

solutions in my brain, I quickly scrolled through the limited number on

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

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

know how I am—I just can’t help it. I get all hyper when you call, especially

teasing her, “You’re doing

Right, right! I’m all ears now. You have the floor,

bubbling over with enthusiasm. It felt like she could fill an empty room with her energy, and I couldn’t

picturing Natalia’s face in my mind. I knew her eyes would have narrowed in

happened?” Her voice flowed through the phone, laced

felt the weight of his demand settling over

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

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

breathed my name like a soft

and I had honed this psychic

understanding seep through the line. “After everything I did… I turned my back on my

Natalia retorted, her voice a mix of frustration and empathy. “Your parents left you to raise the

words gentle yet firm, “You did it for love. You loved

have to say his name for a

said yes,” I whispered, the weight of my decision heavy in my

let out a laugh but it sounded hollow, “Fetch you? Like a

have laughed if the situation had

bother you if I had any other

want to hug you and you don’t even have to stress about Nate. You know how much he loves