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.

the surface reminded me of the most important detail of

eyes darkened fully making me wish I hadn’t said that because the next words that came

Stone and from this moment, you are nothing to

and painful, it had me falling back on my knees gasping for air. I had heard stories of rejection but none

howling in pain as

her out of

two strong hands

gasped

Those were the last words that echoed in my head and that was the last time I

That night… It rained.

night.. I

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come back home. I have found a man

my father’s hard tone

Yes father I

on my phone. My

place? Who is he?” I

fetch you before the week

Like

Am I allowed

ending the call and I let

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 know but there was no fire left in me. It

reason I opened my eyes everyday were Ivy and Nathan. I knew my father wouldn’t approve of me bringing them to his

solutions in my brain, I quickly scrolled through the limited

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

I chuckled, trying to calm down my ever-excited best friend, “Could you maybe give me a

can’t help it.

again, gently teasing

all ears now. You have

enthusiasm. It felt like

deep sigh, picturing Natalia’s face in my mind. I knew her eyes would

Her voice flowed through the phone,

weight of his demand settling over me,

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

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

my name like

words. It felt like Natalia and I had honed this psychic connection from the very first

it to him,” I sighed into the phone, almost feeling her understanding seep through the line. “After everything I did… I turned my back on my entire pack, and he still took me

of reconciliation,” Natalia retorted, her voice

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

to say his name for a new wave of pain

heavy in my chest. “He

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

laughed if the

wouldn’t bother you if

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 Nate. You know how much he loves you. Sometimes, I’m convinced