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 most important detail of our relationship,

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

Stone and from

my knees gasping for air. I had heard stories of rejection but none

in pain as I struggled to see through the

out of

felt two strong hands pick me

I gasped out, “I’m..

see her again.” Those were the last words that echoed in my head and that was the last time I

That night… It rained.

same night.. I

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come back home.

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

Yes father

Stones’ name on my phone. My father hardly

take place? Who is he?” I managed to get out after

to fetch you before the week runs out. Be prepared and do not

me. Like a common

Am I

ending the call and I

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.

Nathan. I knew my father wouldn’t approve of me bringing them to his house. The bastard children to your

in my brain, I quickly scrolled

voice burst 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

friend, “Could

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

interjected again, gently teasing her, “You’re doing

right! I’m all ears now. You

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

breathed out a long, deep sigh, picturing Natalia’s face in my mind. I knew her

the phone,

demand settling over me, “he wants me… he

spoke volumes before she finally broke it, her voice gentle but laced with concern, “What does he

like heavy stones. “Make the same mistake again,” I whispered, feeling the

breathed my name like a

felt like Natalia and I had honed this psychic connection from

the line. “After everything I did…

live in isolation isn’t exactly an act of reconciliation,” Natalia retorted, her voice a mix of frustration and empathy. “Your parents left

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

didn’t even have to say his name for a new wave of pain to wash

already said yes,” I whispered, the weight of my decision heavy in my chest. “He said he would send a car

let out a laugh but it sounded hollow, “Fetch

if the

wouldn’t bother you if I had any

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