Tia.
Caleb finally came to see me. Four days after, Alpha Aesop and Luke visited me. I sat at the back in the garden staring at nothing. I was still processing all Luke said to me and what he revealed as to why they were forcing the union.
” You have lost weight, Tia,” Caleb said, sitting next to me, and I had nothing to say. He sighed, stood and began to pace about the garden. He seemed a bit frustrated. I knew he wanted to talk, but I had nothing to say. His mother had ruined my life because she believed I wasn’t good enough for him. It had nothing to do with helping Luke. Luke and I were victims, forced into a loveless marriage to get me out of her son’s hair. The woman was a bitch and selfish.
” Why didn’t you tell me Luke came to see you?” Caleb asked me, and I looked at him.
” I did not feel it was necessary,” I replied because I knew it wouldn’t have mattered.
” We are friends, Tia. Everything is necessary. Everything matters,” He said with concern. He looked stressed out. With the dark circle under his eyes, he wasn’t sleeping.
” Help me, Caleb,” I finally broke down, and he looked at me, worried.
” If I were Alpha, I would cancel this madness, ” He said, shaking my head.
” Your mother set this up,” I said, and he frowned at me.
” Luke said it before your father, and he could not deny it. She felt you and I might end up together, and she did not want you marrying from a middle-class family, so she troubled your father to join me with Luke so I would no longer be a problem,” I said, and he shook his head.
” That is not true. She knows we are just friends, and there is nothing between us. If I wanted to date you, I would have,” he said, and his words hurt, but they were expected.
of her fear—mine and Luke’s. Your brother has someone he loves dearly. It is unfair to both of them. As for me, she condemned me to live a loveless life for the rest of my life. It is such a high price to pay for being your friend. Tell her I will drop the gamma position and move away. Help me, Caleb,” I said
want to marry your brother. Please,” I begged
next to me. He
If Luke is telling the truth, then I can’t help. No one can talk to her, not even me,” he cracked, and I began to
a lot of rules. I will be miserable. Please. I deserve happiness too. It is unfair for your mother to ruin two lives because of you. Does that not bother
Caleb, Help me”, I cried bitterly, and he rubbed my
make you promises, Tia, but I will try my best to beg her to stop.” He said, and I nodded. I
braced myself and taken the match, but I did not want to be subject to the
left, leaving me to sit alone and
two days and yet no word from Caleb. He did not even call
my bed and stared at the ceiling, counting the days to my death. The day I married Luke would be the funeral. I doubted I would take up the Gamma position when the time came. The drive to serve had
was my mother; I could smell her along with the tray of food she was holding. I was silent, and she gently let herself into my room. That was why I did not bother to answer in the first place. She was going to let herself
something,” she said, laying the food tray
yourself after selling your daughter?” I
mother looked away, standing frozen by the
choice, Tia. The money was to ease his
it. Did it ever occur to you that Luke might call it
our house. The bank was going to close in
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