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.
it that way. Please talk to her, Caleb. She is ruining two lives because 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
I don’t want to marry your
and sat next to me.
then I can’t help. No one can
unfair for your mother to ruin two lives because of you. Does that not bother you? Your father bought me for Luke. My parents had no choice but to accept.” I said, crying, and
Please, Caleb, Help me”, I cried bitterly, and he rubbed
make you promises, Tia, but I will try my best to beg her to stop.” He said, and I nodded. I wasn’t hopeful that he would succeed, but I
did not want to be subject to the
soon, Caleb left, leaving
Caleb. He did not even
be the funeral. I doubted I would take up the Gamma position when the time came. The drive to serve had left me. Resignation was slowly becoming a
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
laying the food tray
can you and daddy live with yourself after selling your
away, standing frozen by
Tia. The money was to
it. Did it ever occur to you that Luke might
Tia. We were about to lose our house. The bank was going to close in on us at any time. The loans we took to put you through the elite academy and get you private tutors had come to bite us in the
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