Rejected, And Became A Heiress

Chapter 0009

Chapter 9

Cara's POV

They say distraction is the best way to navigate through a hard time.

I'm not sure the people who say that ever had to deal with planning their former Fate Mate's wedding.

But there's so many tasks to complete. I found a hotel even more luxurious than the proposal site to host the wedding, My days are spent jumping from meeting to meeting, selecting colors and cake flavors and every last tiny detail

It's not exactly hard work like what I'm used to, but there are so many tedious decisions to be made. Everyone on the pack's staff is working so hard to make this wedding a celebration of the strength and prosperity of Pack DarkWood. An event to remember. I can't let them down.

I'm in an early morning meeting to pick chair fabrics when I'm lost in thought as my fingers swipe over a mint green damask option.

Mint greendamask and flowers.

It's exactly what I'd always dreamed of having at my own wedding-

My own wedding with Alaric.

I shake my head, disappointed in myself yet again. Alaric and I are not, and will never, get married. These intrusive thoughts. about our imagined future together will be the end of me.

I'm only helping with this wedding to ensure I can make a good finture for my baby. Once this last job is done, I can finally leave the pack and start fresh.

I can forget all about Alaric.

I just need to get through this.

My phone's sharp ring startles me, "Hello?"

always insists on speaking to me in

I've been his superior

was his superior. I'm not

requires immediate attention. Come to the office at once"

rest of the staff in the

been working overtime every day,"

together is the very last thing I'd

me that once I finished up, he'd let

arrive at the office much earlier than I anticipated. It's clear no one

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Chapter 9

bent over George's desk in a suggestive position, giving de Gamma a direct view into her deep cleavage while she runs a

sight that I can't move my feet.

I can hear

ways to slow her down, make things a little more difficult for her. She flips her hair back over her shoulder seductively. "Don't you want to protect your Alpha King from that little gold-digging whore" Tin rolling my eyes at Lilia's obvious play, expecting George

trying to make me look lad, always trying to make herself look better than me in front of the Alpha. Let's see how

return, I'll recommend to

what's coming to her, finally!" George says with

and whether I should report this to the

my thinking when Lilia passes through the doorway and spots

size of dinnerplates, wide and

"You know, I don't know or care where you go after you leave this pack But I do know that making an enemy of the formidable Pack DarkWood's Luna would be a terrible, terrible mistake. Wouldn't you agree?" She wants me to keep this quiet. As if she doesn't already hate me. As if

I'm playing along if it makes my last few days in Pack

shot

out an audible sigh of

long before she goes back to her favorite pastime, taunting me with boasts about Alaric. "He's taking me shopping this afternoon. He closed the entire boutique, just for me to shop in

she finally leaves. It takes only a few minutes, given my stoic lack of response. It must

to handle. It's going to take me