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?"

Alaric's Gamma, always insists on

even though I've been his superior

superior. I'm

unfinished Beta business that requires immediate attention. Come to

of the staff in the meeting

hear the Alpha King recently has been working overtime every day," one of

the very last thing I'd like to be doing right now. But an order is an

promised me that once I finished up, he'd

much earlier than I anticipated. It's clear no one else was expecting me this soon

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Chapter 9

giving de Gamma a direct view into her deep cleavage while she runs a thin

move my feet. I'm

can

her. She flips her hair back over her shoulder seductively. "Don't you want to protect your Alpha King from that little gold-digging

make herself look better than me in front of the Alpha.

"And in return, I'll recommend to the Alpha King that you'd

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

weighing my options and

very far in my thinking when Lilia passes through the doorway and

eyes are size of dinnerplates, wide and

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

quietly. Let her think I'm playing along if it makes my

shot

lets out an audible

pastime, taunting me with boasts about Alaric. "He's taking me shopping this afternoon. He closed the entire boutique, just

only a few minutes, given my stoic lack of response. It

his word, George has a mountain of tedious paperwork for me to handle. It's