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?"

insists on speaking to me in the formal

even though I've been his superior for

I'm not sure what I am

to the office at

the staff in the

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

we spent so much time together is the very last thing I'd like to be doing right now.

I finished up, he'd let

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

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Chapter 9

position, giving de Gamma a direct view into her deep cleavage while she runs a thin finger around the edge of his

the sight that I can't move my feet. I'm tucked behind the partially open

can

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,

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

coos in his car. "And in return, I'll recommend to the Alpha King

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

backwards away from the door, weighing my options and whether I should report this to

in my thinking when Lilia passes through the doorway and

are size of dinnerplates, wide and

leave this pack But I do know that making an enemy of the formidable Pack DarkWood's Luna would be a terrible, terrible

if it makes my last few days in Pack DarkWood a bit easier. It's

shot

out an audible sigh

with boasts about Alaric. "He's taking me shopping

only a few minutes, given my stoic lack of response. It must not be as fun to be a bully

It's