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?"

Gamma, always insists on speaking to

even though I've been his

I was his superior. I'm not sure what I

unfinished Beta business that requires immediate attention. Come to the office at

rest of the staff

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

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

I finished up, he'd let

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

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Chapter 9

view into her deep cleavage

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

I can hear

back over her shoulder seductively. "Don't you want to protect your Alpha King from that little gold-digging whore" Tin rolling

it." He says firmly, "She's always trying to make me look lad, always trying to make herself look better than me in front of the Alpha. Let's see how

in his car. "And in return, I'll recommend to the Alpha King that you'd be a

to her, finally!" George says

weighing my options and whether I should report

my thinking when Lilia passes through

of dinnerplates, wide

like ice, thin and cold. "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

would." I say quietly. Let her think I'm playing along if it makes my last few days in

shot

an audible sigh of

not 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 total privacy. Imagine the dresses,

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

has a mountain of tedious paperwork for me to handle. It's going to take