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?"

Cara Wilson. George, Alaric's Gamma, always insists on speaking to me in the formal

even though I've been his

his superior. I'm not sure

unfinished Beta business that requires immediate attention. Come to the office at once" George hangs up before

of the staff in

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

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

promised me that once I finished

I arrive at the office much earlier than I anticipated.

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III

Chapter 9

desk in a suggestive position, giving de Gamma a direct view into her deep cleavage while she runs

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

I can

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,

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

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

low-born bitch will get what's coming to her, finally!" George says

the door, weighing my options and whether

very far in my thinking when Lilia passes

eyes are size of dinnerplates,

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

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

shot

an

Alaric. "He's taking me shopping this afternoon. He closed the entire boutique,

out until she finally leaves. It takes only a few minutes, given my stoic

handle. It's going to take me all night, and that's only if I