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?"

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

I've been his superior for

I was his superior. I'm not sure what

to the office at once" George

of the

been working overtime every day," one of the staff tells

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

once I finished up, he'd let me

earlier than I anticipated. It's clear no one else was

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Chapter 9

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

my feet. I'm tucked behind the partially open door, hidden from

can hear

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

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

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

bitch will get what's coming to her, finally!"

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

my thinking when Lilia

are size of dinnerplates, wide and

an enemy of the formidable Pack DarkWood's Luna would be a terrible, terrible mistake. Wouldn't you agree?"

if it makes

shot

an

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

out until she finally leaves. It takes only a few minutes, given my stoic lack of response. It must not be as fun to be

a mountain of tedious paperwork for me to handle. It's going to take me all night, and that's