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

even though I've been his superior for

I'm not

unfinished Beta business that requires immediate attention. Come to

the staff in

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

time together is the very last

he promised me that once I finished up, he'd let

good time leaving the meeting, and I arrive at the office much earlier than I anticipated. It's clear no one else

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Chapter 9

giving de Gamma a direct view

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

can hear

She flips her hair back over her shoulder seductively. "Don't you want to protect

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

return, I'll recommend to the Alpha King that you'd be

low-born bitch will get what's coming to

weighing my options and whether I should report this

far in my thinking when Lilia passes through the doorway and spots me

are size of

she speaks, her voice is 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 Luna would be a

her think I'm playing along if it makes my last few days in Pack DarkWood a

shot

out an audible sigh

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

It takes only a few minutes, given my stoic lack of response. It must not be as fun to be a bully without a punching

for me to handle. It's going to take me all night,