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?"

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

been his superior

I'm not

Beta business that requires immediate attention. Come to

the rest of the staff in the meeting

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

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

promised me that once I finished up,

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

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Chapter 9

view into her deep cleavage while she runs a thin finger around

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

can hear

a few ways to slow her down, make things a little more difficult for her. She flips her hair back over her shoulder seductively. "Don't you want to protect your

do it." He says firmly, "She's always trying to make me look lad, always trying to make herself look better than me in

I'll recommend to the Alpha King that

to her, finally!" George says with

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

thinking when Lilia

are size of dinnerplates, wide

of the formidable Pack DarkWood's Luna would be a terrible, terrible mistake. Wouldn't you agree?" She wants me to keep this quiet. As if she doesn't already hate me. As if I haven't already made an enemy of

if it makes my last few days in

shot

out an

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

only a few minutes, given my stoic lack of

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