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 and condescending

though I've been his superior for

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

Come to the office at

apologize to the rest of the

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

with Alaric in the offices where we spent so much time together is the very last thing I'd

once I finished up, he'd let me

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

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Chapter 9

suggestive position, giving de Gamma a direct view into her

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

can hear

sure you can think of 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 Alpha King from that little gold-digging whore" Tin rolling my eyes at Lilia's obvious play, expecting George to see right through her. But to my great surprise, he

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

return, I'll recommend to the Alpha King

get what's coming to her, finally!" George says with terrifying

weighing my options and whether I should

get very far in my thinking when

are size of dinnerplates, wide

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 terrible, terrible mistake. Wouldn't

if it makes my last few days

shot

out an audible sigh

about Alaric. "He's taking me shopping

takes only a few minutes, given my stoic lack of response. It must not be as fun to be a bully

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