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I’d been making dinner for Alice while Roman helped her build Lego in the living room. I knew Alice didn’t like Roman very much. He never took playtime seriously, more hanging around Alice while she played her games while he sat nearby. He acted like they were close, but he didn’t spend much time actually connecting with her.
I sometimes suspected Roman’s affection towards Alice was an act. He often came off as though he found kids loud and annoying, like when they’d been waiting for the auction to start at the school and he’d rolled his eyes at two boys playing a game in the hallway.
Then, someone knocked on the door. I went to open it and left Roman to watch Amber. I saw Julian on the other side, an intense, angry look on his face.
A quick flash of fear coursed through my body, but it left quickly. My bigger fear was of Julian discovering Alice.
I’d never imagined Julian would come to my house. I’d never imagined he’d be standing on my doorstep. It shattered any sense of safety I’d felt here.
I swatted the bank card out of his hand, sending it back at him. The feeling was familiar, bringing back the memory of Olivia offering to pay me away in the hospital years ago.
I’d known he was the Alpha, and that he had the ability to find me if he wanted to. But I didn’t think he’d show up at the door, uninvited, and insult me with the assumption that all I desired in life was money. 12:36 PM Tue 26 Aug
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Roman came to the door. I assumed he’d heard Julian’s voice, as he wrapped is arm around me, pretending to be my doting husband. His casual touch made me uncomfortable, as I knew the feelings he had for me, but I played into it for now. I just wanted
Julian to leave me alone.
“You live together?” Julian demanded, anger settling even more deeply on his face.
“Yes,” Roman said, pulling me even closer into his body.
Again, I went along with it. If Julian thought that another man, another Alpha, even, lived here, then he wouldn’t try to get to
Alice. He wouldn’t try to hurt her.
“Go home, Julian,” I said. “I don’t want you here. I don’t want your money. I don’t know why you keep trying.”
Despite his off-putting behavior, something inside me still yearned for Julian. I shut it off quickly. Julian was no longer a dream of what could have been. He was a threat to my family and the life I’d carefully constructed for my daughter and I.
“All I’m asking for is my wife, my legal wife, to come home. That’s all. I’m not going to force you.” Julian paused, and his blue eyes seared into mine with a mix of emotions I couldn’t quite read. “You won’t find happiness here, though.’
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“If you keep harassing me, I will get a lawyer. I will petition the Werewolf Court for a restraining order,” I said, trying to keep my voice steady. “You’re stalking me, Alpha. That’s illegal.”
I saw Julian clench his fists and waited for the backlash of sharp, pointed words, accusations he himself couldn’t understand. The words never came. Instead, Julian restrained himself, taking deep breaths before meeting my gaze again.
“I’ll wait,” Julian said quietly. “You’ll come back to me eventually.”
I had nothing left to say, and his quiet words unsettled me, being so far from what I had expected. I closed the door, going back into the house.
As I returned to preparing dinner, which thankfully hadn’t burned, Julian’s words haunted me.
He’d caused me so much pain. There was a previous life where all I’d wanted was for him to reciprocate the same love I felt for him, and he’d been unable to give that to me.
Part of me wanted to try again, and I hated that part of me. If I went back, it would only mean more heartbreak.
Then, of course, there were all the times he had tried to buy me off. He fundamentally misunderstood my motives and my values. When he looked at me, all he ever saw was a woman who loved money above all else.
A sharp ache shot through my chest at the thought. Any of the feelings I’d felt seeing him again were gone. I felt nothing towards him but bitter coldness.
“Don’t you have Olivia at home?” I’d asked before shutting the door, reminding him again of how he’d been the one to ruin our marriage. “Go back to her.”
Shock once had once again run across Julian’s face. He was wordless at my defiance.
I wasn’t the submissive little housewife I’d been in that previous life.
I had a career I loved and had trained long and hard to do. I had a daughter who was my whole world, my motivation for everything I ever did.
I had nothing to fear from Julian, even if he was the Alpha. Still, the emotions overwhelmed me, washing over me like a tidal wave. Hovering above the dinner simmering on the stove, I broke down and cried.
My tears sizzled as they landed against the hot steel.
Julian’s POV
I returned to headquarters and went straight to my office. I buried myself in work, pouring over my documents in complete silence, distracting myself with the complex legality of the words.
Beta broke the silence as he brought my daily coffee, his question a cautious probe. “Alpha, what’s wrong?”
I sat in silence. Of course Beta could tell that something besides my usual moodiness was going on. He knew me too well.
Finally, I dropped my pen. “Amber has changed. A lot.”
Her appearance had changed, the bright gold of her hair bringing her features to life in a way that made her somehow even more beautiful. Her aura was stronger, more like an Alpha.
Even her attitude had changed. She no longer immediately softened and compromised when she saw him angry, worried about making him unhappy. Now, she boldly demanded to have her independence, accusing him of harassing her.
I stared at the coffee Beta had made for me. Amber had always cold-brewed my coffee for me the night before, making it exactly the way I liked. She would bring it to me as I headed out the door for work, over ice so it would remain cold throughout the morning.
Beta, though, just used the coffee machine. Amber’s absence these past five years had made life seem wobbly, unstable, like sitting in a chair with a missing leg.
“Do you plan to go see her tomorrow?” Beta asked.
I shook my head. “Keep surveilling her house, Beta. I want daily reports of her comings and goings. I want to know where she works.”
Over the coming while, Beta followed my instructions, but Amber always seemed to know she was being followed. She’d drive like a pro, always losing the tail Beta had assigned to her.
One day, I decided I’d do it myself. I’d taken to driving myself over the past five years, enjoying being in control of where I went, every stop and start on my terms, not a faceless driver’s. Nobody blinked an eye when I grabbed the key to the car myself.
I’d gone to her house and parked down the street, waiting for her to emerge, then waiting a few more seconds before following her down the street.
We ended up at a large supermarket. I watched her walk inside,
She must be working at the supermarket, a low-level job that was so beneath a woman like her. Why did she still refuse to come home, where she could have all the comforts in the world provided to her?