Filed To Story: Traded To The Lycan King Novel (Colette & Merikh) by MG Wattsons
“I am telling you to leave.” She says once more. “Please? I can’t lose you again.”
“So what? you will just stay here and mate with him?”
“I made a promise!” She hisses and Grady scoffs, laughing.
“A promise? I don’t see a mark keeping you here. Maybe I should just mark you now, before he can?” Grady says, sounding angry. I lurch forward, ready to tear his teeth from his skull, but I stop when I see her putting her hands 1. up.
“Please…stop.” Colette sounds tired, worn down. Grady tugs her close to his chest by her hand and my vision turns red.
“I want you, Colette.” Grady whispers, then he grips the back of her n*ck and presses his lips to hers.
I stare, stunned for half a second, before dragging my eyes away. All semblance of pride or happiness obliterates and I’m left feeling hollow and really f**king angry. Any second longer and I will kill them both.
I hear nothing, only the ringing in my ears as her betrayal reopens a part of my injured soul I thought I had sealed with hatred. Betrayed twice by the women the moon goddess stupidly destined to love me. -Do not let her leave this pack, Percy. Do you understand me?—
-Yes, Alpha- he shoots back obediently.
-Hayes, I want this fucker picked up on the border as he tries to leave-
-Have a little faith brother Hayes tries to calm me, but I shut down the link before he can continue.
My chest feels like it might rupture and my head spins. The amount of emotions I have felt in the last half hour is enough to give me an aneurysm as I walk.
Where? I have no idea; the scenery seems to meld into one. I hate that I was right. Even if I had expected it, even if I had hoped I was being a fool…I wasn’t. I was right. Time seems to fade away and I sit on a boulder, staring at the moon as it rises over the lake.
“Merikh?” Her once sweet voice now grates on my ears and I look over my shoulder to see her red faced and shocked to find me.
“How was your walk?” I force out the words, refusing to let my emotions take over me.
Maybe she sent him packing, and maybe she was coming to confess she ran into him. That pesky feeling of hope tries to creep up, but squash it back down. I won’t dare to hope, not with my heart. Never again. Instead, she can prove herself to “It was…uneventful,” she says with a smile that doesn’t reach her eyes. I take in her dirty clothes and arch a brow.
“Uneventful, huh?” I ask, and she swallows, then nods quickly. “So the dirt just jumped onto your clothing?”
“Oh,” she looks down, surprise written all over her face, then she grins. “I fell. Tripped on a root.”
“Mmm,” I nod.
“Actually…” she says, sighing heavily.
“Yes?” My eyes snap to hers, unable to kill the f**king hopefulness in my tone.
“Penny wasn’t out here…and I called for Percy, but he never responded…and…”
“And what?” I ask her. “Did something happen?”
“No!” she rushes out fast, looking over her shoulder. Does she really think she isn’t suspicious as fuck? “Nothing happened, just a walk alone. In the woods.”
“You weren’t alone, Colette.” I say, my lips pressing into a firm line. “You never are.”
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“So…you know?” She asks, her face blazing red, and I tilt my head, watching her closely do my best to look confused as I furrow my brows.
“Know what?” I ask her, and she clears her throat, rubbing her hands on her pants.
“It’s nothing.” she smiles.
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah. I’m sure.”
And just like that, what little hope I stupidly let creep in bursts into flames, letting loose a wildfire that suffocates all thoughts of ever loving anyone again.
hapter 20
*Colette POV
I cradle my hand, the skin still stinging where I slapped Grady and told him to leave. He has put me in an impossible situation, one that has the potential to ruin everything I thought I was building here with Meri And with Merikh, I am. Hell; he could choose anyone in the entire pack and he wanted me. Zero hesitation. One little lie and Grady was rejecting me without hesitation. He did it with tears, but even if he hadn’t And for him to show up here, after everything, after weeks of him being with Leslie. He had a lot of nerve to sneak into my pack and try to convince me to run away with him. Especially since it is only after learn So, of course, when the asshole k*ssed me, I had no choice but to gather my brains and smack the shit out of him. But now that I see Merikh, the way he is watching me, like he knows something is wrong… I can’t tell him. As mad as I am with Grady. No matter how hard I want to hit him again. Merikh warned me the day he chose me. He warned me he would kill Grady, and I believe wholeheartedly that he will. So as much as it hurts, I have to keep this impromptu meeting a secret, until I know Grady is gone safely from pack grounds. Until I feel he is far enough away that I can calm Merikh down and explain what hap “You should head to find some dinner,” Merikh says, his face stoic and unreadable. “It’s already late.”
“I thought we would eat together-“
“You thought wrong.” He snaps and I rear back, surprised by his demeanor.