Filed To Story: Fated is Overrated Novel Free by Brenda Minnaard
After dinner, I go back to my room. It isstill early, but I really don’t mind and I am glad to be getting into bed. You know the saying “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone”? Well, for a girl that loves her sleep as much as a bear in hibernation, this exquisite bed means everything to me after 2 weeks of sleeping in trees. I can’t wait to delve in and sleep until I am in it for so long that I feel like part of the bed itself. But I probably can’t do that as I will be expected by the Queen in the morning I guess. Thinking about it now, we haven’t discussed what is happening next and when. Getting into the bed feels like literal heaven. Oh my goddess, I have missed this. I have missed this more than anything else I think. It doesn’t take long for me to drift off into a blissful sleep.
I am woken in the morning by one of the maids, as I suspected. I was so not ready to wake up yet, but I am also ready to get going if they’ll let me. “Excuse me miss, you are requested in the office”. Well that must be the Queen. This must mean I’ll be on my way today! “Alright, give me a few minutes please” “yes of course, I will be back in 15 minutes”. I quickly dress myself in the blouse and jeans ensemble, brush my teeth ad comb my hair. Before I know it, the 15 minutes are up and the maid is back. I follow her out down a few hallways again before reaching a set of doors and the maid stops, indicating this is where I need to go in. I enter through the doors expecting the Queen, but inside are Zeke and Zane behind the desk. In front of them are 4 males on a chair. They have their backs towards me, so I can’t see who they are. I step forward hesitantly, I don’t trust these guys one bit. Both have devilish grins on their faces which makes the situation even more ominous. As the door closes behind me, 4 heads turn my way and I stop dead in my tracks.
It’s alpha Culio, his beta, delta, and…. Chris. It’s f*cking Chris. I have barely felt scared or panic in the 2 weeks out on my own being chased by vile rogues, but I feel scared now. I am sure Chris has told them I attacked him, and they are here for my execution now. But I won’t go down without a fight. My stance becomes rigid and I am ready to run, or pounce, whichever way it will go. If I go down, at least my tormentor Chris is coming down with me, I’ll make sure of that. Liberty is fuming in my head as well, ready to come out and f*ck sh*t up with me. Before I can ask what the meaning of this is, alpha Culio stands abruptly and charges towards me. I jolt back on instinct and alpha Culio halts in his tracks. He looks straight at me with a hurt expression on his face, and I feel confused. Why does he look hurt? I am sure my expression turned to confusion when alpha Culio speaks up “Lola honey? What is wrong?”. My confusion spikes and I can’t even utter a word. “I… I..” the words just don’t seem to come to me. Isn’t he angry at me for attacking his son? Is he not here to execute me?
Still looking at alpha Culio Chris suddenly stands up, sighing a breath of relief “Lola….”. I can’t help but stiffen and turn angry when I turn my gaze to Chris. The boy who was once my best friend in the whole world, the boy I once loved, but who turned into my tormentor for years. Getting hit with rotten eggs, water dumped on me, getting beaten, being left for dead and finally almost getting r*ped by the person I once trusted and loved. “What?” I grit out through clenched teeth. His entire demeanor screams remorse, but it’s too little too late. From the corner of my eye I can see Zeke and Zane smirking, relishing at my anguish. F*cking bastards. Oh goddess, the only reason I am not rejecting them on the spot is because of Liberty’s sake. She is the only one left I love, and I refuse to hurt her. But it’s taking everything out of me to not lash out at them.
Chris gives me his best puppy eyes, he used to do the same when we were kids and I always fell for it then. But not anymore. “Can we talk in private Lola?”. “No” I simply state. Alpha Culio looks from Chris to me, an eyebrow raised in confusion. Chris seems to turn more desperate and turns on the puppy eyes even more. “Please Lola, just a few minutes?”. “I said no Chris. But then again, you have some trouble understanding the meaning of that word don’t you?” I seethe, reminiscing the last time I saw him and what happened. Not caring that my words might tip off the others to what my problem with Chris is. “Please Lola, I am begging you. You know it is a lot for me to beg anyone for anything and I know I don’t deserve your friendship anymore, but please let me talk to you”. I am not one to forgive so easily, or at all, and I don’t have any sympathy for him, but I don’t like to air my dirty laundry in front of all the others, so I cave “fine”. Chris gets up to the door and holds it open for me, as if he is suddenly such a gentleman. I bet he is putting up this charade for the princes. Little does he know, they would probably high five him for doing what he has done to me.
Lola POV
He leads me to the small office across from the one we were in, and closes the door behind us. “You can drop the nice guy act now. What do you want? And before you think of threatening me or coming at me – think twice, I bite back now”. I state coldly, with Liberty pushing forward and making my eyes pitch black to showcase we aren’t joking around. I never attacked back at Red Dagger as I was outnumbered and didn’t have a wolf yet, whilst they did. So they were all a lot stronger than I was, despite my training, and healed a lot faster than I did. But having my wolf now and having survived all that I have, I am not backing down for anyone anymore when it comes down to having to fight.
Chris sighs heavily. “I don’t want to threaten or come at you at all Lola, it wasn’t an act. I have realized in the past weeks what an idi*t I have been all these years and how badly I have treated you, and allowed you to be treated. I know it probably doesn’t mean anything and I don’t deserve your forgiveness, but I want you to know I am truly sorry. For everything, but first and foremost, for the last thing I did to you. Or well – tried to do” he looks down shamefully. “I feel so ashamed, I don’t know what got over me Lola..”. “You are right, you don’t deserve my forgiveness, not even in the slightest. What you tried to do was beyond despicable. And to think you were once my best friend, Chris! To think you were the only one besides my mother who I trusted. The only one besides her who I loved. To think I once even hoped we would be mated. Oh, the irony!” I snort, thinking back, with the knowledge I have now. “You went beyond betraying my trust, Chris” I continue in a stern voice, but I can’t help the hurt that seeps through my voice. He was the second one to discard me like a piece of trash, like I meant nothing.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.