“He has a mate?” My fingers were shaking and I could barely hear my own voice.
“You didn’t know that?” Elaine flicked the ash from the cigarette, the smile on her face deepened, " I thought he found you to find someone to mate with and give birth to a child. Now it seems that you are just a pastime for him."
Her words gave me a splitting headache, her words were like daggers stabbing in my heart. Suddenly, I felt my throat tighten and I couldn’t make a sound.
“But don’t feel too bad” Elaine finished her cigarette. She put out the cigarette and walked out, her voice gently drifting into my ears: "He is very picky with women, so you must be very similar to his mate, which is also very lucky for someone like you... Otherwise, you will never be able to meet someone as higher position as him.”
“Maybe you should think about the price you may have to pay, Miss Thief…”
“How are you going to pay me for this 200,000 dress, Katherine…”
“Welcome home, Katherine…”
“You are mine, Katherine …”
“I love you, Katherine…”
I felt like my brain was about to burst, a sealed corner of my mind suddenly came alive, and the words he said to me appeared before my eyes like a movie. His smile, his tears, his kisses, his eyes…
I'm a fool, I actually believed what he said, that he really loved me. It turned out that I was just a substitute. The love in his eyes when he saw me was probably just because I was very similar to his mate. I was foolishly worried about him, afraid that he would be sad because of my leaving.
How could I forget that I was just an omega, and he's Athan Buffay, one of the most powerful alphas, the leader of his pack.
Katherine Green, you dumbass. Did you forget what happened to your own mother?
She was your father's wife, but not his mate, just a reproductive tool he married. So when he found his mate Ann West, he abandoned her without hesitation.
What a joke, the same thing happened to you, and you were stupid enough to cry for this man.
I forgot how left the studio, and I just remember the early morning wind blowing coldly on my face. With my fingers stiff, I grip the steering wheel and drive forward aimlessly. I didn't realize until I was forced to stop outside a gate that I unknowingly drove to his villa.
It's been only a month, but it seems like years have passed. I still remember being stopped by his bodyguards when I first came to him.
Then what? The first time he saw me, he asked me nervously who I was. At that time, he probably recognized the wrong person and mistook me for his mate, and that’s why he suddenly kissed me. I was almost masochistically reminiscing about every moment I spent with him.
The heavy night had passed, and the air was mixed with a faint morning light, a red light rose from the horizon, and it was dawn. I stood blankly at the empty gate like a lost person, the closed door was like my life, so cold and empty.
‘It’s time to go.’ I kept saying to myself, “Thana said that he was missing, so he is probably not even here.”
But I couldn’t just leave, I didn’t believe it, not after everything we’ve been through. All the things he did for me, all the times we spent together, they weren’t just game to him.
For the first time after being apart for so long, I was so eager to see him. I wanted to ask him face to face, that the love he told me, how much of it was true.
‘Ask him Katherine, even if he says there’s only 1 percent, you didn’t lose. ’
I told myself.
It seems like a drug addict finally found an excuse for his drug addiction. I rushed into the wood next to me, climbed over the iron net, and came to the pack gym, which is very close to his villa.
As soon as I call his name, he could hear it instantly through mind link.
I took a deep breath, but I was hesitant… Just then, a tall and strong figure walked out of the building.
He cut his hair shorter, it looked fresh. His chin raised up a little like he always did, and his tall nose made the contours of his face looked extra clear. His deep green eyes were cold and alert, his lips pursed slightly, forming a nice arc.
There he was, the man that appeared in my dream almost every night. For a moment, I just lost myself in the joy of seeing him. We were so close, there is no way he only used me as a replacement.
I suddenly felt warm and I wasn't as frightened as earlier. Should I show myself, should I tell him that I felt bed for leaving him?
Just when I was hesitating, a person appeared beside him. A beautiful woman with blond hair stood beside him, she was noble and graceful, and her smile was just perfectly pretty. She said something to him, he turned and smiled at her.
What a great picture.
Without hesitation, I turned around and ran away.