Chapter 7
The pain I felt was just as powerful as I suspected it to be. It ran through me and slashed my heart into two. For the last time, I shed a tear for our failed relationship and our failed future together.
As fast as my feet could take me, I left the scene but the smug smile on Quinn’s face didn’t go unnoticed.
One of the few things that could take my mind off of things with Xavier quickly was the pups at the orphanage, so I went there and said my final goodbyes. Next, I went back to my parent’s house and once I told them about the rejection, we started preparing to leave the pack immediately.
We left at dusk when we were sure that most of the pack would be asleep.
The only ones who knew of our departure were some people over at the orphanage and my closest friend and I intended to keep it that way just in case Xavier decided to pull some crazy stunts a bit later on. For the first two weeks in the new pack, everything seemed to run smoothly. No one could even guess that I was once a Luna and I had easily gotten a job as a healer there. Things were nothing short of perfect until Xavier made an appearance in the clinic where I worked. What made things worse was that Xavier had no intentions of hiding the fact that he was an alpha. He even announced it and came along with his Beta, Jake, along with some of his guards.
“Goddess, what did I do to deserve this?” I muttered under my breath the moment he strutted into my office along with his entourage.
“Stella, rejection is one thing but leaving my pack is another thing. I never granted you permission to leave,” he told me, his tone sharp. I shook my head. “With all due respect, all bonds between us both have been broken and now I am a member of the Nightshade pack. Whatever you say has no effect on me here and I can do as I please, Alpha Xavier,” I answered him, making sure to stress both his name
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and title.
His lip twitched a little and I smiled, knowing that I was affecting him in some way.
“You are mine-”
Again I shook my head and waved a finger in front of him, cutting him off. “I was yours, Alpha Xavier. Was. And now we are nothing but strangers. Plus, you have Quinn to fill in my new position now.”
Xavier shoved his hands into his pockets and for the first time ever since he came into my office, he appeared sober. “No one can fill in your position. I need you and not Quinn. I’m sorry for how I acted in the past and I realize the error of my ways now.”
“Thank you for the um… kind words, Alpha Xavier, but I have a new life here which I happen to love very much… much more than the old one. If you would please excuse me, I have patients that I have to attend to.”
Alpha Xavier bit his lower lip and nodded, before leaving silently.
I honestly thought that that would be the last I would ever see of him, but Xavier was persistent.
Every day, Xavier would visit my clinic using one excuse or the other just as a ruse to get me to go back to his pack.
It was the third day of him visiting my clinic and at this point, I was more than tired of his presence already. I had tried to complain to the director but his excuse was that he could never kick out an alpha from a neighboring pack as he feared it would start a war.
So, I simply had to endure his presence.
“And what is wrong this time, Alpha Xavier,” I asked him as I watched him lie on the bed in my office..
I was used to this already. So far he had come up with headaches, stomach aches, foot aches and so on. I was curious to see how far his mind would take him this time.
Xavier placed a heart on his chest with a frown plastered to his face.
“A heartache. I’m here because my ex broke my heart,” he
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answered and as usual I rolled my eyes at him.
The visits continued for a few more days before they eventually stopped. Proving to me that Xavier had always been the self–centered man I knew him to be.
I thought that I had finally closed that chapter in my life until Beta Jake called me one late evening. Xavier had really changed. He has cut off ties with Quinn and he wants nothing more than to be with you. Please forgive him,” was the first thing he said.
“Jake, you can do better than this. Please don’t ever call this number ever again.”
“Wait! Did you know that while he was with you, he neglected all of his duties to the pack, and now the elders are considering having his younger brother step up as the new Alpha? Doesn’t this make you feel guilty?”
If this was another plan to make me come back them both Xavier and Jake were failing terribly
Making sure that my happiness leaked into my voice, I answered,
“No. Not in the slightest. Xavier deserves everything that’s coming to him.”
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