Chapter 50:
“Ivy and I had the best night without Devin and Dax. I’m cooking because she’s exhausted,” I sneered, hoping to hear his jealous remarks, but he sighed deeply instead.
“You don’t need to cook. Your food is waiting for you downstairs. And so are your drugs,” he said, shaking his head in pity.
“And Ivy? I want to make something, especially for her—”
“There is no Ivy, my king. You have to move on!” he yelled in frustration.
In a flash, his angry eyes softened as he looked at me with pity.
“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have reacted that way. What you had wasn’t real. It was just a memory you shared. It didn’t happen. Ivy is dead. You’re not cooking for a dead person.”
He collected the utensils I held.
My face fell as realization hit me. No. I wasn’t in the mood to blame myself today. I couldn’t help but see her again in my mind. I missed her terribly. Maybe I should just take my drugs like Jasper instructed so I wouldn’t put him through the stress of reminding me that my mate was gone.
What was happening to me? Why wasn’t I healing?
I shut my eyes tightly, holding back the tears that threatened to fall. I didn’t want to appear weak.
“You have an urgent message from the Diamond Heart pack. They are facing a great attack that threatens to wipe out their existence and take over the pack. Alpha Stefan has asked if you could deploy your best soldiers to help him conquer his enemies,” Jasper narrated, holding the iPad firmly in his hands.
I was about to dismiss the matter when an idea popped into my head.
“Wasn’t the Diamond Heart pack the last pack I visited?” I asked, turning to Jasper.
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An intrigued look settled on my face.
“Yes, my king,” he replied, eyeing me suspiciously.
“Wasn’t Stefan the one with that nasty bitch who tried to seduce me?”
But she wasn’t the one who had caught my attention. What was the other girl’s name? The one with those alluring silver-grey eyes.
Aury?
Aurora? Yes. Aurora.
Her strange eye color had held me spellbound. I had never seen anything so enchanting in my life.
A dark smile formed on my face as I thought of the conditions to give him. I was certain he had considered the consequences of turning to me for help because my conditions were always extreme. But this girl was a slave. I was sure he wouldn’t hesitate to part with her.
“Respond to him now. Tell him I will help on one condition: Aurora Gray becomes my property!”
Cloaked in fear, I could hear my father’s pulse pounding in his ears as sweat trickled down his forehead despite the air-conditioned room. Horror filled his eyes when his phone beeped for the second time, indicating a message from the Alpha King.
He tried to stay as still as possible to avoid drawing attention, but his teeth began to chatter in fear. I restrained myself from walking up to him to see the content of the message, as his fear started to spread to me like a contagious disease.
