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Dear Readers,
Since English is not my first language, there will be tons of grammatical mistakes. Please continue reading this book only if you don't have any issues with that. Rest I can guarantee you that you won't get bored with the storyline.
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“I was waiting for you,” Tiara said, welcoming Theodore into her penthouse. “This is also owned by me.” She added proudly. “I have planned a date for us. Come, I have a surprise for you.” Saying this, Tiara held her wrist to show him the way, but Theodore pulled his hand away, looking at her coldly.
“What happened, Babe?” Tiara asked, caressing his cheek on which he pushed her away again. Theodore’s Lycan whimpered, thinking about what his other half was going to do, but this time, it was nothing he could do because what was going to happen next was something that Tiara had brought on herself on her own.
“I'm not here for a date today, Tiara. I’m done with your selfishness.” Theodore said. “I tried, but you're not the one I want. I've decided that I'm going to reject you.”
“Babe.. wh..what are you saying? We are mate. Y..you have marked me.” Tiara said, unable to believe that this was really happening to her. She always knew that it was Inigo, his wolf, who was the bridge between them, not Theodore. And the way Theodore was staring at her coldly. It was a clear indication that he was serious with his words.
“So you think you can do whatever you want? What you did to Liara, you know yourself!” Theodore sneered, and immediately Tiara realized that he might have found out the truth about what she did with Liara.
“I...I’m sorry. I got insecure, thinking that she would snatch you from me. Because of the way you were trying to win her heart. It crept fear into my hurt. I will apologize to her for that, but please… please forgive me.”
“Why the hell will she snatch me from you? I’m not a kid. You both are mates, and she knows this very well. So, stop blaming her.”
“You don’t understand. By showing her innocent face, she already became the favorite of dad and Colton. And everyone in the house loves her the most.” Tiara said in pure hatred and anger.
“I can’t believe you, Tiara. You’re the one who made her childhood a nightmare, and when your family members loved her a little more to bring her out of the depression, then you’re jealous of her?” Theodore snapped.
“Now you are also taking her side. Hell, how much do you even know? She is a wolf in the coat of…”
“Stop！！Lia！！”
"'Lia? You called me Lia?" she recalled listening to 'Lia' word from his mouth the night they made love for the first time. She naively thought that he was calling her Tia intimately, that she was just a substitute for Liara, that he was only sleeping with her because he thought she was Liara...
Theodore did not answer her question, but continued,
“I know her more than I know you. I have known her since her college days. I met her before I met you. And she is the one who I love to the extent.”
‘They knew each other from her college days? Since when? Why did Liara never tell me about it? ’
Tiara admitted that she was selfish and acted like a bitch, but after finding out this truth, she couldn’t compare her sister any less with her.
“I can’t stay with a selfish woman like you, Tiara, especially the one who doesn't treat my Lia right.”
“And you think that YOUR LIA is not selfish by hiding about you from me?” Tiara asked, showing her disgust toward Liara.
“I don't think we need to talk anymore, just get out of our lives.” Theodore said, shaking his head in disappointment. He is here to reject Tiara today.
“Please… please don’t do this, Theodore!! I love you just like you love Liara.” Tiara requested before adding, “I did all this because I loved you and wanted you all by myself. The moment my eyes landed on you, I fell in love at first sight, please, please, please, Theodore.” She begged, holding his hand. “And I have good news for you, I...”
“If you really love me, leave me alone. Accept my rejection and this will be the best news of the day.,” Theodore told her his final decision.
‘This is it.’ Tiara looked at him with teary eyes. She wanted to beg him not to reject her. Give her a chance to redeem herself. But that doesn't change anything at all.
“I, Theodore Wayne, the last Alpha heir of Silver Moon Pack, reject Tiara Haysbert as my mate.” Theodore mustered all his courage and rejected her, not wasting the whole night with her.
‘Please! Please, don’t do this. Don't accept it! Think about our puppy!’ Dora begged in her mind.
For the first time in her life, she felt utterly defeated. Her wolf, Dora, kept telling her not to accept his rejection and ask for forgiveness, but no words came out of her mouth even though she opened her mouth twice.
‘Dora, I'm sorry that I made it necessary for you and Inigo to be separated. I was the one who couldn't get Theodore's love, I tried my best. But let's understand that Never beg for someone to love you; love is not more important than your self-respect’
'No! Tia, I'm begging you!' Dora was still trying to persuade Tiara.
“I, Tiara Haysbert, accept the rejection of Theodore Wayne.” She accepted the rejection and felt an enormous pain in her heart that made her hard to breathe. She fell immediately to the floor and screamed in agony. She watched him leave without giving even a single glance as if this place, she was suffocating him.
She didn’t know what was more painful. Her own pain that she was feeling at that moment or the fact that her mate didn’t care about her.
“Aaaaaaaa!!!!!” She screamed in agony and kept screaming until she was finally tired from it.
Tiara couldn’t control the pain that she was feeling at that moment. Dora couldn’t stop howling in pain. The fact that he had already marked her had increased the pain of rejection by ten times more than normal rejection. She felt something warm between her thigh. A lot of tears rolled out of her eyes, and she clutched her stomach in pain.
She realized that it wasn’t just her mate that she lost today but also the pup, her pup, their pup.
'I'm sorry, my puppy. It's all my fault.'
She wasn’t raised to be someone who felt unloved or unwanted. That was why she didn’t tell him about the pup who was inside her because she didn’t want to hold him in her life in the name of the pup, OR who would have known he might have rejected her even after knowing that? It wasn’t that Theodore was ever present while making love to her. It was always Inigo, his Lycan.
Tiara started laughing and crying at the same time, at her state, her misery.
Neither Liara nor Theodore told her the truth about knowing each other for years. They played her like a clown. They made her the villain in the story. Her reaction and her behavior toward Liara would have been different if she would have known the truth.
‘I will never forgive you, Theodore!! How easily you judged me by keeping me in the dark!! I’m not perfect, and I don’t claim to be, but before you start pointing fingers, you should have it check whether your hands are clean or not.’
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#TBC
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