CHAPTER ONE
URIEL’s POV.
A YEAR AGO
I looked at the time again and let out a sigh, Felix has never taken this long to get home before. I know he owns a multi billion dollar company but he always makes time for me and especially on auspicious days. Today is our ten year anniversary and believe me I have been waiting for this day to come. I have two pieces of good news to share with him today, that’s why I am a bit apprehensive. Number one, an international model brand has finally picked me to start their show for the upcoming London fashion week and secondly….. I rub my belly at the thought of that. I have had three miscarriages in the last four years and I thought I would never give birth again but today, the doctor confirmed that I was three weeks pregnant and it was already past my dates for a miscarriage. This is what I want to share with him on this anniversary of ours.
Felix and I found out we were mates when I was just seventeen. He was the son of the then alpha of our pack while I was just a weak omega. He didn’t want me before, he clearly rejected me but then again, after a year he came back and we had our marking ceremony. I was too young for a mating ceremony but on my eighteenth birthday, he finally put his mark on me. Now I was twenty eight years old and he was thirty four and the only person I genuinely love in my life. I have a step mother. My father remarried after my mother died but everyone knows we were not on good terms.
The thought of her made my jaw clench together but I didn’t allow my mind to linger much on that, I allowed the moment to pass. She is just a fleeting reminder of my past and I am not going to let them keep ruining my day.
My attention drew back to the huge clock on the wall and I let out another sigh. This is when I heard the gates open and a car drove in. My lips curled up, he was finally home. I looked at myself one last time in the huge mirror. I was putting on a red sequined dress which accentuated and highlighted my figure. My locs which I somehow got from my migrated Ethiopian mother who died when I was seven years old. I had my locs in a bun on my head while I let my red lipstick highlight my red dress. I remember when Felix bought insurance for every part of my body. In his words, I was too precious to be left like that and he bought insurance for every part of my body. The thought of it made me smile as I continued looking at the door, waiting for him to make an entrance but he was not forthcoming.
I finally made my way out of the door and imagined the surprise on my face when I saw the scenario playing out in front of me. Felix was standing but that’s not what caught my attention, it was the person standing in front of him with his hand snaked around her waist. Her back was to me but I actually knew who that person was. The frown on my face deepened as I hastily covered the distance between us. Of course I was not wrong, she is definitely the one.
“What’s going on here?” I asked and she abruptly turned to me, no look of remorse on her face.
“Oh, you..” she scoffed, “I didn’t know you were home”
“Mum, what’s going on here?” I asked again, too stunned to even ask my husband who was just standing there like a log of wood. He doesn’t even look fazed but I will come back to him later. I genuinely want to know what my step mother is doing with my husband. Isn’t it even disgusting to even think about it?
“Mum, what’s going on here?”
The forty two year old woman chuckled lightly, taking Felix’s hand in hers.
“What does it seem like we are doing honey?”she inquired, “you are the one interrupting us”
I looked over at Felix, his eyes filled with admiration towards her and I almost gagged. What the actual f**k?
“Felix?”
“Baby” my step mother turned to him again, caressing his face lightly, “I will see you tomorrow right?”
“Of course my love” he leaned forward and pressed a kiss on her lips which took me aback. What!!! He was kissing her in front of me like I wasn't even there, like I didn’t even matter.
I agreed that my step mom looked younger than her age. She was forty two years old but she could pass for someone who was in her late twenties just like me. She grew up to inherit her father’s automobile company so I understood she had all the money at her beck and call but I never liked her. I don’t know why my father decided to marry her when she was clearly above her league. My father owned a chain of restaurants in the country but that can not be compared to what Louisa has. We both hate each other but coming after my husband? This is the most stupid and low class thing she has ever done.
I watched as she boarded Felix’s Maybach again and the driver zoomed off leaving the two of us. What the heck have I witnessed? Even my world was too stunned to speak.
Without saying anything, Felix started making his way into the house but I immediately grabbed his hand. Who does he think he was kidding? How can he just walk away after the stupid thing I had just witnessed?
“Where do you think you are going, Felix?” I asked him, staring back into his eyes. He was over six feet tall and one of the most handsome men I have ever seen. Body like that of a Greek god, face that belonged in a magazine and a demeanor that can be competed for. That’s why even when he rejected me but came back, I hastily agreed to get mated to him. I was madly in love with him. He was everything I have ever wanted, everything I have ever dreamed of. He gave me everything I would ever want and need in life, he made me feel like a princess so why? Why would he suddenly go after my step mother? I was his mate, his Luna. How could he..,
“What’s going on here?” I asked, “where are you going without giving me any kind of explanation?”
“I am f*****g tired, Uriel!” He cut me off, “I need to rest”
Uriel? He called me Uriel after ten years of being together? I could feel my heart breaking into a million pieces but I continued to hold on to him, waiting for him to give any kind of explanation. I would believe anything he said, he must have done it for some kind of reason.
“Now you will call me by my name? What was that for, Felix? Why did you bring that witch into my house? You held her and you kissed her. What the heck is going on?”
“Witch?” He scoffed, his deep baritone resonating in my ear, “don’t you dare call her that. She has a name”
“What?”I can’t help but laugh, was he being serious right now?
“Are you f*****g dumb, Felix?” I half yelled in his face, “how dare you?”
“Not now, Uriel”
“Are you sleeping with my step mother? Are you f*****g her?”
“I wouldn’t call it that”
“What?”
“Why? Do you feel threatened?” The wicked smirk on his face continued to grow, “do you feel scared?”
“What rubbish? How can you…” I stopped talking. Maybe I am actually misunderstanding this, Felix would never do this to me. He would never hurt me in this kind of way, he would never do me like this.
“Babe,” I tried to touch him, “don’t do this! What’s wrong? Why…
“I am tired of you, Uriel” he blurted much to my amazement. I took a step back, what exactly is he talking about.
“You suffocate me, you suffocate my wolf. I am f*****g tired of you”
“What…
“I want to put an end to whatever we have going on” he finally drops the bombshell