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As soon as Blake heard my words, his face twisted into a scowl as he growled, “How dare you speak to me like that, Amber?! Remember that I’m your Alpha and your mate, you live in my pack, so I mean everything to you!”
Telling him off was the best option. In the years that we’ve been together, I’ve always done my pack duties as Luna and a member of the pack.
Even while I was working at the pack office, I would clean the pack house and do laundry for all pack members living in the pack house on certain days. I never asked him to take me
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out of doing those duties after I became his
Luna mate.
However, I wasn’t able to tell him off as the doorbell rang.
I walked over to the front door and pulled it open. The delivery man for Wendy’s handed me the white cake box and I closed the door.
Blake looked confused for a second then a thoughtful look showed on his face and he murmured, “Don’t tell me today is your birthday.”
It was indeed my birthday and I was turning 34. It was also our 9th mating anniversary, yet he still hasn’t marked me. I didn’t know why, but now, I suspected that it has something to do with Hailey.
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I have spent the whole day sewing a nice dress with the intention of wearing it when Blake took me out for my birthday and our anniversary dinner like we did every year after he came back home from the pack
office.
Haunted by regret, Blake took the cake box from my hand then pulled the cake out and set it on the center table as he rushed out, “I’ve been swamped with trying to keep rogues out of our territory recently. I want to make amends. Why don’t we go shopping this evening so that you can select a new diamond mates bracelet?”
I sat down and he followed, sitting beside me on the couch, his loving attitude returning.
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“Amber, you don’t have to worry about Hailey. I mean, we used to be mates when we were just teenagers, but that was ages ago and I’m over her now.” He added in a soft voice.
Was he really over her?
There was a time when we had just become mates and he introduced me to his family.
I stood up to go to the bathroom and overheard their conversation with my heightened werewolf hearing when I was about to enter the bathroom.
They asked him what happened with Hailey and he replied, “I can be with anyone, just not her.”
I thought that meant he was over her, but I could now see that I was fooling myself.
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As I thought about my relationship with Blake, I noticed that it wasn’t what I expected
it to be.
Agreeing to become Blake’s mate has been the worst thing to have ever happened to me and I had to put a stop to this problem.
I glanced at him as I replied in an uncaring tone of voice, “Don’t worry about it. Just go wherever you want to go, you don’t need to worry about it.”
A shocked look appeared on Blake’s face at my
response.
However, after years of me biting my tongue, he had become accustomed to my silence.
It seemed that he believed that I had put what he had done behind us and grinned as he
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picked up the knife from the table and cut a
slice of cake.
“Here, have a bite.” He murmured as he handed me the plate that he had placed the cake on and added a fork on it.
I always tried to stay away from cake and any dessert related food because I wanted Blake’s
love. But now, I was willing to eat the whole cake because I wanted to live a happy life far away from Blake.
As I made my decision, I took a bite of the
cake and savored the taste.
I finished the slice and cut a bigger slice. I was so concentrated on eating the cake that I didn’t notice when Blake left.
I looked around and found the dress that I
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had spent all day sewing had fallen to the
ground and had a dirty footprint on it like someone had matched it.
He was trying so hard to get away from me that he had pushed over my dress and stepped on it on his way out.
I picked the dress and placed it in the washing machine.
My phone beeped, indicating a notification coming through. I glanced at the screen to see that it was from Facebook.
Hailey has posted a video, and I clicked on it to see her saying, “Hey, guys! You have no idea what happened today. I’m such a scaredy little cat! I was afraid of a spider. Good thing my savior will always rescue
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The video ended and I saw her next post which was tagged in. It was actually Blake’s post from his second account which I had no
idea he had.
The post was a reply to her post and it was also a video of him saying, “I’ll always rescue you even if it’s from fire breathing dragons.”
He never replies to my post even after I posted that I was attacked by rogues.
I commented on the post, [You did good.]
Immediately, he texted me, [ Hailey was traumatized by a spider in her house, so I’m taking her to the pack hospital to see a
psychiatrist.
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You need to help her, so come over and do he laundry. By the way, make some chicken soup for her and bring it to us at the pack hospital. Remember not to add onions inside the soup.
That was when it hit me. Blake always liked onions, but whenever I added onions when cooking a meal, he would get angry and curse at me. So he has actually been making me cook for Hailey and not him.
