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I didn’t let myself fall as I strode away. I clutched my chest as I turned around, the pain of the breakup and rejection clawed its way past my heart and into the core of my soul.
My tears fell on their own accord, and I didn’t stop even when I called for a taxi.
I can still hear Jonathan‘ s words earlier even when the taxi was already moving.
“Don’t mind her, she’s just being fucking dramatic.”
Was I though? Was it dramatic for calling out your boyfriend and his bestfriend- feeling–girlfriend that they‘ re acting more of a couple than the Alpha and I ever was?
Even with the breakup, the pack party continued lively. The dancing and music have become even more vivacious since my departure.
But I don’t care. Everyone knew I was
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upset and they knew I wouldn’t care about Jonathan on the floor, clutching to
his chest too.
If they gossip about me being heartless, then I’ll show them heartlessness.
The ride to my apartment took longer because of traffic. When I opened the front. door, I already knew the male scent that occupied inside even before I turned the doorknob.
“Do you really want to embarrass me like that?”
I chuckled mirthlessly. “Is that what you care about? About you being embarrassed in front of the whole pack?”
Jonathan massaged his forehead as he leaned one hand on the kitchen counter,
“Anastasia-
“I think it’s you who embarrassed me, Alpha. You dancing intimately with your other woman whom you call childhood friend is pretty much embarrassing for the
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girlfriend veiled by the shadows in the corner watching the two of you.”
Although I don’t have the energy to argue further, my wolf propelled me to at least stand up to him. Even just once.
I waved an idle hand to him when he was about to counter–scold me. I took off my clothes in front of him, letting him see my naked disappointed body before his bunched brows.
We haven‘ t even made love for the past three months because of his constant going out with Emilia. With that alone, I don‘ t need to clarify further why I need to break up with him.
“Make sure you‘ re gone when I’m finished showering or else I‘ ll dump your clothes and things outside like some bags. of trash,” I hissed, not bothering to sound angry ‘cause I fucking am.
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Apparently, he was still in my apartment
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even when I finished my bath.
“Why?” was all he muttered.
He was leaning one hand to the door frame, the other to his waist as if he was standing outside the bathroom the entire time I took a shower, listening to the rubbing my skin and the sound of the
soap
water washing away any trace of filth in my body.
He’s the only filth left in this place.
“Go be with Emilia. That’s what you want and have been doing all this time, isn’t it?”
Earlier when I left, I saw Emilia posted a picture of her in a car with the caption: “Thank you for always being with me when I’m drunk even in your current state of recovering from being rejected.”
I didn’t even know Jonathan had a car until the past month when she posted the same picture of her in the backseat, wearing a very sexy dress. “You had a car
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for…Emilia alone?” I once asked him but all he explained was that ‘it was a surprise for me‘.
Yeah right. As if it was me who he wanted. to surprise.
“You have a car, Jon, but you never offered to bring me home. But to Emilia…” I swallowed, tears lining my eyes again, “if you can prioritize her like that, what s the point of my existence in your life then?”
When he didn’t answer, I made my voice. clearer this time. “She posted that you drive her home. While I was left-”
“YOU BROKE UP WITH ME!” His chest rose up and down as he gathered himself after yelling those words. “You severed our bond,” he whispered, “and you still expect me to be a gentleman to you?”
“You could have run after me or fought for our relationship of four years!” It was my turn to bellow at him but he only stared at me. “Besides, you were never a gentleman
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to me. I always found myself going home alone.”
As the Alpha of the Dusk Rose Pack, I know he’s often busy. But, why does he always have time for Emilia and not for me?
“Sometimes, I was ashamed of myself for loving someone like you. It seems in other people s eyes, I don‘ t deserve you.” I sobbed, and I poured out all my emotions. relentlessly with my crying. “When you bought that car, you told me to never eat or do makeup there, but Emilia posted just a few weeks ago doing both…”
Well, being Emilia does have a privilege after all.
“We’re done, Jonathan. Go. Leave. Be with Emilia!” I stomped my foot and I didn’t know if the entirety of me ached. for him. All I feel is anger and disappointment and betrayal. All I see is a male, an Alpha, who could have been my husband but tossed it all aside for one Emilia.
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He read the annoyance on my face, but he only pursed his lips and ignored my words. as if everything I said was just on a whim. “There’s really nothing between Emilia and me. If we wanted to be together, it would have happened long ago even before you came into our lives. Why can’t you understand that?”
Oh, so it was me who broke their plans of being together instead?
And the way he said ‘into OUR lives‘
I shook my head. “Deny it all you want, Jon. But everyone can vividly see what the two of you are to one another.”
He blinked, shocked at my statement. But I held up a hand and looked at him straight in the eyes, “As I’ve already said, I really don’t care. You two are obsessed with one another. I’m tired for the day and I don’t want to argue further. Can you just be quiet even for tonight?”
None of us said further after a second as
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soon as I turned around and went to the
bedroom.
As soon as I locked the door, I heard him punch the wall, the sound reverberating even with the closed bedroom door.
Seeing that I was ignoring his actions, he eventually quieted. Soon, his phone rang with a ringtone he only reserved for one
person.
I had always been the understanding, gentle, and often–if not most of the time- possessive.
Our arguments always revolved around Emilia. And not once he took my side.
He didn’t get the expected reaction from me. He thought I would be charging at him with plenty of rebuttals and excuses and other words of possessiveness that I still want him in my life.
But I no longer did.
And when I heard the creaking of the front
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door opening, judging by the call’s ringtone, I already know to whom he was fucking headed.
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