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Chapter 114
Casey
“I do not want to miss out on this. I want to be there. I want to hold your hand through it, Lori,” I said, and she shook her head, wiping away her
tears.
“You do not get to pick and choose, Casey. You are either all in or not.” she said, and I understood what she was saying and nodded.
“Please stay and give me time. I will try to make it right.” I pleaded with her, and she looked around and wiped away her tears.
“You compare me to her all the time, Casey. You always talk about her. you call her name in your sleep, even when we make love. How much more do you want me to endure? I never wanted this for myself. I have done everything to fit into her shoes. I have been training since they took her. I have studied hard and am a work in progress, but you are not encouraging me or giving me the support I need. You are not helping me, Casey. I am going through the transition alone. I can’t continue like this. She said, and I buried my face in her neck close to my mark and sucked gently, making her moan.
I knew I was playing dirty, but I was desperate.
“Please give me time, Lori. I am begging you.” I pleaded with her, and she refused weakly with a moan.
“Please,” I said and kissed her neck. Sage growled, wanting her and I let him slowly take over.
“Please..” I said and kissed her.
She let down her defences, and Sage took over. She was our mate, and we
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were trying to make her stay.
I woke up to someone banging on my front door.
Lori was sleeping peacefully. I looked at the clock, and it was twelve midnight.
I wondered who would be knocking on my door late in the night.
Lori woke up, and I asked her to go back to sleep. She had bought a bigger bed for her room so she could roll comfortably on the bed.
I was yet to move her to the room I shared with Zora, and I doubt I could do that. Buying a new house was looking like the way forward, but I would wait until after the games.
I wasn’t hoping to get Zora back this time; I just wanted to be sure she was genuinely happy.
If I suspected she was being forced by the wolf lord, I planned to help Hardy take her from him. She deserved to be happy, even if it wasn’t with
- me.
I wore my shorts and advanced toward the main door.
I was shocked to see it was Cruz. He was drunk and naked.
I let him into my house.
His eyes were swollen and red, and I wondered why he would run in wolf form from his territory to mine.
Was he out of his mind? I went to get him joggers, and he wore them and sat on my couch.
“What is the matter with you? It is twelve midnight. How long did it take you to get here?” I asked him, and he sighed.
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“Thirty minutes, I went through the woods,” He said, and I knew that was the only explanation for how he could get here in wolf form, still drunk.
It seemed Cruz had taken over from Eloise and become the new drunk of our territory.
“What is the matter with you?” I asked him, and he began to weep.
“I shouldn’t have let my Eloise go, Casey. I was a horrible man. I did unspeakable things to her, and now I am paying dearly for it,” he said, and I wondered what he was talking about.
“Samanta is a bitch,” he said with scorn.
“Her triplets aren’t mine,” he confessed, and I was shocked.
“It seemed she was pregnant before I claimed her,” he said, and he wept.
“That was why I accepted her because Eloise and I had been trying, and there had been nothing. I called my wife useless and barren and made my officers fuck her for entertainment,” He said, and I punched him before I could realise what I was doing. He looked at me in shock.
I sent another.
“How the fuck could you do that? Do you know how that poor woman was seen and labelled? No wonder she was always drunk and willing to hop into bed with anyone. You had broken her and taken her pride from her, Cruz,” I said, growling at him, and he bowed his head in shame.
Most of the land, money and resources he owned belonged to Eloise. Why would he hurt her like that? He deserved the pain he was feeling.
“I was mad at her. I saw my time with her as wasted years. In my head, I had to touch my fated once, and she got pregnant. Meanwhile, I was with Eloise for six years, and she never got pregnant..” he explained, and I wanted to beat the shit out of him, but he was already beating himself.
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“Did you seek medical help to find out what the matter was?” I asked, and with how he looked at me, I knew the answer was no. The man was an idiot.
“So, how do you know the triplets are bastards?” I asked him.
“Kent fell ill, and the doctor wanted to give him a blood transfusion. The mother volunteered, but she wasn’t a match, so naturally, it should have been me, but she refused. The doctor offered to test my blood and found that I wasn’t a match either. So we decided to do other tests and discovered they weren’t mine. She confessed to being with someone before me, and while I was still trying to figure out whether to accept or reject her, she continued to sleep with this man. She deliberately got pregnant, so she would get me because she knew I wanted children.” He said and bowed his head.
“The bitch planned it all, Casey. She planned it all. She planned Eloise’s exit from my life,” He said, weeping, and I wondered what he wanted me to do now.
“What do you want?” I asked him, and he wiped away his tears, got up and went to my liquor cabinet to help himself to more alcohol.
“You’re in good rapport with the Wolf lord. I want to exchange Samanta for my Eloise,” he said.
I knew it was the alcohol speaking because there was no way he could be serious, but I wanted to poke him a bit before telling him the truth.
“What about her being barren?” I asked, and he bowed his head in shame.
“Doctor said I have low sperm count, and I could only get her pregnant with assistance,” he said.
I knew the idiot had already figured that out without the doctor because the woman was pregnant when he requested to have her locked up for flimsy reasons.
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“I doubt Eloise would want to come back to you, Cruz. The Wolf Lord is treating them well!” I said, and he growled.
“Is he fucking her? Because I know that is what they do in the north. Fuck other people’s wives,” he said, and I shook my head.
“He isn’t; he is with Zora; I think she is with another alpha. I do not know, but I am sure you will find out during the All–Region Games. If she is free, you can plead your case there,” I said, and he shook his head.
“You are the leader of the east. You should have my side if he says no,” He said, and I shook my head.
“I will not risk war because of you. You have to try to offer the exchange most amicably, but I will advise you to continue your life with your fated and forget about Eloise. She will not come back to you. I did not do anything to Zora, and she wanted to leave me by all means, you practically ruined Eloise. She will not want you. Besides, she no longer bears your mark, so let it go and lick your wounds.” I said to him and told him he could sleep in the third guest room while I returned to Lori’s room to sleep. The man was a selfish prick.
