Consequences
Madeline's Pov
“Don’t touch me you animal! Take… t-take your filthy hands away from me!” I struggled desperately, feeling all of my body heat up and my wolf losing control as we craved a man’s touch like oxygen, but not the man that was in front of me. HHis face was a blur, and I knew I shouldn’t… shouldn’t do anything with him, but I was losing it already.
My core was throbbing painfully, and I was almost losing my mind, losing the little control I had over my body. I used the mind link to desperately call for help from my bestfriend, my dear husband, the pack members while the stranger’s hands snaked around my waist touching me where he shouldn’t. I was loving it, but then, I was hating it because I knew this was a trap. It was a f*****g trap I should never fall into. Once that could the ruin the entirety of my life.
I fought him hard, with the bit of strength I could muster. I broke things in case it could draw up attention from the people outside, I hit him hard in the face hoping to knock him out, but nothing was enough to keep him away from me.
He laughed at me in my face and asked me to relax and enjoy what he was going to do to me. I knew it wasn’t the pleasure he was referring to but how he was going to ruin my life.
‘Skylar, please help… Anyone.’ I begged my husband the Alpha through the mind link, except that it never went through, and I grew exhausted fighting endlessly and ended up succumbing to the darkness and to my fate.
*****
I woke up to the creaky sounds coming from the door, and the first thing I checked was the other side of the bed. To my own terror, there was a man lying naked next to me, and there was someone at the door.
My heart thumped wildly in my chest, and my mind raced as I panicked, making an attempt to try and figure out what to do.
Hide.
Yes, hide!
It was the only option I could think of as I quickly grabbed my clothes. Except that it was too late. Rapid footsteps followed immediately before I could even finish throwing on my clothes. My eyes widened in horror when they connected with blue ones belonging to my husband. Alpha Skylar.
His eyes traveled to take in the scene, from the rumpled bedsheets I still grabbed closely to my disheveled hair then finally, to the naked man who was still strangely deep asleep on the bed.
“Skylar, this is not…”
“Not what I think?” he cut me off before I could even explain myself. I could see the storm forming, raging in his eyes when he took another step closer to me, and I backed to the wall. He took one large stride, and I was slammed into the wall before he carried my face in his hand. He let his fingers dig into my cheeks as he tilted his face to the strange man on the bed before looking at me again. “Who would’ve thought you were such a w***e Madeline? You dare to sleep with another man, under my roof, under my nose?!”
“No, Skylar. I promise you, this is not what it looks like.” This is exactly what a cheating partner says when they are caught cheating, but I just didn’t know what else to say. I have no idea what would make him listen to me as of this moment. He looked mad scary and angry, and perhaps disgusted by me. This was the first time I was seeing Skylar like this, it was the first time he was referring to me with such dirty words.
“You’re hurting me Skylar, please…”
He finally released my face from his grasp and I took in a big breath along with a few steps further from him.
I hadn’t even processed all of this yet to figure out how exactly I ended up in this awful position. What happened last night was all coming to me in a blur.
I was hosting an Alpha ball party and the one moment I took to rest, my best friend Daphne brought me a glass of fruit juice. I didn’t suspect anything since it was her, but then I started to feel hot, which made me realize there was something wrong with the drink I had consumed. I immediately excused myself to go back to my room, but a man blocked me. I don’t know who he was, but he forcefully dragged me into a room. I remembered resisting him and the drug, I fought him and did everything I could to escape while calling for help, but nothing seemed to have worked, nobody came to my rescue.
Now, this morning, my husband is here, and he thinks I have cheated on him. But I don’t even know what really happened. I do not feel violated anywhere in my body, but I’d wake up naked along with the stranger next to me. I didn’t know what to make of it or how to begin to explain myself.
“Cat got your tongue now?” I jumped at Skylar’s harsh voice, seeing the pain and disappointment in his eyes when he looked at me.
“I’m sorry.” I lowered my head in shame, feeling my heart break for my husband when he suddenly drove his fist into the wall, clearly angry.
His jaws clenched tightly as he scoffed. “I cannot believe I spent two years being devoted to you, and this is what I get? A slut for a wife and Luna? What would everyone think of me?”
What would everyone think of him? I couldn’t tell if he was worried about himself or me. I just heard several footsteps, and the door opened. My best friend entered, along with her was Cora, who I assumed was the master planner of all of this.
“Luna?” Daphne rushed towards me. “Why are you looking like this?” her eyes then found the man on the bed which by the way I was beginning to think he was dead since he’s been unmoving despite all of the commotion. Daphne gasped, looking at me with eyes filled with questions after grasping the situation.
“I’ll explain later.” I whispered to her. “What are you doing here?”
“Cora dragged me here with her. She said we were going to watch something fun. Who would’ve thought she was referring to something as horrendous as this?”
I was right then. No one else would pull something like this except for the orphan rogue girl my husband brought back home a few months ago when he went to hunt. He claimed the girl had been wandering the forest aimlessly and has been starving for a few days but I knew better than to believe that. I could instantly see the kind of ambition she had in her eyes and instantly knew she was trouble, but Skylar wouldn’t believe whatever I said and didn’t agree to send her somewhere else. For her, he even accused me of not being compassionate enough as the mother and Luna of a great pack like the Red Lake.
The girl was mother Teressa to everyone and so she was able to easily get the love and trust of the pack members which made it even harder to drive her away. Only I knew that she was a snake.
A dangerous one who infiltrated this pack with a goal to steal my position away from me. And I had to stop her. No matter what, I couldn’t let her get her way.
Now, finally, she has caused me a very big problem.
As if knowing I was seeking her presence, she slowly stepped out from behind Daphne, an innocent look covering her face as she fidgeted with her fingers, pretending to take in the scene with her eyes before she gasped rather dramatically.
“Luna, did you really sleep with an omega servant?”
I paused, then slightly pushed Daphne aside so I could see the b***h talking. An omega servant? One would think her question was innocent, but she was only doing her best to add fuel to the fire.
“How did you know he Is an omega servant when you haven’t even seen his face?”
Cora’s eyes shifted to Skylar and there was panic in them for a slight second as if she knew she had slipped up before she quickly replied. “I... I recognized his scent.”
“That means you’re familiar with him. You got him to set me up didn’t you, Cora?”
“I would never do such a thing, Luna. If you’re going to accuse me, please do so with evidence.” She said. “I was with the Alpha throughout last night while you were inflicting pain on him.”
Pain? I wondered what she was talking about, and after a few seconds, it finally hit me. The pain from a mate’s betrayal.
Did Skylar really feel it? Does that mean I had truly committed infidelity, I had committed adultery and- Tears burned in my eyes, but when Daphne touched my arms, I quickly blinked them away. She looked concernedly at me, knowing how grave this situation was.
“Guards!” Skylar called, and my head whipped towards him in surprise, “Take her away. Lock her up in her room and make sure she doesn’t step out without my permission!”