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The guard dragged me out of the dungeon and took me to a small room. Where he threw me mercilessly on the ground after we arrived there.
"Ow.." I winced in pain trying so hard to fight back the tears that were threatening to fall out.
Not only was I going through the pain of dealing with the sudden death of my best friend Jade.
I was imprisoned.
Tortured and treated like a murderer that they all thought I was. But I was not. They just didn't listen or even tried to understand that I had nothing to do with Jade's death.
I had been locked in the dungeon for three days and no one had come to get me. The only person I had was gone. Gone forever.
The other person in my life was my grandmother, who was down with a stroke and was currently in a hospital.
"Here she is sir.." the cop's voice broke me out of my thoughts and I forced myself to look up.
Curious about the person who finally came to see me.
“Alpha Ivan…" I stammered in shock. Jade's fiance Ivan was seated on a chair with his legs crossed. His face held nothing but hate towards me.
I never The Alpha once though they were betrothed to each other. I was a member of the pack, yes. But I was regarded as trash because I was an Omega.
But what was he doing here?
I could tell he was not here to bail me out or even sympathize with me.
His Metallic gray eyes stared daggers straight at me. His incredibly good-looking face held the demeanor of a devil who was about to catch his prey.
"You can leave.." he gesticulated and the guard left, leaving just the two of us in the small room.
"I swear to God, I didn't kill Jade. I would never do that.." I stammered with shaky breaths. The tears I had been trying so hard to hold back, helplessly on my face.
I was being treated back for something I had no hand in. And I was pretty sure that Mrs Alcott must have ordered the guards to torture me severely.
For the past three days, I have had no rest. There were series of hard labor waiting for me and the guards treated me like a common criminal, hitting me occasionally.
Right now, I feel pains all over my body. Fresh blood seeped through my bruised skin.
"Please believe me.." I begged seeing he was not saying anything.
"Have this.." he finally said, tossing a piece of paper at me.
"What's this?" I asked curiously sitting up straight from the ground as I raked my eyes through the paper.
The word contract was boldly written on the heading.
"Con..tract..?" I stuttered looking up at him. He held a stoic expression and his eyes held no sign of mercy in them, not even a vestige of it.
I slowly read through the contract as it seemed as if he had no plans of answering me.
It was a marriage contract precisely, which stated that he owed me till the day I died and I was to do anything he said. If I signed the papers, I would be free from prison.
"No..no.." I shook my head in denial, dropping the paper on the ground.
"I can't do this.." I shook my head again. Never would I have thought of marrying my best friend's fiance.
What was he thinking? How could he even think of offering me a marriage contract?
"You can't do this…" I said standing up from the ground, ignoring all the pain I felt all over my body.
"Sign the papers Pearl.." he ordered in a menacing tone.
"Why? We can't get married…" I frowned.
"Sign the papers Pearl, I don't have all day.." he said as if he was bored and he took a look at his wristwatch
"I can't do it!" I said with a note of finality. This was absurd. This would be betraying Jade. What he was asking me to do was unthinkable.
"You don't have a choice pearl.."
"It seems as if you've forgotten about your grandmother.." he voiced out and my heart seized.
My grandmother was in an hospital and there was no way I would be able to take care of her if I remained locked up in here.
"I'm simply buying your freedom.." he said handing over a pen to me and I took a good look at his face.
Perfectly sculptured face enough to take a woman's breaths away framed with heavenly gray eyes that could look right through a person's soul.
"Why are you doing this?" I couldn't help but ask as I sobbed.
"To make you suffer.." he fired at me with a passive look on his face.
"I have no hand in Jade's death.." I painstakingly uttered, feeling a big lump on my throat.
I would never think of hurting her. Why did that keep blaming me for something I absolutely knew nothing about.
"Sign the papers Pearl.." he drew out. "I don't have all day to waste with a trash like you," he added.
' Then why are you getting married to a trash?' were the exact words I wanted to ask him but held back my tongue.
"This is betraying Jade.." I muttered. It was not tight in any way.
"You already betrayed her by killing her"
"I didn't kill her!!" I yelled as a sob slipped my lips.
"I did not.."
"You have five minutes.." he tapped his fingers on the table interrupting me.
"Think about your grandmother pearl, are you going to destroy her just like you did to your parents and best friend.." he deadpanned, his words piercing through my heart and soul.
"If you don't sign this, you'd be locked in here forever.." he drew out.
I shakily picked up the pen on the ground. Hot tears flowing down my cheeks. I've been out in a tight spot. He was using my grandmother's condition against me.
I could not be in prison and he knew that.
"I'm sorry Jade. I really am.." I sniffled as I signed the contract slowly. My tear drops falling on it.
He collected the contract from me and folded it into a neat shape before putting it back in his pocket.
"Nice to see that you have the intelligence to save your pathetic life and that of your grandmother.." his voice and eyes were both void of emotions.
Then he grabbed my hand and headed straight out of the dungeon straight to his car. There was no gentleness in his hold, he was extravagantly harsh.
It seemed as if he had all this planned out and knew I'd definitely sign the papers. He prepared for my release beforehand.
But what have I done? I just got married to my late best friend's fiance!. If only I knew that I was getting myself into hell. A much worse hell that I've experienced before in the past.
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