Avalon's Revenge

Divorced

AVALON

Wake up! A voice screamed at me, forcing my eyes open and my consciousness alert.

I gasped for air like my lungs suddenly needed it. And that was all because, a moment ago, I did need it.

I should have woken up in pain. My entire body should have been covered with bruises, but it wasn’t. Not one strand of hair was out of place. My hands flew to my neck where Sebastian had been choking a second ago, to find that there was no pain or even a bruise. What the hell? My mind began to race as well as my heart, and it beat violently and so loudly in my chest.

My eyes searched around, desperate to get away from any danger Sebastian and Livia had cooked up this time. It seemed like they were playing yet another mind game with me like they always liked to do. They enjoyed making me think that I was crazy and enough for the whole pack to believe every lie that they told.

But a few heartbeats later, I felt different. The air wasn’t chilly like it always was when they had me on my toes, trying to avoid the impending danger waiting for me at every turn.

Something was different and I could feel it. What is this place? What is happening right now?

It was then I decided I was going to pay more attention to my surroundings to realize that I was back in our room, or mine as he liked to call it. The same room he had made it a mission to never step foot in.

But how was I in my room if I was dead? This had to be some kind of joke, wasn’t it? But it wasn’t. Deep down I could tell it was not.

I glanced to my side just where the bedside table was, and I could see the papers that rested on it, with a pen on top of it. Divorce agreement.

My eyes widened at the realization that the moon goddess must have heard my prayers, granting me another life, or a chance to right my wrongs as I promised her that I would. And at that time, I heard her voice speak to me again. “One chance, Avalon. You have one chance to right this wrong. That, however, isn’t entirely why I brought you back." I stared at her confused. But before I could even get the chance to ask her what the latter words meant or to thank her for bringing me back, she vanished.

I tried not to dwell so much on it, however, because seconds after she disappeared, I became ecstatic about this chance that had been given me. “Thank you, Moon Mother.” I prayed silently, feeling my heart swell with hope and for it to beat for revenge.

I looked around once more, and I realized that I needed to act fast and smart because the next few hours would be crucial for me. The first step is to get away from him.

At that moment, I hurried to check my phone, to see how far back she had brought me and when I was able to, I saw that she had taken me to exactly a year ago, where Sebastian forced me to sign the divorce papers.

A year ago, I had cried myself to sleep, and when morning came, I dragged my feet with more tears before heading to the courthouse like Sebastian had wanted me to.

I had tried to get him to give our marriage and our bond an actual chance to grow, to end things with Livia and be with me like fate destined, but he blatantly refused. He went on ahead and drafted our papers then, and he signed them with Livia sitting on his thighs. And like that wasn't enough, he flung the paper in my face, ordering me to sign it and be the one to take it over to the courthouse where his friend worked.

“I have made him start the process and the only thing left right now is for you to take it down to James’ office. Once he gets it in the system, we will be divorced. Don’t make me tell you to do it again, Avalon. You will not like what I will do to you later. Don’t f*****g test me.”

I shook my head recalling his words, glancing over at my phone’s clock once again before slipping out of bed.

I knew what I had to do, and this time, instead of tears, I was actually going to get divorced with relief and a smile on my face. This hell will soon be over before it even starts.

I ran to the bathroom for a bath and I got dressed faster than I did even on my wedding day before rushing out of the house with one thing in mind.

“I cannot wait to get divorced and free from him”, I told myself. “I cannot have my revenge while being in the same space as him.” I reminded myself on my way to the courthouse.

And when I arrived, I took a deep breath in order to calm my racing heart. I knew that I needed to keep things as normal as possible even though I needed to be strong.

I had the blueprint of the past, or the future, since I had been taken back to a year. I knew all that was going to happen and the last thing I wanted was for them to think that there was something wrong with me or that there was a change that would raise questions.

The Moon Goddess didn’t have to tell me that for me to realize it, I could just feel that this was something I needed to do.

Once my heart race slowed, I took the first step up the stairs before the next until I made it into James’ office. He, like everyone else that knew me being married to Alpha Sebastian, hated me and I knew that he wouldn’t have any problems getting the process done in no time. I was relieved to know that.

And the moment I met him, his eyes held the usual disdain he had for me. “Take a seat, stand, I don’t f*****g care.”

He spat without so much as a glance towards me. I wasn’t taken aback like I should have been, but last time, I was in tears begging him to talk to Sebastian, to convince him somehow not to go through with our divorce, and now that I was in front of James again, I realized how pathetic that was.

I watched James work and in a matter of minutes, I had the finalized documents. When this happened a year ago, I was shocked by how much Sebastian wanted this divorce that he planned ahead with his friend.

James paused moments after I took the papers from him. “You seem oddly calm about this, you’re planning something, aren’t you?” he hissed, almost on the brink of snatching the papers back from me. I, however, smiled at him. You would like to know, wouldn't you? You sly snake.

“I have accepted my fate. That’s what you all wanted, isn’t it?” there was something evil that started to grow in my chest at that moment.

I had so much power in the palm of my hands and I could do at will whatever I wanted. Right now, I could change lives if I wanted to. I wanted to change so much and make them all pay for what they had done to me.

James kept his gaze on me with narrow eyes before nodding. “Sure, now get out. I have better things to do with my time than have the likes of you in my office. I have always questioned what Sebastian ever saw in you to make him want you for even a second, but what can you say? The mate bond finds ways to f**k up even the clearest visions. And that is exactly what it did to Seb…” he smiled happily as I turned to leave. I didn’t even bother to sit. “… this is just the beginning of your actual suffering and I personally cannot wait for it to unfold.” He finished. Asshole.

I turned to him with a smile. “You have no idea, James. None of you have any f*****g clue about how things will work out.”

I spared him no other look before walking out of his office and down the stairs outside the courthouse. Only then was I able to breathe.

I heaved in a breath, not realizing I had held on to the single one I drew in once I got into his office. Relief washed over me like a gust of wind and a smile broke out on my face.

“Finally a divorced woman.” I said to myself, clenching the papers like someone was going to snatch them from my hands.

“Avalon!” I heard my name being called and all the blood and warmth I felt on my face drained at the sound of the voice. I spun on my heels, feeling my heart jump to my throat, and I saw Sebastian. How? How is he here?

For the first time since I met him, I stared at him feeling nothing but hatred. Hatred for all the things he put me through and for the fact that even though I had been reborn, my heart still held fear for him.

I knew that right now, he had left Livia at the hotel he had spent the night with her at, but now he was here, making me wonder why.

“Avalon, baby….” He crushed me in a hug the moment I was at arm’s reach. My brows furrowed, and my heart sped up to a speed I knew could kill me. “…. You didn’t go through with it, did you? Tell me. I’m sorry, okay, I’m sorry that I hurt you.”

Okay, now, I am even more confused. Why was he acting like this all of a sudden? Did he perhaps fall in the bathroom and hit his head or something?

Sebastian’s wide eyes looked at me with hope filled in them. He was expecting me to agree with him, to tell him that I had accepted his apology. But this didn’t happen a year ago. If anything, he only returned home when he cared to and even after he did, my things were the first thing he decided to exercise on.

He had a good time with Livia, throwing away everything I owned, which was not much considering he was the one who bought almost everything I wore.

“Sebastian, what are you doing? You’re hurting me.” I said to him, pushing him away. But he held onto me tightly, refusing to let go.

“Not until you forgive me. Not until you return home with me, where you belong.”

Home where I belong? Sebastian was beginning to scare me. This was a part of our lives I knew wasn’t there and his change was not something I wanted to be a part of. I had learned the hard way to know he was not someone to be trusted.

“I don’t want this Sebastian, let go of me right now!” I screamed at him, feeling my body burn against his where a bond should have sparked. And when he pulled away, I saw something in him change. It was like he had been brought back to default setting and his face held a scowl.

“You little b***h. You think you’re free from me just because we just had a divorce? I am going to drag you back in there,” he grabbed my arm and started to pull me back up the stairs to the courthouse. “….and I will have James cancel whatever the f**k he did for this divorce, no one will know about it and you will have no f*****g choice but to come home with me.”

I was more than furious with him and I felt panic start to set in, in my chest. I could not let him drag me back there, I could not let him take me back to that hellhole.

I yanked back hard from him, only to miss a step and my body started to fall. My eyes widened, knowing I was going to end up in pain yet again and Sebastian could take advantage of that. He was alpha of the pack after all.

But then I felt hands wrap around my waist, holding me in place and steady from falling. Sebastian’s eyes widened a ton more than mine did as he glanced at whoever was behind me, making me do the same. He could not see the men, but I could.

“She told you to leave her alone and that she isn’t going anywhere with you. I think you should listen to her and f**k off before I get my hands on you.”

A voice so deep, and a jaw line crisp enough to tell me that he meant every single word, the stranger warned. I was stunned to say the least, having come face to face with the most gorgeous faces I had ever seen exist.

“And who the f**k are you two?” Sebastian questioned.