Betrayed by my mate, avenged by my Lycan

Chapter 4: You and my sister?

~Zoe~

I didn’t want to believe it.

I shook my head and pinched myself to be sure that I was not making things up.

But this was real.

Jax was balls deep in my sister and they were too far gone to even notice that someone had gotten into the room.

Suddenly, I couldn’t breathe. My lungs felt constricted like they had been tied so tightly with ropes and I could only get a handful of breath every thirty minutes. My hands clasped my throat and I wheezed out a couple of breaths, trying to get a hold of as much air as I could.

They were still oblivious to what was happening. I watched my mate thrust into my sister over and over again, their moans resounding in my ears. Those tears that I’ve been holding back and fighting for so long finally broke loose and poured out in torrents like a waterfall in high density.

I was broken.

I was broken into pieces.

My sister’s eyes cracked open and she finally knew that I was present. But she didn’t stop. She kept her eyes on me while my mate drove in and out of her, crushing my soul, my spirit, my wolf. It wasn’t until their release came that she gasped dramatically and screamed in fake surprise.

“Oh my god! What is she doing here!?”

Jax got off her immediately and swung around to meet my eyes. He quickly covered himself and Nora with a duvet and gave me a look that was filled with intense hatred. I could have sworn that an apologetic look crossed his face in a millisecond but I could have been imagining it.

I couldn’t bear to look at them anymore. My head was cast down and I leaned against his wardrobe on the west side of the room for support.

“You didn’t tell me that you were coming back, Zoe. Why are you here?” he asked, scrambling into a pair of briefs and getting out of the bed to stand before me.

Why am I here? The audacity of him to ask me such a question! After taking my virginity forcefully and then sleeping with my sister?

But none of that came out of my mouth. I was too tired to argue. Instead, I say to him; “You…you and my sister? Why?” I lift my tear-filled eyes to him, my heart breaking all over again at the sight of him.

“Zoe, I don’t want you to make a big deal out of this, okay? I wanted to tell you sometime later but I never got the opportunity”.

My gaze glided slowly from him to my sister who was still sprawled on his bed. A slight smile played on her lips and I could see that she was enjoying whatever was going on a little too much. There was no remorse whatsoever in her eyes.

“You were going to tell me? Was it before or after you proposed to her?” I asked, looking for a bit of assurance in those whiskey-colored eyes that I had grown to revel in. “Was it before or after you forced yourself on me, knowing the consequences?”

“Oh my god, Jax. Just send her out, please. She’s ruining a perfect evening with her bad aura”, Nora drawled from the bed.

I tried to process how this had been going on without my knowledge and how blind I must have been to it. Perhaps, because I placed my love and trust in the people that I loved, in the people that I called family and I never in my wildest dream, think that they would be the ones to break me.

“How long has this been going on? How long have you been playing me for a fool?” I asked, furiously swiping at the tears that escaped again.

“Before we found out that you and I were mates”.

The statement hit me hard in my chest, restricting my airflow.

Before he found out that we were mates?

“You mean…you have been sleeping… With my sister… for two years now!? And you knew all of these before you decided to take the one thing that would ensure my stay and dignity in my Pack?”

Nora uncovered herself and strutted down to me in her full nakedness. She looked me up and down like a plague that needed to be discarded before it ended up infecting other people around her.

“Actually, you can put that one on me. It’s all thanks to my multi-million brain”.

A dreadful feeling parked in the pit of my stomach. “What are you trying to say?” I asked.

“Well, Jax and I have been in love for a long time; even before I found out about my mate. Little secret- I was the one who killed my mate, not a strange illness”, she said and continued like she didn’t just admit to murdering someone whom the moon goddess had fated her for.

“After I took care of him, I thought all was going to be well. Not until you showed up with your stupid mate thing. Then I knew that I had to do something about it. Since I killed my mate for him, I figured he should be the one to take care of you himself. So we hatched the plan to make you lose your virginity so that in return, father and the Pack will find out and you will be banished”.

She finished and did a little clap, her eyes glinting with pride. “Come on, you gotta admit that this was a genius plan and that it played out perfectly well”.

Jax cupped her chin and placed a lingering kiss on her lips, completely ignoring the fact that I was there. “You are just too smart, my love. With a woman like you beside me as my Luna, I’m very sure that this Pack will be the envy of many”.

“Why didn’t you just reject me if you knew that you didn’t want me? Why make me go through all of these just to prove a point?” I cried.

He disengaged from her and smirked. “Where will the fun be then? And oh, don’t worry, since I have no use for you again, I’ll gladly reject you”.

Nora threw her hands over his neck and kissed him deeply. I tried not to be affected by whatever was going on but it was a futile effort. “Do it immediately, baby. I don’t even know why you held out for so long. She has to be on her way to the nearest forest”.

Jax, my mate, faced me and I couldn’t see the man that I loved anymore. I couldn’t see the man whom I fought my family for. The man whom I gave up everything for. He has been replaced with this cold beast that I do not recognize anymore.

I readied myself to hear the statement that would slowly kill me and my wolf. It couldn’t hurt any more than what I’ve been through in the past twenty-four hours.

“I, Jax Cartier, reject you, Zoe Moore, as my mate”.

I took a deep, shaky breath and fixed him with the coldest gaze that I could muster, even though my brain was telling me to let go. I wasn’t going to let him and my sister see how much they had broken me.“ I, Zoe Moore, accept your rejection”.