Landons POV

'So this is what it has come to?" I communicate with Nadia through our mindlink.


Her being torn away from me by Vance the Alpha does not sever our mate connection, even though it has broken our bond.

The Alpha can choose to have whoever he pleases to warm his bed, even someone else's mate, at the expense of whoever it is.

Nadia gives a shrug that I know was intended for me and there and then, it dawned on me that every choice I had made up till this point were all the wrong ones.


Why is it so hard to want to change my fortune?

Why am I so unfortunate?


The plans that I saw would make me an Alpha, and just maybe I would have taken someone else to be my Luna, all fell through.

Not only is Nadia now a Luna against my wish, she's a Luna in someone else's hands.

'I will always win." I hear her proud voice in my head. Fuck!!

'Nadia, you are a bastard." I said angrily. I see her smile.

She sucks her teeth in a way that irritates me so damn much. She is a little audible which makes Vance turn and tighten his grip on her waist while casting the nastiest of glances at Talia.

Nadia played me and got me right, I can't even lie.

I did not see her coming from any angle. As maless do not feel it when their females are having relations with someone else outside their mate bond, unlike females, i didn't know when Vance and Nadia started seeing, again.

It means she endured all the insults and disrespect from me while she was warning Vance's bed on occasion.

She arches her back and relaxes more into Vance's possessive grip, a space Talia once occupied.

I feel slighted. I don't like the feeling of being outwitted, I hate it so damn much. I had planned this out carefully. Sought out loopholes and filled them properly. There's no way in this life or the next that I'm going to be letting any of this slide.

'Who is the miserable one now?" Nadia asks me through our mindlink.

'Why did you do this to me?" I asked her back, evading the question.

'You see," she replies, 'After I had an encounter with someone from the rival pack you've been fraternizing with, it struck me, no it didn't I had always known, it reminded me that you are still the same selfish Landon who would always put himself first. I had to do what I had to do." At the mention of ‘rival pack' my jaw muscles twitch and my heart skips a beat, or two.

Vance could intercept our mindlink if he wanted to. We need to be careful about what we spill. Nadia looks like she does not give a fuck, I wouldn't too in her shoes. She has just intercepted and rubbished a plan that could have killed him, she sure is immune to the consequences of her past and future actions as long as they both are alive and he's the Alpha.

'Why did you never tell me about it?" I asked her. I'm nervous, I'm not going to admit to fear, but she has knowledge that could implicate me.

'Why should I have?" Nadia retorts. 'Actually," she continued, 'the question should be ‘when should I have?'. Is it when you were fucking that pack slave? Or when you were buried in me, making love to me against my will? Or when you abused me in whatever manner you deemed fit? Which of them?" Her face falls and we are both staring at each other hard. Thankfully, we are not the center of anyone's attention, yet.

'Come on!" I chided her, albeit angrily.

'If you say too much here and now, I'll make sure you end up like her too." Referring to Talia, she threatened, and gave me a very nasty look.

'What do you stand to gain from this?" You're just going to be Vance's new plaything till someone finds a way to rid him of you."

I've known Nadia for years, decades in fact. I know when she's hurt, when something gets to her, and I saw it. I hit the point.

She's spontaneous enough for me to know that she probably never really thought it through but fuelled by the desire to avenge herself, she went ahead with it.

'At the house…."

'It's no longer ‘the house', it's your house, I live here now. Besides, you kinda always reminded me that it wasn't ours, but yours, so keep the same energy." She interrupted.

'At the house," I continued regardless, 'Meet me when this is done."

I'm about to block the mindlink and focus on Talia.

'Aren't you pained, even just a bit?" She asked, wondering.

'About you ruining our plans? " I replied question for question.

'No. About Talia." She sounds a little disappointed.

'It was never really hers. Her mom made our dad flee, jeopardizing my chances of being an Alpha…" I get edgy whenever I have reasons to brush this subject.

'I'm not asking for history lessons." She cut in. 'I knew that part already."

'Don't be a fucking whim and listen to me…" I blurted out before I could even control it. My fists are bunched in anger and my head is hot.

'You use that tone on me one more time…"

'I'm sorry, I lost control." Apologising never came this easy to me, but I've got to do what I've got to do.

'Well, get it back." Nadia sounds bitchy. Taking advantage of the situation, it's a thing for her, I'm not surprised.

'I'll see you later, Nadia." I blocked off our mindlink, giving her no chance to protest. I just stand and stare at everything. Talia is losing all the attention and eyes are beginning to dart around and at me. It's time I pulled that pity face everyone yearned to see.

Talia used to be my lovely baby sister till I found out how she was even my sister at all.

Maybe a part of me is remorseful for making her suffer unjustly, I don't know, I'm not sure, but I must get what I want."