Alpha Enzo novel Chapter 2

Alaria:

I walked inside the Estate, the Estate that I once called my home. An Estate that I was banished from five years ago.

Flashback:

“You could have fought against the divorce. You should have fought against what he wanted…”

“I was not going to fight the man who clearly wanted nothing with me!” I said, stopping my mother. My father, who was watching the scene in silence, tapped his hand on the desk twice. Little did I know that this was the last time that I was going to see him. The last thing that I would have expected was to find myself alone in this.

“You are his wife. Whether or not he wanted anything with you would not matter. The duty between the two of you was sacred and YOU should have fought for it to last. But no, Alaria has to get her way, she has to do everything that we do NOT want her to do.” Mother snapped at me.

Luna Rebekah Venier, my father’s wife and Luna, was a woman who did not like things to take the path that she doesn’t want them to. And when they did, the anger that she showed was one that no man would want to find himself dealing with.

“The man brought the divorce paper to me, what was I supposed to do? Tell him that I wanted to be with him? Despite all the insults, you expected me to still be willing to be with him?” I asked, taken aback by my mother’s bluntness.

Her eyes were fixed on mine for a second too long before my father, who chose to interfere to defend his mate, stood up.

“Your marriage was not of love nor was it of pleasure.” He said, not bothering to flinch for a second. “You had your duties, and neither one of them were fulfilled…”

“I fulfilled my part of loyalty, respect, and love to him. If he refused to see it…”

“A Luna is to give her Alpha a child.” He said, stopping me. I had to fight back looking at my stomach as my baby was the one thing that I could think of. I didn’t even know why I chose to keep it, but I knew, deep down, that I wouldn’t have been able to go for an abortion anyway. It wasn’t something that I would be doing. “You failed to do that, and you failed to hold your place as his Luna an the mother of his only heir.”

I stayed quiet for a second, looking down at my feet as I felt like I was at a loss for words. I didn’t even know how I was supposed to react; I just knew that this was the last thing that I expected to hear from them.

My eyes met Ezio’s, and though I knew that he wanted to speak, I shook my head, stopping him from interfering. The last thing that I wanted for him was to find himself stuck in a mess that had no end because of me.