Chapter 99
Willow
He arrived, the corner of his lips lifted slightly into a wicked smile as my heart
sank. No! Reuben shouldn’t be
here! It was a trap!
I quickly glanced at the shattered door, only to find Reuben standing there,
covered in his own blood. His entire b*dy appeared to be littered with wounds
from which blood incessantly fiowed.
My eyes widened at the terrifyingly dire condition he was in. All my struggles in
Dark’s grasp amounted to nothing when Reuben and I made eye contact for a
moment. My heart skipped a beat. He had not been executed and was safe for
the moment. He had not left me, he had cforbut my heart sank as his
eyes closed and he collapsed to the ground before me.
“REUBEN!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, breaking free from Dark’s grasp
and sprinting away, desperate to hold my mate in my arms. But before I could
reach him, I encountered an invisible barrier halting me, preventing
energy separating Reuben and I.
“No, what’s happening? Reuben!” I slammed my hand against the barrier, my
gaze fixed solely on Reuben lying motionless on the ground. “REUBEN!” I
shrieked frantically, repeating his nover and over, but he remained
unmoving while I remained trapped. “I need to reach him. I have to…” I
murmured, clawing at the unseen obstacle between us. “LETGET TO HIM!” I
screamed, pounding my fists against the barrier in desperation. Why could I not
hear his heartbeat or breathing? Had he…..
“You’ve only just begun to crumble under the weight of your punishment,”
Dark’s voice pierced the air from behind me. I paused, holding my breath. My
punishment? “You have a long journey ahead, Rose,” he commented.
I clenched my fists and turned to see him seated in a chair, his posture regal.
“What have you done with him?” I demanded, my face burning with anger.
His eyes remained void of emotion. “Your ‘lover boy‘ chose his own fate by
trespassing onto my territory, now he’s taking his last breath,” he stated fiatly.
The entirety of the Wade Moon territory was engulfed in Dark’s lethal energy, an
unseen force that defied visibility and confrontation, leaving Reuben grievously
wounded on the ground, teetering on the brink of death.
“No… Reuben! Open your eyes!”
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“Reuben, please, look at me. I’m here!”
“Reuben!” I screamed incessantly, but he remained unresponsive, while I sensed
Dark’s amused gaze fixed upon my pale shattered countenance. The terror of
losing my soulmate surpassed any fear I had ever known.
“He seems to be dying slowly,” Dark commented, a hint of disappointment
tainting his words. “With the additional combination of silver, wolfbane, and my
energy, he shouldn’t have lasted more than five minutes,” he murmured.
My entire b*dy grew cold as I absorbed the grim reality of the limited time
Reuben had remaining. “Was I kind to him?” Dark’s words seemed to conjure a
mysteriously lethal darkness that encroached upon Reuben.
“Stop it!” I yelled, spinning to face Dark. Though I didn’t understand the nature
of the darkness, I knew it posed a grave threat to Reuben. “Why the hell are you
doing this? He hasn’t wronged you in any way! Why must you kill him? Let him
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtgo!” My voice trembled with angry desperation.
Suddenly, he surged to his feet and seized my throat. “THIS IS YOUR
PUNISHMENT, BITCH!” he roared. “THE PUNISHMENT FOR RUNNING AWAY FROM
CHOOSING HIM OVER ME! THE PUNISHMENT FOR…” He paused, tightening his
grip around my throat, making it increasingly difficult to breathe. “Playing with
me,” he whispered, his eyes ablaze with fury. My face fiushed red, tears
streaming from the corners of my eyes as I struggled to draw a full breath.
As I teetered on the brink of death, he released his grip on my throat and
shovedaway. I lost my balance and crumpled to the ground, coughing
violently in between gasps for air. The world aroundseemed to fall silent,
drowned out by the frantic pounding of my heart and the struggle for each
labored breath.
Clutching my bruised throat, marked by his handprint, I slowly turned my gaze
toward Reuben. Seeing him lying in a pool of his own blood, I could no longer
hold back my tears. My vision blurred as I crawled across the ground, desperate
to reach him. Before I could, I felt Dark’s hand on my back.
“Going somewhere, Darling?” he whispered into my ear. I froze in place, my
entire b*dy trembling as his hand trailed from my hair down to my waist. “You
should be crawling between my legs,” his face hovered beside mine, his breath
grazing my hair as he crouched behind me.
“Don’t…” I halted his hand, glaring at him fiercely. “Don’t touch me,” I declared,
meeting his gaze with hatred in
my eyes.
His expression darkened, “Is that what you want?”
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“Can’t you tell?” I arched an eyebrow, no longer cowering before him. “You
disgust me,” I pushed his hand
“What the hell did you just say?” he seized my cheek violently, his eyes fiashing
with rage. “For callingdisgusting, I’ll make your beautiful b*dy so repulsive
with my teeth and cock that you’ll loathe the sight of yourself in the mirror,” he
growled, grabbing my breast.
away.
“AHHH…” I groaned in agony as he assaulted my breast, digging his nails into it.
I felt blood seeping through my top.
I swallowed the pain, refusing to let my tears betray me, and replied, “Do it. You
can either forceor kill me. That’s all you’re capable of.”
I grabbed onto his coat, the pain shooting through me, “Kill me,” I locked eyes
with his seething gaze, knowing I had pushed him to his breaking point. “I SAID
KILL ME!” I screamed, only to receive a slap across the face.
I placed one hand on my stinging cheek and the other on my bleeding breast,
relieved as he finally released his grip. My head spun momentarily from the
force of his blow.
“Do you really think that I don’t know what you’re trying to do?” he snarled,
grabbing my hair again and pullingcloser to his face. “You want to die
before him, don’t you?” His grin was sinister.
I inwardly clenched my fists. He had seen through me. At this point, I did indeed
want to die. I couldn’t bear the thought of watching Reuben perish before my
eyes. If I couldn’t save him, then I wanted to depart this world alongside him.
His grin widened. “So much love for him that you want to die with him, huh?” He
leaned in closer to my face, his eyes darting between my lips and eyes. “Now he
will die because of you,” he declared, planting a soft k*ss on my lips.
I didn’t have tto react before the sound of footsteps reached my ears. What
did he mean by “Reuben will die because of me“?
“I have a little gift for you,” Dark remarked to someone. I followed his gaze to
the door, where I saw a familiar face entering.
“Mia?” My eyes widened as my jaw dropped in disbelief. “What are you doing
here? I told you to look after the children…” I trailed off as I noticed how
unscathed she appeared, unaffected by Dark’s energy unlike Reuben. Then I
noticed her expression, it was totally different from the one that she usually
wore, “What’s going on, Mia?” My voice shook with uncertainty. “Are you working
with Dark?”
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“No, I’ve been working for myself for years, preparing for this moment,” she
smiled cryptically.
“What do you mean?” I bit my lip in confusion.
“You should have never been in Reuben’s life from the beginning, Willow. Once
you were gone, you should have never returned. You stole him from me!” she
venomously accused.
“What?” I couldn’t believe my ears. Her always–smiling eyes now seemed
unfamiliar, as if I didn’t know the woman standing before me.
“Don’t act surprised, like you never knew I loved Reuben since school!” she
snapped. “You stole him with your beauty,” she accused, leavingin shock.
Mia loved Reuben? Was she not always rooting for the two of us all the time?
Had she been acting all this time?
That’s when it all clicked in my mind. “Were you the one who deceived me,
posing as Ella and tellingthat Reuben had a fiancée?” My voice trembled
with realization.
She smiled in response. “You leftno choice. You should have stayed away
when I sent the pictures of you and Reuben to Alpha Louis,” she confessed.
“Mia…” I couldn’t close my mouth, stunned by her betrayal. It dawned on me
that she had been the one spying on me, givingthat unsettling feeling of
being watched. She cunningly used Ella and my suspicions to conceal herself,
makingbelieve that Ella was behind it all. The woman I had trusted as a
friend turned out to be my true enemy all along. I had even entrusted my
children to her care, oblivious to the hatred she harbored for years.
When it was not enough she shook hands with Dark. “I thought we were best
friends. How could you betray me…” I murmured.
“Don’t blher for being in love, Rose,” Dark spoke lowly, softly biting the
corner of my ear. “Let’s help the two lovers meet their end,” he added.
“What?” my eyes snapped at him in horror. An evil smile played on his lips as he
slowly clenched my jaw makingwatch as Mia crawled over Reuben’s b*dy.
“Let them make love…” he whispered.
My face lost all color knowing what he was planning, “NO! GET OFF HIM!!” I
shrieked at Mia.
Ignoring me, she touched Reuben’s ch*st that suddenly becblood free.
Slowly his whole b*dy was clean but his skin started to turn red for some
reason. My breath stuck in my lungs when I saw Mia slipping her hand into
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his pants and Ruben’s whole b*dy reacting as if he was on drugs or in rut.
“Get him hard and ride him,” Dark ordered.
My heart dropped into my stomach hearing his order as Mia unzipped Reuben’s
pants.
“NO! DON’T TOUCH HIM!” I roared, breaking out of Dark’s grip ready to kill Mia
but Dark yankedback, this tmore violently.
“Let’s watch from here. The couple doesn’t want a threesome,” he k*ssed my
cheek.
“LETGO! DON’T TOUCH HIM!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, tears started
slipping out of my eyes.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Shhh… don’t be jealous,” he stated as Mia took Reuben’s cock in her hand and
started jerking it.
“NO, DON’T DO THAT,” she ignoredas if I was not there and soon she was
going to take his cock in her mouth. “PLEASE STOP HER!” I begged Dark.
“Why still want to die with him?” He caressed my cheek.
“HE WILL DIE IF SHE HAS S*X WITH HIM!” I screamed at him, going crazy. However
his expression did not change, that letknow that he was doing all of this
intentionally knowing about the vow that Reuben had made five years ago.
“That’s why I warned you that he will die because of you, Rose,” he lifted my
chin up, “He took that oath out of love for you and now he will die because of
your love.”
Tears fiowed from my eyes uncontrollably. “Please, stop her,” I begged, “Kill me
instead.”
He shook his head, “That’s not what I want to hear.”
I bit my lip, looking into his mismatched eyes, “I will do everything you say,” I
finally spoke the words that he wanted to hear. “I am ready to accept your
punishments just please… stop her,” I begged.
“Finally you understand,” A handssmile curled his lips as he raised his
hand and Mia, close to taking Reuben in her mouth, fainted. I looked at Reuben
but Dark suddenly pulledinto a forceful k*ss. I grew scared and raised my
hand to push him away only to put my hand back down, my eyes going to
Reuben.
I slowly closed my eyes, silently crying. His breathing was heavy, his grip on my
hair tighter, and his lips were
practically pinching mine. But everything suddenly gavezero pain.
Once he was satisfied, he broke the k*ss, “It’s tto go, Rose,” he touched my
face. I opened my eyes slowly, my expression dead, “Let’s go.”
He took my hand, ready to dragaway.
“Givea minute with him,” I murmured.
“That’s not happening,” he angrily growled.
“Letsay goodbye to him or I will never be able to forgive myself,” I begged.
He frowned bitterly but after a couple of seconds, he let my hand go, “You have
only thirty seconds.”
I could finally cross the invisible wall and crawled closer to Reuben. He was no
longer bleeding but was seriously injured. I held him in my arms and hugged
him tightly.
“Do you remember the other day when you said that I deserved your
everything?” I whispered, my silent tears wetting his shoulder. “It was a lie. I
don’t deserve you, Reuben. I never did,” I broke into sobs. “If only I had never
cinto your life then you would not have gone through all of this,” I looked
at his closed eyes and smiled, “Now the children are all yours. Tell them
mommy is gone but she will always love them,” I closed my eyes sobbing, “I am
sorry I am breaking my promise and abandoning you again,” I leaned down and
k*ssed his lips, “I love you,” I whispered.
Our lips had only met for a second when Dark started draggingaway, “Let’s
go.”
I looked over my shoulder at Reuben for the last time, “Reuben.”
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