Page 5 of The Alpha's Chosen Fate

Emery's eyes flashed with anger.Her wolf’s enraged energy heated the air between us.

"This is total bullshit!"she fumed."Briggs has no reason to treat you like this!Not when we all know that bitch would sell her soul to get what she wants.She probably did exactly that."

Emery threw her shoulders back, glaring daggers at the Alpha.Twitching, claws shot out of her fingers.

"I'll fucking kill that dickweed and that bleach-blonde bimbo, too!"she hissed, taking a step to get around me.

"Emery!"Colten barked, moving quickly to restrain her, carrying her away from the crowd towards the trees.

Emery fought to get out of his hold, her long red ponytail flinging about as he easily overpowered her.

"Let me go, asshole!"she shouted."Ivy deserves better than this!"

Caleb jumped into their argument.Their voices faded into background noise the further away they got.A chill crept across my chest, mixing with the fire of my shame.

As much as I appreciated Emery, I couldn't help her right now.I was too overwhelmed.

The pack had already distanced themselves from me, as though I were some pariah to be shunned.Not one of them would look me in the eye.

Like it had beenmewho had done something wrong.

Rieka forced me to turn my eyes to the happy couple who were continuing the ceremony.The buzzing in my ears drowned out their voices.

Briggs had his hands on her hips as Ruby brought hers to his face.She shot me a triumphant smirk, pulling the Alpha down for a kiss.

The bastard had no concerns about making me watch.Would he mark her in front of me?Or wait until he was fucking her later?

I tasted bile in the back of my throat.A knife to the gut would have been easier to take.

I walked backwards, closer to where Caleb and Emery were still arguing with Colten.But I didn’t look away from Briggs and Ruby, entwined in each other's arms.

How kind of the pack to form an aisle directly from me to their Alpha and Luna.

I watched in morbid compulsion.The image of their embrace branded itself into my memory.If I continued watching their vows, I might break.

Irrevocably.

Through the heartache and pain, one emotion overtook the rest.Burned brighter than all others.

Anger.

Anger at Briggs for being so heartless and cruel.Anger at the pack for so easily turning their backs to me, so eager to please their new Luna they put physical space between us.

But most of all, I directed that anger inward.I was a naive fool.Of course, I was.

Did I really think the Alpha would want me, and only me, to warm his bed when I knew how many beautiful she-wolves he'd continuously screwed since I was old enough to notice?

I wanted to disappear.To run away from my reality.

"I need to leave," I said, my voice barely audible.

Emery stopped struggling in Colten's iron hold."Let go, fuckface," she demanded.

Silently he released her, staying between us and Briggs.Colten was his Beta, after all.His concern wasn't for us, and especially not for me.

“Come on, Ivy, let’s go back to the cabin,” my brother coaxed.

Emery glanced at me and shook her head.“I don’t think that’s what she meant.”

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