Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Ethan’s POV

I was left in shock, with the letter in my hands. One statement she made left me dumbfounded:

“She really hoped you were her saving grace.” This kept on hitting me in my heart. She hoped I was her saving grace, but I ended up being her worst nightmare. I didn’t even bother to think of how she was going to cope with the mate bond being broken.

Breaking the bond comes with a lot of pain in the heart, and it’s so surprising that all you need to do if you want to break a bond is just to declare it in front of your mate. For something that comes with such pain, it appears to be easily broken.

I wasn’t sure of what to do. The information broke my heart to pieces. I never knew her folks were this horrible to her as well, and the fact that she got pregnant by a stranger who appears to be an alpha of a pack who might probably be an enemy of ours.

“Are you going to read the letter out loud or are you just gonna stand there regretting your past actions?”

I jerked back to reality after hearing Sophia.

My hands were shaking when I was about to open the letter.

“Hey friend, I hope this letter meets you well. I received your letter, and I am really sorry about what you are going through in the hands of your siblings. I know I promised to come get you as soon as I give birth to my baby, but as it stands, I don’t think I would be able to do that. My life has taken a turn for the worse, and now I feel like I was never meant to be happy in my life.” I paused for a while, trying to digest what I just read.

So many questions were going on in my head. ‘What is she going through? Is this even true? Was this really her handwriting?’

“Stop thinking and keep reading,” Sophia said.

I continued:

“I think there’s a curse following me anywhere I go. My happiness has been cut short… You remember the lady I told you about, Claire? Who was the formal Luna before I came in? She’s a snake, a liar, and a deceiver. She seduced Adrian and told him I was a spy. Now Adrian believes her and thinks I am a spy. He looks at me with disgust and anger in his eyes, those eyes that once carried genuine love and affection for me now carry hatred.”

I know I shouldn’t be feeling like that at that point, but I had no choice. Reading that part that says he had genuine love in his eyes made me angry, and then the part where I read that he now carries hatred made me happy.

I guess I felt I could get a chance with Lena again, with this Adrian gone.

“Despite all this, Adrian still cares for his baby and wouldn’t want any harm to come to it. At least I am glad about that. I think I can bear with the hatred he has for me as far as he cares for the baby in my womb and allows me to give birth to this child safely before he eventually kills me.”

“Kill?!!!!!” Sophia and I exclaimed.

She came closer, collected the letter from my hands, and began to read out loud by herself.

“I feel like Claire is going to plot something soon as she needs to take me out completely, make me fall from grace. She would do anything to harm me and my child. Apart from the new friend I told you about in the very first letter I sent, no one here talks to me. I am no different from a maid. This might be the last letter I might write to you. Please wish me well and help me pray to the Moon Goddess for help. Don’t forget I told you to keep my new friend a secret for now.”

‘Who could this new friend be? Is it a man or a woman, and where could that person be?’ I thought to myself.

“I really hope this isn’t the last letter I send to you, my friend. Please take care and stay good. Goodbye, your friend, Lena.”

“Who is this friend she made?” Sophia asked.

“How am I supposed to know about that?” I said angrily.

We tried checking through all the letters to see if there would be any that says something about the friend she talked about, but we couldn’t find any.

I called my Beta. I told him to go fetch Lena’s folks. After a few minutes, they came.

“What did you do to Lena?” I asked in an angry tone.

“My lord, I told you that she left the house on her own. We didn’t know when she left; we just found out that she left without saying anything,” they said, shivering.

“You liars, how dare you lie to me.” I showed them the letters.

“Do you recognize this handwriting?” I asked.

They were about to lie when Sophia’s eyes suddenly turned red, and she shouted:

“Don’t you dare lie to us, because if you do, I will tear you apart this very instant!”

They immediately bowed their heads and confessed that they actually disowned her and wanted to kill her and her child as she got pregnant. They also confirmed that they had been mistreating her ever since her father came to drop her off.

I sent them away. I would have punished them, but I didn’t have the right to punish them because I was also involved in whatever is happening to Lena right now. The only thing in my head was to find a way to help her and save her from the nightmare she’s in.

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I tried taking her back to my chambers, but she refused to go.

“What do we do now? We have to find Lena. She’s a member of this pack; we can’t let her be treated like a slave in another pack. We need to find a solution,” she said.

“Do you know the alpha of this pack, Adrian?” she asked.

“The name does ring a bell, but I can’t really remember who exactly he is. Only my old Beta would know since he had been with me for a longer time.”

“Then let’s bring him here,” she said.

“I don’t want to see him after I caught him screwing my wife.”

“There are more important things right now, Ethan.”

“Hey, you go get your Alpha’s old Beta right now,” she said, talking to my Beta.

He didn’t leave until I gave him the go-ahead. I hoped my old beta would remember who Adrian was.