Salem raised a brow at me. “Are you sure that’s the smartest thing to do right now?” She asked me. “Everyone will be looking for you, especially Isabella. She would want you to suffer for killing Hunter and she has the support of everyone around her.”
“I don’t f*****g care.” I hissed. “I’m going there and I will find out the truth.”
He couldn’t be dead … He couldn’t.
***HUnTER***
My b***d roared in my ears and the beast inside of me was hungry for revenge.
My knuckles tightened as I prepared for what was to come. Something that should have happened a long time ago.
Isabella’s words kept replaying in my head over and over again. It was difficult for me to accept that Maggie had actually planned all of this even from the start. Did that mean she’d hated me all throughout our marriage? Was all of it really just a show she’d put on for me?
I still couldn’t figure out why she’d done it. Isabella hadn’t gotten the chance to explain it to me but I was still wrecking my brain while trying to find the answer. I couldn’t see any reason why anyone at that time would ever find a reason to hate me.
Maggie was definitely good at hiding her hatred for me. She was a professional at it in fact. She’d fooled me every single step of the way and I’d fallen for it like an i***t.
I knew something was wrong with her story when she’d returned to me but never once did I think for a second that she hated me so much that she would try to destroy my life like this.
The crazy part was that she had been doing a very good job at it. While I was mourning her death she was celebrating being alive and seeing me suffer. She must have been watching me all along. She must have laughed every time I made poor choices thinking that she was dead. She’d wanted me to destroy my life and I was granting her that wish.
But all that had changed when Isabella had entered my life. Isabella had shown me what it felt like to be happy again. She was a bright light that I’d stuck to like glue. Since the first moment my eyes had fallen on her I’d known that she would be someone important in my life. I’d pushed her away like a fool and I’d almost lost her because of it. And the whole reason I had pushed her away in the first place was because of Maggie. I was so scared after what I’d gone through with Maggie that I didn’t want to fall for Isabella.
What a fool I’d been.
Maggie must have realized that I was falling for Isabella. She must have realized that I was beginning to feel happy again and that was when she’d decided to strike again.
I was so stupid all of this time. I should have known. I should have sensed something was wrong when she’d shown up as soon as Isabella and I were ready to start something between us. She’d timed everything perfectly.
no wonder she was so happy when Isabella had left me because of her. She’d gotten her plan to work and she was happy about it. She’d wanted me to give up Isabella; it’s why she’d kept insisting on me choosing her. It’s why she’d gotten upset whenever Isabella and I were close. It wasn’t because it was hard for her to see me with another woman; it was because it was hard for her to see me happy.
Everything was beginning to make sense now and it only made me feel angrier. How could I have let this woman play me so dirty? I’ve always been good at sniffing out liars and betrayers but yet I’d totally missed the biggest crook in my life.
I should have known that Isabella would never hurt me. She had always been loving in the past despite everything I’d done to her. She was always concerned about my well-being.
It was shocking for me to witness her stabbing me over and over again but I never once hated her for it. I just thought that she’d had enough of me. I thought that she was finally getting her payback for what I’d put her through in the past.
When I’d seen that first tear fall from her cheeks I knew that she was breaking her own heart every time she hurt me. I understood that it was because of our bond. Hurting me would hurt her, but I felt like she had to do it to get what I’d done to her out of her system.
not once did I think that she was under a spell and I should have known this. I should have known that Isabella was not the kind of person to do anything like that to someone that she loved. And she did confess to loving me.
I should have figured it out after she’d gone missing and then showed up like that. I was just in so much shock that it completely slipped my mind.
Then Maggie played that death trick on me for the second time. first it was using her and then it was using Isabella. Only this time she upped her game. She made me think that I was the one that had killed Isabella.
f**k.
I didn’t think that it was possible for me to ever hate someone as much as I did right now.
Maggie must pay. She must pay for everything she’s done, not just to me, but to Isabella as well. The biggest mistake she could have ever made was to hurt Isabella.
I would find her and when I did … It was f*****g over.
………………………
***ISABELLA***
I sighed. It was time for some acting. It shouldn’t be hard for me to pretend as though I’d just lost Hunter. All I had to do was to keep remembering how it had felt when I’d stabbed him over and over again with no control over my body.
My sisters hugged me as we all pretended to mourn Hunter’s death.
We kept the coffin completely closed at all times. All we had was a picture of Hunter on top of it. Maggie wouldn’t have an idea of how Hunter had died. Thane would have had to rip his head off his body and she could think this was the reason that the casket was left closed. If she wanted to see his dead body for herself she would have to come here eventually and I just needed to wait for that to happen.
“Why?” I cried. “Why did you leave me Hunter?” I screamed.
“Shhhh.” Eden whispered as she held onto me tightly. “It’s going to be okay.”
“no!” I screamed. “He can’t leave me! Hunter can’t leave me!”
I was surprised by my own acting, everything sounded so real and the raw emotion in my voice was definitely there as well.
Esma dropped to the ground near the coffin and started to cry and scream just like I was doing. This was good. We were going great and I was living for it. I had to fight back the smile at just thinking about Maggie falling into our trap.
Eden leaned forward and gave me a soft k**s on my head. “You’ll be okay. We’re all here for you sister.”
After the small ceremony, everyone started to leave one by one. Eventually it was just Esma and I left and we continued to act as though we would die without Hunter.
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