River crossed her arms across her chest. “I challenge you, Rosalie. I challenge you to try throwing me out of this castle. If i have to leave, I will leave on my own accord and not because of your shenanigans. And from the last encounter that you had with me, you still haven’t learnt your lessons? Remember what happened at the ball?”
She sneered. “That was because Alpha Hunter sympathizes with you. You are always playing a blo*dy victim card!”
River threw her head back and laughed. She picked up a grape from the table and popped it in her m*uth. “I didn’t play a victim card but yes, you did try to make me a victim of your devilries.”
“My devilries?” Rosalie spat, closing her hands into tight fists. “Are you mad? You can’t even seduce him and you are insinuating to me that I am hampering your efforts?”
River frowned at this st*pid logic of hers. When did she insinuate her of hampering her efforts in seducing the Alpha? “I don’t know what you are saying but I don’t think I need your help in that department!”
Suddenly, Rosalie slapped herself so hard that her fingerprints appeared on her cheek. River stood there, watching her with horror. Then Rosalie fell on the floor against a chair. Her knee started to bleed.
She started crying. She looked up at River with teary eyes. “I am so sorry about it, River, but all I want is that you and Alpha get together. Is it so hard to accept my true feelings for Alpha Hunter? It is so hard to see him with any other female as such, now that we will be marrying soon, but what can I do? It is not in my hands that I can’t give birth to a pup.” She sobbed with her shoulders shuddering.
River stilled. Just a moment back Rosalie was accusing her of playing a victim card and what was she doing now? Why was she acting as a victim and that too for such a blatant lie? A growl from behind made her turn her head over her shoulders. She saw Alpha Hunter standing a few feet away, glaring at Rosalie. And then the realization dawned upon her. So Lady Rosalie was trying to show that River was the villain here for no fault of hers. Seriously, Rosalie was a m*ntal case.
Seeing the Alpha with surprise in her eyes, Rosalie got up. She wiped her tears and said, “Oh Alpha Hunter. I didn’t know you were here. I was just-” She adjusted her skirt and then again broke into a sob.
“What happened?” Hunter asked, narrowing his eyes as his gaze traveled to her cheek which was red.
Rosalie hid her cheek and shook her head. “It’s nothing,” she said. “I think River got angry with me.” She turned to look at River. “I am so sorry. I will never offend you again.” She bit her lip. “It is natural to get jealous but it is not my fault that I love Alpha Hunter. It is not my fault that-” she closed her lips, wiping more tears. Then she gave a heart tugging look to Hunter and rushed to him. She grabbed his waist and buried her face in his chest. “I promise I will never ever talk about us to her again. Please don’t punish her. She just pushed me down and slapped me so hard when I told her that I love you.”.
Hunter hated that Rosalie had her arms wrapped around him as his mate watched him. River’s eyes had that pain in them and Hunter realized that even though she didn’t recognize him as his mate, she felt for him instinctively. He removed Rosalie’s arms from: him and said, “I think you are under some wrong notion that I love you. Maybe, you should pack up and leave the castle for a few days to clear your head.”
Rosalie froze. “Wh- what?”
Hunter pointed out the bruise on her knee. “And I saw you falling against the chair like a dead mosquito.” He narrowed his eyes again. “So River didn’t push you.”
Rosalie’s heart sped wildly. Her lie was caught. “She-she slapped so hard that I fell down!”
Hunter took a deep breath in. “Rosalie, River is a right-hand girl. If she will slap her imprint will come on your left cheek, not the right. I know what you did. You staged it all.”
Rosalie paled. Before she could speak more, Hunter growled at her ferociously. “Leave the castle in one hour. If I see you in its grounds after an hour, I will throw you in the dungeons. Do you get it?”
“Alpha Hunter!” Rosalie whimpered. “How can you say that to me in front of a breeder? I am going to get married to you!”
“Now!” Hunter roared and spilled his powerful aura.
Rosalie winced, cowering away from him. She turned, scared as h*ll and then ran out of the dining hall.
When she was out of his sight, he turned to look at River. His anger settled and he said, “Are you okay?”
“1- I am fine…” River muttered, watching Rosalie run out of the room. Along with Hunter, River went to her room, still reeling under the shock of what Rosalie did. Her stepsister, Brianna was vicious, but Rosalie topped the charts. “Please don’t think much about her, River,” Hunter tried to allay her restlessness. “Rosalie is going to leave the castle soon and then you won’t be meeting her at all.”
River nodded her head still light with all the emotions swirling inside her. When they reached her room, she went to take a shower. At the back of her mind she was feeling guilty that she was the cause of breaking a marriage between Hunter and Rosalie. But at the same time why was she feeling like Rosalie was a good riddance.
Over the next week, Hunter increased her strength training. River thought that being an omega, she won’t be able to be as strong as the Alphas but every day was a surprise for her. She was feeling stronger and had become pretty agile. Hunter made sure that she was always paired with him in the training arena. He had started with her lunge training and combined it with scaling the walls. River liked every part of it. Her respect and attraction for Hunter grew even further because he never forced himself on him.
It was during one of these days that Hunter didn’t come because he had to fly out of the Veil on business. He had specially told her that he would come back in a day. Elijah paired her up with a young warrior named Nancy.
“I have been watching you,” said Nancy with a glint in her eyes. “You have picked up so well in just three weeks.”
“Thank you,” River replied, having her first normal conversation in ages.
“But I also see that Alpha Hunter pairs up with you only and no one else,” Nancy giggled as she took up her position.
River blushed. “I think he wants me to…” her voice drawled off. He really wanted her to strengthen.
Over time all the rumors that she had heard about how Veil treated the breeders were dispelling. Or maybe those things happened in the past but not now. Nowadays, everything was so modern, despite the fact that Veil was surrounded by the demons and that no one was allowed to enter. It was so far away from the modern civilization but was far better in every amenity as compared to other werewolf packs.
“We know!” Nancy chuckled. “You don’t have to explain.”
River jerked her head back. “You know that I am a-“
“Yes, we know that you are a breeder,” Nancy replied. “Curtsey Mina and Gina. So don’t worry.” Nancy smiled. “All of us know it, but it doesn’t matter to us. Mina and Gina are close to Rosalie, and after Rosalie was sent packing her bags out of the castle, the twins have been trying to tarnish your reputation.”
River’s mood plummeted.
“Hey, please don’t worry about them. In fact, no one is bothered about the twin trash. We all are very happy that they were thrown out of the castle. Everyone in the pack knows that Rosalie was trying her best to gain access to Alpha Hunter’s bed. She was seducing him as much as possible and trying to scare every one of us into submitting to her. Trust me, we are so happy that she has gone!” Nancy let out a low laugh so that no one else heard her.
River tried her best to curb her growing smile by biting her lip. “Let us train a little,” she said.
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