The Lycan’s Contract Mate

Arielyn

Whatever I thought heartbreak and rejection felt like eight years ago didn’t quite compare to what I was feeling right now, nothing prepared me for how sick I felt inside, I woke up early and left Raul’s room because I didn’t want to hijack his room the whole day, I made sure to lock my door because I didn’t want Kendrix to come in and make everything even worse. He already made his stance clear and now it was up to me to get over myself. I had to force myself to smile and look as happy as I could fake when Win-rose called because I didn’t want her to be worried about me when she was supposed to be having fun with her new husband, she did ask about Ken and I just told her he was busy. After the call, I went back to my misery and that’s how I spent my whole morning and afternoon. Raul came to check up on me and I told him I was okay and I just needed some time to myself and he left without questions. My phone started ringing and I stared at it, hating that someone who was not Rose decided to call and interrupt my miserable time. I reached out and took the call.

“Hello,”

I said in a sad voice, making sure whoever was on the phone knew that this wasn’t the right time to call me.

“Arielyn? Why do you sound like that? Have you been crying?

I hated the voice that came over the phone, I was already having a bad day and now I had to deal with Jordan’s call too, fuck, I should have just let the phone keep ringing if I had known that he was the one calling, the problem was I always block the number he calls me with that’s why he uses a new number all the time, I decided not to block him after this call so that I will know it’s him when he calls again and I can ignore him.

“What do you want this time, Jordan? I am really not in the mood for any of your stupid talks,”

I told him firmly.

“Oh, don’t worry, Arielyn darling, not this time, I am not going to waste your time, I just called to give you a location so that you can go see what the man you claim to be your mate is doing with another woman, I know you will doubt me if I told you without showing you, well this is your chance to see that I am not lying to you,”

Jordan said; I told myself not to believe anything he was saying. I reminded myself that this was Jordan and he was only doing all this because he lost to Kendrix.

“You think I will fall for your lies, Jordan? I won’t so leave me alone,”

I let out in anger.

“Your choice, either go to the address I just sent and see things for yourself or keep acting a fool while the fucker goes about doing what he wants, you think he gives a fuck about you? All he cares about is Veronica and you? You are just a woman he is using to get things the easy way,”

His words hurt so bad, especially at the mention of the familiar name. Veronica, I didn’t know the woman but her name already started hunting me. My phone beeped.

“The address, just go check it out, then you will see who the liar is and I can assure you that it isn’t me, plus I sent you some photos to give you a clue of just what the man you are blindly following was up to when he was in Dilgem. I have done my part, if you like, keep acting a fool for a loser like Kendrix,”

He said and hung up before I could say anything else; I didn’t even have enough time to process the call and everything I just heard, my phone beeped and when I opened the message, my heart sank at the image before me.

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I let out, there were photos of Kendrix with his lips locked to another woman, I felt sick as I scrolled through the photos Jordan had sent, there was even a video, I already knew it would be bad and I shouldn’t watch him, maybe I like the pain because I found myself opening the video. It wasn’t fake. Kendrix really went to Dilgem to be with another woman, that’s why he didn’t call or text me all the while he was there, while I was worried sick for him and going out of my mind, he was with another, his real woman and yet, the bastard still came back and slept with me. If the fight hadn’t happened last night, we would still have made love, no, I couldn’t even call it love making because it was all clear. No wonder he refused to agree that we were mates, I wasn’t the one he really wanted.

“I should go see for myself,”

I said and got out of my room, I walked downstairs and out of the mansion, it wasn’t hard to get a cab from outside the house, it was as if the cab was waiting for me, even the universe wanted me to see what that man had been up to. I gave the address Jordan had sent to the driver and it was a fifteen minutes drive from the mansion, he was doing it so close. I didn’t even need to get out of the cab to see what I had come to see, as soon as I got to the address, I saw them outside, near his car, he didn’t even try to hide it because if he was trying to hide, he wouldn’t be outside hugging a woman, I held my hand over my mouth as I watched the two of them locked in an intimate hug. It was like I was in a movie and this was the scene where the female lead finds her lover hugging someone else but in my case, I felt like I was the someone else, thinking about it now, Kendrix and I never had a real relationship, I was the one that thought too much into everything and now they are all coming back to bite me in the face. I couldn’t stay and keep watching, it was clear as day who Kendrix chose and I wasn’t going to make a fool of myself by going to confront him.

“Please take me back to where you carried me from,”

I told the driver as I did my best not to cry in front of him, he started driving without another word, and even as we drove away, I still turned back and Kendrix was lovingly caressing her face, I could see her smile which made everything hurt even more. As hurt as I was, I couldn’t embarrass myself even more by crying in the car. I held the pain in until the driver dropped me in front of the mansion. I paid him and ran into the mansion, straight up to my room where I could be alone and cry without anyone seeing me.

When I got into my room, I went straight up to the bathroom and took a cold shower, I cried in the shower with the cold water running down my body, my heart felt like it was breaking into a million different pieces as the image of them hugging stayed in my mind no matter how I tried to chase it away, I felt like the biggest fool ever for thinking and believing that Ken cared beyond the papers we signed. I played a fool and hurt myself in the process.

The hug would not have meant anything if I hadn’t seen the video of them locked together in a deep passionate kiss. But seeing that video and then witnessing them hugging so deeply confirmed everything.

“A fool,”

I whispered as I stared at my reflection in the mirror after spending over an hour in the bathroom. The hurt I was feeling didn’t even feel as bad as Ae was, she was so silent, it hurt so bad to watch me and my other half go through the same pain of rejection all over again just like eight years ago, but this time, the pain was even more intense.

I didn’t even know when I fell asleep but I woke up to the sound of my phone alarm, I checked the time and it was already morning. Way to sleep through the night, I sluggishly got out of bed as the event of the previous night replayed in my head, I lost all will to do anything and lay back on the bed, not wanting to get out of my room but I was thirsty and a little bit hungry because I couldn’t bring myself to eat well the previous day, I managed to get out of bed again, walked to the bathroom and did my morning routine, I didn’t dare to look at the mirror because I already knew I would look horrible. I guess Kendrix didn’t come back last night so I didn’t have to stay in my room until I was sure he already left.