Chapter 6
#Chapter 6: Lying in Church
Nathan placed his hand on my belly and smiled up at me while the rest of the
wedding guests watched us with shocked faces. “Olivia, I promise that I will take
care of you… And our baby,” he said.
The bride’s face was as white as a sheet. The entire church, which was just
murmuring angrily over the scene before them, now fell so utterly silent that the
sound of Layla’s white lily bouquet falling to the floor echoed throughout the walls.
All I could hear, however, was my own heart beating too fast inside my chest as I
wondered what the hell was happening today. Not only did Nathan refuse to marry his bride, Layla, but he also claimed that he would take care of me! And our… baby?!
We hadn’t seen each other in a decade. This couldn’t be possible; it had to be a joke,
or a bad dream, or a nasty prank…
“What is all of this, Nathan?!” Colin, Nathan’s father, shouted. His loud, domineering voice boomed throughout the dead silent church and was the only thing to finally
drown out the overwhelmingly loud sound of my racing heartbeat.
Celly and grabbed my hand, turning to face his
Nathan removed his hand from my
father proudly.
“Olivia is the daughter of Gamma Kamran. She was forced to leave the pack with her father when she was fifteen, but she was my first and only love, and has never left my heart this entire time. Now that she is back, I can’t live this lie any longer.”
Once again, the church flew into an uproar.
I opened my mouth to protest. I wanted to say that this wasn’t true, but I couldn’t. Literally, physically, I couldn’t say a word; Nathan used his power of the Alpha’s Absolute Obedience to keep me from speaking. The moment he took my hand, he used his power to keep me from saying a peep so that I couldn’t protest against this
lie.
I could only be led up to the pulpit by him like a stone.
Damn you, Nathan, I cursed in my mind. How was this any better than living on the
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Nathan and I stopped at the bottom of the steps to the pulpit. Layla slowly picked up her skirt with her delicate hands and gracefully made her way down the steps one step at a time, each slower than the last, until she came to a stop in front of me.
As she stood one step above me, she looked like a beautiful goddess looking down over me, and I thought for sure that this would be the end for me despite the fact that I never had a relationship with her fiance.
If only I could tell her the truth… But Nathan was still gripping my hand so tightly that I thought for sure it would fall off, and I couldn’t even move my b*dy in a way that would indicate my distaste for what was happening here. His power of Absolute Obedience was too strong. I was completely helpless, like a prisoner in this situation.
Surely she was going to slap me, or even worse. She was an Alpha female, after all,
and even if she wasn’t, she still had every right to slap the woman who ruined her
marriage. And since I couldn’t speak for myself or run away, all I could do was stand
there and shut my eyes as I braced myself for the slap of a lifetime.
But that slap never came. I slowly and nervously cracked my eyes open to see
something that I didn’t expect at all.
Layla slowly lifted her hands and removed the glistening, delicate tiara off of her
head, which her beautiful veil was attached to. She gently reached forward and
placed the tiara onto my head instead.
As she bent down slightly to gently lower the sparkling tiara onto my head, I swore
that I saw what looked like a faint smile play across her round l*ps, and a sparkle of
something in her big, beautiful eyes that I couldn’t quite read.
This close, she almost looked… Happy to be done with this marriage? Was she
happy to not be marrying the Alpha, for some reason? Or was her hint of a smile just
a way for her to mock me for ruining her wedding day?
“As sad as I am,” Layla said, addressing not only Nathan and I, but also the entire
crowd, “I am touched by this display of true love. Nathan, Olivia… You have my
blessing. I, Layla, officially announce that my engagement to Nathan is officially null
and void.”
The crowd murmured in confusion. I felt my eyes go wide as I looked up at the
ethereal Alpha female standing before me. How was this even possible, that an Alpha female such as herself would be so graceful and understanding about a woman stealing her groom away from her on their wedding day?
What on Earth was happening in this church?!
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