Six years of marriage gave me nothing but a nightmare and welcoming a new woman everyday at our den’s doorstep.

The look of their disdain and smuged face always showed me my place in this pack.

After being banished by Clay Moon Pack, I held Vincent’s hand who was a respectful Alpha of Claw Fresh Pack but it was a dark deal which I drawn upon myself.

“Seventy ninth time.” I mumbled when I watched a white wolf with her fluffy hair, blue eyes and slim body entered inside the den and merched to Vincent's room.

She, Zara, the most beautiful and delicate Omega in this pack and Vincent’s childhood sweetheart, ignored me like a plague.

Each time Vincent caressed another women, he made sure I could see everything and today was no exception.

Behind the transperant curtains, their skin slapping session was visible to me.

The way Vincent’s powerful arms grabbed her waist, moving and stroking her whole body to give her the best feelings and shiver, surged the lump on my chest harder. Surprisingly, I couldn't cry anymore. Looking at the full moon, only a bitter smile painted on my lips.

I didn't remember how long they went ahead but when I was about to head back to my room, Zara stepped outside.

Smirk on her face, this time, wider. The smell of their hot intimacy was still lingering around her. Wearing Vincent’s favourite white shirt, she established her superiority over me.

“So you are the woman Vincent keeps.” She laughs, flaunting the reddish brown hickeys around her neck.

She flopped her hair and twisted her mouth, “Bella, look at your vulnerable body, I couldn't even think if they function well.”

When she laughed, the innocence in her vanished as she leaned in and whispered, “Vincent doesn't even stare your kind of women.”

“Giving you a piece of advice, why don't you strip yourself and offer to him.”

The disgust inside my heart was growing when Vincent’s hands grabbed Zara’s waist and planted a small kiss on her neck, “What are you doing here?”

Zara’s feigning innocence was back, “I am trying to get along with her. After all she is the Luna.”

“Don't care about her.” Vincent’s dismissive grunt was full of affection as he tapped her nose like a child.

Their laughter echoed on my ear, flashing the hell I had been caged in.

I quickly retreated my room, opening the wardrobe, I got the divorce paper which’s age is also six years old.

“Just one more month.” I told myself, after that I would be free from this cage.

This nightmarish marriage was nothing but a contract which was about to end.

_ _ _

Since I slept late last night, I could only wake up before lunch when there was loud bang on my door.

“Why are you all of a sudden?” Seeing Vincent frowning harder gave me chills.

“What's wrong with you, Bella?” He growled, “If you are sleeping like a log, then who will cook the lunch?”

Yes, it was always me who prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner.

But now that I made a decision to leave from here, so who cared.

“Vincent, you can do it by yourself.” Folding my hands around chest, for the first time I raised my voice against him, “Or call your housekeeper.”

“You are acting childish again.” Gritting his teeth, he forced me against the wall and whispered, “Bella, don't forget you are the pet I keep.”

‘Pet?’ this word replayed on my mind several times. After all these years of hardwork, efforts were only for being a pet?

“Vincent, even a pet has its last day.” I lowered my head and spoke up.

“Huh?” He scorned, “What's your new act again?”

“Bella, do you think I will forbade you from leaving this house.” He rubbed his forehead, “Bella, don't forget who feeds you.”

“If it weren't for me, you would have rotten on the street.”

“I will prepare the lunch.” I clenched my fists and left. His words still cut my heart like a sharp knife.

“Bella, you will regret this.” He was about to say something more, when Zara entered, showing her fluffy white tail to Vincent and asked cutely to caress it for her.

Caressing tail of your partner was showing how much one loved them.

Her way of showing off tickled my youth when I wanted to live a life like this too but choosing the wrong man only came bad luck to me.

“Bella, you are throwing tantrum again?” She sneered, “Grow up, you are thirty nor thirteen.”

“If you are so capable then why couldn't you climb on Vincent’s bed after all these years?”

“Look at your dry and wrinkled face, no one accept you anyway.” Shrugging her shoulders she cutely leaned on Vincent’s lips for a kiss.

He lowered his face to fulfil her wish, “Zara, don't bother about her.”

The same warm tone! He never used this tone while talking to Bella before.

I sighed and headed hurriedly into the kitchen, ignoring their cliche drama as much as I could.

While I was still thinking what to cook for lunch, someone took a cucumber from the basket.

“Why have you been off?”

He asked, the frown on his face didn't give away the same worry which he had for Zara.

“Nothing.” I washed the vegetables and checked our distance, “We are about to divorce each other soon.”

Vincent laughed louder, as if I told the funniest joke of the year before gripping my hands tightly.

“Bella, why are you so eager to leave?” He pressed my chin and leaned closer, “Tell me the truth, did you get another man who wants to fulfil your needs?”

“Another man?” My heart wrenched with Vincent’s comment.

“When did you degrade yourself that much?” I wanted to say this out loud but couldn't.

“Vincent, all the time you are keeping me as a housekeeper and a shield around you.” My voice was sharp, clear and mocking.

Thick tension broke into the room cutting the edge of Vincent's anger to be broken out.

“Bella, don't cross your line.” He gritted his teeth and probed to do something more but stopped.

“Vincent, my youth is destroyed already.” I snickered, “So I don't care about anyone anymore.”

Six years ago, when I fell for Vincent, the tall, dark and handsome Alpha, my life was as lively as Zara.

So many Beta and Delta were attracted to me. If it weren't for the attack and I had to save my brother, the future Alpha of the pack, I never entered this hell.

I recalled that night.

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When the rogue killed our parents in front us, I could only hide my face and saved my brother out of the fire and their ferocious gazes. I couldn't even see my parents for the last time.

Living in a cave days after days making him weak who was only seven years old.

“Sister, can we survive this time?” He asked me with his broken body.

“Don't worry, sister is here.” I patted his head and assured him.

The next day, I vied to Vincent’s bed chamber and drugged him without knowing his body wouldn't react to it.

He pressed my neck and pushed me against the world. Showing his fang, he looked like god of hell.

“What do you want, bitch?” His deep whispering voice was terrifying.

“Save me.” Under such heavy pressure, Vincent laughed louder and wanted to kill me.

But somehow he stopped when I cried out again. Telling him the truth, I fell on his foot, “Please help me.”

From that day onwards, our marriage was just bounded by a contract for six years where I would act as his Luna and shield him from another marriage contract and he would help my brother to gain the necessary power.

Before marriage, Vincent never treated me or Blake, my brother badly, so I fell in love with her.

“Vincent, I love you.” I murmured under my breath on our first night.

“Love?” He sneered, “Bella, do you, a banished Omega have the right to love me?”

My illusion shattered that day when he threw the divorce paper on my face, “Sign this when the time comes.”

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But silly me still held onto such hope that I could melt the ice but the reality was something else.

“Zara!” Entering Vincent's office, I discovered their intimate and smiled photograph on Vincent's desk. He was looking fresh and soft there.

Zara was Vincent's six years old childhood sweetheart, so until she reached into her marriageable age, Vincent used me as his shield.

I crawled into the floor and cried hard.

“Huh! My life is such a joke.”

But years after years, I accepted the truth already that I could never be with this man.

Now all I wanted was to leave.

“Since Zara is back, I'm no longer needed.” The same words were echoing my head, until Vincent’s voice cut throw my thoughts.

“Bella, what’s wrong with you?” He sounded impatient, “I’m asking something.”

“What?” I looked up, the usual submission in his words disappeared today which made Vincent’s eyes widen for a while before going back to its same place.

“What are you talking about leaving?” He frowned harder.

“Yes, after all Zara is back.” I mumbled the lines but didn't lose the eye contact with him, “I shouldn't be a substitute anymore.”

“Heh! Where will you go?” He mocked, “You are of no use.”

I shook my head after seeing his despire, “Yes you are right. But staying here and surviving as a Luna made me learn many things, so don't worry about me.”

Vincent wanted to last the conversation more but before he could say further, Zara entered flaunting her necklace which was sculpted with pink diamond.

I loved this necklace very much but Vincent never let me touch me.

Now I knew that he saved it for her.

“Thank you so much, baby.” Zara almost jumped onto Vincent's arms and kissed his lips like an innocent child.

“I never knew that you know my taste so well.”

“Anything for you.” he rubbed her head as if she was a sweet child.

“It looks amazing on you.” He whispered with his unusual gentleness, “If you like, get some more of it.”

Zara, who was already looking like a doll, now blushing as she almost hid her face in Vincent’s chest but her expression changed quickly when she was out of his sight.

She smirked at me and mouthed, “Look about whom he cares the most.”

I was out of this childish play already, so I laughed and congratulated her, “You both look good together and Zara, this necklace sooths you.”

When I said those, my tone was genuine and soft, astonishing them.

Vincent removed Zara out of his arms and furrowed his brows, “Bella, don't try to be oversmart.”

I froze on my place, clenching my fists, I kept my calm.

“Oh yeah.” I nodded, wanting to ignore further conversation with them.

But my wish wasn't that valid here. Zara stepped in, weighing my intent. Her eyes flickered with pleasure as if she got a sudden urge to push me further.

“Bella, you are so useless yet act like you are something.”

I looked at Vincent who had no expression on his face as usual and couldn't judge his intentions. But my intention with Zara was clear.

“Yes, you are right.” I didn't argue with this lowly girl anymore. My sudden acknowledgement of her sarcasm took her off guard. I took my opportunity and left there, shifting myself to the garden which I had been loving and nurturing for years.

Only they were mine in this cold and large cage.

The lively fragrance of the flowers made me feel alive again.

How I wished that I could be one of the trees there too, so I didn't have to endure everything.

Leaning against a large tree, I felt the cool around me. My wolf who never looked up and her eyes were always filled with tears after all these years, she looked up suddenly and abruptly too.

“Lana,” I softly called her, “Do you finally know how to handle it?”

I never pushe Lana to accept everything overnight, I gave her time and she made a good use of it everytime, “Yes, I won't cry for him anymore.” Nodding, she wiped her furry face.

The divorce agreement would take over after one month, Vincent and I would no longer be mates.

“Who will take care of you?” I muttered looking at the plants, laughing at my own situation.

When I was still in a daze, Vincent woke me up with his impatient and rough voice, “I will be on a meeting with Sohan, so take care of Zara.”

“Zara?” I stood up from my seat, for the first time I raised my voice against Vincent, “Take care of your mistress?”

A sense of mockery instantly appeared on my face shattering his self superiority against me just because he provided me all these years.

“Bella, I'm not asking you, I'm ordering you.” His last blow cut my pride again. It showed me my real place in this house. All this time I was only ‘Luna’ of this pack not Vincent’s mate.

I swallowed the bitter taste of my pride, nodding with reluctant compliance, the weight of his words pressing heavily on my chest.

Before leaving, Vincent looked at me for the last time, “Don't hurt Zara, she is still young and growing.”

“Remember if something happens to her, you are the one who is going to suffer.”

His cold and deep tone emblazed with the possessiveness he had for Zara.

“Be good and wait for me okay.” He kissed Zara’s lips softly and left.

When I saw this, my heart tightened again, determination gushed over me, supporting the divorce decision I took was right.

With the incident still lingering in the air, leaving Zara with me who made her way to the sofa and started to taunt me.

“You know what Bella , I have never seen such a shameless person like you. I can't help but feel pity for you too.”

She twisted her mouth and filed her nails with filer.

“You are already thirty but haven't gotten a single guy on your bed.” She shrugged her shoulder and laughed as if I missed a good evening snacks.

“Everyone has their own time.” I swiftly wanted to ignore her but how she everytime made a big scene of everything, I eased the conversation but she was not ready for it.

“Own time?” She laughed, “You are already an old wolf, who wants to mate with you now?”

She picked up an apple and took a bite or it before throwing it towards me.

“Not sweet.” She dismissed the apple like she was in her own.

But later when I recalled my position in this house, I looked down and endured the humiliation.

Ignoring her taunting and insult, I settled myself down in a corner of the room.

Looking up from the laptop, I was very surprised before I could proceed everything, Zara already took the glass flower vase from the tea table and started playing with it.

“It's very pretty and Vincent’s favorite.’’ a mischievous smile played on her lips, “What if it got broken?”

“What are you planning to do?” Panic thickened on my face.

This girl was not that innocent as she pretended to be.

“You will see.” She smirked and broke the glass vase near me.

When I was about to collect all the shattered glasses together my hands bled near his left palm whereas she was shouting her lungs heart, lastly, even Doctor was called out.

“Vincent, save me.” Vincent rushed inside the room like a cyclone and held Zara’s hand.

“How can this happen?” Looking at the small cut she got in my hand, Vincent sounded so worried completely ignoring my presence.

“You should be more careful, what if something happened?”

When he was like this Zara, I felt angry and pathetic. He was the reason for my fall but he looked after my brother too. So, I could never hate him. At this moment, I felt that even if no amount of time will make me forget everything.

Vincent took Zara in bridal style and looked at me for the last night,

“I will take care of you later.” Vincent's deep and hoarse voice was disappearing.

Seeing them leaving, I pulled my skirt and discovered the fresh wounds out of this choice which he never noticed.