Chapter 82
Jade stepped out of the car and banged the door shut. She stared down at the screen of the phone in her hands, she corked her head to the left, and then to the right, as though she was trying to examine something.
“Yes. This is the place.” She said out loud. She held the phone firmly in her hands and walked into the hospital. She did not bother to stop at the reception table, she would not know what to say. Instead, she decided to follow the well-detailed map on her phone. It was a good thing she had taken geography at some point in her life.
She walked up a flight of stairs, carefully following the location of the phone she was tracking. When she finally got to the same floor he was, she took the right turn, as instructed by the map. She had barely walked ten feet when she saw him.
He was leaning against the wall, his left hand in his pocket as he held his phone to his right ear with his right hand. Even from the side, the man she loved the most in the world was outstandingly stunning. She could locate him in a crowd of over a million men. His presence always announced itself. By the way, how could she miss those enthralling biceps? The chiseled jaw and silky dark hair on his head? It would be impossible to do so.
Her heart jumped for joy. She had not set her eyes on him since the night at the party, so it was only normal for her to take the drastic gestures she had taken just to be here, with him.
She began to take quick steps towards him. He must have sensed her, smelt her, because he turned to her almost immediately. Jade’s heart melted in her chest. She had known it; she had known they were meant to be together.
Jade was only a few meters away from embracing the man of her dreams when another man planted himself in front of her. At first glance, Jade knew who it was.
Kenji Lockwood. Her darling and rather very annoying cousin.
Did he have to be a killjoy all the time?
Jade was going to ignore him, she tried to walk past him but he seized hold of both her shoulders, trapping her feet on the ground in front of me. His eyes leered at her, and Jade kept her eyes away from him.
Jade cast her cousin a deadly stare, but the man did not seem moved.
“What in the name of the moon goddess are you doing here, Jade? How did you even get here in the first place?”
A proud smile formed on Jade’s face. She did not think twice before speaking, maybe Kenji would take her love for the alpha seriously if she informed him of all the boundaries she has crossed to get to him.
“There’s always been a tracker on my phone which I enabled in the alpha’s phone some time ago. I did not ever have to use it. But desperate times call for extra and very desperate measures.” Jade spoke boldly. She did not care that Kenji had his left brow arched in query, and disdain with a faint mix of concern was laced in his eyes. She did not care that his grip on her shoulder had tightened.
She looked away from him, and her eyes met with the alpha’s, but he stole his back immediately.
“Come on, Ken. Look at him. He’s been alone at home for weeks now because of me. He’s always needed me, but I couldn’t get through to him. I’m here for him now, we are meant to be together, Ken. I do not like it when you fight it.”
Kenji only stared blankly at her.
“Jade, you need to leave.”
She narrowed her eyes at her cousin before her orbs danced to the frowning alpha behind Kenji. Her heart skipped several delighted beats. She returned her eyes to her cousin.
“We are meant to be together and he knows it. Alpha Lake is in love with me, he just doesn’t know it yet. You just have to let me get close to him. We are great together, Ken. He loves me and I… I love him too.”This content belongs to Nô/velDra/ma.Org .
She did not hear the footsteps of a young woman approaching; she did not see the girl halt in her tracks. All Jade saw was the alpha heading toward her.
She swallowed hard, her eyes sparkled with anticipation as joy burst through her veins, exploding from her stomach.
Alpha Lake brushed past Kenji and stole her hand from her cousin. Jade allowed herself to be transported into the alpha’s world.
“How about we have a little chat outside?” He asked, his soft voice caressing her eardrums.
Did he need to ask? She would follow him to the ends of the earth if the need ever came.
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Jojo:
After much fidgeting, I stepped out of the gynecologist’s office with one decision in mind; I was going to tell Alpha Lake everything, just to make sure I did not make a mistake I would regret.
It was his child too. He deserved to know about it and join in the decision of what I was to do with it. Or, what we were going to do about it.
With sweaty palms and shaking hands, I gradually stepped into the corridor of my mother’s ward.
I found a woman standing in front of Kenji, alpha Lake was behind them, staring daggers at the woman in front of Kenji. I recognized her back view from the night of the party. She did seem like the same woman who had been in the parking lot with the alpha when I arrived.
I stood behind her, saying absolutely nothing. But she did have a lot to say.
By all indications, she and alpha Lake had a history. A history I did not know about, a history that did not concern me. She spoke about their love, spoke about the way they were destined for each other, while I stood there and listened like the sorry excuse of a person that I was.
I watched alpha Lake walk towards her and hold her right hand firmly. He leaned into her right ear and whispered, I saw her shoulders fall.
She turned to face me as the alpha led her away, with a broad smile on her face. He approached me with slow and steady steps but did not so much as look at me. I tried to speak when he got to me, I tried to tell him there was something I needed to say, but I could not bring myself to speak.
My lips remained sealed as I allowed him to walk past me. The beta’s eyes rested on me before he tore them away as though I was nothing.
But he was not wrong.
Compared to his rank in society, the respect he had, the influence and power, I was nothing. Nothing.
How could I have even thought for a split second, that he would accept that a stripper was pregnant for him, carrying his child? He was sure to think me a liar, a gold digger. I did not want him to think lowly of me.
We were never going to work out in the first place. The valleys between us were not just valleys, they were mountains and seas and even galaxies that could not be crossed.
I had missed him; the goddess alone knows how badly. But I had to bring myself back to the present, I had to wake up to reality. The woman who had just stepped out of here was Jade’s sister, she would be a better match for the alpha.
She was older, more beautiful, and shared in his high ranking.
She was better than I could ever be.
There was no point in this, there was no point in any of this. I just had to…
“Jojo?”
His thick baritone stole into my thoughts. I found myself gasping for air, while I turned around to look at him.
He had both hands in his pockets as he stood straight in front of me.
“Are you feeling better?”
I swallowed hard. It was easy to think when he was not standing barely inches away from me, not when he was so close that I could reach out and touch him.
My lips parted in a thin sigh.
“Yes. Yes, I am.”