Bonds of the Alpha Billionaire (Maia and Alex) novel Chapter 1

Chapter One

~Four years ago~

~Maya’s POV~

It rained on the day I died.

People die in different ways, mine was one of the most painful kinds. My heart was ripped out and shredded into a million pieces right in front of me.

“Alex, please don’t do this to me,” I begged running after him, “Please I am begging you. I have nowhere to go.”

He turned to me, his blue eyes now as cold as ice stared at me. Gone was the warmth that made me feel safe whenever he held me to his chest, whispering just how much he loved me.

“Alex,” I whispered his name again.

“You are starting to irritate me. Do not make me throw you out, Maya.”

Maya.

The sound of my name on his lips was another painful stab to my heart. He hadn’t called me by my real name in the three years we had been married.

My begging was getting me nowhere I realized. Standing to my feet, I wiped the tears from my cheeks.

“You are really going to do this to me after everything we have been through together? After everything I gave up just to be with you?”

He didn’t say anything. He simply stared through me like I didn’t exist. Like I was nothing.

I stared at him. He looked the same. The same man I had fallen in love with. The same man I had turned my back on my entire pack for just to be with yet he was so different.

There had been so much whispers after the announcement of our engagement but the center of it all was that I was a gold digging stripper that had dug her claws into one of the most eligible billionaires in the city but neither Alex nor I had cared.

He kissed me two months after that and claimed me as his.

“You and I against the world silver.. Always and forever,” he had whispered just before he entered me for the first time.

We had both made sacrifices for love and I was not going to let him destroy it.

“You cannot just discard me like I am nothing to you,” I said finally, hoping to get a reaction from him but there was nothing.

“Do you have nothing else to say?”

Silence hung between us, almost suffocating me then finally he walked towards the table, grabbing a brown envelope and in that cold and detached voice, “My signature is already on it. Sign it and don’t let me see you ever again.”

“We can fix whatever is wrong. Tell me what happened. You can’t just leave then return only to tell me you are ending our marriage and then throw divorce papers in my face. Please let me fix it. Whatever it is.” I tried to step forward but halted in my step when I saw the flash of black in his eyes.

His wolf lunging to the surface reminded me of the most important detail of our relationship, “We are mates.”

His eyes darkened fully making me wish I hadn’t said that because the next words that came out from his mouth ripped my heart out.

“I reject you Amaya Stone and from this moment, you are nothing to me.”

The hit was so fast and painful, it had me falling back on my knees gasping for air. I had heard stories of rejection but none of them prepared me for this.

My wolf recoiled howling in pain as I struggled to see through the tears.

“Throw her out of my house.”

I felt two strong hands pick me from the floor.

“Alex,” I gasped out, “I’m.. I’m..”

“Don’t ever let me see her again.” Those were the last words that echoed in my head and that was the last time I saw Alex Thorne.

That night… It rained.

That same night.. I died.

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“It is time for you to come back home. I have found a man for you to marry.”

I paused trying to steady my breath when my father’s hard tone sounded through the phone again, “Amaya did you hear me?”

“Yes… Yes father I did.”

I should have known immediately I saw Daniel Stones’ name on my phone. My father hardly ever called and when he did, he wanted something.

“When will the wedding take place? Who is he?” I managed to get out after a long pause.

“That shouldn’t be your concern. I will send a car to fetch you before the week runs out. Be prepared and do not keep me waiting.”

Fetch me. Like a common dog.

“Yes father. Am I allowed to—“

He didn’t let me finish before ending the call and I let out a sigh.

I wished I had it in me to fight. To say no. That I wouldn’t be part of an arranged marriage to a man that I did not know but there was no fire left in me. It had all burned out after four years.

The only reason I opened my eyes everyday were Ivy and Nathan. I knew my father wouldn’t approve of me bringing them to his house. The bastard children to your bastard husband as he called them.

Thinking up solutions in my brain, I quickly scrolled through the limited number on my phone.

Natalia’s voice burst through the phone with an energy that could light up the whole city. “Amaya! I miss you so, so much! Oh my goodness, are you at my doorstep right now? Please tell me you’re here! Wait, no, wait a sec, I’m not even home. Let me quickly call Nate—”