My Promised Rejection (Olivia and Ace) novel Chapter 89

*****Trigger Warning Torture*****

Cassandra POV

Stupid f**king b**ch actually killed me. She was so weak I expected her to make one of the men do it. Hell, I expected her to tell them to let me go. When I open my eyes, I’m back in the f**king run down castle. Maybe I’m not dead. Maybe it was a warning from the goddess in the form of a dream. I smile knowing nothing she does will change my plans. I slide out of the bed and move toward the door.

I step into the hallway and immediately move toward the room where I’m holding the mutt. When I push the door open, I stumble back. “How” is all I manage to say. “Did you really think what just happened was a dream? I promise you it was very real. The goddess will be here shortly. In the meantime, we get to keep you company,” Lorraine says with a disarming smile.

Despite the fear that swirls inside me at her words, I laugh. “A human and a wolfless woman aren’t exactly scary.” “It’s funny that you are essentially calling us weak, because we are human when you are the same. You have no more powers, you evil b**ch,” Charles says. “How are you even here? You are no child of the goddess.”

“That’s funny coming from you. I think you being stripped of your powers makes you no child of the goddess,” he says. Anger has me clenching my fists at my side. Lorraine steps toward me and I stand rooted to the spot. Not because I want to, but because something is holding me in place.

1 expect her to hit me, but instead she places her palms against my cheeks. The minute her skin touches mine, I’m sucked into darkness. When I open my eyes again, I’ve been taken back in time, but I’m not me. What the f**k is happening? “Lorraine, we must leave if you want to save your pup,” a younger version of me says. My heart feels like it’s being ripped out of my chest. I feel like I can’t breathe.

Hands touch my stomach and I immediately remember I’m binding Ace’s Lycan and planting the seed of disease. I want to scream at past me to stop, but it’s like my mouth has been sewn shut. I can feel every emotion that Lorraine felt and it makes me sick. We flash forward and Ace, as a boy, stands over my bed. He cries and begs me not to leave him. My body feels so weak as I look at Ace. I feel like my heart is breaking all over again. This is worse than any physical pain I’ve ever felt.

I struggle to breathe as a man I don’t recognize and Ace beg me not to leave them. I feel as though I’m suffocating before everything goes black. This time, when my eyes open, I’m standing inside a house I recognize. Once again, I’m not myself. I’m Charles, waiting excitedly for Evelyn to get home. The minute she steps through the door, my heart drops. She looks so defeated. I stand to rush toward her, but she raises her hand to stop me.

“Charles, I’m so sorry. I tried to fight the bond. I swear I did.” My heart feels like it stops beating. Is she saying she found her mate? Is she going to leave me? I can’t breathe. “Charles, I will always love you, but Xavie my mate. I can’t be with you anymore. I have to leave. I have to take the pups and leave.”

Anger and pain course through me. “You will not take my children, Evelyn. It’s bad enough you are breaking every you ever made to me but you will not take my children” I manage to croak out. Why does this feel like my world is crashing around me? I’ve never truly loved anyone. Is this what it feels like to lose someone you love? “Charles, please don’t do this. I can’t be without Olivia and Connor, Besides, Xavier said

“I know I’ll remove your womb. It’s not like you ever deserved having it. Wasn’t it you that ensured the pup was born dead, since it was of no use to you,” she says. My body freezes at her words and fear crawls up my throat. “Yes, that seems like a fitting start to your eternal punishment,” she says before she leans in close. “Don’t worry though. The pup is going to get a second chance at life with people who will love him,” she says. The feeling of the blade passing through my skin has me screaming out. I feel like I’m being ripped in half, as she does just as she said. I feel myself on the verge of passing out or dying either would be welcome right now. I watch as she throws my womb on the floor before she licks the blade. My mind can’t focus places the blade against the open wound. The burn has me screaming again. How the f**k is the like it’s on fire.

I realize she is cauterizing the wound. “I’m not done with you yet. Once I am I’ll slit your throat, but don’t worry, when your eyes open again you will be standing in the castle before we have our time again” she says. “Please don’t do this. I know I was wrong. I know I need to be punished, but this can’t be my eternity.

“You took Lorraine, Charles, and the pups‘ futures away from them. They didn’t get to be with the people they love. This is the price you pay for your evilness and greed. You were never meant to have power and now you have none. You are just a toy among many. Let’s have some more fun,” she says, stepping toward me with an evil grin. Goddess, what have I done?