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“I… I’m sorry.” Alexia tried to speak but couldn’t, not when he’s choking the life out of her.

She’s becoming breathless, her breath starting to cease as she struggles against his grip. Alexia’s struggles lasted for a minute before he finally let go of her, and she fell to the ground with a thud.

How can she be so foolish to puke on him… An Alpha at that. As she gasped for air, different thoughts roamed her head.

Was he going to kill her? Yes. Would she wait until he does? No.

Alexia ran, leaving a seething Alpha Steele behind in the room.

As she walked back to the brothel, Alexia wished all these were just a dream. Nothing has ever gone right with her since her birth. As if being an orphan wasn’t enough, she had to grow up in a brothel.

But at the same time, she thought all her nemesis would come to an end once she met her mate but hell, Marcus was the complete opposite.

It’s been exactly a month since they both caught each other’s scents.

It was right on that bed, that same night when he forcefully slept with her. When Marcus sniffed her as his mate, rather than stopping, all that changed was the way he aggressively pounded her… more mercilessly.

Ever since then, not a word has been exchanged between them. Not when he began to avoid her like a total plague.

Alexia was damn sure she’s never encountered such an extraordinary bastard like him before in her life.

“It hasn’t even been twenty minutes since you left, and you’re back?” Marcus asked, hate brimming in his eyes.

Talk of the devil. So now he suddenly cares?

“Leave the way, Marcus. You’re blocking the entrance.” Alexia said, slowly walking towards him. “Or what happened to avoiding me?”

“I’m afraid you will have to turn around and go back there, Alexia. You were sent there for a reason, you think you can just come back home leaving one of our VIP customers unsatisfied?” Marcus’s frown deepened, wondering what exactly is wrong with this lady.

“I am not going back there.” Alexia was beyond frustrated, her blunt tone signaling an unyielding stance.

Other than his name and the fact he’s the Alpha currently ruling the pack, Alexia knows nothing about him. Except for one particular thing. Those red furiously burning eyes… how ready they were to burn her into ashes.

And now Marcus wants her to head back to the fiery pit? What a joke!

“You won’t? For the first time ever, you got a complaint from our customer. And here you are refusing to go back and prove his assumptions wrong?” His jaw was clenched tight. His voice edged with hostility, he demanded, “You want to tarnish your good record?”

His cruelty was piercing but before he could say any other thing, Alexia’s voice resounded once more in defiance.

“Damn assumptions, Marcus. Do you even realize I am pregnant for you?”

That was it. Before she could help it, it was out of her mouth already, and it was as if every air was sucked out of her lungs.

However to her surprise, he didn’t show any reaction. His ice didn’t melt.

“No, answer me. You want me to go back to him with this? With your child, Marcus!” Alexia yelled in disbelief as she cautiously tried not to wobble on the floor.

Her heart was racing, dreading his response.

For years, Alexia was aware she has enemies around the brothel waiting to take her out, but Marcus was an exception. She held back her tears, reminiscing about the years she had spent with him been the only one she could confide in.

Oblivious to the reality he always wanted her body, she let herself get close to him until he began to touch her inappropriately.

She put some distance between them but it was never enough. Not until a month ago that he defiled her, he never backed away from her.

“You can’t be pregnant for me.” Marcus roared, clenching his fist tightly.

Mere looking at the woman before him, his anger not only boils but intensify. He wanted nothing than to walk away from her but he couldn’t, not until he knows what nonsense she’s spewing.

Just one night and she’s pregnant, how dare she lay with countless men yet he’s the only one she wants to rub the child on?

“What?” Alexia was both shocked and taken aback. Now she’s wondering, if this was truly the same man she had poured out her heart to all this years.

She expected the pills to work because it always does. Until she found herself becoming dizzy and nauseated.

Why won’t he believe her? She would never do such a terrible thing talk more of wanting to place another person’s child responsibility on him. One way or the other, for a month now, she has always been convincing her customers of her situation just so they won’t lie with her.

It was tough but up till now, no man laid with her. The idea was so far away from her mind.

“You heared me right, Alexia. Whoever owns the pregnancy, give it to him. But as for me? I am nurturing no bastard.” Marcus replied with disdain, piercing her heart and crushing it into pieces, as he continued. “And you know what?”

“We aren’t even compatible. I can’t stay mated with a weakling, nor would I accept you bear me one!” He snarled without any form of remorse.

Alexia’s heart wavered, and she wondered why the moon goddess could be so merciless to pair her up with a man who despised her so much, and was only getting started with his cruelty.

“You are also an Omega, Marcus. We are exactly perfect for each other. No, you wouldn’t do this.”

He has already dismantled her, yet somehow she wished he wouldn’t hit her with the last cruel blow.

Hopefully, he won’t go as far as rejecting her. He wouldn’t punch the last hole into her heart, right?

But it came. And like a fountain of water, her tears escalated in full force.

“I, Marcus Vakander, refuse you, Alexia Rhodes as my mate!” He glared at her with a gaze smeared with disgust and her heart squeezed in hurt.

Her body wracked with sobs. Each word that came out of his mouth did nothing to ease her pain.

With sheer disbelief apparent in her eyes, Alexia fell on her knees before the man who had walked into her life and turned it into a nightmare of his making, with just one sentence.

“You can’t do this. Look, Marcus… I took those pills, I really don’t know how it happened. We can take care of our pup together, I… can’t do it alone. Don’t do this, please.”

Her supposed mate just rejected her for being an Omega like himself. Just when she saw her freedom coming, he tore it away from her grasp.

He left no part vacant, the pain he bore in her body slashed every reachable spots, the pain incessant and undeniable.

He must have seen her as a pathetic weakling, whom by every chance would reel in the comfort he provides. He must have felt powerful throwing her feelings about like a cigarette, watching it drop to the floor and tarnishing the last remnant of smoke with his feet.

Alexia felt it the exact moment the bond snapped. She tried to go close but he moved backwards.

Instead of leaving, for some reason, Marcus waited. He waited to feel any type of remorse or pity, but none came. The delicate form kneeled below his feet was attractive but she had only taint his image.

“You’re rendering him helpless, Alexia. Come on, we all know you ain’t deaf. Go away, please.” Sloane appeared beside him, her serene voice forcing him to strip his eyes from the woman on the floor.

At the sight of Sloane, Marcus hurriedly held her close to his chest, in a comforting embrace. “Sorry baby, I realized I was yet to reject her poor ass.”

Alexia seethed with rage at the sight before her eyes. He just claimed to have rejected her because she was an Omega, and except the moon goddess has suddenly changed her identity overnight, Sloane is an Omega too.

But he went for her regardless. What happened to his incompatibility with Omegas?

For hell’s sake, can this man be any more ridiculous?!

As Alexia wiped away the tears from her face, she stood up and leaving them confused, she walked past, seeming to have arrived at a decision.

She soon returned with a suitcase, the only property she owns.

“I-,” Even though her voice was hoarse, it pierced through the tensed silence. “I accept your rejection.”

Maybe the situation would have been less hurtful if she was not carrying his child.

Alexia didn’t wait to see if he would at least show any emotion, she spun on her heels and rushed out of the brothel’s gates.

As if nature themselves were against her, she had barely departed from the brothel when Alexia heard a honk which made her stop in her track.

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