My Ex Husband The Alpha His Brother The Rogue novel Chapter 84

Chapter 84

-Laila

The silence is deafening.

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Everyone’s staring at Cameron like he’s grown a second head. I don’t blame them. I would be shocked too.

There’s just as many people staring at me. Eyes boring holes right through my head.

Their gazes aren’t kind. Rather, they’re full of disdain. Like a lapse in Cameron’s judgement somehow traces

back to me.

Like I made him say the words he just did.

“Laila…do you accept it?” Cameron’s question drags me in even deeper into the equation, dooming me to pick a side before all eyes.

His eyes are narrowed. Gaze accusing.

I feel hollow.

Because Cameron looks at me like I’m the one who betrayed him.

And maybe, in a way, I did.

If I say yes, I’ll be confirming what he already suspects. That I shared his darkest secret with Kael.

But if I decline, if I ruin Kael’s carefully laid out plan to give Cameron an unforgettable warning, then Kael will never forgive me.

My chest feels tight. It’s slowly becoming a struggle to breathe.

This is not how I pictured the Alphas summit would go.

With Kael, I’m always the center of attention. I’d prepared for it, grown used to it too.

But not like this.

This time, I’m tempted to dig myself a hole to hide in. A hole deep enough that I never have to come out again.

While the pack and the company are seemingly independent, there has never been anyone other than the Alpha of Blackwood Pack leading the family business.

“What’s the meaning of this?” Grandfather Blackwood’s sharp voice cuts through the silence.

I exhale a breath I didn’t even realize I was holding. With him here, Kael and Cameron will have to put away

their claws.

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Or so I think.

“Do you accept, Laila Cameron repeats his question.

Once again. I’m on the spot. Grandfather Blackwood is now staring at me, his gaze stern.

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Meanwhile, Kael has made his way back over to stand beside me. He’s completely unfazed by the situation.

He leans over to whisper, “Tell him.”

His tone is amused. I don’t need to look to see the glint in his eyes.

To me, it feels like a weight has been placed on my chest that I can’t escape no matter where I turn.

But for Kael, all of this is just fun.

He’s toying with Cameron in the cruelest way possible. With me. Even if it means ruining me in the process.

Even if it means I’m disdained by every Alpha and Luna present here.

But I understand now that he doesn’t care. He never will. Kael is too blinded by his vengeance… But why does it always have to be at my expense?

I already know the answer to that. Because I’m one of the things Cameron was never supposed to have.

I didn’t realize it until the dinner. That I was to be wed to whoever became Alpha Blackwood.

Kael…Cameron, it could have been either of them. It was never about me. It has always been about the rank.

I was a fool to not know better.

“Well?”

This time, the urging comes from Grandfather Blackwood.

I wince visibly

Quiet murmurs have begun spreading through the crowd. All eyes are on me, especially that of the three Blackwood men.

“Don’t fuck this up, Laila” Kael’s words from beside me send a chill of terror down my spine.

My vision spins.

I have to get out of here.

The realization comes a few beats too late. But the moment it hits, I don’t delay.

My feet moves before my brain even catches up, carrying me swiftly across the room, with dozens of eyes trailing me.

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I don’t know where I’m headed to. I don’t have a destination in mind. But I just keep walking.

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Out of the hall, and down the hallway. I don’t stop till a gust of the chilly night air grazes my cheek.

I glance around, realizing I’m already out in the parking lot.

I don’t even know where our car is. And even if I do, what then?

I can’t even drive myself home.

“Laila!” Kael’s call is harsh and demanding.

I whirl around to face him, my hands clenched.

You didn’t have to do it that way!” I snap, my voice trembles with anger I can barely contain. “You humiliated him. You! Me! Everyone!”

You used me. Kael. Again!”

Kael’s eyes narrow. His expression is unreadable as he stops a short distance away from me. “That was the point, Laila. Remember?”

I shake my head in disbelief. “I thought the point was to make sure Liam was unhurt.”

Kael’s eyes flash. His tone is calm, almost soft. “No, Laila. I showed him what happens when he tries to take what’s mine.”

I stare at him, my heart pounding. I’m torn between fury and something else I can’t name.

“You don’t get it.” I hiss. “You’re not just fighting him. You’re tearing me apart in the process.”

For a moment, Kael looks at me like he might actually understand. For that moment, I cling to a false sense of hope.

But then he turns away, and the moment is gone.

“You’ll thank me later, he mutters, walking away from me.

And just then, I realize, with a sharp pang, that I may never forgive him.

“Kael, I want a divorce.” The words slip out of me before I can fully process it.

But if stopping him was my intention, it does.

Kael pauses in his track. No. He freezes.

And then slowly, almost too slowly, he turns.

His eyes are cold, his gaze darkly terrifying.

I retreat a few steps back on instinct. My heart shrivelling within my chest.

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“You can leave me for anything else, Laila…” His tone is a low growl, his eyes hold the promise of murder. “Bur not for him. Never for him.”

“Didn’t I already make it clear? That if you break this clause… I will kill you. And him. But you first?”

A chilling terror runs down my spine. Because I know… Kael means every word.

He’d made it clear from the beginning.

The moment I held his hand… I sealed my fate.

Kael closes the distance between us, his hand gripping my chin.

“Do you think anything has changed because you got me off a few times?” He snarls, glowering down at me. “Don’t you even dare believe you have some control over me. My brain is up here…not down there,”

I’m trembling so hard I can barely breathe.

“Hate me. Loathe me…but I’ll be damned before I divorce you, Laila Blackwood.” His tone is final. His ironclad grip crushing.

I know now…

I… have sold my soul to the devil.

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