CHAPTER 116: CHAPTER 116 DEATH THREATS AND HEARTBREAK

Caroline’s POV

The days were passing so slowly. I worked all the time, and spent all my free time with my son and friends. I couldn’t sleep most nights, leaving dark circles under my eyes that got worse each day.

When I got to my office this morning, there was a pretty bunch of white 郁金香 on the small table and a note in Draven’s strong writing,

"I would die for you, and I can’t stand being without you. I would do anything to stop your pain."

My heart hurt reading those words. Rory cried inside me.

As I put the card down, I saw another bunch of flowers on the other table. I felt cold when I saw it, it was a scary mix of black roses and dead lilies, the kind used at pack funerals when a wolf is killed badly. This wasn’t from Draven; it felt scary and mean.

With shaking hands, I took the card and opened it. Inside was a typed message,

"Go back to the rogue land you came from. Alpha Draven and Ella are getting mated in thirty days and will raise their pup together like real mates should. He just used you.Leave or you’ll be killed. No one would miss a weak, scentless Beta."

I started crying and fell into a chair, shaking all over. The threat was clear, "be killed" meant death in our world. Rogues who fought against packs often ended up dead, their bodies left as warnings.

I couldn’t stop crying as I sat there. My whole body shook with fear as tears ran down my face. Rory whined inside me, just as scared of the mean threat.

"Caroline! What’s wrong?" Ava ran into my office, hearing me cry. I gave her the card without speaking and pointed to the scary flowers. Her face changed from worried to angry in seconds.

""Who would do this?" Ava yelled, grabbing the awful flowers. "Actually, I know which bitch sent this!"

"What’s going on here?" Ryan came to my door with Kyle and Draven behind him. "Ava, why are you yelling?"

"Why am I yelling?" she said angrily, waving the card. "Look at this! Someone sent Caroline these ugly flowers with a threat, and we all know who did it!"

Draven’s face got angry as he read the card. I felt Alaric’s power coming from him as he knelt in front of me, holding my shaking hands.

"Caroline, look at me," he said softly. "You know what we have is real. I never used you. I’m so sorry this is happening."

I looked into his violet eyes and saw real pain there. He was hurting too. I took a deep breath and asked what I needed to know,

"Are you really going to mate with her?"

"Sweetheart, they’re making me do this," he said, his voice full of pain.

I couldn’t take anymore. I got up fast and ran from the room. I heard Ava following me and Draven calling after me,

"Caroline, please wait! Let me explain!"

I ignored him, just wanting to get away. Even though I told him to be there for his child, knowing he would mate with another woman hurt too much.

I ran into the women’s bathroom with Ava right behind me. She locked the door and hugged me tight as I cried hard. I lost track of time crying in her arms.

I still loved him, loved him so much that I couldn’t bear the thought of him marrying another woman. Why, Goddess, why would you do this to me? Every time I truly loved someone, they would leave me and marry someone else.

Was this my fate? Didn’t the Goddess say she loved all her children equally?

"Honey," Ava said when I stopped crying, "I think you should listen to him. Everyone knows he hates Ella. There must be a big reason he’s saying yes to this mating now, he really didn’t want to before."

"I told him to give his child a real family," I said, wiping my eyes. "He’s just doing what I said."

I was the one pushing the man I loved into another woman’s arms, but what choice did I have? My conscience wouldn’t let me be someone who breaks up a family.

"I don’t think that’s all," Ava said doubtfully. "Come on, clean your face and let’s get some tea in the break room."

Rose looked up when we came in, knowing right away I was upset. "Regular tea won’t help today, dear," she said, getting different herbs. "I’m making you my pack’s special tea for sadness."

After drinking Rose’s tea, I went back to my office trying to work despite feeling so bad. But I started feeling really sleepy, and I couldn’t keep my eyes open as I started to fall asleep.