Goodbye Alpha, I'm Done - Chapter 16: Chapter 16

I stood before the priest and the pack members, clutching the arm of my fiance, Kieran.
Kieran flashed me a small smile that didn’t reach his brown eyes. I could sense how distracted he was, because his damn phone was glued to his hands and eyes the whole time. I wondered what was more important than our own wedding.
Kieran and I had been mates for years, but he had always been hesitant about the idea of marriage. Everytime I brought it up, he always had one excuse or the other. I did not even know if he was waiting for me to get down on one knee and propose to him.
He finally agreed to a hasty wedding ceremony because of my mother’s sickness.
For as long as I could remember, my mother had been sick with a rare lycanthropic disease that was slowly destroying her body. Despite her condition, her greatest wish was to see me married to Kieran. She just really wanted me to be happy and she knew he was the man that I truly loved.
Just as the priest was about to pronounce us husband and wife, he abruptly pulled away, his face a mask of panic.
"I'm sorry, I can't do this," he blurted out, his eyes darting around the room. "I have to go."
Before I could even react, he had transformed into his wolf form and bolted out the door. I stood there in shock as the guests started whispering. But I could barely hear them over the pounding of my own heart.
It was my mom’s disappointed look that broke my heart the most.
That night, she finally passed away with a look of regret on her face. I held her hand, tears streaming down my cheeks.
My phone buzzed with a notification that same night. It was a post on Insta from Kieran’s childhood sweetheart, Nina. The caption read,
"He chose me, and I chose him. That's all that matters."
My heart sank as I scrolled through the photos, seeing Kieran and Nina wrapped in each other's arms, grinning like they just won the lottery. So while he abandoned me on the altar, he went cozying up to that witch Nina?
I commented under the post."Nina, you must be so proud to be his rebound. You two are perfect for each other though."
Despite the fact that I was losing it inside, I refused to make a scene. I quietly handled the arrangements for my mother's funeral, determined to give her the dignified send-off she deserved. I was grieving but I knew my mother would have wanted me to be stronger than this.
When I returned to the house, I was relieved to find that Kieran was nowhere to be seen. riddance to that cheating bastard. I couldn't wait to put this whole mess behind me.
But as I moved around the room packing my things, a familiar scent caught my attention. Kieran and Nina were here, somewhere in the house and I could sense it.
Ugh, the thought of them together made my skin crawl.Soon, I started hearing Kieran’s deep voice and Nina giggling in an annoying way.
I tried to just focus on getting out of there, clutching my bag tightly as I headed for the door. But then they came slinking out of the bathroom, Nina wearing nothing but Kieran's shirt. I could see a fresh hickey on her neck - the little hussy was practically flaunting it!
My jaw tightened with irritation, but I couldn't say I was surprised. Apparently my supposed wedding night had been spent with her in the house we shared, while I was out for my mother's funeral. So while I slept alone crying over my mom’s death in her hospital bed, Kieran was busy having fun with Nina.
Kieran's eyes went wide when he saw me, a hint of annoyance in his voice. "Selena, what the fuck are you doing?"
I leveled him with the coldest, most unforgiving stare. "What does it look like I'm doing, Kieran? I'm leaving. For this time."
Nina swooped in all innocent and sweet. "Oh, Selena, I'm so sorry. Kieran helped me after I scraped my knee outside.I didn’t realize it was your wedding day."
She lifted her left leg, revealing a minor scrape.
My gaze dropped to the tiny plaster, then back to her smug face.
I scoffed in surprise. "You know what?" I turned my gaze to that sorry excuse of a man. "I'm done with your bullshit.
I'm breaking up with you,"
He had the nerve to look irritated, like I was the one causing a problem. "Can you be less dramatic?
We can reschedule the wedding, but Nina needed me. I couldn't just ignore that."
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. So a simple scrape on her leg was more important than our wedding and my mother’s death?
"Dramatic?" I repeated, the word tasting like poison on my tongue. "You chose a stupid scrape over our wedding!"
I felt like the biggest fool on the planet. Kieran had claimed that Nina was just like a sister to him and I had allowed her worm her way into our relationship. And it was all for what?
Without another word, I turned and headed for the door.
Kieran reached out and grabbed my arm, stopping me in my tracks. "Was your mom upset about what happened? I can explain it to her."
His words felt like a slap in the face. I jerked my arm free, my eyes blazing with fury. "Save your excuses, Kieran. I said I’m done with you."
"Baby, you can let her go," Nina said calmly latching onto his arm, "If her mother hadn't pretended to be sick, how could you have been forced to marry her?"
In that moment, something inside me snapped, and my wolf instincts took over. My claws extended from my fingertips and I grasped Nina's shoulders, my fingers digging deep into her skin.
"How dare you?" I hissed, my voice turning animalistic. "My mother is dead!"