CLAIMED BY THE DEMON KING: DARK ROMANCE novel Chapter 4

~Elara~

“Luna, the rumors are getting more intense, everyone thinks you are crazy now, what should I do about it?” Mia, my assistant and the only friend I had in the Pack, asked me with a serious look on her face.

I took a deep breathe. “Just let it be, rumors are bound to dissipate quickly.”

Her jaw dropped. “Luna, I…… I don’t think that is a wise idea, that woman is really cunny, I have no doubt she is the one doing all these. Just give me your command and I will have everyone spreading these rumors punished.”

I sighed. As tempting as the idea sounded, I wasn’t sure it was going to solve anything. It had more tendency of making the matter a lot worse than it already was.

Mia sighed when I didn’t respond and ranked her hand through her hair. “On a serious note, Luna, how are you handling it?" Mia’s voice was calm, and I could hear the pity in her voice. I shook my head. I don’t want anyone’s pity, but Mia was different.

She was in the same predicament as I now was, or even a worse fate.

Her husband found his fated mate, and she was living with her husband and his fated mate.

Her husband, Kyle who was also my husband’s beta, refused to reject his fated because he knew it would weaken his wolf.

He made Mia agree to it, and she has been miserable ever since then, only working herself to stupor.

"You need to be brave, Luna, stand up for yourself. This woman won’t stop until she has ruined your home completely like mine did. My bed has been cold for years now. Now they have pups, and it is almost as if I am not in the picture." She said and sighed deeply.

Even though she claimed she was over him, I could still feel the pain in her voice, see the pain in her eyes.

"We will be fine. I hope he gets to realize his mistakes soon."

Even I didn’t believe my own words, because these past few days, I had been forced to see the possible reality of a future without my mate.

"How do you manage Mia?" I couldn’t help but ask, she was literally the bravest she wolf I had ever met. She laughed.

"What can I do? At least he claimed his fate, so neither of us feels pain when they are together again. I just find a way to make myself happy with flings and affairs.” She shrugs.

“No one ever really sticks around, and even though they claim to love me, they never try to challenge the Beta. So, I just enjoy the affair and move on," she acted as though she was used to it.

"Does he know?" I asked, and she laughed.

"He doesn't care, Luna. They stop caring and getting jealous once they claim their fated mate. At least yours is a fling, maybe there is hope.”

My heart clenched. A picture of a cold faced Lucien not even reacting when I am with another man, sent a painful feeling through me.

Suddenly, my door was pushed open, hardly. Lucien walked in. He looked…… furious.

“Elara, how could you?”

I was clueless, but his cold cruel question and expression sent hot and cold shivers down my spine.

Mia noticed the tense atmosphere, and quickly excused herself with a curt bow.

As soon as she disappeared from the office, I took a deep breath and turned to face Lucien, who was almost exhaling smoke of fire.

“I don’t know what you mean.” My voice didn’t shake, thank goodness.

His narrowed, as his Adam apple moved, up to down. “Don’t you dare pretend you don’t know what am talking about Elara. I warned you that the next time you try to hurt her, I wouldn’t hesitate but punish you.”

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