From Substitute To Queen novel Chapter 155

Chapter 155

I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t speak. Couldn’t process what I was hearing.

The woman on the other end was still talking, but her words sounded like they were coming from underwater.

Thung up.

The phone lay on the floor where I’d dropped it, that woman’s sweet voice still echoing in my head. “Caely is in the shower…”

I tried to convince myself but my treacherous mind wouldn’t listen. It painted picture after picture of their intimacy.

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Caelan stepping out of the shower, water droplets on his skin. Elena waiting for him, her arms open. The two of them together in that hotel room, doing things we used to do…

I shook my head violently, trying to dislodge the images.

This had to be a mistake. Some kind of setup or misunderstanding.

There had to be an explanation. Maybe Elena was in trouble and he was helping her. Maybe the photos were taken out of context. Maybe-

My phone rang.

Caelan’s name flashed on the screen.

My heart leaped into my throat. I lunged for the device, snatching it up within one second.

“Caelan!” I smiled. “I knew you still cared about me. Where are you? Can you come see me? I’m at my apartment. I discharged myself today. I miss you so much.”

The words poured out in a rush, everything I’d been dying to say.

Silence stretched on the other end. When he finally spoke, his voice was ice.

“What gives you the right to ask me that? We broke up.”

The coldness in his tone hit me like a slap. But I pressed on, certain I could reach him.

“Caelan, you don’t have to lie to me anymore. I know what this is really about.” Tears started flowing again, making my voice thick and unsteady. “It’s my dad, isn’t it? He’s putting pressure on you, forcing you to leave me?”

“Sable-

“You’re worried about Lucian’s people coming after me again, so you think breaking up will keep me safe, right?” I was sobbing now, the words coming out in broken gasps. “That woman-Elena-you don’t really have anything with her. It’s all just for show, isn’t it?”

“You’re putting on an act to make me believe you don’t love me anymore, right? My voice cracked completely. “Because you think it’s the only way to protect me?’

Each word I spoke seemed to make me cry harder, until I could barely breathe between the sobs.

“Sable Crawford. Listen carefully. The photos online are real. Elena is the woman I’ve always truly loved. Like I told you before, you were just a game to me. Now that the woman I actually care about has returned, the choice is obvious, isn’t it?”

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No. You’re lying to me. That’s not true.

“I don’t care,” I choked out. “I’ll let you play with my feelings. I’ll let you use me. Just please don’t leave me.”

A pause. When he spoke again, his voice carried a cruel satisfaction.

“You think rather highly of yourself, don’t you, Sable?”

Another pause.

“Oh, by the way, I haven’t formally rejected you yet. I, Caelan Blackwood, officially reject you as my mate.”

The mate bond snapped.

Pain beyond description tore through my body. It felt like every cell was being ripped apart, like my soul was being carved out with a rusty knife. I screamed and collapsed to the floor.

“Please don’t disturb us again.”

The line went dead.

I lay curled on the floor, shaking violently as the rejected mate bond sent aftershocks of pain through my system.

Us. He’d said us.

Even in my agony, that word cut deepest of all.

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