Forever Yours

FIFTEEN

The scenery of which Roxy had once called home began rolling past her car after driving for close to two days.

The first day, after tearing away from Moonlight Ridge – away from Isaac, her wolf had fought against her human cage and Roxy's knuckles had been white on the wheel. All she'd wanted to do was let her wolf explode free and allow her to run until exhaustion in the national parks they travelled through. But even in her emotional state, the voice of reason rang clear in Roxy's mind. Exposing her wolf in an unknown area was stupidity. It would have her being killed by human hunters who may roam this land or charged with trespassing on another Alpha's territory. So the accelerator of her poor car had taken the brunt of her frustrations.

What right did her father, Isaac and Trent have do to what they'd done to her and Cleo?

A couple of hours later, small stars had twinkled against a lavender sky. Headlights and taillights blurred together on the interstate. By this time her anger had faded to heartache. Exhaustion plagued her but she refused to stop before her destination so twenty-four hour takeaway chains had fuelled her on, their wrappers and cups now littering the floor well of the passenger seat.

Isaac had made her look like a fool for trusting him – again.

When the sun had risen the next morning, as she'd crossed the borders of Coastline Region and joined the early morning commute of workers, she'd felt numb. At midday, with the sun high in the sky and the dying forests surrounding the curving bends, tears began flowing freely down her face. They rushed down her trees in streams before dripping from her jawline and splattering onto her lap. She wished they would stop. Isaac didn't deserve her tears. He didn't deserve her heartbreak – again. Her estranged father didn't deserve her anguish when it was all he'd given her.

But it was Isaac who'd hurt her the most; who made her heart ache with a painful intensity, who made her want to bash her head against the steering wheel over and over, for making her feel like such an idiot for believing him when he'd promised no more lies. Just at the thought of him, of what he'd done, fresh tears rushed down her face and sobs racked her body. Clutching the steering wheel tightly, she blinked through them as she whipped the car around a corner. The tyres screeched, the body of the vehicle rolling to the side before rocking back the other way as she ploughed it down the straight. She was surprised she hadn't been pulled over yet. The emotional wolf inside of her and betrayal pulsing through her veins had made her impulsive and dangerous.

After everything they'd been through, after all the promises they'd made to one another, her soulmate, the one wolf she should've always been able to depend on, had lied to her. Again, again and again. Over and over. For almost two years he'd kept the secret of knowing where her father was, of who he was. He'd held the answers to her questions which had only accumulated during her father's absence, he'd held the cure to end her suffering. For two years.

You see the good in people who prove to be anything but good.

Shame washed over her, making her body hot. The first time they'd met Isaac had proven he'd been anything but trustworthy, that he'd only break her heart. He'd rejected her. Yet she'd fought for him. He'd covered up the secrets of his past. Yet she'd sympathised for him. He'd promised her there were no more secrets between them. Yet he'd lied to her. The infamous Alpha Winters was on full display. She was seeing him in the same light as when he'd been torturing the blood wolf in the mausoleum. She wished he was only covered in blood this time.

Blood could wash off.

Lies and betrayal couldn't.

Giving the steering wheel a decent whack, she wondered how she could be so stupid. While he was the lying arsehole, she was the fool. Again. Time and time again he'd proven he hadn't changed since the White Moon ball. But she'd been wooed by him, blinded by the bond they shared. By the bond the Moon Goddess had cursed her with. And to justify his actions by claiming he was protecting her? Throwing her head back, she let out a loud and bitter laugh. How was lying to her and breaking her heart protecting her?