Cheated

Chapter Eight- Part 2

SOPHIE DAVIS

It had only been a couple of days since I'd told Austin there was no way that I could find it in my heart to forgive him, and I was already regretting my words.

I kept replaying the way he'd held me in his arms, the way he stroked my hair as he placed soft kisses to my forehead. I love him, he loves me. It should be as simple as that, but it's not. He cheated on me, and although it's evident that he regrets it, if there's one thing that my dad taught me while growing up; it's once a cheater, always a cheater.

Austin knew how much I despised even the thought of cheating, he knew the way that my dad treated my mom, and how much I hated him for it. He knew all of that, and yet he proceeded to do the exact same thing to me as my father did to my mother.

As a few tears started to leak from my eyes, I was startled out of my revery, by someone clearing their throat. "Someone's here for you," Maggie told me, giving me a sympathetic look as she saw the tears I was desperately trying to hold back.

"Who?" I questioned, sniffling as I got up from my spot on the bed.

"The Alpha of the Red Water Pack?" she said as a question, probably wondering why on earth he was here to see me.

Matthew. "Tell him I'll be out in a minute," I requested as I ran to the bathroom in hopes of making myself look a little more presentable.

I didn't look too bad, all I needed to do was run a brush through my hair, and wipe the tears off of my face, and I was on my way to see what Matthew wanted.

Maggie was sitting at the kitchen table eating a bowl of cereal when I got to the front door. "He's smokin'," she said, and I laughed. But as I opened the door and saw him standing there, I couldn't agree more.

"Sophie!" He gave me a bright smile, and surprised me by moving in for hug, right when he saw me. I awkwardly patted his back as we hugged. "I haven't seen you in a awhile. Are you okay? How have you been?" He questioned, as he released me from his embrace.

"I've been fine, just not feeling well," I told him, as he sniffed the air.

"Oh, you're in..." he trailed off.

"Heat, yes," I finished for him. Not only was it hard for Austin to control himself around me, but it was hard for any unmated male Werewolf.

"I'd ask to hangout with you, but that probably wouldn't be the best idea..." He gave me a sheepish smile.

"I should be done with it in about a week or so, we can hangout out then." I smiled at him, and he nodded enthusiastically,

"Okay well, I'll see you then," he said, heading back to his car. I waved and then went back inside. Matthew was one of the sweetest guys I knew.

When I entered the house, Maggie stood by the counter, my cell phone in hand. She looked like she had seen a ghost, and tears were starting to form at the corners of her eyes.

"What? What's wrong?" I questioned, panic starting to set in. It wasn't easy to make Maggie cry.

"It's Austin, he, he killed himself." The words came out of her mouth in what seemed like slow motion.

I couldn't manage any words as I fell to the ground. It felt like the wind had been knocked out of me. I curled up in the fetal position, crying harder than I ever had before. I didn't understand. Austin couldn't be dead, I would have felt it, but then again our bond could have been weakened when I told him it was over.

Maggie ran over to me, stroking my hair, and trying to hold back tears of her own. "How do you know?" I sobbed, everything that had happened over the past couple of months seemed insignificant now, Austin cheating on me, loosing our pup. Nothing could compare to the pain I was experiencing in this moment.

"He left a note, and nobody has seen him for a couple of days," she told me, placing my head in her lap.

"What did the note say?" I asked.

"Something about not wanting to live on without you. But Sophie, it's not your fault."

"How is it not?" My words were muffled through my tears.

She didn't respond, so I asked another question, "Have they found his body yet?" The thought of living without Austin sounded like the worst thing in the world, I have no idea how I thought I was going to do it before.

"No, and they're not really sure where it would be anyway," she told me.

A sliver of hope ran through me. Maybe he hadn't done it yet! Maybe I could find him before he could.

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