The Alpha's Secret Love

Name: The Alpha's Secret Love
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Author: Arial Blake

Arial Blake

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Second Chance Omega Rogue Beta 18+

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BLURB: “You are my mate, Mine and mine alone.” Layla, who suffered the loss of her parents, made a promise to her dying father who was the Beta to get married to the egoistic Alpha, Nate. She always knew it would be a loveless marriage and she put in her greatest efforts to change her reality. Nothing ever worked as Nate’s heart belonged to another. Hannah, Nate’s ex-girlfriend and first love returned to his life and Layla realized that there was no point in trying to continue the marriage. Her marriage has always been a facade. Nate never attempted to touch her or make her no matter what she did. She summons the courage and asks for a rejection. Since she had no right to reject the Alpha. Nate laughs and blatantly refuses. Why is Nate refusing to let Layla go? SETTING: MODERN DAY CITY, FREE MOON PACK, 21ST CENTURY CHARACTERIZATION: Layla Jackson( Female Lead ): She is 25 years old with long wavy brown hair, She has brown almond eyes with a well-curved body. She is an orphan and she makes a promise to get married to Alpha Nate. She falls in love with Nate and tries to get him to commit fully into the relationship but all she got was pains and anguish. She asked for a rejection but was denied. Nate Chestnut (Male Antagonist): He is 35 years old with jet black, His green eyes were his most noticeable feature. Layla fell in love with him the first time she met him. He is the Alpha of the free moon pack and his love for his first love, Hannah always stopped him from fully committing to Layla and loving her. Hannah Caleb (Female Antagonist): She is a 26-year-old woman with long blonde hair and brown eyes. She was formerly the best friend of Layla before she was made to further her studies abroad. She returned with the motive of putting an end to Nate and Layla’s marriage. She also had the intention of living luxuriously with Nate’s fortune. Tianna Carson: She is a 26-year-old woman. She had beautiful hair that was pure black and also long to her waist length. Tianna is also married to Freddie, Nate’s long-time friend and lawyer. She supports Layla no matter what. She is Layla’s only good friend. Freddie Band: He is a 34-year-old man. He has long brown hair he packed into a ponytail. He married Tianna and they had a very happy marriage. He is Nate’s friend but he never rooted for Nate’s attitude towards Layla. He always kicked against it. PLOT: EXPOSITION: Layla’s dying father made her promise on his deathbed that she would get married to the popular Alpha, Nate Chestnut. Layla, who was naive and now alone in the world, agreed to be the mate of Nate. Unfortunately, Nate didn't love her and he was always busy with work. They never slept in the same room except for very rare occasions and he wouldn't sleep on the bed with her. They were married for three years and it was just for public gratification. In a day he didn't utter more than five words to her and it deeply bothered her thoughts. Layla did everything to make him love her, She always tried to look her best and alluring enough for him to glance her way. Unfortunately, Hannah returned and was ready to take her place in Nate’s life. Layla saw them in Nate’s office holding hands and she instantly felt her heart break into a million pieces. She decided to ask for a rejection from Nate because she didn't want to waste any other person’s time in a loveless marriage. Layla confronts Nate but he ridicules the situation and tells her she can't leave him and he won't reject her. She was in obvious shock because he never loved her or valued her as his mate. So she was curious as to why he didn't want to let her go. INCITING INCIDENT: Nate was the only child and heir. His father, who was initially the former Alpha, was killed by multiple rogue wolves after being poisoned with wolfsbane. The same poison that claimed the life of Layla’s father who was the Beta. Layla and Nate got married shortly after Layla’s father’s death. Hannah was Nate’s girlfriend before she abandoned him and went abroad to live her life to the fullest. She heard that Nate got married and she decided to come back to get Nate back. She planned on being Luna because of the respect and fortune that comes with it. She ran away from the responsibilities of being a Luna. She got back and being the first love of Nate, He welcomed her but he was skeptical about why she returned especially after he got married. Hannah tries to seduce Nate and convince him to leave Layla for good. Nate refuses and tells Hannah that he can’t betray Layla because she hasn’t done anything to him. The jealous and hatred-driven Hannah decided to plan something sinister because she wouldn’t give up without a fight. RISING ACTION: Hannah gave hallinocegens to Nate and tried to have sex with him but she was stopped by Layla and exposed so she poisoned Layla and no one knew. Layla fell ill one day and it was said that she was poisoned by the wolfsbane and it was slowly eating her up. Nate was scared and didn’t want to

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Chapter 1

Layla’s POV

I literally couldn't believe my eyes. At that point, I was praying that it had all been an illusion that was playing out in my dreams. But then, it was clear that it was all happening right before me.

“But Nate...” I could hardly get the words out of my mouth, “How could you?” The man I called my mate was holding hands with the last person I had expected. “With... Hannah?”

It had been a normal day until I walked into the door of his office to see Nate holding hands with Hannah, my so-called best friend, whom I had thought to have been studying abroad.

“What's the meaning of all this?” I asked, as I was finally able to articulate some intelligible words after a couple of moments. “Is this some kind of prank or what?"

“What do you think?” Hannah asked, with her facial expression beaming with satisfaction. Every movement of her body seemed to be solely aimed at getting me ticked off.

The fact that they were still holding hands even after I had walked in on them had me on the verge of going insane. But I was still holding back the tears somehow, even though they were holding hands like they were a passionate couple on their first date.

“Hannah and I were having a conversation before you walked in. Is there anything I could do for you?” Nate's words pierced painfully like a dart right in my chest.

His display of coldness was nothing new in our loveless marriage. But that time around, he was treating me like I was a total stranger. There was no greater hurt than that.

At that point, I couldn't take it anymore. I turned and fled the scene. I regretted ever walking in on the both of them that afternoon. It was the most unbearable situation I had found myself in.

All through the loveless marriage between Nate and I, I had endured the worst of him all along. It had all happened because of my promise to my father when he lay on his deathbed.

I could recall my words to him just before he gave up the ghost. “If that's what will make your death less painful and more peaceful...” I had foolishly said, “Then I would marry Nate..."

In the heat of the hell I was currently living in, I wished I could take back the hands of time to the moment when I had agreed to the words of my dying father. Too bad he wasn't there to endure the consequences of that decision with me.

From the very start, I had known it would be a loveless marriage with the egoistic alpha, Nate of the Free Moon Pack. But I had bent my will just to make it work all along, but it clearly wasn't working, and I had finally seen why it wasn't working.

I burst into hot tears immediately I ran into my room, as the pain of the betrayal from Hannah whom I had thought to be my best friend was just too much for one person to bear. Even Ava— my wolf shared in my grief.

“How could she?” I cried as I crouched in one of my rooms, nursing the pain from the injuries I had sustained from the loveless marriage. I wished my father could see what he had forced me into.

There was no hope for me to be with him anymore. It would only hurt me more and more to remain there.

I took out my phone and recalled how I used to call Hannah to tell her about the difficulty in my marriage with Nate, not knowing that she had been the actual cause of everything. How stupid of me! How couldn't I have seen it coming somehow? She hadn't even told me when she was returning to the pack.

There was only one person I could call in that situation, and I felt miserable as I dialed her number. “Tianna...”

“Layla...?” She called my name with a troubled tone that seemed to have come from the fact that I was crying so audibly on the phone. “Are you alright?”

“No...” My world was falling apart right before my eyes, and I couldn't do anything to stop it from happening. “It just happened...”

“Okay, I need you to calm down right now...” Tianna spoke gently, but not even the calmness of her voice could keep me from breaking down. “Tell me... what happened?”

“Nate is seeing someone else,” I said, wiping off those tears, as I tried convincing myself that Nate wasn't worth the tears I was crying for him. But I was just too hurt to hold back the rivers from breaking out of my eyelids. “He's seeing Hannah...”

“What?” Tianna let out a sigh of surprise and was silent for a while on the phone. “Why... I thought he was over that slut a long time ago. Why's he back with her?”

“I wish I could provide the answers to that, but I'm just as shocked as you are by it all,” I said, mustering some courage to get up on my feet. “I guess it's now safe to say that this marriage is the worst decision I have ever made.”

“I'm short of words right now...” Tianna was silent for a couple of moments. “I'm deeply sorry for the hell that you're going through right now.”

“It's fine...” I said, even though I knew that it wasn't. “At least I had to let you know before I took my decision to do what I am about to do.”

“And what decision is that?” Tianna asked, with a heightened anticipation that was palpable from my end of the line.

“I've had enough of this...” I said, as I hung up on her and marched to where Nate and Hannah seemed to be catching up with each other on the balcony.

My footsteps distracted them momentarily from each other. But they returned to talking with each other like I wasn't even there. Soon enough, I closed up the space that was in between us.

“I want a rejection,” I demanded. That surely had their attention.