Gemma’s POV
I became speechless. “This looks strange and absurd,” I cried out to my wolf.
I was about to rush to my phone and call the pack police to report my mate missing when my eyes caught up with a little piece of paper underneath the flower vase on the center table.
I held my chest. “Could this be a suicide note?” I wondered. What could have made him want to commit suicide when I would absolutely take care of everything?
I moved closer and pulled out the paper from the flower vase.
“I've taken my revenge in full. Thanks for all you've done for me. Forget about the money, I've already gotten it. Check your phone. Hahahah.”
“It's our mating ceremony ceremony, so sorry to announce that there would be no ceremony because I wouldn't be there.”
“You can definitely mate yourself. I'm with someone way better off than you now, someone you know.”
My jaw dropped upon reading this, my knees weakened and I felt dizziness in my head.
Who is he even talking about?
Who do I know?
“Is this a dream? Is this really happening?” I turned to and fro, not knowing what to do, then his last statement hit me. “Check your phone!”
I rushed to my phone. The first notification that hit my eyes was capable of making me mad.
Debit alert notification: $100,000
Account bal: $0.89
I fell to the fall, sinking into unconsciousness.
I cried all the tears out in my eyes, even my friends learnt of what happened without me telling. I was wailing outside of the apartment uncontrollably. My uncle and aunt whom I saw as my foster mom and dad were called. Their daughter whom I saw as a sister came along to console me.
They were all supposed to be here for my mating ceremony, to rejoice with me but things went on reverse. Now they were here to console me.
“I can't believe this!”
“I can't believe that Louis, the man I loved with all my heart , chose to take revenge on me this way.”
Everyone tried calming me down but I was too frustrated to be consoled. I kept rolling on the floor, wailing and cursing today's date. It had brought more pain than I ever thought of, in fact I wasn't expecting any pain to come my way.
"Pull yourself together baby, you shouldn't let yourself cry this way. You'd only be hurting yourself the more," my cousin consoled, patting my back.
"I know it's quite painful but let's keep calm and see how we can address this issue, it's better than crying?" My step-mom said to me, trying to raise me from the ground. She pulled out her handkerchief and began to wipe off my tears but as she did, more were coming.
I couldn't tell if all these would be of any good to me. It couldn't change the fact that Louis was gone and gone with my entire life's savings.
I felt like dying.
"Leave, you don't know how painful it is mom. Why did he have to humiliate me this way? He didn't even consider the plight of our child in my womb.”
“What will happen to our pup now?” My tears multiplied.
I sniffed.
My aunt pulled me into an embrace, her mate who's my uncle joined. "That's why your mom is asking you to stop crying, who knows the moon goddess might force him to return back to you one day."
"When will that day come?” I muttered, in between tears.
"Be calm dear, I will go and inform the pack registrar about this, so he knows on time the mating ceremony wouldn't hold. He might already be getting prepared to join you guys together.” My step-mom said, and walked away
As soon as she left, my best friend, Lily, gave me a tight hug, she now took the place. She was supposed to be my maid-of-honor for today's ceremony. We'd been planning this ceremony together, Louis, she and I.
She's a very important part of my life. So sad things turned out this way.
"Everything will be fine, trust me, it's his loss and not yours. You're such a wonderful woman, some better man will find you.”
“Come on, don't be sad. You have enough money to take care of yourself till everything is sorted out.”
She didn't know that he had taken all of my money, no one seemed to know. They must be wondering all my tears is because the ceremony failed to hold.
I wanted to tell my bestie, I wanted to tell everyone about this but my lips were too heavy to bear any words.
“One day he will come back running to you and begging you to take him back," Lily comforted me with these words. I tried to take them in.
"I wish he would but if he could be this heartless, I never think that he will be able to come back to me. At least he's matured enough to handle matters in a calm and gentle way if it's because of what my dad did to his but he chose to take revenge this way.” I said, still crying.
"Louis is a bastard and so he doesn't deserve a rare gem like you in his life. If I was in your shoes, trust me, I would consider this a blessing in disguise." One of the guys standing over who came to console me said.
"I'm sorry about what happened to you. Today would have surely been the happiest day of your life but Louis chose to ruin it for you." A cousin of mine beside my dad consoled me, I just nodded my head.
"I'm sorry my dear, I have to leave now!" I raised my head in shock at the sudden news, seeing my reaction she moved to state the reason for her leaving.
“I had to postpone everything at the hospital for your ceremony being my best friend but it didn't push through and it's not your fault. I will have to go back now and take care of the patients under my care.”
“I hope you do not mind?"
