THE ALPHA NEEDS MEChapter 1
RAYA POV
My heart clenched as I looked at my phone and I could feel my eyes getting filled with restrained tears. It was my birthday. Today was supposed to be a happy day for me. I had envisioned spending the whole day with Skyler, my boyfriend. He had given an excuse that he had something urgent to do and it was impossible. He didn't even agree to spare a minute with me, nor did even wish me a happy birthday.
He probably had the day filled with lots of work - this I had thought. He was the new Alpha of White Moon Pack and he probably had a lot in his hands.
But my eyes watered as my gaze lingered on the phone’s screen and a drop of tears eventually dropped on it. In the video, my so-called ever-loving boyfriend was having a good dinner date with Tia at a place I had always wished and requested he take me to. The Maldives.
“Are you enjoying the video, Raya?” my nosey, annoying frenemy, Amira, asked, rubbing salt into my wound.
“I thought you said ‘Skyler is the world's best man to me.’ I bet you'd eat your words now. Anyway, happy birthday, friend.”
I chuckled bitterly after she left, unable to take my eyes off the screen as I watched Tia laughing to her heart's content.
She was his childhood friend, and I had thought that nothing was ever going to go on between them, considering how Skyler never gave me a reason to doubt him all these years. How wrong could I be?
She was the daughter of one of his pack’s elders and had always been considered the future Luna. But Skyler had told me that he rejected her, which made her disappear for some years, and now I'm seeing her with him, both looking happy.
She had gone live on her social media handle and it had spread around the world after she dropped lovely photos of her and Skyler kissing like they were a married couple.
He had made a promise before he left this morning that he was going to finish up his work for the day early and return to celebrate with me. But the sun has set and he seemed in the video like he was never going to leave Tia anytime soon. Maybe forever.