Chapter eleven

CORA’s POV…

He moved away from me as he ran his fingers through his hair, and I swallowed as I stared at him. "You can’t threaten me, Alpha." Your heart just won’t let you, so why are you doing this? Why can’t you just accept the fact that we are destined to be together?" I asked him, and in anger, he turned back to me as he pinned me to the wall, placing his hand on my throat as he started to strangle me.

I struggled to get his hands off my neck, but it felt like he was just too upset to even let that happen. "I’d rather get mate to a stone than accept you as my mate. What don’t you understand, Cora? Tell me, what is it that is so hard to understand about the fact that I am now mated to Layla? Is it so hard to understand rejection? You know what? I never thought that for someone like you, rejection would be such a big deal." He told me as he turned away from me, and at that moment, I knew where he was headed.

He wanted to start rubbing salt in my wounds. He wanted to remind me of the