"Don't worry, I will take care of you. I will take care of you for the rest of your life. You don't need to be afraid." Shayne looked at Fenja with sadness in his eyes, but this sight infuriated Fenja even more.
Fenja saw red. Her anger fueled her with enough strength to push him away and scream in his face.
"Get out! GET OUT! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Shayne watched how Fenja's world was crumbling, and he only stood there. He did nothing, and finally, after he realized there was no way he could talk to her, he left the room.
"We will talk again once you calm down. We will discuss this later, okay?" His words were as soft as ever.
Fenja didn't even want to see his face, let alone talk to him again. Within a few days, the man that she thought would love and protect her had turned into someone who hurt her the most.
It was not what Fenja imagined when she found him. A mate should be the comfort for each other, not the source of all the pain.
***
Later that night, when Fenja had done crying her heart out, she decided that she couldn't stay in this pack and torture herself more than this.
She didn't have much in her possession, but she had enough to get her out of this pack and provide for herself for a few weeks.
With that thought, Fenja put all of her important things into a small bag and went out of the room. It was very quiet.
The mind-link didn't work anymore because she had lost her wolf. Not only that, but also the bond with this pack was no longer there. This made it easier for her to leave everything behind.
Still, there was this huge hollow inside her where her wolf spirit should be.
She didn't know where to go, but any place would be better than being trapped in this pack, surrounded by people who wanted to hurt her.
Fenja took a deep breath and started to walk through the pack's territory. She knew the less heavily guarded area, so she could sneak out without anyone knowing it.
Meanwhile, Shayne, who was unaware that his mate had left, was currently in another argument with Nadia.
"Fenja doesn't have this small tattoo on her shoulder." Shayne growled at Nadia, and the latter looked startled.
Shayne pointed to the picture that Nadia had shown him two days earlier, asserting that Fenja had been involved with multiple men while he was away.
In his rage and poor judgment, he wanted to get back at Fenja for doing that to him, instead of confronting her directly, as he didn't know how to bring up this topic.
In the heat of the moment, Shayne used Nadia to vent out his rage.
However, after what happened and when he saw the pain and disgust in Fenja's eyes, Shayne second-guessed it.
In the end, here he was, realizing what kind of grave mistake he had committed.
"Tell me, where did you get the picture?!" Shayne raised his voice, and this made Nadia cry. "Stop crying! How dare you fool me!?"
"Shayne! You can't raise your voice to a woman! I don't raise you to be like that!" Rachel reprimanded her son.
"Shut up! Tell me the truth!" Shayne hollered angrily.
Because of this picture, he had hurt his mate and even done her more harm by letting his mother and Nadia abuse Fenja and cause irreparable damage.
This was the reason why he had been snarky with Fenja and refused to acknowledge his mistake. In his mind, he only got back what she had done to him.
"ANSWER ME!" Shayne hollered.
In the picture, there was a woman who looked like Fenja, accompanied by another man—multiple men, to make things worse.
Because Shayne had just met her again for a few days, he didn't know how to talk with her and bottled up everything. He didn't confront her at all; instead, he resorted to getting revenge on her, which made him feel very guilty.
Now, when the truth was in the open, he couldn't see Nadia and his mother in the same light.
"So, the two of you have been planning this?" Shayne asked; he was livid. The realization dawned on him.
Rachel and Nadia had never seen him this furious.
"This is for the best, Son," Rachel finally said, but she immediately shut her mouth when she saw how Shayne crushed Nadia's phone in his tight grip. Rachel was startled as she saw blood ooze out from his wound. "You are bleeding!" Rachel gasped and rushed to Shayne's side.
However, Shayne was too mad to be close to her. He didn't even want to see their faces. How could they scheme against his mate behind his back? And worst of all, he fell for it.
He was played in their hands. He even agreed to announce Nadia as his mate instead of Fenja, which resulted in an uproar while his true mate was unconscious and in so much pain.
"Stay away from me!" Shayne growled loudly, which made Nadia and Rachel flinch. The two women then teared up. "I don't appreciate what you have done." He ground his molars.
Heaven! What have I done to Fenja!?
Shayne couldn't think of anything else and immediately rushed to find her. He would grovel at her feet if he had to!
How could he allow himself to be deceived in such a nasty way and even dive headfirst into it!?
He couldn't imagine the pain he had caused Fenja for his action. He remembered the pain in her beautiful green eyes when she found out about his disloyalty.
And what made things even worse was the fact they had killed her wolf.
He was such a moron, the stupidest one!
"Fenja!" Shayne went to their bedroom, but he couldn't find her. "Fenja!? Fenja!" He looked for her frantically.
But she had already gone.