Page 8 of Wolf's Redemption

"What are you doing dressed like that? Where's your dress?" she said with a bitter tone in her voice.

"It's a long story..."

Linda let go of my boyfriend's hand, walked towards me, taking long strides, and opened her arms.

A hug is exactly what I needed, even if it came from her. I thought.

She stopped a step away, I was ready for her hug, but she changed her happy expression to one of sternness. Her eyes turned cold, and she threw a hard slap at me. "I told you, she was with another man."

My boyfriend glared at me and shook his head. "You were right, after all."

My face felt numb from the hard slap as I tasted my own blood.

"What's the meaning of this?" I asked.

"Can't you see?" Linda dictated. "I came to show Alston you are a cheap whore."

The blow hurt, but I was more hurt by the way my boyfriend looked at me as if he didn't recognize me. "It's a misunderstanding," I said.

"You're telling me that if I go into that room, I won't find Sam?" She raised her eyebrow and looked at the half-open door as if expecting someone to come out. "I have to do everything myself?"

My half-sister took a step forward, and I stepped in her way.

"You won't take another step!" I challenged her.

"I'm not receiving orders from you," she replied with a tick in her nose and her teeth clenched. "Get out of my way, or I’ll move you myself."

"I dare you."

"Cathy, do as your sister says, or I will get you out of the way myself," he warned me without a hint of doubt in his voice.

"Are you on her side?" I asked even though I already knew the answer.

"Linda and I have been seeing each other for some time…" he confessed. "She's my mate now, the one I really want to be with."

Linda laughed with an air of victory. Her face was lit up, and pride overflowed from every pore of her body. "That's right he deserves to be with someone on his level and not some bastard."

My heart broke into pieces. I tried to assimilate what was happening, but it was too much for me, especially at the moment.

"You did this. You set me up," I said unfiltered.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Linda has always been a born liar and has the ability to play with people's minds to such an extent that they begin to doubt themselves. She gets her way one way or another.

"Don't blame your sister for your insolence," Alston stepped to her side and took her hand. "You're nothing but a liar."

My sister looked at me, drew a smile of victory on her face, then hugged Alston and buried her face in his chest.

"She hates me. She's always trying to make me look bad," she said in a fake sad voice.

"That's not true, you know that's not true," I turned to my boyfriend. "Alston, you know everything about me. You know the hell I've been through."

"Not really. Everything you've told me has been lies. You did it to make me feel sorry for you," he stated.

"Are you listening to what you're saying?"

I felt sad and frustrated but mostly angry, not at Linda but at myself for being so stupid and trusting her. I shouldn't have let my guard down. She had never been attentive to me. It was suspicious, but still, I didn't give it importance, and that was my mistake.