Bound to the Bastard Alpha

na'

n, I felt like I was trapped

w here was Nathan, my ex who had literally just gotten engaged to

y head? Would I accidentally walk into traffic

unded preferable to dealing with one

ife, or so everyone always said. Instead it had turned into a pa

something truly terrible in a pas

olled despite the anger bubbling underneath. "I don

but I didn't care anymore. I was done being po

crawl. How had I ever found that laugh

till wearing that infuriatin

e, invading my personal space like he still had the right to do that. Li

thered me. I couldn't let him know that seeing him still hurt, that I was still processing the betraya

t get to see

eyes with a cold stare, channeling

t have been concern if I didn't know better. "A bride in a stained wedding dress, clearly stranded, with no way to get

"We're not together anymore, Nathan. We don't even know each othe

frantically scrolling through my phone. There had to be another option. Ano

wasn't done

"All the drivers are off today. Some kind of strike or protest or something. I don

ing he was wrong. But as I checked app after app, I rea

me message. No drivers availab

muttered, wanting to throw my pho

ept getting bet

ng me, waiting for me to admit defeat. He knew I was out o

d that he

home by now. She would have helped me in a heartbeat, would have turned

and that option was sitting in a red

. I wanted to do literally anything

choice di

lked over to his car and yanked open the passenger do

d in, refusing to look at him. "I'm desperate, y

replied, and I could hear t

ng this. Of c

d straight ahead, my jaw clenched

nable to help myself. "Shouldn't you

er a new pink Lamborghini and she's obsessed with it. Can't stop driving it

xactly what he was doing, reminding me of everything I'd lost

liate me. This wasn't about being helpful. Th

pond, staring out the window as

nversation, but I shut him down every time with one-word answers or co

't more than twenty minutes. Every second in that car with him felt

pack house. The massive estate loomed in front of u

an had even fully stopped, despe

out of his car by that older man who seemed

ven though he'd literally abandoned me less than an hour ago. Eve

s the driveway, and the expression

ch disgust, like I was something dirty

t climbed out of his car behind me, and I wa

n

n, wanted to tell him it wasn't what it looked like, bu

cold and cutting. "I see you d

outh but no w

tween Nathan and me, and when he spo

Do you make it a habit of screwing one brother right