Three Alphas, Fated To One, Played By One, But Mated To One-Chapter 24: Two-Faced

My face was slapped to the side, and I must say that slap was delivered with the viciousness of a betrayed woman.

It was so heavy that the swelling that hadn’t gone down yet puffed up again.

I turned my face slowly to face Innocent. I didn’t turn hysterical. That never helped. I didn’t shout. No one would come anyway.

Since Innocent was there, someone else must be at the door looking out for any intruders.

"I really don’t know what you are talking about. Mike and I never even had any alone time together. What could I have going on with the future alpha as a slave?" I said this to let Innocent know that I knew my place in the pack and there was no need for her to be so calculative with me.

I wanted her to understand that I was not a threat to her in any way. After all, the viciousness of this woman knew no boundaries.

However, that one statement seemed to trigger her anger instead.

The next thing I knew, heavy blows were landing on my body and this time, she didn’t hit my face, she was punching me on my sides and stomach.

All this while I was still lying down on the small, narrow hospital bed.

When the third punch landed, I heard the crack of bones breaking. I could tell that my ribs had been broken.

The pain sent spasms throughout my body and I opened my mouth to scream. But the next second, a dirty rag was stuffed into my wide open mouth.

It seemed that Innocent had come fully prepared.

"How dare you contradict me? How could you flaunt here calling Mike by his name, you slut? Today, I will teach you what happens when you covet what isn’t yours. You are lucky, killing directly is forbidden, otherwise it would be your cold corpse already lying on this bed." Innocent kept ranting while still delivering blow after blow.

I struggled to get up to a sitting position, but with my bones broken, even the smallest movement would trigger pain that went through every nerve in my body.

I was in so much pain that I couldn’t even utter a word in my defense anymore.

In fact, it looked like Innocent never intended to let me defend myself. She simply wanted to vent her anger.

I struggled to lift my hand and took the dirty rag out of my mouth.

"I..have...not...thing...to...do...with...Mik....Alpha .....alpha Mike." I forced myself to finally get these few words out of my mouth with much difficulty, but they made no difference to Innocent.

"Whether there is something going on between you and Mikey or not isn’t for you to decide. If I say there is something going on then there is something going on. And if I ever see you within ten feet of him again, I swear to the moon goddess I will make you disappear. No matter what it takes." Innocent was seriously pissed this time.

Yet, I had no idea what I had done. She claimed that Mike was calling my name while making love to her, but what did that have to do with me?

I wasn’t the one calling out names while in the throes of passion. Yet the blame fell on me.

At that moment, I wanted so much to reject Mike. But I knew that I couldn’t. If I did that, he would find out that I knew about the mate bond. Then he could openly take advantage of me.

But most importantly, admitting that I could feel the mate bond might expose the fact that I have awakened my wolf and then Lizzie wouldn’t be able to hide anymore.

I couldn’t take such a risk.

So I endured all the beating from Innocent like I was taking bitter medicine.

By now, I had been beaten so much that blood was flowing from the corner of my mouth. A clear indication of internal injuries, yet Innocent seemed to be possessed and another punch landed on my side again. This one was so heavy that several cracks were heard and my body was lifted off the bed and flew towards the wall.

I was slammed against the wall, with my forehead hitting the concrete wall so hard that it split open.

My head buzzed and blood flowed even faster as my breathing slowed down.

My mind became fuzzy and the sound of Innocent speaking became distant. I knew I was losing consciousness and it wasn’t advisable but I couldn’t help myself.

I had several broken ribs, severe internal injuries, and a broken head.

The pain was not something I had experienced before. I thought that since it wasn’t the first time I was getting such a beating and it wasn’t the first time I was nursing broken bones, I should already be used to the pain.

But for some reason, the pain I was experiencing was multiplied. It should been the poison that was still in my blood.

It might have been activated to flow faster due to the bleeding.

Just as I was about to completely pass out, I heard a voice that sounded faint, but I knew it was actually louder than that saying, "The bird has landed."

As if a switch had been pressed, Innocent stopped raging. A punch that was following me to the wall stopped midair and her palm opened.

She reached out to me as if to help me but I wanted to scoot a little further from that hand. Unfortunately, I was already pressed against the wall. Moreover, I couldn’t move an inch even if I had the space because of how much pain I was in.

Then the door was pushed open and two sets of footsteps walked into the room.

Through my blurry vision, I could barely make out the silhouettes of the two people, but I knew who they were immediately.

One of them was of course, my fated mate and the other was my supposed friend.

It was easy to identify them because I could feel the tingling under my skin when Mike was close to me.

As for Karl, I knew even though he was pretending, he was the only other person who would show concern towards me.