Free Web NovelChapter 25: Chapter 25: What’s In The Screenshots?
"Let’s- let’s find a way to break this bond."
"Nyra.."
"I don’t want to be his mate anymore. I, can’t take this anymore, Julian"
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THREE DAYS AGO
Adrisn runs into the hallway, dragging his hair hard enough to sting.
He’s fucked up.
He’s fucked up so bad this time-- Anna’s never going to forgive him for this. Ever.
The contraceptive pills spilling on the floor was just the fucking cherry on the cake. How would he explain to her that he’d slept with the very person he had promised he would never be involved with?
He didn’t even last a month!
Fuck!
He runs down the elevator behind her, and of course he fucking misses.
He calls her, she declines. He calls again, she declines again. So with shaky desperate fingers, he starts to type a message.
Adrian: Babe, please pick up!"
Adrian: Anna, come on. Let me explain.
No response. He paces the elavator like a man possessed. The elderly woman next to him looks so scared, and her dog starts to bark.
Just fucking shit up!
He nearly punches the buttons, but that would only make it worse.
Finally, finally the elevdor dings open. He sprints out of it before the woman and her dog can even blink, running out the maid door behind Anna.
Still nowhere to be found. Fuck!
His hands are shaking as he types another message.
Adrian: Babe please. I’m sorry you had to see that. It’s not what it looks like.
Adrian: Please pick up my call.
He always starts running down the street in flipflops, when his phone finally buzzes.
Anna: Fuck you Adrian!
Anna: I can’t believe you slept with the hay whore!
Adrian’s jaw tightens. He stands near the entrance dressed in hoodies and some old shorts, typing furiously.
Adrian: It didn’t mean anything! She was just... there. You know how these mate bonds pull.
Adrian: You’re the one I want, Anna. Always have been.
Anna: I’m not stupid, Adrian! There were so many fucking hickeys on her.
Anna: how’s that getting it out of your system!?
Adrian exhales sharply, fingers flying across the screen. He knows he needs to placate her, to pull her back in no matter what it takes.
He can’t loose Anna. Not like this.
Adrian: She’s nothing compared to you!
Adrian: I hated fucking her, it was just the rut.
Adrian: you know how these virgins are, always throwing themselves at the first cock they see.
Adrian: A boring little virgin who didn’t even know what she was doing. No fire, no passion. She just lay there taking it.
He hits send on all of them. Anything to keep Anna from walking away from him for good
Anna: You still fucked her. Still marked her skin!
Adrian: Because she was convenient. A placeholder. You’re perfect for me, Anna. You always have been.
Adrian: You know I like the chase. You know how easy she can be, loose as hell once I touched her. No self-respect. Not like you.
Adrian: Baby, you’re the one I want! Please..
The messages keep going back and forth. Adrian leans back, staring at the sky as he types more vile justifications.
Adrian: Please don’t leave me baby? I’ll make it right.
Adrian: Remember how good we are together? She could never compare.
Adrian: You know how much I hate out bond!"
Anna: this isn’t what you promised Adrian!
Anna: You told me forever.
Adrian: And I still mean it, baby, please!
Adrian: Nyra was a mistake. A one-time slip because of the bond. You’re my future Luna. My real choice.
Adrian: She’s just some wolfless girl who spread her legs thinking it would make her special.
Adrian: I don’t care about her, you know that!.
Adrian: I’ve just been pretending, to make my parents happy. We discussed this! Common!
He sends the last string of texts, chest tight. Part of him knows how disgusting the words are, but in the moment he tells himself it’s necessary.
He needs Anna to feel stable. Two years couldn’t just go down the drain like this. His wolf howls painfully, but he shoves it down.
Anna: I don’t know if I can believe you anymore.
Adrian: Believe me. Please. Tell me where you are.
Adrian: We’ll talk it out. I love you, babe.
Adrian: I love you so much, please don’t let us go down the drain like this.
The conversation drags on for nearly an hour-- before finally, finally Anna sends him her location to come meet up.
Adrian: Thank you! Thank you! You ain’t regret this!
He shoves the phone in his pocket, rushing back upstairs to get the keys to his bike in the apartment garage.
Upstairs, he can hear Nyra crying from her bedroom, and the guilt of those messages and what he’s done hits him even harder.
He knows those messages are dangerous. If they ever got out...
But he needs Anna, and he would do anything to keep her.
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**Present Day --Ashford Mansion**
Nyra stares at the screenshots on her phone, tears streaming silently down her face. The private texts between Adrian and Anna are laid bare for the entire school to see.
Every vile word Adrian used to describe her--anilla, boring virgin, loose, defective, forgettable--stares back at her in cold black text.
I haven’t stopped thinking about it.
You’re the best I’ve ever had.
He’s such a fucking liar!
Her chest tightens until she can barely breathe. She’s going to break out of this bond, no matter what the Goddess says-- she can’t live like this.
Julian moves closer, worry etched on his face. "Nyra, give me the phone. You don’t need to read all that."
But she keeps scrolling, heart shattering with every new message. The public humiliation is complete. Anna’s caption mocks the "perfect" mate bond while the screenshots expose Adrian’s true thoughts.
The notifications keep coming. Comments, shares, new tags. The school platform is exploding. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
Nyra’s vision blurs with fresh tears she can’t hold back no matter how much she tries.
Everything feels too raw, too exposed. And of everything Adrian has ever done to her since the moment he singled her out-- this is by far the worse one.
"I hate him." She grits out, despite the tears. "I don’t want this bond anymore!"
