Chapter 6 ALL ON YOU

~JADE~

My eyes blinked open. My vision was hazy, as I tried to focus on the shadow hovering above me while at the same time trying to make sense of where I was and what had happened.

"Get up and get out of my kitchen." The rough sound of Hunter's voice had me blinking into focus, the fog in my vision and pain in my head gone as I took in his appearance.

A groan slipped past my lips as I pushed away from the cold kitchen floor, my eyes taking in the broken glass around me, and an onslaught of headaches barreling in as memories of the pain I had felt before passing out.

'You passed out from the pain.' Levana, my wolf, mumbled as I stood up.

"Quit stalling, stand up, and clean up your mess." Hunter boomed above me, and I winced.

"Why?" I couldn't stop myself from asking, even if I knew his answer would only end up hurting me more, yet I still asked because a part of me still hoped that the mate who had loved me was still there somewhere and that he would come back to his senses and see that he was hurting me.

"Why what?"

"You slept with someone else." It wasn't a question; it was a statement, one I hoped he would deny even though I knew better. "Why are you hurting me? I would never intentionally hurt you, Hunter. Yet you had sex with someone else despite knowing what pain it would cause me."

"I warned you, didn't I? I told you to accept my rejection or face the consequences of still being attached to the bond. You got what you asked for." He snarled in anger before stalking past me into the kitchen.

"I got what I asked for, really? All I asked for was that my mate at least show some fucking trust in me." I spat, unable to put a hold on my outburst of anger. I was never one to raise my voice, but the ache splitting through my head right now and the pain in my stomach had me fuming.

"Is it so wrong that I wish you would just listen to me and fucking see that I am telling you the truth? Why are you so eager to get rid of me? The day you brought me into this house, telling me it was my home and promising to shield me from the rest of the world, was it all a lie? Answer me, Hunter, because you seem so eager to throw it all away." I yelled angrily, pulling his arm as I yanked him back to face me.

His bloodshot eyes pinned me with a glare as he snarled in my face. "You want to stand there and play the victim like any of this is my fault?" He yanked his hand out of my grip.

"Unfucking believable." He sneered, wiping his palm down his tired face.

"The audacity you have. This is all your fault. You destroyed us; you destroyed the home I worked so hard to give you, and you are fucking ungrateful." He snarled, stalking closer to me, and he jammed his finger into my chest as he continued, "You came back to this pack, broken and used. Even though you thought no one wanted you, I did. I was willing to love you despite your past; even though I was still recovering from a bad heartbreak, I focused on you. I tried my best to make you happy and give you everything I thought you deserved because I fucking loved you and I thought you were better than the whore in your past. And all I asked-all I ever asked of you-was your loyalty, I told you. It was the only thing I'd ever need from you, but what do I get in return? I get cheated on, yet you dare to yell in my face like I am the one who destroyed us. This is all you." Hunter bellowed, his voice bouncing off the kitchen walls, and the items against the wall rattled violently.

I stood stock still, his words hitting me like a wrench to my guts, and my throat burned as I struggled to find the words to say.

"I was never ungrateful to you for your love, even though I knew it was too good to be true. It is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I always made sure to tell you that and show it in my actions. So to think you won't even give it a thought for a single second that I might be telling the truth, you won't even try to find out why I blacked out and I don't remember a fucking thing. Besides, if I did cheat on you, if I truly had sex with Darren that night, shouldn't you have felt it? You should've felt the pain the same way I did hours ago when you were fucking another woman. Or maybe you already know that I am telling you the truth, and you are just so eager to get rid of me so badly."

Perhaps I shouldn't have added that part, but I was so far done with giving a shit because nothing I say will change his mind. If begging him to see the pain behind my eyes won't work anymore, I better just hurl my heart at him.

"Yelling at me didn't work, so now you want to gaslight me?" Hunter scoffed, shaking his head.

"It's always the same fucking thing with you Dimaano girls, always gaslighting and manipulating men to make yourselves the victims. Stupid me, I should've known better than to trust or fall in love with another Dimaano daughter." The obvious pain in his expression and the resignation in his voice had me wincing in pity for him, and it took me a moment to finally register what he just said.

"Wait, what do you mean?" I asked just as he turned to walk away, "You should've known better than to fall in love with another Dimaano daughter, Hunter; what does that mean?" I asked, my voice strained in apprehension.

"Ask your bloody sister, Jade." He sneered, turning his back on me as he stormed out of the kitchen, leaving me to pick up the scattered pieces of his words.