Alpha, Time's Up on Our Marriage Contract!

Hailey's PoV:

My body was a quckering mess as the ice cold drops of rain drenched me,my clothes stuck to my body like my second skin, my knees are hurting as I am kneeling infront of my father's pack house since an hour but there is no one out here to acknowledge me.

"Ms.Synder! What are you doing in this pouring rain? Please get up and leave." Samuel, My father's Beta urged as his kind eyes took my shivering body.

"No, Samuel. I can't leave until i meet my father." I lift my chin up in defiance. I won't leave until I took what i came here for. My mother is dying and I need money for her surgery, if i don't get the money then I will lost my mother.

"Alpha Timothy is in a meeting, he can't meet you right now." He is just trying to shoo me away but I am as stubborn as my father and i won't leave that easily.

"No." I declined in a no-nonsense tone and he left muttering under his nose that I am as stubborn as my parents. A stab pierced through my heart when I heard him mention my parents. My father and mother were the strong Alpha couple of the pack but woman who is my father's mistress right now ruined everything.

Suddenly there were headlights shining in the distance which blinded me for a second and i hadn't even heard the sound of the screeching tires. The car is moving so fast towards me that I am stuck on the ground with my eyes wide in fear and panic, my body paralysed, unable to move from its place.

"Iam going to die today."

"I am going to die before I get the money for my mother's surgery."

"My mother is going to die alone without me." And the last thought made unfreeze my body as the car skidded to a stop through the place I was occupying just before.

I am breathing hard and my body is shaking now for a different reason.

I was hit by the familiar scent of my step-sister as she stepped down from the car holding a umbrella above her head.

"Oh my god! Hailey! Are you alright? It's dark outside and i couldn't see properly." Her voice dripped with carelessness and sarcasm.

I can see her clearly as she came into the view. She is in high heels with a brand new dress with full face of makeup. Her face looks pretty and innocent but she is cunning and sly.

With a murderous glare i stood up to give a piece of mind to her.

"Tiana Sunder!" I urged whatever hate and anger I have on her to appear on my face so she can see my true feelings towards her.

My wolf is pacing and ready to attack her, she sees Tiana as her enemy and want to challenge her and see her lose like a loser.

"Don't act too innocent, Tiana. I very well know that you did that on purpose." I gritted the words out, my body shaking with anger at her. How dare she thinks I am a fool for believing her lies!

She is one year older than me but she still does these silly things and act so innocent and pure that I want to slap it out of her.

"Shut up!" Tiana's innocent act turned into her ugly scowling face in an instant. She is like a chameleon who turns it's colour according to its surroundings.

Her face turned into a arrogant smirk as she thought of something.

"There is no place for you and your dirty old hag of a mother in this pack. I am the daughter of Alpha Timothy, not you." Her wolf shines through her eyes but she won't intimidate me because I am the real daughter of the Alpha and I am more powerful than her.

"Tiana, you are just a daughter of my father's mistress. How dare you call yourself the daughter of Sunder family!" My anger is burning inside me and her words feels like sharp blades stabbing me painfully.

"You." Tiana raised her hand to slap me as her face contorted in anger at my words but I grabbed her wrist stopping her before her hand touches my cheek.

Tiana got stunned for a second before her body started shaking with rage but she suddenly went slack and her body loosened as her eyes darted behind me and she lost her balance and pushed me back and fell on the ground hard.

"Ah! Hailey! I was just trying to help you. Why did you push me." She accused me as footsteps sounded behind me. Tiana has changed her expression into a pity one. I was grabbed from behind in a tight grip and turned around. My shock subdued at seeing my father, Alpha Timothy standing infront of me, shaking in anger.

"You evil girl. How dare you push Tiana like that." He shook me and slapped me across my face. I was too stunned to speak anything as my father slapped me for his illegitimate daughter.

I am once again on the hard ground, drenched by the rain but this time my face is burning with my father's slap and the pain from his actions and words stabbing me in my heart.

They are both evil and they deserve eachother. There is no place for me and my mother between these monsters. He is being easily manipulated by her and with this i know my father won't give a single cent for my mother.

"Dad! Why did you slap Hailey! I just lost my foot." My father hurriedly helped Tiana from the ground and draped his coat around her shoulders with worry on his face for his elder daughter.

"Why are you defending this evil girl, Tiana. I saw with my own eyes what she did to you." Wow! My own father is believing her against me.

"You are making me sick with your fake concern and acting, Tiana." I can't take her manipulation anymore.

"Stop defending thsi ungrateful and evil girl, Tiana. I have seen with my own eyes what she did to you." My father lashed out, his anger directed towards me.

"Ungrateful? I was at the gate kneeling infront of it for over an hour begging for you to come out and acknowledge me but what did you do? Come here and defend this fake daughter instead of your own daughter!" I don't care if iam crossing the line but it is clear that she is not my father anymore.

A loud growl ripped through his lips and his eyes turned golden as his wolf comes out at my words. He is the Alpha and he don't like any form of disrespect.

"You really are a ungrateful brat. I am not going to give a single penny to you and I am disowning you and banishing you from the pack as your father and the Alpha of the pack." A sudden zap went through me and I feel empty as his words registered. Whatever connection i had with this pack and my father got cut with his rejection. I am no longer the Alpha female of this pack, I am no longer the daughter of Alpha Timothy.

"I Hailey Synder accept your rejection, Alpha Timothy. I no longer belongs to you and this pack." Tiana's mouth was wide open at the same time she has victorious smirk on her lips. My father was stunned at my acceptance but his face changed into a blank one as i turned around to leave.

Nine hundred thousand dollars is a small amount for anyone but for me it's huge and I desperately need it for my mother's surgery, if I don't arrange that amount then i will lose her forever.

"What should I do moon goddess!" I am walking in the rain, as tears streaming down my face and my heart is heavy with my father's rejection and his cruelty to not help me.

"Why don't you ask Francisco! You are his girlfriend." My wolf chimed in. I have totally forget about it but how can I just ask him when I never bothered him with anything! Even if he is from a well known family, he is the self -made billionaire who started his own business.

I have to leave my pride behind for my mother. I hurriedly changed my way and walked towards Francisco's apartment.

"I don't feel right, Hailey." My wolf whisperer, I feel funny in my stomach too as something bad is going to happen. I opened the apartment's door and the mess greeted me in the living room. There are clothes everywhere and particularly there is women's lingerie among the clothes which made me freeze in the doorway.

"Is Francisco cheating on me?" A stab went through my heart at the thought and what will i do If I caught him someone?

"Ah! Harder baby. You are such a bad boy." The feminine voice panted and moaned.

"You siren! You make me crazy." Francisco's voice drifted from the master bedroom as their arousals wafted towards me and i gaged.

I know who the woman is with Francisco and I have never thought I will be betrayed by like this with the two people who mattered most to me.

Hailey's PoV:

"Baby! Would you prefer me or that Hailey?" The feminine voice moaned, as the slapping of skin against skin echoed in the apartment. My clothes are wet and i am soaked to my bone and the shiver of disgust rolled through me made my body shake.

"You are a wild fox baby, i prefer you over that too uptight nun Hailey." Francisco's words cut too deep. He was the one who chased after me for three years to date and now he is cheating on me!

I recovered from the shock and the anger spread through me at their betrayal. I walked towards the kitchen and filled a tub full of cold water and opened the bedroom door with a bang.

The naked couple on the bed is still busy in their fun giving me the chance to pour the water on them as they reached their climax.

"Ah! Ah!" She screeched like a dying crow and Francisco leaped from the bed and his erection deflated instantly.

"Hailey! What are you doing here?" Francisco asked in shock. He tried to hide his body behind the duvet on the bed.

"It is not what it looks like Hailey, let me explain." Sadie saylor, my bestfriend from the college said, her words seem regretable but her face shows her arrogance. She lazily covered half of her body and deliberately left her love bites on display for me to see.

"What is there to explain, Sadie! Okay, let me hear you out." I waited for a single second looking at them both with disgust and anger.

"There is nothing to explain, what were you guys doing naked! Playing cards!" My voice is dripping with sarcasm and their faces paled. They has never seen me this mad.

"Stop with your sarcasm, Hailey." Francisco's guilt filled face turned furious like i am the one who got caught cheating on him and not the other way around.

"So, I can't even make a joke out of the situation but you can sleep with the other woman!" He snapped at him and his eyes widened as he never expected me to snap.

"I know what we did was wrong but Saide didn't want to hurt you by telling the truth. We had so much time, we had a year to tell you but she thought about you." Wow! What a joke! A year! They are fooling me for a year! He is painting a picture like iam a bad guy in this! They don't want to hurt me by the truth but they want to hurt me by sleeping with each other! What an irony!

"Thank you very much for thinking about me, Sadie even if you are a bitch." Saide gasped at my insult and her fake puppy eyes turned towards Francisco who got manipulated and turned towards me with narrowed eyes.

"I am the heir of Lacey family and I can do whatever i can and take any woman I want." Looking at this man who chased after me for three years and been my boyfriend for two years I feel nothing but disgust.

How did i thought the he is the man I was going to marry one day! I sure was blind if i thought he was handsome and a gentleman.

"Do whatever you want, Mr.Francisco Lacey. I don't care anymore." I turned around to leave but he stopped me by holding my wrist but i shrugged off his touch.

"Don't be a fool, Hailey. Your mother is in the hospital and you need money for her surgery. I will provide you whatever you need." His words didn't give me any hope becuase i can't stay with a cheater for money, I can't reduce my self worth that low.

"I dont need your disgusting money, Francisco. I will get a disease from touching it." I seenered, my wolf is itching to come out and claw their eyes out. She thought Francisco was the man who will be her mate but right now she is more angry than me.

"You will regret it, Hailey." He thinks that his words will scare me but nothing scare me more than liers and cheaters.

"Never." I turned around to leave this godsfarsaken place so she can cool down and not kill them both.

"She means nothing, You are the one who is going to be my wife." He has the audacity to say these words to my face. He has proposed to me before but i rejected it because we were not ready but it doesn't mean i never thought of marrying him, my dumb head even thought about asking Sadie to be my maid of Honor, what a fool I was.

"Look at this man carefully, Sadie. You hurt me for this man who sees you nothing but a body to use. I thought you were my friend." Sadie tried too hard to not let my words bother her but her pale face gave away her fear.

"We are over, Francisco. Don't show me your face." With those last words I left his apartment.

Whatever Francisco and I had, i thought it was real. I am going to be appointed as a doctor in the prestigious hospital and I was the daughter of the Alpha Timothy. He was after my father's power and my status in the society. He never loved me.

"I am so sorry." I whispered to my wolf, who went so silent. I have hurt her with my dumb decisions. I should have listened to her when she stopped me from accepting Francisco's proposal. She wants us to wait for a man who will be our mate, who loves us, gives his loyalty and protects us from this harsh world.

I have never felt this alone in my life. There is no fight left in my body anymore.

My apartment is in a secure area, it's a tiny one bedroom apartment. I took a hot shower and laid in my bed. I don't know what I am going to do anymore. I have calculated the money I got from my part-time jobs and the money left from the my scholarship, I only have three hundred dollars in my account.

"What am I going to do, Moongodess! Why are you doing this to me! What have i done that angered you! Please, help me." I am sobbing my eyes out as my body curled in a fetal position.

"I don't have any other choice then sell myself for money. I don't think I can do that, I am not that strong to sell myself to some stranger." That thought made me cry more as loneliness and pain spread through me leaving me empty and hollow.

I didn't know that my thoughts were going to be true the next day. I never imagined what was coming my way.

Hailey's POV:

I dragged myself from the bed as it felt so sore and tired with the way I kneeled in the rain on the gravel pathway. My heart clenched as last night's events swirled in my head.

What did I do to deserve this kind of fate? Why was the moon goddess punishing me?

I took out the jeans and a cotton shirt to go with my coat as they will be comfortable throughout the day. I don't even have time to apply makeup as I am already late for the ward rounds. I checked myself in the mirror one last time before leaving for the hospital, dark circles were so dark around my eyes and my face looked so pale.

As soon as I parked the car in front of the hospital, I rushed out with my coat hanging on my arm and the stethoscope around my neck.

I can't afford to be late.

Some of the staff greeted me as I answered their greetings and walked towards the vip ward. I could hear someone shouting and as I neared, the familiar voice sounded angry.

"Nonsense! You are in your mid-thirties, You need to get married and give me some great grand kids. Dr.Synder said if I am too emotional then I will get sick, so hurry up and find a wife." Mrs. Teresa Gatsby scolded someone angrily and I can hear worry in her voice too.

"Grandma." A sexy voice drawled out the word, his voice sounds helpless and tired. My stomach clenched in an unfamiliar feeling and my steps flatter for a second.

"What if you get too excited or emotional when I find a wife and get married? I don't want to trouble you, Grandma." His tone changed into a mischievous one. A smile threatened on my lips, I hadn't even seen the man and he had already made me smile.

"You brat! You are pissing me off right now." Mrs.Gatsby scolded. I know about Gatsbys and the male voice may belong to her grandson Sherman Gatsby who was the bachelor CEO and Alpha of the pack.

"Don't worry, Grandma, I know what to do." Sherman said, his tone became soft.

"I don't care, I want you to find a bride at the end of the year. If you don't find it then I won't get any treatment.

My wolf perked up at her threat, an idea forming in her head as she started yapping happily.

"What is it?" I asked, she just chuckled and blocked me out.

My head was spinning with the ideas my wolf had just inserted in it. I hurriedly reached the room and knocked on it.

"Mrs.Gatsby, it's time for the daily check up." I said, entering the room. I haven't seen the man yet but I can feel his eyes on me, his scent wafted towards me as I inhaled lungfully.

"Oh! Hello! Miss, Synder. How are you doing today, dear." Her warm voice greeted me as I returned her smile. She always makes me feel comfortable and always asks me how I am doing.

I miss my mother in her presence, she also took care of me like this.

"I am having an okay-ish day, Mrs.Gatsby, but you need to tone down your anger." I playfully glared at her, his gaze seemed to penetrate through me and my wolf was restless in his presence. His powerful aura was overwhelming.

"It's okay dear, Miss.Synder, meet my grand-son Sherman Gatsby, he is thirty-five years old and still single like you." Mrs.Gatsby's voice has a glee in her voice like she has just found something interesting.

I turned towards the powerful man and my eyes landed on his towering figure. He looked tall even if he was sitting, his face was in a neutral expression but it's carved to perfection.

His green eyes are so dark and mysterious that I realised I am drowning in them. He was a very handsome man. I have seen him in magazines and on television but I had never seen him in real life.

Pictures don't do any justice to his real beauty.

He looked at me once and nodded his head in acknowledgement before going back to his phone.

"You are all fit to go home, Mrs. Gatsby. You just need one last check up." I informed her, her eyes were darting from me and to her grandson and the way her eyes lit up seemed like she was planning something.

"Oh, dear! I am still not feeling well. I need to stay in the hospital for some more days. Sherman will visit me too, to give me some company." She said with a big grin, Sherman growled low in his throat and my eyes snapped at his face as he was glaring at his grandmother.

I just laughed at her and asked the nurse to take Mrs.Gatsby to the examination room and left her room after saying goodbye to check up on other patients.

"Sherman! Miss.Snyder is a very beautiful lady." I didn't hear the remnants of their conversation as I left the VIP ward completely.

My heart was pounding and my stomach was clenching in anxiety. I don't know why she was talking about me? Maybe I know, my head was all over the place.

The day was hectic as I had to check up on the patients and more patients came for their monthly checkups and thank God there were no emergency cases, if there were any we wouldn't even have time to breathe.

My stomach was growling as I haven't eaten anything since yesterday and it's already lunch time.

"Gracie! I am going to have lunch, want to come?" I asked the nurse who works alongside me. She was basically my friend and a colleague.

"Nope! I had to take Mr.Barnie for a walk. I'll meet you in the cafeteria once I am done with that." She left to get the patient and I walked towards the cafeteria.

My steps halted in the corridor as my gaze fell on the man who was striding towards me with his long and strong legs. His eyes met mine and my wolf purred like a cat as his eyes trailed my face.

He was leaving and this was my only chance to talk to him and do something about my situation. I don't know if it will work or not but I am too desperate to not take any risk.

Sherman was nearing the entrance and I needed to stop him but my tongue felt heavy and I felt so anxious to talk to him.

"You will not get another chance, Hailey." My wolf growled, urging me to run behind Sherman and stop him.

"Mr.Gatsby."

"Stop." His steps come to a stand at the end of the corridor. He turned around to look at me. My hands and legs were shaking as I walked towards him. My head suddenly felt dizzy and I don't know if I can form a correct sentence.

"Yes, Miss.Synder!" He raised his eyebrow in question waiting for me to say what I wanted to say as I had stopped him from leaving the hospital.

My eyes trailed his face, from his green eyes to his plump lips which were pressed in a thin line, obvious displeasure at getting stopped by me.

"If you don't have anything to say then I'll take my leave, Miss.Synder." He said, his tone clipped and filled with annoyance, like he would be going his way if I hadn't interrupted him and wasted his time.

"I..I am sorry, Mr.Gatsby." I looked around us and saw some people milling around the corridor. I can't have this conversation with him when people are around.

I took his hand in mine and started dragging him towards the Janitor's closet. His large hand was warm and soft, we have a lot of height difference so his hand was large in mine.

Tingles spread through my arm as his hand wrapped around mine. My wolf purred in content and I felt different.

"What is this, Miss.Synder!" He demanded but he didn't pull his hand away nor stopped following me.

I pushed him into the closet and locked it. It doesn't have space to fit two people and he was a giant man. We are breathing the same air as we are so close to each other.

It's dark inside but with our werewolf vision we can clearly see.

"I need to talk to you, Mr.Gatsby." I said, as my eyes met his, which were narrowed and glaring at me but they instantly changed into a mischievous one.

"I am doubting your intentions here, Miss.Snyder. Pulling me inside a closet seems so scandalous, don't you think?" His lips curved into a teasing smirk as I gulped, my body buzzing with intense energy and my stomach doing somersaults.

"I can take advantage of you, Miss.Synders! Maybe you will take advantage of me?" His chuckle vibrated in the small space and my body.

He was having so much affect on me.

"You are wrong, Mr.Gatsby. I just wanted to talk about business." I said, glaring at him.

"What business does a doctor have with me?" He questioned.

"Is my grandmother alright?" His expression changed into concern.

"Yes, don't worry. She is healthy." I assured him. I should blurt out before I make myself a fool.

"I want to make a deal with you." I repeated again, waiting for him to process my words. His forehead crinkled as confusion took over his expression.

"What kind of deal?" He asked, He was the only man who could save my mother and give her a new life. I don't have any other choice, every door was closed at my face and Sherman Gatsby was my only option to save my mother.

"I have heard Mrs.Gatsby's and your conversation earlier in the morning, I apologise that it was not my intention to eavesdrop but she was loud and I was not far away." I confessed, my face heated up with shame as my eyes didn't meet his.

"So? What exactly are you saying, Miss.Snyder! I don't have all day to wait for you to tell me." His tone came out impatiently, he didn't say anything about my eavesdropping.

"Let's get married." I blurted out, my eyes wide, my breath stuck in my throat as the words passed through my lips.

His amused expression changed into a serious one and then into a blank face, giving me anxiety as to what his reaction was going to be.

Is he going to drag me out and humiliate me in front of everyone!

"I mean, your grandmother was forcing you to get married even if you don't want to, so why don't we fake a wedding?" I really hope he finds my solution reasonable and agrees to it.

"It will be a contract marriage, Mr.Gatsby." I said, praying to the moon goddess that he will agree to it. His blank face was not hinting at anything other than an emotionless face.

By hook or crook I will make him agree, I need money to save my mother and the way Sherman was looking at me, I don't think he will agree but atleast i have to try till he comes to terms with it.