After Breaking The Mark His Desperate Chase (Sarah) novel Chapter 11

Chapter 5 

Mother and father both had grim, serious faces as they stared at me with… contempt? 

Finally, Landon lifted his gaze from Hestia and looked at me. I could see his jaw twitch, muscles taut as his grip on Hestia’s hand tightened, 

e tighter he held onto her, the tighter my chest felt. 

“This isn’t going to work.” 

He said suddenly, 

So softly but the sting it accompanied felt like I was slapped. 

The world was slowly falling away from me but I kept my eyes trained on him. I didn’t dare look away even with the impending pain puncturing through my chest. I felt myself 

swallow, as I breathed in shakily. The tears that were once again building up, glazing over 

my eyes. 

“I won’t accept you, Selene.” 

He said. Much stronger and full of conviction this time. 

“I never will.” 

I stared at him. His words played in my mind like a broken record. Each letter, each syllable 

from his lips pierced deep within my heart and left a segment of his apparent distaste for 

me haunting my thoughts. I could hardly breathe. The invisible weight on my chest 

pressing harder and harder made swallowing down my sorrow that much more difficult. 

My eyes flittered around me wildly only to fall back to Landon when I realized there’d be 

no one on my side. 

I was left to fend for myself. 

The silence was unbearably thick. The shock momentarily distracted me from my parents‘ blank faces. Even when I felt like the world was ending, I couldn’t help but feel surprised from their reaction– or rather, lack of. They were indifferent to the fact their daughter was 

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Chapter X 

being rejected. Most parents, if not all, would be angry at the idea of their pup being denied, Denied by none other than their other half. Seeing as my father was Beta, his reaction would’ve been much more aggressive. With higher ranking came with a much stronger sense of protection over family. Looking at him now, I couldn’t sense the tiniest bit of anger radiate from him. Instead he looked somewhat relieved that my mate chose my sister, Like I was some deadweight that would’ve worn Landon down. 

The pain I felt magnified. 

Welt 

felt like I was tied down to a boulder slowly fall further and further into the darkness of the ocean. None of them doing a thing but watch as I sink from the shore. No hands outstretched in an attempt to save me. No glance of guilt spared my way, 

This isn’t going to work. 

I won’t accept you, Selene. 

I never will. 

I shook my head at the words taunting me. He couldn’t have meant it. No wolf could ever say such words to their mate. To confirm my suspicion, I looked to him with hope that he was lying. Hope to see that he was only putting up a front. If I were to see any hesitation in 

his eyes, I would’ve been happy. I would’ve been content with the smallest form of care. My 

heart, already battered and out in the open, was stepped on and crushed when Landon 

looked at me with such pity. His dark eyes swirling with emotion he didn’t voice out. 

He felt bad for me. 

He didn’t care. 

He felt sorry for being my mate. 

It could’ve been anyone and he would’ve done the same thing. 

I tried to tell myself that. Tried to lift my mood by convincing myself that the reason he was