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While having dinner, she didn’t miss how most of the people were there with their parents, and she was eating alone.

‘It’s okay, Caro. You’re just twenty-five. It's not too late to get the right man to love you.’ She said to herself while having dinner. After dinner, Caroline ordered around fifty burgers to distribute to homeless people that she would find on the roadside.

*

‘Enough, Mom. I’m here to enjoy Spain. And you started playing cupid by arranging girls for me just because I’m not able to find my mate.’ A young man mindlink his mother.

‘But…’

‘No, but and no if…. I don’t understand what is wrong with both you and dad. Dad was searching for some Caro for me for years until I found my mate. Now that she has left me, you started looking for another mate for me.’

‘Artemis…’

‘Bye, Mom.’ Saying this, Artemis closed the mindlink and looked at the driver, who halted the car all of a sudden. That was when he observed it was the red light. He angrily looked out of the car window, and his eyes landed on a woman in black, giving burgers to the people sitting on the roadside. He saw that old man speaking something, that’s why he concentrated on their conversation especially.

“Sorry!! I don’t understand Spanish because I don’t belong here.” That woman said that to that old man.

‘Her voice is sweet. But something is strange about her. I can’t smell her.’ His wolf muttered, listening to Caroline’s voice.

“Dios te bendiga” The old man said, touching Caroline’s head. This time Caroline had her phone in her hand, which translated into English, ‘God bless you.’

Caroline smiled at that him and kissed his hand; she stood on her feet to throw the paper bag in the dustbin because all the burgers had been finished, and that was when Artemis’s eyes landed on her face. He couldn’t understand the reason why looking at her; his wolf was on edge, and even though she wasn’t the most beautiful woman that he came across. He was attracted to her.

‘Don’t go on good looks. Remember what happened last time? At least, she has a heart of gold.’ His wolf reminded his human, who nodded his head and kept his eyes fixed on that woman in black.

‘By the way, have you noticed that her cheeks and nose were and her eyes were puffed?’ His wolf asked, observing Caroline carefully. Soon. Artemis’s car started moving, leaving Caroline behind. A part of him wanted to hop out of the car and reach near her, but another part of him wasn’t sure that she was the ONE.

*

After Caroline checked into her room, she didn’t know what to do now because if she would stay in the room, then she would start crying again. She wanted to confront both Mark and Alice and ask them why they did do this to her.

She was away from Grenoble and had gone home to Paris just for two weeks because her grandpa’s health wasn’t right, and he broke up with me with a text just two days after his wedding without giving any reason. She couldn’t run to him, leaving her family like an idiot, not when her grandfather had just started showing positive signs of recovery and also her younger sisters were going to shift for the first time on their eighteen birthday. So she shared about it with Dylan, and he found out the real reason when he landed at his place and met his parents as Mark’s friends, seeing all the arrangements for the wedding. And from there, he came to know that Mark and Alice had been in a relationship for more than a year now.

‘Is this why Mark never texted me first from the beginning? He just replied, didn’t he? He always Alice, that’s why he used me.’ She now observed that fact because after crying for this long, her eyes were clear to see everything clearly. More than Mark, she was pissed at Alice; how could she could this to her own best friend?

Did she ever consider her a best friend? If yes, then a true best friend could never think of stabbing his or her friend at her back.

‘Is am that hard to love?’ She wondered, and tears started brimming in her eyes again. “No!! I shouldn’t think in that way; there is nothing wrong with me!”

[Alice: Caroline, how can you hide your real identity from me? You are my best friend. I can’t believe that you betrayed me.]

[Alice: Ask your dad and brother to stop attacking my dad’s business.]

Caroline rolled her eyes at her words.

‘I betrayed her? Okay, fine! Maybe I did by not telling my real identity, but I’m not guilty of that.’ Caroline thought. ‘And they should be thankful that dad and Colton are attacking her dad’s business, not at them. If not for humans, they would have the head of both Mark and Alice’s head in their hands.

[Caroline: Colt, please don’t punish her dad for her daughter’s mistake and convince dad to do the same.] She left a message for her brother, and in the next second, a message popped again. She thought it was from Colton, but it was from Mark.

[Mark: Babe, I’m ready to patch up with you.]

[Mark: Only you’re the one who can save me from this witch, Alice. She forced me to marry her. I will divorce her right away. Just… just give me a second chance. I love you.]

‘Don’t… Don’t reply to him, Caro. This is an emotional trap. Don’t let him fool you.’ Caroline’s mind alerted her.

She searched for ‘Places to visit in Madrid at night and then went through all the options and finally chose one with a smile.

*

#TBC