Everyone glanced at the door and all of them had mixed reactions, Ruid had a not so welcoming face, Elizabeth was indifferent and Mia had a look of distrust as the looked at Isabella at the door. They knew what she had done to Riviera back then, she hurt him, and now here she was back trying to wedge herself into his life.
Riviera got up from his seat, a smile visible on his face. "Welcome Isa, come on in, there's enough food for more than 4 people." He pulled a chair for her next to Eloisee who was just looking at her food.
Isabella walked over to the chair and sat down, she shifted in her seat, the bubbly atmosphere she could feel from outside the door gone and the table was cold. "Lovely day we having right?"
Ruid glanced up at Isabella. "Why are you back?"
Isabella flinched from the cold tone and she looked at her food. "Ah… well you couldn't be away from the pack you know."
"Bullshit. Why are you here? You hurt Rivi, leave and let him pick up the pieces that youve made and you expect us to go back to how it was?" Ruid questioned, his face void of emotions.
Riviera closed his eyes, his eyebrow twitching rather dangerously as Ruid continued with his speech, he was his beta, his right-hand man but he was not going to tolerate Ruid being disrespectful to Isabella. "Ruid, enough!" He gave the simple command, his eyes snapping open and they were sanguine red, the blood of an alpha flowing through them.
Ruid quieted down, he placed his eating utensils on the table and got to his feet. "Thank you for breakfast Mrs. Grey, but we are leaving. Mia let's go."
Mia nodded, she too thanked Elizabeth and the two mates left the house without any more words.
Eloisee spectated what happened, Riviera getting defensive over another woman made her heart hurt, she finished the last of her toast and placed the fork on the table. Eloisee got up, she looked at Isabella and forced a smile to her face. "Welcome Isabella." Her attention turned to Elizabeth who was sitting there quietly. "I will be out today, I'll probably be back later. Hope that's okay."
Elizabeth nodded, she could relate with what Eloisee was feeling, it was not a nice feeling for someone whom you've shared your bed with and called husband defend another woman, going to as far as using the alpha influence to stop their beta's questions.
Riviera glanced at Eloisee. "You are leaving too?"
Eloisee looked at him and uttered no word, she left the house, closing the door behind her leaving a confused Riviera, an indifferent Elizabeth and a gleeful Isabella who had an outward look of being hurt.
"What's their problem." Riviera asked as he took a bite off his toast and drank his tea.
Elizabeth looked at him, he was unaware of what he did, pushed away Ruid with his action, pushed away Eloisee. All the progress they've done over the past months, getting over her fear of being touched and he threw it away for Isabella, the woman who not only toyed with him, broke his heart but caused the separation between him and his brother.
He was hopeless.
"Isabella dear, I hope your journey hasn't been tedious but I have to be excuses for now, I still have to attend Luna duties. You take care okay?" Elizabeth said as she got up and left the living room leaving Isabella and Riviera.
" Where have you been all this time? I have been looking for you ever since you left." Riviera broke the silence, his eyes softening as he looked at Isabella.
Isabella placed her cup on the table and looked at her hands. " After you know, I decided to go study abroad, I didn't want to tell you because I knew you'd stop me."
Riviera's hand reached over to Isabella's hand and he held it. " You know that I wouldn't, leaving without a word after the trial broke me. I thought you preferred him over me, when we were together."
"No. That wasn't the case…" Isabella raised her head and smiled, in her heart she was jumping for joy, even when she intentionally left with him, Riviera had a soft spot for her in his heart. She smiled a bit, lacing sadness in her eyes. " You told me the other day you got married, do you really intend to stay with her?"
Riviera nodded. "It is for both our packs sake and Eloisee isn't a bad girl. She makes me feel at peace, I can't explain that in words but yeah she's my wife and she's gonna be my mate."
"I see, I guess I no longer have a spot in your heart now?"
"You do, but I can't pretend you didn't abandon me Isa, it hurt so bad I spent a lot of time thinking if I was incompetent or something."
"But you know I didn't mean it."
"Even so Isa, you still did it."
Isabella shook her hand free from Riviera's and she looked at him, faking tears in her eyes. "It's okay, I understand. I will be out of your life, I shouldn't have returned." She turned around and left the house.
Riviera got up and followed behind her, screaming her name.
Hospital
Eloisee walked along the dirt path, her mind blank as she thought of what happened 30 minutes ago. She bumped into someone and fell on the ground, she let out an out and looked at the person she bumped into, offering a small sorry.
The guard looked down and his eyes widened when he saw Eloisee. He offered a hand to her and helped Eloisee up. "Sorry I didn't see you."
Eloisee smiled at him. " No the fault is on me, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."
The guard was taken aback by her smile, she looked dazzling whenever she smiled and he felt his heart skip a bit. In the back of his mind he knew that she was the wife of his alpha but something in him compelled him to asking her out, however, his fear of his alpha overwhelmed that. "What were you doing here? It's rare for our Luna to be around these parts of the pack grounds."
"I was hoping to get to see Zoe." Eloisee informed, and the guard showed her to the pack hospital. She walked into the hospital and greeted some patients waiting to be seen going to the wards where the sick were at.
She turned around the corner and saw a woman with chestnut brown hair wearing a blouse. She was biting her nails. Eloisee sat beside her causing the woman to look at her, the woman instantly recognized Eloisee from seeing her with Riviera.
"Where are my manners, greetings Luna, what brings you here?"
Eloisee looked at the woman and smiled. " Call me Eloisee, I came here to see Zoe, I heard from Riviera that he was wounded on patrol and thought I should pay him a visit because yesterday I couldn't. How is his condition?"
The woman glanced at her hands. " The doctors aren't sure, they say he is in a coma but they don't know if he's going to wake up."