<h4>Chapter 693: 693-Bed And Men</h4>


    <strong>Urs:</strong>


    <strong>Many Years Ago:</strong>


    "Where are we going, Thomas Niles?" I joked nervously, using his full name. I was trying to sound confident, even though my heart felt deeply unsettled.


    We had been married for two months now, and I’d seen Thomas go from cheerful to creepy in mere minutes. I knew I shouldn’t be saying that about my mate, but it was the truth. There was another bitter truth behind our marriage: I never found my fated mate. I had to settle for a chosen one.


    But it wasn’t all bad. At least, it shouldn’t have been.


    Thomas had found me in the woods one day. He brought me home. He gave me love. He told me I needed a mate to be ranked and allowed to live in the pack. So I married him.


    I was happy for a week. Then, he began to grow distant. He started to seem more secretive every day.


    "We’re at a royal party," he said, leading me into a room full of men, royal men.


    Probably Alphas and Betas.


    "Umm... okay, but what are we doing among them?" I didn’t like the environment one bit.


    As soon as I entered that ce, my heart began to sink. I had never been to a royal house before. But even then, I knew enough to understand that there is never such arge bed in a living room. And then all those men were sitting there, wearing masks. I couldn’t see the face of a single one of them, and none of them were apanied by their wives or mates, only men. And then there was me, the only woman standing there with my husband.


    And the dress he had brought for me, which I had thought was a gift because he was feeling guilty for treating me badlyst week, that too now seemed less like a gift and more like a purpose.


    "Come on, Urs, keep a smile on your face," Niles said to me. He did keep a smile on his own face, but the way he clenched the words between his teeth made it clear to me that he wasn’t happy about my sudden change in mood.


    "Niles, take me home. I don’t want to stay here. I don’t want to be part of this party. What kind of party is this?" I looked around nervously andined.


    I wasn’t feeling good at all. First, he didn’t even tell me where we were going. Then suddenly, he brought me to this ce among so many royal people. I couldn’t understand what right we Omegas had to even be here.


    "Oh, just stop it already, you always have a habit of making a scene," Niles said. "The moment someone gives you even slightly better treatment, you start acting up. Look around—we’re among so many royal people, and you’re still creating problems here."


    Suddenly, Niles pulled his hand away from mine and started confronting me.


    Being surrounded by so many men made me feel ufortable. They were just sitting there, watching me, as if we were some kind of entertainment for them.


    "Okay, fine. But what kind of ce is this? Why is there such a big bed here? What is it for?"


    I asked my man, looking him straight in the eyes.


    "What do you mean, ’for whom’? It’s for both of us," Niles said with a smile.


    But even my fake smile vanished.


    "What do you mean it’s for both of us? Why is there a bed ced here for us, among so many men? Niles, what is going on here?"


    Now I waspletely anxious. I couldn’t understand anything anymore. My heartbeat was getting faster.


    "Niles, tell me what’s going on?" I asked him again, locking eyes with him.


    "Come on, Urs," he said, "You’re not going to embarrass me in front of all these people.


    If you say no to me here, they’llugh at me tomorrow. It’s just one night, what’s the big deal? All we have to do is act like we don’t see them while we do it, and then we’ll go home with a lot of money. It’s not like they’ll even recognize us tomorrow. We’re just Omegas. Who’s going to talk about this?"


    It felt like my eyes were about to pop out in shock. I kept staring at Niles’s face, searching for even a trace of shame, but there was none. What he was asking me to do in front of all those people—it waspletely inappropriate. And I just couldn’t understand how he had agreed to something like this.


    No matter how much money was being offered, how could he expose his wife like that in front of everyone?


    I was truly stunned.


    Until now, I had always thought Niles was just a rude and arrogant man. But today I realized—he could do anything for money. He was utterly shameless.


    And I waspletely, horribly trapped. No matter how many times I said no, he kept trying to convince me.


    He would gently stroke my hair, sometimes doing one thing, sometimes another—trying to coax me.


    He even started making promises, "this will be thest time, everything will be okay."


    In the end, it started to feel like I had no choice but to give up. Otherwise, there would be a huge scene when we got home. I had nowhere else to go.


    I couldn’t even return to the woods—I wouldn’t survive there either. Even back then, when he had found and rescued me in the woods, I was already in a terrible state.


    Now I was even more scared. And I didn’t think they would let me leave this ce unless I gave in.


    So I just closed my eyee, and agreed. After all, it was just one night.


    And he was my mate.


    I just had to make sure not to look at anyone else—so I wouldn’t see if they were looking at me.


    But I was so innocent. I had no understanding of their world. I had no idea that the truth of that night was far deeper than I realized. He hadn’t brought me there just to show me off.


    He had meticulously trapped me here. And by the time I began to realize that the men around had started to crawl into the bed with us,


    It was already toote.