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.

Hailey's POV:

I don't think I have seen anyone have a blank expression like Sherman Gatsby. I can't read his expression as his eyes are glaring at me as soon as he heard about my deal. My heart was beating rapidly and I feel like I am going to throw up if I don't leave his presence.

My wolf was whimpering and pacing as his Alpha aura was too powerful for her even if I am the Alpha Blooded female.

"Are you trying to sell yourself, Miss.Synder!" He asked, his finger and thumb pinching my chin in a hard grip, his voice sounded angry and there was some amusement too.

I blinked my eyes, too stunned to speak anything. His question caught me off guard. I didn't expected him to be so blunt and straight forward.

"Mrs.Gatsby likes me, I won't stop you from having other women in your life, I can help you keep your grandmother off your back and once everything settles down, you can leave me anytime." I said, his eyes narrowed as they trailed along my face.

"You are so considerate too, Miss.Synder." He amused, a teasing smirk turned his lips. He is having fun seeing me squirm under his harsh scrutiny.

"Pity! I don't take a woman who sells herself so willingly to a stranger." Sherman's words pinched my heart and my face heated up with embarrassment and shame.

He doesn't know what place I am in. He was the Alpha and an heir to his empire so he doesn't know the value of money and the helplessness which follows with it.

With a last glare aiming towards me Sherman left me standing there, looking like a fool who just tried to sell herself.

He intimidates me so much that I feel weak in my knees in his presence. I sighed a breath of relief as soon as he left the hospital. If he had stayed much longer then my knees would have given up and I would have collapsed on the ground in front of him.

I was crazy to think that Sherman Gatsby would accept my proposal just because I asked. He is the Gatsby heir and they have a reputation in the town, his father, grandfather, great-grandfather were all Alpha of Alphas.

I also heard rumors about Sherman's playboy reputation, like he never had any girl friends but he always had a harem of ladies in my life and in his bed.

Why would he want to lose that reputation to tie himself to a nobody girl whose father disowned her!

I shook my head and I chuckled at my stupidity. How can I think that it would work? How am I this gullible to think Sherman Gatsby will marry me! Even if it's a fake one!

He was not only the ruthless Alpha Billionaire and heir but also a ruthless man too.

My wolf was obviously sad and disappointed at my failure but there is nothing I can do.

Rejection is not a big deal and I can handle rejection very well.

I straightened up with my chin up, I walked towards the staff room, already forgetting about the rejection and my ridiculous offer.

The day seemed too long and it felt dragged as I left the operation theater after performing a surgery. My bones feel tried and my head feels heavy. It will be a lie if i said i haven't thought about Sherman's rejection since he left the hospital.

It's already 8 pm and i need to eat something. I removed my coat and fished the fridge in the staff room to find something, there was nothing but a sandwich in the corner, i heated that up and ate it and washed it down with some soda.

I could sleep right now, right here and not wake up for two days, I was that tired.

Ringing of the my phone pulled me from my thoughts and my heart dropped as I saw the caller Id. It's a call from my mother Cardiologist Mr.Zayden. whenever he calls I felt like I am going to die with the way my heart picks up it rhythms.

I answered the call as he informed me that my mother was rushed to the emergency room. I didn't even gave him the answer before I was out of the room and running towards Cardiologist's wing.

When I reached his office, he was leaving, so I stopped him in the corridor and i have already checked up on my mother who was asleep and booked to machines.

My heart ached, seeing her like that and i so desperately wants her to heal and come back with me to home.

"Ah! Hailey! How are you?" He asked, he has a warm smile on his face.

"I am fine, Mr.Zayden. how was my mother?" I asked, my heart felt like it will come out of my throat.

"She's fine for now, it was just a scare attack. She is doing fine now but she doesn't have much time, Hailey, she needs the bypass surgery." I know, my mother doesn't have chance of living if we don't get the surgery done but I am so helpless that I don't know what to do.

My tears are not stopping as they fall down my eyes and my heart is so heavy with pain and fear of losing the only parent I have.

How can I afford six-thousand dollars, I have no means to get it.

There is only one other way to get the money, I have to take the loan from money sharks, they are only the hope to save my mother.

I can't lose her.

"Give me, one more day, Mr.Zayden. I will arrange the nine thousand dollars by tomorrow." I pleaded with him, as my heart ache, shame and anger at myself intensified.

Mr.Zayden nodded his head at me as his eyes shone with pity. I don't need anyone's pity. He left after he patted my head in assurance. I stood there for a minute, lost in my thoughts, not knowing what to do anymore.

I started walking towards the exist, too deep in my head that I haven't seen a man standing at the end of the corridor. His tall frame and built surprised and shocked me, i stopped walking as the man moved forward.

A gasp left my mouth as Sherman Gatsby stood infront of me, his face same as earlier, so hard to read what's going on in his head.

"I accept your deal." My eyebrows shot up in surpise at his words, he has nothing else to say but straight up the shocking news!

The way his eyes are carefully searching my face and the way he was standing at corridor seems he has heard the conversation between me and doctor Zayden.

I don't know what to say, I am too stunned and shocked to form any words. He was waiting for me to say something but it feels like my tongue has lost its ability to speak.

"Didn't you say that you want to marry me?" Sherman frowned, his brows dipped low as he once again studied my face. "I agree to the deal." He said once again.

My heart was beating so rapidly it felt like it's going to burst in my chest.

My body was trembling with fear and shock. I didn't expect this to happen after his rejection.

"Mr.Gatsby!" My tongue seemed to form only his name and nothing else. He gave me the biggest shock of my life.

I wiped my tears and slowed down my heart and breathing. There is nothing to fear about. I took a deep breath asked, "Are you serious?" I want to be sure that he was serious and not just playing with my emotions.

He took out something from his pocket and put in inside my palm, when his hand touched mine, tingles shoot up my arm and my wolf purred in happiness.

"Our deal is to take what we need from eachother. So, I am agreeing to this deal." He said, his voice so non-chalant.

"Are you not afraid that i will back out from the wedding once I take the money now?" I asked, with a teasing and a challenging tone.

His eyes narrowed and a arrogant smirk appeared on his lips, like he knows i can't and won't able to deceive him. He was the Sherman Gatsby, heir of the Gatsby and no one dares to mess with him.

"I dare you, Miss.Synder." He teased, but his eyes held a cold warning in them like he will destroy whoever cross him.

I took the card form his outstretched hand and a shiver ran up my spine as the warning settled in my head.

Sherman pulled me close to him by wrapping his arm around my waist and said in a playful tone, "I hope we have a very pleasant and beneficial deal, Mrs.Gatsby."

His words froze me and i am having hard time accepting his words. He was already accepting me as his wife! He's calling me by his surname.

My face heat up as i blushed in his arms and my body heat up at the closeness and his scent hypnotizing my senses.

His face moved to the side of my face and he bowed towards my ear as his lips skimmed my ear. He pulled my body into his not leaving any space between us. I tried to move away but his hold on my waist tightened.

"Are you shy now?" Sherman nibbled my ear as he teased me in his husky voice. I tremble in his arms as sparks spread through me and my wolf was purring non-stop and she was so giddy.

"We.we are in the hospital, Mr.Gatsby." I tried to tell him but he was not listening to any of my protests.