Chapter 22
“Is she here to stir up trouble or what?”
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“Ha! What nerve! Does she really think she’s Alpha Adrian’s mate?”
“They’ve both announced they’re forming a sacred bond. Her showing up now is just asking for humiliation.”
“But she didn’t do anything wrong, did she? She was just in love, and now this wolf’s turning his back to bond
with someone else. How’s that her fault?”
The pack’s guests buzzed with chatter.
Most were here for the drama, eager to see my downfall.
The few who dared speak up for me were quickly shot down.
Vanessa’s face went pale as a ghost when she spotted me approaching.
Evelyn started to panic.
But Alpha Adrian?
He was the most rattled, already stepping toward me.
“Don’t go!”
Vanessa clamped onto his arm, holding him back.
In a desperate, territorial move, she didn’t care about the scene she was making.
“Alpha Adrian and I are forming a sacred bond! We’re about to be eternally bound, so stop chasing him!”
Alpha Adrian looked like he was about to lose control.
But with all these wolves and she–wolves watching, he couldn’t explode.
He just hissed at Vanessa to shut up, yanking his arm free with a scowl.
Vanessa’s eyes welled up, stung by his rejection.
Alpha Adrian took another step, but Damien and Nathaniel Quinn, the second son of the Quinn pack, grabbed
him.
“Alpha Adrian, get a grip!”
Damien snapped.
“You gonna let that she–wolf make my sister look like a fool in front of everyone?”
“Let go!” Alpha Adrian growled, his alpha aura flaring like a storm.
The guests‘ excitement for the drama hit a fever pitch.
Whispers rippled through the crowd.
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I, unfazed, strode to the center of the banquet hall.
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As I passed a table, I casually grabbed a goblet of spiced mead, taking a sip with easy confidence.
“What the hell are you doing? Get out!”
Evelyn rushed down from the stage, blocking my pat.
Alpha Adrian broke free from the Quinn brothers, stepping in front of me, his handsome face icy.
“Don’t make a scene. We’ll talk at home-”
“Alpha Adrian, what, you planning to take a second mate?”
I cut him off, my slow, mocking tone dripping with sarcasm.
Alpha Adrian’s expression darkened, his jaw tightening.
Vanessa and the Quinns exploded at the word “second mate.”
Second mate?
That was a direct slap, calling Vanessa a side piece, implying even if she bound herself to Alpha Adrian, she’d never be his true mate!
A blatant challenge to their so–called bond!
The guests were stunned.
Where did I get the guts to say that?
Vanessa, losing all composure, shrieked,
“Vivian, you shameless she–wolf! I’m Alpha Adrian’s true mate! We’re forming a sacred bond! I’m the one who
belongs!”
“Enough!”
Alpha Adrian roared, his voice thundering through the hall.
Evelyn hurried to Vanessa’s side, wrapping an arm around her.
“Vanessa, sweetheart, don’t stoop to her level. Don’t argue with her.”
I, cool as ever, said, “No, let her talk.”
“Vivian, one more word, and you won’t see a dime of the breakup fee!”
Evelyn snapped, terrified I might spill about our still–intact bond.
She’d forced me to sign that agreement last night, hadn’t she?
Her heart sank as she remembered–she didn’t actually have my signature.
Alpha Adrian’s eyes narrowed, voice sharp.
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“What breakup fee?”
Evelyn froze, guilt flickering across her face.
“Thought it was true love, huh? In the end, it’s all about coin.”
“Shameless. Takes the money and still shows up to ruin things.”
“She’s just bitter her goldmine’s slipping away. Making a scene to squeeze out more.”
The guests‘ whispers swirled around them.
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The Quinn pack was already fed up with Alpha Adrian, and hearing I had taken money and still dared to act so bold?
Damien stepped forward. “Vivian, leave. Now. Or we won’t be polite.”
“Not polite to me?”
My striking eyes flicked to Damien, a smile curling on my radiant face.
“What gives you the right? Back in the old days, Vanessa would’ve been cast out of the pack for this- seducing a mated wolf is a sin against the bond.”
Damien blinked, thrown off by my smile, then scoffed.
This she–wolf was out of her mind!
The rest of the crowd thought I had lost it too.
Vanessa, laughing in disbelief, stammered,
“Who do you think you are? What gives you the right to say that?”
I turned to her, unruffled. “Not convinced?”
I set my mead goblet down, reached into my bag, and pulled out a bonding certificate–sealed with the pack elders‘ sigils, a physical proof of our eternal tie.
I flipped it open, holding it up for Vanessa to see.
“Now tell me, do I have the right to call you out?”
Vanessa stared at the certificate, frozen like a statue.
The banquet hall fell dead silent.
Alpha Adrian and I were already bound!
Everyone thought this was just an ex–mate stirring up trouble for some coin.
But no–this was a she–wolf tearing into a homewrecker and her pack!
The Quinns‘ reputation was in tatters.
“One wolf strays while bound, another seduces a mated wolf, and you’ve got the nerve to announce a new
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bond like it’s nothing?”
My gaze swept over them, my tone dripping with disdain.
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“Don’t you know anything about pack law? Double–bonding is a crime–punishable by banishment!”
The Quinns‘ faces went from red to white.
Lydia looked ready to faint. Her daughter had been chasing a mated wolf!
Soon, the whole pack would know she’d been after a bound wolf.
Worse, Evelyn had been spreading the news everywhere, and Lydia had played along, hyping it up.
“Evelyn! How could you hide something this big?”
“You’ve ruined my daughter!”
The Quinns turned on Evelyn, furious, their voices clashing.
Evelyn scrambled to explain, soothe, apologize.
Alpha Adrian pressed his temples, head pounding, giving up on stopping the chaos. He just wanted this
mess over.
I picked up my mead goblet again and walked to Alpha Adrian, staring at the wolf who’d walked with me through my youth, into our bond… and now to this ugly moment.
I raised my goblet and dumped the mead over his head.
The crowd gasped.
Alpha Adrian grabbed my wrist, gripping it hard, his face like stone. “Is this what you wanted?”
His strength was crushing, reopening the wound on my wrist. Blood seeped through, mirroring my heart, shattered time and again.
Rage and sorrow reddened my eyes. “Let’s break the bond. Tonight.”
I wrenched my hand free, smashing the empty goblet at Vanessa’s feet.
“Lock yourself to this filthy cur if you want–he’s all yours!”
Alpha Adrian froze, stunned by my fury, by the finality in my voice.
He opened his mouth to speak, then noticed his hand–covered in blood.
Panicked, he looked at my wrist.
The ribbon was soaked, blood dripping from my palm, pooling on the carpet…
The sight shook everyone.
The Quinns were about to drag Vanessa away when, in the stunned silence, Vanessa lunged forward and shoved me to the ground.
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“You filthy mutt! Even after last night, with all those wolves, you’re still here? You should just die!”
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