Chapter 4
A small cake had appeared in the living
room.
Apparently, Alpha Logan had come home last night after all, thoughtfully preparing breakfast and buying stomach medicine for
- me.
“You haven’t been eating breakfast lately, have you? Your stomach’s acting up,” he said, his tone light, as if everything could be brushed aside with a sweet gesture.
I looked at him my voice trembling with both rage and ex Added to the library pgan. Can’t
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My face must have looked pale, yet he barely noticed, brushing off my words as mere
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anger..
“Melissa, I didn’t come here to fight,” he said softly. “Joanna’s due any day now–can’t you hold out just a little longer?”
Amber snarled in my mind, her contempt as sharp as a blade. “He’s blaming us again, as if we’re the unreasonable ones.””
I never thought that Alpha Logan, he’s the man I’ve loved for many years, but in his eyes, everything I did was unreasonable.
I didn’t waste my breath arguing. He didn’t deserve it. Instead, I held out the divorce papers. “Sign them, Logan. This is your last chance.” Added to the library
He flinched, his eyes darting away, He wouldn’t even look at me.
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Meanwhile, Joanna proudly introduced Alpha Logan as her mate all around the neighborhood and packhouse, flaunting her swollen belly as they walked together openly.
My mother–in–law treated her like a treasure, as if I were the one intruding in their lives, a mistress in the shadows.
Alpha Logan nearly begged me on his knees to wait until Joanna had the baby, promising that once the child was born, everything would return to the normal it once was.
Normal? There was no going back.
The nerve of him. If it weren’t for my fear of upsetting Grandma, I would have exposed everything, letting the whole world know about them.
I might have kept enduring for Grandma’s
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sake, but fate wasn’t kind enough to grant me even that.
When Grandma came to visit me, the rumors had already spread like wildfire. They painted me as the mistress, a liar, and worse. The weight of it all broke her.
I was the last to know.
At the church, all that was left of Grandma was an urn of ashes. They hadn’t even allowed me a final goodbye to her.
Alpha Logan tried to take me aside. “You haven’t been well lately. I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want you to overexert yourself.”
But I knew the truth. Grandma had been planning to leave me an old estate before she died. They hadn’t given me a chance to
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see her because they feared I’d take it away.
I pulled my hand from his grasp, and only then, when I saw Joanna also dressed in mourning beside my mother–in–law, did I understand Alpha Logan’s true intent. He’d kept me away so I wouldn’t see Joanna.
Amber’s voice raged in my mind. “What a pathetic, cowardly man!‘
A salty, metallic taste of blood filled my mouth, but I swallowed it down. I walked up to Grandma’s grave, kowtowed to her, and gazed at the photo she had prepared herself.
I remembered the day she learned she was sick; she stroked my head gently and said:
“Grandma’s getting old. It’s just a matter of time. When I’m gone, don’t cry. Send me off with a smile.”
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But I couldn’t keep that promise. My vision blurred with tears I could no longer hold back.
Joanna’s wailing grated against my ears.
I walked up to her and slapped her across the face.
“Smack!”
The annoying sobbing stopped for a brief second.
“You hit me?” Joanna’s arrogant face twisted with fury as she turned to my mother–in–law and Alpha Logan for support. “Mom, Alpha Logan, how can you let her hit me? I’m pregnant!”
When Alpha Logan did nothing, Joanna’s
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anger turned to wailing. “I’m here out of kindness, watching over Grandma’s spirit, and you’re all treating me like this! I might as well die and join her!”
My mother–in–law immediately shielded Joanna, her expression filled with disdain.
a, calm down. Don’t upset yourself. If
deserves to die, it’s her” She glared at me, venom in her voice. “She’s the reason Grandma never had a proper grandchild to send her off”
Relatives urged me to leave, saying, “Luna Melissa, Grandma loved you most, so how can you cause trouble at her funeral? Go home”
Each vile face stabbed me like a dagger, filling me with disgust. My whole body felt unwell, every step unsteady as if I were walking on uneven ground,
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An uncontrollable fury surged within me.
Amber growled, her rage spilling into me like a storm. Seeing Joanna’s smug smile was the final straw.
Without hesitation, I let Amber take over, lunging at Joanna with unrestrained fury.
“If you want to die, let’s die together!” I roared, my claws slicing through the air.
In that moment, I truly wanted to kill her. I knew my time was running out anyway.
Pack soldiers rushed to intervene, dragging me away as Joanna’s screams filled the church. Her arrogance crumbled, replaced by terror.
Logan grabbed my arms, his grip bruising as
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he yanked me back. “Melissa, stop!”
The force of his pull sent me crashing into the edge of Grandma’s coffin. Pain radiated through my body, and the metallic tang of blood filled my mouth.
I couldn’t hold it back anymore. A stream of crimson spilled from my lips, staining the white chrysanthemums that adorned the coffin.
Through my fading vision, I saw Logan’s face -panic etched into every line. He sprinted toward me, shouting my name, but it was too late.
Darkness swallowed me whole.
